skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also while we're picking on other DBs, another fun WTF I've encountered (this time in an external system): SQL Server stores timestamps to ~1/300th of a second resolution. This[1] StackOverflow question describes different behavior than I saw (it rounded differently), so apparently it's not even consistent. I'd assume across versions? IDK, never had time to look too deeply into this one either.

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/715432/why-is-sql-server...
TBF I spend more time painstakingly following stack traces around to figure out the root cause of some weird bug than I do learning cool technologies or devising novel algorithms. It's all "fun" or "interesting" in a certain (sometimes masochistic) sort-of way, but it definitely requires a certain mental fortitude. Even learning the coolest of new tech requires hours of slogging through documentation or dealing with development environment headaches.
This is really awesome. It reminds me of how artists like painters and musicians train by copying famous works. Or Andrew Ng said you should learn ML just be implementing a dozen papers.
Ah right, wasn't thinking of the Canadian "ou" diphthong or British vowels. Thanks for adding the IPA.
I'm afraid I don't. All attempts to learn more are telling me about track & field, which is not what I assume you're referring to.
At first glance the design of this feels very close to fathom, another privacy-focused analytics tool https://usefathom.com/
So your theory is tech was propping her up and without the constant support she dropped down to levels more inline with her competency?
Is there a reason why the fees (transaction and withdraw) are so high? Lack of competition? Compliance being expensive?
Go ahead, go through the last two weeks of headlines and show me three headlines about GM, Ford, Toyota, FCA, etc that are as negative as the typical Tesla headline.

The mainline auto makers get kid gloves compared to Tesla. But then again, auto press always knows who pays for the buffets and junkets.

I've been on jalopnik for what seems like a decade now, through the Univision years and the PE Spanfeller years, and the death of deadspin.
The Gravitational Pull of Simplicity
A data breach has rarely burned a company to the ground. The other option of using it for direct influence is probably a bigger threat anyway.
I ended up getting a Zero Gravity Recliner (used off of ebay) with the laptop tray attachment (also used). It saved me until I could get back to a standing desk.
One that I really thought was cool recently was UnderscoreOh.jl [1]. He has a real knack for finding crazy fun things you can do with julia syntax.

[1] https://github.com/tkf/UnderscoreOh.jl
It's true, you just have to go thirty minutes outside the city.
> doesn't have unlimited data

Do people still have limited data plans in 2020?
Hey John!

I'm curious; is there any possibility that Scheme will eventually abandon call/cc in favour of delimited continuations?
Link to free, self-hosted version: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics
This 1000%. If you're in a business-interactive role, ask about the business as time permits.

People like to feel like an expert, and will usually be happy to explain.

It will make you better (knowledge transfer to unrelated problems), your code better (domain knowledge), and your relationships better (recognizing your colleagues as peers with different skills, not just not-your-skills).
The lack of liquidity and the huge cuts that PI take certainly make it less profitable, but ironically the $800 limit might make it more likely that prices fall strongly out of touch with reality. (No whales to pull a market back into line). There is certainly money to be made there, but def not as simple as pushing a small edge.

Once some crypto markets really take off with much higher liquidity and larger pools of money in markets, it will be interesting to see if they make prediction markets more efficient, or whether by their nature they will always skew to systematic biases (overvaluing the rare event for example - there is a huge difference between something having a 0.01% chance of happening and a 1% chance of happening, which prediction markets rarely capture.)
It seems like their pitch is that it's a bit cheaper. Although it doesn't have most of the features Heroku has... nowadays they have some pretty great stuff, like a managed Postgres database connected to Kafka.
> What stops foreign firms from buying out large swaths of American tech after it has been broken up

Why? They are way overpriced. If chinese or russians wanted to compete worldwide they could fund it much cheaper locally. Besides a lot of of their value is in the network effect / lock-in, not on the software itself. And why would they invest in a company that would be ultimately under control by the US administration.
Something sort of like this already exists shipped with Excel in the form of Power Pivot, which stores data in an embedded database inside the Excel workbook, and is supposed to scale up to 2GB and hundreds of millions of rows.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/power-pivot-power...

As you might see from that link it's semi-integrated with the Excel interface, but the differences in the underlying model show through in some ways (like not being able to edit individual cells or use VBA)
The descendants of Vikings are scattered all over the western world, including millions of people in the UK and the US.
Show HN: A C11 R-tree library
> That seems somewhat opposite to the point of PaaS, no?

Why would that be true? I thought the point of a PaaS was getting a Platform - as a Service. I don't interpret that to mean having no control or limits on potential costs. To me a PaaS is about not wanting to manage a the metal or infra under the app. Which i don't think is misguided or inaccurate.

To look at it differently: I am a customer to someone. I am a customer who wants to buy a product that manages all of the infra for my application. I also have a limited budget, and the notion of an unlimited budget is an instant no for me.

Call the XaaS whatever you like, but my motivation is clear. Maybe DO doesn't want me as a customer (if what you say is true about PaaS), but i think there's opportunity there for a new XaaS.
Python + Flask[1] maybe?

Or, as far as that goes, for something as simple as what you're talking about, I don't see any particular reason not to just use PHP if you already know it.

If I were building this for myself, my first instinct would be to use Groovy + Grails, but if memory was a limiting factor, given that JVM apps can be a bit memory intensive, I'd probably go with either Python or PHP.

[1]: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/1.1.x/
I Did the Surveys on My Receipts for a Month and Ended Up Broke and Bloated
depends on what study you look at, Google Analytics is installed on everywhere from 50% to 85% of all websites on the web. that may not be a big issue if Google wasn't also the largest advertising company on the web.

a blog post that helped "launch" Plausible earlier this year was "Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website" https://plausible.io/blog/remove-google-analytics
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=elixir

Now you may say Stackoverflow isn't a good measurement. In Tiobe Elixir hasn't made it to the top 50 https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

There is little reason for me to believe Elixir is before it's peak, the data is showing otherwise. Elixir's contemporaries (Rust / Go / Kotlin) are at a totally different place usage wise. So I tend to think this is it for Elixir, it's all down hill from here. If you have data showing otherwise please let me know.
Nice work. Now, if only OLED or LCD push buttons were widely available so we could change the logos on the fly...

PS. Ye cannae be a 'bit unique' ;-)
To paraphrase someone I know, "once they run out of criminals, they'll just start catching people they don't like".

Once they have this ability, it will be much harder to make them give it up.
Lack of competition and honestly I think they just have high costs. Payment processors like Stripe and PayPal don't like dealing with this stuff because the fraud+chargeback rates are so high. This leaves you with the expensive niche providers.
So it's what - easier to buy? Can be managed from the same web site that you use to manage your droplets, instead of having two UIs?
I'm at the moment looking forward to it. I'm just having some trouble learning other people's code and navigating it, but i guess that's a skill you have to develop by doing it.
I only read about GNOME what's with Plasma?
Cruise ships dismantled for scrap after pandemic sinks industry
How does Heroku and these app hosting services handle updates to the underlying OS and other dependencies?

Do they only patch non-breaking updates? Or are you on their schedule to ensure your app will run on the latest version?
Diego from DFINITY here...

I am here to answer any questions people have. In showing BigMap we intended to highlight three things for folks:

1. DEVELOPER EASE - This is a concrete example of what we mean by being able to build "without databases" from the developer's POV. This is an example of how we see the developer experience actually improving from a protocol-based compute with blockchain underneath... this is very counter to people's expectations working with blockchain so we like to say this ;)

2. STORAGE COSTS - We are showing we can host data on-chain (inside the Internet Computer) with costs you would expect from a serverless compute platform. While I cannot speak for ALL projects, it would cost "hundreds of thousands or millions" to store so much data in Ethereum, while only a few dollars in the Internet Computer.

3. UPLOAD TIME - As you can see at timestamp 7:55 (https://youtu.be/ylL4cZG2TiE?t=476) in the demo, Sasa had his canister seed such a large amount of data from within the canister (for the purposes of the demo). In practice, each subnet can receive MBs per second worth of UPDATE calls so it would take minutes to upload hundreds of MBs as he showcased. This is still orders of magnitude of the days (or weeks) it would take in traditional decentralized compute.

Hope that helps!
No questions to be answered by PR that might invalidate the hype from tweets* long forgotten that "motivated" buyers and investors.
*Tweets are non binding, we reserve the right to keep it at hype.
I am not sure why caution in a pandemic is a controversial point but I'll bite.

Basically on top of lung damage, SARS-COV2 can also cause blood vessel and cardiac tissue damage, there are multiple cases of myocarditis post-infection.[0]

Most of the symptoms are hard to study like shortness of breath or fatigue. Unless you have a prior VO2max study it's hard to _prove_ that you are worse off post infection but that is exactly what is happening with athletes being infected (loss of VO2max, which pretty much is a loss in peak performance for many athletes).

Another aspect is that a loss in cardiac output or lung capacity is likely also a loss in life expectancy but it is the type of thing you would need decades to prove.

My point is, with the information we already have the sensible approach is to use caution rather than trying to be stoic about it.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32747875/
Google has been doing this for years. Look at the Android icons for all of their "Play" apps. They're all named "Play xyz" and have an almost identical icon.

Play Games is a green play button.

Play Movies is a red play button.

Play Music is an orange play button.

Play Store is a multi-colored play button.

It's horrible UX.
A very very good example of correlation != causation.
The Erlang VM lets you move actors from your local computer to a different cluster transparently for the caller.

The author seems to be thinking it can be transparent at the method call site, but it’s not really the case: when executed locally, pure functions are guaranteed to return (unless hardware limitations), while remote execution necessarily brings the network issues with it; pure functions could now fail for network reasons, but only when running elsewhere.

Erlang works around this by forcing you to think of calls to actors as messages and to deal with all the network issues that come with it: works both locally and non locally.
Someone’s been reading their Neal Stephenson.. :))
Google rebrands G-Suite to Google Workplace
Both lack of competition and the fact that PI had to have some limits in place to skirt gambling rules in the US. Interesting to see where lines diverge on PI vs like a Euro book for some things.

Definitely often arbitrage plays possible if one is on PI and lives in a jurisdiction where they can bet on politics legally. Though again the small limits and big cuts make a lot of those plays not worth it.
How many roofs of cars from those manufactures were torn off during the drive home from the dealer?
Headline is clickbait.

There's no evidence that storks deliver babies vs storks being born alongside babies, or babies creating storks, or that storks impregnate mothers.
They call it the Troost Line for a reason unfortunately.
If Reddit is their marketing, then it failed on me yesterday. Reading about the brand new Model Y having its sunroof come off on the drive home from the showroom finally confirmed that the build quality is not worth stretching my wallet for.
This is a pretty good idea! The 538 people have mentioned before that they've had trouble with people misunderstanding probability (many people, apparently, believe that things which have a 20% chance of happening will never happen and those with an 80% chance will always happen). Their current solution to this problem appears to be some sort of cartoon fox, but I think this illustration works better.
Even the term "Viking" seems shrouded by time and their cultural influence today seems outsized to their relatively short <300 year period of influence.

The etymology of "viking" is uncertain. In the Middle Ages it came to mean Scandinavian pirate or raider, while other names such as "heathens", "Danes" or "Northmen" were also used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vikings#Etymology
It was my bla-blah, so please read it as etc-etc, and if you feel offended by that and by my tone, I apologize. But it would be fair if you also excused my huge disappointment after following these exact ideas, spending days and finding out that they do not work or are completely non-viable in vivo. If any css loving guy implemented the puzzle above (and a half of other common issues) as a library that could be simply added to a job-grade project, they are welcome to share it (or sell, such an easy $$$). I've been in these discussions and done what was suggested, that's why I listed all these reasons word by word, before anyone had a chance to repeat them, and that's where my criticism comes from. I just cannot sit here and silently watch how they praise a thing that is not remotely as good as is claimed. How many man-centuries have to be spent until we all admit the undeniable?
I can only repeat myself. If you are US based privacy is a literal oxymoron for you. Not saying that's not the case anywhere else but it's especially bad for US and it's biggest allies (Saudi Arabia and Israel).

Again go ahead give me all the down it's.
Another one that's forward looking: https://github.com/tkf/Mutabilities.jl
The problem Hanford has with the tanks is that back in the day they didn't really worry too much about what they were dumping into the tanks, or document it. This led to materials inside the tanks reacting and making it that much harder to safely empty them out.

Years ago they had to install special ventilation around some takes due to the contents producing flammable gases.

In hindsight, of course, it's not surprising that even the double-walled tanks face issues with corrosion. Vitrification is the best process they've been able to come up with, but that's not a fast thing to do.
I saw the compuserve email address at the top - flashback. I wonder if the stats have changed since 2000, when the paper was written.
Apple's T2 chip has an unfixable vulnerability that could allow root access
You have a right to be suspicious, but to be fair, this isn't from nuclear energy. It was from tritium weapons research and production. Hanford was one of the sites of the Manhattan project, in the infancy of nuclear experimentation.

The tanks mentioned in this article are containing stuff that, frankly, nobody knows exactly what it is or how to dispose of it.

Modern nuclear reactors have been designed and built with your concerns in mind for at least 40 years. All the "modern" operating reactors have no known end of life.
They also emit less radiation than a coal plant. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...
Most servers have chipkill ECC that can survive an entire 4-bit chip going bad so that's more powerful than classic SECDED. I don't know how often chipkill kicks in though.
In language learning there's something called the "Input hypothesis" which states that we learn languages primarily by reading and listening (consuming input), rather than production of language.

The reasoning is that when you produce output you are by definition producing something at your own level, so little improvement occurs. When you consume input (and transcription is a great way to do it), you are consuming input of a native speaker - or in the case of Jazz, a master player - which is at a much higher quality level than what you could produce yourself. So input drives the learning process.

The exception is for motor e.g. pronunciation or playing technique, which do benefit from practice.
Very cool. I'll definitely give it a test spin. I've been a big fan of PaaS but Render / App Engine / Beanstalk fall a bit short on dev ux. This looks the most promising. If you can add multiple regions and wildcard ssl, you'll solve 2 big problems we have with Heroku.
"Protect the kids" has been a meme for some time now. It's a dead horse being beaten in the afterlife. Surprisingly, it still works.
I think a lot of people who didn't get covid are also experiencing more anxiety and lethargy than before. Maybe what you are experience is much more severe. But 2020 in general might be partly to blame for your symptoms.
I really want to use lenses. The idea of a definition that allows lossless translation from one data representation to another is so elegant. But I wonder if it's a mathematical ideal that doesn't match up with real world problems? I thought to apply the concept of a lens in my problem domain, converting engineering files to machine readable config files, but the reality is the process is more like combining multiple inputs to form an output, which may not contain all of the input data. So I'm left applying some tricks (including unnecessary data in the output/input) to make the process act like a lens. And it's pretty error prone.

Are there applications for lenses that really allow lossless translation in both directions? Or am I misunderstanding the concept in some fundamental way?
thanks! we're big fans of open source so wanted as permissive licence as possible.

one of the things we spend a lot of time thinking about is how to make our project sustainable while still being as open as possible in everything we do.

a bit more details in this post "How to pay your rent with your open source project" https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding
I dig it I just wish it showed WPM and accuracy real time!
Yes, that's what makes it cheating, rather than good parsimonious design that intellegently reuses preexisting resources.
Right. Imagine if they instituted that policy when there were only 500 of them. Maybe even offered a $1000 reward. They couldn't afford that today, but this other place should do all of that right now.
The author has a zero sum view of how companies function: everyone is pitted against everyone else for a larger slice of a fixed pie. I find Neils Pflaeging's positive sum three network model more accurate and more actionable, see https://www.hrps.org/resources/people-strategy-journal/fall2...
To be clear, I had no deployed resources, but was still charged as if I had. As it turns out, it's impossible to cancel the "standing charge" without recourse to support.

There's a difference between load balancing of shared resources and (what I believe must be) deliberately deceptive practices. A customer-centric company would send an email to notify you of this kind of over-charging.

It's premeditated and dispicable.
For those interested, Scheme for Max lives here:
https://github.com/iainctduncan/scheme-for-max

It will be seeing new releases this semester as it's now my Masters in Music Tech thesis project at the University of Victoria, working with Dr Andrew Schloss. I plan to have full support for running the Common Music algorithmic composition toolkit in Max/MSP this year.

I have also used S7 in a Juce applications, which is what the normal version of Common Music does in its "Grace" host and Christos Vagias has been using it in iPlug 2 for VST plugin development.
I'm not an AWS expert by no means, but from what I've played around with it it's miles away from something like Heroku where you just have a two-line config file in your Github repo, you point Heroku to the repo and say "deploy whenever there's a commit that passed the CI/CD pipeline).

Or from this here DO innovation either.
I mean, they have a hosted service you could just pay for if you're worried about KTLO time
Bootstrapping a Candle Company to $25k
Yup! To learn music, cooking, martial arts, etc., you start by following someone else to build the muscle memory on doing the skill. As a follow-up, my own research [1] on retyping code showed students earned higher grades and submitted less erroneous code. Replicating technical skills is a common practice technique that seems to have been "lost" in current CS education.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3373165.3373177
Getting a high revenue multiple isn't a bad faith assumption. my PR agents would push me to write similar articles and file
it under "thought leadership".

It would be interesting if other people had a similar experience. The end.
Yes, white flight was real. One kid I went to school with moved immediately after he had a knife pulled on him, but I don't know any of the details so can't say if it was race related. Our own family moved about a year later. If I had stayed in that house I probably would have went to high school with Prince, but if I checked the yearbook of the suburban school I graduated from I doubt I could find a single black face. I never heard those stereotypical comments you speak of because there was nobody to speak them about.
Sort of. On Linux, have you tried toplev? https://github.com/andikleen/pmu-tools

It uses CPU performance counters to show things like ITLB_Misses or MEM_Bandwidth. It won't show when you're waiting for GPU/SSD/etc because those aren't visible from CPU performance counters. I'm not aware of a single tool that will do everything, unfortunately.

Also, this isn't a "benchmarking suite"; it's a tool you can use to instrument whatever load you're running, which I'd say is better. It's often used to improve software but could also identify if faster RAM will help.
I was guessing KNative, which powers Google Cloud Run.

https://knative.dev/
In my opinion, the most important section (and one I did not know about before) is:

> PredictIt places a limit of $800 on your position in any one bet. At the market level, this means that you can no longer rely on small numbers of intelligent people to fix market prices for you... If you face a 35% tax rate, and think Trump's chance to win is literally zero, after investing $800 you end up with: [equation] = $1049.44

> making a profit of about $250 in exchange for knowing with absolute certainty that an event a prediction market has at a 40% probability is guaranteed not to happen. This is not sufficient to merit dedicating time and effort to research.
Middle East from Above