skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the detailed response.

This is what I was getting at, mostly:

> Any fragment which is missing the "ok" file, is ignored by the reader [3].

As a client, how do I detect this? Say I just wrote some data and now I want to generate a new total. Could my data be silently missing?

> TileDB handles corrupt or incomplete fragments by erroring out on the read. In the future, we could offer a retry mechanism for failed reads, but the important thing is we will never return corrupt or invalid results.

But now I have to handle this everywhere I interact with TileDB. Most users don't expect essentially random errors. Retries are a stop-gap, as it can take arbitrary time for consistency to converge. I've observed O(hours) regularly.

> Incomplete fragments can happen because of S3's eventual consistency; it is possible for the atomic ok file to show up before an object in the fragment "folder".

Indeed! And from what I understand, mostly from conversation with the Iceberg team last year, they solve this entirely by using a central ACID service backed by RDBMS (which, aside, I find very amusing!! They never listen to Stonebraker...).

Indeed, as far as I can tell, the only way to remove consistency issues is to:
- store an index to objects somewhere central
- never list the bucket (or speculatively stat, etc.)

Until either a) you support a central index or b) S3 has a better consistency model (not that DynamoDB garbage Hadoop uses) I would be very reluctant to use TileDB if it wasn't using my own disks.

I think for small stuff, it'll work great, but at scale you're going to hit some roadblocks. I recently encountered splitting a bucket into to many buckets and prefixing UUIDs at the root of the bucket to reduce consistency problems caused by S3's rebalancing, and it ended up being a very expensive marginal improvement.
This has the sound of grooviness to it.

One on hand, electrons as point particles sure sounds empty enough. On the other hand, the fields fill everything.

But on the gripping hand, you could set the volume of the electron to something ludicrously large, like the volume of a proton, then use the charge distribution of whatever "orbital" to trade that charge for an equivalent amount of proton-volume, as sort of a percentage filled of unit volume ... integrate, and you could get a sense of the density.

That, I think, is about as fair as you could ask for when dealing with point particles that are still smeared around.
I'm not worried about normalcy, I'm worried about running out of replacement parts for the huge distributed system that we all rely on for food and energy and communication. We're draining the queue right now, and I don't believe a command economy can replace the continuously tuned marketplace we halted.
I would be cautious about using the past tense. New case rates have not come down much from peak - and I expect them to spike in the next few weeks as people let their guard down and things reopen.

Deaths lag infections by several weeks. Over 2200 people died yesterday.
- Your eyes are the only broadband connection into the brain, and they have millenia of pattern recognition training built into them. When solving problems like debugging, refactoring or data preparation, consider arranging information in a way that takes advantage of this. When it's in the right shape, irregularities or patterns will often just jump at you.

- Relatedly, your eyes are also extremely well-adapted to detecting movement and optical flow. Do these two images/texts/logs/terminal outputs/etc. differ? Do they differ if you ignore the hue/time stamps/pwd? Alt-tab back and forth between them and you will notice. (Beware of fancy effects or menus covering it though - it has to be an instant switch from one to the other).

- Become fluent in regular expressions (recommendation: https://regexcrossword.com/).
2x of these:
Samsung
UN40KU6290FXZA

You are aiming for something that supports both 4K (3840x2160) [or greater I suppose] and a 60Hz refresh rate in that mode. On cheaper models this can be found on a HDMI2.0 input. More expensive ones might have DisplayPort as an option.

Shop around during TV season and you can find a quality model for $200/ea.
To have and have not: Pandemic spurs a split in tech spending
If I just wanted a ticker symbol for the price of oil to put on a 'market health' dashboard, with no intention of actually investing in the ETF at all, would USO suffice?
Hyundai/Kia/Genesis Harness and panda jungle and comma key
Yes, in particular, for large discussions, when I get a notification about a comment I made on it, and I click to jump to that comment, it takes a while to load -- and in a way oddly proportional to the size of the discussion and frequency of the posts on that group.

I'll always see the very top post of the group, and its whole page load, and then slowly my discussion will come up and then it will scroll down to that comment; and if I do anything, that breaks the whole process.

It's like no one ever considered the concept of just loading a piece of the discussion, like reddit does.

What's more, there are all kinds of UX nightmares, like how, if I open the messenger in one Facebook tab, it opens in every tab, blotting out content I want to read.

Or how a FB livestream event will just randomly stop playing, giving me no indication that I'm lagging behind the current video -- I've done trivia nights that way and I only find out I'm behind after my team members suggest answers to questions I haven't heard yet.
People should realize that any kind of system or process comes at the cost of improvisation, which is always faster and lower overhead. Doing literally anything other than doing things as they come has a cost. The gamble you're making when you write documentation, automate a test, or even write code to begin with is that the investment in doing that thing will pay dividends sometime in the future.
Yeah Django feels terrible to me compared to .net core. I already wrote a similar answer to someone else so I will just paste it here

"The developer experience in python was just way worse for me. Autogenerating swagger docs didn't seem possible without manually adding annotations to all my code (for flask at least), the battle-tested python libraries like django and sqlalchemy aren't built for async, mypy is obviously way worse than an actual type system and having static types really helps with understanding a large new code base, model validation (the thing forms/serializers handle) was more tedious, vscode was worse than visual studio (code navigation was very hard to do in python. I could jump 1 layer into library code, but when I tried to jump deeper vscode couldn't find anything.)"

I've seen people say you should only choose rails or django for a startup, but .net core mvc provides the same batteries included approach and is built with the modern web ecosystem in mind. It also runs on linux and easily integrates with postgres so its just as cheap now as well. I think people that write off C# haven't really worked with it in its present form. I didn't find python significantly more terse than C# (other than having to define properties on types, which I already stated I prefer), just less feature rich.
That’s to be expected. These processes are insurance. You plan and buy insurance to cover the expected unexpected.

Should we congratulate the uninsured who weather the storm?
Covid-19 shocks the digital health market, but the jolt may be positive news
Quote from the eng team: "Never actually heard of it. We're build around the raw data provided from the built-in Lighthouse audits plus some of our own custom ones"
It seems cool but there are like 1k sites before mine, i wonder if you guys can implement a feature to email the report after the report is generated in the mean time (seems like a small feature).
> E.g., If X is not novel and computers are not novel -> no invention because it is obvious to combine them.

This is a fair point, but 'novel' seems to get read as 'someone has already patented this before'.

> This could be handled by increasing the requirements for meeting 35 USC 112 (enablement).

This is also reasonable, enablement right now is kind of a joke, higher standards for that would generally be good. I'd like to see any working implementation of the claimed invention in software for patents that include that. It need not be a fully formed app, but it should compile and demonstrate whatever is claimed, IMHO.

> Some bio/chem patents have additional requirements when compared to gadget patents.

I don't claim to have read many patents in that area, but I'd expect that bio/chem patents should have to give the chemical formulas and synthesis, which should do a lot for enablement.

> I would also be open to considering changes in the length of patent terms for certain types of software patents. Not sure how that rule would work though, because there really is no such thing as a software patent.

Yeah, I know there are complications on defining 'software patent', but generally we understand when someone patents a process performed on an ordinary computer or something similar.

> The early software patent cases screwed things up back when no one knew how to handle them.

They're trying too hard to preserve existing precedent while moving in a new direction. I agree that they need to reform some of those factors to get to a better place and that the existing rulings just aren't very clear.

Reading the EFF's article, it sounds like they want to take a tact much like the one I want. I just wish the Supreme Court had written a clearer holding.
Hi, great tool. I am in line (1,201) can you talk a little about how the dynamic spot instances work? Do you kick off spot instance based on CPU load or network usage of all other spot instances in the cluster? Are all regions created equal, or do some regions get more requests than others?

I have to imagine your bandwidth costs from AWS aren't gonna be cheap.
I'm a GraphQL n00b. My app is a pretty vanilla monolith server rendered Ruby on Rails / Postgres (no SPA).

1.) Would I use async-graphql on top of postgres and communicate via a ruby graph ql client?

2.) Is it a bad idea for me to use a rust backend on top of postgres instead of Ruby? Is there something more common then async-graphql?

3.) How is GraphQL for aggregate queries (count, avg, etc)?
The biggest problem with tactile controls is that once they're in the field they can't really be changed. Touch screens allow updates to add or remove elements without changing the physical design, and allow the same physical design to be used for multiple product lines with more versatility than tactile.

Everything has tradeoffs.
There was an article here just three days ago suggesting that vitamin D could very well be not a supplement to, but rather a marker of, good health. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23086211
Spock testing framework. To let me do TDD.
That assumes that (a) there is enough sunlight available, and (b) your body is capable of making enough Vitamin D from sunlight.

(a) is not true in many places, and (b) is not true of many people (and it gets less true as you age).
Does someone mind sharing his own result so that we cant check the tool without waiting 3 hours please ?
J. Krishnamurti said it the best: "Belief has no place where truth is concerned."

I always view these types of movements with a lot of suspicion. Mainly because of the falsehoods they present. Self-realization is not something that can be taught by following someone else. You can spend your entire life looking for it in other people. But you have to experience it, to truly understand. You shouldn't even listen to what I'm writing here, as this entire comment could be a similar falsehood that detracts you in your search.
yes. I am a data processor not a controller. If you store data tied to the user you still need a mechanism to retrieve / delete it. This is something I encountered. Even if it is in reality not an issue and by itself the data is meaningless. Perhaps I need better legal advice :)
The first thing I do for every project is set up a development blog. Hugo + a nice free theme + Gitlab Pages + Netlify CMS. Everything is contained in Gitlab and I can keep the Pages site private and only accessible by members of the repo. It is less of a daily log and more exploring "issues" - basically anything I took time to research and figure out. I'm very adamant about recording details like dates, version numbers, context, code snippets, commands, and URLs of resources used. It all comes down to asking myself, if I see this issue again in the future, what information do I need to easily solve it without opening 40 browser tabs?
At first it takes some effort to circle back and write the post after you solved the issue, but after a while I found myself writing the post concurrent with writing my code. The Netlify CMS isn't the most beautiful UI but being able to just write markdown in a browser window eliminates having to keep a git repo locally. Organizing with categories and tags makes referencing published posts easy and if you want to get fancy you can integrate Algolia for search.
Honestly, having a project dev blog has saved me so much time since I don't need to keep every detail in my head anymore. Being able to go back and read about why certain decisions were made or how I overcame complicated problems is absolutely invaluable. And of course having this rich documentation while on-boarding new team members or passing the project off to someone else makes everything easier. Setting up a dev blog is 100% worth the minimal effort it takes.
That, and there isn't enough sunlight in many places, and many people's bodies can't make enough Vitamin D with sunlight (and the body's ability to do so decreases as you age).
The propaganda machine around Musk (Iron Man, etc) is so strong that I doubt it will allow him to fail. There is too much money to be made in mythology.
Not a very good review. We know that sunlight exposure is associated with lower all-cause mortality [1]. However, vitamin D supplementation has no effect on mortality [2].

Current thinking is that it is the nitric oxide rather than vitamin D that causes the benefit from sunlight [3].

So, if you want to have the best of both worlds, you should go out in the sun rather than using vitamin D supplements.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24697969

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31405892

[3] https://www.karger.com/article/FullText/441266
This is hilarious

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
You may be interested in Hasura.
OpenRA: AI Development Guidelines (2018)
They do: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/11/10/6665455...

https://www.lifeextension.com/featured-articles/2010/12/fede...

It's just that not everyone likes the results... If a doctor's cognitive bias leans towards "alternative medicine", for example, they don't want to accept certain findings, so they ignore them.

The real complaint those people have is "there's not enough (government-funded) studies about [remedy] that fit my preconceived convictions". At least that's my suspicion - I could be wrong of course.
This is a great callout and a good warning for folks. I've had mild Vitamin D deficiency which was diagnosed by a doctor many years ago. I was given Vitamin D supplements, which I stocked up on more than usual recently due to my staying in all day due to WFH and not getting any sunlight.

I used to take 50mcg of D3 1-2x a week and I upped that (without consulting a doctor) to 5x a week. Within two weeks, I started having extreme thirst. It was crazy to the point where I drank so much water that I could hear it sloshing in my stomach yet my mouth was parched dry and I was still very thirsty.

I did a quick Google search and found that this was actually a thing [0]. I stopped my Vitamin D supplements the next day and my thirst went away that same day. Be careful folks.

[0] https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/1203879/vitamin-...
You might want to invest in oil futures without taking delivery because you the thing you want to buy in volume doesn't have a contract, but is highly correlated. Airlines and jet fuel for example, though I think that has a market now.
I need a haircut. Badly.
Plus, they can collect e-mail addresses they can market and target to. Great idea.
It matters in that you ideally want a private office.
The reverse proxy is a work around so I can use port 80, I have my web address point to my friends server which reverse proxies to my home server, masking the alternative port to the user.
> Nobody could answer the question, “How is self-driving cheaper than exploiting human drivers like they are now?”

Huh?

There are SEVERAL obvious advantages.

* AI drivers don't get tired - they can drive 24 hrs/day if there's demand. This lowers cost because the (fixed) cost of the vehicle is amortized over more rides.

* They don't get a cut. See above.

* AI doesn't incur hr costs and can't sue you or try to unionize
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Theres a lot of B.S. in your post but I just wanted to point out that Elon constantly praises the Tesla and SpaceX teams on Twitter, Quarterly conference calls, Podcasts and in other investor presentations.

There is for sure a cult of personality like there was for Steve Jobs.
Empty space, by definition, is space that can be filled by something. So how closely can atoms pack together? A neutron star has a density of 10^17 kg/m^3, whereas the typical human being is about 10^3 kg/m^3. I could fit the matter of trillions more human beings in the same space I'm taking up now. So yeah, I think there's some empty space in me.
The broker calculated the margin requirements based on the assumption that the price could not go negative. So the investors thought they were risking $30 per contract when it was actually a couple orders of magnitude larger than that.

Effectively the broker lied to them about how leveraged they were.
This might be a little underrated by the average developer just how important this is.

That isn't to say, write code fast, even if its garbage. Good clean code is still a virtue. I feel like sometimes people conflate the two. So to add on, don't do that!
I do this too, and I use Sublime to generate HTML from Markdown, so at work I have hosted guides like commonly-used SQL queries for one of our projects or documentation on how I updated our OpenSUSE and built a specific version of mariaDB we needed. It's been pretty great.
The paper you cite says nothing about bringing bats back to Wuhan, much less keeping them there. The paper says they follow a standard procedure described in reference 47. While I don't have access to that reference, another paper [1] that uses the same standard procedure states that

> Captured animals are anesthetized, identified, weighed, measured, sampled (e.g., blood and oral swab), marked with a unique number, and released at the exact site of capture.

I don't see quarantine measures during an acute public health emergency as "totalitarian." You're just demonizing China (excuse me, I mean the "CCP") for what was actually a very effective public health measure that saved lives.

> It's true that that nine days later - a long time during an outbreak of a novel disease - the genome was posted online.

Has any genome of a novel pathogen ever been released more quickly? I was under the impression that this was record speed: just two weeks from discovery of the first cases to the whole world having the full genome.

> You're free to condemn the Trump administration's handling of the situation, but perhaps you should take into account that the US is a free country and the president has limited powers.

This might be a valid excuse if Trump had been begging for states to take appropriate measures, and the states had resisted. Instead, Trump downplayed the virus for two months, while it spread exponentially. The Federal government also has a great deal of power and a large role in dealing with public health, and it performed terribly in that role. But I'm not going to blame Trump alone. There is plenty of blame to go around at many levels of government in the US.

> I'm not "the country". You're having a conversation with an individual. I can criticize anything I want, I don't need moral license.

Indeed. But you're claiming that the government that decided to let 70,000 of its citizens die, and which has now decided to let the virus run its course, had a superior response to the country that decided to take much more drastic action to save lives.

> Does that mean more people will die? Of course! It's a trade-off.

The trade-off China chose was much further to the "save lives" end of the scale. Because they much more effectively suppressed transmission, they also were able to safely reopen more quickly, without endangering people's lives.

1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2640244/
> the more economic damage we're likely to face over the long term,

What I don’t quite understand is how people expect the economy to “just go back to normal”... like, even if you “reopen” everything, ease all restrictions, it’s not like people are goingback to living as usual.. they’re still going to keep by themselves, because that’s an individually sensible decision... are you going to attend a conference, a wedding, a dinner party / restaurant where you’ll be near 100+ people? Of course not, you’ll be making sure you stay healthy! The economic damage will happen and persist, and governments can’t just legislate against that!
HN is about one step away from becoming reddit with this type of baseless speculation. There is no indication this administration wants to suppress votes, the president has explicitly said he wants to institute voter ID's to protect the security of our elections, but you're going to take the word of a WP reporter who've perverted every statement he has ever made? The opposition is suspiciously against voter ID by the way.
It's possible both are true: loads faster for newer computers/wider bandwidth, loads slower on older devices