skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is “based” cooking? It’s not explained on the site. A web search obviously leads to [something-]based cooking.

I was hoping that there was something to this about minimizing nonsense around online recipes, but the first one I read (stroganoff) had ingredients in the instructions not included in the ingredients list.

I’m not trying to trash this, I just don’t know what it’s trying to accomplish.
Shameless plug: I used data from TripSit's drug combination chart to make a better tool. It's a dead simple site that tells you the relative safety of combining recreational drugs. I feel compelled to share it here in case it might help someone make a more informed choice.

https://github.com/dillonjohnbrown/the-drugulator
Previous discussion from 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9178773
I think you've got the definition of homeopathy incorrect. I checked wikipedia and it says, "Homeopathy or homoeopathy is a pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine." It does mean pseudoscience, specifically medicine, just like your association with it.

As far as I can tell from on the usage of based I've seen, it means cringe/unpleasant/racist (depending on context).
I wouldn’t read that much into it. Depending on the origin of the author it might be that not eating meat is just not common.
The brittle string interning implementation could be replaced with a proposed Golang weak reference map [0].

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43615
There are several countries that have reaped benefits of nuclear power for decades. In Nordics, both Sweden and Finland has over 30% of electricity generated by nuclear. In Eastern Europe there are also several countries (Ukraina, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Czech R) with a big chunk of their electricity generated by nuclear.
"Based" is a slang word that means the opposite of "cringe", which is the feeling you experience when you go to a recipe site and get treated to 500 words about how much the author loves winter.
The 2011 Tohoku Earthquake in Real Time
Can you give examples of stuff that Zapier does for you that a VA would do?

In my mind Zapier does things that a junior developer or maybe an office admnistrator would do, not an assistant. I feel like there is a small, but significant difference.
Is it a good search engine?
What?!?!?!

first of all if you only have 100k pageviews a month you're probably not even making $599 from serving ads

and second i don't understand what Zapier is supposed to accomplish in your mind?

maybe you have been using it in a way I can't think of?

from what I think you are talking about: is zapier supposed to like sit between website & like some SSP or DSP? during the bid!?!?! or just to like establish an audience to target like send your new email based id to a DMP or wherever for a customer who wants a PMP deal or something?

Also I'm almost positive Segment in your example is not used in the way you describe to pass user/device identifiers between ad platforms? Like i think they connect to adwords but only to grab the standard reporting data you can get into bq anyways. not any user or device data (impression level stuff is now complicated in their own odd like 'private' data clearing house thing).

TTD Unified ID would be what you're looking for
Rust’s async isn’t colored
Talend to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo in a $2.4B Transaction
Tracking the Vaccine Race
$35 million in 2004 is about $49 million in 2021 dollars, so they effectively raised less.
> It can't be magic or works of God that won that success, so what's the real story?

The real story is that neither France, nor South Korea has any natural gas, coal, or oil reserves.

It seems that when you have no other independent means of generating electricity, you magically become rather good at building and operating nuclear reactors.

If the coal and oil reserves of the United States disappeared tomorrow, it too would acquire that superpower - and our politicians would miraculously discover a way to get both reactors, and waste disposal sites built.
Ah, that makes sense, but is not at all obvious, to me at least, from their website..
The column of charge inside a metal wire is usually called "metallic electron-sea" or "sea of charge."

In other words, all metals are always full of electron-fluid. They're like plumbing pipes, but pipes which are pre-filled with water, with no bubbles allowed. During an electric current, it's the wires' own electrons which begin flowing. (A long thin column of copper is always a long thin column of movable electric charge. So, hook it in a circle, and that creates an invisible "electron flywheel.")

See the completed article: http://amasci.com/miscon/elect.html, a big list of common misconceptions.
Probably good for batch jobs? Updating billing information, device location registry, etc., for 10k users each day or each hour etc.
> An $18.5 billion project, HSMC has been beset by problems pretty much since it opened for business in late 2017, and funding issues drove it into the ground last year. [...]

> The Global Times quotes industry analyst Ma Jihua as saying that the project’s collapse is not indicative of the state of China’s semiconductor industry as a whole. Furthermore, since HSMC has been in trouble for a couple of years, its failure is in line with industry watchers’ expectations.

> “There may be more failures in the sector in the future, as there [were] too many start-ups established two or three years ago,” Ma told the paper. [..]

This is a weird article, just rehashing other articles. And with a quotation from a Chinese government newspaper citing this $18bn project was just a startup.

I might have missed a train somewhere, but how can something with $18bn invested by government still be considered a startup? There is financial engineering and number bs for Uber and similar companies which gives them insane and illogical valuations, but if you get $18bn in your pocket that's a planet apart.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Based
Worth throwing out there that 'based' is a new-ish word and means different things to different people. As I have been discussing in this thread, my understanding of the definition of 'based' is something equal to cringe, or 'unpleasant', and sometimes 'racist'.

> 500 words about how much the author loves winter

Also discussed in this thread, but it is far from agreed-upon that those extra words are 'cringe'; at least some people here seem to enjoy that content.

And regardless, the existence of that content is an interesting discussion; is it a legal concern, or a result of capitalism and algorithms and SEO? Or something else entirely?
Just as a counterpoint, regarding your IBM Cloud snub, my small company has been doing our cloud needs with IBM for the past 5ish years, with great pricing, stability and support. The portfolio of non-ibm-specific services is huge.
> If everyone is on-board, I am not sure what is wrong with this arrangement.

I think that insufficient attention is paid in hiring to building a team of people whose interests compliment each other.

The situation you describe is fantastic. Problems would arise only if you and the senior were compared on speed for what are actually two very different kinds of work.
It's the 1% fallacy. "Surely we can steal 1% of the search market, Google will never have 100%. Just one percent of Google's profits is seventeen hojillibillion dollars per quarter. Makes perfect sense to put in $40 million to grab that market share"

See also everyone starting their own Facebook competitor back in the day.
MongoDB is like snapchat for database
> series of memorable accidents

well to me, oil spills are just a as memorable and way more frequent...
React Tree
I wish them success, but honestly I'm just curious around how a search startup (and I mean a true search startup, one that does its own indexing) can even hope to compete against the giants these days (and let's face it, in the English language it's pretty much all Google with Bing a distant second).

I mean, when Google started the internet was actually small enough that it could be indexed relatively cheaply. These days, the internet is so enormous, and user expectations around hyper local content and being constantly up to date are so high, I don't see how one could begin to compete without billions.
The simplicity of the presentation isn’t all that simple. I thought I had clicked an entirely different recipe. I know this crowd loves minimalist design but I’ve had to correct a zillion mistakes on here because text is tiny on my phone.
That's why nuclear is important for island and industrial country like Japan. Island country is difficult to develop well-balanced renewables because of the grid is small and difficult to connect to other countries' grid. Sadly Japan is now very difficult to build new nuclear plants for obvious reason. I suspect that that's why Japan gov and Toyota is going to develop Hydrogen.
Probably depends on national law. In Europe libraries would usually just buy commercially available products and make those available.
Glass shower can be kept clean and perfect in 30 seconds using this cheap tool just after taking the shower:

https://www.arredobagno360.it/media/catalog/product/cache/1/...

That's my personal experience :)
> I wouldn’t mind paying a subscription to search without my every search being tracked.

Do you mind clarifying what you mean by "being tracked" here ?
Regardless of exactly what you mean, if tracking is the only criteria, what do you think you'd gain by this "paid search that's not tracking" vs using DuckDuckGo or using Google with a fresh incognito window ?
On this subject, can an American please tell me what a spoonful is? There is a great video series on youtube, with his recipes online, but all measurements are spoonful: https://www.ethanchlebowski.com/cooking-techniques-recipes/p...

Spoons can vary in size, so is it a tablespoon or a teaspoon? When dealing with spices you'll be adding 3 times the amount if you go with tablespoon interpretation so it'd be a pretty big difference in flavour and intensity.
You're right. This isn't a good use case for FHE. Instead, FHE is really useful when the query itself is private, and the data is not private.

One example is a private OCSP. Every time you open a TLS-secured webpage, your browser has to check whether or not the TLS certificate has been revoked (I'm leaving out some complications but bear with me). In order to do that, you browser has to contact the certificate authority (CA) and ask "has anyone revoked this cert?". But in doing that, the browser is revealing your browsing patterns to the CA!

It would be nice, instead, to use Private Information Retrieval to ask the CA "please process this encrypted query and return the result". Then the CA knows nothing about your browsing patterns, and you still get your data. Well, (computational) Private Information Retrieval is super inefficient today, and the best asymptotic solution we have is based on FHE (https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1142). So getting efficient FHE would hopefully make something like this a lot more reasonable for moderately sized databases.

For the record, this is only a toy example. We actually have really good solutions for private OCSP that don't require FHE. We can side-step the difficult of Private Information Retrieval in this case because OCSP databases are small enough for anyone to download. If this interests you, check out CRLite https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2020/01/09/crlite-part-1-a...
I used to think recipes were very imprecise.

But I've written down notes (for myself) when configuring a server, so later I'll know what I did. (super helpful)

Thing is, sometimes I write the exact command, but other times I just say general stuff like "setup an account" or "install devtools" ...

which is just like a lot of cooking recipes.
Isn't there a a chicken and egg problem with Crossplane? A quick glance over the docs tells me I need a cluster to already exist. So how am I provisioning that cluster? Terraform.
> If we wanted to we could cover the Sahara with solar panels and have several times more electricity than we know what to do with.

Do we have enough rare-Earth minerals to build this many solar panels? What do we do with the panels when they reach the end of their lifecycle twenty years from now? What do we do when it's nighttime in the Sahara?
Of course, that would require you to successfully figure out the right ratio that the recipe author intended.
And point being that salaries for good developers have gone up much faster than that.
You are misrepresenting what I’ve said.

You either tax everyone equally or tax no one at all.

There shouldn’t be a special case where one government is able to tax foreign nationals for access to their market but no other government is able to reciprocate.
It is surreal feeling when looking at first code, not sure how to explain why it is the case.
It's still a work in progress but so far the results just seem like a wrapper around Bing. Their (mandatory) browser extension has some cookie blockers that seem to break SSO without providing me any actual value. I hope Google gets some real competition but so far this isn't it.
> a specific online subculture slang

But what online subculture? A cringe subculture? Isn't something that is positive to a cringe subculture cringe to everyone else?
5G core UPF open source software launched
The OpenUPF is an open source project for 5th generation (5G) mobile core networks User Plane Function. The goal of this project is to implement the User Plane Function (UPF) defined in 3GPP Release 16 (R16) and beyond.
I used both NoSQL and SQL databases. Proper replication topologies (e.g. multi-master configurations) and JSON columns killed the NoSQL movement. I'm glad the NoSQL movement existed and forced the SQL camp into out-of-the-box thinking, but I wouldn't go for any NoSQL solution today on a greenfield project.
Can confirm, did large projects at huge retailer, AWS was cursed, anything but AWS, spoken by execs through clenched teeth.
maybe they're producing too many devices, so ended up filling up SN space for some device type?
Terraform is fantastic. Mind explaining what your issues with it are?
Ah yes, I was thinking it was possible to execute both computations and take the one you need. 'Conditional execution' was more what I meant.
Not really. The space travelers become too invested in their beliefs.
It could be all that, or it could be a reference to Lil B's cooking music (as far as I know he invented the word) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZghGHHBO_nU
Trickery is opt-in by default and making it hard to opt-out.
Yes, and also load is higher in the winter, when there's less wind and sunshine.
Hydrocarbons have nothing to worry about, even with nuclear. We are running into fossil fuels (our global usage is still climbing at a rapid pace), we have not flatlined, much less started to bend the curve downwards.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkj_91IJVBk&t=760s
This. Freedom to setup your own server and tinkering with the LUA scripts is very accessible. Removing some creatures to allow small children to play without getting scared? Ten minutes tops, really useful. The mountain generator, how does it work and what happens if we alter the recursive functions? Just play and learn with Minetest :)
Apparently it was misleading enough for me to misread it. I withdraw my claim.
I get most of my recipes from YouTube these days. I can see the technique and result, which is valuable, but I make my own notes in a format that suits me, sometimes like Cooking for Engineers (group ingredients, do process, add next group, etc) but usually with a lot of bullet points and terse sentences.

Writing my own notes is great for understanding and retention. They get printed out, then tested to earn the right to a plastic sleeve and a place in the folder! Analogue with a digital backup.
Telemetry data is used for justifying decisions, not making them.
In my experience: All jobs suck! Some pay better than others. Profiting from personal projects is the exception, not the rule.

I too find it difficult to retain complex information in my head - unlike many of my colleagues who seem to be able to instantly recall details of APIs, etc. I need to look up details, even syntax for rarely used language constructs.

I accept my relative shortcomings and write things up in notebooks (the bound paper type) and draw diagrams to remind me how sub-systems interconnect / inter-relate. My programs have more comments than usual, but at least I can evolve my own code 6-9 months down the track.

I believe that software developers will continue to be one of the best paid careers. Good sales people selling big ticket services might earn more - but it didn't work out for me.
Too much politics in management, so I'm back in software development.
This is from 2015. I wonder if it is the same in 2021. Anyone running high throughput/low latency services using MongoDB?
Looks like their goal isn't to compete with Google on volume, but something else. It's a paid search, and it's ad-free, so I assume they're targeting people who care about privacy.

I don't think they believe they'll surpass Google. But if they can get 0.05% of Google's users to pay them $5/month, they're making $120 million a year. That's a great business by most normal standards.

(Now, I don't think this will happen, necessarily... but I understand why you'd make that bet)
I dont think it would look that out of place if he was using the ternary operator which is the same thing after all.

E.g.:

if (peekc) {
c = peekc;
peekc = 0;
} else
eof ?
return(0) :
c = getchar();

The first else clause sill looks weird, but the final part isn't nearly as out of place (well i guess assigning in a ternary would be weird, but in terms of indentation) and its not like we actually changed anything.
Yep, I misread it.
Cooking is definitely one place that I think the saying "strong opinions, weakly held" is a great motto.

Like I have my way of doing things... and it's the best because I have my own taste profile... but I'll try your way to see if I'm wrong.
TIL that Oracle has a cloud offering. Is this primarily for their database customers?
There is a difference between being argumentative and being a person to question things.

Let me give you an example. I am a pilot and I was flying to Long Beach a few weeks back. It was morning with a low marine layer so there was only one option - ILS 30. The controller was doing a harD job of merging small planes like myself and big iron (Southwest, Delta, etc) going to the same runway. The Cessna in front of me got vectors (and accepted!) to fly 10 miles into the ocean for spacing. When I heard it on the radio my first thought the was “their engine quits and they better know how to swim”. When controller asked me to follow that Cessna, my reply was “unable, don’t have my swimsuit today, but I can do left or right 360 for spacing”. The Cessna pilot accepted controllers directions without asking any questions putting himself and passengers at risk. Very few software engineers face life or death decisions, but I still like people who ask questions ;)
Yeah. It’d never be as easy to convert a decentralised system like the internet to a new protocol.

That said, simply increasing the IP address field size in the header would have been a lot simpler and been easy to upgrade.

A big part of the IPv6 story is how they made so many changes there is a relatively steep learning curve to adopt. And NAT etc gave us another way not to.
Can you think of a practical use for something like this? Perhaps there's a need to keep an algorithm secret, but also the client wishes to keep their inputs secret?
Actually most of the crashes I had with Sway were in fact related to compositing and window management. including stupid stuff like crashing because sway couldn't decide which window to focus after hiding another.
B2B payday loan + shark tank = pipe
How do people reckon with the limitations on the use of new scientific discoveries imposed by copyrights, trade secrets and patents? In other words: how do you justify the use of artificial limitations imposed by the commodification and monopolizing of science (through ‘intellectual property’ systems)? Especially since most inventions are made possible/are funded by the state (see the work of Mariana Mazzucato and her book ‘The Entrepreneurial State’ for fully fleshed out arguments for this), as well as the actual labor being done by wage laborers (not the people owning these trade secrets and patents).

It doesn’t necessarily need to be specifically for this invention. The question came up for me while reading this thread.
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26410135
Yeah it's definitely SEO fluff. No one is enforcing copyright on their blog's recipe. And another site can still extract the recipe portion anyway.
"Allow me to revise my statement: This isn't a technological problem, it's one of corruption, conflicts of interest, anti-science policy, and a broken economic system that will be the death of all of us. "

As someone who was born into the toxic fallout of chernobyl, despite being quite far away, I can understand the reason many people are against nuclear and in favor of renewables. I see no corruption there - and you can argue, that if all of the government subsidies for nuclear would go immediately to renewables for projetcs like Desertec, there would be no need to have this discussion any further.

So I am not Antinuclear, I would like to see some new and small reactors as kind of a backup for the grid, while we change to renewable for good.
It's a properly productized IFTTT.

IFTTT was a disaster as a product for laypersons. Zapier is how you have to make things work for normal people to use such automation tools. There will be many more Zapiers across every segment where there is complexity in the tooling and interaction.

If a person wanted to start a great business, find a business segment you know really well and create a niche Zapier for it. Then when the big companies come knocking (which they will right before they try to kill you and take your niche), sell to them. It's a repeat of the great CRM / enterprise roundup wars.
MongoDB and Postgres have very different strengths and weaknesses. It sounds like they didn't consider the needs of their read and write patterns before they decided to go with MongoDB and then blamed it for not being a good fit for their use case. The article doesn't give any insight at all into the cause of the performance issues, just that they happened. It could've been that they were doing something inefficiently. They also don't give any reasons for the performance increase when switching to Postgres. It could've been anything like they were doing application layer joins with Mongo and things got faster when switching to a relational database because they could do joins in one process without serially fetching data over the network. They also touch on schema on read vs schema on write but instead of talking about the tradeoffs and use cases of both patterns, they just claim schema on read is bad.
Big fan of this - we use it at AdoptOpenJDK (>100 repos, >60 active contributors) - it really helps you improve the engineering culture!
Note that, based on progress so far, they're not actually building a new search engine as such - they're spending the money on buying the results in from Bing and on marketing[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23960741