skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do not mind paying, but not sure how it helps tracking: if you pay, they even know more about you than if you used google. So you have to believe them for not using the payment records for tracking you. They have valuable information about you; you are probably rich (who pays for search?!), you have a card so you are probably autonomous etc.

That said, more competition is good anyway in this space.
Having a hard time tracking down primary sources, but is it not the case that the design flaws of RMBK reactors (positive void coefficient for one) were suppressed?
Just not using the built in IP type, which is stupid.
As a former Oracle DBA, and general skeptic of most of the use cases the NoSQL ends up getting chosen for, I’ll gladly say that document databases are pretty good at storing documents. I’ve seen them used very well in content management applications, and the document-database-as-a-materialized-view use case can make a lot of sense. Just like graph databases can be very good at storing graphs. As far as the bandwagoning goes though, I think Mongo has taught a lot of people about the strengths of the relational model.
TIL a grandparent is actually an internet comment, not a person

/s
I take it you publish your credit card number for the world to see?
You're trying to cut out the middle man in learning how to cook.

It doesn't need to be complicated. Everyone who cooks knows the answers to these questions because they can remember that time their oil started smoking or they burnt this or undercooked that. Just start trying it, you'll learn as you go.
None would make any sense to me. I'm working my way through freecodecamp and feel like starting to play with a server.
Yes it is a shame, because their recipes (especially from Kenji López-Alt) are really good. But if you keep one open to read from during cooking, you will see every video they have available playing in the little box.
> if I'm homophobic/racist/etc, I hang out with my homophobic/racist/etc friends

Well, maybe, just maybe, we should expose these people to non-homophobic and interracial content to "brainwash" them into thinking that black or gay people might not be as bad as they think :D
Also none of your kid's friends will know or want to play it and the game looks and feels like something from Aliexpress.
We need a new username system
Why not just:

char waste[however-many-bytes-are-needed];

?
I love it. It’s like the recipe cards in my grandma’s kitchen tin. Minimal. Just enough to set you in the right direction and encourage exploration.
Although nuclear bombs were the major threat deployed in the war, nuclear power in vessels is the major actually-used application for the technology in the military.

Nuclear power and a general surplus of energy might have prevented WWII altogether. The era of nuclear and fossil fuels has been remarkably peaceful and prosperous. It is prudent to preserve as much of that as possible.
My understanding which could be wrong is that the kinetic energy of an object can itself cause (tiny amounts) of gravity. So, for instance, a spinning object would weigh slightly more.
> networking and system software is written in Go (Kubernetes, Docker, all the related infrastructure, etc).

Kubernetes and Docker are not networking. They orchestrate some networking components that do the actual network processing in the kernel (iptables, ebpf) or other high performance user space c/c++ (dpdk, etc).
> Perhaps there's a need to keep an algorithm secret, but also the client wishes to keep their inputs secret?

That is basically the problem statement that FHE is trying to solve.
Hey I just pointed out this 0.05% idea in another comment! It really is a common sentiment amongst investors that you can just fling shit towards a market giant and hope to capture a fraction of their market share. At FAANG scales even a fraction of a percent is big bucks.
If I had to hazard a guess, our table cutlery (i.e. the stuff people eat meals with) has somehow managed to get really bizarrely standardized. There are basically only two sizes of spoon in the normal set - a regular spoon, which has a fairly consistent size, and then a "soup spoon", which is a bit inconsistent (sometimes it's a larger size, sometimes it's round rather than teardrop-shaped, etc).

So most likely they're relying on the "incidental standardizing" of normal silverware, and making a guess that most people's regular eating spoons are bizarrely similar in size.

Since we're on HN, there's probably a really interesting philosophical rabbit hole one could go down, concerning the idea of things that aren't officially standardized (by some standard-setting body), but end up gravitating towards almost being so, due to industrial pressures and consumer expectations.
> I'm just curious around how a search startup ... can even hope to compete

If you held a gun to my head and told me to build a Google competitor, I'd start off with smaller products with shared search infrastructure.

Start off with some hyper-focused projects that you can actually compete with Google for: code search, product search, news article search, review search, search focusing on kids, etc. Build a better YouTube search and pay a legal team to force Google to let you have some access to it. Maybe a better and free "search my site" functionality. Make some of them good enough the people just use them, get Bing or DDG interested in supplimenting their results with yours.

Have these as separate brands that people know, but for every search have a button that takes you to the wider search and start building brand recognition.
No. Unless you mean the latest version, which is essentially Teslas in ordinary tunnels. Then, sure. But what's new? I've been in a Tesla in a tunnel before. That's not something Musk can just call Hyperloop.
These articles never get old. Hey we picked solution A and realized that it has some cons not only pros and now we are moving to solution B that only has pros. Few years later there is a new article, hey we are moving to solution A|C because...
> Don't forget that central heating /AC and "proper" insulation are not a standard feature in Japanese construction.

A recent Reddit thread of non-Japanese immigrants (I won't link it in case it brings blow back for them) had this (insulation specifically but heating more generally) as the top complaint about living in Japan.

Aluminium window frames… I curse them.

Edit: typo
More on this.

“We did not exploit any flaws or vulnerabilities. The cameras have a built-in maintenance backdoor, which allows anyone with super admin privileges to access a root shell on any camera of any customer at the click of a button.”

https://ipvm.com/reports/verkada-hack
Are there any experimental tests of relativistic mass?
I'm not familiar with FoundationDB. What benefit would that give Postgres?
Assuming you like that style of curry, it's a decent recipe. The only trouble would be if you didn't read the whole thing first. If you didn't read ahead, you'd hit "dump all of your tomatoes and extra ingredients into a food processor" and take it literally. There would be no spinach left for the next step.

I would rather not rely on commercial curry powder. This becomes a problem if one day you can't buy the same brand.
Magic reveals hidden tactics of politics and marketing
I'd say, if you like me don't enjoy the tinkering with calibration here, and adjustment there, then get a Prusa.

They are by no means perfect, and calibrations/adjustments come with the territory, but they have a certain threshold for quality that removes some of the most horrible sources of errors.

Eg, flex in the structure often comes from cheaping out on material or design, and is imo the worst kind of sources of errors. A static error (eg a fixed offset of the bed leveling) is more easy to calibrate/compensate away.

Other big brands may be as good as Prusa, but I have no experience of them. A friend got an Ender 3, bed was warped, replaced the unit, bed warped on that one too. Our Prusa mk3s2 had no such kind of quality errors. YMMV.

Some things I learned:

* do a z-level calibration (finding distance for the first layer) according to guides

* increasing temp (bed and head) by 5degC on first layer increased adhesion

* clean the bed with IPA only, that's well enough if you never touch it.

* never touch the bed with bare hands - I always used tissue paper as a glove

* never needed to use paper glue or hair spray or anything after the above things (but before that I used paper glue which didn't help, and was haaaaaard to remove)

* don't scrape the print off with the metal spatula, it'll scratch the bed surface easily

* when turning on the printer, don't use the small amount of filament that's been sitting in the print head since last time. Back out the filament and cut that off and start with new filament.
Dropbox Paper default sharing setting: “anyone with the link can edit”
Never mind. I figured out...
Thanks a lot for quick response
Is there a proper replication topology that guarantees all writes survive single node failures e.g. in a 3 node cluster and and reads also as expected? i.e. any sequence of reads and writes execute correctly in any single node failure scenario?
I do everything through my PS4, it's got the streaming apps I want, it's fast and reactive unlike the built in smart tv interface which is a bit slow and laggy.
And although it's only happened to me 2-3 times in the 3 years I had this Sony TV, I really, really resent having to reboot it because it's had a couple of weird glitches.
> Or if you absolutely need a schema to protect developer doing silly things, then traditional relational database is surely way to go.

Then you should use a relational database every time, because all developers "do silly things".

I've seen this same argument against strong types: I don't need them because I don't make mistakes.

You do. So does everyone else.
There are plenty of modern, distributed RDBMSes that make sharding transparent to the user (E.g. cockroachDB, yugabyte, vitess, many cloud offerings, etc.). Most NoSQL databases end up adding transactions because they are important, and thus the scale advantages for NoSQL systems over relational databases are diminishing, if remaining at all.
For those who find this a bit too obscure Fritz Haber [0] - one of the people heavily involved in the development of the fertiliser revolution - was also a leading mind in the German gas warfare effort.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Haber#World_War_I
Well, you know. One subreddit spreads hate against non-white, non-straight, non-american people, the other subreddit spreads hate against fashists and billionaires, and people with power who discriminate others in general.

That being said, it really annoyed me how many AOC posts I saw on Reddit. I kinda like her, but I'm not from the US, so ultimately I don't care that much. It felt like Reddit was just a place to post every AOC tweet in existence.

Of course we can argue that hate is always bad, but this would turn into the ancient argument about what (physical) targets the right has, vs. the left. One group punches down, the other group tends to punch up.
I'm not convinced.

A world class crawler definitely.

ML? Maybe, I guess. Google took over search before ML was even a thing(or at least, a popular thing) because they were fast and had good results. And that's all most folks probably care about. Sometimes good results are truly those most relevant to the terms entered...not injected with ads, or targeted, or SEO'd to death.

In fact, I'd go as far as to say Google search results are worse today than years ago for a lot of queries.
>I can spend the time saved on things that actually matter.

Because that literally was the sole point of benefits in the GP post!
No. It’s actually a company-wide pivot for pretty much all their products. About 10 years ago they figured SaaS was the best way to extract even more money from customers and make their data beholden to Oracle beyond their already-punitive contracts. So they basically stopped developing anything on-prem and rewrote all their products to be SaaS.
I think there's a bunch of confusion between conditional logic in the sense of being able to solve a problem that can be specified with conditional logic, and the sense of having the performance implications of a normal program that has data-dependent branches.
- Does -my time/location- match any time/location where we know corona case was.
- Does -my dna- match known predistortions for diseases

that kind of thing.
So a payday loan with a fancy name?
Investigate yosys and nextpnr.

They support several families of FPGAs, to varying extents.

iCE40 was first. Now there's also full stack support for ECP5, QuickLogic (with manufacturer's help!) and a subset of Xilinx family 7 and GW1N (cheap chinese FPGAs!), among others.
To me, "warm" (not hot) data falls into one of two boxes:

- schema on write: You know what future queries you will ask. Use SQL.

- schema on read: You don't know what future queries you will ask. Use object storage.

Of course, in practice, part of your data will be schema on write and part on read.
I host quite a lot of stuff on those two VMs, works fine.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you missed the point of the discussion? It is not connected to frontend at all. It talks about the difference between using an ORM versus constructing SQL statements directly, as strings.

In that light I don't think `PREPARE` and stored procedures would help much (or at all).

I also don't find them hilarious, though they do represent very extreme views on the subject (imho) while to me it is essentially a tradeoff (I use both direct SQL and ORMs, depending on the needs of the project).
wasn't this fixed with their new Apple FS?

Wait I'll try

...nope, after `touch makefile` and `touch Makefile`, I still see just `makefile`. OK
Why ‘star walking’ is the outdoor activity we need
I have often considered our field a bit messy when it comes to actually measuring productivity. Obviously it is not strictly about line of codes, commits etc.
However, any estimation we may have by analyzing the metrics could still yield useful insights which is indeed better than nothing. In that regard, I can see what you guys are trying to achieve and I'm interested seeing it as a mainstream product which would also allow us to see how useful it can get when it was used more commonly. I'll be keeping an eye out for GitLab integration and ask my team to use it.
I've never seen an article about switching from Postgres to something else. Obviously Citus, Timescale, and other Postgres forks don't count.

Uber did one a while ago, but tl;dr they didn't really understand Postgres very well and were dealing with unique problems.
It highlights Bing’s strength. There are many memes in popular culture that if you want political results, you use Google; if you want shockingly down-to-earth results, you ask Bing. I’m still missing Altavista to get the raw results, but you get the idea: Bing cultivates the image of being accurate, and wins in all the secondary markets.
Redis is an in-memory datastore first and foremost (with optional persistence). With that said, it's probably not the right tool if you need to store and persist TB-worth of data even if it is key-value. Something like Cassandra is probably a better fit if you have a lot of non-relational data that needs to be persisted and you need it to scale.
Awesome experiment, and really cool findings, but I feel that...

> The findings take us a step nearer to measuring gravitational fields that are so weak that they could enter the quantum regime.

...is overstated. There's a long way between 90 milligrams and quantum gravity.
They push it to them heavily, but no. It's a general use cloud for anyone. Their free tier is quite generous [0].

First one I saw (they call it "classic", I guess) was a piece of scripts joined with glue and clothes drying string. Now the main product is okeyish, but last time I checked it had so large hardware (size of VM's and so on) as a minimum that it was out of my budget.

It may be cool for people who want managed Oracle products, but it just solves problems created by Oracle's own licensing and architecture design.

[0] https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/?source=:ow:o:s:nav:062520...
(What is a VA? That only means Veteran's Affairs to me.)
It seems to be struggling currently, but certainly it's already proven to be a resilient piece of infrastructure given the circumstances:

On 22 July during the 2011 Libyan civil war, one of the two plants making pipes for the project, the Brega Plant, was hit by a NATO air strike.[18] At a press conference on 26 July, NATO claimed that rockets had been fired from within the plant area, and that military material, including multiple rocket launchers, was stored there according to intelligence findings, presenting a photo showing a BM-21 MRL as an example.[19]

During the second Libyan civil war, lasting from 2014 to 2020, the water infrastructure suffered neglect and occasional breakdowns. As of July 2019, 101 of 479 wells on the western pipeline system had been dismantled.[20]

On 10 April 2020, a station controlling water flow to Tripoli and neighboring towns was seized by an unknown armed group. The flow of water was cut to over two million people as a result, and as such the attack was condemned by the United Nations on humanitarian grounds.[21]
Printed paper depth-of-field effect (2018)
> Amazon runs on AWS

That's not a given.

At least in the early AWS days, internal sites had special configurations.

Source: worked there.
"Cloud applications" cover a big range.

If you mean is it useless as a replacement for the mysql backend of your php app, the answer is yes.
Those are P/Es, not P/S.

If Zapier nets 25% after taxes, it’s valuation is 150x earnings.

And Shopify, Square and Tesla’s valuations are even more absurd.
In France, where nuclear is 80% of the electricity (we really played big the game of "oh but we care about nuclear tech for civilian use only" while irradiating Tahiti for military testings).

I like nuclear myself: it's a military technology so the more we know as a country the more we'll be able to sell around as consultants, it's much cleaner for the atmosphere when it works (but yeah failures are horrifying), there is hope the waste materials will one day be reused, and it can be switched on or off more easily than solar (at night) or wind (at rest).

But I heard it's very very VERY expensive and barely profitable on output gain alone (but VERY profitable as a military lab I suppose to have all those nuclear tech people),
it's hard to argue with someone whose children are born disfigured today because of waste leaks that at least in 200 years we won't all be dead due to fossil fuel abuse, and it's hard to convince a younger, less objective part of the population who jump at "not renewable = not good".

If with 1Kg of antimatter we could generate 200 years of Paris light, maybe we don't care if it's renewable. In fact, renewable just means "very very very long lasting" since the sun is dying and the earth is slowing down anyway :D
And much of IBM cloud was popular with smaller companies when it was SoftLayer, before IBM acquired it.

I know one successful PaaS which has stayed, which to me says a lot about the quality of IBM Cloud
Thanks for this!

I love Zapier but I can't justify spending so much on these small automations I use it for. I'm piggybacking on my company account currently but Integromat looks really nice! Exactly what I've been looking for
No prob. He actually had a position advertised on roberthalf.ca.

The position seemed right up my alley. The directions part explained he was the recruiter for this position, and to reach out on LinkedIn first. So, I did that. I guess it was a pre-screen to see if I read directions.

He accepted the request but didn't respond to my message for a few days. I'm really not good at self promotion, but I also really wanted to get his attention. I saw that he posted regularly to LinkedIn and also engaged with a lot of posts. So I posted a cool side project[0] to LinkedIn that I had recently done. I was feeling pretty exasperated, I think I wrote something like "if i will do this just for fun, imagine what I will do if you hire me." I don't necessarily recommend that exact approach, but he did notice it and that is what got the ball rolling. Thankfully he thought it was cool, because it is a little bit edgy. I was looking for a smaller company that valued a hacker mindset, so it was a bit of a filter as well I suppose.

We immediately hit it off. He seemed to understand what I was all about, which is cool. I'm an aspie and a lot of ppl just don't get me. He has over 20 years experience so he really knows his stuff and he was just nice and down to earth.

I got extra lucky because he was friends with the hiring manager for 20 years, they worked in the game industry together in the 90s.

I'm not capable of generating any takeaways currently, as I am real tired, so I will leave that as an exercise for the reader. Hopefully my response was vaguely coherent and at least tangentially related to your question. Sleep time!

Edit: Forgot link!
[0] https://jeremypoole.ca/posts/evofinder/
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I use MongoDB as a front-end that does full-stack prototypes from time to time in Node, and it's great using javascript from start to finish, you don't have to switch mental gears, so creating an MVP it's fast... but.

Sometimes I feel like I'm just avoiding SQL for no reason, not using any of the advantages of NoSQL, and only using Mongo as a SQL-wannabe with a shoehorn like mongoose.

I wonder how many MongoDB projects out there are just using Mongo because it's the trend (something like MEAN / MERN) and not because makes sense. Like there are out there a lot of SQL ORMs for node that, do the same job and better.

Don't get me wrong, I love MongoDB for a lot of weird stuff (like web scraping, CSV files, and archive data), but I feel a lot of the hate, it's because a lot of devs (myself included) have developed projects, that could be working better with a old fashion relational DB.
And again the propaganda machine is spinning for nuclear disaster.
https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2021-03/atomkraft-fukushima-k...
Wouldn't putting this device in a spherical container on Earth's orbit remove a lot of noise?
What are the benefits of doing something like this vs. just getting a loan from a bank? If you already have ARR it’s easy to get a loan. A loan seems both more flexible and cheaper than this.
Probably not.

But Google has an absolutely dreadful image to drop products and features at the drop of a hat.

Take Microsoft as a counter example, which went through absolute crazy length to provide backward compatibility for their products.

Google just doesn't have that credibility on long term commitments to bank your entire enterprise on its products.
> The issue is that the documentation tools that so many companies have standardized on are absolutely garbage for actually writing documentation.

No. The issue is that many companies still haven’t realized that you need to dedicate people to this job, that is, technical writers, documentarians, information architects, etc. Blaming the tools is like blaming a car without a driver for not moving.

To "people over process" add a new mantra to your agile way of work: "people over tools".
"unit bath"/ユニットバス is originally meant just prefab bathroom. But now it tend to mean bath/toilet is in same room.
Processica Apps – expand the capabilities of Microsoft Teams