skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work with medium-size Shopify brands to assist on the development-side of things. When the pandemic started, a lot of ecommerce brands were clamping down on budgets. Shortly after the CARES act was passed, suddenly revenue for a lot of my clients started to skyrocket, especially those in the food industry (some were making what they made over the course of a year in a few months) but soon also to discretionary industries like apparel and beauty. Ever since, I've been seeing large-scale projects to agencies we work with being pushed through without hesitation and of course business has been growing at a much higher clip for my own company versus prior to CARES.

I'm grateful for it, but at the same time I know this is at the expense of many small companies in the restaurant and travel space, and all the labor they employ too, so that's pretty depressing. And I don't think it's sustainable so I expect my own luck to turn around eventually.

I don't think things will change much in the next 6 months though with another potential stimulus check on the horizon and at least until some of the state-level measures to reduce the spread of COVID are reversed (possibly with vaccines widely available?)
An open platform would have a framework that supports multiple back ends.
It is an opportunity for someone/something to take docker swarm place since complexity of Kubernetes might scare lots of people
I have a friend who's a UPS delivery driver and he's sent photos before of his truck when he first sees it in the morning.

It's so full of boxes/packages he can't even walk into it. Super disorganized. All just stuffed anywhere they can be by the loading crew. Strewn about the floor.

But he's sent similar photos in the past as well. So I can't imagine how much worse it can get.
> The problem with using a permissive license such as Apache is, anyone can fork the project exclusively under xGPLv3. If that fork becomes more popular, there's no way for the Apache-licensed upstream to merge any patches from the xGPLv3d fork back in.

I'm curious if anyone knows of any cases where this actually happened.
I totally agree. If you interpreted the question as "simple" that's fine. All I did was try to explain how it might be interpreted as a question that was asked in bad faith (i.e. with some relevant information deliberately omitted).
It's not allowed, as far as I know. The other day I came across brand new Nintendo Switches. It seems like someone got a pile of special edition ones and then set up a flash shop where they sold them for like $120.

But yeah, overall there seems to be lots of shops reselling stuff. For example, I recently bought a little dollhouse kit, and I noticed that multiple sellers were selling it. And I've watched youtube vids on how to make money on Etsy, and while the examples I found don't explicitly say to buy stuff from aliexpress, it's clear that they weren't making and packaging those bath bombs themselves.
Elsewhere in the thread, was a YouTube link showing demos of church numbers, all in javascript. It was interesting, and there was a function to take church numbers and convert them back to normal whole numbers. I get the big picture, but am hung up on a detail or two.

>S K t e = K e (t e) = e

S K t e = K e (t e) // that makes sense

What is (t e)? I got to the same point in the python example down thread.
> I always wonder how we came to allow website authors to dictate how their content is displayed on other people's computers.

Um... because it is their website?

> why don't websites generally just deliver text and leave the decision of how to render it up to me?

Because the general public wants to go to a website and for it to look good immediately without any configuration.
Let's see how many days it takes to Samy 2020 reborn

Reference: https://samy.pl/myspace/tech.html
> as far as I know, the commercial Qt Embedded product has always required a distribution license

That is correct. These distribution licenses for shipping Qt with devices were never perpetual in the sense that you can ship as many devices with Qt as you want. But this was a separate license, which AFAIK you also could buy in bulk, which is totally OK. As far as I understand it, you now need a full subscription for distribution with the danger that prices may change any time.
We are using Snowflake in our company, I think we are storing in TB's, not sure about the total count maybe 50+ TB.

Pricing:
If you are not careful, you could end up spending lot more money, it is like any cloud, people get sticker stock. I have heard that one of the data warehouse that went from terradata to snowflake we end up paying like 5x or 6x.
- You have to optimize the crap out of warehouse and run stuff in batches.
- Models have to be clean( snow schema ) not clutter
- If you are doing streaming etc, you could end up with a lot more data so when you are comparing to on prem, please compare apples to apples.
- scaling compute when you want is very good if you can otpimize it.
- Consider snapshot backing it up to S3 as well so if you need to move off snowflake in future you can use it

Pitfalls:
1. Cost of compute and changing our thinking on compute i.e. in onprem etc we just think of running as many queries as we want or even something in RDS, snowflake compute could vary and could end up costing lot of money.

2. If amazon us east is down or even if you are testing for geo redundancy, they need to explicitly copy eveything from east to west and takes some time, I don't think you would lose things, you could have hours of outage instead of just working off another region.
To some, that's part of the thrill.

I think the cultural aspect of this study must be taken into consideration.

Speaking as someone who can from a country with a relatively high population (India), we were taught that in a race to the top, its either eat or be eaten, and that machinations are a vital part of success as long as they do not tarnish the way you're perceived.
a quick search for LinkedIn SRE jobs returns:

- Senior SREs
- Staff SREs
- Manager, SRE
- SRE Intern

assuming senior, staff and manager roles would not accept non-traditional candidates...so this applies to interns?
The primary reason why you should be using 3x or higher replication is the read throughput (which makes it only really relevant for magnetic storage). If the data is replicated 1.6x then there's only 1.6 magnetic disk heads per each file byte. If you replicate it 6x then there's 6 magnetic disk heads for each byte. At ~15x it becomes cheaper to store in SSD with ~1.5x reed-solomon/erasure code overhead since SSD has ~10x the per-byte cost of HDD.

(there are also effects on the tail latency of both read and write, because in a replicated encoding you are less likely to be affected by a single slow drive).

(also, for insane performance which is sometimes needed you can mlock() things into RAM; the per-byte cost of RAM is ~100x the cost of HDD and ~10x the cost of SSD).
I agree. I've been seeing more and more about the BSD's online recently, and to be quite honest, I'm happy about that.

Just installed OpenBSD for the first time the other day, and am loving it.
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Your forgetting Suse, I'll bet they take a big chunk of the customer base. OpenSuse LEAP is now identical to SLES and it can be converted easily if you want support.
I don't think so, I think they just fall into the second category of "theatregoers" aka "streamers".
> Accumulating more stored data doesn’t make it slower

That is a valid theory when we talk about readers which look at recent data or when you are trying to append data to the existing system.

But in practice, the accumulation of cold data on a local disk is where this starts to hurt, particularly if that has to serve read traffic which starts from the beginning of time (i.e your queries don't start with a timestamp range).

KSQL transforms does help reduce the depth of the traversal, by building flatter versions of the data set, but you need to repartition the same data on every lookup key you want - so if you had a video game log trace, you'd need multiple materializations for (user) , (user,game), (game) etc.

And on this local storage part, EBS is expensive to just hold cold data, but then replicate it to maintain availability during a node recovery - EBS is like a 1.5x redundant store, better than a single node. I liked the Druid segment model of shoving it off to S3 and still being to read off it (i.e not just stream to S3 as a dumping ground).

When Pravega came out, I liked it a lot for the same - but it hasn't gained enough traction.
True that! Maybe a good reason to not use semi trucks, driving times are less strict for 3.5 tons over here. If it is not getting out of hand, these things should still manageable, so. Also playing with specific pick up schedules and ship methods, e.g. express vs. standard, can help. All in all some very nice Q4 stuff!
It depends... How big is the company?
First I thought this was an alternative to https://paperswithcode.com/ - but apparently it pulls its data on Tasks and Datasets from there?

Which is good I think. PapersWithCode is openly editable like a wiki, so it enables the community to improve the resource.
Some CogSci & Neuro papers I found interesting in 2020:

Constantinescu, Alexandra O., Jill X. O’Reilly, and Timothy EJ Behrens. "Organizing conceptual knowledge in humans with a gridlike code." Science 352.6292 (2016): 1464-1468.

Kriegeskorte, Nikolaus, and Katherine R. Storrs. "Grid cells for conceptual spaces?." Neuron 92.2 (2016): 280-284.

Klukas, Mirko, Marcus Lewis, and Ila Fiete. "Efficient and flexible representation of higher-dimensional cognitive variables with grid cells." PLOS Computational Biology 16.4 (2020): e1007796.

Moser, May-Britt, David C. Rowland, and Edvard I. Moser. "Place cells, grid cells, and memory." Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology 7.2 (2015): a021808.

Quiroga, Rodrigo Quian. "Concept cells: the building blocks of declarative memory functions." Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13.8 (2012): 587-597.

Stachenfeld, Kimberly L., Matthew M. Botvinick, and Samuel J. Gershman. "The hippocampus as a predictive map." Nature neuroscience 20.11 (2017): 1643.

Buzsáki, György, and David Tingley. "Space and time: The hippocampus as a sequence generator." Trends in cognitive sciences 22.10 (2018): 853-869.

Umbach, Gray, et al. "Time cells in the human hippocampus and entorhinal cortex support episodic memory." bioRxiv (2020).

Eichenbaum, Howard. "On the integration of space, time, and memory." Neuron 95.5 (2017): 1007-1018.

Schiller, Daniela, et al. "Memory and space: towards an understanding of the cognitive map." Journal of Neuroscience 35.41 (2015): 13904-13911.

Rolls, Edmund T., and Alessandro Treves. "The neuronal encoding of information in the brain." Progress in neurobiology 95.3 (2011): 448-490.

Fischer, Lukas F., et al. "Representation of visual landmarks in retrosplenial cortex." Elife 9 (2020): e51458.

Hebart, Martin, et al. "Revealing the multidimensional mental representations of natural objects underlying human similarity judgments." (2020).

Ezzyat, Youssef, and Lila Davachi. "Similarity breeds proximity: pattern similarity within and across contexts is related to later mnemonic judgments of temporal proximity." Neuron 81.5 (2014): 1179-1189.

Seger, Carol A., and Earl K. Miller. "Category learning in the brain." Annual review of neuroscience 33 (2010): 203-219.

Neurolinguistics:

Marcus, Gary F. "Evolution, memory, and the nature of syntactic representation." Birdsong, speech, and language: Exploring the evolution of mind and brain 27 (2013).

Dehaene, Stanislas, et al. "The neural representation of sequences: from transition probabilities to algebraic patterns and linguistic trees." Neuron 88.1 (2015): 2-19.

Fujita, Koji. "On the parallel evolution of syntax and lexicon: A Merge-only view." Journal of Neurolinguistics 43 (2017): 178-192.
Zuckerberg threatened to pull investment from the UK
7+ years to be exact. It's unfair to call Leaflet dead — it's still quite actively maintained, gets regular releases and has a huge community of both users and contributors, and Mapbox have always been supportive of me spending time on it during work hours.

What someone can see as less development activity is simply a sign of a mature product that doesn't need many new features and changes to remain useful — focusing on the core basic mapping needs has always been its goal, and it continues to adhere to it.
Does :focus or :hover apply to CSS in SVG in an <img/> tag? If so, you could use those to implement a sort of pause by combining with the next-sibling operator (actually I really really like the + operator in CSS selectors, because a lot of things that people think you need JS to do can be done with a combination of :focus and +).
Spatial Audio does not work with AppleTV4K, I'm afraid. It only works with compatible iPhones and iPads. This does not replace speakers, subs, etc.
> They have every incentive to have gotten this right

I mean, they had this from the beginning. Do they have the technical competency? Did their management get thoroughly slapped down? Building planes is not easy.

I 100% believe they put in a good faith effort to fix their planes. I don't know if I believe that was enough.

I will probably fly on one because its not an especially transparent process to choose plane models, but I would definitely prefer not to.
Update on sama's bubble talk bet
For me, they also survived sweaty conditions better than others I'd had before ("sweat resistant" was a joke on a couple of them, did not survive a summer afternoon run in Georgia). I only replaced them because they got washed and now sound very tinny (and are long out of warranty, costs as much to replace with new as to get Apple to replace just the ear pieces).
Interesting. Lists the following GitHub organizations as "launch partners": @aws @americanexpress @cognitect @daimler @indeed @MLHacks @microsoft @newrelic @notionhq @rudderstack @stripe @substackinc

But no words on what they actually have donated so far. Checking github.com/sponsors tells nothing, nothing on the GitHub profiles of either the companies nor other people who definitely would have received money from those companies if they were actually already donating (which company doesn't have employees using vim and/or curl?)

"[these companies] paving the way for what it means to invest back into the open source community " seems a lot like marketing speak with no data published to back it up.
Etsy is horrible for sellers. A friend started selling there and he had to wait for the money from transactions for 3 months after he started selling there.
This whole thing was just a side show. It:

* let trump claim headlines about being tough on China while rolling over for China.

* got trump cheap attention while distracting from real issues he can't be bothered to solve

* created some volatility and maybe let a donor snap up a deal on a growing tech company.

* was basically meaningless to 99% of his supporters who don't use tiktok or understand what it is and so wouldn't be upset or ask any questions

It achieved all of these and more, whether it worked or not.
> I just can't imagine scenario where it's cheaper to use something like Flutter and port, test, debug and maintain it in operating systems and devices myself or find consults to do it to me.

Currently, you're exactly right. Google is using Flutter for some of their embedded products, but it's going to be a long time before it's anywhere near as plug-and-play as Qt for the average developer.

The future of Flutter is looking quite promising, though. It's worth keeping an eye on.
As James Gosling put it, "Java is C++ without the guns, clubs and knives." The language was familiar to most existing programmers, but solved a host of problems that could be real time sinks.

Garbage collection was the most prominent. Prematurely freeing memory leads to failures that can crop up only long, long after the actual error, often at random. You just get crap stuck in your memory with no idea who put it there, or even when, and you couldn't protect yourself from it.

Moore's Law meant that we could begin to afford the overhead in time and memory, while saving developers untold hours. I watched development come to a complete halt because a bug simply could not be solved.

In most environments, C programs wouldn't even be able to give you a stack trace. All you got was "Segmentation violation -- core dumped". The first time I saw a null pointer exception with a stack trace, I wept.

There were a million other good things about it, a lot of which have been adopted or made obsolete. But the memory management alone made it absolutely obvious, especially in fast-moving development environments where getting code out the door was more important than eking out the last drop of performance.
I think the quote was _senior_ engineer retention project" and that was many years ago :)
> Only viable Qt competitor in embedded is Rightware Kanzi. Has anyone here experience with them?

Kanzi is a cosmic horror in comparison to Qt in terms of low level bugs, which you cannot do anything about.

Kanzi tries to differentiate as a purpose built built HMI environment where you get UI+hardware IO+readymade apps, but sucks greatly at being it. Hardware support is where you don't even try using anything, but reference hardware.
That's simply not true. They might have been better than cheap bluetooth headphones with which they didn't compete, but there were plenty of price-competitive bluetooth headphones at the time which were as good or better.

The only new things about airpods were the truly wireless nature (which was definitely an advantage) and the Apple logo*.
Test for AT&T's lovely packet corruption
I guess that depends on just how drunk you get the day before. All I need to get grumpy, is to skip coffee in the morning lol.
Dark mode is bad for your eyes in a light environment as it causes them to work harder. Its good in the dark though, hence the name. Its a mode that should be used in the dark.

I find the whole dark mode fashion pretty unfathomable. I use it only in the dark and it's wonderful in that case, but people seem to want it on all the time for all the things.
The second any "can't get viruses" OS will grant a legit app possibility to modify files, is the same second that OS can get viruses as well.
Peach UBI follows a very interesting concept, but we do not support them financially. Luckily, there are other way ways to support a good idea :)
The tittle reminds me of this http://up.csail.mit.edu/science-of-cooking/home-screen.html
Publication in a peer reviewed journal can take a lot of time, and I don't think that should be required in an urgent situation like this. Though of course the trials should still be reviewed somehow.
FDA approves prescription-only Apple Watch app for PTSD nightmares
The State of Ruby Static Typing at Shopify
Maybe to focus just on the content, for that special place of the web that Github is, made some sense as well.
Zypper is awesome. The newest version of LEAP is identical to Suse Enterprise, you can convert with a simple script if you decide you want extended support.

The root filesystem uses btrfs, so it's easy to roll back update problems. There is also a newer version that uses a read-only root filesystem and updates are applied to a new snapshot that takes over when you reboot. It's pretty cool.
Everything in that repo is 7+ months old. The main GL renderer is now closed-source: see https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-native-android/pull/450 .
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Generally agreed.

Note that there was major pushback against even having such monitoring though, a trend which still persists (the Rebekah Jones/Florida story, despite some additional elements, South Dakota's Kristi Noem https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/19/kristi-noem-...).

Donald Trump has been ridiculed for responding to the bad news on Covid-19 by suggesting that the U.S. is simply conducting too many tests. “Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases,” he complained. Or as he put it at a recent news conference: “When you test, you create cases.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-11/presid...

"I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault."

"Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!"

https://www.thestreet.com/mishtalk/economics/covid-timeline-...

When within the decisionmaking and executive function there is resistance to and denial of data .... well, needing better monitoring is certainly a problem, but it's not your biggest problem.

Not unique to the US FWIW:

"Coronavirus: Turkey’s new COVID-19 numbers confirm experts’ worst fears'" (29 November 2020)
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/coronavirus/2020/11/29/Coro...
Best explanation ever! I think I need to steal these two paragraphs.
At our company we use a ton of services that operate essentially as as functions on a Kafka stream (well, they tend to read/write in batches for efficiency) but we write event streams we want to query later into a regular database for later query. It works out very well. The idea of our poor Kafka cluster having to field queries in addition to the load of acting as a transport layer is frightening. The 'superpower' Kafka gives you is the ability to turn back time if something goes wrong and the ability to orchestrate really big pipeline. You have to build or buy a fair bit of tooling to make it work though.
It is not only GL JS. If Mapbox wants to keep investing heavily in open source why is it that 3 bigger mapbox libraries have a commercial license after it was open source a while ago? (mapbox navigation android & mapbox GL Native)
It's an amazing phenomenon. In order to get industry experience using a tool/skillset you need to be part of that industry using that tool/skillset. It's becoming more apparent to me that in order to pivot in IT, you need to do something (ie a project) on your own time or just lie.
There's nothing stopping you. What would be stopping you is if Windows included DRM that stopped you running all GPL programs apart from Microsoft Official Builds™.
It is a trade issue as so far only china (and ccp) can send in app but USA cannot send in apps to china. At least the key one. And tiktok can trace yours. But we hat on overseas chinese. But not USA in china.

Not sure the legal or presidential order is the best approach. But unless handle this USA might lose in the cyberspace... and humanity might suffer from ccp.