skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem is HN community concentrates on anything but Oracle. Just an observation from all the discussions. I don’t have a bone in the game. My go to database is postgres by the way. But I love all the new databases popping up like cockroach and following them although have not used them on a project yet.

I am still amazed by how pervasive Oracle usage is for NEW projects in the enterprise. The only large enterprise I know that left Oracle is Amazon when they switched to Postgres and now they offer Redshift as a service to get off Oracle.
If you are at the point where your family is dying, and you are contemplating suicide, the only rational choice is burn down the ship to smithereens and leave it at the bottomn of the ocean. Or rip it to bit and sell the parts.
You seem to assume that Aisha was paid for those 4 years. I assume otherwise too, but I did not saw any contradicting evidence.
>It looks like Ingenuity uses visual odometry from a downward-facing camera, which is likely to require a lot more processing than something like an STM32 could provide.

I believe that for Ingenuity they are actually doing this in software; but at this point, you can just buy off-the-shelf an optical flow odometry ASIC with a built-in camera and lens system that draws <5mA, fits in a 4x5mm footprint and gives you delta-X and delta-Y.

e.g. https://www.pixart.com/products-detail/108/PAA3905E1-Q

Kinda mind-blowing.
>rocks are never going to rearrange themselves if left to sit

I don't understand this statement. What are mountains? What is sand? What is a planet? What is an asteroid? Where do you think rocks came from in the first place? Over substantial periods of time, rocks are always being rearranged whether or not humans interfere.

Perhaps you are drawing a distinction between being rearranged and rearranging themselves, but I don't understand that distinction. If you think that humans rearrange their own brains, I think that is an impossible thing to even define. How can anything act on itself without an intermediary? What kind of evidence is there for it? Without energy input surely you'd agree that no brain can make itself function? So how is a brain different from a waterfall or rocks moved by a river?
Let’s end the stigma of psychosomatic illness
Tax lawyer here.

Virtually every country in the developed world has much lower LTCG taxes than income taxes. It is so ubiquitous that I'm not even aware of a counter-example. Quite a few countries in western Europe have lower max LTCG rates than Silicon Valley has today.

That's simply false. The US has the lowest effective individual capital tax rates in the world outside of tax shelter countries. When I was at a firm, I had many (former EU) clients who came to the US who marveled at how low our taxes were here in CA compared to what they were paying at home.
Does anyone use Google Fi currently and can speak to the quality of the service? How does it perform while traveling, does it become spotty if you leave a major metro area, do you experience dropped calls, any data throttling?
My girlfriend works in the fashion industry in Taiwan. Designers in the US make an artistic drawing of a dress. She converts it to a Gerber file using CAD software. The Gerbers get sent to factories in China or Vietnam, who make prototypes and send those to Taiwan for testing. When approved, thousands are ordered and shipped directly from the factories to Macy's or JCPenny in the US.

When artists use English, CAD designers use Traditional Chinese, and factory staff use Simplified Chinese or Vietnamese, and consumers use every language - there's a need for a standard symbol. You have a good point about dry cleaning services too!

The difficult part is that the people through this international supply chain can't type these symbols in emails, or search for them in databases. That's why a Unicode code point should be assigned.
Not all crypto prices have crashed Ethereum is close to all time high.
Only Bitcoin has crashed because of power outage in China. A lot of miners are based out of china causing the price to fall.
an important rule in life.
One thing I haven't really seen discussed (or maybe I'm just blind) is the fact that the USPS isn't a government organization quite like the others. It's supposed to be a more-private entity that competes in a market.

Feels weird to give them law enforcement powers while still putting them up against private industry as competition, couldn't they just arrest all the UPS workers or something (gross oversimplification but still)?
Rails + Rails Jumpstart Pro[1] + Hatchbox (& AWS)[2] + Tailwind UI

[1] https://jumpstartrails.com/

[2] https://www.hatchbox.io/

[3] https://tailwindui.com/
I'm glad people are talking about this.

I think capitalism is extremely isolating.

You have to move for your job, so people have to cut all the ties that they've made, leave their communities, friends, families....all for money.

Sure you can make new ones, but after working and commuting for 8 to 10 hours a day you get home exhausted and on weekends you have to take care of personal errands.

Now multiply this times millions of people, it makes it very hard for multiple people to have the time and energy to forge a friendship that will take effort and time.
Effort and time that people don't really have.

There's tons of studies about how isolated people become after college.

I don't know what the solution is.

Remote work is going to be awesome and huge to help with this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26887670

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26895510
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AFAIK s3 is multi datacenter whereas B2 is only one.
I'm glad you agree that covid-19 is not a threat to our species!

Why did you bring up systemic collapse? You made some pretty broad statements. Things like food shortages and civil unrest happen all the time, for lots of reasons. There's Syria, Somalia, the former Soviet Union, the Arab Spring, everywhere a war is fought, etc. It wouldn't be surprising for this pandemic (and/or lockdowns) to tip some country over the edge, somewhere. But maybe not. Hasn't happened yet.

I think it's curious that you had to throw a new worst-case scenario out there. I hear you saying "ok, the species will survive, but we could, worst case, collapse, horrible, for centuries". What are you thinking? Do you think something like that might happen in a developed country? Or in India? Wouldn't hospitals just triage patients, letting the old and sick die? Aren't most health care workers already vaccinated? Is it reasonable to think that a disease that has killed less than 0.175% of the population (USA, 1 in 570), mostly older and/or sicker, could possibly cause the collapse of important supplies or cause food shortages?

Do you ever wonder why some people seem to have a tendency to dwell on worst case scenarios, even ones that are pretty marginal? I assume that it's because we are emotional creatures, and fear is a powerful emotion. Probably good for the survival of the species :-)
Turkish Bitcoin broker with over $2Bs goes offline and CEO disappears
Not true, they suffer to the Sybil attack. I could create several digital identities to create a fake reputation.
Possibly! Care to share your view?
I can tell you the peak excitation wavelengths of a dozen fluorophores. Not because i wrote them on flashcards and memorised them, but because i spent four years in a darkened room sliding filter cubes around to take pictures of slides stained with them!
Lowest homicide rate in a US State is 1.5 in Maine, average is 5. Germany has 0.9 on average.

In general poverty (which is more common in the US) leads to violence and other crimes. Bringing weapons into conflicts usually escalated them and leads to worse outcomes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
Can someone send a Laptop to Aisha so he could look at spaghetti code?
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Here's a video made by the author, Ian Cuttress, which goes into more detail as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNd94_XaVlY
The shipping companies are terrible, yes, but this is also a basic failure of Egyptian law, making the ship captain responsible for the ship.
* If you have 3 lines
I wonder what the dev story looks like for these? I know they say "just use TF/Pytorch" but surely developers need to actually test stuff out on silicon and run CI on code... do they offer a baby version for testing?
So these "premium domains" always renew at $640? No way am I using this name then. Going to have to let both of these go.
Manufacturing is like a ladder. When you outsource the bottom, it’s no different than cutting the rungs of a ladder beneath you. Manufacturing is essential to the wealth and prosperity of any nation.
Same people who curate this, I guess:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news
Fi uses TMobile/Sprint + US Cellular. They are an MVNO. I don’t think they support WiFi calling on iPhone - deal breaker for those with bad coverage at home/work.
>Time for an AI winter

with AI chips burning 15KW? No chance for the winter in sight. Some chances for AI hell though.
> But still, 2-5% would still cheat despite our repeated warnings that we could catch them.

There is research that the certainty of getting caught is the strongest deterrent (as opposed to the severity of the consequences if someone gets caught) and yet, assuming the software was as good as you suggest and assuming the students were adequately and repeatedly warned, 2-5% of the class still chose to cheat. Which begs the question: why would so many (presumably logical and rational) students take such a risk despite knowing they were substantially likely to be caught?

I have to imagine those students, for whatever reason, felt cheating was their best (or perhaps only) option.

The cynic in me believes we’ve created a system that strongly incentivizes getting an expensive piece of paper with a value completely divorced from what it was intended to represent: having studied.
I used to use it and when it just used Sprint network. It was good with just the Sprint. network for my use case. Now Sprint and TMobile networks are merged - so theoretically it should be better .
Yes, if you decide what you want to do with it. Set a goal and decide how you can use your time in school to accomplish it. Don't go to school and hope that once you get out you'll figure out what to do.
One bad thing about google fi is if you forget the google account password & email that you associate with the phone number and don't have a 'backup email' for it, it's near impossible to close the account or similar and have it stop charging your credit card until you do a chargeback. Which also means random people can charge your credit card on a subscription.

Google support cannot do anything on their end to get google to stop charging your credit card, and you have to do a chargeback on your side as a result.
> I will say that personally I have fewer concerns about programs to monitor public content on the Internet, than programs that seek to access, monitor, and store content that people intended to be privately communicated to other people.

You may have fewer concerns about public monitoring vs private spying, presumably because in the latter case privacy is being violated in a way that isn't the case for the former.

But both cases are nefarious, and you don't have to choose between them.

Both are examples of using public funds to abuse access to information from end users for political purposes.
And remember, the company only has a duty to its shareholders to be more greedy!
For data roaming inside mainland China, it was smooth, just works. It also has the implicit benefit of being able to access censored website without installing VPN apps.

No idea on other parts, I doesn't make much phone calls.
Also, to caution folks who think India is only a place for "cheap devs", there is a perfect confluence of factors happening right now that is driving salaries up and incentivizing good engineers to stay back in India -- immigration restrictions, remote hiring and a domestic startup scene. Some startups who are building for the US/international market are all but Indian, they only have a US HQ for ops, sales etc.

This hasn't gone unnoticed by investors. See PG's recent tweet - https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1381669057548713984?s=20

The US runs the risk of being "China'ed" again, in a different field -- this is not outsourcing anymore, this is real competitive software products being built in India.
Its an order of magnitude higher than traditional salmon nigiri would cost though ($2-3/piece in a restaurant).
Another option is something like jOOQ https://www.jooq.org/ which provides typed query-builders for writing SQL expressions.
Data slower after: 22GB

> Anyone who uses more than 15 GB on Flexible or 22 GB on the unlimited plans in a single cycle will experience slower data until the next cycle (only 1% of people who use Fi ever hit 22 GB). If you want to return to faster data before the cycle's end, you can do so at a rate of $10/GB.
The Egyptian law is ridiculous. The government should hire coast guard staff to supervise the boat.
I used it for many years as a "digital nomad" and it never let me down. Totally reasonable speeds in most countries.

The biggest pain was not being able to modify my account in any way without being in the US.
In the Windows world — SCCM!

Setting up SCCM is an exercise in hating your life but once you have the servers up it’s stupidly powerful.

In the Linux world — Ansible if you want push, Puppet if you want pull.
Having lived through the same frustrations I've released https://github.com/chmln/handlr a year ago. It comes with lots of nifty scripting tools and significant improvements over xdg-open
Afaik, Google Fi utilizes networks operated by T-Mobile (Sprint is merging), and U.S. Cellular depending on GSM or CDMA.

So expect your coverage to be of those.
If they're disinterested in private comms, it's because they're very interested in public comms. If they're wondering what the public thinks and would make improvements, great, but if they're targeting the public because what they say is too true to handle, ugh.
Assuming a reputable fish monger!
Great to see Excel adding more features!

The argument I've heard against doing this sorta thing was that they wanted to keep Excel simple enough to not alienate many non-technical users, sorta forcing it to be a simple, accessible environment for everyone.

It'll be neat to see how the user-base adapts to a more powerful feature-set. I mean, it'd seem like a lot of folks will be thrilled, finally having some extra functionality without having to use macros/VBA/VSTO/COM/etc., though how might non-technical folks feel about a coworker sending them a spreadsheet with function-values?
Oh no - can't they just integrate M instead? It's a great (skeleton of a) language with a similar basis but far nicer to write.
this. single line unlimited shows $60/mo here.
I think the headline is decieving. Unlimited data for $30 assumes you have three lines open.

One line is $60 for unlimited data.
perhaps the most "non-metro" areas I've used it in has been the outskirts of Oaxaca, Mexico and Engelberg, Switzerland and I had no issues at all with coverage.

as expected, slight delay when you switch countries (and thus carriers). it also gets a little confused at the borders of Switzerland/Germany.
No UK PhD programme has exams like this, that i have heard of.
(disclosure: I work for Google)

I have been using Fi for more than 5 years now. It has worked pretty well domestically and roaming in many countries (except North Macedonia in 2016). When roaming internationally there could be speed limits but in general it is pretty good.
Find a 500 year d ship full of gold and everyone owns it. Even the original insurance company.
That's a tough question; I've been there. I wouldn't ever give advice but I can tell you my own experience, and hopefully others will share theirs, so that you get a wide variety of responses.

After my undergrad, I moved to the Bay Area and I had a chance to get an MBA at a good school, but I turned it down to work on my own startup. For me, it's actually one of my few regrets because I can see now that it would have actually helped me in my startups later. Doing a startup is like rolling the dice; there's a lot of luck involved, strangely. If I had taken the couple years to get that degree, I think it would have bettered my odds later, and would have been worth it.

Again, that's just a personal anecdote and not intended to convey anything other than my limited perspective. Of course, if you're really sold on the idea, you could take a year off and just see what happens as well. Personally, I've worked in both Silicon Valley and France (the 06 :-). I would take France any second of any day of the week. It's a slice of heaven and nothing less. :-)
The shipping company is clearly lying. Plenty of people would take a job living on a boat for a while.
I've done a lot of road trips with it around the US for a few years now--it gets really spotty outside of larger towns. On the other hand, it's great to get off a plane in a different country and have a working connection to the internet.
I don't think OP is overthinking it at all. Home is not just a question of place of living but a question of identity and belonging. I'm guessing integrating into society in Toronto is difficult for OP so there's weak feeling of belonging in Toronto.
It worked well enough when I landed in Bangkok a couple years ago. I ended up buying a SIM card for the trip anyway for the better speeds, but I probably could have gotten away with just fi.

That being said I ended up switching off of it to visible to save money (I hardly use data, don’t care that’s it’s much slower). I will say, the extrication was fucking terrible. They kept charging me after canceling, I would complain, chat was slow awful and unresponsive. They kept fucking up for months, and would authorize new charges when trying to fix it. I started issuing charge backs instead. It’s resolved now but damn, keep that in mind, you’re still dealing with Google support (or lack thereof)
and also no tethering
My gf spends about an hour and a half every day browsing on her phone and watching video while waiting to pick the kids up for school. Only once did she ever breach 15 gigs, and that was during the recent Texas icestorm when we didn't have power for a week.
It's an MVNO[1] that operates on T-Mobile's network, so if you have any experience with T-Mobile it should be roughly equivilant (it's been equivilant for me, which is fine).

I regularly switch MVNOs to whoever is offering the best deal and to be honest they've been all the same for me in terms of coverage... though I don't get much more rural than 1-2 hours drive from major cities.

I thought Google Fi's customer service was better than most major carriers (a low bar), and the service worked fine for me abroad. Never noticed data throttling, but I'm not constantly streaming video or anything.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_virtual_network_operato...
> doing such a moving experiment with only your own funds

I didn't say that you had to do it with your own funds. But how exactly do you think that extra money would help? Getting to the Altacama desert is not difficult or expensive. That's the reason that the fact that no one has bothered to even attempt it is so damning.

> people won't be trapped inside on Mars

I didn't say they would be. In fact, I specifically said that you would only have to spend nine months (the travel time to Mars) inside the container. After that you can go out as much as you like. You don't even have to wear a space suit.

> a lot of hardware will be outside the "container" including the power generation from nuclear power or solar energy

That's why I gave you a full 20-foot container. But fine, take three containers, which is about what will fit in a Falcon Heavy. Or six. It doesn't really matter. The point is, take some number of containers that you think is a plausible payload for a Mars colony -- and nothing else.

> The radiation risks are overstated

I never claimed otherwise. There are a zillion other things that will get you before the radiation does.
Retro tech: The RCA CED Videodisc (2016)
If you're in a group of three. Not so remarkable - Mint has an unlimited plan for one person for $30, US Mobile has an unlimited plan plus a for a group of three for $25.
Let's say that no one has ever seen someone speeding or drinking the park. But then someone announces that they just did it, got away with it, and the system isn't effective at catching folks that violate the policies. It might make sense to figure out how you could change the way the system works to stop people from violating the policy. One way to do that is to replicate the violation and see what measures could be introduced to decrease the likely-hood. I would say it is very much akin to the companies that test to see if your employees can be phished or the pen testers to see if you can be hacked. Other important things that people want to protect have these teams to make them a harder target and I think in the case of something as important as the Linux Kernel it might pay dividends.
I'm asking OP if they do because of this line:

>being a white American, I came to grasps that I would always be a Gaijin,
Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com.
family member uses it. i can remember 2-3 times in the past year where SMS failed - random delivery order and time, for ~an hour at a time. i cant remeber that happening with non-google SMS... ever.
$30/each for at least three lines. At two lines, it's $45/each, and at one, $60/each.

$30/each for two lines might get me to switch. $45/each for our two is close enough to what T-mobile costs us (nearly identical after the taxes get added on, I bet) that it's not worth the effort to change it.
You just described Capitalism.
It’s extremely deceptive, I think it should be changed or taken down imo
Lazarus (Free Pascal) / MySQL
Sure the market says you should put the money into stocks, but from a risk perspective this is not meaningfully different from paying off your mortgage and then borrowing money at an incredibly low interest rate for the sake of buying stocks. It's still trading on margin.

If you must do this, then don't use the money on moonshots and pick something with low volatility.
The story mentions Kim Stanley Robinson, but he has another set of 'climate future' stories called Three Californias. I just happened to finish reading them, and while they're not explicitly about climate science, they're interesting for exploring three different possible futures for the same location (Orange County, California).
$90 a group of 3 ($30 each).

$90 for a pair of two.

$60 solo
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New TMobile Cell Plans - Unlimited data for $26

https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/essentials

Every bit as valid as the misleading headline on this post.
As far as I know the clothes don’t prescribe a temperature to be washed at, but rather a maximum temperature threshold upto which the material can withstand without risking damage to itself.

So a 40°C cloth can be washed at any lower temp but might deform or loose color or even breakdown if washed warmer than that.
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