skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personal thanks are just as important as monetary compensation. You build your surroundings and support your life with money, but you build your self esteem and support your motivation with gratitude.
We used mongo where each DB instance had about a 1gb/s of conti uous read/write traffic, and each instance used around 1TB of memory. So it will probably work for you.

There were some issues, some our fault, some Mongo's, but I think anything will have teething problems at that scale.

Just make sure you don't treat it like a bucket. Use well defined schemas and indexes, like with any DB.
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I, for one, am glad I waited and didn't buy the 3090.
There have been ships made of concrete which I always found interesting. Ferrocement (I believe) is a form of boatcraft that can be done in your backyard without any special tools.
What really hurt adoption in the early days was the Blu-ray versus HD DVD format war, not the players' startup performance. Consumers just sat it out and stuck with DVD, which still looked pretty good with upscaling players and anamorphic movies having become the norm.

Blu-ray has been a successful format, not at all like what happened to LaserDisc. Given the increase in the speed, reliability, and availability of broadband over the last decade (hence streaming) plus the aforementioned acceptability of DVD, Blu-ray's window of opportunity and overall potential were considerably narrower and more limited than DVD's.
My wife stopped applying for jobs involving government programs involving COBOL several years ago. She is very fluent in a lot of languages including COBOL, FORTRAN and so on. The issue is that these agencies never want to pay real wages for a very narrow skillset. The last one told her that their entire budget for the system rewrite was less than $100k and they were expecting to hire 4 programmers to get the job done because the consultant they had hired told them that it needed 4 programmers.
Have you made that money in bad times as well as good though? Plenty of people posting gain porn for 2020, but they may not be the next Warren Buffett....
> “I raised kids” doesn’t have the same boastworthyness in a lot of circles, but arguably it’s more interesting.

But it doesn’t make you happier: https://youtu.be/2EiV4-ClcIs?t=2180
Yes, that wall looks like the type of pattern that would trigger the false positives. High visual noise or something. The street view shows pretty well why it might be hard, the shadows on pavement and the wall. I think it might also be confusing for humans, but we got a little bit of extra something that allows us to continue driving.
That's true, but a suicide burn uses a _lot_ less propellant than you'd think. The atmosphere does most of the work.
No, morons like you don't know the history, and why they were needed. <no sarcasm/>
Really? (No pun or /s intended). I grew up in the 80's and 90's watching a significant amount of television. Myself and my like friends seem to be ok. Didn't go mad or become dumb. Matter of fact, we seem to excell in the digital age because of how familiar we are with the tech behind the television. I'm not saying there could not be some detrimental effect, but it seems the research stating as such was a bit overblown and was more driven by fear than by observed facts.
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Why The Empire Strikes Back is overrated
Mongo's aggregation pipeline is pretty straightforward, so not sure what they're looking for.
Couldn't have been COBOL - India has a lot of COBOL programmers.
It appears to build a "naked" thompson shell script without a shebang line that works as a PE file for Windows/DOS, and uses `exec` to feed a binary to the shell via a pipe.

Interesting approach for a universal binary.
Sorry for being naive, but how can it be possible that nobody had thought of this approach and this approach would have actually worked? What have been preventing people from coming up with something like this?
IIRC, electricity transport and distribution costs can vary significantly. They can be relatively high in densely populated areas because of transmission limitations/congestion, and they're also high at the edge of existing infrastructure because running additional lines can be costly.

As an example, transmission and distribution costs were roughly equal to generation costs in CA in 2016.

https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUCWebsite/Content/Ab...
>"UV-A has a wavelength in the range of 315 nanometers (nm) to 400 nm. UV-B, also known as medium wave light, has a wavelength of 280-315 nm; UV-C has a wavelength of 200-280 nm."

[...]

>"In her team’s research, they managed to kill the virus using cheaper and more readily available LED bulbs – 285 nm vs. 265 nm bulbs – which consume little energy and do not contain mercury like regular UV lamps."
You wouldn't; they of course didn't say why they were really trying to recall him.

The rolling blackouts were an integral part of the embezzlement scheme; getting people to blame Davis for them was clever marketing. So was the zoo: when people are confused enough, they vote for a familiar name, and there was Arnold.

The prospect of $80 billion, free and clear, buys a lot of clever marketing.
Yes, we haven't even been looking for lithium until recently, and the availability of it has more than doubled in just a few years. (Note that a lot of lithium comes from "resources" and not from "reserves," as the latter term usually refers to mining rather than brining.)

For current chemistries, cobalt is more of a concern, but that's mostly a concern for car batteries, and the concern is more about the terrible conditions of extraction (some child labor from small scale mining) than the total amount.

For stationary storage, sodium behaves a lot like lithium, but is far heavier. And there are all sorts of flow chemistries that have barely been examined.

However I think the lithium train has left the station, unless there's some sort of serious market interference to cause huge unexpected shortages, there's little chance for lithium competitors to catch up within the next 15 years.
Personally I would never use NoSQL, or any datastore, without a schema. And yes, there is value in using NoSQL with a well defined schema (for example if you like Mongo's query language).

In your case you didn't pick the wrong tool - your type system and interfaces to the DB (ORM) were probably lacking.
Yes it looks much nicer imo. One thing that annoys me with ctrl-r is that if you make a typo and backspace it, you will not be back to where you were. The "cursor" has moved back in history, potentially past the command you were interested in. It's also nice you can see many different matches at the same time.

I kind of think the author should have foreseen this question and provided an answer.
The S&P 500 about halved following the dot com bubble, and did the same thing again in 2007-8. That doesn’t seem to fit your thesis.
Yes, with passengers I feel like it makes people nervous with all the beeping (I’d rather sounds on than disable it). It’s why I’ve leaned towards only using it on hwy driving after getting a feel for it.

It would be nice if it would engage in some sort of tutorial mode as ones first learning the system. I feel like I was a bit eager to try it everywhere at first and tried different things which maybe now I wouldn’t, a bit of in city usage of it for example.
I'm not sure I follow you here, can you elaborate on what you mean?

The New Yorker has long form articles that take longer to read than the typical daily newspaper article, sure, but I'm not sure how that makes it non finite or more engaging than daily newspapers.
Same - iPhone 6+ iOS 12
Same, I’ve seen postings for Fortune 500 cobol principal engineers paying 130k wanting 10+ years of domain specific experience
Depending on what they mean by a mainframe, it occurred to me that the programming language might be IBM RPG (Report Program Generator.)

I remember once being asked during an interview if I could program in RPG. Apparently, the job was at a coal mine in West Virginia. This would have been in the early 1980s, if memory serves.
They don't say Latvia is the only place they could have looked, and North Dakota prioritizing European countries would not be surprising.
The silk icons are fine visually, but way too complex to tell them apart quickly. [2] looks like an example of the headache badly mixed typography can cause.

Those are opinions, of course, but I don't think the basics (like soothed senses) are controversial, many of which can be objectively studied.
I think I miscommunicated a bit. I'm not suggesting you should be routinely breaking these rules with cubic Béziers. Rather, I'm saying that if you had a better underlying curve family, you wouldn't need these rules, as you'd get good results even with a freer approach to designing curves. That's basically the hypothesis we're testing.
I understand it very well, and relate closely to the author's mixture of feelings. It's overwhelming and intimidating to be reminded that there's a bunch of stuff you ostensibly should be using, or at least researching and evaluating and deciding not to use.
For much the same reasons as ojnabieoot gives above. The Bombadil chapters feel like a haphazard insertion from a different book and perhaps even from a different fictional universe, and seem to serve no narrative purpose in the context of the trilogy. The film version feels much more coherent for having omitted them.
Tried to read the article, got stopped by a paywall, going to assume the issue is COBOL knowledge. If I'm wrong feel free to call me an idiot.

We had a rash of these COBOL articles earlier in the pandemic due to the need to update unemployment systems - https://www.inputmag.com/tech/ibm-will-offer-free-cobol-trai... is agood link to review - but just to reiterate to anyone considering learning COBOL:

Don't do it if you want to maximize compensation. Do it only if you're interested in the language. COBOL is a interesting language that is unlike most, if not all modern languages. It's great if you want to stretch your brain and attack new challenges. But it will not increase your compensation. Most COBOL opportunities are in the public sector working on unemployment services, taxation, etc. Their compensation is unlikely to exceed $100K - you'd be much better off learning the bleeding edge technologies and solutions, grinding LeetCode, etc.

With that said, I learned COBOL early in my career and it is quite interesting - it's worth a poke at the Wikipedia page if you're interested in history.
> For an example of how that works, consider the following common fact about C which that's often overlooked. External function calls such as the following:
memcpy(foo, bar, n);
Are roughly equivalent to the following assembly, which leads compilers to assume that most cpu state is clobbered:

I think most modern C and C++ compilers know that memcpy is special and optimize accordingly. I believe some C++ compilers recognize when you are using memcpy just to do bit casting to different representations and avoid doing a memory copy at all.
Me and the other worker were much less willing to work free overtime. The company also had a really dishonest culture and I chafed under that system. I was a bad fit for the job really, so I could have just been what they perceived as bad.
I should have clarified re indoors: My comment was about setups like in the article, which are reliant on electric lights. One of the biggest limitations they have is electricity cost.
Technical debt: that thing you want to forget, that comes into focus right when you're about to hit the next level.
> "cash crops" was intended to mean "high caloric density, mass market crops".

Tobacco is a cash crop, not caloric dense. Cash crops are the profitable crop a farm might use to generate cash. Since all farms are now commercial this isn't a meaningful distinction but it was when most farms were substance.

Wheat and Corn are not traditional cash crops. They are stable cereals. Cereals will be the last crops to ever become viable in vertical farming. Which is fine, the technology can develop leveraging the high value low-calory crops.
It's not something I've run into yet, but the moment a company starts hotdesking I'll start looking for the door. I have to customize my workspace and know that its integrity is maintained in my absence in order to be fully productive.
Romanesco broccoli has a form naturally approximating a fractal
Neat. While the intangible share increases, there will always be a baseline intangible share -- the wires of the internet, to give a coarse and simple analogy. What do you propose in improving balance sheets to keep track of abstract entities such as IP and brand? These quantities hardly seem measurable until they translate into "actual dollars" which may or may not happen.
Who designed your logo? I like it.
There are those Egyptian artifacts that we would've struggled to replicate even with our current technology.
I came across an article recently which talked about how current accounting standards don't portray an accurate picture of many tech companies due to "intangible assets". I wonder if or how much this shows up in the current feeling of many tech stocks bring overpriced?

https://tanay.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-intangibles-and-the...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25556726
They didn't at mine when I graduated 11 years ago. Can't imagine they've added it since then.
Isn't this just because screens now do more?

Even before screens, some people talked on the phone compulsively, some played chess compulsively, some sat in their basement building things out of legos compulsively. Now it's possible to do all those things via a single screen. When looked at in this way, a screen is basically just a tool that takes on the form of many different physical objects rather than something nefarious.
Wow. Thank you for sharing. That was super fascinating, I’ve never heard of these schools.

I’ve never really listened to TrueAnon but the host is pretty interesting. He fought with some socialists against isis in syria and helped unionize anchor steam brewery here in sf.
came to post this. blah blah blah turn off js with plugin or it worked w/ js disabled etc misses the point of how aggressive this paywal from a noname site is, lol
Seems like a dumb approach that only marketing would come up with.

The challenge is SDC is AI, not correctness of the kernel that the AI stack runs on. Is an SDC based on a formally verified OS but using logistic regression safe?
I'm very dumb so I'm asking: is "engine rich exhaust" a real term?
I'm honestly not sure it's that bad.

Right now human civilization is running off something like 18TW of energy.

If you add in 2000 kilocalories per day for 7.8 billion people, you add another 750 GW; if you add in a factor of 10 for biological & technological inefficiencies on actually turning electricity into edible calories, you're up to 7.5TW.

As long as you don't throw another factor of 10 on top of that -- imagine growing all food indoors, and then feeding it to cows, before subsisting entirely on beef -- you're probably looking at an amount of energy comparable to that used by humans currently.

Obviously it doesn't make a lot of sense to just switch over to indoor agriculture when there's free sunlight outside, but if we were to do so, the energy demands are probably on a scale comparable to what we're working with already.

So you're probably only halving or so the runway of available uranium.
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Can't zoom at all on Android.
I think that there are way more than 500 Nazis in the US.

I also think that they have as much power as witches did in Salem, for largely the same reasons.

That said don't expect the moral panic to calm down any time soon. It's odd seeing the side of politics I identified with until recently become a larger danger to democracy than the side I was sure would implement a theocracy.
The tiny black dot is the planet Mercury transiting the face of the Sun
If you deliver just the water the plants need you'll run into soil salinity problems eventually.
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Schooling Was for the Industrial Era, Unschooling Is for the Future
Not the parent, but... it's not that difficult. You have to apply yourself, of course, but there is a connection (once you get the gist of the declinations, as italian you can understand a certain amount of words without looking at a dictionary). Difficulty varies a lot based on who writes though: e.g. Caesar is very easy, because he purposefully wrote in a simpler, clear way (less number of terms overall, trying to avoid synonyms, straight to the point).

In Italy if you follow classical studies you learn ancient Greek too (first 2 years of high school), which was definitely harder than latin, but you grock the alphabet in a short time. I seem to recall that more often than not the same word had very different meanings depending on the context, while the grammar was similar to latin (well, of course it's backward...).
This might be grossly miscalculated, but IIRC you lose 1~2 pounds per day of fasting. At 2 pounds per day, he fasted for 35 days to lose 70 pounds. If he was alone all that time, he had to get up and drink liquids periodically, or he would have died way before 35 days. It seems like he decided to go ascetically, sokushinbutsu style. The medication found in his stomach reinforces this speculation.

He was missing for 90 days, but his body was in better shape than the humid summer would suggest, maybe he fasted for most of those 90 days, as sitting immobile would have saved calories and water.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
Americans are increasingly afraid to express themselves honestly
Have a funny story to relate about D&D.

I did some time in federal prison, and was a DM for several groups there. I was transferred to another prison partway through my time.

On arriving at the new prison, the SIS (internal police) officer was pulling the inmates in singly and interviewing them privately to screen them for potential trouble.

My turn, and when I got in there, he asked me, "Are you in a gang?"

I told him, "You ever heard of D&D?"

He sits up and grabs his pen, "No, have they been around long?"

I said, "About 35 years. Do you have any D&D'ers here?"

His eyes narrow and he says, "No."

I told him, "Well, you're gonna."

I wish I could have seen it when he figured it out.
American Rehab

Reveal exposes how a treatment for drug addiction has turned tens of thousands of people into an unpaid, shadow workforce.

https://revealnews.org/american-rehab/
This didn’t age well.
This isn't a Lisp, this is a paren based serialization of the syntax tree of an Algol like language.

Even the readme says as much: The syntax of wax is inspired by WebAssembly Text Format (wat), hence the name. Though it uses S-expressions reminiscent of the Lisp family, it is actually quite imperative and most resemblant of C in its design. The idea of transpiling to many languages is inspired by Haxe.
Nuclear is the, or at least one of the, most expensive power sources we have.
"In other words, the fact that it has happened at least once very strongly suggests it has happened more than once."

No, it doesn't at all.

Maybe just the opposite.

The universe is mind-bogglingly large, but it's also really, really empty, and really, rally sparse. The numbers games starts to dwindle very quickly in terms of all the ingredients necessary.

And the Fermi paradox helps provide crudely indirect evidence.

If there was any validity at all to the 'common life theory' - then it would have started long ago and probably spread everywhere to the point wherein there would probably be ample evidence.

In the 'common life' scenario, it should be rare/impossible to find life that's disconnected from other life scenarios.

There's a decent chance we are alone.
When you're serious about growing a cash crop indoors(i.e. marijuana), you basically have an airlock. No unfiltered air exchange. No outside clothes or footwear. You also have control of the environment and can regulate humidity to help control fungus. When something does get inside, you potentially scrap the crop, sterilize, and start over. I don't know anything about these robotic grow ops, but I bet they do something similar.

This isn't like growing in a greenhouse where you use screens to keep out bugs.
oooo meta
I think it's been pondered a bunch, but the legwork required to build the headers for each system so that you can execute the same binaries on every platform was tough.
We don't really have other uses for the vast amounts of land our food (and energy crop) production currently consumes.
Why would meteorologists use COBOL? Wouldn't FORTRAN be more likely?
It’s time to accept that disinformation is a cyber security issue
A term used at FaceBook for content moderation is prevalence:

Prevalence (% of views) and pieces of content posted are different units. Some content gets millions of views and some none at all. Prevalence is the best way to understand the problem.

-- Guy Rosen, FB VP of Integrity (trust & safety equiv.)

https://nitter.net/guyro/status/1337493574246535168?s=20

I'd really like to have an idea of typical views-per-post (or tweet) distributions on FB or Twitter? These data don't seem to be available.

E.g., in a single (hour|day|week|month|year), there might be (note these are entirely fictitious numbers):

- 1 post gets >1 billion views

- 10 posts get >100m views

- 100 posts get >10m views

- 1k posts get >1m views

- 10k posts get >100k views

- 100k posts get > 10k views

- 1m posts get > 1k views

- 10m posts get > 100 views

- 100m posts get > 10 views

- 1b posts get > 1 view

A few assumptions:

- FB sees ~5b pieces of content (+/- 10x) daily.

- FB has ~2b DAU

- Views/post follows a Zipf distribution

- Daily time-on-site ~ 1hr, 25 items (~2m20s/post)

- Hence, 50 billion daily views over 5 billion daily items, with a Zipf distribution.

- Half of all posts get <2 views (excluding submitter)

- Ultimate reach is predictable relatively early based on initial engagement.

I've got a hunch the actual numbers aren't too far from these numbers (say, factor of ten), for daily exposure. Though my sense is that actual tends significantly lower. For Twitter ~ 10--100x lower than FB.

Note that predicted prevalence + moderation scale gives capacity to vet content. The ability to moderate about 1 million items/day (roughly 2,000 human moderators at 500 items/person-day) means catching virtually all items reaching > 1,000 people, if not substantially fewer, which is a pretty good harm-minimisation capability.
How good for Apple that you can't just replace the camera.
I can think of two reasons: It's arguably a hack and it's not needed.

While this is awesome, it can easily break (zsh already seems to do so) and, as the author states, it is not meant for GUI apps or programs relying deeply on OS APIs, which includes a lot of apps.

Additionaly, it does not solve an important problem. Doing a build for each supported OS is not that hard and easily automated. The actual problem is to be able to reuse code and this is solved for the most part.
Although if github is down it is also possible you'll be able to do little to fix your site anyway :D
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Isn't that basically what Citus does for Postgres?
Honestly, near-term, you're probably looking at replacing 720 acres of mono-cropped salad with a 2-acre building surrounded by 718 acres of mono-cropped grain.