skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I'm the author of the post.)

I've worked with a large Postgres cluster before (~1PB of data) and have been experimenting with Snowflake recently. I would say there's two clear technical advantages of Snowflake over Redshift. First is there's no maintenance when using Snowflake. You just signup for a Snowflake account, upload a CSV, and you can start querying the data. This is in contrast to Redshift where you have to manually provision a cluster, resize it as you add more data, etc.

The second is their pricing. Storing data in Snowflake costs the same as it would cost to store in S3. The tradeoff is you also have to pay based on how long your queries take. Depending on your workload this can result in a massive cost savings. If you access only small amounts of your data infrequently, it's like you're storing the data in S3 and you only have to pay a bit more when accessing the data. This is in contrast to Redshift where you have to pay for the full cost of the cluster regardless of whether you are actually querying the data or not.

Snowflake also has a ton of quality of life improvements compared to Redshift. One really nice thing is you can change the amount of compute used for any individual query. For example, if you have one specific slow query, you can allocate 4x the compute for that one query, pay 4x as much while the query is running, and get the query to run 4x faster (ultimately costing you the same amount as if you used 1x the compute).

One neat thing is there's ultimately only one "Snowflake instance" in each region. Everyone's tables are in the same instance, but you can only access the tables you have permission to access. This allows you to easily share data between different Snowflake accounts. You can store the data in one account and query it from another.

So the core value proposition is really strong and it also has a bunch of extra features that are all pretty useful at the end of the day.

This post focused on Snowflake solely from a business point of view. I'm considering writing another one that focuses on it from a technical point of view.
Are Hacktoberfest contributions checked by an API now? Could you not require the maintainers to tag the PR "Hacktoberfest contributed" and only that would get you a tee? People would know not to submit junk because the maintainers wouldn't give them the label for junk.
The fact I had to basically google "What happened to stadia" means I suspect we can probably reuse whatever server was hosting stadiacountdown.com
WRT GSoC We're constantly tweaking the program to make it more relevant and less time wasting for projects. Early on, we got people doing extremely negative things to 'succeed' in the summer of code.

It's reasonable to bow out if it's not working for your project. Maybe check us out every few years to see if we've addressed your problem :-)
Are you saying the Republicans want bigger bailouts? The last o checked they're keeping us from wasting 3 trillion more.
Well, does school education always has to align with current professional trends? There are professional degrees and colleges for that purpose.

Today trend is data science, it was car and motors in 50s, electronics in 90s. Should you change school education just for that?

I believe school education should tell us more about world around us. That includes science, art, languages, history, geography.

Why do we have this notion that having school education should always help us in our career in some way (money, progression etc).

Why not just learn about the world around us? Being all-round human being is also a good.
>extremely bad faith during this article

No, this article never even implies DO is doing this intentionally. The tone is annoyed, even aggrieved, but not really angry. The author, in fact, seems to be rightly applying Hanlon's Razor, and is constructively figuring out how to fix this unintended down-side to what should be a nice gesture by DO.
> it's definitely possible for Sweden to experience a second wave soon, but it won't if this virus' dynamics is similar to other viruses - which, by all studies, it very much is.

Again, that seems like you're just trying to argue by fiat. There's NO EVIDENCE that Sweden has reached herd immunity. It's initial outbreak was less severe than Spain or France, both of which are now well into a very large phase 2 outbreak. What's the argument that this is impossible in Sweden that doesn't rest on arguing that it hasn't happened yet?
> I mean is it really any different to techies slapping stickers on their laptop? Or car enthusiasts modding their vehical?

Stickers take a trivial amount of effort and don't impair performance. Car mods take time and money, but often make things functionally better. The icon app takes time and money to setup and the only functional change is for the worse. I think the icons are just enough different/worse than most other customizations that it's reasonable to be surprised at their popularity.
> that's one of those "you're either with us or against us" type of deal

And as the saying goes, if I'm either with you or against you, then I'm against you. It doesn't matter what your object-level goals or values are, because you have clearly stated that you care more about using those goals as a pretence to attack anyone who isn't willing to subordinate themselves to your particular movement than about actually achieving said object-level goals.
>Planned obsolescence just means artificially shortening the upgrade cycle.

No, it doesn't not. Planned obsolescence, just the like the actual words in the term are defined, means planning for the fact that technology and the components it's made from has a finite lifespan and that, at some point, users of that technology will have to upgrade. You're inferring that companies are intentionally sabotaging their products to compel and force people to upgrade and that might be the stupidest take I've ever heard.
Disqus could be free and not behave this way. Disqus could be a paid for service and still behave this way.
Non-Americans on the other hand hate free stuff.
After how many years of the same pattern repeating is the complaint valid in your eyes?
As completely unrelated, I would presume.
Congrats Jude & Team!
Nuclear industry bribed politicians to kill app electric utility customers love
It's not so much about locality - it's about competition. Locality is just the means to that.

Everyone wins when competitors try different things and find out what's efficient and what works well and what doesn't. Marijuana legalization and gay marriage started as experiments by states and localities, which could find and set the example to be adopted federally.

Everyone loses when an entrenched monopoly (here the federal government) can forcibly impose one way of doing things with no room for deviation.
The only issue I have with OG Chromecasts is that YouTube channels with 1080p60 videos tend to make the system stutter like crazy. Other than that the original Chromecasts I bought still work pretty much flawlessly.
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People still watch TV? I haven't turned mine on in years.
Data science is worth learning, but... drop geometry, not calculus. Geometry is little more than a history lesson about the Greeks, combined with a stilted proof formalism that no human being actually uses.

Calculus, on the other hand, teaches you how the world works.
With hands-free phones I never felt like I was wasting my time on hold. However, this might save my sanity by not making me listen to the awful music over and over.
Can I run Google TV on any capable android device? Like an old phone plugged into a USB dock with an HDMI out?
I understand why you would think this might be the case - but please consider the logistical difficulties of such a vast conspiracy.

There's over a billion people in China, with an extensive diaspora that keeps in touch with family back home. The world is connected, and we aren't living in 1929 anymore (Where your entire extended family could have starved to death, and you wouldn't hear about it for a decade.)

What exactly do you think is happening there? They've lifted the lockdowns - and if the virus were still circulating through the community, it should have infected tens of millions of people by now. Do you think that millions of people are getting sick and dying, and their overseas relatives, who are frequently in touch with them, don't know about it?

They've tried to suppress COVID information, when only thousands of people were infected in January, and... Everybody still knew about it.

Do you think they are somehow orders of magnitude more successful at doing so in September, while secretly having millions and tens of millions of cases?

Or is the more plausible explanation that they probably don't have millions and tens of millions of cases?

Or, alternatively, do you think that they only have tens and hundreds of thousands of cases (Few enough to suppress information on), and somehow, despite the lockdowns being lifted, they aren't ballooning into millions?
> If you raise the price of labor, people (both companies and individuals) buy less labor.

If people are making more money, they are spending more money
There was a time when I asked myself that every day (sigh). But I don't think so. The details involved in interoperating with C++ are so intricate and involved. I don't think I could have gotten to the same place. Meanwhile - we are improving our compiler performance and the performance of generated code. Maybe in the far future I'll start a couple of ancestor simulations and do the experiment...
Ever visit a booth at a conference or trade-show where they give out t-shirts? Pandemonium!
That's a perfectly normal Github experience, so it wouldn't invalidate the metric.
I feel so cynical today, but I can't help but wonder how much voice data the Goog is charging for this service.
Is there any reason I need this if I already have a Roku?
I run ChiselApp.com to support publicly hosted Fossil repositories.

The architecture behind it is pretty simple, since Fossil is doing all the work and I'm just orchestrating it (although I do allow you to execute arbitrary Tcl scripts as part of it, so there is some work that goes into the sandbox).
My Dell laptop still works great.
A better link might be the original BBC story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-54340425

> "I'm hoping they learn different words within colonies - but if they teach the others bad language and I end up with 250 swearing birds, I don't know what we'll do," he added.

This will be an interesting experiment.
To be fair I always send PRs that correct very small things in documentation such as typos and punctuation. But I do that all the year not only during Hacktober Fest.
Nope. Stagflation means high inflation and low growth with high unemployment.

A situation with low inflation is not that.
Statistics is not even close to completely different than calculus. In fact I'd say it's the opposite, statistics is completely derived from calculus. You can't even derive a PDF or moment or mle without calculus, literally the most basic aspects of stats. Sure you can study applied and not know how any of the software you use works but I'd say you're missing something if you do that.
It really depends how you define freedom of movement too.

For some, there's more happiness and freedom of movement during strong, compliant social-distancing measures, if you feel safe going outside whenever you feel like it for exercise, and like the shops are relatively safe to go to because people are taking a lot of care.

Compared with if you're justifiably afraid to go outside where other people are mingling densely and without masks, while openly stating their attitude is that their unknown neighbours' health (yours) is just not that important, preventing spreading to you is not something they put any care into because they don't believe it's worth it, holding dense parties that host super-spreaders, and packing into shops and pressing up against you when you go there in a way that makes you feel like you're risking your life to get food, in a way that would be completely avoidable if only other people cared.

If happiness and freedom of movement is the high ideal, it still doesn't point towards one clear policy during pandemic, unfortunately.
> Gaseous tritium being significantly lighter than air tends to end up in the upper atmosphere

That's not how it works. A low molecular weight gas anywhere below the homopause remains well-mixed, and does not separate by molecular weight. On Earth, that's anywhere below 100 km altitude.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosphere
Hasn't this been possible for years on whateverthatgooglethingiscalled?

(I genuinely thought it was still called Google TV so I was rather confused by this post - I couldn't work out what was new.)
While interesting, such a construct is obviously unsuitable for inclusion in the C standard nor can it be relied upon when writing portable code.
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+1. I feel the same way. If one out of 20 drive-by contributors stick around and become regular, that would be a real win for me. (I'm currently maintaining a project with 20k GitHub stars and we have four regular contributors.)
You don't even have to travel that far. Even on Windows10 you can install different shells(Cairo, bb4win, classic shell, etc).
Hm. I did my first Hacktoberfest last year, and it was fun. I only remember 2 of them.

One was something like build the worst implementation possible of aspects of the .Net framework, but while a joke project, it's been around for a few years, and you actually had to make something that _worked_ and in a reasonable amount of time. It was a fun challenge.

The other one was a bit of a lark, but it led to me and the maintainer having some discussions, working out some code, and then them taking about 2/3 of the PR just because there were constraints that were immutable for them, and neither of us could come up with a viable workaround, and we parted friends.

This is something that should be fun/interesting, and presumably, adding to the open source community. The T-shirt is a cool idea, but I think I ended up doing 7 or 8 of them just because I had gotten into the mode of "I'll just skim through the list of open projects and provide some real help while I have some free time."

Maybe it's time to make it opt-in. Register your projects with DO and Hacktoberfest, and those will be the only ones that get counted. Assumption being though that if you sign up your projects, you're going to stay up to speed on PRs and merge or mark as spam in a reasonable amount of time.
This sounds like working as designed and not a flaw. If your Linux box needs a firewall then put one on it. As the article says, the VM is using Hyper-V networking so it is likely that the connection is either bridged with a virty software switch or is NATted in some way but with a short cut through the host firewall. If the VM has an IP on your LAN it is bridged and if it doesn't and you don't have to fiddle with your internet router then NAT is in play.

Linux has lots of options for firewalling. For Windows sysadmins, firewalld with a GUI could be a reasonably familiar option. Failing that, ufw is quick and reasonably easy for simple use cases. If you are feeling macho, then roll your own with iptables or nftables. The last time I did that properly was with ipchains ...
How then do you decide what is a PR just for the free shirt?
Ask HN: What are your favorite weeklong courses not related to work?
My example is a scuba diving. The open water courses took about 5 days (2 in pool, 3 at sea) and was a great experience. I can now confidently go diving anywhere and explore areas I never thought possible.

Does have other similar style of courses they'd like to share?
Your argument, even if considered valid only cover one part of the problem with the title. Many paid services also violate users privacy. So no, the correlation of "free" and "violates privacy" is not that strong.
Well this thing has been running for a few years now so I'm sure someone has that data
> Could it be that these are `just interesting` but not authoritative?

Each chapter is just a breakdown of how a programmer/s structured a given application. It's not really about comparing good/bad approaches, or recommending specific approaches. It pops up repeatedly as a recommendation because it's informative and useful but relatively uncommon (compare game development, where detailed post-mortems are a lot easier to find).
Uh, no way. Geometry is an incredibly important piece of learning any kind of physics, not to mention engineering. And yes, it is beautiful in its own right (and I will argue that statement is both a) objectively true and b) is a good enough reason to teach or learn anything).
The article says "To determine when a representative is on the line, audio is processed entirely on your device and does not require a Wi-Fi or data connection". So presumably it uses no move minutes/data than would be used by waiting on hold for real.
Ocean market is probably 100x smaller than land tho.
You may have missed it, but the article screenshots a similar example where the spammer added "### Great Work" to the front of the README.
But don't they have that covered? The 4a looks pretty good.

I'm not particularly concerned about the Pixel 5's price since I assume there will be a 5a next year. People who care about 5G might buy it, but you don't have to.
Yeah code folding works for the visual scrub, but it's the "search within" feature that's missing.

An example of my common use case is digging through a Bosh manifest file for a resource with a particular name, then finding, say, the VM type associated with that resource. The name and vm_type fields may be separated by hundreds of lines (it's a machine-generated file that does not retain element order), but they're siblings of each other.

In vim, I could land on the first { and then hit:

v% (extend selection to matching delimiter)
/\%Vvmtype: (to search for "vmtype:" within the selection).

In IntelliJ I could similarly extend a selection between delimiters and then search within it.

It's absolutely correct that this is a tooling problem. You could imagine a YML plugin for IntelliJ or vim smart enough to offer a motion for "select all the children of this block," but AFAICT no such tool exists.
That's the crapshoot, isn't it.

Would you have been able to know in 2015 that the Nvidia product was going to be supported, but the Logitech one would be abandoned?

Real question actually. I doubt it, but that's a weakly held opinion.
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It isn't putting your issue tracking into an equivalent of a git repository. It just contains a rather standard-looking issue tracker, along a wiki for documentation, in the same sqlite. And they are distributed/synchronized just like the repository.
I asked a single question and said I was just curious and didn't need specification lol.

why go out of your way to spread negativity?
What about Microsoft Bob, can I use that?
Looks fine to me. Post a screenshot of your desktop. I'd love to learn more about how Courier New spaced -.1em could be rendered illegibly.
This isn't the first iteration or second iteration or third iteration. Feedback was given and nothing has changed.

Please stop blaming the victims for not doing enough.
Resilience and Vibrancy: The 2020 Data and AI Landscape
State of the union of the data & AI ecosystem.
How about improving compilation time thousand-folds: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/447
Maybe accounts eligible to get the t-shirts should be only the ones that have a certain amount of past contributions. Like at least a year old? Maybe that would be unfair to recent contributors, but there's always next year. Just like you can't perform some actions on Stack Overflow before you achieve a minimum reputation score.
seems phones, want to be cameras these days. we've had cameras for 100s of years. yet all phone marketing is about, the phone being a camera, not being good at being a phone. at least with spam screening my pixel 3a does a somewhat okay job at being a phone. and for the camera part, film cameras I still good. I use one that I bought on ebay for 25$.
You might be interested in JustWatch, which does this as a phone app.
Sorry, probably should have been more precise. Meant to say: most users are going to interact with the warehouses via object storage for import and export of data.

Since the object store APIs are almost identical across platforms, it doesn't matter that much which warehouse you actually use for production work. It's something that does massive SQL, imports data from S3, and exports data to S3.
So is this open, like Android TV / Nvidia Shield, and allows side-loading?

Or is this a closed device, like a Chromecast?
Google just deprecated Android TV as well: https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google...
You don't need to send anything to 35k feet; you only need a camera with a decent telephoto lens and a long lake on clear day with calm winds. From one shore of the long lake, view objects at the far shore from normal standing height using the camera+lens. If you then carefully lower the camera to the ground, you can watch objects (boats! people! small buildings!) dissapear behind the curvature of the lake's surface.

Dan Olson ("Folding Ideas") demonstrates this experiment in the video[1] I recommended in an earlier post[2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTfhYyTuT44

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24637001
Although it may be true that 80% of drivers are working part time, it is still reasonable to assume that a disproportionate number of miles driven, and therefore wages paid, are being done by the full time drivers.

As an extension, there is a utilitarian argument that says a full time driver will benefit substantially more from the minimum wage than a part time driver will suffer.

Regardless, I think appealing to the proportion of drivers is misplaced. It would be unsurprising to me if more than 80% of trips were completed by full time drivers.
That bus stop meme picture is from Finland, FWIW.
I don’t see conflict with this requirement. Maintainers should not feel pressure to speed through or acceptance.

This means not all os projects are likely to yield you a t-shirt, but it does mean your contributions must be good and relevant to have a chance.

There is some technique to reviewing a project and knowing what is likely to be pulled based on its context.

That aught to cut down on it.

Fwiw, DO should be doing something for the projects that accept a PR from this “fest” either t-shirts or a donation to a foss advocacy org or similar.
Good idea but I have been on hold a handful of times in the last 10 years.. I guess I am not the target audience.
is a charge back or small claims court an option when the goods are taken away from you long after purchase?

probably not worth the time it would take, but this kind of behavior from companies like google is just so toxic.
I have a large monitor in my living room that shows content from various entertainment services. What's the nearest equivalent you've got to that?

I also have several other screens that show the same entertainment services (with minor inexplicable differences).

Some are called "TVs", some are called "tablets", "laptops" or "phones" but they all seem to do roughly the same job in this regard.

(I also keep reading about a thing called a "notebook computer" but no human being I know has ever used that phrase. Is it different to a "laptop"?)
The same could be said about Apple TV (the device, software) and Apple TV+ (the streaming service).
Sounds like this deprecates it though :(

https://9to5google.com/2020/09/30/android-tv-replaced-google...
No wonder you're confused, the website is a bit unclear until the end.

It's just like a Chromecast (HDMI dongle), but running Android TV.

The closest comparable thing may be Nvidia's Shield.