skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To invest successfully you don’t pay a high price saying “well there are worse companies at worse prices out there”.

Valuations are always determined by the NPV of future earnings, discounted for time and cost of money. Given rising interest rates all of these valuations will get slashed substantially.

It’s a bubble, after the internet bubble it took Amazon 7 years to trade back to its bubble price. Cisco never has.
> and rewrote all their products to be SaaS.

I had a PoC with DBA's from my company and Oracle to see how that works for simple Oracle DB use cases and some Exadata stuff. At the time (2-3 years ago) most of that "rewrite" was just a lot of scripts on their side that reconfigured regular Oracle DB. Same work my DBA's did. They even allowed us to modify managed DB's configuration, but apparently it meant we'll loose support for that and would have to start managing it by ourselves again. It was confusing at best and their team was sometimes as surprised as we were.

Still, it's better then "classic" they offered. Smallest Weblogic setup (we wanted two servers) that was possible to create using a wizard was around 70GB of RAM (AFAIR) and multiple servers. It just spawned full VM with managed Oracle DB for Weblogic configuration, another one for DR, two WLS servers, a loadbalancer. Take into account that the smallest VM was 4 or 8GB of ram and your budget is gone right away. Not really for small scale setups.

I wonder how it looks like from perspective of people more fluent in Oracle products and OCI cloud, currently.
Early in my career, I worked for a company that stored tons of data with Mongo, and their databases looked like poor man's SQL (lots of collections with foreign key relationships between them, etc.). Please don't do this, Mongo doesn't care about your imaginary SQL system actually working.
Having also been a Mormon, couldn't this be said of anyone really? I mean nobody really wants their dirty secrets aired to the world, and it doesn't take the FBI to dig up dirt.

Sam Young has dug up plenty of dirt and horror stories on church youth interviews. Joseph Bishop was raping girls in the MTC, etc... those came out organically without the FBI's involvement.

If anything the church tries very hard to hide any scandals of members because it doesn't just make the member look bad it makes the church look bad... Because they have an image of being "REAL" prophets, seers, revelators who TALK face to face with Jesus. If they don't have the power of "discernment" then the whole church is a fabrication. (Hint: it is. See: CESLetter.org if in doubt).
In 2021 it isn’t bad anymore, but that’s a really low bar to set. You may find that using Postgres or MySQL is easier to maintain, faster to find performance issues, quicker to fix if it breaks, etc.
I'm not worried about hitting the same error they did, I'm worried about getting the same customer support they did.
This winter, my Japanese city in the humid sub-tropics (yes, it's true) dropped to 0ºC if not a little lower, and last summer hit 40ºC several times. We also had a rainy season where the humidity is in the upper echelons. And there's the typhoon season too.

A quick search would've saved you all those rightful downvotes.
Can you explain this more? I’d argue that if you don’t know the patterns you’ll use to access your data, relational is the way to go. That’s the point, no? Flexibility over how you access your data.

With an object store you mostly have to have decided upfront which data is collocated together.
These discussion are always unfair against every power source. Each has different properties that make naïve comparison difficult. In the real world power stations have to exist within an economic, political, and technical ecosystem. If a particular approach is delivering value then the argument is rather mute.
> Eg. Dump all of the data to S3 and search it in parallel via AWS Athena.

Too proprietary. Can't be run locally, on robots, etc. Can't be transferred to other cloud providers. Also S3 is horribly slow to write or delete thousands of records at once.
But you need more than a few TiB of stored data for Cassandra to be a net win. I've been part of two inhouse software projects with database in the single digit TiB scale based on Cassandra. Both projects where switched to PostgreSQL and the performance improved for almost everything. Plus all the other advantages of mature relational database. Hosting Cassandra is a whole different league of complication compared to PostgreSQL. So you should be very sure that you actually gain something before choosing it over PostgreSQL.
It's not bad, its just not the best.

If you are happy with your stack and it works for you that is all that matters.

However, you will have a lot more features available to you by using Postgres and tools like hasura to automate your api generation.

The migration from mongo to postgres isn't that bad at all, but if it ain't broke don't fix it comes to mind.
> Utah suffers from some of the highest rates of affinity fraud in the nation

Saw that when I lived there...

> it's not so great at producing independent thinkers or whistleblowers who'll hold their bosses accountable, nor who will think twice about maintaining the status quo.

As I understand it, this works out great for the NSA. Given the plurality of mormons that I've met who work there.
To the extent to which one agrees with this argument, it applies at any level of scale: the government isn't the only place from which one experiences "rules". Apple has a number of rules for software on its devices, as does Google (though not as many, almost as many); the result being that virtually every device and user is gated by similar rules from one of these two companies... rules that they claim are there to keep us safe, but are often there for their own business interests (aka: the same as a lot of the worst government regulation in the form of rent capture).

Do you want to build a new decentralized market with end to end encrypted metadata free anonymous transactions? Sorry, no: you have to filter content that Apple dislikes (such as breastfeeding women <- Instagram directly blamed Apple for their puritanical rules about this), centralize all payments through Apple's bank accounts (so they can take their 30% rake), and ensure the only way for users to get push notifications leaves a trace of metadata on Apple's servers (as Apple prefers a world in which users can't make their own battery tradeoffs).

What makes some rules special--what I will argue are the "best rules"--are the rules that prevent people from themselves making up arbitrary rules and enforcing them on large numbers of other people just because they are in a momentary privileged position: we need more of those rules--rules that create level playing fields and allow for competition from small companies attempting to take on giants--and fewer rules about how to prevent specific forms of terrorism.
news today is merely a psychology-based domestic terrorism on massive scale without any oversight. hence why people today are constantly stressed out. news became "tabloid" because in the end, it is not about OBJECTIVE reporting of FACTS but rather SUBJECTIVE manipulation and selective truths that will yield the most clicks for the ad-based revenue. it is sickening and one of the most horrid things we have in the 21st century.
Previous threads on HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9178773

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13389196
In the long run I expect the solution will be electrification of highways so that trucks can recharge while they're moving, and the batteries are only used over short distances on local roads picking things up and dropping them off, or to fill in gaps between electrified road sections. Then range won't be a significant issue anymore.

That would be a pretty major infrastructure project, though.
Correct. The double spending is not solved technically, but critically relies on a functioning legal system.

Every time you create Euros, you simply create a negative balance. If you offline sign multiple I Owe You contracts, you accumulate debt. Just like in the real world, if you sell your house to 12 different banks, you have a (felony-level) problem.
We ensure that double spending is detected with certain guarantees. Each micro-block with a transaction within Trustchain needs to be signed by two parties, so each copy is valid. Block hiding attacks wont work then.

The proof-of-work system is very elegant. The emergent properties of mining have created an amazing ecosystem. But slow finality might be a showstopper for mass uptake. Our alternative with instant finality using multiple legally binding signatures might offer a way out.
Highly over simplified, but the idea is that the curvature of space-time is smooth but quantum mechanics is discrete.
Ought be noted that the core of Google was developed with gov grants on standford

> In 1994 — the same year the Highlands Forum was founded under the stewardship of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the ONA, and DARPA — two young PhD students at Stanford University, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, made their breakthrough on the first automated web crawling and page ranking application. That application remains the core component of what eventually became Google’s search service. Brin and Page had performed their work with funding from the Digital Library Initiative (DLI), a multi-agency programme of the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA and DARPA.

> But that’s just one side of the story.

> Throughout the development of the search engine, Sergey Brin reported regularly and directly to two people who were not Stanford faculty at all: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham and Dr. Rick Steinheiser. Both were representatives of a sensitive US intelligence community research programme on information security and data-mining.

> Thuraisingham is currently the Louis A. Beecherl distinguished professor and executive director of the Cyber Security Research Institute at the University of Texas, Dallas, and a sought-after expert on data-mining, data management and information security issues. But in the 1990s, she worked for the MITRE Corp., a leading US defense contractor, where she managed the Massive Digital Data Systems initiative, a project sponsored by the NSA, CIA, and the Director of Central Intelligence, to foster innovative research in information technology.

>...

> Thuraisingham goes on in her article to reiterate that this joint CIA-NSA program partly funded Sergey Brin to develop the core of Google, through a grant to Stanford managed by Brin’s supervisor Prof. Jeffrey D. Ullman:

> “In fact, the Google founder Mr. Sergey Brin was partly funded by this program while he was a PhD student at Stanford. He together with his advisor Prof. Jeffrey Ullman and my colleague at MITRE, Dr. Chris Clifton [Mitre’s chief scientist in IT], developed the Query Flocks System which produced solutions for mining large amounts of data stored in databases. I remember visiting Stanford with Dr. Rick Steinheiser from the Intelligence Community and Mr. Brin would rush in on roller blades, give his presentation and rush out. In fact the last time we met in September 1998, Mr. Brin demonstrated to us his search engine which became Google soon after.”

_____

Anyhow, I recommend everyone to read the full piece and it's sister piece where it goes deeper into NSA things

https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-cia-made-goo...
For most use cases, PostgreSQL will suffice. And I mean, you can solve a lot of problems with beefing the hardware and RAM.

For issues beyond that, you can exploit latest sharding features in it.

For issues, even beyond that, you can do for Cloud offerings.
Prefabs are interesting because a high quality house that would typically take a year to build can be constructed in 5-10 days. Huf Haus is one of a number of prefab house builders who do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2mfjMgn0tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5O_sKudq4k
The BBC gets roughly a quarter of its income from commercial sources

https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2021/j...
There are some food writers that are good at getting to the core of a dish idea, listing out the variations. Felicity Cloake's "Perfect" column in The Guardian for example.

For the Wikipedia of food, Nikki Segnit's Lateral Cooking / Flavour Thesaurus are great -- you start out with basic "stew" technique and then a dozen usual and unusual variations.
I don't see how this can be the case, if you know more than me, please elaborate.

My reason for not seeing how this could be the case is that there is no reasonable entity that would be funding this conspiracy. Nuclear has been smeared since Chernobyl, and the nuclear industry barely breaks even. They certainly don't have enough money for something like this. Also, why would this mysterious entity be funding bad faith arguers on internet forums, instead of lobbyists, which would probably be a much more effective way of promoting nuclear.
I'm less sure about this. One advantage of NoSQL is that the serverless offerings blow away any SQL DB-as-a-service offering that I've seen. I think that's because NoSQL databases give you minimal, but easy-to-reason-about scaling properties whereas SQL databases do more for you, but at the cost of greatly increased complexity. I think pretty highly of AWS Aurora Serverless and the UX is still garbage in comparison to S3 or DynamoDB.

Now if you start trying to add transactions to a key-value store based architecture, NoSQL gets pretty ugly, but that's misusing the tool IMO.

Most of my projects still rely on NoSQL DBs (usually S3) because they have really excellent UX and I have plenty of data where I don't need relational properties.
> My dream is to write actual SQL in the middle of my code, as a valid syntax and first-class construct. As I said, that's not really a realistic goal.

Sure, it is. See how regexes in some languages are first class datatypes, so you can have a regex literal in your code (with backreferences too, I believe).

There is no good reason that SQL statements can't also be a datatype, with SQL literals in the code like the way regexes do. I'm imagining something like this:

sql_t stmt = /SELECT #1, #2 FROM #3, #4 WHERE #3.#1 = #4.#2/;
sql_res_t res_cursor = sql_exec (stmt, t1_col1, t2_col2, T1, T2);

The stmt above is not a string, hence is part of the AST and can be checked at compile time. The execution might be a problem (returned columns have to be checked too).
> Genuine question: did you check that domain before you posted your comment?

Indeed I did. It showed me some generic buy-this-domain website with no substantial/relevant info (actual products killed by the Amazon mega corporation).

Nevertheless I presented my comment as a concept of `a website that lists the products killed by Amazon`, which could have been located in https://productskilledbyamazon.com, for all I know. It would be more interesting to find out if such website actually exists.

EDIT: A quick internet search does not net me any results. Which is why I'm skeptical it actually exists.
Indeed. Depending on the intended use of the UPS though, the energy capacity might not matter all that much. For a 3D printer, it seems like an UPS would be in place to weather the occasional hiccup in utility power. Utility power interruptions seem inherently bimodal. Either it glitches out for a few seconds and comes back, or it's out for hours. Pretty much any UPS will have enough energy to run a 3D printer for a few seconds or minutes, but very few UPSes exist that would run one for hours on end.

Taking that use case to the extreme, maybe someone lives in an area with very unreliable utility power. They might absolutely need to have enough energy stored to run their 3D printer for an entire print. Maybe they solve that with lots of batteries, but in many places with unreliable utility power, it's more likely they're just going to fire up a gas powered generator whenever the power goes out. Once again, the UPS only needs to last long enough for someone to notice and fire up the generator.

Folk certainly might have more exotic use cases. Maybe someone lives completely off-grid and powers their 3D printer off of solar panels, and a generator isn't a sustainable option. They'll definitely be more interested in energy capacity.

The power capacity seems important no matter what, since exceeding it will either result in a voltage brownout, tripping of a protection circuit, or melting something.
It literally wasn't. You left out:

> The little things add up. Life in a connected home is easier

I think the fact that you interpreted that, followed by a point about saving time, as only implying saved time is part of the huge disconnect in these discussions.

Some of the functionality saves me time. When I don't have to go downstairs to turn off a light I forgot downstairs when I've already gotten into bed, saves time, sure. But the saved time, to me at least, is entirely incidental.

I have no idea whether it adds up to enough to offset the time I've taken to set things up (I also, however, think that people massively overestimate the effort involved; I set up a couple of hubs, replaced the lightbulbs in my house in a couple of hours total several years ago; replaced radiator valves in a couple of hours), but it's entirely irrelevant to me.

I would do this all over again even if I knew it'd take me ten times as long to set up as all the time I'll "save" over my lifetime

Because I value the comfort of e.g. adjusting the heating before I get up (yes, I can get timers; my thermostat already uses a timer, but sometimes I deviate from my normal schedule), or turn off the light without having to get back out of bed far more than the time saved.

We all have things we invest time in preparing for so that the event itself doesn't get interrupted by small annoyances, even if it doesn't "pay off" in saved time. A "smart home" is that first and foremost.
Ok, it's to be a paid service. Well I checked their privacy policy and it's not very reassuring. I don't think I would sign up for a company that doesn't either fall into the jurisdiction of GDPR or commit to the same standards.
Now I understand, thank you for clarification!
Pretending to be satoshi is a tried and true mode of altcoin scammers, including the dirtbags in this case.
s/Patten/Pattern/
I gave it more thought in passing and am a bit curious what real, heavy ML might look like. And if there's value in such things.

Example: I often find myself remembering bits of things, and querying Google, and the results are way off or completely irrelevent. Things a human would know in a matter of seconds, generally.

I was for example trying to remember that newish Netflix movie that is very similar to the Michael Douglas movie "The Game." It feels like such a question should be easy for a sufficiently smart system. Something like Watson, I guess?, at the search engine level would be immensely mindblowing to me.

The answer btw for anyone curious was "Rebirth." Nearly every review of said movie makes the comparison.
I find them quite useful. Especially if I've never used technology A. After a while you start to see a pattern of people with similar problems to yours moving away from a certain tech. If it weren't for articles like these, we'd all be making the same silly mistakes over and over again.

Collective hindsight is a powerful thing and we should use it to our advantage to short-circuit certain problems.

If only politics worked that way :/
It is illegal to work on your own car at home in Sacramento.
> As far as I can tell from on the usage of based I've seen, it means cringe/unpleasant/racist (depending on context).

Again, you need to separate your feelings about the things being described as “based” with the meaning intended by the people using the word. If I hate hippies and think anything they call “groovy” is really ugly and uncool, that doesn’t mean I get to just declare that “groovy means ugly and uncool”. That’s what you’re doing.
Try this episode of PBS SpaceTime which goes into the dichotomy between GR and QM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNEBhwimJWs.
You may not use it for automation. But you usually do much exploratory work before doing the automation. That's where the various CLIs for all kinds of things come in really handy.
Isn’t nuclear federally regulated today?
It was a 3-tube radio. Here's the schematic.[1] One of the tubes is just a power diode to get DC from the power transformer.

[1] https://antiqueradio.org/art/VE301DynSchematic.jpg
I disagree here. Being able to use gdb makes things easier. I had 2 programming courses under my belt after taking a computer systems course.

People make it more difficult in their minds than it is. The key tricks being: one step at a time, use a debugger and google everyday assembly instruction that you encounter.

I’ll give you this: studying computer systems made me a better programmer.
Absolutely - pick the right tool for the job. Generally speaking I'd go for PostgreSQL in most cases but there are definitely scenarios where Cassandra would perform better and be more appropriate.
Yep any size particle should. But gravity is described by classical physics through general relativity. When you have situations of very small quantum scales and large gravitational fields both general relativity and quantum field theory don’t work well together. This is a big problem in physics. See here for more details

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_gravity
I wonder if people on the ISS could make this device from components. Then you don't need to launch it.
> It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in, or permit others to engage in, minor vehicle repair or maintenance under any of the following circumstances:

> Using tools not normally found in a residence
No. It’s like if McDonald’s offered a in the first half hour, and b in the second half hour.

I’m sure you would agree that would be a good representation.
Once we have a proper suite of in-orbit manufacturing (not just 3d printing a plastic part) it's going to be a straight up Cambrian explosion event for what technology we can design for a space environment by letting go of vibration tolerances, G force tolerances and rocket dimension constraints. The new ways to manufacture are cool, but the dropping of existing constraints is a dream for a potential new wave of creativity for both new problems to fix in a new environment, with orders of magnitude operational scale (Everything is still basically bespoke one offs, bar a number of companies I can count on my fingers) and how to create solutions for all that new scale entails.
Maybe I do not get your point but I have a complete opposite opinion. If you do not know about your clients' queries, you are better off with SQL since it enables clients to query exactly the data they need. If you know about future queries, you can shape your object or document storage or db beforehand to match these queries.
So a wormhole is like a 2d segment version of a black hole?
Never I've seen an internet forum being this well looked after. Thanks.
If they can improve precision, a somewhat different G might be very interesting for, eg, MOND vs Dark Matter question

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
This raises a wild thought exercise for me. Barring any similarities to a Pay Day loan. Would you use a service like this for your own annual salary? What could you do with the lump sum that you would otherwise have trouble accomplishing?