skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, unfortunately I default to cynic with just about all companies. I wish for a world where someone with the resources like this at their disposal thinks, "Oh shit, what can I do?" without thinking about the PR.
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I tend to think of it as a representation of feature sets in products. I know I might want feature x or y, but I might not know how frequent the use case is or how it might fit into the scalability aspect of my schema and architecture. So the ability to slow roll something new into a well defined (SQL) schema by amending it with a JSONB field property is the perfect time/complexity trade off. Once I have a clear understanding of how a user might actually use it, and if it offers value, it becomes an official part of the schema.

There are other parts of the process to determine where a new property fits for me( for example it might actually need an entire state store if its own), but in general this is where I begin.
You can get a slot up to 4 hours and 20 nodes to perform cloud based simulation set up for free. For personal usages, downloading images and local simulation the cost starts at USD199 per annum. I believe you can also perform integration and network automation of CML with GNS3. This "Introduction to Python Network Automation" is a good reference source to do that:

https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781484268056
I disagree. Most homeless are sheltered, and the unsheltered homeless are largely in their situation due to mental health and drug issues which tend to persist. By comparison, these Afghan refugees are likely going to try and connect with the Afghan diaspora and get jobs and eventually become independent of this support system. Not to mention, the risk of lodgings being trashed by the inhabitants is likely much less - that is what happened when Seattle metro hotels were converted to homeless shelters during lockdown.
> and the latter is a policy of the other political party.

Can you give an example? I'm honestly stumped trying to think of one concrete policy initiative put forward on this topic.
The covid crisis is affecting marginalized groups like the homeless or people with psychological problems among the hardest, because numbers of beds in clinics and shelters have been reduced, hospitals are busy and access is in cases restricted, everyone is dealing with ever-changing mandates, and many people simply have their own lives to worry about so no one cares for them.

At the same time many hotels and airbnbs are under capacity because travel is restricted. It is a fair question why the homeless aren't hosted there. We don't have to expect Airbnb to pay for it but the government could if they actually cared about people, instead of terrorizing school kids and bankrupting the state with neverending lockdowns and restrictions.
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>However the refugees are in imminent danger of death (or at least goes conventional national security thinking), whereas most homeless Americans are at least able to scrape by.

If we're using the utilitarian argument, shouldn't we be pouring money into effective altruism (eg. bill gates funding malaria prevention programs), which do a even better job at preventing death?
If you are doing north of a million ops on DynamoDB you can quickly run into the $2-3 million a year range.

In this 2018 benchmark, we were able to calculate that a sustained, provisioned of only 160k write ops / 80k read ops for DynamoDB would cost >$500k per year:

https://www.scylladb.com/2018/12/13/scylla-vs-amazon-dynamod...

That was a few years ago. These days, according to our most current pricing you could do DynamoDB provisioned, 1 year reserved for $38,658/month, which is "only" $463,896 annually (pop up the "Details" button and choose "vs. DynamoDB"):

https://www.scylladb.com/pricing/?writes=160000&reads=80000&...

The same workload on Scylla Cloud would be only $7,442/month, or $89,304 annually.

If you wanted, say, 1m ops — 500k write / 500k read ops — on DynamoDB, that'll run you $131,078/month, or $1,572,936 per year.

https://www.scylladb.com/pricing/?writes=500000&reads=500000...

The same workload on Scylla Cloud would run $29,768 reserved/month, or $357,216 per annum — 77% cheaper.

Of course, all of this is just pure list price. Depending on volume you might be able to negotiate better pricing. However, you'd need a really steep discount for DynamoDB just to get back to Scylla Cloud's list price.

Let me know if you spot any math errors or omissions on my part.
Anecdotal, the last "unsmart" TV I found was hobbled to the point of not even having a power indicator LED.

It wasn't used much until putting a "good smart" device behind it...in this case a Roku.

Orwellian prophecy in real life, the Roku sends data back to the company about anything you watch using that device.

The only difference between this setup and a "plus good smart" TV is that anything else displayed on the TV(pc, pirated movies, photos, playstation/xbox/nintendo consoles, etc) will be fingerprinted and sent back to the company analytical department.

My opinion is it is none of their business.

This is all acceptable because manipulation via marketing/advertising is considered a necessary evil, and, the device is easy to use.
Compared to helping these refugees? Probably not.

Airbnb will probably house these refugees for a few weeks or months until they have more permanent housing from a non-profit or the government or they're simply on their feet. While refugees may have more needs than the average person, as a group they don't have the widespread problems with mental health and substance abuse that the unsheltered homeless population does.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't help the homeless, but it does mean that's a much heavier ask, one more suited to either the government, or non-profits specifically targeted at the issue.
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How long are you talking? I mean, nothing stops these people from going off and getting the vaccine themselves; what are you going to do, send mailers to them to never get a covid vaccine for the rest of their lives so that we can study them?
Nothing exposes the intelligentsia's profound and pervasive pseudo-intellectualism quite like its dismissal of Noam Chomsky.
Also one can learn to use a Raspberry Pi or similar with GPIO as 'programmer' for the EEPROM in 'white label' optics, to make them work in equipment from established brands, which wouldn't work otherwise, because not whitelisted ;-)
... to break them up?
Cash transit vans hold cash in special boxes where if they're being stolen, they automatically taint / dye the notes a dark red color. The notes can be swapped out with fresh notes, and the tainted notes discarded. Cash is a note saying you own a store of value. They are not the intrinsic value itself.
My iPhone 6s had the issue where a random CPU burst would crash it. Experiencing that, knowing how batteries age, and knowing how CPU throttling works, I actually believe Apple's explanation. I don't have a great explanation for why it's not a problem for my laptop other than bigger battery, though.
does't matter to me, if it helps some Afghan people get some help
I find it interesting that Airbnb has banned many conservative people and groups from using their service but readily make room for Afghan refugees. These discriminatory practices are always wrapped in virtuous justifications but are never applied to the other political side. And how does this move make sense when they could be doing the same for homeless people already in America and elsewhere, who are clearly deprived of housing supply by companies like Airbnb that have skirted regulations and potentially broken the law. Lastly this is so glaringly a PR move to basically gain amplified marketing via news outlets and social media, that it makes me despise them even more.
> He completely transformed modern life and changed the human trajectory for everyone on the planet, multiple times.

Steve Jobs?

This is going to need a fair amount of substantiation, because those are some wild claims.
random result:

>As part of President Joe Biden's new infrastructure plan, he unveiled nearly $5 billion in new grants to state and local governments for rental assistance and the development of affordable housing. In doing so, he aims to get 130,000 homeless people into homes.

https://www.newsweek.com/once-homeless-now-im-multi-milliona...
Not in apartments, where machines are often stacked on top of each other.
it's temporary
Or we could just, y'know, produce enough homeless shelters or crisis housing ourselves, through the government + taxes.

Trying to twist the private sector's arm into doing this themselves is stupid, it's not their wheelhouse, just tax their profits and have the government do it.
Why is an American’s life worth more than an Afghans?
I run into same problem! Any ideas on how to overcome the sogginess?
Thank you for the informative and insightful comment.

Perhaps surprisingly, I also thank GP (rangoon626). Even if their claim was wrong, it nudged you to write this clarification, in accordance with Cunningham's Law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham
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It does not…a new variant will just be better at avoiding vaccine induced antibodies, no reason for it to be more infectious
I used to use Pinterest for recipes a few years back, but their recommendations sucked (or they didn't have enough content). I would either keep getting the same suggestions again and again or recommendations for meat dishes though I'm vegetarian. Now I just follow a few well-known chefs on youtube instead.
This is how the civil reserve air fleet works. If an airline wants to receive military contracts it has to make a portion of it’s fleet available for emergency use.

I’m personally not a big fan of these sorts of neoliberal public private partnerships. But at least with conventional thinking it’s not that bad of an idea. Not sure why you’re getting all these downvotes.
> -- if you are willing to spend a little bit of learning effort, it is easily possible to run millions of non trivial transactions per second on a single server,

I got into programming through the Private Server (gaming) scene. You learn that the more you optimize and refactor your code to be more efficient, the more you can handle on less hardware, including embedded systems. So yeah, it's amazing how much is wasted. I'm kind of holding hope that things like Rust and Go focus on letting you get more out of less hardware.
> Just started using with my Mac

You accessed your Mac remotely from another device with Chrome Remote Desktop and had to enter your pass to your Mac? Can you see that happening on your Mac's screen?
> this is so glaringly a PR move to basically gain amplified marketing

Congrats, you've stumbled upon the open secret of....literally every single for-profit corporation on the planet!
Why couldn't others with lots of traffic use a similar approach? I assume they do. Seems pretty genius idea to batch things like that, especially when qps is very high batching (maybe waiting for a few ms to fill a batch) makes a lot of sense.
Looks like they have a rich trove of data on westerners and western sympathizers. I don't think Airbnb is thinking enough about protecting these rental records -- I can see the names and faces of previous guests even on public pages (those who left reviews). There must be tons of PII available to anyone who can access the Airbnb hosts' accounts.

edit: Also, the photos are full of things that immediately imperil the hosts -- innocuous details ranging from music disks to wine glasses to risque art prints.

Why are these pages still public?
It's not a shortcut for socially conscious leadership or lack thereof. Leadership is about people, culture and values. If your leadership lacks any of those, being a B Corp won't save you.
It may have been preferable for the Afghan people, the vast majority of whom prefer a democracy with election processes, and the vast majority of whom are young and mostly know the post-Taliban life under America's watch. It's unfortunate that America threw away its foothold in the region and has created another set of humanitarian crises - and I don't mean just displaced refugees but also women who will be brutally oppressed under Taliban rule.
I don't use RES but otherwise have the same experience as you. I never end up in new reddit.
Really? I just did this on desktop and the first two pages were all advertisements for florists. These sorts of links used to be demarked as ads on google search in the before times. Wikipedia didn't even appear until page three. That used to be the first result for a typical noun search.
Why are they not vaccinated yet? Everyone here in Western Europe has had access by now if they wanted to get vaccinated. Could it be their "strategy" changes every week and isn't a strategy at all?
I’m really tired of this. It’s a bad cold and it’s here to stay, stop harassing people.
It turns out that's kinda exactly what they're doing.
Sounds a lot like the "illegal numbers" debacle.
A curious thing about consumer behavior is that they never report phone thickness being a top concern but in practice it is actually one of the top criteria by which they judge phones.

Apple may benefit from planned obsolescence but they can (and do) just stop updating the software to achieve the same end. I suspect that if they made two versions of the iPhone, one like now and another along the lines you suggest, the current design would sell much better.
Ask HN: I love coding, but I hate web development. How can I “jump ship”?
Hey everyone.

A little background: I’m a backend developer. I have around 7 years of experience working on various backend code bases in PHP, Python, Node, etc. I also have a masters in Software Engineering.

I got into web development because in my home country that’s your only choice as a software grad. You’re either a front-end/backend dev or you’re unemployed.

I was completely fine with the job in the first few years because it was easy money. But lately I’ve been thinking about moving to different areas (game development, embedded, etc.) to explore a little especially since I moved to north america a while ago.

But honestly after all these years working on these start ups and “fast-paced enviroments”, i feel like i’m not in touch with the basics and fundamentals anymore to make this jump.

I’m not sure about the best way to go about this. Do I need to read books? Do I apply to specialized junior positions that interest me? Do I need to get the comp-sci notes out?

How would you do this? What’s your advice?

Also I’m 31 right now (not sure if it matters)
Not sure how your comment relates to the article but...

Apple's done this for a long time. They wait for something to be ready before launching it. They're rumored to be working on removing the notch, and foldable phones don't have enough consumer interest, yet.
I don’t think that’s fair. I drive past hundreds of homeless people who are already here in the US every day. I applaud Airbnb for this move, but I also can’t ignore the fact that it’s a moment in the news cycle that determines these people are getting help and these ones aren’t.
They didn't ban conservatives. They banned trump terrorists and others who were trying to overthrow the government.
It's incredible isn't it. And they are the ones who will (and are) be paying the price as well.

And very little acknowledgement of the impact their choices have on others in their community.
These Maps Tell the Story of Two Americas
> how easy it would be for Twitter to provide a fast and accessible version of their site if that was their goal

You can spoof your useragent to a mobile handset and visit https://mobile.twitter.com/ if you like a more bare-bones Twitter interface.
Generally speaking, I'd argue that data should almost always have a strict schema. But often times you don't have this kind of luxury: APIs are inconsistent and you may not have the CPU cycles to spare for a transform step; you're quickly iterating on a proof of concept and aren't even sure what your final schema is going to look like; and so on.

From a practical perspective, SQL is much more idiomatic than mongoDB's confusing query "language." But, cards on the table, almost every single new project I start up, I start with MongoDB :)
That sounds like one of my favorite use cases, Meshify / MunichRE! :)

A little history lesson is in order:

https://www.scylladb.com/2019/02/01/meshify-and-scylla-an-in...
These types of announcements make great headlines.
Conditions aren't even controlled enough to measure the difference. Phone would have to be at exact same temperature, exact same time since boot, same radio conditions, laying on the same surface at the same temperature and with the same ambient air flow and temperature.
Very myopic. In many areas, there simply isn't room for any more roads. Like most urban areas. Try again.

You seem to have failed at living in transit-oriented places. I'll take walking to the grocery over sitting in highway traffic for 30 mins any day. Your entire life seems very oriented.

The average American spends like 2 hours a day commuting. You cannot honestly think that is a good use of time or life. Sounds depressing if you ask me.
Considering that a cpu can do 3 billion things a second , and a typical laptop can store 16 billion things in memory , it shouldn’t take more than 5 of these to handle “billions of messages” . I agree with you that modern frameworks are inefficient
My experience is that cats often start yowling at the machine about 20 minutes before they run. It's probably more of a case by case thing.
Hi Matt! Sabiha from Codecov here - curious how many seats you're looking to add as Codecov is free for up to 5 users. From there we are currently priced at $10/seat. We've ensured that our pricing is viable for all kinds of businesses and that it outweighs the costs of building this in house :). If it makes sense, feel free to reach out to sabiha@codecov.io if I can help.
These are classic enterprise software lead gen tactics and somewhat hint at the future you might expect should you do business with them.

Hopefully this was a poorly thought out gate and not a signal that they’ve gone full enterprise tactics.
What is this about how there’s no UI to target?

Target X11 and make sure your app works on small screens with a single button mouse. That’s it.
The entire concept of what a “computer” is in people’s minds comes from Steve Jobs’ evangelism of these ideas. While you can be certain that the transistor would have been invented by someone if not Shockley, computing would be very different (perhaps better, perhaps not) without Jobs.
It absolutely is possible: If New York has a high proportion of obese and/or elderly people with comorbidities, it will have a higher IFR than places with a lower proportion.

In 2019 almost a quarter of NY's population was over 60 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/911456/new-york-populati...)

In 2019, 34% were overweight and 22% were obese (https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/obesity.p...)

Also Cuomo literally sent people infected with coronavirus into care homes.
So their initial strategy turned out impossible to follow, but now they have a new one you trust?

Did they refund the fines of those people who protested or are people still fined and arrested?
I looked at the letter, and I believe you have misinterpreted it.

They approved the drug fully for ages 16 and over. That appears to be separate and in addition to a renewed EUA.

There is a renewed EUA in order to allow the shot to be given to under 16s, and to allow the shot to be given to anyone without a prescription.

There might be more to it, I didn't go over every line, but that's the basic outline of where I think you misunderstood.
Pfizer vaccine is approved for 16+. 12+ is still under EUA.
I do think that people would be more likely to offer accommodation to these refugees right now, yes. In three months? Probably not so much.
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No but they have web sites that work fine.

Authenticators usually are open source.
Can you imagine if America spent 2 trillion (cost it spent trying to help Afghan people) on its homeless and poor. Could barely get them a fucking $1200 check after shutting down the economy for a year.
Crypto mining also bolsters an economy for criminals - I'd argue that speculation and criminal enterprises are the only two real use cases for cryptocurrency.

Anyone who thinks the environmental impact of crypto is the only ethical problem hasn't dug deep enough.
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To use: Create a browser bookmark with its URL field set to the contents of the above ix.io page. Then, when on a page with twitter links, click your new bookmarklet before clicking the links. Title bar text will briefly say what the bookmarklet did.
At least legally, the US had no “rights” over Afghanistan. Afghanistan was not a colony, territory or state of the US. The government was “free” to kick out the US whenever they wanted.
Also something I never thought about, the EUA appears to permit the vaccine be given "without an individual prescription for each vaccine recipient".
I was using bitcoin as a currency where I could in 2015. 'Seriously'. There were lots of restaurants, businesses, and even people who would accept it for payment, and transaction fees were completely reasonable. There is a lot of corruption and perverse incentives in Bitcoin governance, and I don't use it or hold it at all anymore, so I don't know how feasible it is to actually use as a currency now, other than that the fees are out of control, but I think it's unfair to say 'nobody seriously did it'.

I think most of the people still tied to proof-of-work crypto despite the massive environmental concerns which have become obvious more recently, have switched to a variety of other platforms, bitcoin cash being the closest one to bitcoin (but without the block-size constrained, allowing basically fee-less transactions, though you still have to wait for confirmations)

For full disclosure, I don't hold or use any proof-of-work crypto now (other than perhaps Nano, which is sort of a hybrid that has very small proof-of-work performed by the user making the transaction, and proof-of-stake at the validation/confirmation layer)
Interestingly according to the article a similar program was already being operated by airbnb.
Dry the ingredients and cool it out of the oven for 2-3 minutes on a rack. From the article.

Edit-otherwise experiment with baking the crust first.
AirBnB offering accommodations is like the US government promising to take every refugee, only _after_ the airport has been closed off. They just gotta find a way into the airport, and we'll take care of the rest.

https://twitter.com/Abihabib/status/1430231520820797442
https://twitter.com/ericuman/status/1430284770680913921
By 16 billion things you mean 16 billion bytes? If you are talking about physical memory, then no, you can't occupy the entire memory. If you are talking about virtual memory, then you can store more data.
Assuming you aren't one of the very few people on earth that make those decisions (made obvious by your choice of phone earlier), then saying your pet theory is real and obvious.. is unhelpful. I would posit (as the most profitable company on earth) that the reason Apple makes iPhones they way they do is simply because they sell better to normal consumers.

If you carry a phone based on which explosive gasses it can operate near, you are an extreme outlier when it comes to consumer behavior. Perhaps the things that are "real and obvious" to you.. aren't.