skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find this idea curious; what's different with collecting art than other collecting? As an outsider it appears to be "unique collection syndrome" no different than any other, where the artistic value is present in reproductions and is almost none of the price of buying an original.
AFCI’s are such a horrific scam. Imagine spending thousands of dollars to fill a breaker box with less reliable breakers.

I had AFCI trip on my fridge after renovating my kitchen while we were away for a weekend and ruined the brand new floors when the ice box melted. So infuriating.

I’ve since pulled the AFCI’s out of all mission critical circuits and sold them on eBay.

Just an absolutely disgusting example of regulatory capture.
Your fake example is more convoluted (and less profitable) than just using ads, fake news, and viral marketing to sway opinions.

And don't forget that Google has a vested interest in identifying fake searches, so any large scale attack like you're describing would likely result in your app traffic getting flagged as fake.

Besides, if you really had the ability to push code to millions of devices, and don't mind "being evil", there is a lot more profitable things you could be doing with that influence.
Honestly I think SQL is pretty easy. I love it. I can teach the basics to a new person in minutes.

You know what we could do better at? Crappy explains from database engines. Crappy rate limiting capabilities. Poor feedback on keep cache pipelines fed during scans. Poor feedback on column size effects on reading stripes from disk and size alignments between the filesystem and database.
I was lucky enough to interview Woz about his development of the Disk II floppy disk system for the Apple II – it's quite a tale! https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/

He's a wonderful fellow to talk to...
Considering that there's organisms that live at ridiculous pressures, with absolutely no sunlight and at the extreme temperatures of deep sea volcanic vents, I would not be surprised at all.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent_microbial_co...
I would agree that they are but since VPCs and storage buckets can span multiple regions on GCP I could understand being confused.
These are beautiful. I worked in a Malaysian restaurant as a young adult and unfortunately they didn't serve cakes. I'm a little saddened to think I may never get to experience one.
> That may be the author's point, but what he says is that PDF is unfit for human consumption. Which is absurd. As a scientist, PDF journal articles are almost always easier to read than the HTML version

I don’t think the author was disagreeing with that either! They were saying, rather, that this effect is due to a collective failure to use HTML properly. If all you want to do is reproduce the physical pages of an article onto a digital device, and gain no more functionality (like text search, hyperlinking, reformatting), the author agrees PDF is great for that. But if you want to exploit all the features digital devices and the web offer, PDF constantly gets in your way.
I was confused by this too. I wonder if it means that the spacecraft was able to enter into its orbit and circle around taking pictures, as opposed to one pass by
Date and Darwen’s D class of languages unifying the OO and relational models are different from Walter Bright’s “what C++ should have been” D language, yes.
10x better is me telling my database what metrics and values that I want. No-code and probably not another language.
The term Master Password is racist
This is absolutely nothing like a nuclear detonation. The energy released was less than 10% of Hiroshima, but besides that, the detonation velocity of ammonium nitrate can’t even hold a candle to the near instantaneous energy release of a nuclear weapon. It’s the difference between a pile of gunpowder and a block of TNT, and even that comparison doesn’t do it justice.
That is probably true. But, I'd also suspect that in 99% of cases some form of that data (lots of post processing) ends back in data store where all kinds of people use SQL to analyze it. Two main reasons: 1) join it with other data 2) SQL is so widely understood across functions / roles
Its also closer, and moster closer than Mars.
Most of the COs I worked in did monthly generator "dry runs" without putting load on it, and then every 6 months they'd do a "drawdown test":

Disable the turbine. Kill AC power (turn off all the rectifiers and HVAC) and let the office run on battery for a while. Closely monitor the batteries, and the temperature in critical areas.

After a good while on battery (an hour or two, if I recall), walk leisurely over to the turbine and enable it. Let it start and warm up, then transfer the rectifiers and HVAC over to generator power.

Closely monitor the turbine while the batteries recharge, the HVAC while on unusual power, and the humans who are really glad to have air conditioning back.

When satisfied that all is copacetic, transfer things back to utility AC, shut down the turbine, and call the fuel company to top off the tank.

Most of the batteries in these offices were between 10 and 20 years old, with a couple instances of the beautiful cylindrical "Bell Cells" still in service. They were sized to not break a sweat running the whole building, and impeccably maintained, so they didn't tend to fail prematurely.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the engines that were from the WWII era.
> Uber drivers are private, self-owned businesses that rent out their time and equipment to a corporation on a completely arbitrary basis.

As far I know, this is not true. Uber dictates the prices that drivers can charge, they cannot set an arbitrary price for their own labor. Is that not the case?
We already have enough happening in programming language. Hear me out, IRL we do occasionally try to learn new languages but we spend a lot of time learning new ideas, mental models and frameworks to accumulate and distribute the ideas.

This is akin to various frameworks/libraries/packages in programming world. A new programming language shall only come when something fundamental changes eg. languages to support multiple cores, going back to async as single cores become good enough, quantum computing is going to spin off new languages.
I think you're underestimating how much of a meme this is. Some of these I actually considered for a hot second in my head.
I also think there's a subtle joke here, check the top author of https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names/ :)
> In practical terms, this is trivial for uber to dodge. All they need to do is transform from a company offering rides, to a company connecting riders to drivers. It sounds like a big difference but I susoect very little about the user experience would change.

There's typically an agenda behind these laws in terms of trying to increase the benefits and power of workers at the expense of the company. So I'm not sure Uber will be allowed to sidestep that goal by simply changing the way things are handled and presented. The govt could simply argue that giving users the option to choose a ride from Bob or Sally is meaningless since customers have no idea who these people are and just choose the first or cheapest on the list. Especially considering the amount of gray area already crossed to classify uber drivers as employees in this ruling.
The last common ancestor had eyes. The same genes control development and placement of eyes. I.e., you can stick a human put-an-eye-here gene into a fruit fly, and an eye grows there.

Fun fact: death after mating is controlled by a single gene. If there were any net benefit to not dying after, one or other species would have it turned off.
In general, the approach you mentioned misses the forest for the trees. It is a terrible way to teach history. Most students will not later learn much history on their own. Sure, critical thinking is good, but I would argue that knowing the broader strokes of history would enable better critical thinking among the descendants of colonial beneficiaries.
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They are a rich country and have been rich for a long time
This is a great question, they both did end up taking different path in life. It's hard to say one is better than the other for me.
Thanks for the response. :)

My guess is that more users will be alienated simply because it's, well, alien. They're not used to it. I've never heard of a service doing this. But if you think about it it's not that onerous. After a user submits their email address I have a page with <a href="mailto:proof@example.com?subject=SecretCode">Click Here To Prove You Own This Address</a> which hopefully will work on a good percentage of people's machines and smart phones. I don't know how many people have mail clients installed.

If they don't have a mail client, I'll still have a nicely rendered example email so they know they just have to put the secret code in the subject line and click send.

This is of course harder than clicking a link, but then again people are used to receiving secret codes and having to copy/paste them into the website.

And again there are CAPTCHAs to consider when sending people emails, which are hard to solve and give up privacy and effectively lock you into Google. For some small services I've set up over the years I also have had a lot of people complaining about not receiving emails despite using very reputable services like Postmark and Sendgrid. It's hard to say percentages though.

I agree I'll lose more users, but I think it's more a matter of people not being used to it then it being a technically inferior solution from a UX perspective. Anyway thanks again!
So they have tables! They must have life.
We're doing team matching on our discord repl.it/discord
Thank you. :) See reply to smt88 if interested in a counter.
> The antecedents of NoSQL were the parallel programming models of HPC.

Can you elaborate on what you are thinking of? As a refresh, here's when and how the (current usage at least) of NoSQL was introduced: https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/big_data_and_business... in 2009.

> As Oskarsson had described, the meeting was about open source, distributed, non-relational databases, for anyone who had "… run into limitations with traditional relational databases…," with the aim of "… figuring out why these newfangled Dynamo clones and BigTables have become so popular lately."

I was using MongoDB at the time (we became one of their first paying customers -- they didn't even want to take money for support at first!) and HPC wasn't in the air. So please elaborate.

http://2009.drupalcamp.at/sessions/chx-session.html as far as I can remember this was my first MongoDB talk. It's been a long time ago.
> Religion doesn't make the rich behave better

It depends on which religion. Islam definitely makes the rich behave better. There is tons of evidence and anecdata.
No don't you see! If you get sued for misusing your customer's data, that means you have customers! So getting sued is actually a good thing!

Make your money and burn down the building on your way out!
Boomer technology
Diesel engines have a very high compression ratio, like 20:1 or more, but diesel fuel has a very high octane rating in comparison with gasoline, so it still combusts, not detonates, at these high ratios. What makes a diesel different than a gas engine is that the heat generated from the compression of the air/fuel mix is what actually causes the mix to start burning in the cylinder. So, for this reason you don't see any ignition system on a diesel usually, it doesn't need it (though maybe glow plugs or a block heater in cold areas, but not an actual ignition system). But the mixture still combusts in a diesel. Detonation is incredibly destructive to any engine, even a big beefy diesel. It can destroy any engine very quickly.
Be warned, though, that if you slide your finger before the slider finishes animating in, that movement is ignored. Too many times I tried a quick adjustment like that only for the volume to remain the same after my movement. It’s why I added separate volume buttons to my Touch Bar and switched to using those primarily.

The sad thing is there’s no good reason for the slider to ignore your input during the animation. I think Apple just didn’t care enough to test it thoroughly. They only tested the Touch Bar with computer newbies who press every key slowly.
First, there’s more than one app than just Uber.

Second, Uber is running the supply/demand auction system behind the scenes already. Prices are not fixed but dynamic and change in real-time based directly on supply and demand.

I’ve often brought up the app to check prices and decided not to ride for a while. Drivers do something similar.

> thus "the market rate" cannot escape a threshold that is contrary to uber's business prerogatives.

I’m not sure what this means. I’m sure Uber sets some reasonable floor on the price, but it’s more in the driver’s interest than their own. There are absolutely drivers who would drive for below operating cost of the vehicle because either they aren’t bothering to calculate it or they aren’t the ones actually paying for it (e.g. a car that is late on payments and soon to be repo’d).
I also personally agree with Fletcher Prouty (rip) that the naming of the department of war to the department of defense falls under this same category.
I'm reminded of

> [Chlorine trifluoride is] also a stronger oxidizing agent than oxygen itself, which also puts it into rare territory. That means that it can potentially go on to “burn” things that you would normally consider already burnt to hell and gone, and a practical consequence of that is that it’ll start roaring reactions with things like bricks and asbestos tile. It’s been used in the semiconductor industry to clean oxides off of surfaces, at which activity it no doubt excels.

—Derek Lowe, “Sand Won’t Save You This Time”
Because Uber sets the rates the customer pays, and the driver gets what Uber chooses.

The driver doesn't have the ability to turn up a dial and say "I'm going to charge more now".

(This isn't the only distinction between an employee and contractor though of course)
The people who bought the tickets are likely not the victims it's going to, or at least I hope not. Watch the Hulu documentary if you want more context.
You set the price that the customer pays (via Apple) though. That isn't the case for Uber drivers.
You're right, the niche that Lambda and K8s fill are quite different. However, what is the higher level problem that is being solved for? The smallest unit of execution for code is a (virtual) server, with a kernel, and filesystem, and just think of all the Nagios disk space emails to ignore. For application developers, the problem is that they don't want to manage an entire server, they just want their code to run when it's asked to, and not have to care about running out of inodes or some nonsense.

From that single problem came a vast number of solutions, some competing, others not. As an application developer, I write my code, tack on manifest file appropriate to the platform (K8s pod, Lambda, Dockerfile, whatever.) and I've got a service. Without all the minutia of dealing with a server. There are tons of differences between Lambda and K8s; don't start. Look instead at how similar the architecture of the interface they provide to the application developer is. (No, not the literal DSL that is the interface, either.)

(For K8s, keep in mind that there's a separate operations team managing the cluster and the hypothetical application developer is not on that team. That's one place where the niche each fills is clearly different.)

Despite the rise of cloud providers, the hardware and space that on-prem exists in and on didn't magically disappear, and K8s moves the state of the art forwards for people that are on their own hardware, possibly with cloud augmentation. For those in that situation but looking for more modern ways to manage it, K8s fills a very useful niche. (It also fills other niches, but it's very useful there.)
Would setting up another company that would employ drivers and provide services to Uber do the legal trick?

I don't know about Uber in US, but in Russia this is how it typically works. Drivers are hired by local taxi companies, which partner with large-scale Uber-like aggregators. This way, user-facing (aggregator) companies don't have drivers as employers, but contract other companies (or individual drivers, shall they want to act as sole proprietors) for the actual transportation services.
There’s a lot of discussion in this thread about whether or not it’s a good idea to force Uber and Lyft to classify drivers as employees.

I think that discussion is a tangent the real issue.

California’s elected officials already ended that discussion by writing it into law. If you live in California and don’t like the law you can call or write your representative and see if they’ll repeal or change it.

But that law is the law. It seems unlikely that Uber and Lyft will win this appeal.

What we have here are two corporations ignoring the law because they don’t agree with it, and the “hire lawyers to endlessly fight this” number is lower than the “paying payroll tax for all our drivers” number on the spreadsheet.

Just my opinion, it’s frankly disturbing how many people are ready to jump to these companies’ defense. They’re proclaiming imminent disaster, that this business model can’t possibly work with W2 employees, but I doubt that’s true.

Nothing stops Uber and Lyft from allowing their W2 employees to make their own schedules, and nothing stops them from hiring directly from the app with quick approval. They just don’t want to pay their share of the payroll tax, and they don’t want to provide family and medical leave that their upper caste employees enjoy.
From what I see speakeasy is something closer to chat-roullte.
Though I failed to match with someone there.
The add example is a bit boring because all the arguments are the same "kind". Partial evaluation is more interesting if the arguments are more independent. To borrow a contrived example from the Lodash docs, you can use partial evaluation to make a custom greeter function:

https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#partial
https://lodash.com/docs/4.17.15#curry

function greet(greeting, name) {
return greeting + ' ' + name;
}

var sayHelloTo = _.partial(greet, 'hello');
sayHelloTo('fred'); // => 'hello fred'

var sayHi = _.partial(greet, 'hi');
greetFred('fred'); // => 'hi fred'

Currying works similarly, except that the function by does the partial evaluation automatically if you call it with less arguments.

var greet = _.curry(function(greeting, name) {
return greeting + ' ' + name
})

var sayHelloTo = greet('hello');
sayHelloTo('fred'); // => 'hello fred'

var sayHi = greet('hi');
greetFred('fred'); // => 'hi fred'
the concept isn't the problem

it is what's done with ip especially military and national security secrets
There is a long distance traveled here between fine tuning warnings and medically critical software.

The fact is that building such medically critical software (which I have done) has many more considerations than warning levels of c compilers.

Additionally, there is the C language and what the standard says are two different things.

Finally, the vast area of standard specified undefined and implementation defined areas substantially impact writing correct software.
The last technology that attempted this task was NoSQL, and we all know how that ended.

First, people realized that schemas (just like static types) are extraordinarily important for robust software.

Second, NoSQL lost to SQL over the long run in pretty much all dimensions: query language, performance, scalability, concision, etc...

As a result, not only is NoSQL on the way out, but SQL databases have actually become better at supporting NoSQL features than any NoSQL database.

SQL didn't just win, it absorbed its opponent and became even better as a result. Never underestimate the versatility and adaptiveness of a technology.
Yup. The fact that it has been around for 46 years and dominant in its problem space for most of that time is pretty compelling too. In the 90s it was going to be replaced by object databases, said the hype. In the aughts it was up against Mongo and Couch and the like. The pretenders to throne keep coming and going.
> In EdgeQL every value is a set

This is trouble for the example for calculating the average number of reviews across movies:

SELECT math::mean(
Movie {
description,
number_of_reviews := count(.reviews)
}.number_of_reviews
);

Never mind, they are not sets:

> Strictly speaking, EdgeQL sets are multisets, as they do not require the elements to be unique.

The relational model is firmly based on the idea of a relation as a "set of tuples", and a major criticism of SQL has been that it views data as an ordered sequence of tuples.

So I'm skeptical of the claim that EdgeQL is really based on the relational model.

(Not clear whether multisets are ordered - wondering about window functions etc...)
I got my MBP signed by Woz almost 10 years ago, remember there was a conference in San Jose where everyone was lining up to take a picture with him, I just asked him for his autograph on my MacBook Pro. It's very old now but I kept it mostly because of the signature, will be posting a picture during the Woz birthday challenge :)
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The Rise of the Luxury Water Bottle
I feel it's more akin to music genres. Sometimes two genres merge to create a new one. So that kind of mix-and-match of ideas can create more programming languages, without waiting for a paradigm change I think.
> The last technology that attempted this task was NoSQL, and we all know how that ended.

Do you mean billion dollar companies?

Don't get me wrong, wouldn't go near the popular NoSQL databases I've used in the past again, but I sure wish I invented them.
Jog on, Socrates. Prices in the art world are presently distorted because of astonishing levels of wealth concentration. But basically yes, reproductions are perfectly fine - although an actual high-fidelity reproduction will set you back quite a bit. My comment really wasn't directed to the Renoirs or the Van Goghs, though. I was thinking more of the many artists you'd never even hear of whose paintings sell for multiple thousand $'s in any of your local art galleries (assuming you live in a large-ish city) and aren't well-known enough to even give rise to reproductions.
If I could change SQL, I would flip the ordering in the syntax.

Instead of "SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ..."

I would change it to: "FROM ... WHERE ... SELECT ..."

And you get the idea...
I feel like that's besides the point. A vast majority of reasonable people don't want you personally to feel responsible for the ills of colonialism.
And data security will come exactly: never. Because security is never the most important thing. A company that runs with this mentality will always be reactive, and never prepared for threats.
Agreed. But this trend looks unstoppable,to most parents in Shanghai, even English is more important than local language.

Maybe what happend in 2020 would change that...
Well, they used to treat diarrhoea by withholding fluids as an attempt to "starve it out", maybe it's something along those lines. E.g. it makes you heavier, you want to drink as little water as possible to stay light, or to minimise bathroom stops, or something like that.
What the Netflix documentary leaves out, significantly, is the involvement of the "fuckjerry" advertising/PR agency people in both promoting the festival and then later contributing to the documentary itself.

google "fuckjerry fyre festival"

https://decider.com/2019/01/15/fyre-festival-fuck-jerry/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2019/10/24/...
only thing, I would use other than SQL for querying would be the way pandas handles queries or datalog. all this other stuff is doa
They certainly put dents in a lot of people's wallets, I'll give you that.