skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is worth pitching in a meeting, I'd point out that the creator of GraphQL is also the creator of Airtable, which seems to be a thriving startup. The whole business model there is to give people visual tools to get into a database and out of a spreadsheet.

The story in all of this is that the only thing keeping Joe Q. Public from using a database instead of a spreadsheet is the very first step: designing a schema. Database design isn't really an impossible task for a non-developer to learn, if it can be visualized. If you start out at a command line and try to explain many-to-many relationships to them in code, you just lost them. People are visual creatures.

Since we're talking about giving people an API that takes care of CRUD and basic view logic at the database itself, and returns the data and the success/fail/delay messaging in a way that is standardized on the UI via javascript objects and async browser functions, the only hurdle that's left is that first one...

...designing a schema.

edit: on your topic of branching into test environments, I am in the process of evaluating low-code platforms for non-profits with limited development money but complex data needs at the moment, so I think we're thinking about the same things.

Everyone and their brother is working on a low-code platform at the moment. A big part of whether those platforms succeed or not is how they handle "last mile" complex logic. By last mile I mean, you can feasibly deliver basic CRUD and data analysis visualizations with drag and drop and query binding in generic javascript UI components. But there's still going to be the 10% complex business logic cases that don't fall within the 90% of an application that the generic components and boilerplate don't cover.

Off the top of my head, you could guide a user through some form logic that picks the first hundred or fifty or whatever rows from their existing tables that match a certain subset of shared keys, and tells them to flag columns which have sensitive data. Once the columns are flagged the tool could jumble the data in those columns and spit out a sandbox without any identifiable sensitive data that they could then safely hand to a contractor or freelancer to work on for custom development.
I work on a team that makes a product for actual customers. They tell us what they want and we do it :)
important to consider distinction between test blind and test optional like harvard is doing.

test blind - don't even consider SAT/ACT even if submitted

test optional - will be considered if submitted, but not required.

My view is that more colleges will start going test optional as August rolls around, but only colleges that have committed to eventually phasing out testing (UC system) have gone test blind for next year.
And Backblaze seemed to think highly of 'em as of 2015: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/a-look-at-backblazes-toshiba-...

It's interesting that Toshiba apparently acquired Hitachi's production assets during the HGST→WD acquisition. HGST had a pretty good reputation at the time, so I feel like this bodes well for Hitachi if their drives are indeed a continuation of that.

If I do need some spinning rust at some point I guess I'll have to give 'em a whirl.
Please post some instances of their "berating ebay employees".
What about number transfers?
Some MNP implementation rely on the original Home Subscriber Server the number was issued in or something, so there could be paths between core networks among major carriers.

e: already addressed, sorry
A technician in Dave Nichol's lab tried this with DMSO, a well-known and much more potent solvent for attempting this:

> And yesterday I was talking to Nick Sand, and Nick said, "I made a solution of LSD in DMSO…" -- DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide) is a chemical that greatly enhances absorption of other chemicals through the skin -- he says, "…I painted it on my skin. Nothing happened." A concentrated solution and nothing happened! How did this very meticulous Swiss chemist get the LSD into his body? I don't know.
Oh no, not subjectivity!
If Adobe could re-release the flash IDE but make it target webassembly, it would probably be a hit if they marketed it right. I don't think there's anything since that has surpassed the flash development experience
Oh boi does this hit hard as a engineer that recently got hired as a part of the AI/automation team on a startup, that few month in got told by the boss that "we need a AI team because we promised the investors. Investors are not interested in tech without AI baked in". Whelp.
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<quote>(the uptick of demand from Covid probably lost them money!)</quote>

I would frequently get deliveries from Whole Foods Market or get stuff off amazon a couple times a week. Due to covid just making deliveries impossible I've cancelled my Prime Subscription and haven't bought anything from Amazon in months. It wouldn't surprise me to see their revenue go down from Prime memberships.
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"b) no easy way for the software guys to address the problem"

Right, from a techical perspective, that is the problem. If WD was transparent about the SMR regions, cache size/full capacity, and read/write timeouts then the drives could be made provably useful (if potentially slow).

But they aren't providing that, which is problem 1, your "c" is of course a large part of that problem (lack of transparency). At least intel when they product segment, they tell you what is visibly diffrent between the products (ECC, AVX-512, number of UPI lanes, etc).

WD and the drive industry has been trying to hide this information for decades, for a while it was the sonic interference functionality, then it was TLER controls, then the IDLE3 controls. And recently its hard to get a straight answer about things which can be detected from profiling tools (SMR, Rotational speed, number of platters, track to track seek, etc).

And for what? The only people being hurt by this are the consumers, which don't know if they should buy a WD purple or a WD red for their video server because no one but their actual competitors spends the time/effort to take the drives apart and profile them to detect what is actually different in the artificial product segments.
I thought it was ddos? If not, I say it's china retalieting for huawei
I can compare a leaf and a tesla, both of which I have had direct experience with.

The leaf did lots better around town, but it was a relatively small and light car. The battery was charged significantly higher and drained significantly lower than tesla batteries. There was degradation. At highway speeds it was significantly less efficient and range anxiety became a real problem. On trips usable range was much less than the specs because: you couldn't drain it all the way because logistics was a real problem. You also couldn't charge it all the way because a "fast" charger would take as much time to charge to 80% as from 80%-100%. Range was an issue and being an engineer or mathematician helped. Around town 3.5-4.5 miles/kwh was common, on the freeway you would hit 2 at 70mph.

The tesla actually had freeway speeds. Where a leaf would have you in the right hand lane trying to go as slow as possible, the tesla would have you looking out for speed traps. The battery was huge. You could plan your trips with the help of the nav computer and your battery would generally stay in 20-80% range. On long trips it was better to stay 10-60% because the battery would charge faster before it started tapering off. By tapering off, I mean 2-3x the max the leaf would charge on a good day. I will say that tesla battery size makes it possible to care for the battery. It would be uncommon (and sort of bad maintenance) to charge to 90% let alone 100%. Same for below 20%. Telsa shuts off some automatic climate features below 20%

Oh, and tesla drivers are a diverse group. Just talking to them, some will average close to 200 wh/mi, while others will be above 400wh/mi. climate and foot weight make a difference. Besides behavior, there are also several tesla settings that will increase your range. Range mode, different driving settings [chill | standard | sport | ludicrous | ludicrous+ ] depending on the vehicle.
I wish I knew the details of the project; getting to mess around with new technologies for a year and no strict deliverables is a great position to be in. Worst case, you got to learn some new tech and pad your resume for your next job.
May or may not be related to the lawsuits they’ve been dealing with recently.
Different people have different thresholds for “Abusive behaviour that is sufficient to break ties”. This is a subjective question of morals. You can’t say “If this organisation has X units of badness”.
Modern vehicles are required to turn on the brake lights at a given level of deceleration, regen / brakes or not!
Two former Pinterest policy employees say they faced racism at work
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> And that's where I learned the phrase: "Pre-Boost Phase" — hit them in the silos. None of those systems appears to have borne fruit

Other than ICBMs, of course. IIRC it took quite a few years for ICBMs to become robust and responsive enough to launch in response to an attack and have enough time to escape the kill radius of the incoming nukes. If it took 15 minutes to fuel, target and launch, and you have 10 minutes warning... Well, you'd better hope your bunkers and silos held up.
A founder is shutting down his startup, and he’d like to hear from you
For PhotoStructure, I'm using

* GitHub and GitLab for private and public repos

* Just switched from GitLab CI to GitHub Actions (as self-hosted runners, especially on Windows, can be flaky)

* MailChimp (free tier)

* Drift for chat support (generous free tier)

* Braintree (similar functionality to Stripe, but also includes PayPal)

* Cloudflare proxying a Digital Ocean droplet running nginx serving a Hugo-built static website

* Sentry.io for error reporting (again, generous free tier, and open source)

* Twilio for an extremely cheap toll-free number

* G suite for email/docs

* Clerky for corporate setup

* Todoist for shared lists
Would you believe https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/05/21/1960s-rock-musi... ?
He's overly simplifying the contribution to profit by not understanding the contribution to expenses. It's not his fault because Amazon doesn't break it out that way. They don't allocate certain expenses to AWS and other expenses to other branches.

While there's no doubt that AWS is very profitable, to say it contributes a certain percentage to overall profits probably misses the mark tremendously.

It's probably and most likely very difficult to extricate costs of server farms that support the retail operation from server farms that host client services from overall operating costs. You'd need far more detail on gross margins and tight definitions for contribution of revenue. For example, do people who order things on Alexa get revenue counted for non-AWS while the Alexa infrastructure is counted as AWS expense? These are not easy questions. This is why it's not broken out as you'd like.

I'd wager that the contribution to profits is not as suggested here, but it's hard to know just how far off the calculation is. And it might not matter.
> In general, for programming languages, there are two ways to translate a generic function:

> 1. translate the generic function for each set of instantiated type parameters

> 2. translate the generic function just once, calling each trait method through a function pointer (via a “vtable”).

The approach in haskell might be considered a variation of 2, since it involves indirection, but a little different from other languages normally using vtables, since it's not selecting different implementations at run time, but just looking up the pre-determined implementation through a new parameter.

In particular, the function is transformed into a higher-order function accepting a new parameter representing the dynamic to_string functinoality, then at the call site, the appropriate concrete implementation to_string parameter is inserted for the new transformed function, and similarly this new higher-order function 'print' only needs to be compiled once.
Let me tell you about the time I got chalked up on blow, dusting out the pots of an old Yamaha DX7.
Commentator "BrightBlueJim" wrote:

>"...Collapse OS isn’t about finding old computers and putting them to use. It’s about building 8 bit computers using chips found in otherwise useless modern devices and putting them to use, when for various reasons our big, bloated PCs won’t work any more."

Related:

https://github.com/hsoft/collapseos
Interesting. Thanks for the insight and advice!

To reflect back what I'm seeing in your language use - to see if I've gotten the gist of it - your subtext / authoring attitude is "ah, you just forgot, let me simply re-inform" but you also don't bother mentioning any particular reason.
It is anticompetive, but it is apparently not prohibited anticompetitive conduct.

All of the major consoles since the NES (except for early revisions of the Genesis) have used technical means to restrict publication of games, and there has been no antitrust action on that. Nintendo was in a price fixing lawsuit and settled that with coupons for games with the Nintendo seal of quality.

If that's not subject to antitrust enforcement, why would the Apple app store criteria be?
Tesla’s batteries fall from their initial range in 2 yrs and to get around it they changed the display. Instead of miles they started calling it “range miles” or something like that and that is a cooked up number using some algorithm. It’s it real and is done to get around the fact that the battery holds less charge over time.
Yeah exactly, the play here is to make AI assistants to human decision makers.
Exercise (mostly cardio, some basic body weight stuff), condensed audiobooks (https://12min.com/), and working on various projects (currently working on knowledge engineering/automation with a personal memex).
Also, the bummer about the Backblaze stats is that they can't tell you about new batches of drives.
"It starts with T-Mobile. They were making some changes to their network configurations today. Unfortunately, it went badly."

KATE: Wait a minute, the fourteenth, that's the same day the worm ends its run. I mean... Da Vinci virus, didn't Phreak say that's what he was being charged with? Look, they blame hackers!
Apparently Toshiba's the way to go. I can't vouch for 'em (I haven't bought a Toshiba hard drive... ever; all of the ones I own are the ones that came in the various old laptops and desktops I've got in my garage), and I usually stick to SSDs nowadays, but next time I'm in the market for an HDD I guess that's the way I'll end up going (with WD and Seagate both relegated to secondaries, e.g. for RAID diversification).
I haven't finished the articles first paragraph because I can't stop laughing when I read the title - it's too true
I had a desktop with Win2k installed on it from 2002 through 2010. My account was a regular user account and I only logged into the Administrator account if I needed to install or upgrade.

I actually lost the installation due to a lightning strike that damaged the system board. The surge protector wasn't enough it seems.
You can disable automatic image loading on the settings page via a desktop browser.
Master in git doesn’t (as far as I understand) refer to master/slave architecture though. It’s a “master” as in as in the version from which copies are derived.
People on HN are no different than others. It's easy to be a naysayer and point out flaws, and it's an annoying trend that bogs down or even derails the conversation.

And now I have to brace for the "well actually's" to point out I am doing exactly what I complained about.

A continual regression of well actually's
4. The McDonald's next door also has 4. And there are paid ones in the street. It's a solid setup.
Look at these articles. They've collected data for real-world range vs speed in various models, and how fast supercharging works in various situations.

Tesla Model 3 Performance vs RWD consumption - Real Driving Data from 233 Cars

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/22-tesla-m...

Model 3 Consumption and Charging

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/13-model-3...

Tesla Model S Consumption vs Speed

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/9-tesla-mo...

Faster Tesla Supercharging - How does it actually perform?

https://forum.abetterrouteplanner.com/blogs/entry/29-faster-...
How about too many IMSI catchers being deployed at the same time ? Like basically ~ all of them at the same time right ? Couldn't that cause some unforeseen disturbances ?
IMO, that's the biggest sign that your job's not going to last very long.

I remember partial involvement in a major feature that I thought was kind of lame; but it pulled in quite a few engineers and was a major deliverable. I thought to myself, "huh, I guess customers will actually pay for this?"

Then later I found out that no one actually bought the feature.
Funny, I know a guy who was did woodworking (and construction) that pivoted to software.

I worked with him on a consulting project used by nearly 30 million people, great dude and great experience.

On the other hand, I didn't have an engineering degree, and worked on software for a major bank, and then a consulting company where I worked with ex-construction worker.

I found a gig on a team at another company where I make 40% more. The team I work on has zero real customers at this point, and we're doing real interesting stuff. We plan on converting our customer base over to the work my team has done, but that's still in the works.

Anyway, I think schooling isn't as important as people may think. You can learn some really cool and cutting edge things if you put your mind to it. And if those skills are marketable (not necessarily valuable, although companies might think so), you can get jobs utilizing those skills.

Tinkering with the tech you're interested in can be a good way to get into a position working on that piece of tech. It might not always work out, but it's worth a shot if you really want a fulfilling and interesting job in that area.
Off topic, but I had 2FA setup on my phone for various things, and had it stolen overseas. I was able to lock the phone and erase it...but I was stuck overseas without being able to access anything or reset it. There has to be a better way.
They were not faked. Cars were optimized to behave in a certain way under exact test scenario.

They were not producing any fake output data from the sensors, just "optimizing" engine behavior.
70s, check. 80s, check. Who has a 90s synth dosing experience?
Can you really blame people for skepticism?

How many articles get posted each day about some incredible new breakthrough? Then "poof" you never hear about it again. And the article said the new product would hit the market next year.
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All of the earlier smartphones had applications. I had a real player app and a better video recorder for my Symbian phone; blackberry, windows (CE), and palm phones all had apps too.

Mobile Safari was certainly a lot better than browsers on the other phones though. And a lack of carrier garbage and interference on updates was also nice.
Once all of this compile-time metaprogramming and code execution starts to happen, it always makes me ask: doesn’t this just conclude with dynamic typing? I’m currently a static typing lover. But it’s almost as if we’re just looking for the full power of a programming language. Why not just use the language itself instead of a weird, stratified compile time language?
Imagine if your tech guild had the power to promote tech priorities over business concerns, and drive the company out of business.

If your tech team is better than management at running the business, quit and form a competitor.
> We’ve learned this lesson ourselves cracking open broken laptops. You might find anything from coffee to soda, to pet urine or worse.

or black beans https://youtu.be/4HhPK8XC75A
Don't forget that we're in a global pandemic that is severely limiting students' ability to take the test.
Almost seems like menial work that your CEO might be using to gain a better foothold on gathering external investments. My experience with CEO's says that they aren't complete morons. I hope for your sake there is another valuable reason why he has you all doing this work.
I would presume AWS is so large these days that Amazon retail's infra is only a small fraction of the fleet?

Published data on their scale is thin on the ground, but this post from 2017 guesstimated that they had 4 million physical servers at the time, and AWS certainly hasn't shrunk since then:

https://blog.sqlizer.io/posts/facebook-on-aws/
A great illustration of how, to read PDFs, you need a letter-size medium (14", usually portrait).

Anyone reading PDFs on a regular monitor should ask themselves why they're putting a portrait peg in a landscape hole.
(Unrelated, but I love, love, love your username.)
I didn't think the developers' community had the power to get rid of flash at the time. Too many people wanted it. When Apple made that announcement I wasn't even sure it would work out for them.
Financier Martin Armstrong claims to have exactly such a system but it doesn't predict the market, it only makes quite accurate market forecasts.
Apparently it was stored in a cool and dry corner of a classroom. I don't see why LSD couldn't last this long without degrading given the ideal conditions. Also the LSD was found on the inside of the machine, so there wouldn't be any light exposure either.
Yea I'm putting my money on him having tasted the crystals
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2674#issuecomm...
Docker isn't supported on Fedora past Fedora 31 (https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/fedora/) or CentOS past CentOS 7 (https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/centos/).
DIY Electronic Connect Four Game
You get a co-worker to do it.
I think they're viewing it instead as continuing to reinvest profits until they're a cyberpunk level corporate power. It's not that they're cutting prices, it's that they're using the excess to buy companies like Whole Foods and vertically integrate them rather than paying out to shareholders, or building a bigger war chest in an index fund.
First Japanese Visitor to USA Describes American Life – 1860 Tokugawa Embassy
Thanks, Not that mean actually,

The product should have a clear value proposition. I offer to scale the product vertically and horizontally with usage scenarios. Because It is only possible to do this by listening and understanding customers. But we know that the distribution channel is important.

For this, you just have to look inside the room you are in. You will find products that zero value for your life. You brought these products from the distribution channels.

We make products with a much deeper value proposition and we deserve more. I could care to find a distribution channel.
From the original discussion, steel is a great example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23534663
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Flash wasn't just for video, it was for animated ads, or whole sites because it made cool transitions easy. I remember dumping flash sites others had made in the bin because they were not seo friendly (completely rendered as images, no actual text). And it was everywhere.
Unlikely but not impossible. He could have rubbed his eyes or lips after getting some on his hands.

> administering a number of drops from a vial of dissolved LSD did not give me anything remotely approaching a trip

What do you mean by "administering"? And what did you dissolve it in? Chlorine will destroy LSD so if you used tap water that might be the reason. Alcohol or distilled water is fine as a storage medium.