skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am disappointed with the direction that MongoDB took this past few years. Going ACID shows in benchmarks [1] and it’s not advisable if you are using MongoDB for stats and queue. (No one uses MongoDB for financial transactions despite the changes.)

And the recent change to a restrictive license is worrisome as well. I have been thinking of forking 3.4 and make it back to “true” open source and awesome performance. (If any C++ devs want to help out, reach out to me! username @gmail.com)

[1] https://link.medium.com/PXIeZfhhH6
Might not be necessary as the intended range was a short 500 yards (~455 meters).
Lithium mining has little to do with copper.
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/translate#Verb lists three senses of "translate"

And so do "execute" and "interpret".

The fact that you are counting the second set of meanings of translate, which is archaic (who said "words have meaning, not what some related word might have meant in the past"?), shows that you know how weak your argument is.

> That is why we introduce technical terms to speak of technical things.

Yep. I introduced two technical terms "outer interpreter" and "inner interpreter", along with their definitions.

> I don't know what you are trying to tell me. Which is a fitting end to this discussion about your insistence on communicating less clearly than you might.

Being able to accept that others may have a different terminology, embrace it and speak with their words: this is communication. You don't have a monopoly on the meaning of words.
According to flightradar it was the planes first flight after March 22 due covid. On the first landing attempt they had problems with the landing gear and failed a belly landing. After the go around they lost power to both engines and dropped 500m-1km in front of the landing strip.

Crashsite: https://imgur.com/a/YfLiM4n

Pictures of a plane spotter after the failed belly landing look at the engines and the deployed rat but no landing gear: https://twitter.com/PlaneSpottersPK/status/12638105871523307...

Last conversation with ATC: https://imgur.com/a/QGiqm4Y
A New Class of AI Ethics
For those getting lost in steam era torpedos, you might also enjoy the earlier Brennan Torpedo. It was propelled and steered by hauling fine wires out of its stern with a land based steam engine.

https://youtu.be/XeyJbgrE8oc
Revolut seems to be leading by far?
Ship new processor with update?
Hydroxychloroquine Tied to Deaths, Heart Risk in Covid Study
Only applicable if the worker can find other comparable work in a local physical location. If everything is remote, location has no real meaning.
Ha, now that you mention it, I remember my mom using a lot of white-out too.
> Isn’t it considered good policy to redirect after a few aborted landings?

If weather is below minimums.

But an airliner doing more than 1 go-around in good weather is something that I've never heard of - it means the pilots don't know how to control airspeed.
Makes you wonder if all the trials of universal basic income would be viewed differently in light of current events as a model better suited to handle the bumps in life and with that, overall make things more stable.
They could have made this move when ever they wanted, they choose now because 1. HK couldn't enact the laws they wanted, 2. Covid chaos makes it a bit easier for them to do this.
I'm not an economics nor employment expert so can someone who knows more about this explain to me what the projections are for the next 6 months?

Are the majority of these people expected to find work again at the same (or better) pay?

Are these lost jobs primarily "low skill" jobs? Or are there a lot of white collar jobs being lost as well?

Obviously I see the stories about some tech companies letting people go but the numbers are tiny compared to the numbers discussed in articles like this.

Just for clarification I am not American so I am asking as an outsider who is quite shocked when I see statements like "a quarter of the US working age population".

Where I am, [redacted], there have been some job losses however nothing close to the numbers I see in America. My gut reaction to such numbers is worrying, perhaps even terrifying, but I know very little about how things work in America so is this a case of the media playing with the numbers when in reality that number will drop back to normal levels soon or is this a true unemployment disaster for the long term?
Nice, as a bunq user (it's a Dutch bank but targets the entire EU) I wondered what you think, the 3 I mentioned are often seen as direct competitors when it comes to being a modern, app-first bank. bunq has some nice things like being able to swap your card to any of your 25 sub-accounts (ibans), virtual MAsterCards, Apple Watch integration, Android NFC and Apple pay enabled. I really like bunq. The more expensive (like really expensive) supergreen subscription has zapier integration even.
I wonder if China is sneaking these changes in during COVID because the pandemic has everyone else distracted. Either way, it’s terribly sad. I love HK and China is killing what’s great about the place.
Comparing a fraud ring from Nigeria to the entire working population of Nigeria is not a good look.
I’m sympathetic to your criticisms (especially about making decisions based on inclusion in a financial index), but returning 100% free cash flow doesn’t mean there is $0 spending on R&D or CAPEX. It means returning the money that’s left after you do all the spending and investing. This is money that would otherwise just pile up in the bank account of the company. When money piles up, managers tend to waste it on empire building, pointless acquisitions, etc.

I think there are real problems with the combination of stock buybacks and how executives are incentivized, but the currently popular idea that companies shouldn’t return profits to investors, or that this is somehow nefarious, is misguided. This is the entire point of for-profit corporations.
There were also multiple landing attempts, which supports that theory as well.
IBM doesn't have it's own cloud, it runs on AWS.

Edit: I was confused by this:

https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/architectures/ibm-clo...
It turns out that Mark Cuban owns some stellar domains
It turns out that Mark Cuban owns some incredible domain names. He bought Democracy.com in 2019, and owns plenty more.
Which one was the best?
Interesting! It sounds like maybe there are more people doing +12 mental math (reading analog clocks in 24h places) than people doing -12 mental math (Americans trying to read 24h times) even though the USA is always the "weird" one.
No paywall workaround so not suitable for HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I still think it is far better to have a sort of semi centralise place for these Battery just for safety concern. Rather than having a massive battery in every flat. I would guess battery for house in rural area would work. But definitely not for cities.
Someone needs to explain to me what the benefits of NoSQL with MongoDB are when you have the JSONB column type and the ability to query and insert at the field level with JSON in PostgreSQL? Maybe there's some benefit, but I'm not seeing that major "gotta have it" feature or performance gains. And I ask this question seriously, because I just don't know the answer.
So how large is the generated model compared to the Pac-Man binary? (edit: which was 16KB)
It's been hard enough navigating social skills before social distancing...
I love https://excalidraw.com

Christopher Chedeau did a recent talk on nice challenges they had building it in the open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fix2-SynPGE

I want to build a plugin for Figma to embed Excalidraw inside Figma as I use Figma for all my design work already.
Anyways New Territories was to revert to China at the end of British Lease in 1997. Only Kowloon and HK island was British territory, but PRC views the treaties at the end of the Opium War that granted British the possession of these areas to be "unfair and unequal". So PRC will continue to argue and assert that none has locus standi on this matter except them, and that Hong Kong is Chinese territory.
I wrote a thesis on place name ambiguity [1], so not surprised. There are tons of people flying to the wrong place with the same name all the time - they only told me when I mentioned my thesis topic.

There's even a book about a guy who visited half of the places called 'Aberdeen' on earth, which took 10 years.

[1] J. Leidner (2007) Toponym resolution in Text
No, I was trying to make a point. Namely, that no one produces that kind of output consistently over time.

I apologize for not taking current economic conditions into consideration with what was clearly a poorly-worded post.
> I am surprised to see comments on HN accusing the company of theft and greed for doing this. Isn’t the cost of living in an area the biggest factor in the salary? If so moving to another area will automatically reduce the salary. I don’t think they are being unfair or greedy. You don’t want the salary structure to in a remote area to be the same as the Bay Area. That will be unfair to the rest of the companies that want to hire in that city.

If this were the case, it would not be that so many companies have moved out of the Bay Area. I know of a small manufacturer that moved their entire operation 3000 miles away with 7 years left on their lease. That was a few years ago and the building is still empty.

The businesses that remain are ones where the salaries align with the living expenses, not the other way around.

I suspect this trend of lowering pay based on location will work while there are limited employers hiring remotely. If there is broad embracing, then salaries will likely rise to reduce attrition.
I'd frame it like this:

With respect to online conversations - most of them are on the open-web, anyone can see them. I don't care if their content gets out. Private conversations should be kept between their participants, their host, and their host's infrastructure provider.

More saliently however, many of these screenshots contain incidental data which I wouldn't necessarily want to be centralized off of my own hardware. This ranges from the identities of multiple alt-accounts, who they follow on social media, to generic information about my social graph. They also include receipts of much of my online transaction history.

While I'm under no delusion that much of that data doesn't travel all over the universe via data brokers and information sharing agreements, I'm just not comfortable directly handing it all to any one company.

If I was working on a commercial project, I'd leap at the opportunity to outsource the task of content transcription - it would save me time, money, and quite probably give me better results.

But since I want to feed it all into my personal archive, which runs on my own hardware and is as much a learning project as it is a utility, and since I like to keep my personal life as personal as possible, I make a point of keeping everything self-hosted wherever possible.

I'll fully admit that it's paranoid, labor-intensive, likely ineffectual, and by most measures a bit excessive.

But there are few places where one is at liberty to draw a line in the sand anymore with how their data is distributed. This is simply where I've chosen to draw one of mine.
You don't give a shit about free speech or any of this, you just agree with the censorship and backwards rationalize it. Your "crank" labels expose this. Your hilarious "this interview as a imminent threat to their family's health and safety" expose this. You'd fit right in communist China, the only condition for you would be agreement without any sign of democratic values.

Google has a massive monopoly, it's disingenuous to say they can do whatever they want and thats fair for the sake of free speech and spreading ideas. But even then, don't worry, Youtube's already taken a massive hit with Joe Rogan which is probably just a start and free market will take care of this problem anyway. Nobody likes control freaks, so yeah, I agree with you, let them moderate themselves into myspace.

Secondly, do you think people are dumb sheep who need to be told what to think and do? If this "crank" is spreading life threatening information, like your genius mind thinks, wouldn't sensible people be able to decide that for themselves?
Maybe they should be compensated as most workers with cash for the value they provide? And rate them subjectecly instead of with metrics.
link to non paywalled article?
>The generation logic now needs to understand how to partition a single GraphQL query across the shards and caching layers.

You can do this in PostgreSQL, it supports sharding natively through its FDW ("foreign data wrapper") feature.
This is just the first article I found at of many from many sources - I heard about it on MSNBC or somewhere like that when a reporter was asking him about it. This happened - it is a fact; the same thing occurred in Britain resulting in the same high death toll of elderly people. But bury your head - fine with me.
> Because actually making anything in Australia seems to be impossible.

I keep hearing that. Could you expand on this bit? For those of who are are far away and have zero idea why. While I know labour cost and protection are high. I would have thought battery factory is now highly automated.
Since the TC article is a paywalled interview about the study, I found the actual study more interesting: https://builtformars.co.uk/banks/
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You can join one of our credit union customers no matter where you live in the U.S. and it only takes 2 minutes: https://open.langleyfcu.org/
Prior recent thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23259455
Yeah, never used Bunq so I wouldn't want to comment. Maybe I'll test them out in a future chapter. Sounds great though!
A kilowatt hour of car battery pack costs ~$150 now. I was looking at battery powered lawn mowers last night, and noticed that a 0.42 kWh battery pack costs $350[0]. I know that power tool batteries have different requirements than car battery packs, but that base .42 kWh should still be under $100.

I feel like this is the printer/razor model, where you sell the base item for cheap, but the consumables cost are extreme.

Although, for long lasting durable goods, you have to make money somewhere, as a good battery mower may last a very long time.

0: https://community.egopowerplus.com/ego/topics/kilowatt-hours...
Did you test them by accessing through through a popular VPN service?
This is among the most shallow comment I ever saw on HN. Just because `TreeSet a = [1,2,3]` is surrounded by [ and ] does that mean `a` is a list? When you do `jsonb j = '{"a":"c"}` postgres builds a separate data structure for you from that json, which allows you to use a btree index.
Hey Dan. Great to hear from you.

I touch on the sorts of topics I'll be covering in the introduction of the post. Roughly, it'll be a blend between operating more effectively (e.g. better estimating work, taming Slack), and more technical posts (effectively testing in production, etc)
Depends on what.

You seem to think this is about tech. It's not. It's about company culture, trust, and reputation.

Code can change reasonably fast, in some cases 10 years is enough to replace an entire codebase. But company culture has or can have an expected life time way longer than 10 years. In this case, my heuristic is justified.
note - I'm the project's maintainer

Correct, Scout Suite is inherently multi-cloud and has mature support for AWS/Azure/GCP. This is very useful for organizations that want to leverage a single tool to assess the posture of all their environments.
Basecamp claims to--not including options. (Which is of course a big not including in some people's minds relative to the big public firms.) And they're probably (all?) relatively small.
Hey, you can view the whole publication here: https://builtformars.co.uk/banks/

I don't have a non-paywall TC link though, sorry.
"May" is English, though.

Otherwise, good format.
You think the plane flew to the wrong place?
They are busy making TV shows.
>This is actually great news, China is returning to a pre-western interference/corruption state.

>In the end it seems the phony protests and other types of agitation funded by western intelligence agencies and capital weren't successful.

>99% sure China's remaining illegal drug problem is further reduced thanks to this news. The criminals will now have to peddle their garbage elsewhere if all goes according to plan.

>Hopefully Taiwan is next...

Is there any proof these protests were foreign funded? From my understanding this was a grassroots democracy movement.
Would you be interested in chatting more about your use case? My e-mail is in my profile.
What're the total number of possible states in Pacman?
> Find a consultancy solution that is applicable across multiple customers. E.g where multiple customer teams have essentially the same problem. Once you have ironed the bugs out of your consultancy solution,...

That is called product and apart from few top vendors product companies are getting hammered in similar fashion or worse.
For those of you interested in donating to archive.org, you should be aware that they recently bought out Bop Street record store in Seattle: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/a-happy-end...

While they might have gotten a good six figure price, that store is known by fellow record dealers to be largely garbage LPs. It is more accumulation than collection. I wouldn't trust them with donation money for whatever flight of fancy they have next.
This seems very good: https://awwapp.com/
I never understood the appeal of the JSON to SQL columns workflow.

At least with the ORM(-ish) tools I worked with, it always felt much more straightforward to just change classes within the application code and automatically generate the respective migrations files to be run on the relational database, than having to interact as a human with json (for the app as well as for business intelligence and reporting/monitoring).

I feel I have handwritten significantly more schema and data migration code for non-sql databases and JSONB in Postgres than for relational databases in the last 10 years.

Sure once the database growths bigger, those automatically generate migrations files don't work as seamlessly anymore and can be dangerous, but no tool or database magically solves all the problems at scale.
> Krucible is an attempt to solve that problem.

For me, this was always ops smell - why do devs need to spin up k8s clusters? As long as you're not working on some low-level k8s features (your own operator, or testing cluster-wide resources, or developing k8s components themselves), then why not use a 'real' cluster for testing? k8s multitenant/process isolation is definitely good enough for semi-trusted users like developers, as long as you take sensible measures (ephemeral low-priv namespaces, podsecuritypolicies, networkpolicies, quotas, etc).
There are 40 survivors reported in local media.
It is impossible to read the full article even after registering.
Find a new job quickly. Don't spend your saving on this. I've made the same mistake because I thought my situations might be different than all the similar situations I've read before. It's not.
Hard to say, honestly. (I know that's a real diplomatic answer, and a swerve, but it's true).

Monzo are outstanding.
Barclays are surprisingly great.
Revolut and Starling are both incredible compared to the traditional banks.

I think those 3 statements are all true and fair!
Servers are already running AI to try and counter cheating in quite a few games.
Siri is utterly useless. Like, I just don't. The only capacity in which I use it is to tell it to open an app on the phone, or set the timer.

Siri is like that nice employe who was hired by way of nepotism, and she's attractive, but she sucks at most things, but the organization won't fire her because of aforementioned nepotism in the organization and the only reason you put up with her is cause she's attractive and she, at the very least, makes coffee and makes photocopies just good enough, but you can't trust her with more advanced tasks.

What's worse is that the organization also won't hire her more talented and equally attractive contemporary Google Assistant because of aforementioned nepotism. The boss thinks there's only room for one assistant.

lol.
Before SpaceX can 'capture the flag,' an astronaut had to find it
Confirming what we've known all along
Did it ever got out of BETA? it feels like , different years same story.. heck one guy sued Apple over siri ad in 2013..

https://www.cultofmac.com/215169/why-is-siri-still-in-beta/

the real race is between Google and Amazon for personal digital assistant.

Guess even cortana can beat siri day in day out.
Sorry, non paywall version here: https://builtformars.co.uk/banks/
https://miro.com/ (previously realtimeboard.com)
There is a guy on Youtube, moshix, that does a number of videos on IBM mainframes and does quite a bit with Hercules and various OS distributions that run on it. He helped my remember some stuff from my early career. I was able to get some of my old FORTRAN code running on a MVS 3.8 setup.

I also setup a vm370 system with a few different things running on an older Raspberry PI. It was fun to think I could run the old application I maintained on a system that is about the size of the pack of cigarettes my old boss use to keep on his desk.
agree most of what you said.

Our lawyer said, it's good that you have a fair exit. Many companies he consulted didn't go anywhere. EXCEPT we were not really looking for an exit and quite enjoying the journey how ever little money we are making. I never worked for FANG or anywhere closer so totally clueless.
Nobody is advocating to throw them under the bus. But the fact is since the virus is essentially unstoppable in its transmission rate everyone will be exposed to it...and what will be of those people will be of them. Their best hope is hospital care if they need it; our hospitals are not overwhelmed and neither are Sweden's...so these quarantine measures are an unnecessary burden.
Oh excellent, I'll check that out. Been a while since I read a microprocessor book.
Humans intelligence basically evolved (as far as we know) by retarding childhood development so we had neural plasticity longer to learn more. Crazy that we're giving our already-dumb AIs the extra challenge of learning things from nothing and doing so quickly.
Many industries which employed these workers will not recover for a very long time (if ever).

It also introduces the need for companies to automate operations, as a way to hedge the risk of employees getting sick (or making customers feel safer interacting with robots).

The other thing to consider is that during boom periods (like the previous one), headcount is filled, regardless of whether the position is needed. Often times one person can do the work of 6, but the department/company wants to appear like it’s growing so it will hire 6. Now that economic belt is tightening, we’ll see more bare bones skeleton crews.

So between those three things I think it will be highly unlikely that we return to pre-covid unemployment levels for quite some time (if ever).
Is there any way to do ICC profile transformations in js?
Syntax isn't even the worst thing.

Eg they still import modules via (automated) copy-and-paste.
Very nice. This is quite similar to what I've been building for myself.
Link to publication here: https://builtformars.co.uk/banks/
They will argue that, sure. But if their position is that any agreement they have ever signed can retroactively be declared invalid whenever it suits them, that’s bad news not just for Hong Kong but for the entire world. Signing treaties and then tearing them up when they became inconvenient was the behavior by Hitler that dragged the world into World War II.