skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jesus the lack of enforcement on stuff like this is outrageous. at the very least the company should be fined the garnished wages + some, the executives involved fired with no severance, and an external organization should do a compliance review
Ask HN: How are modern DBaaS architected?
How are services such as AWS Aurora or DigitalOcean’s Managed Postgres architected? Does anyone know of any whitepapers or blog posts about this topic? My intuition tells me the architecture is something like: 1) User signs up for the product, 2) A control plane level service launches a new instance of Postgres and configures it (on k8s, Nomad, whatever) 3) The database credentials are provided to user and the control plane handles replication/instances/etc. Would love any additional reading or resources anyone can provide.
I’m speculating it was supposed to let them drop Meltdown patches. Doing so easily creates “20% performance gain over Windows 10 on same machine”. Aligns with the statement that they “block” “security” updates.

But this is clearly coming from someone who’s not actively in coding role and without consultation with developers, as some of CPUs(namely Ryzen 2k) to be supported don’t have the required but not very well debugged features(MBEC for Zen 2 - Ryzen 3k and up with luck).
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The problem with Poe's Law is that the person invoking it is often just revealing their own biases. It's not impossible to imagine any number of people writing any number of things, it's a failure to calibrate your expectations about the likelihood of parody properly that's the issue.

Journalists in particular should feel responsible to investigate likely satire before signal-boosting it. If they're actually disincentivized from doing so, that indicates that something is pretty rotten about our media culture..

>Texas’s SB8 will cause real harm, and making fun of people who are deeply concerned for women’s safety because of it seems borderline sociopathic to me.

If your deep concern causes you to detach from reality, then being made fun of will hopefully provide a merciful way for you to regain your grip. Look at the recent "witches vs. Taliban" fiasco - perhaps gentle mockery will help people focus their activist impulses towards more-productive ends?
Very interesting. UAMS has a long and proud history of nephrology, having been led in the 90s by Thomas E Andreoli who theorized or discovered ( I forget ) the ENaC (epithelial sodium channel) in the kidney.

Link to open access journal article: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The short of it is that they appear to have found anti-ACE2 autoantibodies appear with latent onset in patients who experience "long covid" and this could fit with an angiotensin driven model.
If memory serves, isn't L-arganine a treatment for herpes as well?
Many businesses/services can't saturate the hardware you describe. It's just too much compute power. With CPUs you can scale down to fit your actual needs: all the way down to a single AVX-512 core doing maybe 24 inferences per second (costing a few dollars PER MONTH).

Also, your cost/inference results will change if you use a fast CPU inference engine, instead of something slow like PyTorch (which you appear to be using).
Problem with this alternate history is that the largest union corps (6th) was not engaged at Gettysburg and so would be a very strong rearguard. Lee was on a raid and being in Pennsylvania north of the army of the Potomac would have been a risk. Food and horse feed, yeah, but it has to be sent south for the raid to be effective. And ammo has to come north. See https://www.amazon.ca/How-North-Won-Military-History/dp/0252...
Honestly, open offices is a huge win for managers because of the lower productivity from the workers. It makes it harder to collaborate and find other solutions than those handed down from the above.

It's just enough distraction and separation. Having the managers present, would just disrupt any creative stream of thought.
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Nuclear war has prevented the traditional mass slaughter of the Lowe classes as social steam valve for about three generations now. I'm grateful for that. Gametheory and mass destruction tamed some of our worst psychopathsiin power.
The UI for Ventusky is much better too.
It's custom software written in (if memory serves) Arc, a Lisp dialect.
Maybe. That one distinguishes itself from Elastic and hasn't set its sights on big data.

> Elasticsearch is very powerful when it comes to massive datasets; it can quickly scale horizontally and allows one to build complex queries. The flipside of that is that nothing is easy. Even if all you need is simple search functionality that handles typos, synonyms, or filters, you're looking at hours of training, documentation, and configuration.

Spending some hours learning a new tool doesn't seem so bad to me when I'll be working with it as part of my product.

> For big tech companies dealing with enormous logs, Elasticsearch might make sense. But when it comes to medium-size datasets (i.e. less than five million rows) and smaller apps, it simply isn’t right for the job. Nonetheless, since no open-source alternative has historically been available, developers still go for Elastic as their default solution and wind up losing a disproportionate amount of time on setup and training.

> MeiliSearch is not made to search through billions of large text files or parse complex queries.

https://blog.meilisearch.com/why-should-you-use-meilisearch-...

I'm not sure I'd like to assume that my dataset will never grow. This is kind of like using training wheels. Some may find it helpful but I don't think it will grow to the widespread adoption Elastic has seen without a change of vision.
It would be nice if the old/new comparison slider was more accurately registered so that you weren't switching between two different points of view[1]

One wonders if some sort of Elizabethan censorship was done on the painting.

I agree with the article that Cupid adds the context to the painting that it was missing before.

[1] Its subtle yes, but look at the edges of the window (they don't line up between new/old, the paper in her hand, same issue, Etc.
I’ve never once seen a worthwhile article come out of Business Insider and yet yours is the first negative opinion I’ve ever seen expressed about it. Maybe because most don’t click inside to know that the titles are invariably clickbait compared to the actual bulk of the article? I don’t know.
It's the year of Embrace+Extend on WSL.
> MS want people to stop using Linux as an alternative

Linux desktops as they currently stand aren't even close to a threat to Windows, this is Microsoft using the Linux userspace to get developer mindshare back from OSX.
If you use Xorg you can use XInput2 and XIGrabKeycode[0] to grab specific key combinations and get notified (via event messages, they happen asynchronously) when they are pressed. Then you can use XTest and XTestFakeKeyEvent[1] to send the event you want.

XInput2 and XIGrabKeycode should provide the highest priority grabbing under Xorg so that even applications that do server-wide grabs (e.g. games) will be bypassed.

XTest was meant for automated UI testing but can be used for all sorts of automated behaviors.

For the first part i wrote a simple program[2] years a go that uses xkill to kill the toplevel window with Ctrl+Alt+K (mainly for games that grab the input and hang) which can be used as a quick example. I haven't tried to use XTestFakeKeyEvent but there seems to be a lot of code out there which can be used as an example, e.g. this one[2] (see the send_key function near the top).

[0] https://linux.die.net/man/3/xigrabkeycode

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/3/xtestfakekeyevent

[2] http://runtimeterror.com/tools/xkeyller/

[3] http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/matchbox-history/plain/...
Rummel's numbers are considered "considerably inflated".

Rummel himself described his figures as "little more than educated guesses."

-- Wikipedia, citing Rummel, Rudolph (2003) [1997]. "Statistics of Mexican Democide: Estimates, Calculations, and Sources". Statistic of Democide: Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900 (hardback ed.). Charlottesville, Virginia: Center for National Security Law, School of Law, University of Virginia; Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University. ISBN 9783825840105. Retrieved August 31, 2021 – via Freedom, Democide, War at the University of Hawaii System.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Rummel

His numbers for China might also be revised downwards.

Keep in mind that this period involves war (WWII and the Chinese Communist Revolution), as well as famine (the Great Famine of 1959--61). The latter has estimates ranging from 15--55 million lives lost. It should be noted that famine was a frequent visitor to China over the previous century, with famines noted in 1810, 1811, 1846, 1849 1950--73, 1876--79, 1896--97, 1907, 1920--21, 1928--30, 1936--57, and 1942--43, prior to succession by the Communists. Most of those involved a million or more dead, several tens of millions. It might be more accurate to describe Communist China as having stopped the history of famine in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines_in_China
I don't think they should have messed with it.

(I do look at it differently since watching Tim's Vermeer though. I wonder if the conservators looked at the painting a bit differently after seeing the documentary? Like hay, "Maybe it's not the masterpiece we thought?")
>even though talent is - to a very great extent - an undeserved function of genes and environment outwith one's control

Worse - merit/talent/reward is determined by what the monied classes find useful, not what is actually useful to society.
I think the intent behind the modern usage of "the exception that proves the rule" is that:

a) the rule is a heuristic, not a hard-and-fast rule, and

b) the notability of exceptions suggests that the heuristic is pretty good.

In other words, if the exception is, in fact, exceptional, it reinforces that the heuristic is reasonably valid for non-exceptional cases.

In this case, the fact that it took the intervention of the family-friend-who-works-at-Google-HQ to resolve a pay dispute is an exceptional circumstance, and reinforces that for most people, because presumably most people don't have a family friend who works at Google HQ, there is no recourse to pay disputes.

Hence, the exception—by being exceptional—proves the heuristic rule that most employees of these contractor corps have little power to negotiate for their rights.
That's the frustrating thing isn't it, "fake news" became popularized in the last few years and 'professional journalists' who can't even be bothered to fact check anything are really proving it right. Which is a shame since a free unbiased press is healthy for a society.
There are two main things I've seen code AI do: automate generation of boiler plate and inline code libraries. It doesn't look like this AI does anything different from that either. Those are nifty but hardly game changing.
I think that's a bit disingenuous, who reads these policies anyway? And how much does this really matter compared to features like end-to-end encryption?
RDP is ready, tested and quite complete. Much better than designing a new protocol.
A big differentiator you can have over Shpofiy is support for RTL websites. Many businesses in Israel pass on Shopify because of its lack of RTL support
That would be the end of the Internet.
All the apps they bought.

Siebel, PeopleSoft, BEA Weblogic.

I was the DBA for a Siebel instance for ten years.

I would say J.D. Edwards, but that's AS400/DB2.

SAP is also a big driver, although they don't want to be (so much so that they bought Sybase).
I know a common tactic these days is to claim “Major Outrage from x Community” and then source said outrage from a few random tweets. It’s yellow journalism, really, and I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the less ethically constrained journalists were anonymously behind those tweets in order to hit their 5pm deadlines.
But the law deals specifically with social media companies. There's no major social media companies headquartered in Texas.
Dude, if you're so far down your partisan internet mouthbreather rabbit hole that you start to defend other people for biting on embarrassingly obvious bait, you might want to take a break. Go camping or join a bowling league or something. Touch grass.
If I'm buying a subscription/app from a sketchy dev, sure, I'll happily to default to use Apple, as it's providing me real value in terms of protection.

But for buying stuff from trustworthy providers, like Netflix or Amazon, etc, then why should I give Apple their cut? They give me 0 extra benefits, as I don't need protection from those companies. They're as likely to mess with me as Apple.
They're not allowed to offer it lower price direct.
Are you using a different weather app or website that is more accurate?

My understanding is that windy primarily just shows data from different forecast models, so isn't your issue really with the third-party models, not with Windy's weather client?
And then I figured, why not just posit an omnipotent Being that just makes it all happen, at each instant, by sheer Will
> Note that Apple is charging 15% for small developers ( https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/11/apple-announces-app-s... ) - not 30%.

Defaults matter. Based on what they've shared so far developers must qualify for and choose to enroll in this system. In other words, Apple isn't charging 15% for small businesses, they're charging 15% for Small Business Program participants. That's an important distinction.

It's also worth mentioning that if you have transferred an app to or from your developer account for any reason, you're not eligible for this program. https://developer.apple.com/app-store/small-business-program...
In the future, I really look forward to owning a globe that shows time-lapse clouds in very high resolution.
Yeah sure, you're saying that the model for full disk encryption would be more relevant here. But at the same time, there is a third-party server in the middle of the protocol, and so I'm not sure if that model would be more relevant.
On the contrary, it was a masterpiece in creativity
One day there will be an AR heads-up display with an AI that would've alerted you to your misunderstanding! But alas, not yet.
And not flagged or downvoted.
You're overestimating the cost to store years of food (dense portions of dried beans, rice, chocolate, liquor, etc; rough estimate $120 / twelve 20-lb bags of rice per person per year) and the basic educational precautions that can mean a world of quality of life; the kind of precautions you won't be able to educate yourself on if something does happen, you'll have to rely on previous gathered knowledge. Things like how to best shelter at impact and prevent exposure to radioactivity after the fact.
>> The idea that you can't deny service to an individual for their political views is a big shift

For common carriers that has been a longstanding policy, for example, telephone companies can't deny you service for things you say over the phone.

The fewer the viable alternatives to a service are, the more that makes sense.

The big shift is the exact opposite, that you would allow companies that run services with network effects to choose what messages are sent over their services while at the same time avoiding liability for the messages that are sent.
I meant fast resume on the ethernet side, not the USB side. While the (often) 8051 cores do work for things like magic packets and ASF, it's often not really exposed to the user or kernel unless some device-specific driver is used. Some devices have windows-specific drivers that come with device manager properties tabs for extra settings, but then they hide it in some unclear magic packet handling and energy saving setting instead of a host-baed link control setting (the ethernet link control usually is still there).

The weird thing is that there is a whole lot of cool stuff you can do with the on-chip firmware like mDNS proxy for offline devices, but it's all so hidden and vague that nobody bothers to do a whole lot about it.
He's unironically admired by some western leaders!

https://www.cnn.com/2016/11/27/world/justin-trudeau-castro-e...
My suspicion is that it’s a way to dodge labor laws.
Trace Underwood looks like a douchebag here with his tone-deaf narrative.

Women have their rights trampled upon in Texas, but let's focus on the "internet troublemakers" who draw attention to this situation using satire?
> I disagree, here in Vancouver our system is also from Cubic and it is terrible.

Okay, but you disagree based on a different system. I’m not sure what’s the disagreement about, GP was expressing their opinion about Oyster vs OV. Regardless, when I was working in London and areas from 2008 to 2012, I loved it. Used it on every form of transport and topped up everywhere, simple swipe and done.

OV card is also very nice. Swipe while getting on / off and done. The Oyster system felt a little bit more convenient with regards to the reader placement but OV is okay.
> If none of that is convincing, in the US it's illegal to sell a CPAP to someone without a prescription.

Like that means anything. I've bought a DSX900 ASV machine from the US, no problem. I've been self-treating UARS for 4 years now. None of the "sleep doctors" I've talked to even understand the thing, I had to do everything myself.
There is also http://hint.fm/wind/
I occasionally meditated for a bit upon a similar map on Yandex Weather—finally understood what the deal with Siberia is. Like, in spring it's way below zero around Mongolia, while it's on the same latitude as Black Sea where it can already be +20°C. Well, turns out I can clearly see warm air moving from the Atlantic eastwards—until it hits the Urals and stops, and everything beyond that is frozen tundra. Warm air from the Pacific somehow barely reaches Siberia, deciding to turn east or west instead.

Really nice to just watch this on the screen in realtime.

Also in the rain map, it's fun to look at huge clouds spanning entire Europe. Especially if my city is precisely in a small window of clear skies amid the rains.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but Clarence Thomas is clearly a partisan idiot.
Cited from the study: "20 days after randomization we failed to detect any significant difference in the primary outcome between the study arms" (p4). The fact that it has no difference in primary outcome (removal of respiratory support) makes me very skeptical of its secondary outcome claims (time to discharge).
Amazon sponsored a writeup at The Register on the difficulties of moving non-trvial databases off of Oracle.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/20/how_amazon_broke_free...
When I was in the army, we would have drills to dig shallow "graves" quickly and then jump into them.

They were not officially called graves.

By the time you had intelligence needed to start digging your grave it was probably only good for dying in anyways.
On a side note, I saw this on the Gartner wave for 2021. It was under the hype cycle with 5 years, fwiw.
Ah, the “everything is securities fraud” school of US legal thought.
New technique reveals details on the long-theorized fifth force of nature
>If someone made a tool that was better than planning your trip in your head it doesn't matter that you aren't taking a trip all the time. Because most people are always planning their next trip in their mind.

My wife uses Travelocity's "book a random room" feature. You are told "random 4 star hotel in X area for $x" that is typically $10-20 less than if you use Travelocity to book that same hotel directly. She loves it because she gets really excited about saving a couple of bucks. I get anxious because I don't know what I'm getting.
Babak Parviz had a team working on this at UW back in 2010 (https://spectrum.ieee.org/augmented-reality-in-a-contact-len...). They wanted to use either an LED array with microlenses, or (as you allude) a kind of laser DLP. Both approaches are feasible for projecting a virtual image onto the retina, but integrating them in a working product is very difficult, as illustrated by Parviz's trajectory at Google.
I did a quick search for a Python-based shell and found Xonsh [0]; thought you might find it interesting.

0. https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh
Eric Weinstein: 60 points.
>yellow journalism

Coming soon: A biting expose on racist tech bros on ycombinator...
A lorawan gateway would require an 8 channel concentrator card.

This software provides UDP connection to the card.
https://github.com/Lora-net/packet_forwarder

Many RPI gw hardwares exist.

"Link" two linux machines? Expecting IP connections over LoRa?
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It's got eye tracking. Once you look at the watch and the image is created, whatever part you choose to look at can be in focus.
I think it may have been a different talk either by the same guy, or someone from the same company.
It would be ever so nice if Microsoft SQL Server supported JOIN USING in addition to JOIN ON.

Everybody has problems.
Have you considered that you may be sensitive? Most people don't give a fuck, but you do?

If so, there's only one route: Start ignoring people. Don't offer advice until asked for. Never give full answers, only pointers.

You'll be doing others, and yourself, a big favour. It won't clear all distractions, but it'll start you on focusing on yourself rather than others. When people come to you, they'll be ready for an answer, you'll be more appreciated and have more capacity left to provide more clarity.

Took 10 years to get anywhere, so have patience and be kind.
Freaking hell, writing an essay 280 characters at a time. The laziness should be scorned.
The same thing from Joe Simpson in Touching the Void: "You gotta make decisions. You gotta keep making decisions, even if they’re wrong decisions. If you don’t make decisions, you’re stuffed".
We are wired for these instincts is because it's what got us through millions of years of evolution.

Would be silly to discard such a nicely tuned learning model.
Sounds like she just needs to sign up for something like Square where your customers set an appointment, order services and pay and invoice. They can even be asked to pay before hand.

Square is not the only player doing service appointment payments.
I imagine there would be plenty fish in the ocean still. Some would survive.
I live a couple islands over from you. As a frequent sailor, I use Windy regularly before a race, but it's never completely accurate (PredictWind tends to be better). Great for looking at general trends and visualizing patterns. This area is tricky — lots of microclimates for the reasons you mentioned and it's almost impossible for a service like Windy to be completely accurate.
> Sometimes I write the same script as PS and as bash script.

That's your mistake! Don't write bash scripts in PowerShell, and don't write PowerShell scripts in bash. Don't be surprised if the shopkeeper can't understand you, when you're speaking "French" by translating an English sentence word for word.

PowerShell is much more readable, terse, and elegant than Bash. It absolutely blows it out of the water... on Windows, where its inputs are the streams of objects that it's designed for. If you're trying to shoehorn text-based streams like in Linux into a PowerShell script, you're going to have a bad time.

See this earlier comment I made and the linked comments for some examples of PowerShell-vs-Bash: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23423650
OP was most likely referring to the AWS EC2 instance type T4, which runs on Amazon Graviton processors IIRC.
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