skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple, you don't make VC level returns from a new language, it is a hammer for a construction worker. A good living can be made making a new hammer, but it is not the kind of funds a VC is chasing. They want a much larger return and market. Languages are a special kind of tool, which doesn't have a known replacement cycle, it happens usually based upon need so it is hard to even predict. C# and the .NET languages were the closest we have recently that I can think of, where a corporation took the focus to build a new language, but that was to the end of putting more people on their OS and platform, not to make money off just the language.

In the end, languages are not sellable, developers & companies won't pay for a new language. Libraries you can make an argument have more potential to be a fundable product, but in the end, the market doesn't exist where you can see a multiple a VC wants to see on their investment. Library companies are usually for profit and bootstrapped or funded by close sources and not VC.

My personal opinion (which has some nuance on this issue). I think I could argue most SaaS products are just an extension library that tacks on some UX or services (e.g. vendor management) to justify their cost which helps turn them into a VC fundable product. Of course not all SaaS fit my point, but so many do. Even things like IFTTT, Zapier, segment etc are just libraries which you never own and they add some component (or automate some process) to justify their costs. SaaS can be super valuable, I am not bashing them, just pointing out how I think people made "libraries" VC fundable.
Picked by people who play the lottery.
Starlink will never() directly compete with most of the in-ground Internet providers. Even with tens of thousands of birds up, the physics just don't allow the kind of bandwidth density that cables do.

) However: never say never!
It will not make much if your phone company doesn't do the same, and stops accepting roaming requests from rogue countries.

Somebody should also punch Google in the face for building in an "espionage API" into Android: reading sim card serial, imsi, and imei without even a notice. I doubt the thriving market of SS7 interceptions would be anywhere if not for Android creating a market for such data.
Ha, you're right. Leaving the mistake in. Appreciate the correction. I was going to do perfect squares but switched to powers and didn't relabel. :facepalm:
Hi! I work at Materialize.

I think the right starter take is that Materialize is a deterministic compute engine, one that relies on other infrastructure to act as the source of truth for your data. It can pull data out of your RDBMS's binlog, out of Debezium events you've put in to Kafka, out of local files, etc.

On failure and restart, Materialize leans on the ability to return to the assumed source of truth, again a RDBMS + CDC or perhaps Kafka. I don't recommend thinking about Materialize as a place to sink your streaming events at the moment (there is movement in that direction, because the operational overhead of things like Kafka is real).

The main difference is that unlike an OLTP system, Materialize doesn't have to make and persist non-deterministic choices about e.g. which transactions commit and which do not. That makes fault-tolerance a performance feature rather than a correctness feature, at which point there are a few other options as well (e.g. active-active).

Hope this helps!
According to the article was supposed to average 1200 visitors per day, which is somewhere between roadside attraction and 1M population city zoo level. Seems a bit oversold in the article.
You worked as a chef and used a single timer in Siri and were happy with that? How?! (Siri doesn't support more than one concurrent timer)
I think that they meant that sequence is often picked by human players of the lottery. (Hence the 20 winners sharing the prize this week.)
In many cases, it’s not their money. I also think success can breed a mindset where people trust their first impressions. Then, because they are busy, they rely even more on that gut check.

Humans regularly overestimate what they know, and how well they can project people’s behavior forward.
Also assuming you don't do any post processing tricks locally to accommodate recent movement. I don't think we've explored vr thoroughly enough to know what's actually possible.

Edit: An no reason we can't stick GPUs on an airplane, they aren't heavy.
I would say even in a shifting landscape of different tools/frameworks, the differences are mostly aesthetic, and the fundamentals mostly carry over.

For instance, at various stages in my career, I've done professional work in a lot of different languages and ecosystems: c/c++, objC, Java, Node.js, Swift, React, Rust - and each one of these has it's unique features, strengths, and weaknesses, but I think in general the more different tools you use, the more you see how much they have in common.

For instance, when I pick up a new framework or language, I'm looking for the same basic things: like how does the build system work, and how do I make an http request, how do I optimize for performance, and then I'm generally plugging the new tool into the same design patterns I've been using for years.
Yeah, he's a Trump supporter. That he labels this past election as 'fraud' is 'meh'. There are plenty of people (on the right, but especially on the left) that call out election fraud (from voter suppression, to illegals voting, to Russians hacking voting machines etc.) after every election.

Where is this coup support?
How do you cook them?
>> Amazon S3 delivers strong read-after-write consistency automatically for all applications, without changes to performance or availability, without sacrificing regional isolation for applications, and at no additional cost.

So they claim performance and availability will remain same while claiming strong consistency. I was confused at first but then “same” availability isn’t 100% availability. So it indeed CP.
S10+
Obligatory SMBC webcomic about rubber ducking: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-rubber-duck-method
Windows 98 themed webshop, including playable games
The Quest 2 can deal with most of that (including passthrough), but yes, the movement range would be a challenge. You'd need to rely on close gestures or controls.
Thankfully they didn’t use just any “machine learning” nor even “AI” but “advanced machine learning AI”. Phew!
It depends on how many samples. The odds that this specific drawing would yield this result should be one in 42 million, but the odds that a lottery somewhere would yield this result in our lifetime is substantially greater.
Stop slacking, start rocking: Why we built Rock for a distributed workforce
Stripe Capital is now available for platforms
"Here's a dreadful remix."
Nuffield will do you a private antibody test for about £60.
>Govt will fine you 3.x

Pakistan's average salary [1] is about $15,000 usd annually. Three times that would be less what an software engineering intern makes in Boston [2]. Maybe just add the government to your payroll and call it a cost of doing business?

[1] https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/pakistan

[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/boston-software-engineer-...
> Competitions resulting in multiple winners are rare, but this may have something to do with this particular sequence.

So if you're going to play the lottery understand that the EROI is actually lower on patterns that humans may follow (like 5-10, birthdays etc) .
Kubernetes is deprecating Docker support
Excuse me, but what about prolonged periods of depression? I am hoarding an appropriate amount of resources specifically to not suffer when things go south. This also implies a different than usual choice of assets (at most a very small allocation to the S&P500 for me; I am not looking to get rich, but to survive).
And they aren't making a profit on it. I think it will last a bit longer though - shutting down GCP would mean admitting a huge defeat.
That idea is great, but the SS7 network was never built to even understand those concepts. Some of the equipment could be updated, but a vast majority of systems would have to be replaced. Getting telco companies to agree to things like that is not even conceivable. It would take some international political groups to push for it. Maybe I am just jaded from my telco background, but even when an entire telco company agrees to implement a change, it rarely gets completed.
I would add self-enhancement to this. I recently started to exercise with rings and go on deeper math, and every progress is very rewarding. I think this apply to anything one may choose.
Your proposed solution creates its own host of problems. Someone can't vote in a state unless they are residents of that state, subject to the laws and jurisdiction of that state. For example - what does it mean for DC residents to vote in, say, Virginia, for a Federal election. Who defines the Congressional districts? Do you pre-dictate to Virginia that it gets a Congressional district that matches the boundary of DC? What if that district has radically more or fewer residents than other districts in the state?

I'm seriously considering your proposal and not mocking it, but I don't think it's any more or less sensible, on its face, than creating a new "state". Note, I put "state" in quotes because I don't see why we can't dictate in that state constitution that the state is administered by Congress.
You are simply raising the fundamental difficulty with blockchains. How do you know what is the true chain in an adversary environment (the internet)? You gave us the question and no answer
Anecdotal, but I’ve never had any problem like this with Spotify. I’ve been a user for about 10 years now.
I disagree. The Venn diagram version positions satisfaction as contingent on things you cannot possibly control ("That Which the World Needs" and "That Which You Can be Paid For"). This is a recipe for perpetual unhappiness and dissatisfaction for most.
I've been playing around with a Nest Hub Max, and with that you can pause/play a video by holding your hand like a stop sign in front of it. Kind of gimmicky, but occasionally useful.

Was also curious about your use cases on the phone (aside from ad skip), and they actually worked for me. I'm using a pixel 4, though wouldn't think that'd make a difference.
"Googlers have the right to participate in protected concerted activities" is not a personal political opinion, it is the law.
So this brings up a question I've long had, but didn't want the distraction of researching: Is there an easy way to get to some point in a user's timeline? e.g. first tweet, or November 1, 2020?
The "legal obligation" is fictive, but corporations infamously do these things.

E.g. Ralph Nader:

> Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile is a landmark non-fiction book by consumer advocate Ralph Nader, first published in 1965. Its central theme charged car manufacturers of resistance to the introduction of safety features (such as seat belts), and their general reluctance to spend money on improving safety.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

Check out what GM did:

> In response to Nader's criticisms, GM attempted to sabotage Nader's reputation. It "(1) conducted a series of interviews with acquaintances of the plaintiff, 'questioning them about, and casting aspersions upon [his] political, social, racial and religious views; his integrity; his sexual proclivities and inclinations; and his personal habits'; (2) kept him under surveillance in public places for an unreasonable length of time; (3) caused him to be accosted by girls for the purpose of entrapping him into illicit relationships; (4) made threatening, harassing and obnoxious telephone calls to him; (5) tapped his telephone and eavesdropped, by means of mechanical and electronic equipment, on his private conversations with others; and (6) conducted a 'continuing' and harassing investigation of him."[12]

> On March 22, 1966, GM President James Roche was forced to appear before a United States Senate subcommittee and apologized to Nader for the company's campaign of harassment and intimidation. Nader sued GM in November 1966 for invasion of privacy.[12][10] He won the case on appeal in January 1970 and was awarded $425,000, which he used to establish the Center for Auto Safety, a non-profit advocacy group. He went on to lobby for consumer rights, helping drive the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air Act, among others.[13]

You can't make this stuff up!
Did you try please? or tangential for me?
Not sure if the implementation is in rg or zsh, but that combination produces cmd-clickable file names for me.
This means it's good sarcasm!

The best sarcasm lies on a ridge, you cannot tell if it's sarcasm or not.
Using a laptop isn't safe either. It's batteries might literally explode in your face.

Happens extremely rarely though.
They should have used blockchain.
Also, the main purpose of a vaccine is herd immunity.

If a large enough majority of the population become immune that we achieve herd immunity, that will still protect the minority of people for whom the vaccine didn't work.
For you maybe.

> Hey Siri, set a timer for 13 minutes

> 30 minutes and counting.

> Hey Siri, set a timer for thirteen minutes.

> oh you already have a timer running, do you want me to change it?

> yes

Also I have set timers and lock the phone ‘too early’ and the timer was lost
CSS `font-display` for slow connections
What if you said, "Alexa play Ok Google Play Music"? Might be a scenario when both your Alexa and Google devices (e.g. android phones, etc) would start play music unintentionally.
Trump went against several sacred cows: tech, CIA, FBI, corporate news, military machine constant wars. I don't suspect we'll see any public negativity from major politicians towards those for a couple more decades, if in my lifetime.

Biden is a company man, through and through. He's a lifer. Expect more of the same ole, same ole that got Trump elected in the first place. He's the "too big to fail" first choice.

I hope I'm wrong, but I wouldn't put money on it.
The mortality rate is much higher than that, in the US it's 1.9% based off the individuals identified. And that does not capture the significant amount of people with severe, long standing side effects. Many people have had months of decreased lung capacity and cardiovascular problems post covid recovery.

Beyond all that, these drugs are being rolled out to the most at risk group, those that have a mortality rate higher than any risk rate that was not captured by a smaller sample size of the test. Unless you're elderly or a medical worker, you won't have the option to take the vaccine until millions of other do. I'm getting pretty sick of you people whining about nonsense.
It's 40,000+ people. What else do you want?
I like how article URLs often have random numbers at the end of them. The current linked article has "55154525":

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-55154525

Would be just a lovely Easter egg if someone intervened and updated it to be "world-africa-5678910"
I was surprised to get an invite with an address smack in the middle of Seattle. I've been tempted to bring it up as as failover for Centurylink, but it's still a bit pricey for novelty (about all it provides compared with the alternatives at this address).
The Mythical “Fast” Page
Marc Levinson's book The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger [1] is a good source. Many people, including a very vocal minority of HN commenters, subscribe to a romanticized view of nature. Steven Pinker refers to this as the Noble Savage [2] in his book The Blank Slate [3]. Personally, I think Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and Charles Darwin's Tangled Bank are both manifestations of the same marvellous mechanism: emergent order.

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691170817/th...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate
Dengvaxia Controversy
They still do have lactose though. I’m lactose intolerant and even a little butter used for cooking causes me to bloat up and gain 5-10 lbs within 30 minutes.

Some cheeses are supposedly lactose free, but seem to cause the same effects.
There's a clear objective difference between judging output vs secretly watching an employee
To expand a bit on that comment, 46% said that they would take the vaccine while 26% said that they wouldn't. The numbers in August were 36% and 37% respectively.

Source: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/snabbkollen/novus-fler-vill-ta-co...
Mate! It’s closed as we’re in tier 3.
It's the vodka
Further, we can’t be sure whether the downvotes were for disagreement with the main point vs the inflammatory wording.
I was talking with my brother about this, and he called it “intellectual hedonism”. Never really thought about it that way, but it’s not entirely incorrect.
Half the nation may have voted for him but referring to the orange man in a way that does not also signal that you disapprove is a one way ticket to down-votes on the orange website.

It's a really fine line to walk for those who are inclined to do so.
The issue here is the misleading headline. Instead of, "Microsoft apologises for feature criticised as workplace surveillance", the headline should read something like, "Microsoft changes workplace surveillance software after outcry".
Agree on all point. Especially with Ethereums great innovations in marketing. Sadly their technical innovations are lacking beyond smoke and mirrors
It would have been sillier to not have played those numbers and won nothing ;)

On a more serious note, if the EV of a lottery is positive, a winning strategy must be to only play unlikely numbers.
Fuck what she used the tool for. At my job (and most jobs, I would think), if you check in any superfluous code, you’re going to be seen as a bad coder. Regressions are real and are highly embarrassing to both the company and you.
Not sure why you are being downvoted. You've (correctly) pointed out that the parent comment has constructed a strawman to punch at, rather than the actual events.

Arguments of the form, "Person did X. Imagine if they had done Y! (Where Y is some obviously unethical thing.)" are fallacious and they lead the discussion to useless dead ends. The point is that the person did do X, and NOT Y.
HN hates lazy comments.

A clever or insightful joke may be upvoted, particularly if it is followed by thoughtful exploration of the topic. But "one liners," like your example, are just lazy and offer no insight or in any way elevate the conversation.

Generally speaking if you want lazy retorts and memes, Reddit or Twitter already caters to that very well. HN is something else, and two things can exist to fill different niches.
call me cynical, but in my view humans rarely do anything for strictly moral reasons, at least not at scale. laws and customs are motivated much more by pragmatism (hard to have a flourishing society with frequent random killings) or at least reciprocity (I'll agree not to do X to you or people you care about as long as you agree to the same for me). modern democracy is an efficient system of control; it doles out enfranchisement just fast enough to prevent violent revolt.

bit of a tangent, but I think this explains a lot of why we don't see much progress with animal rights. exploiting them is pragmatic, and we can't negotiate with them. even if we could, what concessions could they offer? for the minority who currently care, the only viable strategy I see is to make veganism "cool" and to make it easier to join the club (ie, not demand total abstinence).
I'm curious if there was widespread serology testing to get to that number with the original SARS. That's in the ballpark of what the early SARS-COV-2 research (15%) showed until we realized there were asymptomatics and people who don't go to the hospital (because they aren't severe) and that numbers drawn from the hospitalized were not representative. If that number was just pulled from hospitalizations because we shut SARS down before we studied it as closely, it makes me wonder if the mortality rates are similar.
Which animes?
OpenNebula launches new Reference Architecture for True Hybrid & Edge Computing
Think of the assistants as young children. As a reference, someone I know spent some time in Miami with his wife and 2 young kids. After some time, the young son told his dad that he wanted to go back to "yourhammy". The dad eventually decoded "yourhammy" was the kid's interpretation of Miami as My-hammy. Your Likes => My Likes reminded me of that story.
You are obviously not the only one with this view. Perhaps you are feeling this way because you frequent HN, which has a vocal number of commenters who really want to turn off JS in everything.
To be a Trump supporter in December 2020 is be ignorant or to be a traitor, as Trump is currently in the midst of a (failed) coup attempt, and his lieutenants have been trying to float the idea of of martial law.

Most Trump supporters are just ignorant, but Scott Adams is no isolated fool, so unfortunately his continued support for Trump is, yes, willfully seditious.

Matters are very rarely black and white, but when you have someone openly attempting to retroactively cancel an election after he lost, while undermining efforts to secure it beforehand, the contrast is at a maximum, and the choice should be easy.
Maybe the investors themselves knew it was a con job and were hoping to offload it onto other marks.
Do you remember Slashdot? Maybe Ars Technica, before it sold out?
Every time this topic comes up on here the comments are full of complaints about 1) privacy and 2) broken ux. I have to ask why do you even bother? I’ve never once thought I wish I didn’t have to pick up my phone got 5 seconds to do something simple.
Scott Adams has long been an opponent of the theory of evolution. That seems considerably more wrongheaded than any view he may hold on election fraud.
Depending on how you count, famous numbers isn't exactly a well defined category, the number of special sequences will be less than 100 and certainly less than 1000. Regardless, very small compared to the overall number of sequences.
I couldn't agree more with that. I wrapped a bash function to search through my notes folder with fzf + rg and it works perfectly.

Also, I have a specific pattern to write some tags inside files that I can parse with ripgrep.
A little more than that even. They have the right to participate in concerted activities. But those activities must usually be performed in a way that would not impact the business during working hours. Unionization and voting etc must usually be performed off-site.
That's often the case from other OEMs as well. I just checked a Dell Latitude with a 256GB SSD standard. Upgrading to 512GB costs $146.99, and going from 512GB to 1TB is another $142.72. The retail price for a very good 1TB SSD is about $135, so when you pay for that 1TB upgrade from Dell, you would still be getting ripped off even if they also sent you the 256GB and 512GB drives. For $289 in upgrade pricing, Dell owes you at least a full 2TB of storage.
What I don’t understand is why Intel don’t just rename their 7nm process to 2nm... or swap to a more favourable metric name.
Would this work though? You would have to say "Ok google, play 'okay google play music"", wouldn't you?
4 minute timers are hard. I normally drop the ‘for’ and it gets super confused. “Set a four minute timer”
I don’t use Siri for much, and I certainly don’t have it always listening. But I did hack out a useful Shortcut to record my blood pressure and heart rate to Apple Health.

I say, “Add blood pressure <pause> 120 over 80 plus 60.” Then I use the shortcut to parse the string on the / and +, and record it to Health.

The hard part was finding delimiters that Siri would consistently record as a single character. That and realizing I needed a manual review step to make sure Siri didn’t happily pump garbage into my logs.