skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's the case, it should be covered in your official documentation. The thread title is spot-on if you don't happen to magically guess that that's also an option.
Right. I'm familiar but have not used. Once I realized this was possible it opened my mind and vision to other possibilities. I hope :)
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OK, I just figured out you can use quotation marks around the language field which does the job for C#, but I'm not sure you want to keep it that way.
How to write a profitable strategy for algotrading Bitcoin
Anyone have a good resource on learning mathematical notation?
Yes, the IA has no special legal, regulatory, or advisory rights that i am aware of, which makes it in the eyes of the court just another .org.

Whatever special role you or I think it plays in the world has zero bearing on the outcome of this case.
I can definitely recommend Salt.
Has its bugs/warts like any other config management system. But it works fairly well/is extensible for the most part.
Weird, I don't have that.

You can try to add a "last name", and then remove it. I think I put an initial at some point.
Yes, I remember them building one of the first digital frame stores at Kingswood Warren, must've been early to mid-80's - huge 14" disk packs with the electronics to digitise/recreate the analogue broadcast-quality video signals ("ah, the smell of a burning disk pack in the morning" - after a head crash).

Eventually installed at Television Centre, together with our PDP-11 driven motorised rostrum camera.
Funny enough, the colleague I mentioned wrote a blog post on using an ipad in that way.
I want to doubt a billion dollar company like HSBC will have engineers who will install things just out of the box and leave it without properly configuring it. But, they are proposing to use Mongo just almost a month[1] after a report came highlighting several issues with the product, ESPECIALLY for use-cases like a bank that requires a very high level of data consistency, so your point might actually be valid.

Would really be interested to know how something like Mongo ends up getting seriously considered for something like this, I mean the whole decision process that goes in to selecting something like this.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285249
The iron triangle[1] is a well known model. If the "business" side insists on "engineering" breaking it, they are not serving their function.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_management_triangle
You're an idiot if you bring that bullshit liberal elite attitude to work with you. You shitty little opinion stays home. Glad he got fired.
So we’ll have to wait for 5g!
All AAA games need to be cross platform to maximize revenue with a long tail, so they target the lowest common denominator for hardware requirements.

No one is going to design gameplay for a special hardware constraint unless the gameplay can degrade to lowest common denominator. Which of course, makes needing the special hardware optional.

There are few exceptions to this rule. Some platforms pay for exclusivity, effectively covering lost revenue from other platform streams. And Nintendo alone makes a profit on hardware, so they can produce platform exclusives to drive addtl revenue from hardware sales.

Special SSD pipelines, while PC gamers are still using 7200rpm HDDs, are about as appetizing to game devs as waggle controls or Kinect sensor games.

The new consoles include these SSDs not to make something possible now, but to remain relevant in ten years time when PCs may have caught up.

This is the game industry's equivalent of supporting IE 11.
You shouldn't take money for what you can't deliver. If enough customers ask for a customization, add that to your pipeline and you'll have some good news to share when it's ready.
In my experience, past a minimum acceptable performance level, networking matters a lot more for promotions than any additional job performance. And that minimum performance is fairly low.
Just knock the jar (lid down) against a table. Works every time.
What about the prevalence of proprietary software? You can’t use that for anything without making a contract with the author either.
> Why does anyone carry a gun, unless they intend to use it

Yes, I carry a gun because I intend to use it. In self-defense, if ever necessary.

What is wrong with wanting to protect my own life?
Irish Gaelic is similar, affirming or negating the verb.
For me at least, dictation is actually the more straining mode of speech recognition, as compared to using my command grammars. With dictation, you might say anything, so the computer is given wide leeway in what to recognize, and so you must speak as clearly as possible. With commands (especially a nice simple command grammar), however, what you can say is greatly restricted, which allows you the freedom to speak indistinctly and still be understood by the computer. This can even be magnified by personalized training of the speech recognition model.

When using commands at my computer, I frequently find myself muttering and grunting things that even I think to myself (that is utterly un-understandable), yet the computer understands just fine. Dictating for prolonged periods can be tiring for me, but I can happily code by voice commands all night.

More info in my other comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23507363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23507829
Like cpu and programs, the mind is one thing, culture the other. Would it be possible for dinosaurs to have something like human culture?

Children are attached to their parents for years to learn culture. A bondage that to some extend is formed in the womb. How would dinosaurs have a 'natural' way for education when they hedge from eggs and are left to themselves? All their culture has to be encoded in DNA which most likely takes up more brain tissue and much more time to evolve.

There are breeding birds, so some form of attachment is possible. But that needs another limit. Birds need feathers before they can live on their own. Which limit could exist for dinosaurs? Crocodiles and turtles have kept on non-evolving for quite some time.

(And there is no place for sapiened birds because the head is too heavy.)
Looks like one of the possibilities would be using a samsung phone that supports Samsung DEX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU0cN_HcwMY
I disagree completely. You have to be aware of the context. It's like having hundreds of different programming languages. You work in a particular context and you get used to it. I assume you come from a non mathematical perspective.
I think GP's "millions of lines of code" references the code that runs all the systems outside of your particular org's architecture.
I had to learn to write with fountain pens in Italy, too, when I was in Elementary school. I am glad I did: nowadays I try to only use pencils and fountain pens when writing long pieces, just because other pen types just require too much pressure and give me pain the wrist and/or fingers. With the right ink, the writing is also very contrast-y, which helps readability IMO. Of course, it doesn't count much if the handwriting is not intelligible!
This seems ridiculously complicated and unnecessary for something that should be as easy as having a proper RDMS that is ACID compliant. I guess now we have one additional reason why banking has stagnated for so long.
Why should a gentle driver subsidize aggressive drivers? Why should a person that has a healthy diet and does regular cardiovascular exercise subsidize someone who doesn’t? Should someone that drinks only water subsidize those who regularly drink carbonated sugary or alcoholic drinks?

With more data, it’s possible to see how much certain lifestyles subsidize others, so it will be interesting what society deems eligible for subsidies and not.
Don't get me wrong, of course I knew it's about regional control. But even the wiki entry acknowledges that religious freedom is different in different regions of China. Other regions don't have any restriction at all. Hence my point that accusing China for religious repression is missing the point. It doesn't justify its actions but the issues are more deeply geopolitical.
https://repology.org/ rates it No.1 for upto-date projects

Seems to solve some issues "If a new port or modification builds successfully for a contributor, it will build identically for an evaluator. Submission checks are capable of being automated and performed against multiple platforms before a human ever sees them. This leads to much better submissions and eliminates unnecessary multiple review cycles."

Would definitely benefit from more packages and platforms, but has enough for a 'full' system
I mean, that's a strange thing to say since PyTorch and especially Python are much further from the math than Julia and Flux.

For example, if I want to regularise a layer:

PyTorch:

l2 = layer.pow(2).sum()

loss += lambda * l2

Julia:

l2 = sum(layer .^ 2)

loss += λ * l2

I can just use regular Julia functions whereas in PyTorch I need to use special PyTorch functions as to not detach the tape. This only gets worse and less readable the more complex things I want to do.
Feature request: Heat stroke prevention.

Just heard an interview with author of recent paper about global risk of increased mortality due to climate change. (Radio, no cite, sorry.) Research team has clarified impact of "wet bulb", which is somehow combo of both ambient temperature and humidity, and prevalence of heat related deaths.

Not just the Middle East, but also provided examples from Europe, Toronto, Louisiana.

While wet bulb temp of 35 °C is life threatening, paper shows that with higher humidity even 27 °C can be dangerous for at-risk persons and has led to greater mortality.

While the risk will certainly get worse, people have no intuition for it. Especially for outdoor work and activities.

Any way.

My immediate thought was my watch can alert me to wet bulb risks, a combination of weather and health monitoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...
If you want writing excellence, the paper also matters a lot. This is especially so if you're using more specialized equipment, and in particular if you're using inks that are more prone to seeping into the paper. The ability for the paper to only hold the top layer, without "drowning" or seeping in like watercolour, is then paramount. Rough or uneven paper just won't do either. Rather carefully use an ink blotter if the ink doesn't dry fast enough.
Behind Bad Indian Coder ...
VR Can Cause Jet Lag and Prevent Quality Sleep
FreeBSD superpage max size on amd64 is 1GB

edit: and there have been SPARC CPUs with memory controllers that can do 256GB pages
> and another to enforce one country's geopolitical aspirations across international borders

What China does is small potatoes compared to the US. The US fined a French bank $9 billion for violating US sanctions.
x11vnc for the win.
A really useful and somewhat underappreciated tool.
Top notch hardware, like their top notch keyboards?
WhatsApp is addressing 20 person video calls to compete with Zoom & Google Meets.

Ref - https://l1n.com/whatsapp-is-addressing-20-person-video-calls...
Why Do All Out Attacks Work?
I'm of the same opinion. In Julia it would be

sum(A * B) ^ 2

If you define sum as Σ then you can do

Σ(A * B) ^ 2
Facebook is very far from an average SP500 company, as are the rest of the big tech companies. They drive the market indices with how much investors think they are worth and will be worth. And they have levels of cash that tech (or any) companies in decades past could only dream of.
World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism
Ask HN: What is your preferred NoSQL database?
I am already using Postgres but to save some large unstructured data, I am looking at secondary NoSQL. I am not sure about using MongoDB but I like RethinkDB or CouchDB. Would like to know if any of you are using it in production despite these projects being not very actively developed or any other option apart from Graph database.
Fountains pens are an experience and a statement. It's fussy in that it takes much longer to dry than most ball point pens, and it has a clear preference for pricy paper. In return, it makes a mundane part of life (writing notes etc) much more fun and personal. My signature ink is the Iroshizuku Asa-Gao. It's a punchy blue ink that comes in a gorgeously slick bottle. Every time I see the bright blue ink on paper, it makes me happy.
this must be an early training video of an Antifa sleeper cell: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9KCMBBn0EI

(given the existence of poorly-regulated militia in small towns, it's a good thing it's just self-inflicted fantasy; professionally-developed fantasy would look more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Scherhorn )

Are there any good Downfall bunker scenes about Antifa yet?
Setting up a HA PostgreSQL setup might not be as easy as with some turnkey solutions where you just deploy three instances and then it (probably) works, but I'd still trust my data to a simple PostgreSQL replication setup over something fancier where the behaviour in failure scenarios is not as straightforward.

In simple cases, what people usually need is what I would call "operational" HA anyway; database servers going down unintended is (hopefully!) not a common occurrence, and even with a super simple 2-node primary/failover asynchronous replication setup, you can operate on the database servers with maybe a few seconds of downtime, which is about the same you'd get from "natively" clustered solutions.

In true failure scenarios, you might get longer downtime (though setting up automatic failover with eg. pacemaker is also possible), but in situations where that ends up truly mattering you likely have the resources to make it work anyway.
Ask HN: Should higher education stop being treated like a business?
And more like public funded services?
Interesting. In The Netherlands we still learned writing with fountain pens and 'curly writing' well into the eighties and possibly nineties.

(As a leftie, I was not too happy with that. Switched to a ballpoint whenever I wasn't in school.)
It is hourly. These are issues that arise most often, but the union is most concerned with wages, positions, benefits, etc.. But, all of that is negotiated in the contract, so it only comes to the forefront every few years.

The tracking of work affects future contracts, though, because management (particularly at the corporate level) is continually looking to cut hours and positions, and the union looks to justify keeping them.

In non-union jobs I've worked, those hours/positions get cut without meaningful pushback, and the workers left were forced to do more work without receiving more compensation.
Eh it sounds snarky but not a bad idea because the downtime seems inevitable when using MongoDB.

I'm not informed enough to know if it'll affect the share price for a bank but if a tech company did onboard mongo that'd be a major red flag for me.
I'm glad someone mentioned cartels and terrorists
Hermes is also far more (?) obviously the Greek messenger of the gods, so any negative associations with an existing company (that AFAICT doesn't even deal with digital products) shouldn't be relevant.
Fantastic work. I love how the url is "hello-world".
america should be cutting ties with china and encouraging our allies to do the same. enough of this shit. china is a bad actor and should be treated as such on the world stage (same with russia).

there is 0 reason to do business with china beyond cheap labor and there are other options for labor.
I agree with the top comment. The "method" is basically:

Instead you can look at the team’s historical data and apply statistical techniques.

Except that is already what every experienced developer is already doing, albeit in an intuitive way.

Intuition is superior here, because statistical models don't work for creative domains, and anyone who says so has something to sell.
This is textbook globalism. If we don't fight it, it will end up making the whole world a horrible place to live.
I get most frustrated when they don’t tell you what all the variables/constants are. I feel like that happens a lot.
what do you find lacking in the new Terminal?
Fabric was a casualty of the Python 2/3 split. Unicode isn't a great default for the shell interaction so the project took a long time to be ported, and by then it lost all momentum.

The successor project, Invoke, was finally released a year or two ago, but now it's unmaintained too.
Forensic Architecture release investigation into Mark Duggan killing
Not even that, the virus itself is no illness. Cykotine causes the main illness, the dead cells in the lungs and elsewhere, which might cause bacterial infections. Of which you eventually die.
The virus is just a dirty little unknown virus causing the immunosystem to overreact. In some cases. In most cases not.
This is a strange blog post, almost like a Wikipedia page with more references than information. Also no images. Is there a name for this style? Is it very popular?
And then, what?

Suppose the world agrees to dismantle its nuclear arsenal but a single nation, the great atomic nation of Nuclearia, decides that it will keep its weapons and it will destroy the world unless every other nation obeys its rule. And assume Nuclearia has magickal weapons that do not affect Nuclearia lands, or its citizens. The world refuses to obey and Nuclearia unleashes the nuclear holocaust.

Now what? What did Nuclearia achieve by destroying the rest of the world with nuclear weapons? What will Nuclearia do in a world of its own? Note that the rest of the world is now a radioactive waste where nothing lives and nothing grows. Other nations' lands cannot be annexed and used for farming, because there is no fertile soil left anywhere. While some intrepid souls no doubt long to visit the great glass fields of New York, spending any time outside Nuclearia is deadly and most of the world is a depressing burned desert so travel is pointless and tourism is a joke. International commerce of course is out of the question because there is no other nation than Nuclearia. Any resources, such as metals, gases, fossil fuels etc are limited to what Nuclearia has in its own territory. Any scientific progress is limited to what Nuclearian scientists can achieve on their own, without any input from the outside, given that there is nothing on the outside.

How does destroying everyone else increased Nuclearia's chances of survival?

How do you protect yourself by destroying everyone else?
Read as much as you can from Robert A. Pease. He was the guru to contact when it came to analog design. The column he wrote for Electronic Design can still be accessed on line. If your luck you can find one of his books used. Look him up on Amazon.
No idea if it’s heretical in the fountain pen world, but I’m a fan of Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens. They come in both fine and medium points and a variety of colors. One upside is I always know which pen is mine since I’ve never run into anyone else using them.

I also have some expensive fountain pens, but don’t take those to work.
This title is misleading, and the article is missing a key piece of information.

This is ONE system at HSBC - out of literally HUNDREDS (maybe thousands) of applications. It's not as if HSBC is moving ALL of its applications to MongoDB. HSBC doesn't have a single tech stack. They have thousands of IT employees all using different tech, in different parts of the world, for different departments. This might be as inconsequential as the system that catalogues security camera feed URLs - or maybe the one that monitors remote employee company mobile data usage - who the F knows, because the article gives us zero information.

Account Management, Credit Cards, Mortgages, Security, Asset Management, HR, Legal, Compliance, Regulatory, Risk Management, Trading, Operations, Building management, Payroll, ATM comms, Clearance/settlement, Website, a million different reporting engines, etc, etc, etc... and then each region usually has its own application for each function - literally hundreds of tech stacks in every tech you can imagine from DB2 Mainframe to Oracle to MongoDB. All banks are like this.

This article is just vague PR and is just referring to one single group consolidating their regional instances. It does not deserve HN attention.
you should never have stopped walking. the chances of covid infection outside on a walk are essentially zero.

this is one of the many little harms of blanket stay home orders rather than just distancing (with masks only when you can’t), where you get nearly all of the benefits with nearly none of the downsides.
The closest thing to this kind of alternate representation is formal mathematics, as seen in systems like Mizar, HOL Coq, Lean, Isabelle and the like. The fact that it generally "looks like computer code" is often seen as a drawback, but it does have its advantages. In fact, some of these systems allow for constructive theories, which means that they are programming languages of a sort.
Ok, but if you see something like ∫Ωf (with Ω as a subindex of ∫ ) you can be 100% sure that it means some kind of linear operator on an object "f", that is additive over disjoint union of the set parameter Ω, and a few other natural rules that are satisfied by integrals (monotony, positivity, etc). Of course in one paper it will mean Riemann integral, on another Lebesgue integral, an on another something completely different, defined axiomatically over discrete objects, but with exactly the same formal properties. In programming languages you have nothing universal like that, except maybe the notation for quoted strings. Such an integral may be written in some language as

integration.integral.apply(omega, eff)

on another as

omega.getNaturalIntegrator().applyTo(eff)

and yet on another as

eff.integrateOver("planarDomain", omega)

and on each of these constructions the visually evident formal properties of the integral are lost and difficult to reason about.
Hard to separate "true nature" from the way I view things, so I can't really tell. Another person might view things differently and write a completely different story.

Do you think people would read this though? Maybe in blog form?
There's a couple of them: an used high-end office chair, a good mechanical keyboard with ortho layout, a trackball instead of mice, a proper coffee maker from Italy, my videoconferencing setup with a head-on mic and a Canon cam instead of a webcam, a cat that keeps me company, a smartphone with 128GB+ memory, a couple of cheaper BT headsets instead of one so I can charge them interchangeably, LED desk lamps with regulated light color (I have 6), an electric scooter, a worst-case-scenario emergency supply for 2 weeks...

I like this thread!
65 databases unified globally, for HSBC’s global presence, is ~2 databases per country. This is, probably, a minor trial effort for one of their services, not the core system (which is un-unifiable due to banking privacy laws in place) or any kind of cross-function unification.
> Queries not really intuitive

ISHYGDDT
And here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21046371