skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key gap as I see it is that databricks doesn’t support multi-table transactions. And that is why you can’t treat it as though it as a drop in functional replacement for an rdbms.

(Why no vector clocks in the manifest files or something?)
hi! Some quick perspective - my thoughts looking into this are "ok cool what metrics do i get for free? cpu load? disk usage? the hard to find memory usage?" and i just get lost in your home page without any examples of what the dashboard looks like
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Excellent work to all involved.
Thank you.
When you put it that way it feels like Solid is a technical solution to a legislative issue.
Indeed a 9x in resolution is a big ol chunk of data, and primarily, increases in the bands collected (PAN vs RGB vs NIIR vs LWIR vs hyperspectral/multispectral) data is one piece of a complicated puzzle of how to get data to the ground. Previous entrants have spent a lot of money building out their own networks and infrastructure, helping contribute to high costs of imagery. We look to leverage the ground-station-as-a-service industries such as AWS, KSAT, and Azure Orbital to help downlink our data. Add to that a switch over to Ka band (higher bandwidth) with inter-satellite links in the tradespace, you start to help the data problem. As well, every image provider does some amount of lossless compression (compressing the non-informative data) to help manage some of that. But the overall data to manage is also a factor of how much tasking you anticipate per rev, if the image you collected is actually useful (ie clouds), if the customer is interested in all those bands for their task, and many more variables.

In terms of the 'big dish' gateway infrastructure, it eases link budgets and opens bigger pipes, but if you're limited in your output power and your access, having smaller dishes and more proliferated networks may make more sense (sounds similar to your Big satellite vs many small satellite trades :) )
Unnecessary snark is unnecessary. We already did the bulk of our 16.04 -> 20.04 upgrades last summer, and were planning on mopping up the remainders over the next two months, while there was still time. That's the point of these support commitments with clearly defined timelines— allowing people to plan for this stuff to happen when it suits them.

Now we have a handful of broken support VMs and other things which have to be migrated in a rush instead of according to the planned schedule.
So if it had been made 10 years earlier it might have featured a traffic cone AND a shopping trolley!
Yeah it's weird that they would put that in a public blog post without any explanation. I'm guessing it's their game development division.
IBM ASP - Attached Support Processor - implemented similar scheduling as today one does with kubernetes and the like, back in 1967. It used a smaller S/360 computer as controller to a larger one, with larger one running only application workload and smaller one running all the housekeeping tasks. It was soon extended to handling multiple worker nodes, and rewritten for MVS as JES3
The author of the article has no understanding of what counterparty risk during stock settlement looks like. If they did, they would have included the explanation in their "To be fair to RobinHood" section, and the entire essay would have been a nothingburger.

Instead of educating themselves about what is a very simple concept, they are peddling conspiracy theories... But that's because reality is a lot more boring, and a lot less sexy than the hedge fund boogieman.

On a technical front, their claims are complete bunk. Cryptocurrencies cannot handle even a tiny fraction of the transaction volume of an exchange - at least, without introducing a separate, off-blockchain transaction and settlement layer... Which re-introduces counterparty risk during settlement! The exact problem that you are trying to use a blockchain to avoid comes back to bite you.
This has been going on for at least a week. People have been sharing a link that blue screens anyone that views it. I'm keeping link previews and embedded media off permanently. This is the second severe security issue with discord in only a few months.
Initially I thought some straightforward fun first party games would be great. Make them cheap / free with platform, do some of the standards (a runner, a platformer, etc etc). Keep them pretty simple. That would have been nice - show off a bit what the platform can do, but be a fast follower for some popular genres.

What engine was SGE using? When I heard AWS wasn't just going to do something like license Epic I thought - uh oh... here we go!
Is there any possibility the cyphertext is wrong? Either generated with a bug, someone hit the wheel halfway through, copied down wrong, etc? Is there a checksum that authenticates this as a valid cyphertext?
One possible answer to both of your questions is "with legislation", and I feel like to some extent a tightening of the rules here is what Solid anticipates. Perhaps not to the point that we could expect the big players of today to adopt a platform like Solid, but perhaps where the companies of tomorrow looking to avoid the headaches of compliance see offloading data storage to a dedicated entity managed by the user as an appealing option.
> Coffee consumption was actually one of the questions that I was asked when my therapist first suspected that I had ADHD. I used to drink 5+ cups per day (especially workdays) while feeling fairly little effect from it.

Did you get a big boost when you first started with it that reduced as you developed tolerance with habitual use?

I've always been pretty careful with caffeine consumption in order to avoid tolerance, because I didn't want to get into a state where all it did was boost me back to my "normal" (i.e. feeling crappy until I got my coffee, and having to use increasing amounts to get past my baseline).
Thanks for continuing to produce a clean, pain-free, DRM headache free, lightweight, awesome product.
Nothing is supposed to be anything. Its all about education and preventive maladaptive use patterns, which criminalization does nothing to solve.
I totally agree the 9x is somewhat marketing speak, but I do think that the way GSD has historically been characterized by the 1-dimensional measurement does not do spatial resolution improvements enough justice. Electro-optical imaging systems are analogous to any digital sampling system. If you were sampling a sine wave at 90 Hz instead of 10 Hz, that's clearly a 9x improvement as you end up with 9x more samples. The same is true for imaging, you're digitally sampling an object with discrete pixels (of course there's more to overall image quality than just spatial resolution).
Another side note is that the government NIIRS imagery rating system captures this squared effect through the log2(GSD) term in the equation. Photographers also think more about it in 2D, as they characterize resolution in total Megapixels in the image.
Ok I'm done, I'll get off my resolution soapbox :)
The reason they don’t push this is because Stadia, like a lot of things, is just a side project at google. It does nothing to drive significant new ad revenue, so it’s never going to get this kind of deep pocket investment.
Yup. I don't think they realize the difference between a broker and an exchange. Good getting anyone to list their stock on a chaotic distributed non-exchange.
I think data portability is the most obvious value proposition for most people, especially between potentially hostile services (Facebook and Google Photos could easily inter-operate, but that's not something either company wants to invest in). For someone like me, who has moved a streaming music "collection" between 4 services over the past decade or so, it would have been real handy.

It also, conceptually at least, dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for new services in the same space, since they can use the existing data models and persistence layers.

The privacy aspects are secondary, at least to start, though I think the last few years have helped establish more context for them. Providing granular controls for data access in a common format across services seems like a big win, at least compared to my experience hunting through preferences/settings/account details/etc menus in Facebook and other places.

Finally, I think there's significant potential value in this being used as way to authenticate the source of media. As deepfakes are getting better and easier to create, having all the video and audio of you connected to a known identity seems like a necessity. Letting Facebook or Google be that identity provider would be very bad.
You are making assumptions the parent did not imply. You can be on ADHD meds and not be addicted to them, ffs. I am on low-dose adderall xr on days that I need it and I have never had an issue. Everyone is different, but to imply that the adderall has caused an “active physical dependency” is no different from stating that too many people drink caffeine (except that because I only take it as needed it’s not even a fair comparison).

You’d be right, but it does not do significant harm, especially given how therapeutic the right drug can be in the right doses.

Can it do significant harm? Sure. So can Ibuprofen.
>Ads like this are very common for me - a purchase that I would consider to be a one-off thing (at least, for several years, whatever the standard lifetime of that product is) just leads to more ads for different models of that same thing. Occasionally, accessories that only go to a different model or brand of that thing.

I don't have the industry expertise to know how true it is, but I've seen it stated numerous times in threads like this that this is entirely intentional. Supposedly the data shows that a person who just bought a rowing machine is actually quite likely to buy another one (because they aren't satisfied with the first one, because they collect rowing machines, etc) compared to most other demographics.
No one waits days to buy/sell stocks. Average execution time with the top brokers is a fraction of second.

https://www.brokerage-review.com/investing-firm/broker-trade...
What compound is 'bath salts'? Is there more than one? Do they do different things?
I would argue that a lot of weaker elements in the stack (e.g. PHP) work well because of a stronger database.

A good database system does a lot to catch errors (including consistency problems), isolate them, and roll them back. Moreover, it will allow you to move performance problems into the database, where it's likely to be handled more efficiently with less application code (e.g. joining in the database is likely to be more efficient than a naive join algorithm implemented in the application).

Some will argue that these are misfeatures and should be handled in the application. In some cases, that is true; but you are probably going to need some other aspects of the stack to be very robust and performant to get reasonable results.

In other words (please excuse my examples as they are intended for illustration and not flamebait), PHP over Posgres might be fine; Haskell over MongoDB might be fine; but PHP over MongoDB is playing with fire.

I'd still say that, in most cases, the database layer is the first place to start to work toward a robust system. Even a proven-correct Haskell program can fail miserably if there was a minor bug three versions ago that wrote some bogus data that wasn't caught by a good database layer.
Whenever I see these discussions I only ever see the drawbacks of restricting drug manufacturing and distribution and never the drawbacks of legalization. An honest analysis would acknowledge the drawbacks of legalization too. It's difficult to tell exactly what the long term consequences of complete drug legalization are, and I guarantee there are some negative consequences.

For example, legalization might reduce the scale of drug trafficking, but I doubt it would eliminate it completely. Tobacco is completely legal yet due to high taxes there is still a large multi-billion dollar bootlegging business to smuggle cigarettes across tax gradients. Also, highly taxed drugs will likely result in an increase in related crimes like theft. I had a friend from high school who was addicted to heroin. When he ran out of money he was willing to mug old ladies to come up with the cash for more. If heroin were instead legal... why wouldn't he just steal directly from the legal distribution source now that the threat of violence is no longer there? You don't steal from the dealer because you might be killed, but stealing from Walmart or CVS or whoever is carrying it? Why not? Corporate policy probably says not to do anything.

Lastly, unless marketing is highly restricted, legalization of drugs will absolutely lead to an increase in usage across all demographics. And a net increase in usage will cause some % increase in DWI rates, overdose rates, health care impact, etc.

We will pay some price for legalization as well, it's just TBD and nebulous at this point.
You prefer to do the exact things that people with ADHD struggle with. This is like saying “for depression I prefer to just not be sad.”

It wasn’t until after I was diagnosed and medicated that I finished my undergrad after almost a decade, started my career, and started grad school. You do you, but don’t be sanctimonious about mental health treatment based on your anecdotes.
Just stopping in & saying that I love this software. Thank you!
Her governance didn't induce any new conflicts. 5 years just wasn't enough to resolve decades-long ones while sabotaged by the military.
"especially if they are uncooperative." Oh yeah. I really don't like the idea of an officer having discretion in these situations. First sign of bad legislation IMHO.
VLC is one of the first things I install on any new system. It's light, consistent and works! Thank you for not going "2.0" on it.
>If you look at an industry way of doing something and decide it’s wrong, you should have solid reasoning to back it up.

Here's one: if you copy them in every way, you'll just be a smaller and later version of them and get no users or sales. A-priori, you're going to need to find an edge somewhere.
Hackboard Personal Computer Kit – A full home computer for $300
Why would pharma not want legalization? At worst, it doesn't affect them. At best, it's another revenue stream.
Robinhood Raises $3.4B to Fuel Record Customer Growth
What's funny is a friend of mine who is a talented developer and started a game studio surprised me when he started blogging about his experience and he was solely focused on the characters, story development, animation, etc. Instead of technology. Reading about the problems Amazon has been having, this seems like the only way to go.
I'd suspect it's a bad interpretation of how microcoded computers work, as on first contact they do sound like virtual machines like that.
Thank you for an amazing piece of software that I use daily! I got a question I've been wondering about.

When I first encountered VLC, most other popular media players had very embellished UIs with tons of chrome and bitmaps everywhere. Apart from superior performance and format support, VLC stood out by being unapologetically minimalist and basic in its interface. Was that intentional? And were you ever tempted to go the same route UI-wise as other media players?

I'm sure glad you didn't!
Yours sounds good. I crafted mine according to the pattern in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma-Shave#/media/File:BurmaS... and tried to rhyme bemuses on resources and forces with questionable success.

The article you linked to is nice and was never submitted here before. I hope you do not mind that I just did that.
I'm not advocating selling heroin at the corner store. Perhaps it should be sold over the counter at pharmacies? A licensed pharmacist can advice the buyer of the risks and can connect them with resources to help with addiction if there is a desire for that.

We already massively promote and sell alcohol nearly everywhere. It's a deadly drug that is more dangerous to use than many illegal drugs. Tobacco is similarly broadly distributed, yet causes cancer and early death in millions of people.

If drugs were regulated based on their risk level, then it's likely that tobacco would be sold in plain packaging at pharmacies and MDMA would be available in a vending machine...
From Kotaku[0]:

> "The service’s best moments may have been when its third-party ports showed off the strength of the cloud gaming model, in which a game can run well on just about any device with a screen and a strong internet connection. Ubisoft games such as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey ran well on Stadia. Destiny 2’s Stadia support let players of that game drop in for an extra match or quest from their phone or laptop when they were far from their regular gaming gear. When Cyberpunk 2077 was faltering on everything else in December, it was running quite well on Stadia.

They’re not wrong. If Phil *Harrison is trying to turn Stadia into, say, the "Unreal Engine of cloud gaming” (scare quotes added by me), he’ll likely be much more successful at doing that than trying to make "a traditional console like PS5, but, like, in the cloud."

This shatters my confidence in Stadia as an ongoing consumer platform, though (especially that Stadio Pro sub, and possibly even the hardware/controllers too.)

0. https://kotaku.com/google-stadia-shuts-down-internal-studios...
The cosmological constant is physics’ most embarrassing problem
Nor do you spent 10 hours with a magnifying glass and tweezers to attempt to change the filament on a burnt out light.

Which analogy you consider spurious likely depends on what kind of theatres of IT war you've been in.
> if your queries are very specific and only return a couple rows, then you can have huge tables and join across them without issue.

I agree, if you index your tables. Relational databases are very capable; when there's a performance problem, it's often due to simple things like failing to index what should have been indexed.

No tool is perfect for all use cases. There are cases where relational databases won't work. But when I try to store data, I first consider storing it in files, and if that is unpleasant, I consider relational databases. These are both relatively simple time-tested solutions, and it's usually good to start with simple & time-tested unless there's a reason it won't work well.
Or sleep deprivation...
That’s a similar heuristic to what I use to define binge drinking. It doesn’t have to mean drinking a 30 rack in an evening.
It can be mostly innocuous. And I feel no sympathy for facebook’s business model here. I don’t want my attention to be bought and sold like a horse between faceless companies. I’d much rather pay $1/year to WhatsApp than have the content of my personal life analysed by the world’s marketing teams. I want to be the customer, not the product. I want the software I use to be primarily designed around my needs - not the needs of advertisers.
Drug use is very harmful to society, and people who deny that just fall into the opposite end of the reality-denial spectrum opposed to those who deny that mass incarceration is harmful. Aside from all of the antisocial behaviour associated with drug use, having a large group of people who are a drain on society’s resources is certainly a harm to society as a whole. Which may sound callous, but it’s a very real consequence of large scale drug dependency.

I still think this is likely a good law though, because the justice systems current approach to drug crimes creates such a tremendous harm to society, there has to be some rather obvious benefits to curtailing that. If you look at how relatively minor drug convictions can affect people’s lives, it’s beyond any measure of proportionality. It’s just a harm easier to ignore because it mostly affects societal out-groups.
NZ/Australia though. Seriously for most of their life it has suffered because hours are completely different to Europe and East Coast USA. Now they sit half way between California and China, how is that for lucky.
Rest assured that the friendly weed dealer is buying upstream from someone who is significantly less friendly. And the person he or she is buying from is likely a murderous psychopath. _By definition_, the most successful in the drug trade are those who are willing to do anything for profit.
Here's an article I read the other day on this: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-just-anything-except-g...

My favorite quotation: (context: Frazzini is director-lvl) "[...]the team cringed as Frazzini struggled to differentiate between hyper-polished conceptual footage and live gameplay[...]". I am awe-struck, my only response is: LOL

My second favorite tidbit was about their game "New World", in which players "colonize a mythical land and murder inhabitants who bear a striking resemblance to Native Americans". Then refused to believe their employees who said this was racist and offensive. Until they hired a tribal consultant who, indeed, found it offensive.

There's other good things in there as well - not listening to other employees, hiring and then wasting talent, chasing trends, not understanding the industry, not scoping correctly (lumberjack). Even AMZN's culture was restrictive and harmful (IMO especially "leaders are right a lot" lmao, not at all in this case!).

Could you imagine working in an industry for a decade, and then being in this position? Where your boss literally cannot differentiate between a rendered video and a pre-release video game - but the culture has an in-built "you're probably wrong, peon" attitude? I'd leave so fast I'd probably forget my desk plants!
> caffeine does help from my testing, especially caffeine combined with L-Theanine.

One thing that made me look into adderall was finding out I was a slow metabolizer of caffeine via 23andme, and was consuming an unhealthy level of caffeine. I did some research and determined that the health risks of low doses of adderall were smaller than those of high doses of caffeine.

Scott Alexander’s review of the research on Adderall are also worth reading:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mo...
I'm going to try implementing this
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> Was that intentional? And were you ever tempted to go the same route UI-wise as other media players?

If you suck at UI, hide your UI. :)

Else, we're working on updating the UI, but that's very difficult for a small open source team. And that's going to make a lot of people unhappy, so we're working on options to get the old look possible :)