skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The related thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23987584.

This was a moderation failure too. We try to find out when stories are false and downweight them or at least change their titles. We want HN to be a place where erroneous claims, especially indignation-rousing ones, get fixed, not amplified, and it pains me that we missed such a clear case. I admire that people have been so proactive about correcting it, though. That is rare.
That's a very interesting perspective that would explain a lot of behavior.
I've done with a hundred billion rows. It's not too difficult but it takes a lot of time. Note that elasticsearch scales really easy and really well, I have an article on a small setup many years ago for 12 TB in a small company https://thehftguy.com/2016/09/12/250-gbday-of-logs-with-gray...

The challenge is, a migration would require a lot of hardware resources (storage mainly) to setup a new cluster and the poster couldn't get one damn hard drive to work with, so any migration would have been a death march from the start.

Knowing that and that the original system was out of disk and had no backup of any sort. I would personally question the effort to try to keep all these old logs.
You read the book; you're now the expert.
> The question becomes 'as opposed to what?'

A better question is: why do you learn or teach music?

Learning music provides plenty of benefits for the development of children, but nobody teaches music with the specific goal of rendering people smarter.
We actually had a 1-month-long pivot to managed database hosting early on in development, but it was super janky. Might look into this again in the future.
Looks like they've raised prices since I last looked. But even at the higher prices, $15 is fully twice as much as Amazon charges, not 1.25x.
Apple has no excuse not to allow sideloading. None except profits for Apple. It's anti-consumer, and anti-right-to-repair.

>> So if you were on the committee tomorrow and got to ask a question of the CEOs, what question would you want to ask? Maybe start with what you would ask Tim Cook if you had the chance.

> The thing I would want to drill into is the question of Apple's big excuse.

> The big excuse Apple uses for why they lock everything down and demand everybody uses their services is that they're protecting user security. I think tearing that apart is the most critical part of the argument to open up platforms. iOS devices are secure because Apple has the best operating system kernel team in the world. They built the most secure operating system you can buy, and they have the best security layer, the permissions-based security that enables users to decide whether an app can access your camera or your microphones.

> I think really drilling into and establishing that Apple's decisions are just business policies motivated by money and are not security decisions is essential. Apple can't say that "it's insecure if Fortnite accepts payments because it'll steal your credit card!" They can't say that it's OK for Nike to take your payment directly, but Epic can't because they're making a game and Nike is making a physical product.

> I think teasing out the contradictions in Apple's public position versus the actual technical truth is really critical. As a programmer, nothing frustrates me more than seeing bad policy attributed to technical necessity when it's very clearly not.

>> What would you ask Sundar Pichai?

> Oh, I'd ask him, "Hey buddy, why don't you open the platform up completely?" Android is a semi-open platform. If it were an open platform, it'd be the best platform in the world if you could install apps without obstruction from third-party sources, if other stores could really compete with the same quality of Google Play. Why not just go all the way?
Your assessment and my experience are almost uncanny...thank you.
HSBC
They should use this as their main selling point.
> That means if everyone gets $1,000/month

They don't, net, unless UBI is fully monetized rather than paid for through either current taxes or borrowing, either one of which takes money from some group of people to redistribute.
Recently I've become addicted to sc-im, a vi (vim) like spreadsheet. Using this tutorial: http://blog.startaylor.net/2016/08/29/sc/

While I don't do very complex things, in terms of note taking using a spreadsheet, it's excellent.
Developer, data science jobs: US tech is taking a worse hit than other sectors
You're doing proprietary software! You want to control it, you want to be the only person able to make money off it, and you magnanimously allow others to have the source under terms forbidding them from threatening your monopolies.

I know we all have to eat; I'm not a zealot who thinks all software should be open either. But I don't see how developers exercising a monopoly in order to extract rent is software freedom. I just want some rectification of names.
Gitlab Environment Variables as Code
Thanks, was looking for non-paywall version.
That article does not look promising. Its a laundry list of "Found association, tried RCT, RCT showed little to no effect", "Found association, currently trying RCT", and "Found association"
“Real” Programmers and Drum Memory
Funny the story completely missed "Fantastic Voyage" movie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantastic_Voyage) which had a research submarine called "Proteus".
possibly this interview with Biden where he says he thinks the military would do that:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/11/politics/joe-biden-donald-tru...

not really very convincing IMHO!
Streetscooter seems a more practical design, since they are narrow enough that most cars can pass them even in narrow streets.
Or just allow developers to build more housing, preferably high density.

The problem with the high cost of housing in markets like San Francisco, is the wealthy capitalists owing real estate create regulations preventing any new housing from being developed.
The aquifer draining article linked is about one in South Carolina, the Ivanpah plant is in California's Mojave Desert, and IIUC is the largest bird incinerator in the world, burning a bird out of the sky every other minute.
From the Sun article:

Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one “streamer” every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator’s application to build a still-bigger version.

They do seem to have reduced some of the more dramatic deaths by unfocusing the beams when the plant is idle and clearing even more land around it to keep birds away, although there were still thousands of deaths every year afterwards.
This just gave me the idea to use YouTube for the same thing.
This sounds quite reasonable! But if all a knife needs is a sharp blade, there's little to be done in the way of limiting its specific uses.

Also, do cryptocurrency bosses ask the community to shape Haskell in the way suitable for them, e.g. in the core libraries or extensions? Or do they just produce libraries for their own use?
Giving everyone the ability to exercise their creativity, pursue their passions, take care of their families, while simultaneously eliminating poverty would make the US less competitive globally? I just don't see how.
Can you provide more evidence of this?
Dreamer by itself is not a bad thing but I presume you mean someone who is JUST a dreamer but doesn't seem like someone who would actually do the work to achieve those dreams ?

The best indication is their past actions. What have they done so far that gives you any indication they are worth partnering with. If nothing, I would definitely think twice.

Business is extremely hard. You need to partner with people who ideally have all of the below:

1. Perseverance. They understand that good things take time and need to constantly fight against odds to achieve success.

2. Dedication and focus. They are not all over the place. They only want to do this.

3. Relevant Skills/experience. You could be a first time business founder/partner BUT what skills do you bring to the table that are relevant in some ways to this partnership ?
Chopping the onion? This is very roundabout advertisement. Why not just post your company's homepage? At least the information is more direct.
Show HN: Eat Out to Help Out Restaurant Finder
I agree with this. I am a bit frustrated with Stripe for making this a paid service given the cost of payment processing. However, I assume when the fraudulent transactions cause a loss you have to pay for Radar.
New Startup Helps Websites Store User Names, Postal Addresses of Readers
So much nope to this.

> They would put you to the test for like 2-3 days to see how you perform

And pay you. And give you some level of feedback along the way, not just "here make some salads" and then "nah nevermind" after 3 days of hard work. And you get to work with them and decide if you like working there too. It's not a one-way street like these bullshit homework interview pipelines.

Unlike in food, you're not going to be productive with real code for a few months. Unlike in food, just doing the coding is only 40-60% of the job. Unlike in food, it's hard to improvise code in a language, framework, test-style, knowledge-domain, or other toolset you may not be familiar with. Hiring for restuarants is not a relevant comparison.

This just seems like the typical unpaid homework assignment--which is usually a couple softball algorithm questions mixed with some arbitrary glue-code riddles--with some CI-flavored slop on top.
I was (politely) threatened with arrest on a British commuter train when the ticket inspector's credit card device insisted on a PIN for an American credit card.

He literally didn't believe me when I said American cards still ask for signatures. By luck there was an American also riding in the cabin who piped up to verify my story and I was allowed to pay when I reached my destination.

In Australia the same card works with contactless payment, which never asks for a signature, up to AU$100. But as soon as I go over that limit it's a card dip + signature.
(8) Animals communicate mainly via sound. Most don't even have hands.
I have not! Thats pretty awesome. I must confess I don't actually own a coffee machine; a kettle and french press does all I need!
If you have ethical concerns, adopt the language used by an SEO consultancy, a hedge fund, and Facebook?

(i know Jane Street isn't actually a hedge fund, but how many people here know what a prop shop is?)
> Crackpot theories are also new and news worthy.

Only when the crackpots have wealthy benefactors.
No, an -ism would be to deliberately reject an individual that did fit cultural and merit based parameters for reasons unrelated or not under the control of the individual.
So have Larry and Sergei completely checked out? It seems a little weird that they would just turn their back completely on the company they created with their own hands. Particularly since they still have the controlling interest, and could do pretty much whatever they feel like with the company. That's a lot of power to not use.
Ask HN: How did you find contributors to your open source project?
Product looks great, congrats on the launch. I would reconsider the positioning of the product if I were in your shoes.

As danpalmer said, I suspect it might be tricky to ensure data integrity if non-technical people are bypassing app-level validations.

That said, while I may not use this for my mission-critical data, I do think there's a lot of potential in using this as a headless CMS. I'm currently using Airtable, and its API limits make it unusable for anything apart from light workloads. Also, doesn't have webhooks.

But, if I can use BaseDash instead as my CMS and have my marketing team handle the data through a familiar interface, while design + dev source the data into Figma & a static site through an API respectively, I see myself paying for this.
Macintosh PowerBook 170 1992 Japanese Ladies PGA special edition
What's the blogging engine? Looks familiar
From an indexing/search perspective it's already impossible to find some of the more obscure videos I saw in 2013 because of the relentless crap flood of "things sort of like what you searched for that are newer."
Never been to a pump that uses chip personally, unless you pay inside. I've seen ~5 with a contactless tap point, but only got about 2 of them to work.

This is in Texas, for reference.
This is an unpopular opinion here on HN but essentially everything the largest nations have done show that they don't give a damn about the environment at all.

Like my dad said, "when someone shows you who they are, believe them."
The market of effect of copies for personal use is insignificant and my understanding is that they are generally exempt as fair use.
I consider Stephen to be an extremist when it comes to stuff like this. I follow him on twitter, and he frequently tweets things like:

"More programmers should have the moral fortitude to stand up to the Facebook employees in their communities. This is not a socially acceptable career. Facebook employees have chosen to turn their skills on poisoning the very communities that gave them opportunities to thrive." [0]

"Palantir and Facebook are the largest employers of Rust engineers in the world. Rust Community: What exactly is the point of all of your long codes of conduct and community guidelines if the primary use for your language is the creation of a nightmare surveillance state?" [1]

[0]: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1288532583530323970

[1]: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1288106450707873794
"It is not a secret that one of methods to unleash value in a stock is to split the company"

Yes, and it's not a secret that the other way to unleash value is to merge companies. See for example AT&T or Exxon & Mobil.
Opacity means that the blame for any "fake news" rests solely on Apple for not being clear enough.
Most users have JS enabled, you could just track clicks making an Ajax get call with a click listener on all links before navigating if you don’t want to use something like GA.
You made me look up the IOHK (Cardano developers) team page again, it's hilarious: https://iohk.io/en/team/
I only know a bit about this but from what I understand this is similar to how most modern mining works. Many minerals are mined in very low concentrations, which means they then need to be extracted out of the host material. Part of that process often involves multiple steps where the ore is soaked in various chemical solutions, which separate certain materials. It can be a very complicated process involving a lot of toxic chemicals.
For sure, yeah. I print and frame my own because I like to print and frame my own, not because it's really all that cost-effective. It's not overly expensive to do my own, especially since I lucked out and got my large-format printer for $100 with a stock-clearing rebate, but if I didn't enjoy the feeling of reifying my own work that comes with the process, I'd likely be better served having it done by Bay Photo or some other shop that specializes in it.

(I do get my prints from Bay Photo when they're too large for my own equipment, which tops out at 13x19". They're super good! I can really recommend them.)
Love to see an imperfect, community moderated site calmly admit and accept retractions from people, which is a higher standard than some of the most well known "news"rooms in the country.
But it does correlate with lower risks of dementia later in life.

https://www.alzdiscovery.org/cognitive-vitality/blog/does-mu...
Past perspectives on the present era of abrupt Arctic climate change
I agree that it's already happened, but I disagree it's Pichai's fault. A lot of the company direction/culture that was put in place before Pichai was the cause of G to seemingly be behind other tech companies in innovation. Pichai was left with one of the hardest companies to manage imo.

On the other hand, I truly believe Nadella was left with a golden basket. A lot of what Ballmer and Muglia left behind actually paved the path for what MSFT is today. Nadella has been excellent in executing the strategy, but in general I feel many people give him a lot more credit than he was responsible for.
Coming back?
Thanks! We'll probably add a cheaper plan for individuals soon. If you're interested, we can set something custom up now. Shoot me an email: max@basedash.io
Hiring is not a one size fits all problem. It's true that early stage startups could probably use more product-minded engineers (https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-product-minded-engine...) and engineers who can ship code fast with the drawback being that it's not as scalable. Even then, different teams have different needs. Some need people who just want requirements and go. Some teams need junior developers, some need senior.
Weird, seeing this is Stephen Diehls company summary:

"Automate financial controls and processes in your corporate treasury with inter-company loans, virtual account management, powerful APIs and a distributed ledger made for financial audibility & compliance."

https://www.adjoint.io/
Why is it so hard to accept that domain transfer does not exist. If kids learn chess for a few years, they won't be better at mathematics.

That seems like the wrong way to look at it. I taught my son chess and music, not because I wanted him to be smart. But because I want him to have fun. He was already smart. I also taught him many other things of different types, games and sports, most of them what I find fun, some of them he liked, some he didn't.

Are chess and music useless? I don't think so. There are a handful of lessons to learn there that are useful for other domains. Is there no other way to learn them? Probably there are, but it's way easier to learn them as part of a fun activity than sitting in a class.
Amazingly enough, restaurants don’t see if chefs can grow food and raise cattle, yet big tech does expect you to be able to reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard.
“ Negotiated Rates (NSA) can allows companies such as Amazon to buy postage at a significant discount. These deals should be eliminated. Why should a poor person pay more for postage than Jeff Bezos to ship the same thing?“

Rather than suggest that Jeff Bezos gets a deal on postage due to his influence, perhaps a better characterization is that the American consumer enjoys the efficiencies of bulk purchasing power, essentially arranged on our behalf by Amazon, which lowers our shipping costs. Bezos doesn’t get cheaper postage than we do; we buy things off amazon and win.

Edited for clarity.
That is the thing that it took me a while to understand once arriving in US from Europe. In Europe I did not care the least if someone managed to hack my credit card. The bank is liable. The bank is responsible to make as secure as possible. That is probably why we had credit card with chip & pin since the 80's. Banks had incentive to reduce the fraud as they could not easily pass it to the customers.
But when I arrived here in US, I heard all those horror stories with fraudulent charges (and it happened to me too) and why I should take it seriously. And why I should protect my CC details ?!? (like my US social security number... but that is for another thread :)
Coming from a country where CC used chip & pin for more than 30 years, and only have US embracing it (but only half-way) in recent years, is bizarre.
I believe AmEx charge cards (Green, Gold, Platinum, possibly others but these are the good ones) are all chip-and-pin. The Blue Cash one on that website isn't.
The current name implies it is a measure of a fairly poorly defined thing, general intelligence. So yes, I think changing the name would be a good idea.

Of course there is a reason when neurologists do tests for cognitive decline or deficiency they use a range of tests, IQ being only one of several employed.
Bulk copy is about the fastest you could do in C# or PowerShell, but you would still be moving a ton of data back and forth over the wire between the DB server and the "jump" server running the script.

I would have tried a hybrid approach with the dynamic SQL one. Dynamic SQL sprocs like that don't seem to generate good query plans (at least not with a lot of prodding) in my experience, but if the dynamically generated SQL was done in the C# or PowerShell side rather than a sproc I feel the query analyzer would be less confused about individual queries coming out of the scripts.

The only other advice experience from a past life I have to offer is that I often saw better performance from T-SQL MERGE than T-SQL INSERT FROM. Dynamically generating MERGE statements from C# is not fun, but in that past experience it would give the best results for single-server data migrations like this. (Multi-server there's not much you can do beyond Bulk Copy.)
Maybe my point wasn't clear? To the extent that we have difficulty seeing unassisted in dark today, it's because:

1) There are many artificial sources of light, which creates a sharp contrast. If the stuff near those sources is illuminated, everything else becomes harder to see.

2) You spend very little time outside, so even when there isn't a sharp contrast, you haven't waited for your eyes to adjust.

Obviously, given artificial illumination where we want it, stuff is easier to see.

See sibling reply about navigating by moonlight remote places.
From the abstract, this is the key takeway: "We argue that the Arctic is currently experiencing an abrupt climate change event, and that climate models underestimate this ongoing warming."
> One of the theories of alzheimers is that it is a form of diabetes. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769828/

Overall, we observed little evidence of causal associations between glycaemia and cognition, structural brain and dementia phenotypes.
Ultra-rare kaon decay could lead to evidence of new physics
It wasn't a mistake for Rust not to emphasise formal verification. Going that route would have been very restrictive. Rust is aiming to offer a safer alternative to C, not a more approachable formally verifiable language.

That said, it looks like the good ideas from Rust may find their way into SPARK, a highly restrictive programming language for critical systems development with formal verification. [0][1]

[0] https://www.adacore.com/papers/safe-dynamic-memory-managemen...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.05576
No one was ever going to win a Pulitzer for "yet another climate scientists agrees with widely accepted consensus." I do believe journalistic standards have fallen in recent times, but their job has always been to update us on new and surprising developments, not provide all the information a person would ever need. Climate change, just as an example, is a complicated process and the science behind it can not be accurately conveyed in a 30 second snippet by a layman. A responsible citizen should be able and willing to go out and acquire the background information they need to make an informed opinion, and in this day and age that information is probably only a few clicks away.
No results found is actively optimized against, which raises recall and reduces precision of search results Via synonyms, stop words, etc. the priority of a search engine is to deliver you results because those are actionable even if not fully relevant.
The latest EconTalk episode talks about this: https://www.econtalk.org/nassim-nicholas-taleb-on-the-pandem... ... Once the Pandemic hit, we should have worn masks. Statistical studies aren't the only form of human knowledge - we understand that when we speak, air and saliva leave our mouth, carrying viruses along. Masks catch air and saliva (and as you say, have low cost). Therefore, wearing masks makes sense as a matter of logic. We don't need to drag p-values into everything.