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It always amazes me the lengths people will go to to avoid learning & using a different language.

Perhaps if you want statically-typed functional programming, you shouldn’t be using Python? It’s not the best choice for that - in fact, it’s almost the worst choice.
Is this the current state of HN? A warning is needed for a softly worded reality? My god.
So can a time flow cluster beat a spark data enter? Seriously one shouldn't hide their value points, one has to advertise them. Maybe even put a spreadsheet with costs saved for the decision makers.
Glad you called it for what it is.

The fact is that LACNIC, AFRINIC, etc. are actually contractually bound to investigate allegations like these and to follow up on them, no matter where they come from. They're doing the job they are supposed to. To bring racial qualities into a contractual dispute, ouch GP.
Excited about them too. I preordered their new ITX dev board, but it keeps getting pushed back.

Current date says end of March, so I hope it won’t be much longer than this summer.
Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. There are some legit upstarts working on their own indexes, but let's not kid ourselves.

Anyone going head-on against google will lose.

I think the strategy will be many, many smaller search engines, focused on niches. Curated by their care-takers who wear their expertise and biases in a transparent way.

I'm quite opinionated here because this is my focus in 2021
> Smartphone QWERTY makes this impossible

I can absolutely type in my iPhone without looking at it. I just typed this comment with zero visual contact with my phone and no edits.

(EDIT: this is a weirdly divisive comment.)
I don't understand why google isn't recognized as just about the largest failure on the planet. Other than search and gmail, everything they start, dies.
> If, however, this news came with a grant of all the patents into the public domain, then it would be another story...THIS is the problem with these "skunkworks" type projects from megacorps. They suck all the air out of the room and prevent others from innovating.

> Loon didn't fail, Google/Alphabet just decided they were going to discontinue funding. Now they hold a pool of patents they don't intend to do anything with. Now they will point that funding elsewhere and do the same.

They did EXACTLY what you are asking for the last X project that was sunset.

From https://x.company/projects/makani/:

> In 2020 Makani’s journey as a company came to an end. To share the lessons and insights the Makani team gained from their 13 year journey developing an entirely new kind of wind energy technology, the team created The Energy Kite Collection, a portfolio of resources including a technical report, Makani’s entire avionics, flight controls and simulation code repositories, flight logs for every crosswind flight of the M600 prototype, technical videos, a new simulation tool called KiteFAST created with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and a non-assertion pledge for the free use of Makani’s worldwide patent portfolio.
Having a possibility to update (query) output with new input data rather than process the whole input again even if the changes are very small is indeed a very useful feature. Assume that you have one huge input table and you computed the result consisting of a few rows. Now you add 1 record to the input. A traditional data processing system will again process all the input records while the differential system will update the existing output result.

There are the following difficulties in implementing such systems:

o (Small) changes in input have to be incrementally propagated to the output as updates rather than new results. This changes the paradigm of data processing because now any new operator has to be "update-aware"

o Only simple operators can be easily implemented as "update-aware". For more complex operators like aggregation or rolling aggregations, it is frequently not clear how it can be done conceptually (efficiently)

o Differential updates have to be propagated through a graph of operations (topology) which makes the task more difficult.

o Currently popular data processing approaches (SQL or map-reduce) were not designed for such a scenario so some adaptation might be needed

Another system where such an approach was implemented, called incremental evaluation, is Lambdo:

https://github.com/asavinov/lambdo - Feature engineering and machine learning: together at last!

Yet, this Python library relies on a different novel data processing paradigm where operations are applied to columns. Mathematically, it uses two types of operations: set operations and functions operations, as opposed to traditional approaches based on only set operations.

A new implementation is here:

https://github.com/asavinov/prosto - Functions matter! No join-groupby, No map-reduce.

Yet, currently incremental evaluation is implemented only for simple operations (calculated columns).
Current thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/kxw7g5/am_i_getti...

Past threads: https://www.reddit.com/user/bad0seed/submitted/
Thanks for the comment and a very good point! Nice blog posts too!

I wrote a little about CO2 in https://www.babyfriendlyair.com/en/guides/air-pollution-prim... .

I often see very high CO2 levels in bedrooms, which was also observed in the mini study https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/9/17/3533 , and the simple act of leaving the bedroom door open might presumably therefore improve sleep quality (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ina.12435) according to these small studies. But of course, adequate ventilation could make sure this isn't a problem regardless if the door is open or not.

Just to add to your point about the importance of ventilation, there are also VOCs (eg. from furniture off gassing and cleaning products) that HEPA filters can't do much about, and at least in my experience (which is a bit skewed due to only measuring with "cheap" sensors), active carbon filters only help for a short while. Other technologies, like photocatalytic air purification, seem to also have limited effect, and do in turn produce CO2 as they break down pollutants (I'm not sure how much though), which again means adequate ventilation is important. So having "control" over where air gets in to the building is very helpful indeed, as you can't get around needing an adequate air exchange.

You seem to know quite a bit about this already, but in case you or anyone else is curious, a few more articles:

Effects of Classroom Ventilation Rate and Temperature on Students’ Test Scores
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

Stuffy classrooms may lower test scores (easier read that discusses the above but also some other studies)
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/stuffy-classr...

Poor air quality on the day of a test can have big impacts on how well a student performs (doesn't discuss CO2 specifically though)
https://www.aeaweb.org/research/pollution-effects-highstakes...

Possible future impacts of elevated levels of atmospheric CO2 on human cognitive performance and on the design and operation of ventilation systems in buildings
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01436244187901...
For kids? I am over 40 and it's a nice present to me as well :D
> whether there are also potential users who would have been perfectly happy with javascript/python/R bindings and a good tutorial

If you think people in some communities would benefit then you should be proactive in advertising there and in particular providing bindings for their favourite languages. This would enhance discoverability. In my corner of the tech and science world, people mostly use python and/or R but few know about Rust and fewer have knowingly used it.
We already have this in the UK via Ocardo.

Rather then supermarket employees running around the shop they build automated warehouses specifically optimised for picking/packing efficiency.

I simply don't see the reason for services like Instacart and Amazon fresh to exist... I can already get deliveries picked and dispatched by the super markets themselves. I count 6 different services within 5 miles of my home/office/isolation bunker.
Show HN: How to make your own budget Macro keyboard with JavaScript and Arduino
TBH, I’d rather be excited about specific teams/groups of people regardless of where they work. The trouble these days is filtering out the “influencers” and the marketing image, since we seldom get good insights as to how they work together and what their intent is when building a product or part of a technology stack.

Thoughtful approaches are, IMHO, the best indicator of whether a company is going the right way.

So Cognitect seems like an interesting place, for instance.
Great more plastic pollution in the oceans
But your customers still have widely varying versions of Chrome. So while your test might work, your code is still broken. Or did I misunderstand?
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Nobody says the art needs to be kept there till end of universe. Also they could rotate them with the ones they show upstairs, ie during some thematic period instead of broad spectrum they have now. Obviously they'll probably never remove Night watch or Girl with a pearl earring (at least I hope so), but still a major temporary refresh could draw a lot of people.

Who says there won't be many more museums in 50 years? Or some other model which will result in more art being on display.

If Dutch culture budget gets in serious issues, they could finance museum survival also via sales of those.

The options what to do with it are almost endless and much better than just losing them.
I would suspect by the time that product releases, AMD will be allowed some 5nm fab capacity for a future Zen product release.
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Is it really protectionism when it disproportionately affected EU businesses detrimentally? It's more like they'll apply where the rule of law applies and yet they're too scared to take on China in this case.
What if places like the NYSE started saying that quarterly reports are no longer allowed to report on revenue and profits, and are only allowed to report on taxes paid and dividends.

Then investors will have to guess revenue and profit figures from how much tax was paid. Suddenly companies have no incentive to hide revenue behind obscure schemes because their shareholders can't reward them for it.
https://oxide.computer/
Finally some serious innovation on Server Hardware side
It's amazing that people really believe in these conspiracy theories about evil Russian government which tries to kill people with Novichok, an agent so powerful that it cant kill anyone.

There are much more simple and effective ways. E.g. just hire a street thug, pretend a robbery
Surely you can find some spare change in that 700bn defence budget for a few 4k cameras for a single building?

I'm honestly baffled.
Why bury them? Build more things from wood instead of plastic.
The one I just founded!
Perhaps the people that are already there are (part of) the reason Intel is where it is. I was at Intel many years ago, quit mainly because the work got boring, the pay stagnant, and competitors offered me more. I was pleasantly surprise to land at a place where internal politics was lower, work more fun, and pay better. I have switched since to yet another great place to work. I will probably never go back to Intel again.
First-off, it's not clear to me ES is a loss-leader for Amazon, they seem to charge for it commensurate with their other hosted services, which from their filings all seem profitable.

Even if it is though, I'm just not sure I find the idea of free software being a loss-leader a bad thing. Having a loss-leader implies that AWS is providing + capturing value elsewhere. In this case, you assert this is from Data Transfer. But regardless of where the cost-centers are, AWS is delivering value to their customers and charging for it. There is competition in the cloud space, and in all honesty moving clouds generally isn't a huge deal, at least if you've architected your systems with that in mind (which any SysAdmin worth their salt should be doing in 2021).

The fact is, customers like having all their cloud managed under one roof. Customers like the exceedingly strong uptime guarantees provided by AWS. If customers have choice (which they do), and they're choosing AWS, why is it a bad thing if Elastic can't compete? If AWS is winning, it's because they have a holistic offering that customers like better.
Female elk adjust behaviour with age to avoid hunters (2017)
Is it also a repo we can pull for updates?
Hormones went from theoretical to overhyped in one century (2018)
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I find your comment very insightful, and quite moving. I had my own problems with mental health and one of the reasons is hopelessness; we lost ourselves — not just as individuals, but as species. Your mention about this particular characteristic of humans is very much aligned with our current understanding of neuroscience, namely, neurodiversity and the human super power called neuroplasticity, although, like western psychology, our neuroscience derives primarily of the current social norms — this explains the confusion that our psychology has about different ways of being, and levels of consciousness. Hence, scientists are categorizing contemplative, introspective and highly technical individuals as someone with disabilities (social disabilities). Which is ridiculous. These highly introspective individuals, if they were born in India and trained using buddhist meditation techniques (making use of neuroplasticity), they'd be called the next reincarnation of The Buda, by simply being very keen to see and understand reality using logical reasoning.

So, concluding my train of thought, this insight about the intersection of technical beings with highly political, motivated by high morals... it is, indeed, very rare and fascinating.
You mean starlink's failure will supplant loon's? Think carefully before you respond. I am one of about 5 engineers to help invent both globalstar and iridium.
If you don't like the government, you make your own, no? How is it a crime? It's a suggested action.
Great team there :)
They should do a kickstarter for general purpose RISC-V CPU + Board I bet they would raise 200-300 mil.
> (32% market share) isn't a monopoly

Well, neither was Standard Oil by that definition.

Of course, we already know how to solve the problem of companies having too much leverage due to owning too big verticals - namely to break them up. Not to institute everything-goes rules.
Estimator.dev results:

This site would be 9% faster with Modern JavaScript.
Currently, this site ships 25kb of Javascript (uncompressed).

Switching to modern JS would reduce that to 22kb, while still supporting 95% of browsers
Blue Apron was slowly collapsing before the pandemic, I have no idea how they've been doing since. I think the main reason groceries aren't competing with them is because it's not a good business for anything other than attracting investors.
This is like saying profiling is ok, as long as a citizen reports "suspicious" behavior to the police. Because then the police wouldn't be the ones doing the profiling.
Where and how in dataflow is late data being handled? How can I configure in which ways refinements relate? These questions are the standard "What Where When How" I want to answer and put into code when dealing with streaming data. I was not able to find this in the documentation, but I only spent a few minutes scanning it.

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-world-beyond-batch-streami...

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-world-beyond-batch-streami...

Also "Materialize" seems not to support needed features like tumbling windows (yet) when dealing with streaming data in SQL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.12133

Additionally "Materialize" states in their doc: State is all in totally volatile memory; if materialized dies, so too does all of the data. - this is not true for example for Apache Flink which stores its state in systems like RocksDB.

Having SideInputs or seeds is pretty neat, imagine you have two tables of several TiBs or larger. This is also something that "Materialize" currently lacks:
Streaming sources must receive all of their data from the stream itself; there is no way to “seed” a streaming source with static data.
At least here in Poland you can only take the exam in the car provided by the testing centre, you can't have the exam in your own car(with some exceptions like when you need to have a car adjusted to your disabilities)
Paradox of Tolerance is a hypocrisy. If you are shutting down someone's ability to communicate because you don't like what they are saying, you are not tolerant.
Worth noting that Google invested close to $1B in SpaceX in 2015, and is estimated to own ~10% of the company. Starlink deployment going smoothly and being much closer to commercially viable may have something to do with the decision to finally kill Loon.
Showing my age. src.doc.ic.ac.uk

It was known to some at my university (or maybe just me) pronounced as "Srk Dok Ik Ak Uk".
Fuck Amazon is all I have to say. This just adds yet another reason why I would never use AWS. People that defend Amazon are the ones ensuring no other companies will release their software as open source since you'll get exploited by shitty companies like Amazon.
simply reclaiming the fraudulently assigned IPs.

I hope the island of Tuvalu reclaims all those .tv domains then, not to mention .io.
It's just a bunch of red and green LEDs inside a regular housing..
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Of course, Yes I'm doing that. I'm making side investments too that are doing week. I should have enough to comfortably bootstrap a biotech with no investment in 5 years.
> The Financial Report is an interesting read.

Mind sharing a link if you have one?
From https://www.elastic.co/about/press/elastic-n-v-reports-stron...

> First Quarter Fiscal 2020 Financial Highlights

> Total revenue was $89.7 million, an increase of 58% year-over-year, or 62% on a constant currency basis.
So a PaaS + app framework?
Predictions for Augmented Reality in 2021
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And that's exactly what the GPL advocates have been saying for ages.
Capitalism is the elephant in the room, the economic (and cultural) system we have now.

Any change we want to do within this framework requires changing its rules. The real problem we have to face now is the perpetual growth model, which is a natural consequence of capitalism.

I don't know how and if we can fix this system to prevent perpetual growth without killing its essence. That's the real conversation we should do.

So don't act like someone is offending your religion.
Elastic is a public company worth 15B dollars now. Not the underdog.

> at what threshold should someone ... stop caring

You’re not caring about OSS, but about keeping your turf and “ownership” of a product that is not yours. There really is no question here that Elastic is the one doing the “corporation” move and not the other way around.

> to undermine the business that was setup to sustain it

Successful OSS don’t need one business to sustain them, they rely on the combined efforts of their users - including Amazon. They have no reason to undermine a project that makes them money.
You say information noisy, but some might WANT it to be information-noisy so that they don't have to press buttons to find what information they need.

I'm not saying they do (I'm a software developer Jim, not a pilot), just something to keep in mind. I'm rebuilding a webapp myself with more modern design, and in an early demo I've already gotten a remark about information density.
How is a rolling aggregate hard to update? If the value at index i is changed, just update everything from i-n to i+n (where n is the rolling window size).
Tuvalu uses that domain as a significant source of income (Tuvalu is really really small) it is quite likely those domains are legally bought
Seems like the responsiveness needs to be worked on a bit more[0]. Otherwise very cool project, I kinda like the color used for the dark theme.

0: https://imgur.com/a/uUemQQd
There is a slideshare about their networking approach for VPC somewhere it's quite clever. But I can't find anything for EBS and what features it might have that make Aurora replicate the way it does.
Someone else in another comment mentioned his work might appeal to atheists, so it's interesting you mention now believing in God. I grew up as an atheist but later in life returned to the eternal Dharma (Hinduism) and thoroughly have experienced God
M testing this out now, let’s see if I can dk it

Edit: the answer is no
I do the same, but not with fixed schedules in a calendar, but slightly randomized reminders with my iOS app.

Calendar events are simple, but I like that I can snooze in my app or reach out spontaneously. It's more flexible. But before I lose touch I will get that reminder.

https://apps.apple.com/app/us/id1481868897
Although be aware, if you add shares to nfs.conf, your Mac will no longer sleep while connected to power, even if you close the lid.

Not sure if there's a way around it, but I was sitting down at my desk every morning to find a toasty laptop, lid closed and fans blaring.
So what happens now to all the people who worked on that project? They shop themselves around the X building to see what other project(s) they could interview for and join? Or is this so big a change that this has a broader impact even to the job market around X?
Good for you! That’s an awesome skill. The point is, tactile feedback is essential for doing that to most of us, not that 0 people can do it.
We already have regulated capitalism. The core issues are still there.
Don't forget Teleport to download websites for offline viewing.
They're a sign that things are bad, for sure, but I think they are signs that Intel and the CEO know that and are taking it seriously. By themselves these moves will not save the company, but if they do have a decent chance of healing some of the internal damage. Yes they're bandages and ointment moves, they're not going to win any fights, but when your broken down and bleeding sometimes what you need right now is bandages and ointment.
It makes me wonder; why not build a massive multi-story museum complex with the wall space to show all of them. Make it more like a library than a museum.

I guess conservation, security and cost would be the biggest issues there.
The Explore/Exploit Strategy in Engineering
Has anyone seen some pictures of the concept car?
No, not 'never use DRM' objects; sometimes we do. Many developers are youngsters, from disadvantaged backgrounds, poorer countries, barely scraping an existence from their non-privileged zone of society. After exerting all their energies on an idea and writing the code, will go the mainstream route just to 'get it out there', to put a toe on the ladder. They can't worry that their efforts will be circumvented, they would give up entirely.

So some things that come with caveats are worth investing in. And there is some good in the majors. Throwing out the bad without the baby is the tricky part.
It isn't motivated reasoning, it is profound scepticism around how Amazon could have (1) identified the risk Parler was breaching their TOS (2) confirmed their suspicious and (3) ejected them from AWS in the time-frame that actually happened.

Parler seems to have been caught completely unaware that there was a risk of AWS cancelling their service, so presumably there wasn't any serious attempt by Amazon to seek corrective measures. It seems unlikely there was even an attempt to understand Parler's moderation process, because having those conversations and raising/addressing concerns takes time.

It is clear that the process to remove Parler wasn't slow and deliberative. The question in my mind is whether it was explicitly political, implicitly political or if someone powerful in AWS was just panicking. None of the 3 situations bode well for anyone trying to use AWS as infrastructure for communication. Which is a number of their major customers.