skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't used it for a while and I've been planning on learning Postgres after much praise from a friend (and the internet at large). I find DB design and migrations quite difficult though, any book/course recommendation?
Now I want one that takes Webster's improvements to English further, and substitutes things like "through" with "thru".

Not that "through" is in a css property that I know, but I just want English to be phonetic.
Surely the standard wouldn’t drop support for big-endian? And I don’t see what you’d gain in exchange. Defined semantics for casting int* to short*? Woo?

These are smart, system-software-focused engineers, so there must be some interesting directions being blocked off by insistence that the standard be byte-order agnostic (and word-size agnostic, since they’re so keen on 64-bit)...
One theory is that countries with mandatory BCG vaccine are doing better, with fewer severe cases.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-02/fewer-cor...
I took a Differential Geometry course in university. The course covered basic theory on smooth manifolds and Riemannian Geometry. While I did appreciate the beauty of the subject from a theoretical perspective, I have to admit that I somewhat lacked intuition for the material, especially with regards to differential forms. I understood that their properties make sense to define the notion of integration on a smooth manifold, but never really saw whether they had any purpose besides using them for integration. Even in their use in integration they were kind of a mystery to me, if I recall correctly we just defined integration on subset of R^n, where differential forms played the same role as d_{x_1}d_{x_2}...d_{x_n}, which is known from the riemann integral, but then to define integration on manifolds, we just used the pullback of the charts, which didn't alleviate any of the mystery and didn't add anything about why differential forms themselves are supposed to be important. I wish I had taken some physics courses, where vector calculus is used heavily and that might have helped some, but in the end I was somewhat disappointed, because even though taking the course certainly did make me a better mathematician, I still didn't have the feeling of really completely grasping the concepts, even though I could prove statements.
I agree that there is no privacy law violation, but it is a bit distasteful. We have some implicit standards in the society and it seems those are conveniently ignored at this point. There is some excuse given in the article in the form of "he probably gives out this number to people he does not wish to talk to", which I find a bit suspicious.

When I got letters to previous tenants at my current address I did not open them and share with everyone I met. I sent them to their new address.
Show HN: Plenary – A privacy focused RSS feed and offline reader app for Android
Slippery-slope? Do it for one billionaire, you might have to do it for all of them...
Same for Manchester, made doubly difficult by City.
I didn't try AI denoisers but, Darktable's profiled denoiser works pretty well. The profiles is per camera and per iso, so the filter knows what to look for. The results are much better than advanced but unaware denoisers.
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No, we used MongoDB in 2009-2010 but it was a disaster as performance and integrity fell apart as our data-set grew. Maybe it’s OK now, but I see no reason to go back.
Intention is awesome.

I had a habit of unknowingly typing "g" in my Chrome's search bar and visit G1 (a Brazil's news site). It became something I just did that on a whim, multiple times along the day, and now Intention is saving me almost 50 minutes of productivity every day.
"IBM finds another excuse to layoff senior staff members":

https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-a...
You don't gamble with employees paychecks and that's exactly what your CEO was doing.

1. Get your co-workers contact info. Keep in touch with them. Someday these guys may bring you a job and vice-versa. Keep in touch with all the people you've worked with. Your "network" will help you in the future.

2. Stop working and start searching for another job. This a horrible time for looking unfortunately. "As much as I'd like to keep subsidizing your business, I've got this whole 'eating and living indoors' addiction that I need to maintain ."
MongoDB was only really ever a competitor to memcached, redis, others and really only good as a caching layer like those. It is decent for that.

There was a time when JSON wasn't that integrated into databases, it is now. That was really MongoDB's killer feature.

PostgreSQL does most of this better now and more robust/reliable.
Another anecdote. When I was 19 I did a quick conversion job for a company. I'd take an early train down on a Monday morning, worked about 20 hours a day with just a quick nap each night on the reception sofa, and then a train home of Friday. I did that for two weeks, I was shattered but got through it OK.
Atlas makes sharding easier, it's just one button where you define your partition key.
Exactly. And what about if I initially DO specify it's London Ontario that I'm interested in but five minutes later I ask again, referring to it simply as "London".. shouldn't a "better Siri" come back with 'assuming you still mean London Ontario, it's...' ?

I think it's possible that general acceptance of these non-AI gimmicks being referred to as "AI" will end up pushing genuine progress in true AI further into the future.
Yes, we do at WaystoCap. It's our main DB. I like it mostly for the flexibility. I think it's one of the best DBs when you're in pre-product market fit stage and making a lot of changes to the data model.

One of the main cons I've experienced with it, is it's beginner friendly nature and docs leads you to have a non-optimal data schema for No-SQL. Like even the way it does pagination with Skip, is not the performant way to do it.

As areas in our business mature and scale we suffer bottlenecks and have pretty big changes to optimize those areas of the data model.
If you're a hiring manager and can't even be bothered to know the most basic facts about me and that I might not like that piece or pork or salmon
for religious or ethical reasons then that about says it all.
I have not used it for years. I simply prefer relational databases after all.

When a document database makes sense, it happens, I go with CouchDB. Its multi-primary architecture is attractive compared to MongoDB with a single primary node. But I'm thinking about using PostgreSQL and jsonb next time.
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I'll add one comment, if you aren't doing a really large number of queued items (under 50k messages every few minutes), Azure Storage Queues are pretty nice and easiest to use imo.
I don't know about the etymologies, but your argument isn't compelling. A router (woodworking) is used when the tool is following a specified route (path).
Can your customers not migrate their mail over to G Suite or Office 365?
Java turns 25–aging like fine wine or more like milk?
Yeah, the crown dependencies are distinct sovereign states.
There is quite an important omission in this article (which is a bit too emotional without enough focus on factual info...) about the whole issue.

What is happening revolves around article 23 of HK's Basic Law (which governs its autonomous status):

"The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organisations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organisations or bodies of the Region from establishing ties with foreign political organisations or bodies"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_Basic_Law_Article_23

Of course, the key in that text is "on its own".

On the other hand, the counter argument is that they have failed to do that in the last 23 years.

Which, I think, explains this excerpt from the article:

"“The social unrest last year showed that the Hong Kong government was unable to handle passing [national security legislation] on its own,” said Ng, a Beijing loyalist who has for years pushed for a similar law."

So I read this as saying that the HK government is in effect in breach of the Basic Law and thus the Central Government will step in.
When I did it, we skipped the Make part and reinvented it in Python: https://github.com/libfirm/sisyphus

This aspect of expected and unexpected test changes is even more important than the diff part in my opinion. It allows you add failing tests immediately once you get the bug report and you notice if you fix something accidentally.
Ask HN: OCR framework for extracting formatted text?
I'm a serial information hoarder, and often use screenshots in order to store comments, passages and fragments of conversations I find useful or insightful. This works well if I want to reference something recent, but obviously doesn't scale well. I'd like to integrate these into my personal archive, but don't know any frameworks (preferably for Go, Node, or Python) which could automatically extract the text from the images while retaining its formatting. I'm not against doing some image preprocessing myself, but I don't feel comfortable passing the images to a 3rd party service, since a portion of the images contain private or sensitive information that I can't readily sort out of my collection.
Seriously. All the apps that default to 24 hour time when it's not what my device is set to are annoying.
note - I'm the project's maintainer

AWS Inspector allows assessing the baseline security of EC2 instances / hosts, i.e. against CIS benchmarks (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/latest/userguide/inspe...). Scout Suite assesses the security posture of the cloud environment as a whole, across all [supported] services. It looks at things such as encryption, configuration of Identity and Access Management, resilience, backup configuration, privilege escalation vectors, etc.
Any particular links to the NGOs?
Ha, what's funny about that is I picked Preston as a random town in the UK that I thought probably doesn't have a name-twin somewhere else!
Organic farming uses pesticides as well. Are they safe for the environment? We don't know because they're organic and therefore must be safe.
See links within: https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/organic-pestic...
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/functions-json.html

they are surrounded by quotes, is that not a string ?
Rocket NASA’s stunning Falcon 9 bargain, Ariane 6 delayed
No, I don't think so. There are multiple aspects.

I develop on this thing. It is running a great Unix os. I can't stand desktop Linux. The hardware quality was the best with a wide margin before the latest gen. Battery life is also great. I like them for development work when they are stable.

A lot of people are also really invested into the ecosystem. My entire photo collection is on iCloud. I use an iPhone. I can copy paste between my computer and phone. My Apple watch unlocks the computer when I'm near... List goes on.

But now I feel like Apple is a fantastic phone company that also happens to make some computers. They have been degrading pretty bad.
> leave that responsibility to the user

I think it would be better to have a function in the library that does this. Then it can be extended to allow for more clever things than a simple min/max clamp.
> * Words like "Eastern Time": assumes the country from context.

This is a big bug bear of mine that seems to come up a LOT from Americans online. Eastern fucking what? Australia? Anglia?
The Risk of Distributing Risk
You don't have to retire them for all eternity, just long enough that it stops getting a lot of contact.
Which is defined as 100 miles from any border:

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
Vintage Telephones Hacked with Raspberry Pis to Create Intercom [video]
Download and set aside a copy of the erlang and rabbitmq installers if you're running on windows... I've had issues on many occassions with the erlang installer being unavailable or very slow to download.
> People you didn't invite can show up.

To be fair you can have that with remote meetings as well. There is even a name for it: zoom-bombing.
I love Hubbard & Hubbard, which is also great as it's an introductory text. It's been used often at Harvard Math 55 and some much simpler courses:

http://matrixeditions.com/#vec
OpenText will keep half its offices closed permanently
Whenever they join MLB, just like you have to join FIFA to be in the World Cup.
Apple really isn‘t on track regarding many important trends and even in areas they used to rock.

- Virtual Assistants: After almost nine years of development, Siri still is only really reliable doing most basic tasks like setting timers or reminders.(1)

- Smart Speakers: The HomePod is way too expensive and still the whole package really is no match for Amazons or Googles alternatives. Too inflexible and the "Smart" part is laughable (see above). While Amazons and Googles smart speakers are a common sight in many households today, Apple is sitting on the sideline for years.

- Laptops: The debacle around their Butterfly Keyboard design was only resolved recently … after almost four years of massive problems. The new 2020 MacBook Air has a thermal design that is weird, to say the least and according to reviewers has heat problems despite being cooled actively, when comparable laptops are cooled passively.(2) The 2020 MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro 13" have screen-to-body ratios that are outdated in comparison with the competition.(3) The MacBook Pro 16" has speaker issues, display issues(4) and may overheat when used with an external display(5).

- Desktop Computers: The Mac minis hardware is outdated and its price really isn't compelling. If you want to buy a proper external display from Apple to use with your MacBook or Mac desktop (mini/pro) and are no Hollywood Studio Video editor that needs a 5000$ XHDR display, you are out of luck. If you want to do Machine Learning and the likes on your new Mac and need NVidia CUDA support, you are out of luck.(6) The whole "modern CPU with macOS" topic is a sad one.

- Webbrowser: When surfing the web with Safari you will encounter a rising number of websites that tell you to upgrade to a more modern browser like Chrome. Many web developers will tell you that "Safari is the new IE".(7)

- TV: Apple TV pricing is not competitive and the Siri remote is so bad that people buy 3rd party replacement remotes.(8)

1) https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/alexa-vs-google-assistant-vs-...

2) https://www.forbes.com/sites/brookecrothers/2020/04/18/does-...

3) https://www.ultrabookreview.com/21772-laptops-small-thin-bez...

4) https://www.laptopmag.com/news/uh-oh-apples-16-inch-macbook-...

5) https://talk.macpowerusers.com/t/16-macbook-pro-gets-excessi...

6) https://gizmodo.com/apple-and-nvidia-are-over-1840015246

7) https://www.safari-is-the-new-ie.com

8) https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/12/9/21002605/a...
Maybe they shouldn't have been forced to choose between Hillary/Biden or Trump if you wanted them to choose "wisely". The responsibility for losing to Trump falls solely on the Democratic Party, and the talk of footguns and education comes off as extremely snobbish. Stop blaming others for your failures.
However she got the number, she's got no intention of getting rid of it. Note that she has already provided it to many talent contacts.

Plus, it's probably something that she's actually treasuring, at this point. I'll bet that she's quite warm and friendly to anyone that calls, no matter how bizarre.

She's trying to break into a very competitive field, and every edge counts.

This is a big one. If she has the talent to follow through, this may be good for her.

I sincerely wish her the best.
I get emails for a celebrity. So far I've received: receipts for things like a boat, invitations to perform at large events, 'just catching up' notes from old friends, and confirmations of event planning among others. Recently I got an order confirmation for a large purchase, along with a shipping address and mobile number. I used the mobile number to text the celebrity, explain the situation, and offer my apologies for the mixup (I took a screenshot to prove I wasn't some psycho and sent it along)...they responded 'thanks' and I've not received any other messages from them since, though I have gotten some other emails.
I sometimes like to leave my source code in a dirty (uncommitted) format where I've left a comment with what I intend to do next. I quickly jot this down at the end of a workday, or if I need to run to a meeting or have a short conversation with a colleague. This reduces friction for me to get started coding next time I'm back by the computer.
note - I'm the project's maintainer

Have a look at the `--max-workers` and `--max-rate` arguments, which allow controlling the rate of API calls made against the cloud environment. You can use these to tweak executions against environments and ensure you don't hit API caps.

Note that this isn't a Scout Suite issue per se, but the consequence of how AWS implements rate limiting (i.e. it's account-wide, not per-principal). Any AWS tool will face the same limitations / hurdles.
This is a great testimonial. Would you care to share what Atlas is/which software package Atlas is?
One of the messages suggests he still gives out this number.
Mine will sometimes parse English, sometimes German. Sometimes it will understand English, and answer in German. It's a total crapshoot.
How about asking for context if it's not clear? Any reasonable human assistant would ask if the context is not clear (enough).
I'm the most popular non-MongoDB-employee answer at 'to what extent are 'lost data' criticisms still valid of MongoDB?'

My answer contains a history of my experiences with MongoDB that is pretty similar to yours:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/18269939/123671

I feel like MongoDB now is actually a pretty stable product simply through time and investment, however I will never trust the company for using our data to beta test for a decade.
We also offer a SaaS version (https://cyberstore.nccgroup.com/our-services/service-details...), which includes persistent monitoring as well as support for additional services and rules.
No offense, but if I wanted to have managed MongoDB I might as well use AWS DocumentDB.

I honestly believe that this is a key differentiating feature for many databases. ElasticSearch, ScyllaDB, others too work the same way: Every node is equal and in order to scale you just keep adding more boxes, end of story. Compare that with what you have to do with MongoDB.
Just a notice - there is a "in English" button in the top-right corner.
The economics of cheaper batteries
In situations like that non-US consumers aren’t their customers, and they’re simply not interested in communicating with them.
Better he just respond with the same number: "call me: .."
Solid foundations of your code part 1 – codeburst
The Stock Market Is Now a Casino
I am using it in production but I'd like to try PostgreSQL at some point, it seems to be the Rust of RDBMS, getting lots of love.
AstraZeneca scores $1.2B from U.S., to deliver hundreds of millions of vaccines
Ask Ethan: Have We Finally Found Evidence for a Parallel Universe?
I would expect a 10 year old core feature on my $1750 phone / watch combination to perform better than my 3 year old.
I never used it and don't plan to.
1. the chained methods
2. the composable API
3. the value wrapping
4. the mapping function called `run`
5. the support of any kind of generic value

but you are the expert here ;) can you please tell me what am I missing?
Very convenient for the author of the post, right?
To be fair, where I'm from, "London" would probably refer to London, ON, but that's just because I live in Southern Ontario. So it's not like no one has heard of it.

On the other hand: no one in Southern Ontario will be asking what time it is in London, ON because it's all in the same time zone, so this seems like a problem.
New York City and Los Angeles Slash Budgets – But Not for Police
First, some monopolies are monopolies forever - network and utility monopolies.

Second, you still have to deal with aggregate monopolies - ie when one societal class has monopoly pricing power over another. You cannot break up these as they are already broken up.

The prime example is real estate and land market. Landlords have monopolistic pricing power over tenants. Price for rent is not governed by landlord's costs but by what the tenant can bear.

If you inject UBI to the economy then tenants can suddenly bear more and landlords can and will rise rent prices convincing others that their cost increased so it's justified.

It's not the inflation of produced goods which would kill VAT or similarly funded UBI but rent and monopoly good inflation which by definition can't be competed away.

Therefore before you can implement UBI you have to deal with monopolies first.

Hint1: Fix it by implementing monopoly based taxes such as Land Value Tax and natural resource auctions. You will raise more than you need and will also abolish labor taxes stiffling productivity.

Hint2: Georgists (economical movement after guy named Henry George in 19th century - who coined the term "Progressive") were discussing UBI ideas already pretty extensively and understood these implications. They realized the monopoly problem and made it central to their teaching. Only instead of UBI they called it a Citizen's Dividend.
I doubt that this source is very accurate. The "List of the top companies using IBM Watson" is very odd.

You get better information from their annual report.
note - I'm the project's maintainer

And also implements a bunch more rules ;-).
They can simply deny entry if you're a non-citizen and don't cooperate. For any reason whatsoever. (This, of course, holds for any sovereign country that does not have an open borders agreement with a country that you are a citizen of.)
I think that up until the real AI appears that can mimic human personality and expand it, understand variety of languages, virtual assistants will remain what they are: virtual assistants capable of executing basic commands provided by a human (preferably in English). This technology isn't bad per se - in particular cases is helpful (blind people) but it's still far for what we dream about.

My Nokia 1320 with Windows Phone 8.1 come with a very basic VA that was capable of understand Polish but only if I drop all grammar and talk like a robot. The "call mum" is "zadzwoń do mamy" in its proper form, but I had to do "zadzwoń do mama" which sounds unnatural; not mention that stuff is also being read without proper Polish grammar; "calling mum" is synthesized as "dzwonię do mama", not "dzwonię do mamy". The grammar complexity is a problem for VA technology and probably that's why neither Siri nor Cortana supports Polish or other Slavic languages, not mention dozen of other languages.
This is Hacker News. Always talking about being against big tech and for the little guy. Trello is owned by a company approaching $50B valuation. The rest of the apps you mentioned are funded or were early on and first to market like Todoist and get pretty big press relative to Marvin or most indie stuff.

Meanwhile Amazing Marvin offers 50%+ off Black Friday deals. Year free trial. And is bootstrapped solely by a husband and wife.
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