skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to be fair: You are combining microservice characteristics and "using a single database" in your argument.

Please also consider that especially for smallish teams, microservices are not required to be the same as big corp microservices.

I have encountered a trend towards calling surprisingly many things non-monolithic a microservice. So what kind of microservice are you all referring to in your minds?

edit: orthography
Me too, plus PureText. The latter didn't always work for me, especially with the frequent Windows 10 updates lately.

I know many people happily use Ditto Clipboard Manager, but I just wanted a simple app which I could quickly tweak as needed.

It only strips the formatting if the Clipboard content is TextDataFormat.Rtf or TextDataFormat.Html, so far that has worked very well for me.
You could say the same thing about lots of knowledge though: AI, economics, behavioral psychology, crypto currencies etc.

I think most people would agree that there’s lots of positive applications that you could use your data science skills for. But if you can’t then good for you for staying out of the field.
I haven't seen the difference... In what ways is it degrading?
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Does the concept of "dategore" exist? Because this is it! For posterity, at the time of writing the title is

> Tim Ferris interviews Naval Ravikant (10-16-20)
This is not Japanese Only. I'm Belgian, and my mother (a boomer) has all of these. However, they are not 'tableware': they are never put on the table for a guest to be used; they are reserved for the cook's use only. The cutters also have notes on them like (25g,50g,...).

Might it be that this is just lost knowledge?
QE for 2008 recession will pale in comparison with QE for the pandemic.

22% of all US dollars that exist were created in 2020. Expect some serious inflation to happen in the next few years.

But we are still nowhere near Weimar levels of money printing, so that’s something. Except in places like Zimbabwe and Venezuela of course but that was happening before COVID.
I'd argue at this point ARM serves more value as an instruction set which isn't encumbered by the mass of x86 patents and historical legal baggage, thus meaning it's something that can reasonably be implemented by more than just two companies on the planet.

It being RISC is secondary to that.
It was never suggested to use a csv database, it was suggested that for small amounts of read only data a csv or other format file is a better option and I agree.
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Tom Scott made a mistake with a similar outcome as this article, but with an SQL query that is much more subtle than DROP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6NJkWbM1xk

By all means, find ways to fool-proof the architecture. But be prepared for scenarios where some destructive action happens to a production database.
What are the legitimate use cases for privacy from the authorities in other domains? What are the legitimate use cases for being allowed to speak to other humans without your voice being recorded in case the authorities want to know what you said later?

Fundamentally financial privacy is just privacy. People desire financial privacy for all the reasons they desire any other kind of privacy. It's certainly fine to make the collectivist argument that individual privacy is not worth the social cost of opacity, but the idea that this is true only in finance seems odd and difficult to justify.
I agree with the JSON suggestion, but what advantage is there to TSV versus CSV?

I have experienced pain with both characters (tab and comma), particularly when I am not the one creating the output file.
let's be honest, the fact that allowing flash would also allow webapps not controlled by apple to go on the platform was a huge factor.
> If you could pay someone $4/hour

What is wrong with you?
Also something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LocalTalk from early Apples...
If you've got a link, would love to read more!
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What's the story behind this company/job? Was it some sort of total dumpster fire?
Unlike Google whoever Valve seems to be in this for the long haul.

They can iterate round after round on this even if it doesn't become a billion dollar revenue stream in 6 months.
>> Almost no one provides tooling and platforms that address it

I think this is due to the nature of the mentioned companies are not being too common (yet?). There are tools and systems that you can use, especially from high frequency trading which has somewhat similar challenges. KDB+ and co. would be my first stop to check if there is something that I could use. The question is the financial structure and scaling of the problem, to determine if these tools are in game. There are other interesting projects in the space:

- https://github.com/real-logic/aeron

- https://lmax-exchange.github.io/disruptor/

Of course these are not exactly what you need, long term storage and querying (like KDB) is largely unsolved.

The other tools that you might be referring to by "most of the opensource platforms" indeed are not capable doing this. I spent the last 10 years on optimizing such platforms but it is not even remotely close to what you need, you (or anybody who thinks these could be optimized) are wasting your time.
> $4/hr but due to the Baumol effect nobody is willing to work for that amount.

No, it is NOT the Baumol effect that causes that. It's due to the fact that you cannot afford to live on $4/hr.
GPUs are pretty different, despite exposed interface being about the same C
Yours is not the right question. The use of money has always been assumed anonymous (not the property owned, that is a different thing).

Governments have a duty to collect taxes but do not have a duty to know anything about how people use their money.

Governments exist as a need not as something which has “rights”.
I guess if "as simple as possible but no simpler" then I'd agree.

> ...rather than [...] trying to fit a complex ISA to match the high level language you're running

Again agreed, that was the point I was making.
varies a lot. 100k would be a newbie. probably from 150 to 250++?
I have a contrarian take. The ones at the top wield very little power, and those who are 2-3 layers beneath them wield small nuggets of tyrannical power that, in the aggregate, translate to real unchecked - really, unaccountable - tyranny, but of a sort of purposeless variety.

This isn't some crazy conjecture. The book "What Washington Gets Wrong" convinced me.[1] The same phenomenon happens across government, even in the national security, intel and law enforcement areas. In fact, it even happens in corporate America, where the top level execs are fairly well aligned with the interests of the owners, and most of the bad apples are found in middle management to a step or so below the C-suite.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/What-Washington-Gets-Wrong-Misconcept...
Considering the amount of phones and tablets in the world, ARM's primary purpose right now, by a large margin, is interpreting web pages.

Consumers and even manufacturers are both focused on performance as a primary metric, not the size of an instruction set.
Isn’t one of the beauties of glass that it’s incredibly recyclable? (This is potentially wrong, I’m no expert) How does a material like this fare in comparison? Is it biodegradable? What about PVA and the bleach solution?
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Everyone hates them; they often are poorly run. But, in a complex, interconnected, and now remote world - I believe we need more bigger meetings not less. Just hear me out...
The first one doesn't even need much historical data. Unless you have some very unoptimized periodic jobs, the last few days or something is plenty.

The second can be done simply on something like Dynamo, CosmosDB, or your cloud-hosted NoSQL of choice. Heck, it can even be done on Aurora or vanilla Postgres + partitioning if it's <64TB.

The third can be done with any off the shelf cloud data warehouse software, at many petabyte scale. And even then, I'm sorry, but I just don't believe you that the product clicks over some large timeframe are historically relevant if your software and UI changes often.

All of these things mentioned have had extremely simple, boring solutions at petabyte scale for >10 years, and in some cases more than that. If you add a batch workflow manager and a streaming solution like Spark, that's like 3-4 technologies total to cover all these cases (and many more!)
I think we're hitting peak tech. All this "technical" knowledge just dates itself in a year's time anyway.

Eventually, you come to realise that the more tech you've got, the more problems you have. .

Now developers spend more time googling errors and plugging in libraries and webservices together than writing any actual code.

Sometimes I wish for a techless cloudless revolution when we just go back to the foundations of computers and is use plain text wherever possible.
It loads fine for me on the same browser/platform.
Barely a week passes without a japanese article.
Or maybe it was bought from Japan?
Smartphones. They started picking up critical mass by 2010. Within a couple years social sites in all corners of internet culture started going downhill in various ways whether Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, 4chan, etc.

The web had existed previously to that moment for 15 years, even with popular usage. It's nature changed significantly when people were no longer consciously sitting down at their desk to use the internet.
AIUI it's not pipelining but executing out of order is where the big win comes from, it allows some hiding of eg. memory fetch latency. Since data may or may not be in cache, it's apparently impossible for the compiler to know this so it has to be done dynamically (but I disclaim being any kind of expert in this).
This is the case even in eastern europe. Especially in older cities there was big rush to connect people with TV Cable in 90s and that gets reused for internet.

I suspect connections built in recent years are ethernet and if you want TV they do in through that other way atound.
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I'm on similar position as you, but I say systems are as complex as their designed made them and it's on you to change it.
Why are those days gone? I do it all the time in an organisation with 10,000 employees. I obviously agree with the parent poster in that you should only do such things with users that have only the right amount of access, but that’s what having many users and schemas are for. I don’t, however, see why you’d ever need to complicate your stack beyond a simple python/powershell script, a correct SQL setup, an official sql driver and maybe a few stores procedures.

I build and maintain our entire employee database with a python script, from a weird non-standard XML”like” daily dump from our payment system, and a few web-services that hold employee data in other requires systems. Our IT then builds/maintains our AD from a few powershell scripts, and finally we have a range of “micro services” that are really just independent scripts that send user data changes to the 500 systems that depend on our central record.

Sure, sure, we’re moving it to azure services for better monitoring, but basically it’s a few hundred lines of scripting that, combined with AD and ADDS, does more than a 1 million USD a year license IDM.
LargoLasskhyfv added a link with an awesomely detailed PDF.

I'll say two things here.

First, I'll still say "post film manipulation and processing may have enhanced imagery, and they were constantly modifying this gear from what I've read in that PDF."

Second, "Big Bird" was decommissioned in the mid 80s.

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/3662/1

There's no way it wasn't replaced with something else. What was that?

An example, is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen system, which wikipedia says was launched in the 70s, has multiple iterations, and is still being used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennen#Imaging_sensors_a...

Shows some of these versions, and blockIII seems to have very nice resolution. Launched in 92, supposedly.

And yet, as these all of the programs? I doubt it. For example "Big Bird" (KH-9) and KH-11 were used in parallel. I bet others existed too.

I'm going to say that throwing out "No, it couldn't be done" in the 80s is hard for me to believe. Was it done?

Well if not, it was very close to the 80s, as in the very early 90s.
You can stuff Haskell-drived bluespec into FPGA.
I'm thinking of the rock faces in "return to oz" and can't decide whether this is awesome, terrifying or both
Sometimes ambulances are occupied and taking a taxi goes faster. Especially if it's something which isn't immediately life threatening.

I once dislocated my shoulder while on a large trampoline and was unable to get up from my hands and knees due to the intense pain whenever the trampoline wobbled. The ambulance was redirected to more serious injuries three times. I was stuck in that position waiting for two hours before it arrived.
You might want to check out the report below. It should be a good explainer for importance of zero knowledge in context of blockchain (a bit more in context of scaling than privacy, but the fundamentals are the same). Our three cents to help explain why it is important.

[1] https://ethworks.io/assets/download/zero-knowledge-blockchai...
You call it what it is and people do not like it.

Maybe my opinion that the title is using "Newspeak" was not that wrong after all.
Unless you are planning to gun down some state censors, then I'm guessing you mean the first amendment.
I think it's more that they're trying to avoid association with the most obvious use case for GPT3. Generating spam, fake content, fake reviews, fake news.

It's whole purpose is generating unlimited amounts of believable fiction. Without tight control the internet would be overrun with GPT generated trash. Bans would be called for, just like what's happening with deepfakes. That's bad for business
You don't need to go 85 years back to judge current political parties, and that was not the point of my comment. The point is, US governance is fucked, and nobody will save you.
Very interesting read. I can understand the frustrations of both Pali and the maintainers.

A lot of projects that are core to the Linux desktop are in a similar state. Last I heard, libinput was still being maintained by a single person.
Same in other Western countries like The Netherlands and Germany. The cable network is from the time cable TV was rolled out (70s/80s). The phone network is older, and also more unreliable. VDSL and DOCSIS are mostly FttC though.

I believe EU demands people to be allowed to freely pick their own router. Whatever brand it is and whoever owns it you can put it near your demarcation point (in Dutch called ISRA for phone, AOP for cable, and FTU (English acronym) for fiber). This is usually in the same vicinity where gas/water/electricity enters house. From there you can wire your house with ethernet. Maybe add in a WLAN repeater here and there, proper cable management, and you're done.
There is also salted Kerrygold in Germany. But I think the wrapper is silver.
Butter dishes are commonplace everywhere. That's not what the article is mainly about though.
Why are there two non-contiguous blue pieces in the Z-order curve that are contiguous in the Hilbert curve? Surely, both curves are continuous.

Maybe it's that the "slash" part of the Z isn't drawn, undermining the continuity. Or maybe the thin slash is overwritten because the curve is not injective.
Two questions:

What guarantees do you have that a random gun store is going to deliver your vote to the proper authorities?

How can you be sure that all of the people using these boxes know they are handing their ballots to someone not involved in the election at all?
"Trello-like" in this case appears to be 99.99% Trello copy in terms of appearance.
It's pretty useful for data manipulation. I use it for very heavy lifting (millions of rows with A LOT of text manipulation, regex, and even some ML) with a Dual Xeon + 32 GB Ram and it's a beast. It takes some time to master, but I encourage you to play with it.
Tabs do not appear in common literature. They're easier to justify inputs not have them in order to avoid having a quotation or escaping mess.

Commas are _way_ too common.

CSV is an awful format anyway.
The UK may not be on "about the same" in a couple of months, we've just had the "spycops bill" where police and many other agencies will be able to commit crimes, without limitation as long as it's signed off.
This article makes me wonder about the shapes butter is sold in worldwide.

Everyone who ever looked up a recipe online knows Americans use those 113g 'sticks' of butter (this seems to be the exotic option), but it looks like most regions use bricks/slabs.

The Japanese ones look to be standardized on 200g.

A lot, if not most, of Europe seems to do 250g bricks, which often have a printed measure on the inside of the wrapper to help you cut off 50g pieces for baking.

Canadian butter seems to come in huge unwieldy blocks of 454g (four US 'sticks').

Any other form factors in common use?
> If you want languages to interface with each other it always comes down C as a lowest common denominator

Nope, "always" only applies to OS written in C and usually following POSIX interfaces as they OS ABI.

C isn't the lowest common denominator on Android (JNI is), on Web or ChromeOS (Assembly / JS are), on IBM and Unisys mainframes (language environments are), on Fuchsia (FIDL is), just as a couple of examples.
I was also baffled. However, if you follow the link to the "why we use docker" post you'll see the author is using a Mac and had difficulty before while following instructions written for Linux.

Data scientists using Macs for everything and sometimes needing to run Linux in a container to get work done is more common than you might think.
That whole ecosystem is a devexp nightmare. I try to stay away from it entirely having worked with it extensively.

Docker + Kubernetes are the biggest socially-acceptable hacks in the industry at the moment.
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I think one significant difference in these cases is access to alternative channels of information. Fir example when buying a property you are very highly reliant on the information you get from the vendor in making your judgement, you can hire a surveyor etc, but the owner occupier is in a uniquely privileged position. The same often goes for a party too a business transaction, especially with respect to their future intentions. In political discourse there are generally plenty of alternative sources of information and opinion though.

Also contracts and personal relationships are between two specific parties with defined responsibilities, but voting is not as direct and specific as that.
In crypto, eprint.iacr.org is where you want your paper to be - it's their own version of arXiv, so I'm almost a bit surprised this isn't published there.

If your paper is good, on eprint and you spread the word a bit, then it will get citations - often more than if you publish in a 2nd tier conference - and when it's popular enough then eventually one of the main conferences (journals are less popular in crypto) will accept it in some form. This happened among other things to several of Dan Bernstein's papers (the guy who invented curve25519 among other things).
SIM cards are widely sold at vending machines in airports and train stations in Japan. I believe that the ID requirement is waived if the SIM has limited validity, as these tourist-oriented SIMs do.
It is not the same C, it is a dialect full of extensions, and it only applies to OpenCL, which it was one of the reasons why it failed and forced Khronos to come up with SPIR, playing catch up the polyglot PTX environmnent of CUDA.

OpenCL 3.0 is basically OpenCL 1.2, which is OpenCL before SPIR was introduced.
I've tried to convince my colleagues to use MS Teams channels instead of chat groups, to increase searchability and spontaneous joining (rather than needing to be invited). They've mostly resisted because they prefer the interface for group chats.

MS Teams makes a substantial distinction between:

- group chats, which appear like any other chat interface (Whatsapp, FB Messenger)

- and channels, which appear as potential threads to be nested (which most chatters _hate_)

MS Teams also has much greater overhead for adding members to a Team, which is a prerequisite for looping them in on a @mention within a Channel. All of these are much easier and straightforward on Slack, but you're basically stuck once your Corporate IT Overlords have selected a Product.
Take a look and you'll understand it right away. It's organized with nodes and links. Nodes perform operations, and links transport data between nodes. You can arrange them visually as you please. There's even stuff like "metanodes" that allow you to put nodes inside, so you don't have to have a messy playground.

Most nodes (there are official and 3rd party nodes) do have error output, and there's a console to inspect what's going on.

You can also inspect data visually in most nodes.

Even someone who is not used to play with data, who doesn't understand consistency and yada yada will understand the advantages.
That the source is much larger I don't mind _so much_. But this recent thing mysql is doing worries me more.

ls -lah /usr/sbin/mysqld
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.1G Mar 26 2020 /usr/sbin/mysqld

1.1G binary.
Exactly. The slash part isn’t drawn, which is why a Z order curve is not considered continuous.
You mean taking a 7 week intensive code camp doesn't immediately grant me enlightenment?
ta, point taken
Yeah, my guess would be that the script got executed on prod server by, ups was I in that terminal window, accident! Localhost is after all the-local-host, no matter what server it's on. Better to also have clear convention regarding name of prod db name versus test db (i.e. "test_mysaas" versus "mysaas").

Plus of course using git with a hook specifically for preview versus production (i.e. "git push production") that way local specific scripts can be stripped even if in same repo.
I guess this would be one of the persons to ask:

[1] http://who-t.blogspot.com/
They say in the article that it's not the case.
The date need not be a lie. One might have moved file systems a few times, migrating files each time, and preserving time stamps.

Alternatively, if you find an early tape in a yard sale, you’ll want to keep creation dates of the files when you read in the data.

Those are ‘somewhat’ of an edge case, though.

And yes, it seems at least some file systems from before 1970 had time stamps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Met... says DECTape had, and that’s from 1963.
> To a gamer today, a windows license is cheap (maybe $10) and 'everything works'

TLDR: Many people don't trust Microsoft.

Full: New Microsoft seems really nice but (fortunately) they always keeps reminding us who they really are:

- Put ads on my start menu or login screen, even if I have the extra expensive "Professional" license.

- Poorly hidden attempts at strangling non-store distribution of open source software like Krita (discussed the other day).

- Inviting an open source developer of a popular packaging tool for a talk, developing their own and then ghosting him and launching their own.

- Relentlessly pushing Edge until they cave in and push Edge as a frontend to Chromium

- etc

Warning, slight hyperbole ahead:

Some people at Microsoft do some really great work (Azure, VSCode etc). Sadly for them they seems to have to fight another part of the company that desperately miss being despised and desperately miss the thrill of multiple ongoing high profile lawsuits for monopoly abuse.
Keep the dream alive, Linux customer base never grew beyond 2%, if they ever try this it will be an epic fail (pun intended).