skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But... lockdowns aren't happening in New York City right now? They're on Phase 4 reopening. The problem isn't lockdowns. The problem is that people don't want to suffer or die from a horrible lung disease, or have their friends and family die from it. Pretending that the disease is harmless and gone doesn't actually make it so.

And the only reason lockdowns are so difficult in the US is because most people in the US don't have meaningful savings and are in debt, and there isn't an adequate social welfare system in place to smooth out this very rough patch.
The Bitcoin network allegedly uses the amount of energy as the whole country of Denmark. This includes heavy industries like aluminum smelting that more or less use as much power as they are allowed to.

A Bitcoin transaction uses about 1,005 kWh, while 100,000 VISA transactions use 169 kWh, according to https://www.statista.com/statistics/881541/bitcoin-energy-co...
Thank you for sharing the experience and I appreciate the efforts that you put in for this reply.
Here's the report: https://hiddentribes.us/pdf/hidden_tribes_report.pdf

Political correctness doesn't appeared to be defined. I assume if you asked people their opinions on concrete events versus a nebulous concept the results would be quite different.
I lost my Pixel 3 recently and upgraded to a Pixel 4 (but had a Pixel 1 as well). You skipped right to the worst incarnation - no fingerprint unlock, mediocre battery life.
Appreciate the skepticism, since yes, we're a totally different approach.

I'll try to address your points in order.

Yes, we agree that 99% of the work is determining what the data means. Our structure doesn't magically make things better because of its structure. It's that once you have it analysis / aggregation on top of it becomes substantially less work because you don't have to constantly redo models to answer new questions.

Yeah, we've all been there -- production DBs aren't typically architected to store historical data. But we've found in practice that the data sources you most care about do have it. Page views, emails sent / received, completed orders, etc. all have timestamps. And for some things you don't need it. If you wanted to do a query with all customers who are VIPs, you wouldn't need a 'became VIP' activity. Adding is_VIP as a feature to the customer in the activity stream works too. Generally if you can do an analysis the more traditional way then you should already have the data to do it in Narrator too.

Sure, star schemas are the way of doing things and this is a new approach. But the efficiency gains realized by our own data scientists are enough to where they wouldn't go back -- it warrants the investment in learning it. Our challenge as a business will be how to convince others of that as well.

What we mean by single source of truth is that data is internally consistent - each term is defined once. In your scenario you'll have a single 'completed order' activity with the total order amount. If you want to add shipping cost that's fine -- add a 'added shipping to order' activity with the cost in it. Do the same with sales tax. Bob, Alice, and Jimmy can create reports with whatever activities they want. The crucial point is by making those reports they're not defining a new model. They're just combining activities. Since all tables are generated straight from the activity stream a future analyst won't use a materialized view based on Bob's data to build a new report -- they'll build it straight from the original activities.
> Do you really want to make him jump and go demonstrate for/against your list of hot button topics?

Sadly for many people the answer to this is an unequivocal yes.
Data is useless without theory, and theoreticians like Paul Krugman have long argued that lockdowns are better for the economy. A recent science paper also showed that countries that utilized lockdowns showed stronger economic recovery. Cite the science, not the NYC hospitality alliance rent report. These other sources do not argue that the point of lockdowns was to help hospitals, but rather to help the economy itself.
Wikipedia says Rochester Electronics, and I did find it here on their site: https://www.rocelec.com/part/REIMC68020EH33E
Ridiculous that this doesn't work with Stadia at launch.
I have read the abstract but my point was not really about the paper itself. Imagine a group that made you say “the Earth is round!” or they’d throw a rock through your window. Frankly, I’d just say the earth is round. But I would still have a problem with this.
Those who live in the desert learn to worship thirst.

I can't remember where I heard this or what the exact wording is. But it's one of those sayings that reminds me to be wary of philosophies with ideals that happen to match my current situation.
The cost of electricity dominates bulb costs. Here's some quick approximate math.

40W incandescent, $1 cost, 1,000 hours life.
10W LED, $5 cost, 10,000 hours life.
Electricity $0.12 per kWh, my cost is about USA average.

In 10,000 hours of use, incandescent cost is $10 for bulbs, $48 for electricity. Total $58.

In 10,000 hours of use, LED cost is $5 for bulb, $12 for electricity, Total $17.

$17 is much less than $58.

In reality a 40W equivalent LED would use closer to 8W than 10W, and would last longer than 10,000 hours, and costs less than $5, so the comparison result would be skewed even more toward LED.

Now what happens if you live in Germany. Electricity is €0.31. Which is 3x what I'm paying. So now the electricity comparison is €124 for incandescent, €31 for LED.
Good catch, I'll edit.
They invented UNIX, but then BSD and GNU took over add added all the cruft and ruined the experience. So they started Plan 9.
It appears to have one, but the site doesn't mention it. Weird.
The WSL machine is a Hyper-V VM. Why would you expect the default configuration to be able to sniff traffic from the host operating system? That would be a massive security hole.
I have not experienced any NVIDIA driver related issues for over a decade. I cannot comment on the rest.

I think there are great desktop environments and window managers for Linux.
The performance is simply terrible for me. Is there something wrong with my setup (32 core Sandy Bridge, Linux, Firefox), or do companies simply not test this stuff on desktops?
I don't see it mentioned in the article but isn't one of the main selling points of Snowflake their data exchange? Companies upload their data to Snowflake in the hopes of someday monetizing it? If that's the case then I think it's just a matter of time until regulators become interested too.
My old Braven, the one that looks like an OG cheesegrater Mac Pro, was the best sound per cubic centimeter I've owned.

Not really in the market for a portable speaker anymore, but if that changes, I'd most likely just get another of the same unit.

So yeah. Next time you see your buddy, tell him some rando on the Internet thinks he did a good job.
The Ugly Truth About Engineer Ramp Up Time
I do this all the time. People are always amazed at what can be accomplished in 5 minutes in an irb session. It can be your ‘secret weapon’.
Thanks for your feedback!

- You’re right, especially on small screens it is unclear how to proceed, since the buttons at the top might not be visible.

- The reason for the delay is that when others are invited, they need some time to accept the invitation. It is possible to start the debate after just one minute by entering appropriate dates and times, but as you said, that is a bit cumbersome right now – I’ll try to make that screen easier to use, perhaps it would be easier to enter how long each stage should take.
Whether it is a strategically genius move or not will depend on the eventual outcome. No tech company, especially one in the bitcoin/fintech sector, can pretend to be completely apolitical. So putting out public blog posts and setting strict policies that apply to employees may not fly well when the company or its leadership/executives themselves don't follow them down the line.
Not sure what you mean by Mainland Europe (it's not a single country) but it works for me here in France.
How does their javascript make the back gesture on my Chromebook not work? Not a fan of that.
We shut down businesses that pollute the water so that people living downstream won't get sick. It's not clear why businesses that pollute the air (that's bars, to be clear, you catch covid in closed environments where people are tslking) should be permitted to operate, they are a risk to public health. And you don't need them. You can make a case that you need teflon, but you don't need indoor drinking establishments or basketball arenas.
I tried to browse it and it's barely usable on Firefox on my old computer.

Also you can't basically skim through the page / infos as everything is oversized and all over the place.

Eventually I closed the page without knowing much about the phone (I noticed the lack of jack plug though).
Schools are absolutely and without question a big factor in education success. That is of course not to say that family and the individual are not factors.

I think there is a second related question as well: "Is it 'worth it' to move to a better school district?"

When we had children, we moved from a low performing district to a high performing district.

In the old district taxes were low and 1 in 30 children who graduated went on to a four year college or university. That was fine as we liked the low taxes and did not have kids.

In the new district, our school taxes are 3x what they were in the old district, but now the expectation is that every child is going to go onto a 4 year program in higher ed. The school has art, music classes and they are not teaching to the test. There is all around high expectations and active instructional intervention. Things that our the old system was not able to do.

For us, this was "worth it" in the sense that we have the resources and want to spend them in a way to try to maximize the opportunities for our kids. I have not seen that documentary you speak of, but I can imagine it talks about the rush/flood of parents like me to "good/great" school districts and how that drives up demand for housing and increases costs for the community.
Yea but a whole fraud department of humans emits a ton of carbon. There's no way the banking and finance industry doesn't compete emissions wise with bitcoin.
>You ever wonder why "politics at work" has flared up so much in the last 4 years? Have you completely lost sight of the timeline of events, or do you refuse to acknowledge it?

No, please, fill me in. What has changed in the last 4 years that has suddenly made people existentially threatened at work? It sounds like you're trying to implicate 'Donald Trump' as the start of all of these issues, and yet I'm not sure how the 2016 US election matters for me, in my country.

Accusing people who want to only do their job at work as "violent"? Your comment is a perfect demonstration of why apolitical work environments will be appealing to a lot of people.
WSL is actually really good. To me, it gives you the best of both worlds. Linux for dev stuff, Windows for GUI and games. And its actual Linux, so I am dev'ing a little closer to prod than those on Macs. But that's less of a factor now everything is in Docker and we are all using the same containers. I also feel I have a superior Docker (runs on WSL2) experience to them, better interface and much better battery life. Its of course all personal opinion, but I have no desire or need to move off Windows.
Huh, I don’t know what’s up with that page, but it works horribly on my recent iPhone. Like, not just that it’s conceptually bad, but the text flickers, images appear for a second and then disappear, and it’s not smooth at all. Maybe it works better on Chrome on a desktop, but you’d think the Apple would get their site to work well on their own devices!
Combing both Chromecast and Android TV (e.g. Nvidia Shield) has a less than 10% market share.

Making it smaller than Samsung, Amazon, and much smaller than Roku (market leader). It seems to have a hardcore audience that think the world of it (or who haven't tried anything else), but most of the market moved on years ago.

If anything this Google TV "Chromecast" is designed to make Chromecast relevant again.
Why compare Sweden to Norway and Finland? Because they're "nordic"? They do have quite different economies, different populations, different healthcare systems, etc.

These comparisons can be made arbitrarily to make Sweden look either bad or good.
You don’t need to expect or demand that, although I certainly would. The problem is when a company claims they care about that issue as part of their mission, but then prohibits employees from taking a stand on that issue or even discussing that issue.
> if I move to a different place that money end up in my bank account, mine!

Reversing this argument -- moving to a place with higher taxes means that money isn't in your bank, not yours!

> The whole of Europe, pretty much.

Germany seems to be doing alright. Most of Europe rates highly on the IHDI. GDPs are growing in places like Sweden and France, despite a high tax rate.
What are you no longer allowed to say at work?
> bottom tab bars are much better

The last time I looked they were incredibly fragile to implement on mobile device browsers. Mobile Safari had borkage: rotation or tab addition/deletion changing the page height such that you occasionally lose the bottom bar; input focus loses the bottom bar or leaves the bottom bar occluding elements (position sticky doesn’t recalc when page scrolls). Problems with strange interactions with the browsers own bottom bar. Both have problems when the page is zoomed, which seems to happen sometimes even if explicitly disabled e.g. input focus?

I could make something that looked like it worked, but when actually manually testing it hard, there were show-stopping problems.
765g has a builtin 5g modem, 865 is a 2 chip solution.

865 is faster, costs more, uses more energy, and takes up more board real estate.

If the next gen 8 series qualcomm can integrate the modem, it might be an easier decision. Currently the 765g seems like the overall superior solution, even if somewhat slower.
Yummie! Can't wait for my first soylent green...
For an organization wishing to preserve its specific mission, I wonder if one positive step would be clearly defining the point at which the organization would say "mission accomplished" and pack itself up. Riffing on your example, suppose an anti-ad organization said, "We want to achieve a goal of 20/50 states banning highway ads. Once we get there, our organization will be wound down [in some way.]"

There are reasons that might work badly, though. Without the org continuing to generate political pressure, public awareness, or money, the originally-achieved goal state could backslide. But ... change is inevitable. Perhaps at that point you try and get the org back together,; if you can, you can, otherwise you accept the world has moved on.

Easier said than done.
Funds are always looking to diversify in order to increase their returns while mitigating their risk. The problem is that in today's interconnected economy where funds are extremely diversified, shocks cascade and unrelated sectors wind up taking a hit.

Japan's stock market is unique, because their central banks own a large portion of their ETFs, which insulates them from these global shocks:

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/2019-09-04-storied-i...
> (at least in my own evaluation) am an intellectually curious person. My wife is comparatively uneducated, not a good thinker and not very curious at all.

I get what you mean, but I’ll add the following: I’m sure she loves the child as much as you do, and wants it to turn out well and happy. Books and formal knowledge are only a small part of human understanding; if your wife is kind and loving, chances are she understands certain things (esp human aspects) better than any book can teach. I’m sure your child will find a lot to learn from her too (and so could you) :-)
I ran into a compiler bug in Clang by accident about 10 years ago.

The story is that I checked in a code change that passed unit tests locally, that then broke an automated build. This was bizarre because this was at Google and our check-in process guaranteed that we had run the test suites successfully, which required the very compile that broke.

It turns out that the local compile was with GCC, and the automated one was Clang. The construct that they treated differently went like this.

There was a class A with a protected property bar, and a subclass B. I also had unit test code in a class TestB which was a friend class to B. And in that unit test code I accessed foo.bar where foo was of class B.

GCC looked at that access, decided that bar is protected, foo is of class B, and TestB is a friend, so TestB has access.

Clang looked at that access, found that bar is protected and from class A, TestB is NOT a friend, so TestB had no access.

The problem went to a local expert who read the spec and decided that GCC was per the spec, Clang was not, and submitted a bug report to Clang.

As for me I figured that if the very first thing that I thought to try with protected, friend and subclasses was an edge case that nobody could agree on, perhaps C++ wasn't the right language for me...
Then perhaps they should sell it, and stop ignoring people who want it?

Benign neglect (not creating limitations) is not the same as active interference (actively preventing) and Apple is much more on the side of active interference. They could simply do nothing (which is cheaper). They choose not to, at which point we get to question their motives.

In the end your question reduces to "why do you want anything at all that someone doesn't already make?" and that doesn't make alot of sense given that new products come out on the market all the time.
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What I meant was why Snowflake specifically is so valuable. BigQuery, Redshift or any other cloud db would fill this gap as well. Why Snowflake?
I've heard that outside the US, Android TV is very successful.
Good point. My explanation for the discrepancy is that Canada, Australia and western Europe are more homogenous racially and ethnically than the US is, which makes them less vulnerable to the excesses of an ideology or religion-substitute that revolves around race and ethnicity.

On some of the troop carriers going to Vietnam, soldiers starting fighting each other along racial lines; in response, the US military started a major initiative to promote racial tolerance in their training of soldiers and in their personnel policies. Similarly, according to my theory, the leaders of the other major institutions of the US realize that the performance of their institution depends on the different races getting along or at least not openly fighting each other, so they will exhibit a weaker tendency to push against a radical belief system that prioritizes racial tolerance than their counterparts in more homogenous countries will.

Also, starting with the Puritans of England, the western Europeans that chose to emigrate to the US were on average more religious than those who chose to remain in western Europe.
Hmm. That's interesting. I'm not familiar with what Salesforce does. Do you have any more info about it? I'd love to learn more!
Listen to them, and follow where they lead you.
I don't know where you live but for the last few years, every public event or performance in Vancouver, Canada, has been preceded by a land acknowledgement statement. It happens at political events, at Hockey games, at plays and performances.

It's just a brief statement along the lines of "We acknowledge that this event is taking place on the unceded territory of (list of indigenous tribes who inhabited the specific region)"

There are debates about its merits as an actual tool of reconciliation, but I don't think it's possible to argue that it isn't an expression of guilt by the cultural majority.
My father's WW2 group had an 80% casualty rate. He didn't like growing old, but he was well aware it was a privilege far too many of his buddies didn't get.
So then someone who was attempting to enforce the CEO's mission would be viewed negatively? This feels self-contradictory.

You can't say "We won’t: Debate causes or political candidates internally" (quoting Armstrong) but simultaneously say that anyone who attempts to enforce that would be viewed negatively. That would imply that Armstrong would view himself negatively for enforcing his own rule.
Please take off the parallax, its really painful to use.

I would love to switch from ios to android. I actually want to move back to an android device. My dilemma is, i want an apple credit card (or something similar) and better cameras compared to apple
Why do you think that case is relevant to this discussion? The only issue that has been resolved in that case so far is a question about standing. The actual anti-trust questions are still unresolved.
Perhaps, in the end, it will turn out that Sweden made an unwise choice from a medical perspective. As of today, the USA and UK have more deaths per million than Sweden.

Even in some unknown future where it is determined that Sweden took the "wrong" path, it will always be true that Sweden allowed the citizens the freedom to make their own decisions instead of imposing decisions on them through force of law.
The issue with taking a FRP approach for any native solution, is that it would be fairly at-odds with the web as it works now. In particular: I don't know how you'd do that within just HTML, without any JavaScript. The style used by the likes of Angular and Vue, on the other hand, would be a much more natural fit for the web platform, for better or worse.

> This is certainly the problem that React/Vue/etc are trying to solve. But I think web components never lived up to the promise because as an industry we simply haven't solved that problem yet...The various JS frontend frameworks have also been a decent attempt, but I just don't think it's good enough yet.

I think the territory has been thoroughly explored at this point, and simply taking one of the established approaches and implementing it in C++ would be the right way forward. Now, back when web components were really making waves the landscape was different. This new wave of reactive frameworks was still fairly immature, and maybe in hindsight that's why they didn't standardize databinding at that time: it wasn't yet obvious what to standardize on, exactly. But I think in 2020 we're now past that point.
Google Assistant was actually pretty interesting – they have a new feature called 'Hold for Me' that allows you to put it on hold when you're in a call waiting queue with someone like your bank and it'll let you know when it's your turn. That alone seemed pretty big to me! Demo: https://twitter.com/ow/status/1311373805814767619
Something I always find pretty mind-blowing is that a physical thin lens can also perform a Fourier transform.

This (generally) only applies to coherent light, so it's not something we're used to everyday, but it forms the basis of a lot of laser-based optical technologies. Combined with some other effects you can do "all-optical" signal processing [1,2], or generate create dynamic, "programmable" holograms [3]

[1] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/686739

[2] https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6648413

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_holography
> some customers are better than no customers

Running a restaurant at 10% capacity is probably not much more sustainable than remaining closed. At least if you're closed you don't have to pay employees to show up.
A good reminder that you really want proxying done on a separate device (router, Raspberry Pi, etc) physically between the endpoint and the internet.
It doesn’t work well on my iPhone either, so they’re just not making it for phone users of any kind, which seems like a poor choice.