skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have to disagree that a major component of success in business is luck, generally speaking. A successful business relies on having repeatable processes that generate profit. If one wants to talk about becoming a billionaire or growing a social media company to the level of IPO, then I concede that an above-average degree of luck is involved.
We aren't robots. Well, maybe you're both GPT-3. Maybe I'm GPT-3.
Public school teachers in the US remain largely incompetent especially in
math. More important than the quality of instruction however is the quality
of one's peers. A general rule of thumb is to reside where the money is as
household income correlates with IQ.

Moving to another neighborhood however is of course onerous at best and
prohibitively expensive at worst. Thank goodness for the internet as home
schooling, especially during these times, has become a more viable option than
ever before in history. History and English are the easy parts: Matt Damon's remark about library late charges is spot on. The hard part is coming up with math problems -- maybe you could dig out your childhood ones from India. If that isn't an option, then take
consolation in the fact that being a big fish in a small pond (a reasonably
smart kid in a bad district) makes it easier to stand out with college
adcoms.
It does, because large scale lends itself to automation more easily, but even still, you have manual labor with unloading and loading, maintaining and reconfiguring the line, quality control, packaging, and delivery. A lot of these processes are not new, and have been around for decades. The McDonald's store doesn't have a machine make your hamburger, there is still significant manual labor involved, which hasn't really changed in decades.

Even your frozen burger likely had significant manual labor investment in it at the factory it was produced. Also by "fully prepared", try adding fresh ingredients like lettuce, tomato, onion, freezing it and then microwaving it. I am sure it will be enjoyable to the palate. Even without the fresh ingredients, most will find the microwave burger inferior to even the cheapest McDonald's burger.
> dropped support for MacBooks released before 2015

Those machines were all sold in 2011 or earlier. Saying "before 2015" is misleading, because the MacBook name was used during two disjoint periods to refer to two completely different machines.

Between 2006 and mid-2011, the MacBook brand name was used for a line of low-cost Core 2 laptops, most of which had plastic cases. (Some sales to schools continued through 2012.) These are the laptops which were not supported by macOS 10.14 and later.

Between mid-2011 and 2015, there were no computers sold under the MacBook brand. Apple only sold laptops under the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro brands during this period.

In 2015, Apple reused the MacBook brand name for a line of 12" ultraportable laptops. These are supported under current releases of macOS.
And then? What __topia will we be in?
I was at a company that switched from Redshift to Snowflake. It was a night and day difference. Faster (orders of magnitude!), cheaper, and significantly easier to work with (since everyone had their own personal view of the data to mutate/work with).

As far as I can tell, it is a unique product in the database space. Extremely well executed ideas and design.
Sorry if my tone was a little strong, that was not my intention at all. I saw where you said you were thinking from a limited scope and decided to use it as a thought exercise :) Then I went off on a tangent about cost cutting XD
People want to own the next Salesforce. Snowflake could expand into ERP/CRM/Visualizations. There is over 50B revenue across the world in those areas.
Is Neuralink the Future of Smartphones?
What about being able to discuss that internally with coworkers? Because the company prohibits that as well.
Not really, they’re largely targeting the same kind of use cases as redshift and bigquery.
Except this was an answer to a specific question, not a dismissal of the product. If that famous comment had been a reply to "wow Dropbox is cool and I signed up for the beta, but hey, how would you implement something like this yourself?", no one would remember it.
Somewhat random suggestions to follow but I've been researching this a lot myself. I'm personally looking for an EU country with a low corporate tax rate and zero capital gains tax (for early retirement). I've narrowed that down to Cyprus, Switzerland, Georgia, Portugal and Poland.

Switzerland is probably the winner but it is much higher COL (though you can get San Francisco salary there for a much better quality of life).

I actually currently live in Berlin now and I have to admit that the more I research, the more I find that Germany isn't so bad of an option at all. If you want children/family in the future, Germany has much better benefits than Switzerland.
Though there doesn't seem to be much activity there since 2015.
I notice that Industry Dive doesn't have a message supporting BLM on its website.

Can you share why you've failed to support this social cause on your front page? Silence is violence, and Industry Dive has clearly taken the stance that it does not support BLM.
I've been a long time Roku user, who didn't like chromecast because I prefer a UI and a hardware remote.

The advertising suggests it organizes all services into one screen. That is promising. But I am willing to bet it only covers certain streaming services and wouldn't cover Plex (or apps like it).

I'll read reviews with interest.
I never minded animations in scrolljacking. I despise scrolljacking that just changes my scroll mechanics (speed up, slow down, alter acceleration) for no reason.
This is everywhere in programming. Just trying to setup vim involved learning an insane amount of information that is scatter documented with every person recommending different ways to accomplish the same task. You feel stupid for not knowing one tiny part.
I fiddled around with it before Google open sourced tensorflow. Seems like the project is almost entirely abandoned-no commits for a year now. I suppose this may have something to do with the death of the lead developer Matt Taylor several months ago(R.I.P.) but I could be wrong. It would be interesting to see if someone could get it up to speed.
It's a chance for investors to get in on the next big thing and invest specifically in data warehousing. No one can put his money directly into BigQuery or Redshift.

Edit: why are so many people downvoting this? Is there some other reason for Snowflake's valuation (aside from tech bubble playing a role)?
We built "RAMpage", an online RAM tester for Linux, about 10 years ago - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/194025446.pdf

This was a prototype developed by a student which worked fairly well (tested using real defective RAMs from our AMD cluster system), but certainly not yet suitable for everyday use. See https://github.com/schirmeier/rampage for a snapshot of our code.
I think the obsolescence issue is complicated.

I recently saw a criticism of Palantir which went: "The company has largely succeeded, they say, not because of its technological wizardry but because its interface is slicker and more user friendly than the alternatives created by defense contractors."

A lot of the most successful tech firms started post-dot-com are decent interfaces to not-particularly-revolutionary databases. In high-end consulting and investment banking, appearances are hugely important. You can't have trash decks.
It's unsurprising to me that the same is true in defense and intelligence. You can get a roof over your head and breakfast at a trashy motel or the Ritz. Everybody knows the Ritz can command a much higher price because "its interface is slicker and more user friendly than the alternatives."

I think the same thing is true here.
1000 times this. See https://mullvad.net/en/help/openwrt-routers-and-mullvad-vpn/ for a relevant guide, see under the "Add a kill switch" for the equivalent functionality.
Given how razor thin restaurant margins are, even running at 70% capacity during what usually would have been peak hours will kill the business. That's why restaurants try to squeeze as many tables in as possible and turn over tables quickly
100 times this. I know privacy is a good thing but the amount of FUD over health data privacy is unreasonable.

I feel this hysteric reaction to aggregating health related metrics is in fact an impediment to running good scientific experiments. The current sample sizes are always small and results inconclusive wasting thousands of man hours and government grants funded by our tax money

Only to gain what? Apple and Google not storing my step counts on their servers because otherwise in future they'll go rogue and show me cheeseburger ads when I'm getting fat? Give me break
You're assuming ill intent. The goal is to minimize workplace hostility, not to censor anyone. Let's say someone goes around snooping into people's conversations and overhears two coworkers casually talking about attending a protest and reports this. I'm guessing that person snooping around will be the only one who will be reprimanded.
> Yes, tech savy bay area companies can setup their own stack using Presto etc but rest of the world is not like that.

My last company was an early adopter of Snowflake. And we tried Presto first, circa 2016 and Presto was sloooow. We were using vertica at the time and it was so much slower. Snowflake on the other hand was able to perform on the same order of latency as Vertica, which was pretty crazy to us.
Not to mention that in the legal system, other people doing something is called precedent, and it’s a very important thing in (US) law.
Smaller companies with presto won’t get the same performance benefit.

Snowflake & BigQuery get the ability to have multiple customers on a large cluster.

It’d be cost prohibitive for a single smaller customer to have all that compute sitting idle for a few queries per minute.

Storage also benefits as snowflake/ BQ can shard your data across a much larger array of disk giving you better IO.

Think is it faster to drive a car 100 ft starting at 0mph and flooring it. Or to drive 100ft with a car which starts off doing 120mph
The environment and consumers, but it will also destroy much of the American heartland. No need for raising the meat, growing the food to feet the animals or for butchering the meat means that a lot of people are going to be out of work, and there isn't going to be that much else.
If I understand correctly:

1. you define activities, each with an associated SQL query
eg customer opened support ticket: SELECT * FROM tickets WHERE customer_id=$customer_id

2. users use Narrator UI to build a report, similar to Looker

3. Narrator creates a table for that report in the same db and populates it with data, based on 1.

4. Narrator maintains all the reports tables (updates, deletes when report is deleted)

?
Personally I don't see any benefit that WSL can offer that regular Linux can't. But I don't have any interest in Windows, so your case might differ.
Any rational discussion on what the right response should've been depends on the trustworthiness of the experts and leadership. Unfortunately, there has been so much bias and politicization from the media, government leaders, policy makers, and even doctors and scientists on both sides that most people are skeptical even if we are making sound decisions based on the stats. The question is - are the stats sound? I'm not convinced we'll ever know. In today's world, the loudest wins the narrative and is considered "right" by the masses.
My wager is they de facto won't prohibit any discussion between consenting and mutually interested coworkers that doesn't negatively impact their work output, which seems "fair enough" to me.
> Not sure what you mean by Mainland Europe

Perhaps continental Europe?
I wouldn't call that semi-portable.
I am sure the dead will value their freedom.
StencilJS does this too. It also has a wrapper to create React components. I really recommend it
> Wanting to see the economy fail to punish rich people and corporations.

does anyone really believe that a failing economy will hurt rich people and corporations more relative to... literally anyone else? i would expect the exact opposite, e.g. https://pomp.substack.com/p/the-k-shaped-recovery-is-now-und...
Cases are doubling each week in Stockholm right now. This article seems to have jumped on the bandwagon too late: the slow up-tick of cases was due more to people staying longer at their summer cottages, than anything special about Sweden’s strategy.
Yes, and?

Where I live, well over 50% of all new community cases have been associated with bars and restaurants. The bars have been ordered closed until there's an effective vaccine. The restaurants are open, but patronage is far below pre-pandemic levels because, even without a government order, most people don't want to risk dying for a restaurant meal.

The reality is that bars and restaurants aren't safe to operate as long as SARS-CoV-2 is spreading in the population. This is a catastrophe for their owners and employees, but it is the epidemiological reality.

Most countries don't allow businesses to stockpile explosives in residential areas because the risks of an unintended mass casualty event is too high. During this pandemic, operating a bar or restaurant is similarly unacceptably dangerous and cannot be permitted any more than residential storage of explosives can be permitted.

No amount of bleating about 'muh rent payments' or 'muh rights' will change this, or make patrons decide to risk their own lives for the benefit of the industry.
The 5 also has 2GB more RAM, 200mAh more battery life, a 90hz screen with more contrast (1M:1 vs 100K:1 ratio), aluminum vs. plastic body, and Gorilla Glass 6 vs. 3.

It also looks like the 4a 5G has two sub-models for different networks, whereas the 5 has them all in one model. So if you desire more portability between 5G networks, the 5 is a better option there.

That's pretty much all I could see as notable differences. Not saying any of that is worth the price difference, but perhaps it explains it a bit. I am definitely going to wait for the inevitable Black Friday deals they do shortly after release. They discounted $200 in past years, which makes the 5 much more palatable to me.
> already, this week, talking about rolling it back
already, this week, talking about rolling it back

Because test positivity rates are spiking in some areas of the city, and they're also trying to open schools.

> Adults are capable of making that decision for themselves

How do you think people in nursing homes died from it? What choices did they get in the matter?
> If anything this Google TV "Chromecast" is designed to make Chromecast relevant again.

Chromecast has always had the issue that it's main users are the tech savvy who are comfortable controlling everything via smartphone. That's not a huge percent of the population.

By adding the remote and going for the play of helping you navigate cross app, they seem to be trying to extend out to less savvy users who need a more guided product.

Overall it seems like the longterm plan is to push their subscription services, since I can't imagine they make great money from the devices themselves. Increasing user base is the best way for them to achieve that goal.
Deaths lag cases by about a month. Increase in cases will invariably lead to an increase in deaths.
I've often thought it would be fun to spec out a low-power mesh network protocol for backcountry communication[0] (safety, sharing GPS coordinates, texting). Basically anyone could place waterproof radios with solar panels wherever. You can share the coordinates like a geocache, and if someone gets close enough they can connect with bluetooth to join the network. If a node goes down anyone could repair it. Obviously the network would be very susceptible to abuse/jamming/vandalism, but maybe like wikipedia there would be more people motivated to keep it working than destroy it.

Anyway, maybe Starlink will leapfrog this dream.

[0]: Kind of like https://gotenna.com/ but with an open protocol and static nodes.
Is there any virus that we would want to catch?
In most places in the US, hospitals are not overwhelmed. The situation is under control. In NYS the cases have been hovering at or below 1,000 per day for 3 months. The peak was nearly 15,000/day. Is the curve not flattened? What are we still doing having entire industries shut down?
Regarding (2), what evidence do you base your conclusion on?

Unemployment can be solved with stimulus. 10 year treasury rates are at records lows, and there is a recent tax cut that can be repealed that can pay for it.
Whenever Buffet invests in something, part of the reason is always that he has identified that it has monopolistic or cartel like characteristics- or it can buy out competitors and gain some of those characteristics through his investment.

Would love to see this article rewritten to analyze the dominance of these firms in their market.
Indeed! Go wild: http://forth.org/fd/contents.html
I believe lots of regulation plays a part in making these health datasets not interoperable and hard to migrate to some common schema and database
Thanks! I think I overlooked those before--last time I got tangled up in gfx-hal. I'll give these a try!
>There's no way the banking and finance industry doesn't compete emissions wise with bitcoin

not on a per transaction basis, which is the only relevant measure because the banking system supports a lot more people than bitcoin does.

A single bitcoin transaction uses 610.20 kWh right now, which is comparable to the energy consumption of an average US household over 20 days.[1]

Also for a comparison of scope, Tenpay, Tencents payment service processes about 1.2 billion transactions per day, Bitcoin does about 300k. If all financial transactions conducted in China alone would consume the amount of energy that a bitcoin transaction does, it would roughly eclipse the energy the country consumes in a year, in one day.

[1]https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption/
If you run your VPN tunnel on the same machine that is emitting your super-serious must-be-tunneled traffic, you are always just one configuration mishap or even software exploit (if you happen to be a Firefox Tor browser user) away from revealing your real connection.
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Go count how many CVEs have come out for OpenSSL, GNUTLS, LUKS, etc. and ask whether you’re offering helpful advice. Security is expensive and there are no silver bullets: at the end of the day you need a lot of skilled work and being open source doesn’t magically get that for free.
Spain and Portugal do not have similar cultures at all. The Portuguese are known for their "brandes costumes", their restrained manners, as much as the Spanish are known for the opposite. That might explain the difference in case numbers.
> official clients need to be modified, however, so connection attempts don't go to the now defunct servers

Presuming they don't use any form of encryption (and I think that's a safe assumption for that era), one could keep the clients official, while routing the packets themselves using a virtual Ethernet driver (or via software-defined routing, if the relevant copy of Windows is running in a VM.)
Moving hoop won't let you miss
> it's voluntary because the government thinks we are adults.

Or, a country of lonely conformists.

Over half of households in Sweden (52 % of all households) were one person households in 2017, the highest in the EU by a considerable margin (Eurostat data.)

Also, Swedes have extreme levels of social conformity, more comparable to Japan than even its Scandinavian neighbours.

Not a good environment for a virus.
Compared to LG webOS, which I already have, this doesn't seem to bring any value. LG already has the headline features here: voice search and find content across apps. I can search for a title by voice and my LG TV shows me which app offers that title. I have Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Google Play, YouTube, etc. And I can cast to the TV from YouTube on my phone.

On top of that I really appreciate how efficient webOS seems to be. Since the apps are just HTML/JS the updates are very unobtrusive, sometimes downloading a few kilobytes only. Not at all the horror show that is Android app updates.
Mullvad uses the superior way of not having a real account at all - you just get a number you can "deposit" money into.

It's the only way they can reliably prevent abuse like a thousand people using one number - because this way you can just track the number of open connections per account number.

This is superior to tracking IP-addresses to detect fraud for obvious privacy reasons. I do a similar thing for a service I run.

Out of curiosity, how do you even manage to use more than five devices for private use at once? Even just owning that many is unlikely.
One use case MS thought of was to give excuse to lazy corporate IT not to support Linux on the desktop, to prevent Windows usage dropping among developers. I think that was their main intent.
So, the Steve Jobs rumor about only allowing compiled programs on the original iphone was right? There is about a 4x energy increase going to a VM'ed language and about a 19x going to a fully interpreted one over using a natively compiled language.

So, the energy efficiency is actually worse than the perf loss in general.
There was never a lockdown. People were never restricted from leaving their houses or visiting family. Public, enclosed spaces were restricted, but nobody was ever locked inside. There have been attempts at imposing quarantines on interstate travelers but it's been almost entirely voluntary in practice.

(this is in contrast with western Europe, where there were and are actual lockdowns that made it illegal to leave home without a permit, etc)

edit: NYC did impose a curfew for a few days, but not as a coronavirus measure
I was very confused then I remembered I was subscribed to _YouTube TV_ not _Google TV_.

Then I was confused again- is this an actual TV? Oh it's a dongle- no, wait, that's a Chromecast with Google TV.

Anyway, I guess this is a new content app like Hulu.
AI advised me to read The Hunger Games to survive this ‘cruel world’
In the UK at least - you get a pair of very nice Bose QC 35 IIs (RRP £299) free, if you buy soon.

These are selling on eBay for £200 currently, though I'm sure that price will drop a bit once the market gets flooded.

If you do sell at that price though, that brings the price of the phone down to £399, and at that price it is a steal.

The Pixel 4a is a great phone for £350, and this brings a bigger battery, faster CPU, 5G, wide-angle lens, 90hz screen, wireless charging, water resistance, and 2GB more memory for an extra £50 if you are able to offload the headphones.
Given that C++ is (mostly) as superset of C its not simply interesting its odd.
Did they not simply give the C program to C++? Are they claiming that the C++ compiler compiles C programs to slower lower perf binary.
Gell-Mann Amnesia (2018)
the google assistant was reasonable, but now it's become crap because of one minor change

and that is that it no longer beeps after saying "hi google", so no idea if it's actually processed the wakeup word

and then sometimes it no longer responds after commands, e.g. "set alarm for 8am", so you have no idea if it's actually done it

until a month or so ago you could work around this by uninstalling the updates, but now they've done something to the clock app so if you do that you can't set alarms with it at all

annoying
Perhaps. But publishing warnings and then saying, "Job done!" isn't very appealing either. (https://icc-ccs.org/index.php/piracy-reporting-centre/prone-...)
Discrepancy in pricing between North American Pixel 5 and European/International Pixel 5 seems to be because the North American version includes mmWave.
128Gb storage & no sdcard slot?
It crashes my Firefox Tab. I've seen similar crashes from Google store pages previously.
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