skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both have been pretty efficient with disk space despite our multiple indices. More complex queries did perform a lot better on Dgraph though.

End result, though... We moved everything back to Postgres and prefer to use recursive queries and metadata to query more efficiently.

I love graph database and the dream they sell, but it's just not worth it for a small entity like ours. Takes too much time dealing alphas, nodes, rebalancing shards, and so on.

But otherwise, check these two are they were great if it weren't for fleet management.
> You're assuming that women and men are on equal footing, physically. When you politely ask someone to stop invading your space, it's backed by your ability to push them out of it.

Disagre; it's generally backed by one's ability to raise a stink and possibly even call the police. That is to say, it relies on the force you can summon from having people (whether bystanders or professionals) recognize that you're in the right and rally to join you, not your own personal capacity for force.
That looks like a really promising solution. Thanks!
Looks like a cool phablet phone, though I'm hesitant to know how many steps will it survive if I drop it.
Yep ux is a huge problem for getting even tech-savvy people onto element. Would love to see it become a viable alternative to discord but its still far off.
> Women and children first into the lifeboats, remember?

More than just an empty phrase: of the passengers on the Titanic, 72% of adult women survived, 50% of children, and 16% of adult men: http://www.icyousee.org/titanic.html
The problem at the time was that those behaviours were acknowledged to be inappropriate but addressing them verbally did not stop the perpetrators from repeating. The threat of unmediated violence changed the risk profile of the action.

Also, you may not have this expectation yourself, but society at the time would not be surprised to see a male in a similar situation react with at least the threat of violence. In this view females just normalized their behaviour in public.
I got downvoted to oblivion a few months back for suggesting that maybe cars were just getting more aerodynamic. I still wonder if anybody has really considered that. I assume so, it seems like a plausible first guess.
Self organizing doesn't work because everyone wants what's best for themselves. Every grassroots activity has figureheads and leaders. Hierarchy is literally older than civilisation and observed in most animal life.
I'm not the OP, but...

This connection (between redlining and modern Single-family-house-only zoning districts) is the topic of the recommended book. It's difficult to give a high-quality summary of the book.

An NPR story with the author of the book might be a better introduction than anything I could write:

https://www.npr.org/2017/05/17/528822128/the-color-of-law-de...
One thing to watch out for, since they're managed under Organizations you might expect that they inherit in the same way that Service Control Policies do... and they kind of do (in that a tag policy attached to a root or OU applies to every downstream OU and account), but these policies have "value-setting operators" and "child control operators" [0] that let downstream tag policies carve out exceptions in a way that I haven't quite wrapped my head around yet.

SCPs are conceptually very simple and easy to reason about. Not so with tag policies (and, I guess, "backup policies" or "Artificial Intelligence (AI) services opt-out policies", which are both new since the last time I looked at this documentation).

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>since Apple is a luxury product that is more about signaling status than about a great computing power-vs-cost value proposition

this isn't a universal phenomenon, funnily enough in China the brand appears to have the opposite effect[1]. It's more seen like a vanity purchase akin to I guess something like a Gucci bag.

"Apple iPhone users in China are generally less educated, hard-up and with few valuable assets, compared to users of other mobile phone brands such as Huawei Technologies or Xiaomi, according to a report by research agency MobData.
The Shanghai-based firm also found that most iPhone users are unmarried females aged between 18 and 34, who graduated with just a high-school certificate and earn a monthly income of below 3,000 yuan (HK$3,800). They are perceived to be part of a group known as the “invisible poor” – those who do not look as poor as their financial circumstances."

[1] https://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2174310/research-highlight...
> So, in other words, investors are looking for non-innovative projects (due to their blind risk-aversion). Why would you do that? If you are looking for low risk, index funds are available. There are lots of options if you want to spread your risks. I guess the simple answer is most I've talked to simply aren't that smart (as investors anyway)... :/

Software VCs are so risk averse because startups have to find product market fit, which is already risky without throwing a bunch of tech risk on top of it.

That PMF bit is crucial: biotech VCs' don't follow that same pattern because they have relatively precise methods to identify product market fit, before the drug is even approved for sale. They have much more precise data on how many potential potential customers each drug could possibly have from public health data, how much they can afford from previous agreement and contracts with insurers combined with quality of life improvement estimates for the drug candidate, and a minimum of a 5 year monopoly which is usually closer to 14 years. Thanks to those factors, biotech companies have a damn-near-guaranteed exit strategy by phase 3 trials in the form of an acquisition or zero revenue IPO and the VCs can take much bigger risks.
> Would it have been acceptable for a non-property-holding white male in 1820 to beat another man with a stick if the other man offended him, on the basis of the first man lacking voting rights?

If we're going to go for "all men", how about a felon or an immigrant attacking a proper citizen in 2020 on the same basis?
Users don't care about browser engines, but they may care about better ad blocking, and YouTube playback in the background (w/o paying for Premium). A "true" iOS FF port could do both, and more. Hopefully this would increase FF's market share, and give Mozilla better bargaining powers.
Do you work at my company? Because I have a coworker that is always proposing _exactly_ that solution. No matter what issues the code has, for him its usage of MySQL is always "the worst moment".

Asking for benchmark just gets a repeat of "our worst moment is MySQL and we can solve that with some NoSQL cache".
An armed society is a polite society...
I don't see how an insurance company could judge your driving without telemetry unless you've been wrecking cars and racking up points on your license.
"We asked 950..." Okay I closed the article and left. I guess I'm surprised people keep saying they're surprised by the percentage and whatnot.
> "If you’re a good company, you’re either going to raise your Series A - or Series B - in the next 12 months or have significant revenue such that you won’t need more capital. If you’re doing badly, why would you want to keep working on this for 24 or 36 months? That’s a waste of your time."

I'm a big fan of Aaron and his posts, but strongly and respectfully disagree with this line of thinking. As a VC, I've worked with companies that raised after 12 or 15 months, but most require a lot more time. I'm guessing median time from seed to A these days is something like 20 months, and I've seen as high as 35-40 months (including for YC co's I've worked with). Some companies just take longer to figure things out because they need a few small pivots first, or they're creating a new category and need time to figure out how to message their product, or etc.

We've backed several companies at seed that are now worth $100m+ but took years to get from seed to A.

Anecdotally when I ask founders about their seed rounds, almost no one regrets raising too much, but a lot of people regret raising too little.
> His third point is more interesting: at scale, even 99.9% accuracy is going to leave hundreds of thousands of mistakes a day. No one will care about the 99.9% you got right, only the things you missed. Reporters will call public attention to these.

This is indeed the crux. The .1% failures are quite inevitable. They represent the most valuable training data, and that deserves attention. The breakdown that I see is that it becomes a popularity contest: if you have enough friends, followers, or you can bend the ear of somebody who does, then and only then do these cases receive human attention. In a sense, this is outsourcing the human-level moderation to the public, a level of bad PR determines the escalation. This will fail to capture a large portion of the false positives, fail to feed back into the training set, and the number of failures will continue to scale with the system. The goal should be to eradicate these mistakes, and I can't see how that can be done without investing in human metamoderation -- even if they catch 1% of the .1%, that could provide an opportunity to continuously improve the system. If your profits scale, then so must your investments, or as you say, public confidence will collapse.
You're not the first to come up with that challenge ;) https://endovis.grand-challenge.org/
I’m not sure how I feel about this. On one hand I don’t think we should be overprescribing any particular path towards finding meaning in one’s life. On the other hand promoting other possible paths is probably a good thing.

Some people genuinely find “work” meaningful and purposeful and that should be okay if that’s what they value. If other things provide them meaning, that’s okay too.
I was having this same thought the other day when looking at Herman Miller chairs and scratching my head.

How can a CPU, with physics that are more complex than most can even barely grasp, cost 1/3 of what an Embody retails for?
Is measuring G forces so bad? Your phone is doing it to report traffic data to the mapping service you rely on.
They use less water.

https://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=dishwash.pr_handwash_....

https://austintexas.gov/department/save-water-while-washing-...

https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2017-10/documents...
Every have more than one reviewer in your CR?
The former is not a "prelude" to assault, it is assault.
Ah, the whataboutism posters to defend China have shown up.
because no reasonable cut would be worth the effort
So... Nix is just a package manager, but it's a package manager that tries to be as generic as possible and only have the attitude that a "package" is just "a bunch of (immutable) files that depend on the presence of another bunch of files" and so should be able to take over the job of all package mangers on your system (no matter how much of a special snowflake language x or application y thinks it is and deserves its own, inevitably crappy, package manager). One of the many advantages this brings is that your system's software installation makes sense "as a whole" and isn't the result of 7 different package managers or "auto updating" applications fighting each other.

But because of this, Nix can only have things depend on packages it has provided itself. It doesn't assume anything about the host system apart from the kernel. So yes, installing Nix on an existing Linux system can feel like installing another distribution. But you only ever have to use as much of it as you want to. Everything lives in /nix, and to get rid of everything you just have to `rm -rf /nix`.

NixOS is a full distribution that just uses Nix for everything, including configuration management.
That’s an article about the unwanted side effects of monopolistic tax cabs.

In a competitive market, this should happen much less. And the big innovation of ride sharing is it gives a valuable tool to drivers judge potential fares with besides their appearance or pickup location, specifically their rating.
I'm guessing that it was down-voted for the vitriol and personal attacks which aren't relevant to the arguments.
Dominance in a specialized field like that, I can buy. AI is important, but it's also under-delivering on the hype (though what it has delivered is impressive).
We have a dishwasher in our local hackerspace. I personally insist that most kitchenware go into the dishwasher before they get placed back on the shelves.

In a communal space with a lot of generic kitchenware, would you trust a random person to clean their own dishes thoroughly enough before someone else uses them?
If someone wants to send me a quality burr grinder, I'll happily do a blind taste test.
You should see the library that serves the Las Vegas Strip. I went there to use the wifi last year. It's in a terrible neighborhood. It's smaller than my bedroom. There are four computers, and according to the librarian on duty, they're occupied from open to closing every day, so if you want to use one you have to line up before it opens.

People who say, "Just use the library" are people who have never tried to just use a library.
Very few webdevs know it, but they should all learn it, with a gun to their head if necessary: restraint.
"Worker-controlled workplaces" are rather common in some industries where capital intensity is especially low, such as legal services (with firms being organized as partnerships; indeed, capital intensity is the main obstacle to this kind of structure in other industries). And yet, top lawyers tend to work quite a bit more than the typical worker.
It is not a well-thought-out post. It uses a bunch of emotionally-loaded but content-free trigger phrases like "elitist bullshit" and "nanny-state toadies" rather than well-supported arguments, and is being spam-downvoted for that reason.
You should consider it from the point of view of someone who is very vulnerable to assault, who is not at all on an even footing with her potential assailant, and who is in a confined and semi-private space with her assailant. Stabbing someone who invades your personal space slowly over the course of the trip, culminating in putting their arm around your shoulders. As a man I would start throwing elbows, but stabbing the guy with a hat pin seems pretty understandable in those circumstances too.
Attached single family homes sound very similar to this. These are common in central FL. Often the only common property is the party, or sometimes a shared driveway.
"Got a light?" is a classic prelude to a mugging.
Because efficiency can lead to leisure or layoffs, what will the future bring?

Capitalism suffers if half of workers are unemployed. Because it is actually in the market's best interest, we will develop social - political structures that enable improved efficiency and high employment (because more workers employed means more commerce and a bigger economy)
Not in just salaries, but that estimate would include all the costs associated with an employee.
It's also often interpreted literally.

Premature complex optimization is a bad idea, but simple (read, cheap to code) optimization for common bottleneck patterns is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
Yes. If I wear an N95 mask with exhalation bypass (The most common type here in Canada, due to our freezing weather) — I’m not protecting anyone else, at all. As for protecting myself, if someone infected sneezes in my proximity, I’m stopping the large particles, but inhaling about 5% of the billions of small water droplets in the air around me. Remember, if you can smell it, you’re breathing it.

So, virtue signaling. And, deluding the elderly and those w/ comorbidities that you are caring for them and that they are “safer”, neither of which is true.

As I said - if you are at risk, you should be wearing a HEPA filter and sealed eyewear.
Reminds me of a comedian who said “if I have $1000 dollars in my pocket while walking home at night, I have something that another man wants to take from me and it makes me feel scared. This is how it must feel to be a woman all the time, always having something that another man wants to take from you.”

I’m paraphrasing, but I thought this was an interesting perspective into a kind of vulnerability that a lot of men probably hadn’t thought about.
>This has saved me numerous times because of absentmindedness.

Aren't you costing yourself tens of dollars per year in lost interest by doing this? You're essentially giving them an interest free loan. A calendar/reminder app doesn't have this problem and is more reliable (on the off chance you forgot twice in a row, for instance).
I've been trying to get people to join "element" but it just makes the whole chat sound awkward "Hey, want to join me on element? compared to "hey, want to join me on riot". Element just doesn't have the same ring and sounds less exciting and dull.

It's not even listed in search engines, especially DDG, so I then have to give them the URL which adds to the awkwardness. It was a bad move in my opinion. Sure sure, the old name had an conversational stance but it at least it had a flow. riot.im still sounds much better then element.io

Anyway, with that aside. Thank you guys for creating something that works. It needs some polishing but I had my first voice call and to my surprised it just worked for both of us.

I still get a few confused moments with the UX from my mother like where's the enter button, and why do I need to enter so many passwords but other than that it is a charm.
Good question. The advantage of Prometheus is the ability to scrape from a variety of endpoints (seems like more and more things are exposing the Prometheus format).

There are some who write metrics directly to TimescaleDB, while others prefer going through Prometheus to take advantage of that ecosystem.

Best part: We support both!
I don't read the article as necessarily defending the practice -- it talks about the mores of the time and why this might have been happening with more frequency for a spell. The article also notes that the practice dissipated as daily fashion trends shifted.
I remember those days. I wish the world was more like them. But the reality is, it isn't.
This was adapted into a novel about IT/devops called The Phoenix Project. It's an excellent read.
Why do you associate those things specifically with urban life? Cinemas, televised sports, and listening to music are pretty broadly-enjoyed things. I don’t think they’re particularly “passive” either, but they’re certainly not uniquely urban.

When I think of unique opportunities in urban environments, I’m thinking more along the lines of nightlife, live sports, music, and theatre, boutique shopping, art galleries, etc. which I don’t consider to be particularly “passive” activities either.
My hunch on this was that there probably was a misconfiguration with whatever service they're using to send out emails. If they don't have the sending domain whitelisted with whatever service they're using, it can look super fishy (or phishy!). I'd be really, really surprised to find out that Google's automated AdSense ad quality tools are in any way tied to their email quality tools.
Define "subject to".

The policy explains when they give permission, but nothing it says has any effect on which situations need permission.
Except Churchill, I'm sure
There is a floor to what people will be willing to accept -- if they can make more money from unemployment benefits than from working, they won't work.

Many Uber drivers are facing a choice between gig work and unemployment, and they chose gig work. If they had better options they would have chosen those instead, but they didn't. Clearly they prefer gig work to unemployment, and for most of them, those were the only two options.

Taking away gig work does not help gig workers. It removes the only option they had, and it forces them into unemployment. If that is the outcome they wanted, they would have chosen it already.
I'll try the preheating and see how it goes.

My $10 grinder is simple, small, less than $40, and it's been working great for 5 years now.

If it ever breaks, I'll consider upgrading.

Although now I'm tempted to buy a burr grinder and do a blind taste test.
> There is no evidence of a revealed or stated preference for SFHs among American homebuyers when presented with multiple choices

In fact, there is strong evidence that at least 2 people in the US prefer SFH when presented with multiple choices: myself, and the person I was replying to. I suspect we are not alone, which you acknowledge elsewhere.

If you want to shift society away from SFH, it might be helpful to engage with some of the reasons people prefer them, and reasons they are wrong. From what I've seen, part of what keeps exclusionary zoning laws in place is that some people think living in multi-family dwellings is inferior to living in SFH[1], and in my comment I was trying to point out the incorrectness of that thinking. I'm confused why you think I shouldn't do so, since it supports your cause. This is just an internet forum where people are talking, so it's not like that precludes other discussion.

By the way, I already upvoted the bean comment, it's a great comment. I think it's okay to talk both about laws and preferences, and their intersection.

[1]: People have made this argument in this very thread, in fact.
Won at electric, won at space, won at paypal. Salty comment ? Sounds like a HN comment
> Elon seems to have moved on to non-vaccuum underground tunnels via The Boring Company

So, a subway?
My only hesitation is not knowing if a case is needed or available. I'm assuming yes to both, but I really don't know.
> Rule 1. You can't tell where a program is going to spend its time. Bottlenecks occur in surprising places, so don't try to second guess and put in a speed hack until you've proven that's where the bottleneck is.

I agree with the general thrust of this. But it's worth pointing out that often the easiest way to prove where a bottleneck is (or at least) isn't, is to try an optimization and see if it helps. I like profiling tools immensely, and this kind of trial an error optimization doesn't scale well to widespread performance problems. But there's something to be said for doing a couple of quick optimizations as tracer bullets to see if you get lucky and find the problem before bringing in the big guns.

The last three rules bug me. I wish we had a name for aphorisms that perfectly encapsulate an idea once you already have the wisdom to understand it, but that don't actually teach anything. They may help you remember a concept—a sort of aphoristic mnemonic—but don't illuminate it. The problem with these is that espousing them is more a way of bragging ("look how smart I am for understanding this!") than really helping others.

For example:

> Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident. Data structures, not algorithms, are central to programming.

OK, well what are the "right" data structures? The answer is "the ones that let you perform the operations you need to perform easily or efficiently". So you still need to know what the code is doing too. And the algorithms are only "self-evident" because you chose data structures expressely to give you the luxury of using simple algorithms.
Sounds like you had a great person as your point of contact with the USPS, and that it favorably shaped your view of the service at large.

I have had mixed experiences with many different carriers, and have no particular fondness for any of the organizations, though some of the people (at each) have been very good, kind, and helpful.

I don't know why this was a priority for people in the current administration, though I view privatization of the USPS as a generally laudable goal.
Not overreach, it's solidarity.

As was stated in the article, there is no government mandated minimum wage in Sweden as most jobs that would be covered under a minimum wage are negotiated union wages. Union members looking out for other union members, that way all workers benefit in the end.