skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's just SQL.

And there are dozens of charting/visualization/business-intelligence vendors to do whatever you want beyond or on top of that SQL structure.
This is completely wrong, and nobody who works with data at any scale could possibly believe anything like this.

We literally run long term A/B tests with thousands of variations of what you're describing. The purpose of these tests is to measure the effect of losing some data. The tests show (to nobody's surprise) that each piece of data is useful. These tests tell us exactly how useful each piece of data is.

Honestly when I read comments like this I have to wonder, do you really believe that thousands of companies spend trillions of dollars a year for something that doesn't work? Maybe talk to somebody who works on this stuff a bit?
so what is stopping you from using a modern browser like firefox to view the site with javascript?
FWIW, I'm looking for a HA solution that will allow me to use WG instead IPSec for site to site connectivity from on-prem DC to public cloud.

So basically, something to replace this (as an example): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/vpn-gatew...
At first I recommend no tooling. Use your favourite editor and start. Once you have content you can figure out what tool(s) you (might) need. Let the content and needs drive the tools - you might find your use case change as you write.
Maps are here:

https://topex.ucsd.edu/grav_outreach/

Yes, water does follow the gravity. I'm not a climate person, and it's a complicated system, but as I understand it, new melt would be distributed evenly by mass around the globe, which means a larger volume of water at the equator due to higher temperatures there. My hunch in that changes in wind patterns and currents will be the more important effect though.
Sounds fun, I'm making an account. How do you pay? I see internet money and atm options.
Try one of the contracting companies (I know Epam hires a lot of Europeans), and they will contract you out through them to American companies. You’ll probably still get a local-based salary, but you can start building up some experience at global companies. From there it’s up to you how you want to leverage that experience. They do also try to relocate you with a L-1 visa if need be.
> We even have a president who dog whistled a terror plot against the governor of Michigan. Trump is a white supremacist and white supremacism is inherently a non fact based ideological stance, yet it leads to stuff like the terror plot.

It wasn’t a white supremacist plot. It was a bunch of anarchists (notice the flag in the background) who think Trump is a tyrant[1], who hate the police and everything related to the government and one of them even attended a blm rally.

> One of alleged plotters, 23-year-old Daniel Harris, attended a Black Lives Matter protest in June, telling the Oakland County Times he was upset about the killing of George Floyd and police violence." [2]

A good example of how every side has its disinformation.

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/131432655350...
[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/kidnap-plot...
> Try teaching non-elite undergrads sometime, and particularly assignments that require some sense of epistemology, and you'll discover that the vast majority of people have pretty poor personal epistemic hygiene—it's not much required in most people, most of the time, in most jobs.

I'm not sure what you mean by "non-elite undergrads" here.

Is it "undergrads from non-elite universities", or "undergrads from non-elite backgrounds", "B-student undergrads", or perhaps something else?
And that's your opinion. I find javascript quite enjoyable and easy to use, without producing errors. YMMV.
So, silly idea. What if, to work on the production database, you had to go into the special production room, colored in the special production color, scented with the special production perfume, and sit on a just tiny bit uncomfortable production chair.

Basically make it clear even to the caveman brain that things are different.
Anyone who knows tech reasonably knows Zoom does some "unscrupulous" things to provide a seamless VC experience. To me, it's a bit clear that unless you also control the underlying OS (even when you do apparently), they are doing whatever they need to get what can be considered basic UX needs of a VC app. Contrary to popular belief in places like HN, the average Joe isn't a dipshit, they really don't care about these lapses from Zoom and will very happily make these concessions evenn if they're fully educated on everything to know about security. I'm not a technotard and mostly know everything and I make the concession.

It's not even clear to me they're being genuinely unscrupulous anyway. This is like not trusting the government when they do mass surveillance but more benign. The majority of the population has decided they are not worried about it, right or wrong, they just want to get on with their life.

Keep complaining for sure, we need dissent, but don't argue that Zoom isn't good at what it does, the only argument might be that it's practices aren't ethical. You choose to use the web application it's your choice not theirs.
Now our consciousness has been raised where a lot more people are aware of all the layers of racism and how it impacts every part of society
> but I am not sure where you would draw it.

I am sure where to draw it: at using machine learning. How did I draw this line? I saw the disparate impact machine learning has vs traditional media, by sheer measurement of friction. Traditional media requires intentionality on the part of the target: picking up a newspaper, turning on a television and tuning to a station. ML on social media exploits key weaknesses in human psychology combined with unprecedented data collection to nudge individuals to read/believe/buy. This is wrong, it’s clearly wrong, and should be illegal.

The sort of slippery-slope arguments are necessary and important but should not paralyze us from taking action against it.
Valfaris is rated platinum on protondb, and it crashes on launch for me, same with Titan Quest, which is rated gold. Proton has been a godsend for gaming on Linux, but I don't put much stock in protondb beyond checking to see if a game is known to not run at all.
Even the cortical neurons of ferrets have special representation for phonemes from human language: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18247893/
> But it’s the system/culture we’ve got.

We wind up with a lot of political and business family dynasties despite the terrible incompetence of sons and daughters. Part of that is that families can operate totally without policies, that they are having horrible dynasty lawsuits because nothing is written on paper or litigated that way. Yet as long as they don’t sue each other, the lack of policy friction - a “liquidity” that may not show up as a dollar amount but as something else - makes the family dynasty surprisingly competitive.

Wouldn’t it be ironic that policies - specifically the hundred+ page markdown output kind of policies, not something succinct like I don’t know, the Ten Commandments or the Bill of Rights - make the corrupt family dynasty more competitive?
If you want to make money from your product eventually, you need to get good at building an audience. Start small. Blog posts about the problem your tool solves, post on Twitter and Reddit. It takes some time and effort but anyone can do it. Coding is the hacking part of been an indie hacker; the I die part is doing everything else (marketing, sales, etc).
You've just described me, a happy Linux user & gamer.

My 1440p 120hz ultrawide works perfectly with my 1080ti (which will be upgraded to a 3080 once there is some stock). Xorg and libinput both support disabling mouse acceleration so no issues there.

Thanks to Proton Glorious Eggroll I've been playing Doom Eternal, RdR2, H:ZD and many other non native titles for a lot more than 5 hours a week. I've also got my seperate VR box running on Linux with my Index which has provided hours of fun in HL: Alyx, Boneworks, and other admittedly more casual games like Beat Saber, Superhot, and Pistol Whip.

I do eshew all RGB though, maybe that makes me a filthy casual by some arbitrary standard, maybe you could add that to your gatekeeping list?
No. Modern javascript engines are compatible with 1.1, but the syntax of modern javascript is not.
That's understandable, but then it's kind of misleading to represent any of those professions as a curve on a graph, if the profession is constantly redefining itself.

But now I just noticed that the graph represents products and services, not professions or workers. So we're not talking about the internal cost structure of those industries, but simply their price. I might be mis-reading the whole thing.

Oddly enough the outstanding curves on that graph are ones where the "market" is an archaic mixture of private and public entities with little resemblance to free markets.
This is bad operations.

That it happened meant that there were many things wrong with the architecture, and summing up the problem to “these things happen” is irresponsible, most importantly your response to a critical failure needs to be in the mindset of figuring out how you would have prevented the error without knowing it was going to happen and doing so in several redundant ways.

Fixing the specific bug does almost nothing for your future reliability.
The problem is you need to read the article to find out the author is...young. Perhaps they assume that the title screens out those of a certain depth of experience. Like misspellings in Nigerian scam emails...
Amusingly, these old discussions include a New York Times
link to show the picture of the two engineers;
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/business/chip-makers-comp...
The article itself is about CISC v RISC, Intel v PowerPC (because Apple were about to transition to PowerPC). Since then of course Apple Mac transitioned to Intel but is now transitioning back to a different CISC architecture and you could write a similar article all over again.
I agree with the advice for authors not to spend time on formatting—leave that to the editor, book designer, and compositor—but that’s not necessarily a reason to avoid Microsoft Word, which despite its flaws, has extensive facilities for character and paragraph styles, including a Limit formatting to a selection of styles option that prevents direct formatting.

Indeed, many publishers are set up to accept manuscripts in Word documents as the input to their editorial and production workflows, which generally use other software for the actual typesetting and e-book production.
Exactly, good point. It is convenient short-hand term, and in the case of climate forcing tectonic activity, it works well, I think.
I have a lot of customers in remote regions that get an unreliable 3g connection - offline first is a great approach to consider in that regard
Could be out of politeness, but could also be they dont see it. People might read it and think it is really a good book for the target audience (which it probably is); they probably dont see themselves as the target audience. Also they read the whole book and maybe it was great for them, and their feedback was honest. My claim is the people who would benefit from it wont get past the title, but I have no idea how to validate this idea.
It could very well be a ‘here’s a check if you keep our names off your tongue’ situation. I have no idea though. I don’t read the Times/I use an addblock
I kept reading past that point and found that it's, so far, worth it. You won't necessarily find anything new if you do a lot of reading on the subject of workplace personal fulfillment, but you will find a reasonable restatement of what type of environment reinforces rather than erodes itself. I've definitely been in environments where I wish I could have shared something like this (but knew that if I did it would only increase the toxicity from others).
Is that absurd? Systems should prevent mistakes, unless the part needed to implement that is a hundred dollars or so? That seems like quite the walk-back. Courts order alcoholics to install these things, they're established available technology. What tradeoffs are you balancing here?
The point is $4/hour isn’t sustainable in part due to more-productive people bidding up the cost of living and in part due to almost everyone having better options for employment (or unemployment).
A good follow up to "HTML5 Hardware Accelerator Card" from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24806089
Thanks for your thoughts, Richard. I agree with a lot of what you're saying here. I would gladly pay 50-100USD/mo to be able to use a web built around quality UX rather than ads. Efforts like Brave browser are interesting. Here's to hoping we figure out something that works.
For those who're interested in learning more about the history and evolution of data infrastructure/BI - basically why and how it has come to this stage - check out this short guidebook [1] that my colleagues and I put together a few months back.

It goes into details how much relevance the practices of the past (OLAP, Kimball's modeling) has with the current changes in by the cloud era (MPP, cheap storage/compute, etc). Chapter 4 will be most interesting for HN audience: It walks through the different waves of data adoption ever since BI was invented in the 60-70s.

https://holistics.io/books/setup-analytics/
On the west coast, Straus butter (and other dairy products) are pretty easy to find and I think they are quite good. Their butter is high-fat, but it isn't cultured - locally made, cultured butter seems to be a niche for small craft producers and is harder to find than the European imports like Kerrygold.
Any issues with the privacy aspect of that data that's stored in multiple git repos? PII and such?
Can you please try to sell it on Amazon and tell us how that goes?

I wonder if you wrote a few seed pages per chapter on a contentious topic like ‘Why Bill Gates is funding the Coronavirus vaccine - and the answer is not good’ and released that book to a certain demo what your sales would be.
Hi ratherbefuddled,

We definitely recognize we have a lot of work to do on performance in general, and we're definitely trying. "fixing everything" is definitely part of our plans, but we'd also like to "fix whatever users find the most frustrating".

If any specific items stand out as the most frustrating please do let us know.
You should really compress them instead of dumping them raw into Git. LZ4 or ZStandard are good.
Another option than creating your own legal entity is to join a fiscal sponsor of open source projects, like Software Freedom Conservancy, Software in the Public Interest or one of the other open source foundations:

https://sfconservancy.org/
https://www.spi-inc.org/
https://flossfoundations.org/foundation-directory
> Honestly when I read comments like this I have to wonder, do you really believe that thousands of companies spend trillions of dollars a year for something that doesn't work?

Joking/not-joking. Have you ever been to the Bay Area?

Yes. Emphatically yes it is the case companies spend trillions of dollars unnecessarily.

We've seen this with people who didn't know how to build microservices and farcical "LMNOP" [1] type services that might as well be a joke. We've seen it with gigantically-valued unicorns that over-engineered tons of crap and hired too many people and still can't make a profit. We've seen it with CMOs and massively overpriced marketing technology because budgets and statuses are related. We'll see it with tons more iterations of this exact same affluenza.

The history of our industry is that the margins on software are so good that people can afford to do crazy nonsense.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=y8OnoxKotPQ
While I think data science is a very interesting field with a lot of beneficial applications it also seems to be the one that's right at the heart of a lot of the negative impact some tech is having on society right now. I seriously considered specializing in it for a while but ultimately decided it was too likely I'd be asked to work on things that make me uncomfortable.
Kudos, for the original work, the great write up in 2004 and really for the whole journey as it continues.
That would prevent innovations which could make bunker fuel more efficient or clean.
That's obviously disgusting and there's plenty of examples (Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan) who didn't do that. Korea never even fully locked down. Also, I'm extremely unhappy that my government let more than 200,000 people die at least 95% of which were easily avoidable.
I wonder how many of those companies in the proposed architecture have A16z as investors?
> Absolute value increases due to inflation

For a meaningless definition of absolute, where it coïncides with “nominal,” yes.
Is there really reason to believe that "porting the world" has gotten that much harder in the decade since RISC-V was released?
Looks like the "right angle" cutter is the Kaijirushi KHS Butter Knife

https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/FA-5162-Kaijirushi-KHS-Butter-...
I don't deny that voting matters. And I still vote for those who share my ideals.

But my point is that voting isn't everything - the government can do whatever they want in the name of national security. Which is an obvious problem, but something that they can scare monger people into agreeing with.
It's not software tooling, but Reading.

Start with Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.[0]

Then read more. Fiction, nonfiction, whatever you like. And when you think you've read enough, read more.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Writing:_A_Memoir_of_the_Cr...
Hi sheeeep86,

My original post did not mean to give the impression we think Confluence is fast - we do recognize that we have a lot of room for improvement.

The reason we're asking for feedback on specific areas that are annoying is that while we can work on making 'everything' faster, knowing which specific items may be of the most concern may allow us to focus fix those items first.

If you do have any feedback around such specific items we would be happy if you're willing to share it.
Speech in freedom of speech refers to the communication of ideas and opinions, not all communication. The term "freedom of expression" is commonly used to clarify this. Lying to your partner is not a crime. Taking their money under those circumstances is the crime.
I don't want to get between a Frenchman and his butter, but I just use a potato peeler for cold butter. I find it works well enough. I've also used a cheese slicer, but I found it harder to control the thickness.
Power(ful tools) can be wielded for good or evil, the courageous thing to do is to learn it AND act ethically, not shy away from it.

Otherwise the spoils of war go to the unethical evil because they are now unchallenged.
Honestly this is really spot-on. I think part of the problem is people have heard that javascript is bad and just expect it to be bad, so they never really try to learn it and just copy and paste something that works and maybe expand on the bad examples when they should just be learning how to use javascript.

Javascript requires some self-discipline, where other languages discipline you if you try to fuck things up yourself. It's kind of like a drunken sailor on leave going on a bender on-shore - the minute they leave the ship all bets are off. Some people just can't wrap their head around using weak/dynamic typing, because it loosens the rules. But that doesn't mean there aren't any rules.

I code in a dozen other languages and Javascript is still my favorite because it's so easy to use, no boilerplate, and it doesn't give me any "gotchas" because javascript actually does follow some very basic easy to understand rules. The people that don't bother to learn those rules invariably shit on javascript. It's not fair, it's not real criticism.

And practically all of the "examples" of bad javascript is almost always code that nobody should ever write, in any language, because it's just stupid to write code in those ways. But people think "aHa, aNoThEr 'gOtChA'" and the myth of javascript being somehow inferior continues. And to anyone who actually knows how easy javascript is to use, it just looks silly, pathetic, and obnoxious.
Parent comment has a point. If this production type replaces cement completely, then we'd need to know the delta in carbon emissions of the increased production of gelatin compared to the reduction of carbon emissions in cement to make a logical comparison.

You might be absolutely right that gelatin is "cheaper" than cement, but because prices don't incorporate externalities (carbon included) we can't use them for comparisons of this type.
As a point of clarity the article carefully articulates that it is focused upon white supremacy specifically and not the more general term racism. The distinction is important because one of those can apply to people of color where the other certainly does not, which is likely why the article was carefully specific.
But then you don't have good diffs.
Maybe so but I'm not really in a position to martyr myself professionally right now so I'm just avoiding it instead.
Having used one briefly (Feedvisor) several years ago, they attach a very heavy handed enterprise sales operation to a mediocre platform. A single digit percentage of sales is insane.

I got calls every few months for years afterwards trying to get me to try them again. They raised $30M+ and built out a strong sales team.
I've got my pitchfork.
How to create automated AWS billing reports
Gonna go out on a limb and say somewhere closer to the marginal cost of production and less close to 23 mil.
> Please don't use csv

Could you elaborate? I'm interested in the specific reasons.
Shift-control-v on windows pastes unformatted text. Not sure why you need an app.
My friend liked to photograph fire hydrants and door knobs.
Surprisingly interesting photo sets.
This reminds me of https://bootstrappable.org/, IIRC there is Lisp in some part of their Linux bootstrap process.
I actually really like this idea... but who am I kidding, it's a luxury I don't have time for when I've got to fix stuff.
The biggest shift has been towards data lake (store everything) away from data cubes (store aggregates). This makes it orders of magnitude easier to diagnose, debug, and assert the correctness of data.

So these trends aren’t in a vacuum, they directly support the issues you discuss.

> Most of the projects I've seen or heard of are just people taking the same old data ...

I don’t disagree with you here. But in my experience it’s about getting Frank in marketing to use the same numbers as everyone else.

When you have 5 different ads platforms that all take revenue credit for a single conversion and have conflicting attribution models, and none of them add up to what accounting says is in the bank account. That’s a hairy problem.

There are different flavors of that class of problem at lots of companies.
Hi vasco,

We have a lot of metrics, and we recognize that Confluence is not as fast or as good an experience as it should be.

However nothing beats user feedback - hearing specific feedback from users may provide us with specific areas that we can focus our work, on top of the work we're already doing.

If you have any feedback like that, we're hopeful you're willing to share it with us.
For a dad with 5 yr olds and without experience in Moomins, what books would you recommend starting with? Should they be read in order starting with "The Moomins and the Great Flood"?
This actually isn't asking much of the galvanometer. Commercial systems are generally 20-24 bits and have resolution in the 10-20 microradians range...100-1000 times more precise than we need.

But ultimately the control system has nothing more than input voltage to the galvanometers to steer them, and depending on the source of inaccuracy they may or may not be able to overcome it.
Has anyone ever bootstrapped first to a Forth and then to a Lisp?