skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is a decent example of a docker image being created from nixPkgs https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus#how-to-run-a-local...

Another advantage is a unified development environment as I can run the server in the container or directly on host machine in an isolated nix-shell.

Yet another advantage, is unlike the layer of a docker container, isolated dependencies are isolated and linked so packages link together based on a hash-address/path of a dependency in the nix store so there is no need to worry about order of steps but rather what depends on what making the cache misses in a nix-store vs a docker layer more efficient. For example if the first step in a Dockerfile needs to be changed all proceeding steps need to be rebuilt where as if a dependency in a nix file say paython-2 to python-3, every package that depends on python just get re-linked and only those packages need to be updated and you already have python-3 used in a nix-shell or in another container odds are it's already cached and ready to go!
You're probably right! Though I've just experienced this issue with three participants, all in the same city (not in the US though). It's really annoying.
That misses a 3 key points:

1) 72% pure loss ratio is ok, but normally for these lines I'd aim for mid 60s. Nothing special to see here..

2) It took them THREE YEARS to get there, and they were exceedingly poor at selecting and managing risk for 2 years. 161% loss ratio??!! That is flunky-level poor risk management. If they had a reinsurer, that reinsurer is probably very unhappy and unlikely to renew the treaty.

3) The combined ratio is really poor. They are hemorrhaging cash because of high G&A and high sales & marketing. Again, after 3 years of effort. This indicates they have not operated any more efficiently that other legacy insurers, AND that Lemonade is spending aggressively to acquire customers.

Lemonade's competitors have vastly more financial resources and market reach, can cross-sell more products, can equal or better its tech experience (USAA, Esurance), operate more efficiently (every major direct P&C writer), and acquire customers at scale at equivalent or better acquisition costs. For the Lemonade investment thesis to work, one must believe they will eventually address these weaknesses at scale, and that they will be given a software valuation multiple when they are really just another direct writer of insurance.
It should probably be pointed out that the original article came from the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/09/tesla-f...

Furthermore it is a extremely strong coincidence that this article comes out five days after Musk seemingly randomly attacks Amazon:
https://nationalpost.com/technology/elon-musk-amazon-feud-je...

It certainly matches Musk's regular habit of lashing out at his critiques...
I'd say it's more about query language, and what types of queries the DB is optimized for. Graph DBs come with query languages that let you directly ask questions like "starting from node $foo, select all nodes and edges that lead to node $bar, but only for paths consisting of edges with property $xyz > 42".

An example from Neo4J documentation:

MATCH p =(charlie:Person)-[* { blocked:false }]-(martin:Person)
WHERE charlie.name = 'Charlie Sheen' AND martin.name = 'Martin Sheen'
RETURN p

which, per documentation, "returns the paths between 'Charlie Sheen' and 'Martin Sheen' where all relationships have the blocked property set to false".

https://neo4j.com/docs/cypher-manual/current/clauses/match/#...

Graph DBs are designed for modelling your data as nodes with properties, connecting by directed edges, with properties, to another nodes; they're also internally optimized for doing such queries.
bail is cheaper than missing production targets.
Congratulations! It's a big milestone and growing a company to 250+ people is no small feat. That you did this without major institutional funding is awesome!

And thanks for writing up your story. I bet there's another 22-year old kid lurking in here somewhere and getting inspired to start something.
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There are several VS Code plugins for PlantUML and Graphviz that allow for live rendering. That has proved very useful for communicating ideas without needing a drag-and-drop interface, and the result is a file that I can drop into a git repository.
> And if shutting down non-essentials can reduce the rate of infection, it improve the outcome for _everyone_ afterwards.

For how long? What if there is never a vaccine? Will we hide in our homes forever?

There is a reason California is reopening. Lockdowns just can't last forever. We have to move on and do the best we can to live with the virus as a normal part of life, even though it means more people are going to get sick.

We should also all be uncomfortable with the government deciding which companies deserve to survive. We are supposed to have a market economy. We can put up with those kinds of government controls as short-term emergency measures, but they would cause economic collapse in the long term.
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> Google also made a conscious decision to put the machine learning model in the cloud, which wasn’t the immediately obvious choice.

Oh good. Meet is already a huge battery-hog on my laptop, so adding fancy signal processing client-side was worrying me.
On the other hand, they also take up precious wall space that needs to stay clear at all times. It's not a big deal to move a car out of the way a few times a year. In any case, a double man door looks a lot nicer and is just as functional.
can you expand? i know the clique, but at least for the specific work i follow, the work isn't bad recently.

of course, nothing surprises me.
As someone who's recently jumped into a TS codebase after using just JS for years, a blog post or resource with these tips would be very nice (even though some are obvious, a lot of people don't know they exist. Disabling implicit any was a PITA/huge help for me.) Do you say don't use ! because you can't make just anything truthy in TS, or is there another reason?
Oops, yeah, each production plant lists capacity at about 1/2 _million_ metric tonnes / yr.
I haven’t seen any ads yet. Might be geographic though.

Also setup asked about some tracking stuff and I said no but haven’t done any research to see how they treat it.
there is video of the Minneapolis police slashing tires including a whole parking lot full of cars all under the guise of protecting the public and themselves.

filming will do nothing till the the protections afforded the police by their union and local politicians; don't let these mayors fool anyone as most had budget increases planned for their cops; are made illegal. every violent act committed by any police officer must have the possibility of assault charges for the officer unless video clears them. any time the police must make a payout for an act committed by an officer that officer must be released and have their permanent record flagged so they just don't walk across state lines.

the only real national database we need is of government employees, be they cops, firemen, teachers, or clerk. get busted and you are done for nationwide with regards to public service.
The screenshot comes from a FOIA request from Alameda County.
Unfortunately as much as I love Linux, you are absolutely right. But I think it more of a social problem than a technical one.
Flycut. It's a clipboard manager. I hit cmd+shift+v and I can scroll through my previous clipboard states. It's an amazing upgrade from a one-state-only-clipboard life.

"Flycut is a clean and simple clipboard manager for developers. It based on an open source app called Jumpcut. Flycut is also open source too: http://github.com/TermiT/flycut"
If anyone is interested in something from this time period worth reading in its original language, that is not on the reading lists, I can recommend the works of Sir Thomas Malory. He collected, compiled, and translated from French to English everything we call "Arthurian Legend." He did this while in prison near the end of his life. I picked up a used copy on a whim, knowing nothing about Middle English, and its been difficult but priceless. It took me an hour to get through the first page, but it puts Game of Thrones to shame. Found it on Amazon, they list it as ASIN B011T6UUCQ. Theres other editions, but I can vouch for the integrity and readability of this one.
Ask HN: More Ergonomic Assembly Language?
It has been many decades since the AT&T and Intel syntaxes were introduced, and we've learned a lot about programming language design since then.

For example, consider how AT&T assembler uses parentheses to dereference memory locations: `(%eax)`. Such a usage of parentheses is unlike that of most programming languages, and unlike how parentheses are used in mathematical notation. You could say it "violates the principle of least surprise".

Another problem is width specification: typing e.g. `DWORD` (in all caps) a la Intel to specify width is verbose and laborious, but appending a letter to the instruction name a la AT&T makes those names harder for the human eye to parse.

Then there's the inscrutable naming of registers and instructions. Ideally we'd want them to follow "Huffman Coding" naming principles, where high-value short, clear names are assigned to the most commonly used elements and rarer elements get somewhat longer, more explicit names. Unfortunately this is a problem for hardware manufacturers, but let's dream for a moment that they're listening.

What would a more ergonomic assembly language look like?
Congrats Paras, it's great seeing far VWO has come!
Washington Post actually have more details as to where this seat assembly facility is:

The Washington Post: Tesla defied county orders so it could restart production. Days later, workers tested positive for the coronavirus..
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/09/tesla-f...
Sudo in this instance is an easy way to allow the user to call service without giving them root access, thus a security measure. It has nothing to do with making things more visible to the user.
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I think of it as "age amplification style": those minimalistic shapes look maximally shiny when new and maximally gross when not. More ornamental styles change appearance as well as they are, but they are far more successful at earning patina as a quality.
I'm not a developer on it, but I've been following the development pretty closely for a while. IIRC, the lead developer Jeremy Soller states that even though the kernel code does require unsafe blocks, it's actually less common than you might think.

I can't find the source, but for some reason I have it in my head that the percent of Redox kernel code that is unsafe sits at somewhere around 30%, which especially considering the actual LoC of the microkernel vs. a monolith, means much easier code coverage. Again, the exact number might be wrong, but I do know that the kernel is significantly less that 100% unsafe code.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/george-flo...
To be fair much of Scotland used to be covered in forestry and has been denuded. There are some interesting projects showing what happens if the land is simply protected from over grazing (particularly by deer).

As for grid scale storage, the Tesla battery in Australia is 185Mwh, or roughly a 10th of the amount of power the UK receives from France in an hour as a result of their overproduction of nuclear power. It's a drop in the ocean compared to what would be needed to get us though a stormy night when the offshore wind shuts down in high winds.

Pumped hydro is great but is hugely dependant on topology.
There are some interesting developments like liquid metal batteries that might one day answer the storage problem but none which have demonstrated the scale required to go completely free of carbon emissions.

I think load shaping will probably play a larger part than most people give it credit for. There are some interesting developments, including solid state circuit breakers, which could be switched on and off over a network to reduce the load or to take advantage of over capacity of renewables.
You can't make an argument that it's carbon neutral -- They don't just burn deadfall, and you can't grow trees faster than you can burn them.

Prior to coal, the developed world burned massive amounts of wood, which contributed to massive deforestation. This is literally a step backwards, and not in any good way. When civilization burned wood for energy >500 years ago, sure, because demand was so low. But by the 1700-1800's demand for energy was so high that burning wood was untenable - coal literally saved the forests. Today, energy demands are exponentially higher, and there's no chance biomass is going to be better than coal from an impact standpoint.

I hate to disagree on renewables, but I think there is also no way renewables as we think of them today (wind, solar, batteries) are going to be the answer either. At best they are a tool enabling independence from grids, but from a worldwide energy demand perspective, they are untenable. I think Michael Moore's recent film did a decent job of outlining the problem. Next gen nuclear is probably our only hope save population reduction (hello COVID).
https://jenkins-x.io/ has brought together a number of open source projects in theoretically a good way but it's still pretty rough around the edges (at leas last time I worked with it in March) and still falls short of an "Ubuntu" experience.
An interesting argument, but even if the 8-core iPad processor could achieve somewhat higher performance without thermal/power constraints, it's nowhere near enough to bridge that multi-core score performance gap.

Adding more cores isn't necessarily an option for Apple yet either, considering that (from what I understand) their yields are relatively low because it's hard to make chips that large on such a small node. Even more cores means lower yields and greater costs.

I'm not saying the iMac Pro won't get there, but I highly doubt it will be a part of this first wave.
Where do you live where there is a citizen bio lab? I'm considering a move in the near future and would be interested in having a place like that available to me.
>> my understanding from looking is at the website is that it provides a database client/editor

Yes, XgeneCloud comes with a fully featured GUI Database Client for schema design and migrations. No more database design from cli or code.

>> how is authentication handled?

We use session based authentication.

>> does serverless model mean that a new database connection has to be established every time an API

Yes, if there are any improvements please suggest it. We were inspired by a commit[1] made to our old solution in Xmysql - which turned REST APIs to Lambda functions.

So, we went onto extend this Serverless function support for all Cloud Platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure / Alibaba / Vercel)

>> But do those tables get added to the DB?

Yes, they gets added to Database.

>> And where does the email get sent from?

we are using nodemailer for mailing and the smtp config can be updated in the corresponding config file for the environment within server/config/ folder.

[1] : https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql/commit/3b279855a2562765975f7...
(note, not defending Biomass)

While Biomass should not be treated as 'renewable', the key difference between burning biomass versus coal is that the inherent carbon in biomass could be treated as a cycling of carbon that already exists in the carbon cycle (assuming where it is harvested is then replanted with trees, which many of them are) - versus the burning of coal (or any other fossil fuel) which takes 'stored carbon in the ground' that has NOT been part of the carbon cycle for millions of years and increases the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere & the overall 'natural carbon cycle'.

So - 'in the fullness of time' (decades) it is 'carbon neutral'.

But the tragedy in Biomass is not just the destruction of forests as you mention (sometimes old growth) or the loss of an active carbon sink - the carbon dioxide is still released and will be sitting around when we least need it to - it will still warm the planet.

Hopefully, the EU and other countries will abandon the Biomass retrofits and jump ahead to accelerated Solar, Wind and Energy Storage deployments.
Though IMO this misses the point of the OS which is the deep integration and fast UI the native APIs allow that these cross platform applications (and any application ported to Haiku through Qt and Java) ignore. There is no real reason to use Haiku over some Linux desktop (you can even make XFCE look kinda similar to Haiku/BeOS if you want) if the applications you use do not take advantage of it.
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After 5 months we can finally share the full version of the CacheOut paper
I don't use a Mac any more but from what I see and hear, most Mac users aren't clamouring for more speed or for even thinner laptops, but for a more stable, less annoying operating system.
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It is Assembly after all, just use conditional compilation.
> theft

You can't steal data unless if you intentionally delete the original after copying, but then that is not really theft as any proper organisation will have backups.
Do you descend from your cousin? No. You're related, and thus share a common ancestor.
This will change your life!

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Just took a tour on http://hackaday.io, it's refreshing to browse through what feels like genuine innovation.
can you elaborate on ruby? i'm curious to understand your experience with it and what brought you to the conclusion that you "hate programming".
I upvoted the parent and want to emphasize vim key bindings. This is not necessarily vim the editor, it's your editor of choice in vim mode. Learning to use vim is like learning to touch type: it's initially a pain, but it's hard to ever go back once you've mastered the basics.

If you haven't learned to touch type (it happens, I didn't learn until I was 22), then first learn that, then learn vim.

FYI: Remap your capslock key to escape to use Vim more effectively.
to the point that any business should be. as in, if they take reasonable precautions I am all for any business being opened. it is far easier to contain the issue in a factory floor than the supermarket many will be in on their way home.

that is the lunacy of the closings, they lack logic, as in rules being used and implied risk against other types of businesses opening have been glossed over for those already deemed essential.
Not too long ago it seemed like doxing was considered taboo, but it's made a resurgence and I don't see many folks shunning the practice. Hopefully the right to privacy can return to being a value we hold as a society again.
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>As I write this, the UK's intensity is 326 gCO₂eq/kWh, which is nothing to write home about.

Yeah, that's true, but you've taken a reading there at the worst time of day whilst it's not windy here. The other week we achieved the second lowest carbon intensity daily average ever (the lowest was in the summer last year).

Here's what the UK carbon intensity of electricity looks over a larger time scale (8yrs) https://electricityproduction.uk/carbon-intensity/?t=8y

Also, I don't believe that (whilst I love their visualisation) the Electricity Map UK gCO2/kWh measurement is very accurate. For starters, they don't appear to separate out different types of gas plants. The CO2 intensity of OCGT is 3x that of CCGT.
Better at coding and better Programmer not always converge.

To become a better programmer, I find _testing_ is a big booster. Not only it helps demonstrate compliance to specs, it also adds more confidence that you're in control of the code. It let's you experiment and change approaches.

Also I find a good help from _IDE_, even a simple as Geany [1], that lets me jump between the functions and also hint at the args. It saves time, and, again, adds confidence when exploring/extending new code.

And finally, the most imporant booster - _learning my limits_.That is when it's time to ask for help and not feel too defensive about peer review. This goes hand in hand with knowing what a good team is. Not just wishing for it.
I read East of Eden by Steinbeck twice. It's a long read, but a great story. In fact, I don't really remember any of the story, so perhaps a third read is in my future.
I need to get hearing aids soon and heard about all the advances and limitations. Particularly the problems with noise cancellation. I hope this kind of technology trickles into hearing aids also.
I am sure having all code in the same repo helps but I was mainly thinking about how changes across multiple services is often very time consuming in microkernel designs and requires very careful analysis.
Maybe not widely yet. But here's[0] an Intel employee saying it's supported, which confirms that it's one of their visions for the module.

[0]: https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-software-guard...
Was there ever a time where you doubted that the demand for junk news was the problem? I don't complain about "the media" because they are just following the incentives their viewers leave for them. "The media" was never exclusive to high brow, balanced journalism. It has always included the tabloid rags, celebrity gossip, useless trivia about sports, outrage inducing politics, etc.

Fact: National Enquirer has been A/B testing since the grandparents of the founders of Facebook were in diapers.
Congratulations. Your journey is inspiring!
The unstated question is “what are the (compelling) incentives to change the incentives”?
You may, it doesn't change my comment though.
Apple //c from 1984 (with the original receipt!) The composite video output means I can plug it right into my 50" tv without any special hardware and everything looks great.

I removed the disk drive cable from the motherboard and plugged a floppy EMU in, and now my kids play Lemonade Stand, Dig Dug, Oregon Trail, Carmen San Diego, and dozens of other classic games.
https://www.bigmessowires.com/floppy-emu/
Boy, I'd love to see Moxie's comment on this after years of shilling SGX. I was always disappointed by that and never understood why someone as otherwise-bright as him went for it.
In a similar vein, I am a primarily a mac user today after growing up on windows and linux (personally and for developments that run on linux as the end-system). I am quite confident that already having an intimate familiarity with Unix is what really unlocks MacOS as a powerful developer environment. I find myself much more appreciate of the positive differences that it provides over Linux and BSD, and much more understanding of deficits and things it won't let me do than I think I would be without that familiarity.
The original article is by a writer of the Washington Post. If this doesn't count as journalism, I struggle to find examples that do.

The journalist spoke with two workers within the production facility. "One of the workers said a supervisor confirmed two positive cases to a group at the Fremont-based seat assembly facility" This is an example of just one supervisor confirming two positive cases. It is likely that there are many more.

Furthermore, "But because Tesla restarted production a week earlier, there could have been cases that were never reported to the county because Tesla was “not required to directly report known cases” before the agreement, county officials said."
Haiku has a really lovely smooth "90s-style" graphical interface. Always responsive whether you run it locally or (as I more often do) run it in a VM.