skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author is probably thinking about sites that are rendered on the server, but need a bit of JS to submit forms and such. Overall it's still silly.
Correct, one "stick" of U.S. butter is exactly 8 tbsp regardless of shape, and almost all grocery store brands will be individually-wrapped 8 tbsp blocks.
If an enterprise wants to "get all the data out of the silos", unstructured storage is only "friendly" to the temptation to be sloppy in such an export.

Not only missing or corrupted individual columns, but completely incoherent and arbitrary complex document structures. If "no-one knows the schemas and no-one knows how to join between them" the data lake project has already failed to provide value.
Sounds plausible but of course there are lots of details to be worked out including how to recover the magnetite and how much it costs

But it's from September 2019. Does anyone know if anything has happened with the idea in the last 18 months.
What other languages are in that category? I think Lua is one, for a simple language I've seen insane magic built with it when it comes to metaprogramming.
Awesome, I remember have read about this.
But how is going the project today?
> Why would somebody's hair/eye color matter when it comes to their culinary preferences?

It's often cultural guilt, in my experience. The most non-Indian person often feels compelled to be the loudest voice in some sort of over-compensation for acceptance amongst those he seeks validation from. Food is seriously the most political thing in existence,.

Also, I don't think St. Louis, where he was from, was exactly a beacon for Indian cuisine, either.

I've seen it enough times to see through it.

Then again all my German and Austrian friends loved Indian food and had all traveled there at one point, most were vegan and vegetarian which kind makes sense, but still was kind of repetitive in theme.
This is definitely a part of the problem. Docs require a target audience but the brutal reality of writing for people in computing is that there is no bar and you can't assume anything at all about your readers, but if you dumb things down too much the skilled users who are more likely to appreciate docs in the first place will get exhausted and stop reading.

I tend to see docs and interactive QA as complimentary. If you can answer questions by linking to documentation it saves a lot of time.
Javascript (where the color analogy is from) does not allow in any way calling promise/async/callback based functions as if they were blocking.

Every language where you can call an async function as if it was blocking has no colored functions, and none of the issues of it.
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"About the ransomware variant, cybersecurity experts mention that Ryuk operates as a ransomware as a service (RaaS) platform and has been active at least since 2018. Specialists mention that Ryuk samples are collected on approximately 33% of each ransomware attack detected worldwide."
You buy a car with the intention to use it, but life gets in the way, and it ends up sitting unused.

Somebody else decides your car is perfect for them and is willing to buy it off you for far more than it has cost you.

At what price would you sell the car?
I don't disagree, western democracy is still the worst system of government except for all others that have been tried from time to time.

Solutions to short-termism are very welcome, but more often than not they tend to boil down to "someone stays in power for decades", which is not really desirable, is it?
I wonder if you can find similar cycles in, e.g., home furnishings? The elite get their fancy furs and rugs from $foreign for $$$, eventually the trade improves, prices drop, the poors start furnishing with fancy furs and rugs, the elite move towards shiny minimalism, rinse and repeat.

(cf just about anything technology-wise, I suppose)
Press star six to pay respects :)

Thank god our corp moved to Zoom just before epidemic.
No, nuclear waste is not a real problem: https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html.
The Apple ][ has a monitor in ROM that allows to enter machine code directly. The legend says that for the Apple I, Woz knew the complete integer basic machine code and could type it live into the monitor.
It's generally expected that the spacetime geometry is emergent as some coherent state of gravitons

Unpacking that statement a bit:

- In quantum mechanics there is a procedure called "quantization" that takes in a classical theory and gives you a quantum theory.

- The things (excitations) that follow your classical intuition are waves [*] and when you quantize them, you get excitations that carry discrete quanta of energy (ex. photons / gravitons / <particle name of choice>)

- It's convenient to talk about states with a definite number of particles because of the way the math works out.

- To get back to something that follows your classical intuition (waves) you have to consider superpositions of the states with definite particle number. These particular states are known as "coherent states" and very much look like your normal notion of a classical wave which is something with a definite phase and amplitude

As an example: you can recover something that looks like a classical radio wave in quantum electrodynamics by taking a particular superposition of states with a definite number of photons. Since it's in superposition, the number of photons in the state isn't well defined. By well defined here, I mean if you measure the number of particles, you can get different answers due to Heisenberg uncertainty.

You can even get standing waves in a cavity (like a microwave oven) which is an oscillator and the state has a definite phase and amplitude that you can measure. Everything looks nice and classical but if you look hard enough you find that actually you can't put in an infinitesimally small amount of energy, you can only add it in multiples of some constant (h-bar).

Now replace the electromagnetic field with a field that represents the curvature of spacetime and away you go, your theory works with small excitation quanta (gravitons) but the actual things in everyday life that you see are complicated superpositions of these things [**].

So the geometry (spacetime) is some superposition of states with definite graviton numbers that have no classical description. Much like how the electric field around an electron or an oscillating electromagnetic field inside of a microwave oven is a superposition of states with definite photon number.
Sidenote: it’s also easy to talk about a single graviton in isolation sitting on top of that emergent geometry

[*] This is "backwards" from pop-sci / intro physics because we are talking about electromagnetism which shares some superficial similarities with gravity

[**] For some technical reasons this viewpoint doesn't apply to particles which aren't "force-carriers" ex. electrons, protons, etc
Down-voter clearly needs to tidy their room!
Only thinking about mesh geometry count is, my belief, a dead end road...

In our eyes, we do not think of triangle or mesh : We think of geometry patterns. flat rectangular patterns, curved patterns, ect...

--> And this limits enormously the weight of the environment we visualise and memorise.

- Simple as that -

This is what I do at https://free-visit.net

And this explains why my kitchen works on even a low end Smartphone :
https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01/demo02
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Ask HN: Is anybody running serious (+1tb, backupped, ha) db instances in K8s
I'm wondering about experiences of fellow K8S adventurers here on Hacker News with running seriously sized database instances in K8S, choices made, war stories, etc.

What I mean by serious: 1tb+, say ~5gb daily changerate, 1 hour RPO, 24 hour RTO (meaning: you're doing something to make sure you never lose more than 1 hour of data and in case of disaster, you're back on your feet within a day).

I'm mostly thinking about RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL) but am open to opinions from others.

(I asked this on Reddit too: https://www.reddit.com/r/kubernetes/comments/m2n84u/is_anybody_running_serious_sizes_1tb_backupped_ha/. I'm not sure how much that's the same crowd, but I'm looking for a wide range of opinions and ideas).
So you don't deny that a genocide is happening to the Uyghur people? You just argue, if muslim countries are supporting China this is ok?

Sorry comrade, that is the wrong answer. We will notify your leader and you will be scheduled for retraining soon.
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> Though it also taught me some ... less favorable habits, as they are more common place. Think of: Continuously calling wait() until something loaded, Excessive use of globals, overuse of strings, coding single god-functions that do everything (with a frick ton of redundancy).

For the target audience of roblox, I'd say that all seems absolutely fine. Anybody who wants to continue programming will sooner or later find out about things like local variables, refactoring code into functions, etc.
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No, we didn't have CSS then.
This is exactly how the VF Cash currency works, but with some other beneficial systems ontop. https://vfcash.uk
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I don’t follow your point.
Was it a pun?
>"someone stays in power for decades", which is not really desirable, is it?

Which is super ironic as Merkel has been in power since forever, well, 15 years to be exact, but still, way longer than most other EU or western governments.
It works in reverse too. For people who habitually eat spicy food, when eating something non-spicy you can end up only tasting the "blandness" and not appreciating the flavours. Exactly like how cold food just doesn't taste as good as warm food (if it's meant to be warm), even though it's the exact same food.
Make a joke similar to this a decade ago (as I did) and developers would jump on you for being "old" or "not getting it".

So, not really.

But I agree that this joke is an old one and doesn't really have a place in a constructive discussion on hackernews.
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It's 2,200+ VC firms sorted by investment criteria: Geography, Cheque size, Stage, etc. You can also download the whole dataset as one big spreadsheet.

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The platform is collaborative. Anybody can add or edit data. Eventually, I'd like to make Venture Capital easier to navigate for founders.

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> An Italian friend was aghast that I would suggest putting Onion and Garlic in the same meal. It was strictly either/or for him.

That's a new one for me. No mixing of the two? Surely the very basis of a good tomato sauce is sweated onions and garlic? Ditto for risotto..?
Not sure if this has held up, but Google points at this 2010 paper that put a microscopic object into a superposition: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232755709_Quantum_g...
How come a magnet attracts plastic particles?
The amount of hoops the author has to jump through just because Go doesn't support overloading the == operator is ridiculous.
Your data-saving test was probably limited by how fast you could save to disk a roughly equal amount of data with the two databases; queries might work and perform more differently.
idk, seems like a pretty standard condition. Other platforms have something similar, allowing e.g. Amazon to cancel Parler's account on their services. Nobody is required to give you a platform, and if you already think that you intend to use their platform for something they will find objectionable, you should reconsider your moral compass.
I know little about the subject, and it would certainly make sense for it to be running late with a pandemic going on, but it seems like 5 years is a typical prediction from start of building to being in operation according to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_nuclear_power_station...

The planning and getting approvals actually takes longer than the construction itself.
https://leung-btc.medium.com/len-sassaman-and-satoshi-e483c8...

We know who satoshi was. Sad to see him go like that.
The most annoying part is that it usually comes with a patronizing "the youth knows better than the rest of us old fart sinners" message. I'm all for empowering the youth and don't deny their potential to build and create amazing things but these clickbaity articles ain't it.
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Stallman has been proved correct so often especially after people mock him, that I now listen to what he says carefully. This might seem silly now, but in 10 years it might be what everyone is asking for.
Not to mention some higher percentage threshold have been floated around as necessary for some of the more contagious variants of the virus.
Yes, but then again the majority of news is somewhere between lies and not even wrong.

The point of news is eyeballs, not truth.
At what point do we draw the line between free software being beneficial and being overly ideological? If I buy a printer I'd like a copy of the driver source code so if the company goes bust I can still use my possibly expensive and still working hardware. But if I'm using a web app? Half of the source code is going to be sitting on someone else's machine anyway - making the client side free-software doesn't really change that.
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“I Thought You Would Secure That S3 Bucket”
Back to the Linux Framebuffer (2020) [pdf]
The linked PDF contains Nicolas Caramelli's slides. Here's his entire talk in video: https://archive.fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/fbdev/
And what does it mean there? (automatic storage duration)
It sounds like your proposal would not change anything except who the money goes to, which hardly seems like an improvement.
The people are already changing their behaviour, it is also upto the government to build for the people.

The political parties, especially the dynastically ones have been so far away from the people that it would take them a long time to understand that protests and violence are only driving people away from them.

Unfortunately a lot of these protests and violence is promoted and sponsored by agents outside the country.
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@dang, I found this in the guidelines: Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work.

I see good critical comments here but also many shallow dismissals from people who just sneer at the work of all software engineers who created MongoDB. Why is such behavior tolerated in any Mongo thread and why do these people never face any consequences?
You can register a company for $700, then $400 per year. A business name is less.

On the other hand, if you don’t want to spend that money up front, you can wait, knowing that nobody else can register the domain (unless they spend a similar amount first).
Choose your own recipe
To answer my own question. It's vegetable oil mixed with magnetic powder. It's the oil that attracts plastic, but it's the magnetic powder that let's you collect it with a magnet.
I've got a project where one part of the application is just for editing a medium-sized, hierarchical object. So it's easiest to just get it from the database as a whole, and update it like that. It's also very easy to understand for the frontend programmers. The other part gets data from users and dumps it in its entirety in another table. Then the analysis part simply retrieves them all (at most a few thousand objects), and can build graphs, or whatever visualization with them. There's not a single JOIN involved, and updating is simple. If it goes beyond that, it's time to look at a relational database, either for performance reasons or because the API becomes cumbersome.
These stories almost reads like a parody or a dystopia. What's the next step of automation ? To be put in an artificial coma in sleeping pods to conserve as much energy and live as long as possible in some kind of VR in which nothing bad ever happens ?

So much time, energy and money spent on something that tells you who's at the door or if you need a damned jacket... So many gadgets that need to be manufactured and shipped to the other side of the world to open your blinds... I can already see a future in which people don't know how to use a "dumb" door knobs

All this shit will end up in a landfill in less than 50 years, and probably be deprecated well before. The amount of waste generated for such a minor improvement of quality of life over good old proven tech which are a fraction of the cost, waste and maintenance (light switches, regular timed central heating/cooling, weather reports and peepholes). These things are the literal opposite of sustainability.

Did we all collectively go mad ?
Hand-compile it for the initial bootstrap would be one way to go. That, or write a minimal C in assembler, then make it self-hosting, then expand it into the full implementation.

Edit: Elsewhere in-thread, retrac posted a detailed summary of how C developed from B.
Did other things with his life

My teenage life had similar projects and conferences

Got a ride into college and never thought about that again
Heck, I'm not a student and I'm fooled by the lack of clear indication of additional content.
So there I was, kayaking in an oil spill
The article was out of touch and ridiculous enough in itself, but the author also had to use gender-neutral pronouns.
Just block anything going out on port 53 outside the network and keep a dns sever on the network. (useful to block known tls dns servers like cloudflares 1.1.1.1 as well)

That is sufficient for samsung from my experience. (it does try 8.8.8.8 on its own if my ad blocking server rejects requests)

It still doesn't know DNS-over-TLS but if I start seeing ads I'll disconnect it entirely.
As I understand it, he 'glues' metal to the plastic. The magnet picks up the metal, and the glued-on plastic comes along for the ride.

Now anyone with basic chemical knowledge will probably shoot me for abusing the word glued like this, so feel free to correct.
FWIW Jancovici explained the fact that eco "friendly" people dislike nuclear power the following way:

The people that are comfortable with progress/technology/industries are usually also comfortable with the idea of nuclear energy.
On the other hand people concerned with the environment usually distrust things related to technology and industries, making them distrust nuclear energy.
There is a lot of reflect on in this comment, if you care to do the work. You are mistaking your personal preference for a certain style of food for the "western norm" which is obviously not correct because you also exclude the French tradition, which most would consider part of the heart of western cooking. You then suggest that people with different preferences are either less informed (not a chef) or less sincere (wokeness) than you. I think you will find that neither is the case: there are many who are just as well informed as you who sincerely hold a different opinion.
> ask a non programmer

Why should a non programmer understand programming terms? Words have different meanings in different contexts. That's how words work. There is no need to make these terms understandable to anyone. The layman does not need to understand the meaning of long or word in C source code.

Ask a non-golf player what is an eagle or ask a physicist, a mathematician and a politic the meaning of power.

Word and long may have been poor word choices, but asking a non-programmer is not a good way to test it.
Is there a good YouTube search out there?

say you’re trying to find a ChrisStuckmann review for a particular movie.

Sometimes even when you explicitly include a channel’s name in a search their magic excludes it from results.

The same query from within YouTube search and from Google search can lead to different results.

And YouTube’s search within a channel from that channel’s page is even worse.
How exactly are domain squatters “renting out” their domains?
Googling his name brings up his website. Not sure it is being deployed yet. Would be nice to hear from experts in the field if this method has garnered any interest.

https://www.fionnferreira.com/about
To me it looks like a pretty weird decision to switch to a different project ON HN when someone is showing off a different implementation, even if one came first.

Would me posting a new search engine be switched to Google, as that came first? Or maybe a new internet archiving project to archive.org?
The application of it is not intended to clean the ocean. As you say, you're supposed to put it in the (washing machine, dishwasher, waste etc.) before it gets to the ocean.
I do abstain from the market. It's not a conscious effort, but it discourages me every time I think I'd like one of those things.

My friend is selling her TV at a decent price, but when I learned it's a Samsung I lost interest. I don't trust Samsung with any sort of hardware.

I also don't trust new motorbikes with their computer-assisted everything. ABS and traction control are my last stop.

I'm also fine with simple appliances, because they never felt like something that would benefit from a computer.

I still have a dumb 720p projector. I'm sure I can find an upgrade, but those Internet-connected projectors are not in consideration.

I like devices that are functional, in the programming sense. Simple inputs, simple outputs, no side effects.
I think this is really helpful and I guess this question is about the USP.
This is what I think it could be:

- privacy
- solo work space
- change of environment = productivity + mental health benefits
- community value (per WeWork, Airbnb etc)
- Networking. People could share with like minded / same industry professionals to increase their personal exposure
The amount and type of math skills needed depend on which type of programming you are doing. I suspect they should have said you need to be able to think logically. And if you think logically you are assumed to be good at math.

Myself I think doing proofs in geometry class was the best preparation for being a developer. Most of the people whom I have known, and whom I believed were very good or excellent developers loved their geometry class. That is not proof, just an observation.

Really almost any profession you should (not need) to be able to read, write and do arithmetic. Public speaking is useful too.
That doesn't work here. You have to send an email to hn@ycombinator.com
Is there blockchain involved or not?
That's exactly what happened with me as well: I originally started with Lua (knowing only pascal so far) for computer craft and then branched out from there. Now it's my favourite language for everything.
It's supposed to be "loped off", right?
One strategy is to use DNS server software that handles changes for you. Set a time-to-die, and the software will publish a counting down TTL that is the number of seconds left until the time-to-die. Set a start time, and the software won't publish the record until that time has been reached. Have two records with each, and one has a pre-programmed switch over from one thing to another.

* http://jdebp.uk./Softwares/djbwares/guide/commands/tinydns-d...