skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Link to the paper (behind a paywall): https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8225

Per the abstract:

>[T]here should be at least 36 (+175,-32) [communicating extra-terrestrial intelligent (CETI)] civilizations within our Galaxy: this is a lower limit, based on the assumption that the average lifetime, L, of a communicating civilization is 100 yr (since we know that our own civilization has had radio communications for this time). If spread uniformly throughout the Galaxy this would imply that the nearest CETI is at most 17,000 (+33,600,-10,000 lt-yr away and most likely hosted by a low-mass M-dwarf star, likely far surpassing our ability to detect it for the foreseeable future, and making interstellar communication impossible.
Once you've established a monopoly you can raise prices. If they raise prices even 10-20% their margins go up.
Inflation with Covid Consumption Baskets [pdf]
Yeah, very cool DB. I even considered doing a chapter on it in the next Seven Databases in Seven Weeks book but alas...
Snow Leopard was an entire release dedicated to making Leopard faster and more stable ... so at first glance it makes sense your memory of it is so positive.
... which is useless for your average non-technical user who wants to increase their password security but isn't comfortable with a terminal emulator.

The main objection I have to sites like this is that they encourage people to use a random untrusted site to generate a password for, say, their bank account.
In this fictional scenario every single community member has become a racist but the government legislative and enforcement bodies are immune from this trend?

Making something illegal may feel good, but if 100% of the population (by the terms of your scenario) are against it, legislation is hardly going to move the needle.
Contingent Wage Subsidy
I agree that making decisions like this puts the company in a bad position and is risky for them. But it's not like GitHub can suddenly pull the plug on ICE and instantly delete all their code; no data will be lost. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub so ICE doesn't have to worry about their code being taken down, beyond the small cost of migrating to another service. You can't say the same about the traditional utilities which are normally granted a monopoly.
Rethinking Pre-training and Self-training
I actually have agriculture experience. That's how I paid for college. You're absolutely right but I bet there's more than one AWS.

I think many people have heard of John Deere and Monsanto but what about McGregor? They may not be as big as AWS but even with Ag experience I bet there are bigger similar organizations.

I bet there are big custom harvest operations too. We had a two man operation on the Palouse but I heard stories about huge operations out of Texas that migrated through the midwest following harvest cycles.
They're not bad, if the password is long enough. So if you have 3 shorter words, add another word or two to increase it's length.
you type "glove blinks abruptly avatar salvaging marbled" every time you need to unlock your screen?
Beijing reinstated lockdown as US officials warn the same could happen here
Profit can be a really weird number, especially when it comes to data centers. So looking at pure earning statements numbers is likely going to be misleading no matter how you try to look at (unless you actually look at bank statements, you can create as many interpretations as you want).

First, data centers require A LOT of upfront capital. This capital is then capitalized over years, which is how it ultimately affects "profit". So depending on the capitalization schedule, how much they are investing in future growth, etc. will all affect this number. It's why, in short, Bezo's doesn't ever look at these numbers, but instead free cash flow (FCF).

“Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.”[0]

So, the real metric to look at is the FCF/DCF generated by AWS. If we had that number, I think you could basically conclude that it's "printing money".

[0] - https://25iq.com/2014/04/26/a-dozen-things-i-have-learned-fr...
OpenBSD does something like this. In the current release, they provide the public keys for the next release. After trust-on-first-use it's a never-ending cycle.

I call it trust-on-first-use because I didn't verify the initial signatures. Hmmm..
Me too. I actually built my "ideal" password generator because nothing else was really cutting it for me. And an online generator is a no go. Because of security, of course, but I also just want to pipe my password straight into my clipboard, for example.

https://github.com/pkulak/pgen
The thing is you can't parse json and yaml from either a file-like or a string object in one line of Python. To achieve that you end up writing at least 3-4 lines of checking logic each time, plus some try/catch blocks. I had to parse yaml or json in about 20 different places in our system and it was just not useful to repeat the same code everywhere. Now these 20 places are now all using this markup function, with the requirement met that the respective calling code is not more complex than before but (fail) safer and more flexible (support json and yaml at the choice of the end user).
Ebay third party developer here. The couple in question are the Steiner’s who run the ecommercebytes and auctionbytes blogs.

I don’t advocate, at all, what the ebay execs did, but I will say that the steiners are completely vindictive people who use their platform to hurt people they don’t agree with. They are not innocent, and their so called journalism isn’t anything more than hate mongering.

Again, I don’t think they should be harassed, but in essence, they get away with harassment everyday. Their blog is full of negativity and people constantly berating ebay employees.
Wake My Glitch Up
Hi HN! I was eagerly waiting for my package, so I built a tracking API.

UPS, USPS, and FedEx all have their own APIs, however they're fraught with complexity and the truly riveting world of PDF-based documentation. There are other solutions out there, but nothing free, so this became a nice weekend project for me to learn about Vercel.

Hope someone can get some use out of it! I'd be happy to add more carriers too, just email me.
I was directly addressing the notion that "It makes sense to not let people discriminate on things that are immutable (like skin color), but it's crazy to not let discrimination happen on things that are a choice." Religion is not an immutable characteristic. It's not a slippery slope argument, but rather a direct counterexample of the principle given.
I wouldn't call it so much BS as "lacking in testable predictions." I think of it as string theory for history, minus all the math.
Well I’m glad to hear that my solution was sane, but I just don’t see what technological innovation was contributed by the RDF. The file was canonical N-triples, AKA a CSV with space instead of comma. The predicates establish relationships between subjects and objects, but those relationships could be one to one, one to many, or many to many. Should a given predicate be modeled relationally as a column, or with some kind of join table? I have no idea from the RDF. Say, those objects, are the types I see attached to the values the only types that could possibly appear for that predicate? Who knows! Sure, the data has been interchanged, but the “format” is so generic that it’s useless. Why not just give me a 3-column CSV and tell me to figure it out on my own, rather than pretend that RDF provided some improvement?
All relational columnstores use batch inserts and updates. In fact that's the recommended way to write columnstore data and SQL already supports various batch insert methods. The modern databases also use a row-store representation as a buffer for any single-row mutations before merging the columnstore segments. [1]

OpenTSDB compacts columns inside a column-family. This is because Hbase/cassandra/dynamo key/value stores support arbitrary columns for each row and store a verbose identifier for the column/cell/version matrix. It's a custom data format to save disk space but the underlying compaction still refers to HBase LSM-tree compaction. [2] The rows are still stored individually and compression is enabled on HDFS.

But yes, it's all highly dependent on the situation and it's the same fundamental mechanics of batching and compressing data. My point is that it's better to just use a database that is built with this architecture and can provide greater performance, usability and full querying flexibility instead of bolting it on top of a less functional data store.

1. https://docs.memsql.com/v7.1/concepts/columnstore/

2. http://opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/user_guide/definitions.h...
> Source: I have worked in and out of the Amazon ecosystem for 5 years.

In and out of Amazon or Amazon's eco-system. You should qualify this as they are very different perspectives.
Some projects need constant involvement.

Some need months of work to have anything of any use.
As others have mentioned, this suggests there is large scale dilution of currency happening. When people realize that, it can be extremely destabilizing. We are somewhat protected just because everyone else trades in Dollars and there’s good demand for it, but there’s a limit to how far that goes. At some point, sentiment catches up to fundamentals.

Also isn’t this a sort of nationalization by financial instrument?
Nobody is arguing that all civil rights protections are useless.
They are 100% useless PR gags
Great point. Although I am not convinced that in a perfect political vacuum the two companies would not be better off as two separate companies with some joint agreement.
The most unlikely person to teach me to be a better software engineer
What are some of the other domains that you have learnt and helped you to be a better software engineer! For me, that will be the sports through the life of Michael Jordan. Do check it out!
Ask HN: How to get motivated after burnout
I've been interviewing for two months (the Leetcode variety) and didn't get any offers. I find that when I can't understand a piece of code, I spend a lot of time on one question. This is what happened at my last job. I often spent a lot of time figuring one thing out, and there wasn't enough help available. It seems to take me a longer time to figure things out than other people, and it seems like most teams just expects you to figure it out and then deliver. Usually after the honeymoon period, I cannot maintain interest in anything, and even though I know I need to, I just can't no matter what. It's probably an attention/cognitive issue. Anyone has experience and found a solution for that? Also, at what point do you decide that a particular career is "not a good fit for me" or "just difficult in the meantime"?
Spotify feels natural to me to listen to Podcasts. So i am at least one paying customers, who was just waiting for it.

(Never knew, that spotify also has video. Who is using that?)
I remember around 2007 a tower defense came - desktop tower defense by hand drawn games... I guess that flash version is long gone but did find it nice wish someone would build an html5 version
Physicists create exotic “fifth form of matter” on board the ISS
Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressiv
Thanks, already listed but updated the repo link.
I currently work on a project that has struggled to make actual sense for a few years now. Sure I like getting paid, but there's a growing void in my soul.
I will investigate this. Thank you for setting me straight.

The discussion of this GUI dependency came up years ago on HN and someone who worked at Bell Labs now at Google basically said, in so many words, "sam without the mouse is not sam".
Mayhem is always an unreasonable choice. And it certainly won't feed you if you're hungry.

And judging by the pictures, very few of the protesters were desperate, tired, hungry, downtrodden, etc. For most, it's an opportunity to virtue signal for a day or two, and then go back to their relatively affluent lives and forget about all of this.

Hardly a one would be caught dead tutoring some inner city kid with their algebra. Far more fun to taunt cops in an impossible position.
Google Raises $25M Led by Sequoia and Kleiner Partners (1999)
Why not recommend it? What are the main reasons?
Original justice dept press release URL too long for HN's submit page:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/six-former-ebay-employees...
Both the terminal or pipe show up as a preopened file descriptor to your process. You can pass that file descriptor to the isatty posix function call which will inform you whether the file is a tty (in most cases a terminal) or not.
This may not be cryptographically secure. Shuf can default to using a small amount of entropy.[1,2,3] To be certain, you can add the --random-source option:

shuf --random-source=/dev/urandom -n 4 /usr/share/dict/words

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Rand...

[2] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/v8.5/gl/lib/rand...

[3] https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/v8.32/gl/lib/ran...

Edit: As ThA0x2 points out in a reply, the latest version of shuf uses /dev/urandom to generate a default nonce, which vastly improves upon older versions. As long as your version of coreutils is at least 8.6 or later and your OS has /dev/urandom, the default should be fine. If you don't have /dev/urandom, even the latest version of shuf (version 8.32, as of June 15, 2020) will still default to an insecure nonce.
Nice theme, never saw it. Tabs, dropdowns and scrollbar slightly off, title bar decoration quickly becomes invasive, otherwise - super.

Title bar, menubar and toolbar nicely muted down on background windows. Very professional look. And taskbar - so clean. Thank you, I like it even more than Classic theme.
In the global pandemic recently, I spent a week not leaving my apartment even once. I had no trouble getting goods and services because everything was delivered to my door.

It isn't that outlandish that the market will sort it all out. I doubt anyone is going to be unhappy if business get a bit of a prod to remind them that wheelchairs exist, but the idea a free market would ignore 2% of their potential customers is just not true. Greedy capitalists have incentives to be thorough; 2% of the market changing hands is enough to get the attention of any CEO.

Most businesses would notice 2% of their customers disappearing, let alone 2% of the broader market.
Actually, I prefer only being able to drag from the corner, as OS X did it through Snow Leopard / 10.6 (not sure about Classic?). Too often on modern OS’s I find myself resizing windows by accident, or not resizing them when I mean to because the initiation area is too small.
I am currently employed to develop an entire data analytics system because a government department can't get their firewall rules right.

None of the members of this government department want a bespoke system, they want to use tools they are familiar with but due to the firewall rules this isn't possible.
Looks great. Are users able to query commits/historical values to a cell inside their SQL query?

i.e. "Select population.master, population.branch2, population.commit123.diff from state_populations"
I don't know. The Acid Rain Retirement Fund is a nonprofit that primarily bids in the SO2 allowance market.
> have small numbers of Hitachi drives

25,000+ drives according to 2020 Q1 report in case anyone is wondering
This describes more than half of the corporate software projects ever started, IME.
> Now I definitely see an end to passive capital gains in traditional financial markets; there's a lot of money sloshing around with not enough good places to put it. Anything near-passive (i.e. real estate) is also feeling similar pressures. It seems like a great time to build big projects that take a huge amount of money, I'm just not on board with pure public funding and all the issues that go with that.

Carry this a little further, and this means either the death of the concept of retirement as we know it.

> Is this true? automation is essentially a emphasis from human to physical capital. It seems like we're continuing to reduce and specialize human capital while growing other forms.

Here is really the only hope. If we can recognize one day that it's just plain not necessary for humans to labor for ~50 years between ~20 and ~70, leaving them only with their "golden years" -- the ones where serious health problems start to take the life out of life.

I don't know what to call this type of society. It certainly wouldn't be "capitalist" in any real sense. It may be "post scarcity," but not necessarily. Perhaps it will be some weird techno-socialist thing?
> At least if they can legally deny service to you, you know that the ones serving you aren't a risk to your wellbeing.

Assuming that refusal-of-service is a sort of relief valve is wildly optimistic.

Overt but relatively passive forms of racism effectively give pervasive comfort and encouragement to those who would engage in more active acts. Indirectly, this is also why "dog whistle" speech is so dangerous.

Per your example, in an environment where simply refusing service to you was common and widespread, you might find that someone who does agree to serve you is doing so just for the opportunity to spit in your food (at best).
The steel production and raw materials industry is a whole different world. I am not knowledgable in the area at all but a recent linkedin post by a friend was listing the biggest steel producers by country, I did not recognise any names except Tata from India and Thyssenkrupp from Germany.

Here is a list I found from a quick search, try to guess which country the biggest producers is based in or how many of top 5 you expect to have heard of before opening the link.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_steel_producers
serioludicrous
simpleheartedness
seminiferal
phrenologize

no thanks.
HN needs some topic extraction and push the threads with more comments to the top.

Just saying.
And not paying taxes while doing so
Well, unlike crypto, there is nonzero probability of owning a stake in real assets with Hertz.
I'm a night owl as well. 3am would be about bedtime for me if I had my way. What happened after you were able to follow your natural rhythm? Did you feel better?
Blendogames Source Code
Well I don't think anyone in charge is really happy about how nuclear weapons are handled these days, but generally speaking I'd say that most people don't want to use them, but they're forced into over-worrying about attack vectors because that's the nature of MAD. Even so, there are so many ways of doing so much damage to an adversary right now I doubt if a major nuclear power would actually deploy[0] offensive neutrino weapons outside of an actual war.

[0] There is a difference between use and deploy in military terminology.
PHB Effect?
NT had it first, but NT didn't really get much of any consumer exposure. Windows 95 was much closer to the Windows 3.1 everything-shared memory model: 16-bit apps (which were still in widespread use) continued being able to access hardware and each others' memory, and memory belonging to the most recently executed 32-bit app. NTVDM in Windows 2000 also supported 16-bit apps, but they were strictly isolated from each other, the hardware, and any 32-bit app.

The upshot was a 16-bit utility that would crash or corrupt an unrelated app (or the entire machine) in 3.1 or 95 would only crash itself in 2000. The driver model was also completely redesigned, but I don't know much about that.

Any time you hear the old meme about Linux being more stable than Windows, it's important to realize it dates back 20 years when Linux had per-process virtual memory and Windows did not.
Where did the “Manage this domain” link go in the new Google Gmail GSuite?
Because instead of just trusting your system, you'd also have to trust an external service to remain honest. CSPRNG is widely deemed acceptable for use as key material (unlike standard PRNGs), so there is no reason to add an external dependency.
Have you found the TRM yet? I really like the idea of this chip but the released documentation for it is woefully incomplete.
What protects the Starbucks employee from getting sued besides their lack of assets?
In "Raj Chetty: The Fading of the American Dream | Amanpour and Company" (https://youtu.be/_rffAhR4mSs) (summary below), Chetty makes the case that doing what works is essential. The discussion ) ultimately turns to race and black boys in particular. Turns out that black boys (versus white boys or black girls) need their father present.

What spoke to me the most was Chetty's statement that race always mattered no matter income, education, family, neighborhood. Go to 18:15 to learn more. Basically, while system and program improvements could result in lifting black boys/men up the ladder, the system was pushing against them. This is a profoundly difficult thing to labor against even in a systematic, data-informed, policy- and practice-driven way. But the failure to take a piecemeal approach may result in so few black people in STEM.

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Summary: Raj Chetty believes he may have found a way to reignite the American Dream. Using “Big Data,” Chetty says we can offer equality of opportunity to kids of disadvantaged backgrounds. The renowned Harvard Professor has received plaudits for his work in harnessing data to propose solutions to economic inequality. He sits down with Hari to explain his work.
The thing about printing money though, is that if everybody does it, it negates a lot of the effect. That means that if you want the effect, you have to print more and more to keep up. The only other alternative is to realize that money is essentially a fictional construct that keeps capitalism moving forward, and to consider that people may not need to be slaves to some numbers in a computer system.
Our Big Fight over Nothing: The Political Spectrum Does Not Exist
I'm frankly shocked by how well these Clojure Datalog DBs work. Both the data-modelling side (datoms) and the query side are extremely expressive and well integrated into Clojure itself as well.

The principles are (from my perspective): How would a database (API) look like when both data changes over time and structural flexibility were first class concepts. The result is almost mindbogglingly simple.

Datalog is already such a powerful language in and of itself and I really wonder why it is still such a niche thing.

Don't get me wrong. SQL is great. It is there for a reason. And it is and should be "the default" for most use-cases. But Clojure Datalog DBs have a fairly clear and large advantage, especially when data is temporal and/or graph-like.
I didn't even know Thyssenkrupp did things other than elevators.
It's derived from Alpine:
https://alpinelinux.org/
A whole bunch of texts people apparently sent me ~4 hours ago just came through.
This is actually pretty amazing. I predicted that the top few would be US based companies but I hadn't heard of them because they are rounding errors. I was wrong about that but the first US based steel company on the list is in my neighborhood. I ride up to their plant on my daily bike ride.
> whatever code that you're thinking of isn't running anywhere but in the minds of (mostly White) voters

This might well be true; if it is, it's a sad commentary on our body politic that so many people have lost touch with what the rule of law is supposed to mean. Civilizations where that has happened in the past have not ended well.

> Thanks for the back and forth, I appreciate it. :)

Likewise! :-)
If you can disable 2FA, without using 2FA to authenticate first... is it 2FA?