skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mongo is obviously not competitive with KDB though, if you are talking of timeseries data as you suggest.

I would think it is in fact very much the wrong tool for the job. Time series data screams structured storage, not unstructured.
If the original problem is "people consume too much short-lived plastic crap", then maybe let's address the root cause, rather than placing a band-aid of DIY fixing things that keep breaking.

For instance, how about having more people buy more expensive / longer-living stuff that does not pile up on landfills in an economy where money is sound, people are encouraged to save it and buy better quality and longer living stuff, thus incentivizing investment in lengthier R&D and supply chains and generally being more thoughtful about the longer-term effects like ecology rather than how to keep up with mortgage and other debt, living from paycheck to paycheck. (Pro tip: Bitcoin.)
I don’t know, but write to 0-initialized variable is a bitwise add against 0b0, so if you random-initialize a variable, then add a value, query variable, then subtract the known initial random state from response, you end up with the value == response - initial_random(key).

If you could add/multiply cryptographically securely, such that the current_variable - initial_random = delta != data is meaningless to third parties without the key, that will be a secure write to a secure database.

Dynamic allocation is probably not possible.
>it's hard to argue with someone whose children are born disfigured today because of waste leaks

Is that actually happening?
As one data point, one of the UK's in-development nuclear power stations, Hinkley Point C, was announced in 2010, plans approved by the owner + government in 2016, and expected to be operational by 2025 (no idea if that's an accurate expectation or not). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_...

So a bit less than 20 years, even including the 6 years between announcing a site and actually confirming plans to go ahead with it.
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> I'm wary about GCP because Google hasn't issued any kind of promissory statement that GCP won't end up on the [Google Graveyard]

Snapchat paying them $400 MILLION per year takes care of this issue. That's 1 company. A few jaw dropping others have popped up in S-1 filings.
And if all goes as planned it'll only cost £121bn and take a total of 139 years to decommission. Really. Started in 1981, scheduled to finish in 2120, and nothing really went wrong

Oh except for the year after 1956, where that site saw the worst nuclear accident in the UK's history. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire
> No one signs up for GCP because they want to be completely independent of Google products.

Then they're losing a lot of potential customers.
> With mongo, you just add a column and you are done.

No, usually you are not done. Your data doesn't have the column. So either you write your code in a way that it can handle the column being optional or you write code to read each document and add the column manually.

I've started out with mongodb on Fit Analytics originally, until we noticed at some point that our data was an inconsistent mess and we'd implement constraints in our back-end code to make sure the data is consistent. Eventually it became just easier to have an SQL database taking care of all those constraints, and we luckily migrated away.
I actually have one use for FizzBuzz!

I have used FizzBuzz as an introduction to wheels. Any repeating sequence will do, but everyone knows FizzBuzz. It is a great example of that because you replace a simple algorithm with one that is also simple and about twice as fast in my language of choice (using circular, singly linked lists for the wheel).

The article does a similar thing, but using masks to achieve the speedup.
I'm in Germany and have the LG B7 Oled. After the last update it wanted me to review the settings for EULA agreements etc. It defaulted to disagree and I just never set it to agree.

I've still never seen an ad on this TV. Guess GDPR counts for something!
It does not really account for the fact that most of the population was peasants.

I would be really surprised that spices were a big part of cuisine. Maybe in the middle-class indeed, but that was still a really small part of the population.
I've got a Samsung TV. Don't code that function to be too specific or we won't be able to share legal resources.

So far I've only got minor ads in the options screen and when switching inputs but if you guys roll over (or spend your efforts fighting other smart-device owners) then who knows.
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I also moved away from NoSQL for prototyping; as I recount in the sibling comment, I think the touted increase in dev speed is a myth, as the only penalties in dev speed for SQL come from (a) learning the tech and (b) thinking of your data model ahead of time, both fixed costs which dilute over time and eventually make you faster.

> Now I find the world of ORMs to be onerous

Funnily enough, I've also moved to Python, Django in particular. However, I'm having no problem whatsoever with the Django ORM and it's serving me extremely well for prototyping - I feel it is very easy to operate and that I can move at the same speed that I ever could with NoSQL after just a couple of months of practice.

Have you tried the Django ORM in particular? And what about the ORMs you've tried makes them onerous?
Yeah, there're qualifications behind it.

[This PDF](http://web.mit.edu/sahughes/www/8.022/lec01.pdf) starts with some potentially helpful context.

Usually this claim is discussed in connection to the so-called ["hierarchy problem"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_problem).
Interesting indeed ;)
Network effect is strong, but we've overestimated the stickiness of Facebook. Have you been on it recently? It's effectively a ghost town. The most people use it for is for messenger.
Sepe.es recovers from OVH disaster thanks to archive.org
> Amazon runs on AWS,

true or a team is slowly migrating so one day true

> Google does not run on GCP.

Ive heard other googlers say "GCP runs on google" as a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reference to the internal architecture
This is ridiculous. GNU should be badgering those sites to open source their client JS, or funding competitors that will.

Trying to encourage people to enter into an endless game of Whac-A-Mole fixing and re-fixing browser extensions to work with sites as they update isn't a solution.

Who here is going to spend countless hours on that thankless task?
I use sponge from moreutils all the time. You know how you always want to ‘sort <file >file’ or something but that doesn’t work because file gets truncated before it gets read? With sponge you can do ‘sort <file | sponge file’
having read through them all i’d say the recipes range from ‘fine’ to ‘probably not that great but if you’ve just moved out of your parents home its not a bad place to start’. most of the recipes seem robust and would be hard to really mess up. the salt thing as others have pointed out is nonsense.

having spent many hours scrolling through ad laden recipe sites though i really do appreciate the straight forward approach.
Yes, I believe this is the case. One thing are conventions. If domain name ZZZ is taken, you can use getZZZ, ZZZapp, and so on. It does not matter much, as almost nobody types www address. Plus there is huge amount of top level domains, so even if ZZZ.com is taken, there are 150 alternatives which sometimes are better than original .com.
Use the dot org. 9 times out of 10, it, or a close variation, will be available.
Domain parking is somewhat similar to buying 100 tickets for the <hot-artist-of-the-day> concert just to resell them at double the price on the black market.
Well the French plants are from the 70s.
> Unified input/event capturing and forwarding

This is simply insecure. “It is easier to cut holes into a solid block than to patch something that looks like swiss cheese”.
What reason does a random app has to see each keypress, when it doesn’t have focus? Do you trust eg. the teams app or the million other app to be a good citizen?

Screen capture is implemented with pipewire in a better way than before.

Fonts: noone uses the old font API of X, even under X. And third party libs like cairo work on both wayland and x, so nothing is lost here.

Drawing APIs: show me any app that uses it and was upgraded in the last two decades. Feel free to use a CPU only drawing API, I prefer not watching the line getting rendered.

Also, as I already mentioned XWayland is important for exactly this reason - it is a completely backward compatible X implementation, on top of a better display protocol. What’s the actual problem, because I still don’t see it.

There is no need to have incompatible implementations of each, and just look at the three main wayland implementations: they share many of the work.
> accelerated a preexisting plan in Germany to completely phase out nuclear power by the end of 2022

That's a bit misleading. This is how it went:

- in 2002, the Social-Democrat/Green (Schröder) government decided to phase out nuclear power by 2021.

- in 2010, the Christian-Democrat/Liberal (Merkel) government decided to delay that plan.

- in 2011, after Fukushima, they made a U-turn, which led to the current phase-out that will (probably) be completed in 2022.

(see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomgesetz_(Deutschland)#Novel... - in German)

So Fukushima didn't accelerate the plan, it actually forced the Merkel government to return to the preexisting plan...
Oh come on, what do you think this is?

AT&T? Standard Oil?

Oh...
I've been playing around with some very extreme forms of server side rendering, and have come to discover that all modern browsers can actually decode and display 1080p+ jpeg images streamed over websocket fast enough to be indistinguishable from a x264 video playing at the same frame rate (60fps in my testing). I have tried on ARM/mobile and it's the same success story there. Latency almost feels lower on my S10 than my Threadripper 2950X.

There's lots of things a browser can do that would surprise a lot of developers.
Same thing happens with Discords I'm in. They just add more and more channels and it becomes a chore to scroll and navigate to the one I want (just my opinion) let alone the reduced engagement in each channel (anecdotal evidence)
I'm starting to realize all the people complaining about data loss in Mongodb just didn't understand the tradeoffs between weak consistency and strong consistency.
Was it different for the designers of ALGOL/SIMULA/Pascal?
On basedness.
PEP 654 – Exception Groups and except
I don't understand this at all?

"Many websites damage users' freedom by sending nonfree JavaScript programs to the user's browser."

Eh? I'm assuming it means libraries like jquery or alpinejs or analytics etc?
Because if I write specific JS for my site, that is not 'free' either.

"Otherwise, you need to use the browser debugging facilities to figure out what data and commands the JavaScript code sends to the server—in effect, its undocumented API"

Erm, no? You've visited my site that I have built, you can either use it as is, or not use it - your choice - but don't start trying to mess about with it and sending stuff,
I might be terrible at writing backend side and sending things wrong blows up a server.

Very strange article.
This is great, and something that I would get completely lost in for hours. I've become much more interested in ancient history after recently getting the book "Secret Britain: Unearthing Our Mysterious Past" and I'm keen to explore some more history around Europe at that time
> They've been dead for more than 30 years.

That's not true. There are 9 RMBK reactors still in operation today.

The other 3 units at Chernobyl continued to operate after the disaster. One was decommisioned after a fire destroyed it's generators. The last 2 continued to operate until they were shutdown as part of the deal with the Ukraine joining the EU.

If anything it's amazing that people don't realise how successful the RMBK has been despite Chernobyl.
Paywalled :-(
French was the language that everyone used for diplomacy, so I assume that's how their culture spread in that period.

Much like American culture spreads so easily at the moment because of English.
When working on open source drivers for their chips Qualcomm solved that by internally moving employees to use Code Aurora [1], the employees used different emails when working with open source code

[1] https://www.codeaurora.org/
> Which vedic books?

Rigveda and later codified through Manu smriti which codified this Varna and Jati system and made a class of untouchables [1].

This is one of the reason father of Indian constitution gave up Hinduism and became Buddhist. Current Indian govt actively promotes jati and Varna and perpetrate communal divisions to stay in power and people justify those divisions.

[1] https://legaldesire.com/dr-b-r-ambedkar-views-on-abolition-o...
Cuil story, bro
The difference is provenance with NFTs is about the NFT itself, but not the item. Like mentioned elsewhere here, block # and timestamp will differ. But digital items don't have provenance.

To put it another way: the analogue is not original medallion vs new fake one. They're both 100% identical medallions in every conceivable way, but the receipt for one is older than the other. I don't know about you but I don't give a damn if your receipt is older than mine if the items are not unique in any way.
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I agree with you in that I cannot imagine a search startup to successfully compete with Google in the current situation, but for different reasons:

I think the index is not the biggest challenge. Yes, the internet was small when Google started and is enormous now, but there has also been a lot of concentration in the sense that the most requested content is hosted on fewer and fewer sites. Also, the expectations changed. In the beginning, the idea was to index the whole web, and search engines bragged about the size of their index. Nowadays, it's all quality over quantity, and index size is probably not the most critical factor.

Apart from that: Building a decently sized index is a major undertaking, but it is not impossible. While the web has grown, technology also has advanced, and there are multiple companies that actively maintain a search engine scale index. SEO companies, like ahrefs or majestic, do it for their purposes, and there is also Common Crawl.

The real challenge, I believe, is that Google has access to a ton of engagement data. Google Analytics, AdSense, Google Fonts, Google Public DNS, and probably other services provide Google with excellent and hard to manipulate metrics about sites' popularity.

To successfully compete with Google, a startup would have to find an ethical alternative for this. I believe that building on unethically sourced engagement data from Browsers and Browser extensions will backfire in the long run. The Brave search engine is an example of this. The best chance to succeed here have the large CDN companies, like Cloudflare, because they could harvest some of the data in a non-invading way.

> [..] and let's face it, in the English language, it's pretty much all Google with Bing a distant second

I'd argue that the non-English world is, even more, all Google because it is the only search engine that works appropriately for non-English queries as well as for local search results. Baidu in China is the only real exception to this. Even in Russian-speaking countries, Google's market share is higher than their (decent) local search engine Yandex.
if they had snobbish enough a few decades earlier, we would all be spared a hundred years of colonization, the Great Bengal Famine as well as the single most dangerous nuclear flashpoint that exists in the world right now.
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It didn’t force Merkel to do anything. It was just a cheap opportunity to try and grab a few Green votes.
No need to guess, just check out the author's youtube channel[0], look at the thumbnails. It's /g/ tier "humor"

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/c/LukeSmithxyz/videos
Creating a Zap that is hosted by Zapier isn’t just easier than hiring a programmer, it’s also operationally easier. Zapier’s team handled all the devops headaches. Yes, it could be more expensive than a budget developer, but I’d have to maintain an ongoing relationship to handle problems in a way I would not with Zapier. The headache isn’t worth it until you really need something so custom that Zapier couldn’t easily do it anyway. Hire a developer when you need one, and not before.

Regarding Terraform, installing it, learning HCL, understanding the state management, maintaining a place to run it, and learning how not to screw it up were all headaches I did not want.
Just FYI, the name "based" made me think this was some kind of alt-right thing.
It's a combination of economics and (formerly) geostrategic interests. France is a nuclear power, for which nuclear infrastructure was needed (in the wider sense: universities producing engineers etc., not just plants for enrichment).

Nowadays there's virtually zero nuclear projects that are economically competitive, including in France.
Fair point, but I really doubt that is really a key component, specially given how fruitfull the developer market is. Very few people stays in the same company for more than 3-4 years in my experience. So, if you're just going to stay a couple years, you probably don't care about your replacement value.

I'd say that, in general, people don't like writing docs or answering to people. But if someone asks you a question, it'd be very hard to decline to answer, whereas writing documentation takes effort and initiative (and it won't prevent people from asking things, because most people don't like reading docs). Unless there's someone pressing for people to do it, they simply won't. Both because they don't care about doing it and also because the activity is not valued anyway (ask any project owner if they'd rather have great documentation or one more feature).

Also, the value of documentation is questionable in the simple software using standard components as most of us do. I'd be interested in seeing a study to know whether good software docs really improve productivity or reduce the number of bugs.
The fact that it impacted so many regions was kind of informative.

Every single AWS post-event report (https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/pes/) speaks to _a_ region. They design their regions to operate independently.

A single fault taking down what sounds like _all_ of Oracle Cloud is... unexpected.
Ya I don’t worry about GCP going away. As a B2B service, they have contracts with customers that would be very expensive for them to break. Also, their internal tools track very closely with GCP offerings AFAIK. The have found financial leverage in plowing profits into cloud CapEx, so renting out that gear is all incremental profit.
Sounds to me like an argument presented ex post facto.
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One note: Because a lot of basic science is done by researchers who don't want to start businesses, commercialization via licensing is one of the mechanisms available to them to actually see something get to market. Many of those agreements have "use it or lose it" style provisions in them.
What are you basing this claim on? The reason I am not using any cloud trial that requires credit card is the chance of them driving me to bankruptcy.
Yes, and pretty old ones at that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaufmann%E2%80%93Bucherer%E2%8...

Special relativity is weird, but it's very much proven by countless experiments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tests_of_special_relativity
Does anyone else absolutely loath recipes? Using measuring spoons and shit make me feel like I’m doing a homework assignment. No recipes, no measuring for me. Just pour in the shit, do what you think it needs, eat it when you’re done.

Today, that was brown rice, some fried onions and bell peppers, a can of tomatoes, salt and pepper, cayenne, birds-eye, fish sauce, tamari, red wine vinegar, and garlic in the instant pot for 30 minutes.
In Italy we say: "A lot of spices are to cover the taste of bad ingredients".

It means that if you use a lot of spices ( we _usually_ use only black pepper and salt ), you are going to cover the taste of the ingredients you are using, we believe that you need to use good ingredients to have flavourful recipes, if an ingredient tastes bad you shouldn't use it. Also we always search for the balance, there shouldn't be too much meat or too much vegetables, just the right balance where each flavour brings the best of the each other.
> even if they retire a GCP product here and there, most of the myriad products in GCP will be around making money for quite a while!

Sad reality if your business depended on that retired product though.
Yeah, the FAQ makes it sound like it's different because they 'buy your recurring revenue'.. but I'm sure if you lost that overnight you'd still owe back the... 'sale price', so it is just plain old debt.

'Supply' chain financing for hip small SaaS businesses.
We need ratemyinvestor.com to weed out the flock of bad investors.
This is a selfawarewolves comment if I’ve ever seen one (as someone who used to study physics but would consider myself a physics novice nowadays)
Are we now at a stage that .com is no longer considers more 'trustworthy' than say .xyz ? I'm not so sure, which is why many people still hanker after the .com in the first instance.

That said, as a non-US person I'm not personally on-board with .com-for-everything, but I understand that Joe Public in the USA thinks differently.
I mean, they're dead in the sense that we're not going to build any more - but not in the sense that they're actually all shut down yet.

People in Europe have long memories of Chernobyl. I live in the UK, which is a huge distance away, and I remember drinking powdered milk for a good while because our dairy pastures got an unhelpful dose of radiation. It probably shouldn't affect future energy policy, but I'm not sure that caution about the safety of the existing RBMK reactor fleet is unwarranted if you live near one.
This is great visualization.

Mehrgarh [1] one of the oldest city in South Asia (pre 7000 BCE) is missing.

[1]. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehrgarh
> quite likely isolated or untrusted - were hacked.

I disagree. From my experience there are many big corps out there that use VLANs but don't properly secure them. And even if they did I expect pivoting from these hosts would be trivial when compared to getting in externally.

Finally, these cameras aren't alone. They're often integrated into a centralized controller which has to be routable by both the cameras as well as the host/hosts required to review the footage. So even IF they were properly segmented there's still most likely a path to the 'corp' VLAN.
Most experienced interviewees will show up to a face-to-face with copies of their resume in hand because of the way Recruiters fudge things.

I had learnt this by my second or third job, I can't believe that other industries operate this way, doctors, lawyers, accountants, civil engineers, etc.
In Switzerland, I never was able to find kosher salt. Coarse yes, table yes, but flaky kosher salt? Nope