skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm an American married to a Taiwanese woman, so I've been there many times. I've had a lot of amusing "Western" (by which they mostly mean American) food on these trips. The last time few times I was there I went to a vegan place that specializes in Western food. Some of the stuff was what you'd expect, like a burger and fries, but there was also some oddities.

My favorite was the mashed potato sub, which was room temperature mashed potatoes mixed with bits of chopped vegan ham and carrots, served in a hot dog roll, topped with ketchup and mustard. It was really good, though it cracked me up that this was what they might think we eat in the US.

I've also noticed that many of the vegan Western food places serve dishes that they call "risotto" which are basically just cooked rice with sauce on top. I understand how they settled on risotto, but it can be a bit of disappointment if you're expecting actual risotto.

Overall, I have a lot of fun trying the Taiwanese interpretations of American food. The food quality there is just really high in general. Even if it's weird, it's weird with good ingredients and flavors, so you never end up with something inedible, just surprising in a fun way.
Myanmar's military has detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a coup
> Bonus points if despite "doing nothing" you still intake lots of caffeine.

Does tea count? Drinking coffee does sometimes (not always) make me more awake, and usually also makes my whole body feel weird (in a bad way) - but if I drink coffee, I do that on top of 10+ cups of black tea I drink every day, as I drank ever since I was 7 years old or something.
Finding a Path Forward with AngularJs
> Can't do a simple select * from s3://file.parquet

That's not really true; Snowflake can query directly from S3 just fine, even from other clouds. You just need to set up the credentials (or supply them in the query, but that's not usually a good idea).

Disclaimer: I work for Snowflake
Maharashtra: Bees halt hungry elephants eyeing crops, cut human-animal conflict
Hi Stefano,

Sent you an email, :)
Slightly better UX is the raison d'etre of companies like sony, apple, zoom, slack, etc. It matters a lot.
Man, I was hoping someone would do this. Thanks very much. Please please please, care about the design. I don't know why open source projects always have bad design.

Wish you all the best. and Congratulations!
I disagree.

Technically, Android doesn't have a One True App Store. But in practice, Google Play is the standard app store and 99% of users use it exclusively, at least in the West. It is in fact the one true app store for Android.

So Google does in fact control the Android app store (the one that counts, anyway). The reason why Google Play has so many shitty apps is because Google simply doesn't care about curation in the same way Apple does. That's true for every Google product, by the way. They strongly favor algorithmic curation, while Apple also relies heavily on human curation.

If Apple allowed alternative app stores, nothing would change as far as the standard iOS app store is concerned. 99,99% of users would keep using the Apple app store unless there was a very compelling reason for using an alternative.
I've been watching and unreasonable amount of train cab ride videos on youtube. Some how it's a good way to unwind at the end of the day, and pretend I can actually go somewhere :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw9qiV7XlFs
Oh it's amazing. Especially if you drink a lot. I wouldn't be surprised to learn there are some amplifying chemical effects when combined similar to cocaine + alcohol -> cocaethylene

Personally I am the other side of what you said lol I can't imagine that people don't feel it or don't enjoy it!

addiction science is cool and evolving. i wonder if people have different inherent dopamine regulation/Glutamate chemistry in their brains causing this difference of 'fun' [1]

and or maybe it's like cocaine or opiates where some people have to do it a couple times to 'notice' the difference. and then that difference drives your life lol

[1] https://www.intechopen.com/books/attention-deficit-hyperacti...
Apart from the nasty JRE licensing changes
Maybe they're referring to using individual computers as part of the cluster of boxes providing streaming gaming, like distributed computing projects.
Oh interesting; thanks! And yes - I agree
I can't help but be reminded of the classic Mitch Hedberg bit: "Alcoholism is the only disease you can get yelled at for having"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P28ErxjBY4o
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The fact that someone can create this in Pico-8 just blows my mind.
This got some traction once before, in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13195244
I call this "the holy spirit of snacking", and I trace it back at least to my grandfather who always liked a good lox-and-cream-cheese-on-chocolate-donut sandwich.

I also got the peanut-butter-and-mozzarella-on-english-muffin sandwich from him, which I legitimately enjoy.
Requesting performance isolation with the Origin-Agent-Cluster header
There's really a lot of severely misinformed opinion there.

"Much of the hype of RISC-V is hoping for laptop/desktop/server class silicon."

Really? RISC-V is pitched mostly against the likes of ARM, which seems to be doing fine without laptop/desktop/server class silicon.

Several RISC-V vendors are already shipping Cortex A53/A55 class CPUs, which are used as the LITTLE cores in mobile devices -- and even still the main cores in lower end mobile. Several RISC-V vendors have formally announced A72 (SiFive U84) or A73 (Alibaba C910) class cores. Alibaba is apparently using these internally already, and boards for general sale are expected this year. SiFive's U84 will probably be shipping in around 12 months from now.

ARM is a few steps ahead with A75 and A76, but those are just incremental developments and RISC-V is catching up fast.

It seems the article was written before the HiFive Unmatched was announced -- but I don't think it was written before the U74 CPU cores in the Unmatched were announced in October 2018, so I guess the author either wasn't paying attention, or else don't understand the standard 2 to 2.5 years from announcement of a core to shipping products using an SoC with that core. There is nothing surprising about the HiFive Unmatched.

Was the article also written before Apple announced its switch to ARM64 architecture and their M1 chip?

The M1 uses ARM's 64 bit instruction set, but is far ahead of anything from ARM or its other licencees in performance.

If someone made the same level of investment in a RISC-V core and SoC as in the M1 then that RISC-V product would perform basically the same as the M1. That's a several billion dollar investment. Apple has that kind of money, but the best known RISC-V vendors such as SiFive (total funding to date under $200 million) don't.

That's an economic problem to solve, not a problem with the RISC-V ISA.

Alibaba or Huawei might well make that kind of investment in RISC-V. They are definitely both very interested in it.

The article concludes with the same old links to uninformed people making uninformed criticisms of RISC-V. I don't know who erincandescent is other than having written this rather famous post. Apparent the credibility of the post lies in them being an ARM engineer. Could be. ARM has thousands of engineers.

Here's the opinion of probably THE most important ARM engineer of the 1990s and 2000s, Dave Jaggar who developed the ARM7TDMI, Thumb, Thumb2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6sh097Dk5k

Check at 51:30 where he says "I would Google RISC-V and find out all about it. They've done a fine instruction set, a fine job [...] it's the state of the art now for 32-bit general purpose instruction sets. And it's got the 16-bit compressed stuff. So, yeah, learning about that, you're learning from the best."
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I see a dangerous trend of car manufactures aligning with mobile OS manufactures for "preffered" treatment. I am afraid in future battle lines will be drawn and some cards like Ford will support Android Auto while neglective Apple CarPlay while other manufactures will go another way around. So consumers will be forced to chose compatible phones and cars. To make it worse, some families use Android and Apple phones which would make them imposbile to find a car supporting both. I would prefer car manufactures to stay mobile-OS neutral, without showing any preferences and try to support major ones at the same level.
MediaTek unveils its first 5G modem with mmWave support
stimulants are prevalent in all high-paying technical/knowledge fields in the US. tech, finance, and medicine being the big 3. i have nothing but anecdotal evidence to support this, but i'd bet that more than 3/4s of students who have gone through a medical school program in the US have taken adderall at least once during it

i'm tempted to argue that ease of access to amphetamines plays a huge part in the US continuing to maintain a thriving tech industry. along with being able to siphon the best and brightest from every other country that can't match US comps, of course
> {"message": "Adapter not found"}

That's a new one.

It would appear you linked to the NatGeo API for some reason, here's a link to the actual article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2021/01/has-scien...
The Right to Repair Movement Is Poised to Explode in 2021
The pop-science definition of ADHD has started to stray very far from the science.

There’s a growing tendency for newly diagnosed ADHD patients to try to explain all of their mental habits and preferences through the lens of ADHD. Some times they have helpful feedback for other people with similar habits, but other times they just paint ADHD with an overly broad brush. They often have unrealistically lofty ideals of what a non-ADHD person looks like, or describe basic human nature as ADHD (for example: it's perfectly normal if you'd prefer to play video games than do your homework. We've all been there, ADHD or not)

One thing I would recommend: Don’t let an ADHD diagnosis define your personality. A diagnosis is simply a guide map for treatment. It shouldn’t become a stereotype that defines you as a person. Use the diagnosis to learn techniques to overcome difficulties, but don’t let the diagnosis become a convenient excuse to let yourself off the hook or explain away concerns that would be better served by some personal growth.
Australia Faces Prospect of Becoming Bing Nation as Google Plans Exit
I regularly stay off medication for a few weeks so I know what it feels like to start again with them. I don't feel any euphoria, the first day of medication is often the worst, and I hate taking them. But without medication I can't work, with medication I am a top performer. I got diagnosed as an adult since I couldn't even do easy tasks reliably and therefore couldn't hold a job.
Chrome 89 beta: Google presses on with "advanced hardware interactions"
Yes... medication and therapy has helped though. Therapy helped FOMO (activities OR information) by letting me accept not knowing/experiencing things. It allows me to finally be ok with closing tabs I haven't looked at in months without worrying I'm missing some important piece of information. Medication helps me avoid opening up tabs without closing them out when I'm done.

(Also, I use the Pocket extension to stash things away that I will "read later" even though I never do until I'm on a flight and need something to read.)
Have you ever tried stadia? It's incredible 99.9% of the time. But that 0.1%... I thought I could put up with a few frame drops in Metro, but it just sucks you out of the game.
I actually would love to own a system. I've done that as an acting tech lead for a year, and then as an ASC for a large application from a security perspective. It seems that the issues in this system are different. I probably should have said no to building it until the other systems fixed their architectures (comingled business and tech data, really?). I don't know. I need a job so I should just keep my mouth shut. I wish I could be the one making those bigger decisions and making lots of money while sucking.
Sure, but it also remains the defining example of "ludicrously expensive graphics card". The card below it, the GTX 780, was $650, which is still more expensive than any current generation consoles. Meanwhile the current top and 2nd tier GeForce cards (3090 and 3080) have MSRPs of $1500 and $700, which are more expensive, but not outrageously so. I just don't think it's accurate to paint a picture of the market from 2008-2017 as affordable in contrast with the current expensive market.
I have had the same challenge with other python ORMs. I would love it if the django ORM were separated from the django project itself. That would be a hugely positive thing for the industry.
Didn't we just read a story about the exact same issue?

Traffic picked up heavily on some website or app, AWS didn't auto-scale fast enough or at all and the very systems that are designed to be elastic just tumbled down to a grinding halt?
I think the distinction is artificial. The kind of strategies robo-advisors use aren't really that different from any other investor. For example risk parity, "smart" beta (getting exposure to risk premia factors) are all things robo advisors and traditional fund managers do. What's the difference?
Are Canadians eligible for the remote positions?
You don't need to use the discretionary parameter to increase margin requirements when the stock has 100%+ daily volatility.
Prometheus is great, the main problem is the bloat of metrics it's collecting. one really needs to carefully define the rules to scrape, compute, reduce and filter the ones that are not needed and the ones that need to precompute.
Hey Google, show me the perfect antitrust suit.

Seriously though, I think Microsoft and Sony would scream the house down if Google made movements like this. They may not be monopoly holders in console gaming, but you think that would stop a suit like that being heard?
Counter-anecdote: I was diagnosed sixish months ago, prescribed medication about 3 months ago. The meds don't have the same high of alcohol or weed, but there's definitely an occasional deep sense of calm and wellness - one that's hard not to want, being my chronically depressed self. Definitely enough to set off my "never abuse this, it will end badly" mental alarm

Otherwise though, it checks all the usual boxes - way easier to sit still and be quiet, way easier to do the thing I intended to do when I sat down to do it, way easier to get in and out of focus. Also improved my sleep schedule a surprising amount - between it and melatonin, I've moved from 6am-3pm to ~12am-8:30am, which is wildly outside any of the expectations I've seen set for pharmaceutical remedies, and puts me firmly in 'able to hold a normal adult job without killing yourself through sleep deprevation' territory.

Honestly almost annoying it has such a positive effect since the practical difference between that and addiction are pretty minimal on a short-term basis. I'm deeply uncomfortable with the idea of having to go without it or something filling the same brain-holes for a long period of time precisely because I'm basically worthless without it, in a way I didn't really come to appreciate until after starting medication.
Browsers typically let you define a user stylesheet somewhere in the settings. I tried it in Safari with a simple `body {@font-face {font-display: optional;}}` but I could't verify if it has any effects. I think it is difficult because @font-face will be evaluated differently than usual css, say `color: red`. Maybe someone who has a better understanding of css could try it...
It would get rid of a lot of verticals that only run with positive ROAS. Ecommerce, political donations, etc. We won't spend on direct to donate ads unless the ROI is strong and I know that is not possible without FB and their data.
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As someone who has tested GeForce Now, Stadia and Shadow PC. I would advice see first what games are available on Stadia before jumping in. Being honest here Stadia library is really limited compared to Gamepass were with a beta xCloud included at least you get free to play games. Shadow PC play anything from any store like Steam or Gamepass on PC or any Android device. Stadia is a cool tech but lacks the backbone.
Google shuts down internal Stadia game development
Not a fan of the fact that https://www.projectmanager.com changed the linked Blog post to a purely sales funnel page.... Not classy.
There is a massive overlap between /r/wallstreetbets, Elon Musk fan-boys and crypto enthusiasts I bet, and this mess has something for all of them: gaming, FOMO, evil short-sellers, beating the system, lots of diagrams with arrows and an app that's easy to use and easier to blame.
https://www.wsgr.com/en/people/barath-r-chari.html

Barath is a fraternity brother of mine, from Cal. He got a BA in CS, which is an impacted major you apply to after 2 years (super competitive). He went on to be a developer for Deloitte.

After a few years, he went to law school and started working at Wilson. He's now a partner and I believe he worked on Aurora's acquisition of Uber self-driving car IP.
Thanks for reading and sticking with me through the underwhelming parts!

I'm glad you enjoyed the post!
Seemingly, you would think we don't need something to make us lazier, but this kind of stuff is great for people with disabilities/issues using their hands.
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I dunno. Cloud gaming (theoretically) means that anyone could play from anywhere at any time. Surely such a powerful idea enables some cool new experiences out there in the infinite realm of human creativity?
I have had a Venta LW15 for a long time, and like it. I have gone through many humidifiers, and the LW15 is the only one that has lasted more than five years and does not require filters. It is expensive, even with cleaning>

It does require regular cleaning, though -- that can be a pain. It pulled minimal power, too.

I have switched to a whole house humidifier this year and I really like not having to change water every day. I am not sure how it will work in the long term.
Agreed. The larger and deeper the model, the more the use cases seem to become negative ROI. I think for business use there will have to be an effort to compress the architecture considerably
Fascinating:

https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hac...
Fair enough, I'm just talking from the perspective of a SQL analyst who could use both Teradata and Databricks at work.

Teradata was faster with no user-facing tuning vs tuned Databricks. And if you can pay for Teradata you may as well use it.
Yes. I don't really understand what is being argued here.

There are three stages; execution, clearing and settlement.

Execution is the formation of the legal-binding agreement, e.g. a contract to exchange money for stock. For these cases, this is happening via matching on an exchange between a buyer and a seller. If the time of the trade is T, then happens at T+0.

Clearing is the paperwork activity that takes place after execution that include the due diligence steps of making sure that trades match, as well as other stuff that can reduce the amount of settlement activity. This happens in the period from T+delta through T+2-delta.

Settlement is the actual exchange, and is the point at which legal ownership of the stock changes. This happens at T+2.

It is obviously true that the brokerage uses client money for settlement; otherwise how would the broker ever fund any trades by its clients?

Is also obviously true that prior to the moment of settlement the client money is ... the client money, and subject to segregation. In other words, from the broker perspective, it's always client money until it's off their books.

The time when the NSCC wants to see adequate collateral is exactly during the clearing period, when the actual counterparty risk exists. That collateral absolutely cannot be from client money due to the segregation rules because the whole purpose of the collateral is to reduce the risk of a broker failure causing clients to lose money.

RH's collateral requirements blew up because some substantial proportion of their clientele was attempting to go long GME during a period of vast price volatility, and the NSCC's procedure for determining those requirements takes into account primarily the size of the net long position and the volatility for each member.

Net result: RH has to go raise capital in a hurry; RH stops its clients from going any further long GME.
This 100 word article says everything about databricks and the whole ecosystem of content free data engineering blog posts.

It’s all buzz words, no content and please signup now.

How so this link so we’ll upvoted?

Did people just see “databricks” and think ooo... I have an opinion on that?

Read the article before you upvote folks; this one doesn’t deserve your time.