skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Please see my comment above in the thread for a full description of TileDB[1].

Compared to Apache Arrow we have some similarities but also some significant differences. Arrow as a project has many components, the most directly comparable are the in-memory data structure and parquet for on-disk storage. For the in-memory data structure TileDB has similar goals of doing zero-copy for moving data between libraries and applications. In-fact we even use Arrow in our TileDB-VCF[2] genomics project for zero copy into spark and python (pyarrow). We are looking to expand support for arrow into other integrations where appropriate.

For parquet, a brief comparison is that parquet is a one dimensional columnar storage format, where TileDB is multi-dimensional. TileDB subsumes parquet in that we include all of its functionality and more. TileDB natively handles the eventual consistency of cloud object stores, and natively handles updates through its MVCC design. TileDB is a complete storage engine, not only a file format. That said parquet does have some advantages, a primary one it has a several year headstart on TileDB in being integrated into many tools, so its more well known.

> Is this suited for large amounts (~1TB) of time series data?

Yes, it's well suited for time series data. We natively support timestamp/datetime fields, in the core library and in many of our integrations (TileDB-Py, TileDB-R, Spark, MariaDB to name a few). We allow for fast sub-slicing on the dimension. You also have configurable tiling[3] so you can shape the array to fit your timestamp granularity and volume. The support for updates also can help if your timeseries data ever gets updated. Many timeseries databases don't recommend updates to records, or they recommend no primary keys and to have duplicates. TileDB supports fast and efficient updates (and duplicates) so you have full control of your design and implementation.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23897086

[2] https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-VCF

[3] https://docs.tiledb.com/main/performance-tips/choosing-tilin...
The Wikipedia article uses pretty strong language

"The Holocene extinction, otherwise referred to as the sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing extinction event of species during the present Holocene epoch (with the more recent time sometimes called Anthropocene) as a result of human activity."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

It also has a lot of references. You can always debate scientific results, but for many topics you need to be an expert in the field and bring some serious data to support your opinions if you don't want to be laughed out of the room. Most "debates" don't feature that kind of argument.
I always thought Keurig was the first to come up with using the pods to hold the ground coffee but it seems based on this article that it was actually Nestle. Why did Keurig become the default standard in the US?
It's somewhat impressive but it didn't do what he wanted it to. It didn't list temperatures, instead it listed weather descriptions. And to get it to do this he had to write a full template. We also don't get to see if this was the first attempt at doing this or can the model generate code like this reliably.
Their charter is here:
https://openai.com/charter/

>"We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI. Today this includes publishing most of our AI research, but we expect that safety and security concerns will reduce our traditional publishing in the future, while increasing the importance of sharing safety, policy, and standards research."

So, in a perfect world you would not only publish your research but also the code that is fundamental to it. Maintaining or abandoning research code on the other hand is an entirely different (costly) story that's simply an artifact of research focused software development. It is typically abandoned.

Personally, I see a huge flaw in the underlying philosophy. This presumption that this specific organization is or can somehow be benevolent flies in the face of all history. With nuclear weapons, most of the scientists regretted supporting their countries regardless of how beneveloant they thought they were.

In general, any sort of concentrated power tends to corrupt. It takes a very special mindset to understand power and refuse to abuse it. I'm not sure this is something that can be easily learned, trained, or you could expect a large group with access to the power to all adhere to the principles of.
>Building your own infrastructure is like living "off the grid" with a wind turbine and a well and a composting toilet.

And your infrastructure still isn't really literally "off the grid" of course. It's dependent on colos, network providers, etc. Sure, there's far, far less of a single point of failure than using YouTube but you're always going to be dependent on others to some degree.

Further, no one has the time or the money to do everything ourselves. To the upstream comment, I have neither the time or the energy to take on car maintenance. I have other things to do even if it means I spend more money and sometimes the shop doesn't do an optimum job. I'm not going to criticize someone who wants to do things themselves, but you have to choose.
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I've had some instant coffee that I enjoyed, but only once I decide to think of it as a different caffeinated drink than coffee. It's tasty, so long as you add lots of sugar, but it does not taste much like a real coffee to me, besides being black and bitter.
Lindy effect, stuff worth reading is stuff that has been filtered by time.

Reading old books is worth it. New ones are hard to filter and many will turn out to be completely unnecessary.

Leaves you on the sides of contemporary culture but at least you're reading efficiently.
How did they have school before air conditioning in the region? It must be possible. Maybe not for kids with certain conditions.
> Unless you've been hiding under a rock the last week or so

What’s the purpose of starting a blog post like that? The phrase is a cliché, and not a polite one. Whatever follows that introduction is either something the reader already knows and has fresh in memory (thus useless to mention) or you’re calling them oblivious.

A sentence that’s irrelevant or mocking the reader seems like a poor way to start an essay.

Most of us would do well to “hide under a rock” for a while. News and the way they are presented to us are stressful and largely irrelevant. Chances are you could live the rest of your life without knowing Twitter was hacked.
This is a mostly trivial article with a terrible clickbaity title. "Hacked"? "Immune"? No, and no.

Could a Mastodon server be compromised? Of course. Would it affect all of Mastodon? Of course not, because it's distributed. Duh.
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I read what you wrote as "control-finding".
How to promote your business on social media
> It's because the government can say "this drug shall cost no more than X units of currency" and if that is above marginal cost, it can still makes sense to sell it.

Not really for generic, over-the-counter stuff in the UK. Meds that are funded by the public purse and given out on prescription, sure. But £7 is the market price for that over the counter drug in the UK. There's no entity doing price fixing there.
Completely tangential, I never understand why people use URI instead of URL. He obviously means URL and goes an abstraction lower. You could also say without the corresponding internet uniquely scheme or whatever.

Sorry for the rant. But I am missing something?
I would've agreed with this a bit more if we hadn't started banning content we don't like from the internet. Here I am without a link, but chasing away groups we don't agree with to the dark side of the web makes it very convenient for the current political saints to shape our views. I take any claim with URIs or without, try to think about who gains from such perspectives, weigh it with past experiences. I'd hate to just see a URI and go "OK, I am convinced ty" and automatically pick up the pitchforks against those without. I doubt even newspapers did this. It sounds like a good idea but only on an open internet and not what we have today.
Aha. Reminds me of what I saw for two weeks when I wrote an svg renderer in MATLAB. I only got it to work with a subset of the standard and was reliant on the conventions of inkscape export for parsing. You can do a lot with just beziers, circles, and straight lines.
*price to flavour ratio (seems I can't edit this comment now)
the only hack Kevin Mitnick ever pulled was convincing people he was a hacker.
Even though federation is big thing, saturation of users in single instance and poor moderation are problems.

So,if users are very huge in single instance(mastodon main instance is the example) and the moderation is not likeable,there will be problems.

Also federation like this is new to people.

Will it work out? Currently, not likely.

Also,it can't be claimed immune. Bugs might be present.
That's brilliant! Is there any way of downloading the resultant image?
Just for interest's sake I looked at joining a Mastodon instance. There was an application form to fill out which expected comprehensive answers to four questions about myself, my motivation for joining and my interests. I found it surprising but maybe it works for them.
I think the prev. comment is accurate in the sense that Mastodon can easily be vulnerable to social engineering attacks, because as long as humans run it, humans are going to make mistakes.
To be super clear, any (chat/microblogging/etc) software is going to be vulnerable to social eng attacks.
Nothing prevents one from taking a more passive “buy and hold” approach on Robinhood - these articles critical of Robinhood seem to conflate Robinhood as a brokerage platform and poor investing discipline... it has nothing to do with the brokerage and everything to do with the investor.
No it's not going to be permanent if 1% of the worlds population dies not sure where you are getting that idea from.
Marks & Spencer to shed 950 jobs
That is quite impressive. Setting the perspective to 0 made the cover look like it was a front on shot but I could still see the side of the book which looks strange to me. Still nice though.

edit: please take this as a helpful suggestion and not a criticism. I still really like the work you've done.
The German Problem with Tor
PeerTube is an easy solution to video hosting and comes with many features.

https://JoinPeerTube.org
I could probably dig some up from high school, but I think they're all on an external drive. And none of them are panoramic, of course.

But yup, many rooms had no windows; just a big cinderblock room, the only window being by the door, opening into the hallway.
It would look very cool in the Book page:

https://books.j11g.com/search.php?id=484
I do not think so. Most of my ipfs bookmarks from 2 years ago are offline now, everything gone because no peer has the content.
It won't work on all devices, but a h264 video encoded with the baseline profile should play fine on any phone or tablet sold in the past 5 years (maybe even older). On desktop, assuming the browser supports HTML5, it should be fine too.

Just to be sure, offer at least one version of the video with VP8 just to cover weird cases where h264 isn't supported. You can also encode 480p, 720p, and 1080p versions for users on slow connections.

Now, will it load on the original iPhone or IE 6? Maybe not - they'll see a link to the video file instead of a player - but not everyone needs to support legacy devices and browsers.

YouTube, Vimeo, and other similar services are nice because they handle everything for you, but sometimes they become too expensive or are blocked. Depending on the type of user you have, <video> with a h264 video is cheaper and works well enough.
Keurigs generally make brewed coffee (i.e. the water is not under pressure), which is overall more popular than espresso in the US, which is what Nespresso makes.
Nespresso pods costs a lot more than any Keurig-compatible pod I've seen.
Scrum artifacts and how to use them
For the uninitiated to fanfiction terminology Mary Sue refers to a character who is so perfect and competent that it becomes absurd. I believe the name was given to a parody fiction written for the Trekkie universe -- ah and wikipedia confirms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue)

Also this gem, an excerpt from the fanfiction:
"Gee, golly, gosh, gloriosky," thought Mary Sue as she stepped on the bridge of the Enterprise. "Here I am, the youngest lieutenant in the fleet - only fifteen and a half years old." Captain Kirk came up to her.

"Oh, Lieutenant, I love you madly. Will you come to bed with me?" "Captain! I am not that kind of girl!" "You're right, and I respect you for it. Here, take over the ship for a minute while I go get some coffee for us." Mr. Spock came onto the bridge. "What are you doing in the command seat, Lieutenant?" "The Captain told me to." "Flawlessly logical. I admire your mind."
This seems plausible if induced labours were not excluded from the data sets.
> It's not your place to decide whether Sean was "taken in" by charlatans.

Yes, it is. He was taken in by people peddling false information. We know it's false information.

Your weird equivocating about this and demand for it to be taken as some sort of personal offence is ridiculous.

> If the medical industry is so correct, then why aren't they curing people?

You might have fallen down the rabbit hole, please be careful down there, it can do more harm than good, as this article shows.
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The reason is that retail stores don't have the space to store products and it's expected by the consumer that when you walk into a store products should be in-stock. All inventory at a retail location is supposed to be just-in-time and for the area that they service so they do not support the warehouse model. Store like Hot Topic here in the US have been shipping from stores for some time and the idea behind this is that both warehouse and retail adhere to the just-in-time model.

That way product is no more likely to sit in a warehouse than it is at the retail location, there's no ship backs and markdowns are taken at the retail location. As a result inventory stays fresh and there's little to no overstock.

This does not work for all retailers as you can imagine, for for boutique stores with a limited number of SKU's it's enough to keep them afloat while still turning inventory and keeping retail locations staffed.
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What do you need a sink for? The spent grounds can go in the trash
The sensible thing to do when the science that says that we need to stop producing CO2 as quickly as possible is clear but the solution space is not figured out quite so well is to set up a cap-and-trade system for emissions and adjust the cap to whatever the climate scientists think is reasonable for the warming goal we're trying to achieve. This has been known for a long time among economists; there even was a Nobel price for this.

There are also many steps that we can take right now that are completely uncontroversial. For example requiring proper insulation for all new buildings and starting a program to retrofit existing buildings.
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In Firefox the / key is bound to quick find, so it's there in spirit.
People are gaslighting me by telling me resurgent Marxism isn’t a real thing, and yet here I am having people quote Marx at me to define capitalism.
You didn't read the article. This is a service for VFX artists who are working on Netflix titles. It's a competitive advantage for Netflix if their VFX artists can work faster than others while working remotely. These desktops won't try to compete with Amazon or the general market.
> But Moka isn't espresso and neither is Aeropress.

It isn't - but what most people want is coffee. They think they want espresso - until they realize how expensive and truly difficult it is to dial in.

> You don't really need to be very "into it" for that. Just buy good beans and adjust the grinder as per the instructions and feedback either from the timer or pressure gauge.

Which grinder? Most grinders don't properly grind for espresso - you need a solid burr grinder specifically for espresso to get consistent results. You're starting at $400.

Which Cafe's are you guys going to? So many great espresso options in my city (A mid-sized city). I highly doubt you can't find good espresso in any major city.
I don't know anything about Minecraft's internals. Why are there two seeds that produce the same result?
I used to be obsessed with productivity apps
The difference between URI and URL is practically meaningless except to a very small circle of specialists. Noone uses the name "URI", even when they are talking about one. Except if they explicitly want to signal their membership in that circle of experts.
> ... still continue to tell them the solutions they are supposed to deliver – nearly always in the form of a roadmap of features and projects with expected release dates.

This has always been my experience with OKRs. They were implemented by directionless companies with weak management as an attempt to bring structure, but the real reason there was no structure or coherence is that nobody in leadership agreed about what the company should do.

They ended up being such vague, arbitrary, and ambiguous goals, like "dominate this sector" or "become a leader in that vertical", or "hire x engineers by y time" that they were effectively meaningless. What does dominate mean? What are these new engineers going to do once they're here? Nobody had answers to these questions, yet achieving the OKRs was paramount.

I'm sure there are examples where they work well, but I suspect this author is onto something and the companies that use them successfully would be well managed with or without them.
Highly distrust gwern et al. Bloggers at most.
I personally wouldn't mind. A life on a nuclear submarine sounds interesting to me.
Because Danese Cooper said so. (See video link from the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distrib...)

I think there's also a general suspicion that Sun could have just chosen the GPL if they cared about compatibility. Although, for various reasons, it's probably at least somewhat more complicated than that because of patent protection, etc.
My website didn't get hacked either. Of course it only gets a few dozen hits a day from a sophisticated audience so it is not really a target.

Mastodon at the moment is basically a cozy little community. If a bunch of celebrities joined you can be sure they would all be on a professionally managed server - a tempting single-point of attack in the same way that the Twitter admin console was.
Thanks! Yes in CSS the perspective set to 0 basically removes all perspective (but for the pages it’s a different element in perspective, this is why you can still see it ;))
What Is Content as a Service? (CaaS)
I would love to see a proper experiment testing that.

From anegdotal evidence it seems to me interpersonal relations in families got better because of lockdowns and working remotely.
I understand. Thanks for the detailed response. I will make things more obvious. There is no intention to make cancellation hard. Just a solo founder working hard to get all the pieces in place.

I'm going with $3/month as the lowest plan (instead of free) because this product is server resource intensive. I decided against VC funding as the funded companies in this space are just adtech companies in disguise.

I'll be happy to have you as a free user though. I'll send you an email with details.

Thank you for the kind words. Here is the latest feature I've shipped: https://histre.com/features/highlights/
There have been plenty of reports if you'd like more specifics; e.g.

- https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200622-the-long-term-ef...

- https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/coronavirus-long-t...

- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53269391

- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/06/corona...
It really comes down to cost. Managing change, and cash in general is a huge time and risk bucket, so some banks eat the cost, and some pass it on to you directly through fees or hoops to jump. Most branches removed individual branch coin counters for the larger banks, using centralized processing places to manage coins. Smaller banks may distribute more load to branches by having machines in larger branches or making customers roll.

But yes, the lawsuits raised the risk profile of in-branch machines so away they went in most cases. And so did dealing with massive, heavy bags of coins, which are much harder to move than they appear from bank heist movies.

TD Bank was esp. loved by kids... but also lawyers, as it was a great story to tell: kids losing their hard won pennies through a miscounting machines, and since the machines only undercounted, "gasp, must be malicious evil banks again after our money". After multiple suits, bye bye to the machines, and bye bye to yet another way to teach folks that saving can be fun, even if it's less fun than spending.
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Reading through his charges[0] regardless of what we here consider that he has done, his criminal conviction seems to imply he was considered a "hacker" by the law.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick
A 'company' can't actually do anything, only its employees can. Anything said about a company is therefore also said about their employees, since they are what forms the company and perform the actions in the name of the company.
You didn't use the word legacy in your post. You used the word old. Quite different. Something can be old and still maintained (httpd, etc).
In Scala/Akka, you could use the ask operator and compose the resulting Futures, something like this:

for {
a <- aProviderActor ? gimmeA
b <- bProviderActor ? gimmeB
aPlusB <- adderActor ? (add, a, b)
} yield aPlusB
The price of a stock doesn't matter. A company with 100'000 shares that are worth $100 isn't worth more than a company that has 10 million shares that are worth $1.
Thanks! That’s on my to do list! For now the best I can suggest is to make a screenshot (not ideal, especially because you don’t get a transparent background…).
GPT-2 up until a few days ago was the top of the line language model, and as such I think people expect them to keep it functional for a while.
TileDB and Hail are rather complementary. We have customers that use TileDB to store and manage their variants, and Hail to perform GWAS (by exporting from TileDB to Hail format). We are currently designing a tighter integration with Hail. This expands on our vision for a universal data engine that integrates with pretty much everything out there and does not lock you in a single framework (e.g., Spark).
From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...

We know that cats, dogs, and a few other types of animals can be infected with SARS-CoV-2
It can be. Especially users on mobile connections which can have quite low bandwidth caps.
“To do something innovative, identify something technically hard and do it.”

That seems about right

“Startups are churches for the non-religious.”

I like this one.