skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can certainly store ML models in TileDB. I've been working on an example notebook showing how to store an opencv model in TileDB, its not quite finished yet but will be published soon.

Using python as an example language, TileDB-Py offers simple functions, like "from_numpy" [1] for basic and simple models which we can write directly. For more advanced (and more common) use cases of complex models, its easy to create an array to store the model and all associated metadata. TileDB's array metadata and time travel capabilities allow for you to even see how your model changes over time as you update it.

[1] https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-Py/blob/bcaee16b194675f...

Disclosure: I'm a member of the TileDB team.
I live in Montreal and intend to do a consumer oriented software startup. I would like to better understand what I would be getting into starting up here, vs. applying to YC. Can you suggest resources for understanding Canadian startup landscape, funding etc.?

Perceived Pros:

- Many STEM grads

- Gaming and AI industry, 2+ top AI schools

- Relatively little competition for engineering talent compared to SV

- Many engineers who are barred entry to US based on country of origin

- Easier work visas (to be confirmed)

- Free healthcare and other social services, and less violence

Perceived Cons:

- Cultural lack of ambition, entrepreneurial dreaming.

- Excessive reliance on government subsidy (the government is the customer)

- Risk averse VC

- Shallow bench of experienced operators to mentor, invest,
and manage

- Brain drain to SV of best talent

- Higher taxes
As a matter of law I would have preferred that political decisions about public schools were made by legislatures, not judges, as they are supposed to be.

I wonder if you would have had the same preference if you had had to send your kids to separate schools, drink from separate water fountains, give up your seat on a bus for someone who was the right color or be forbidden to marry the person you love because they were a different color?

Would you also be in favor of a national religion if the majority passed such a law?

A republic that legalizes discrimination deserves to die.
Here's the weird thing...

The problem with being a pessimist (your proverbial $0.02) is that if you are wrong, you miss out on the gains, and if you are right, it'll be hard to collect.

I'm a pessimist by nature, and I've learned this lesson the hard way. If it really does end badly, your $0.02 might be like the guy who shorted the German stock market right before WWII - there would be nobody with any money to pay off your short, and nowhere to go to collect it anyway.

(This is one reason that short-selling is so hard and there are so few that are good at it.)

That being said, if you're going to bet your $0.02, you might as well lever up because you're probably right. Darn - I just contradicted everything I just said. :)
Many corporate travelers can book and re-book with no change fees, so this happens more than you would expect.

The most common reason I've seen is a large corporation cancelling or rescheduling an all-hands / quarterly meeting that everyone above a certain level (e.g. directors / VPs) from non-HQ offices travels to HQ to attend.

For an Oakland to Las Vegas flight, I'd guess a conference, music festival, or sporting event was cancelled.
In contrast, as a Swedish user, I'm spectacularly impressed when, say, a flight or train booking site lets me search for Goteborg rather than Göteborg. Because otherwise, you know, I probably can't get the fuck home from wherever I happen to be with whatever keyboard the particular machine I happen to be using has.

The number of times, in actual real life, that the inconvenience of the ambiguity outweighs the convenience of the overlap are not many.

YLMV.
Can confirm in AZ. My wife and I are on T-Mobile and are unable to call each other, with both of us at home.
This is a pretty neat trick, they implemented exterior algebra see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior_algebra

You see this kind of math in textbooks focused on computer graphics.
Interesting notes but I feel like the db itself has been commoditised and the battle is elsewhere now.
So anyone building a database engine today, will find out that to make it sustainable they also need an ecosystem on top of it, tooling, community, paid support, active devs, consultants (for which they may have no runway)
Finally I find anything that calls itself a database and uses S3 as a backend a bit ridiculous. S3 has eventual consistency so you can’t do the operations that differentiate a database from a file system.
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Oh, my other advice is: Avoid Seagate drives. Historically, I've found Hitachi to be the most reliable, and the BackBlaze hard drive stats seem to confirm that, though they tend to have small numbers of Hitachi drives. This is because they optimize for price not reliability. I've had good luck with other brands, but I've pretty much had universally bad luck with Seagate. Last year I replaced the last of our Stagate 15K drives with SSDs because, largely, I was tired of doing warranty returns every month or two.
Lol. Me too sometimes :)
A philibuster is nowhere near the same level of obstruction as refusing to call a vote at all.

It also hasn't been used to anywhere near the same frequency.
I'll just share this with you directly since I don't know how to link to another comment: https://mobile.twitter.com/xpasky/status/1271477451756056577...
I personally feel, entrepreneurship is learning on the way as it demands. You never know everything or your acuired skillsets may never be sufficient to be successful entrepreneur. As you build your product, keep updating your knowledge in other fields like marketing and sales. If you build really useful product you definitely get succeed even with no prior experience on marketing because people buy it.

Coming to making some money, you can use your strength so you don't spend too much time or energy in making money and use rest of time on your project
Don't celebrate too early. It took less than 5 years for this 'thing' to go from college campuses to big companies... What will you do when a twitter mob comes for your company because you're "oppressing your workers ability to speak out about injustice and human rights" or "remaining silent, which is violence"?
Even people who weren't aware.

I distinctly remember a general dislike by people who didn't know the name of the technology, because parts of my highschool's homepage were implemented in Flash, and it didn't load right. In 2005-2006. They recognized it primarily because it was slow and messed with the right-click context menu.
History shows that the worst decision are "we wanted good but didn't consider the consequences". Compare and contrast with FOSTA to prevent sex trafficking (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/congress-censors-inter...).

> “Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers.” - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Nice set! Lego seems to be a company that truly has undergone a successful "digital transformation"
The role of government in a free market is to make profitable and productive congruent.
Just came to say that I recently discovered your newsletter and am very glad for it. The database space has been seeing so much movement lately that your newsletter is the missing piece for staying on top of it.
Technologies that have been jump-started by Covid-19
That's some non-sequitur argument you got there.
I'm surprised that it has taken so long for time series databases to take off. I remember in 2015 I wrote an application to wedge time-series features into MySQL because the only option I could find for a native db was paid.
Clerky, Gust, Atlas or real attorney? Which one is cost effective?
I am looking to register my startup in a cost-effective way long term.

I have an option to have a good attorney who is willing to get paid after "substantial funding (500K+)".
Also Clerky, Gust, and atlas sounds good too because of cost-saving options.
Which option is most cost-effective long term?
“Thank you for the question. Respectfully, we’re not going to be reconsidering this,” he said on the videoconference call. “Picking and choosing customers is not the approach that we take to these types of questions when it comes to influencing government policy.”

Sounds reasonable. Imo GitHub should be a neutral platform rather than trying to deny service to those they don't agree with. I'm sure electricity and internet companies have lots of contracts with the ICE, no one criticizes that because those are utilities which aren't expected to descriminate based on the views and actions of their customers. I think there is value in having platforms like GitHub with the same approach, you shouldn't have to worry about your code being taken down because it doesn't match the values of a private company. Once you start denying certain customers based on their actions, you implicitly support the actions of all of your other customers, which quickly becomes a very difficult position to be in.
For sure, the guy was a scumbag.
Star Trek needs this.

"Mr Saru, destroy all the Klingon relay stations on the surface."

"But Captain, some of them are on the other side of the planet."

"Use the neutrino beam."

"Aye Captain."
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Two Black women publicly explain why they resigned from Pinterest
are you reading a different article to me? don’t see anything about his dead
man’s switch in that piece.
Usually downvoting here means that a comment is too close to the truth or that it deviates from the officially sanctioned topic, here BLM.

So some regard any deviance as an affront or "whataboutism".

Personal anecdotes are also often downvoted, since neither the salon socialists nor the monetarists want to hear them. It is crucial that one stays in one's own bubble.
Measuring the performance of a monolithic RAID-Z array for a VM image workload is like measuring the 0-60 time of a semi tractor. That's not what that configuration is optimized for. Especially for a high IOPS workload, you should see much better performance with a pool of mirrors.

Your requirements sound similar to my home network. In my case how I orchestrated the spinning rust ended up being a lot less important than getting the random access parts of my workload on an NVMe SSD. Best $40 upgrade I ever made.
A few US banks (e.g. Capital One) provide a separate password for API access.

Unfortunately, it's rare.
> Roughly nothing used Flash Lite, outside of a few weird embedded use cases like the Chumby.

I recall it a bit differently. By December 2006, Adobe claimed that Flash Lite had shipped on 220 million devices[1].

That was probably the apex, though — by 2010, it was all over.

> Web content was almost exclusively full-on Flash.

Yes, always IIRC. Flash Lite content wasn't delivered via the web.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Lite
That was my thought with my step-son.

Nope. He wants to play fortnite and football and nothing else matters - can't get him interested in it - thought I had him with a remote control plane but nope.

The worst part is he is very bright but very lazy - he kills his homework and then has no intellectual curiosity at all and I've tried lots of things to see if he likes any of them.

Now I just play fortnite with him and let him do his own thing til he shows an interest in anything.
Probably an unnecessary one...

Most jurisdictions won't enforce a contract entered in bad faith.

I'm no lawyer, but I would guess the hard part is detecting this behavior and/or getting the money back, not so much denying the payments.
(Though flight insurances probably don't have much infrastructure for fighting fraud, as there is few ways to do insurance scams)
... if their particular model is right.
Postgres is truly an exception that proves the rule. "Sure, not every second system falls prey to this phenomenon, but you practically have to be Postgres to avoid it."
How very Linux Community of you to tell me what I want to do.
While WD's mismanagement of this is incredible, saying "WD knew about ZFS Issues" because one employee of WD said DM SMR was inappropriate for ZFS at a conference a few years ago overstates things.

Even at relatively small companies, not all knowledge disseminates equally through the company, and WD isn't exactly a small company. It's almost certain that the team that was responsible for the WD Red SMR release was not aware of this issue or this wouldn't have happened. What probably happened was something more along the lines of:

1. Traditional wisdom says SMR can't be used in raid

2. DM-SMR firmware has gotten much better at hiding the performance issues of SMR since traditional wisdom

3. Let's actually measure this in some RAID setups and see what happens

4. Hmm, those numbers look reasonable, we can ship this!

At no point did anyone think very hard about ZFS being an edge-case for DM-SMR.

All that being said, the drives absolutely should have been represented as DM-SMR, along with some nice benchmark numbers to show that the performance hit isn't as bad as one might think. In the right RAID setup, these drives are at a reasonable performance/value point in the curve.
You are welcome! I would not find myself:

* My Computer

* Right click

* Properties

* System properties

* Advanced

* Performance

* Settings

* Uncheck "Fade or slide menus into view"

* Apply / OK
What was the hotel sim called?
We started with this at age 6: https://www.lego.com/en-fi/product/boost-creative-toolbox-17...

The instructions are clear and interactive on the app itself, at least when building "Vernie" the robot it becomes functional quite quickly. Actually asking the builder to make it some arms and legs after the torso and head are done :)
That's where models, brand ambassadors, and influencers come in. It's not like lifestyle business just found out that sex sells.
Why do you think I brought up all of the "killed by a stranger" and "familial" homicides if I was going to conclude by comparing the broadest numbers? "Killed by a criminal" is not ambiguous and very clearly does not just refer to all intraracial murders.

https://granta.com/violence-in-blue/

Statistica paywalls its information but verifiable records show over 400 killings of black people every year since 2010[1].

[1]: https://fatalencounters.org/our-visualizations/
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The larger the product scope the more natural it is to edge in and improve an existing solution versus own and re-make it for a 10x. When you’re getting started a 10x value proposition is the best way to move a potential lead to switch; a rewarding, challenging, and fun process to be a part of!

Last week I focused on achieving team unity through shared external purpose, based on 10x thinking, and also setting high performance as the baseline for the team. This week I close with the importance of seeing yourself as your own executive, managing to variable external outcomes as opposed to actions within your control or that of your team.
LaTeX2html is a thing too.
> And it’s worth noting that many have tried to do what Prisma does and failed because they.

Because they what?
Customer retention is a pretty critical business function, but in my experience the people approving raises etc generally have a much tighter relationship with the sales team. New revenue is a sales function, customer retention is a operations function. A big part of Steve Ballmer becoming CEO (and also his decline) was his sales first strategy.

Windows 8 might have been a huge flop for Ballmer over the long-run (arguably why he was asked to resign), but I bet the people working on Windows 8 features saw their careers advance much faster than the equally talented people fixing driver bugs for Windows 7. And the Windows 7 driver team is probably going to think designing a new ticketing system for deleting accounts is beneath them and let that project roll downhill. And so on.
Try to get him into Minecraft or Roblox or something that requires more interactivity than Fortnite.
When I break a tooth, that's not due to a preexisting condition though, and them arguing that it is is bad faith.
> One should not discriminate on the basis of race, political orientation, gender, origin or religion.

Hasn’t that ship already sailed? The cake shop ruling by the Supreme Court seems to point to yes.
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Nah. In 2000, you could do what you wanted with Java Applets. Plus, you had desktop apps and all sorts of other options too. Was Flash technically better for a lot of uses? Without a doubt. But that's a choice one makes. At the time, I chose open (or at least more open), and I'm glad I did.

And Adobe is still alive, as are others like IBM, Microsoft, and friends. On the other hand, SGI, DEC, Sybase, Novell, SCO, and tons of other companies are dead. And some companies, like HP, are technically alive, but all their product lines from that era are dead.

Getting burned once or twice is enough to understand that the organizational, political, and human sides tend to matter more than the technical. Older folks tend to chose stable, open solutions. Younger folks who haven't gone through that yet tend to chose technically glitzy solutions.
The market doesn't care about your age or identity.
I hear what you are saying. Long ago when I considered whether to use Flash or web standards, I had to consider all this.

Back then, even though Flash was popular, I could foresee that it wasn't going to be around forever. Even before Steve Jobs announcement.

I understand all the sugar coated addictiveness for developers that you point out. It is indeed very sweet. But if you find yourself (or your end user) in an environment where Flash is not supported, or treated as a 2nd class citizen, then this can be a deal killer. Even a business killer. This is a major DANGER sign that many Flash developers ignore or were unaware of.
leader/follower, or commander/soldier could work. Maybe king/pawn or queen/pawn if we really want to uphold the same kind of relationship as slave/master.
I think it's obvious that the scope here is "things you are aware of (or could choose to be) and are within your control".
It has been since the late 80s, yes, when a similar ruling was made.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Waterhouse_v._Hopkins
The U.S. Government has had (under the last few Presidents, but not the current one) Consent Decrees to force the police to follow certain ethics guidelines. Obviously, we have always had some problem with police brutality, but at least doing something to reduce it was better than doing nothing while encouraging more of it.
The majority of policemen are either beating people up, standing around while others beat people up, or are actively aware of systemic injustices in their system and not fighting it tooth and nail. They're all part of a union. They should be voting for policies to operate among themselves with accountability, respectability, and and a sense of justice.
It feels like it would be much easier to modify the nuclear weapons to be immune to this device than to actually build it.

OTOH it may be easier to build than authors assume: what if it is build in orbit so it doesn't have shoot the beam across the Earth? I know we don't do accelerators in space, but it may be easier than reaching 1000 TeV.
Actually the detector will be in Lead, South Dakota (in the Black Hills, somewhat near Mt. Rushmore) according to their website.
Percentage of total maximum thrust is one way to look at it. Another is to consider that the SRBs get dropped when the shuttle is going about 4,000 km/h, after which the SSMEs bring the shuttle up to 28,000 km/h.
From 2012: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/message-en...

We report on the performance of a low-rate communications link established using the NuMI beam line and the MINERvA detector at Fermilab.
The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1 bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km, including 240 m of earth.
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The insurance company isn't really taking the other side of the bet, it's the rest of the risk pool.

If you are lucky, you will never be seriously sick in your life, never lose your job, and never have your house burn down. If you are so lucky, all of that money you pay for insurance goes to the people who are less lucky.
I have used ynab and Quicken. The fundamental thing ynab was lacking for me was automatic pulling of data.

Quicken was too closed of a system and only supported a desktop version. So I gave up on both.

Excel looks promising since I am already familiar with the ecosystem, have excel skills and it isn't a closed system in that I can do whatever I want with the data easily. I'll check it out.
I recently had to deal with some RDF data expressed as N-triples. So, naturally I loaded it into a proper triplestore and embraced the whole W3C RDF universe and started teaching myself SPARQL, right? Nah, instead I just translated that shit into CSV and loaded it into Postgres, then post-processed it into a relational schema that I can actually understand and query with a language that other people at my company also know. The RDF was just a poorly specified way of communicating that schema to me, along with a data format that's no better than a 3-column CSV. Great stuff from the Semantic Web folks here, real powerful technology.

Edit: Also, to answer your question, the difference between a URL (Uniform Resource Locator) and a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is that the URL actually points to something, an object at a particular location, and you can paste it into your web browser to view that something. A URI just uses a URL-like scheme to represent identifiers, such that your domain and directory structure provide a kind of namespace that you control. But as long as it follows the format, your URI can contain literally anything, it doesn't have to be human-readable or resolve to anything in a web browser. It might as well be mycompany_1231241542345.
if the above kind of comparison items are interesting to you then you might like https://github.com/dimitropoulos/react-ui-roundup
A friend’s phone has been non-functional for hours now. With the size of the T-Mobile user base, this outage almost certainly has already had real human costs in the form of an inability to summon emergency services.
In a common law system the role of the judiciary is to "legislate from the bench". I've never understood this peculiarly American objection.
Here's a talk by the team as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JUs4c99-mo

And their website: https://www.leaningtech.com/pages/cheerpx.html

This is honestly one of the coolest things I've seen, and given the amount of Flex/Spark software for enterprise out there, it could drastically change the legacy software landscape.
Seconded. I'm not sure whether the person upthread was earnestly posting that, or surreptitiously doing so as a stalking horse for something else.

Either way: not a protected class, and it should stay that way.
2000 was also more stable than NT 3.51 and NT4.

XP was a bit more stable again, but also contained more cruft.
There's a fairly popular open source letter to petition to open source flash: https://github.com/open-source-flash/open-source-flash

But it doesn't look like it made Adobe change it's mind...
Well, I don't know. Freedom of speech is also a principle. Public accommodation and non-discrimination are also principled. We don't need laws to see these as a public good. We shouldn't parse these ideas into orthogonal pretzels just because wokeness.