skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of everything, from my perspective, has gone insane within the last few months.

I would __much__ rather the market were satisfied with more houses, apartments, everything such that people could afford to live places and thus inflation / stagflation weren't the natural result of everyone trying to get ahead and increasing just their own wage.

All of the other aspects of the jobs, such as safety conditions and work assignments are also important; but the cost of living, healthcare, everything, is also an underlying factor.
Andy is by far the coolest CS professor around.
With regard to songwriting specifically, I've found that strange tunings are an easy way to knock myself out of my comfort zone. I think a lot of guitarists find themselves in a rut where they're accidentally writing stuff that sounds very similar over and over.

All of a sudden it's a bit difficult for me to predict what a chord will sound like before playing it, and as I'm getting aquatinted with the new tuning I run into little happy accidents that might not have been terribly ergonomic (or even possible) in a standard guitar tuning.
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I assume the author means creators of typeset, though I'm unaware of this usage and it's amusing to imagine a bunch of poets quixotically and inexplicably employed in fine metalworking for an exquisite clock :D
Okay, then how are you determining the increase in value?
I don't get that impression about Ozy. I think you picked the worst example to highlight something that is also happening.

This is more likely that individuals read about how to play around with metrics because they couldn't believe that other companies were doing so, and they tried it themselves, and to their surprise VCs came out of the woodwork and didn't gatekeep by race at all. This is much more similar to Blazing Saddles when the frontier town was perplexed that the new Mayor was black and the Mayor realized how dumb they all truly were and played with their emotions with a funny ruse.
Cryptocurrency bros are hilarious. In one breath they’ll claim the government is evil and they’re building tech to circumvent government control, and in the next they’re threatening people to weaponize the government against them if they don’t fix their massive fuckup.
Bill Maher raised this multiple times in early 2020 -

"Bill implores Americans do to their part in the fight against COVID-19 by confronting the country's obesity epidemic" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDaQOy7ML38 (Aug 1, 2020)

We can no longer go to scientists or scientific bodies for facts. It's a troubling new world order. We can't just solve obesity, but for the scientists to have hidden the problem, is a special kind of broken.

Bill is correct to ask for the truth. Not the "masks don't work" when really they didn't have enough. Same with soap vs alcohol, again because supplies were low, lies we heard early on in the pandemic.
> At what point does breaking a company up into fractional shares become a ponzi scheme?

Depends on what being a shareholder entitles me to do. If I can't vote and don't have a realistic expectation of getting dividends and have no other rights, then yess, that "ownership" seems pretty meaningless to me even if there are only two shareholders.

If you have voting rights, you can give an actual answer to the question: At the point were the fractions are small enough that the vote doesn't have any practical influence anymore.
For me, once I’m playing it’s almost entirely muscle memory. Writing or learning, the tuning doesn’t matter at all it’s just developing that muscle memory.

The thing nonstandard tunings does for me is it gives me a base state to work from that lets me use patterns and techniques suited to it. Drop D is very good for bass-heavy fifth chord stuff. CGD--- is really good for fingerstyle techniques. Other weirder tunings like some used by Michael Hedges let you rethink whole chord relationships.
We Ditched DynamoDb
Good for them. I wish them all the best of luck.
> the return of an empowerment is spread among the group of supporters who funded the empowerment

But, workers by definition don’t fund companies.
This is essentially Gödel's first incompleteness theorem.
I don't think he was saying RDS is overpriced...he was saying he's seen people use it inefficiently (e.g., still running the default DB config), which can raise RDS costs unnecessarily.
After 100 years, Romanovs return to St Petersburg in golden-clad pomp
The aws and other cloud vendors markup on bandwidth is probably at least 50x. It is their moat. If they lower it their big spenders like snowflake will leave for their own datacenters
My home ISP gives me an IPv6 address as well. Much of the internal infra that I use at work has AAAA records in our local DNS.

I feel comfortable saying IPv6 is here.
I'd assume he's still the plurality shareholder.

The money you spend goes to the owners, not the employees, regardless of how well the employees are paid
"In my opinion..."
I still remember the day this came out and how happy I was that I could now convince the project I was working on to give up on IE6 too.
Funnily enough, the ad based tech companies have the most reasonable stock prices. Facebook and Google are massively profitable, still growing at double digit rates, and each have only mid twenties PE ratios (the same as Caterpillar Heavy Equipment, or electric utilities like ConEd and PG&E).

Meanwhile there are companies out there like Lordstown Motors, Lucid, and Nikola, which have never sold a product but have billion dollar market caps. Nikola is universally known as a fraud, somehow has negative revenue, and is still worth $5 billion. EVs are the real bubble.
Is the monitoring functionality independent off the cluster it is monitoring being up to see monitoring?

Control centre eats its own dog food. All its data is on topics. That means if your cluster is unhealthy you can see healthy stats until the control centre consumers have caught up. Which means if you have a lot of data and load, control centre can start lagging and in one case I had some very hard debugging wondering why control centre saying the cluster was unhealthy but the cluster was up. It turned out control centre was lagging by 24 hrs so I was seeing the previous days outage.

Confluent recommended putting control centre on its own cluster for this very reason. One that isn’t cheap, a minimal prod cluster is 3 brokers+zookeepers and secondly what then monitors your monitoring cluster.
There’s maybe an amusing counter point from this study. Here they ran a trial with a highly at risk population (due to comorbidities) and reduced hospitalization by 50%. I guess it’s possible the drug is 100% effective and the hospitalization of the remainder were driven by other factors, but even in that case you’d be overestimating hospitalization by just a factor of two. And since none of the people who received the drug died, I guess it’s good indirect evidence that we’re counting covid deaths among the high risk, diagnosed population reasonably well?
Surely, I can't be the only one who clicked on this thinking it's related to the Electron framework rather than scientific electrons
Thanks. I think he needs quite a bit starting. And I may be overselling him :) I have tried to encourage him to do reviews on YouTube, which I believe he can do, but he is quite "there are so many people doing this, why would someone watch me" and not getting my explicit point to him that this is to get him to know how to do it, and not to make money. He is actually quite photogenic (in my opinion) for our race, which will be a bonus, but getting him to cross that hurdle is a problem. Sorry for venting. At present I am traveling but when I get back, I plan to do a 1 minute capsule myself (just repeating an article from macrumors on videos) everyday so that I can get him engaged.

Thanks for the ideas though.
Still a major stockholder
As father always used to quip, “possession is nine tenths of the law”.

Good luck with your endeavours, Compound /s
What does this have to do with them murdering people? It's completely irrelevant, unless you somehow want to rationalize their behavior.
I don't think we are, and my parents were immigrants. I say that because other countries just kick people out whenever they want. Other countries safeguard their identities. The U.S. used to have that, which is why my parents had to go through a process in order to acquire their legal status, but now people are advocating for literally anyone arriving here and not bothering with that process, and then we have tens of thousands of foreigners that probably will never acquire this American identity, and perhaps that's what some people want.

The identity is the nation, when you break that down, you break down the nation, and that's precisely what we're seeing played out.
Yeah, the novelty with making chemicals that go bang pretty much wore off in my teenage years although for a time in my 20s I had Miner's Right permit which allowed me to buy and possess Gelignite for said purposes of mining - but I wasn't making the stuff, just using it. Not thought much about it lately but I know that gaining such a permit today is immensely more difficult than when I obtained mine.

Making guncotton/nitrocellulose, picric acid, etc. isn't that hard. In fact, as I've mentioned elsewhere in these posts, I made nitroglycerin in the school lab. (note I'd strongly advise those tempted not to do so - even if you're a good and careful chemist, as such acts are frowned upon with much greater severity than when I did it decades ago).

The fact is that with the type of training we students had had, by the time we'd finished five years of high school chemistry we could make most of those chemicals by following the procedures for doing so. It was only at university we eventually got to understand the underlying theory behind why those procedures were formulated the way they were.

BTW, about the only chemistry I do these days is to figure out what's the best prepackaged cleaner to use in the kitchen. :-)
Yo. It's Andy@OtterTune here.

OtterTune does not need to access user tables or view queries (nor do we want to). OtterTune only collects runtime metrics from the database (e.g., InnoDB stats, pg_stat_database) and CloudWatch. These performance counters are enough of a signal to tell how your application uses the database and how optimize the system accordingly.

Two of our major deployments that we can talk about were at a French bank and Booking.com, both of which are in Europe. Their infosec people looked at what we were sending to our service and said that were no GDPR issues.

The original motivation of the OtterTune project started because when I was a grad student I had trouble getting real workloads and data sets for my experiments. So I decided to purposely work on a database optimization tool that did not need access to the things that you are worried about when I started a new professor.

Let me know if you have any other questions.
> I recently had my identity stolen and used for the first time. My data has been leaked so many times who knows where it was taken from (40+ hits on haveibeenpawned). The process of clearing the debt in my name was pretty enlightening. I feel like it’s only going downhill from here.

I'm sorry, that's a really crappy experience! I hope you can get things cleared up soon. Back before I realized how easy it is for someone to steal my identity or even what any mitigating steps would be, I had an identity theft and fraud that went unnoticed for so long that I had a summary judgment executed against me by the thief's creditors- imagine my surprise when 1/4 of my paycheck suddenly vanished. Unfortunately, there was no recourse for me- I ended up having to pay for the fraud with 1/4 of my paycheck for a little over a year.
anyone else seeing strange sideways zeroes on some of their graphics?

guess table folk are fans of pivots :^)
They'd deliver text speeds then tell you to stop complaining because where else can you go while laughing.
When twitter was younger, people would implement against their api and eventually get shut down.

I can't imagine having a dependency on a coinbase api.
How is the parent comment disagreeing with you?

Couldn't the author have just said "Amazon" and gotten a comparable clickthrough?
F*ck you dick-rocket money doesn't just make itself.

I mean, I suppose his actually mostly does.

Never mind.
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Wild. From the title I was guessing 2008.
The song Boom Boom by Detroiter John Lee Hooker
Quantum software development using the QDK (Q-Sharp)
Russell was one of the last great polymaths.
I really like that one, but it is a bit on the spicy side for me. Just on the edge of what I can tolerate, horseradish-wise. Their mustard garlic aioli is good as well.

My favorite was one from Germany I bought at a specialty shop, can't remember the name of course. But, it did come in a little bottle that looked like a beer mug, with a soft top. :D
> The octave is a doubling/halving of frequencies

Side note: Except when in praxis you have to accord for non-perfect masses, then you have to stretch the tuning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stretched_tuning
> I actually find that once you learn something in standard that there is relatively little cognitive load involved. It's more about refining very fine motor skills and coordination between shapes/fingerings.

This is actually the cognitive load I’m talking about. I can do that, and I have, but playing the music I want to play is really challenging because I have to adapt free strings or polyharmonic positions to positions my hands can and will do (and can adapt to do better) but still keep me focused on whether I’m getting the sound out of my instrument the way I want.

(Thanks for the name drops, I have a couple artists to check out! Since I’m here talking tunings, my biggest influences are Kelli Rudick and Kaki King)
My first encounters on the early internet were through a mail server. You’d dial up, send whatever you had in the outgoing folder, download if any new mail was awaiting you on the server then hang up. Very quick and prompt for that time. It was actually fun sending commands to listservs by email and receiving the responses at the next dial in. I was a teenager and at some point I was in trouble with the phone bill. Good times though.
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Equinix metal pricing is considerably cheaper but you won’t find managed services there so gotta do everything yourself. The cloud vendors aren’t sticking it to you - they’re taking advantage of orgs unwillingness and incompetence to run their own infra and I can’t blame them
I don't think you can build a new consumer facing business without advertising on facebook and google. A lot of the moden consumer internet was built by advertising on those platforms and diverting dollars away from brick and mortar. Some well known examples include Airbnb and all the kardashian family brands. Advertising metrics might be hard to measure for large well known companies, but for startups/ solo entrepreneurs the numbers tend to be much clearer.
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WebGoat is a deliberately insecure application
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_transition
That's so cool! Hope they can support GCP soon!
A bug in Coinbase software allowed hackers to steal Coinbase users' money and private information. What else would you call this?
So much this. The most absurd tunings I’ve worked with have helped me rethink even familiar progressions and explore new ideas that wouldn’t occur to me.
There are some people trying to organize a general strike for October 15th. I just see mentions of it on social media, but I have yet to hear of any big unions getting involved.
If you cross an ocean on a sailboat, either putting your life or the life of your crew on hold for days, are you still using resources in the best way? If I own a business that employs a bunch of people, am I better off taking time out from running it to sail somewhere so I can save the transportation emissions, instead of focusing my time on helping all those people be productive? People already choose transportation based on how their time can be used most efficiently. Maybe you could argue that wastrel bitcoin playboys or whatever should travel by sailboat, but the for the majority of people, even a sailboat is a pretend 0th order win that neglects any other effects of that travel choice.
This not accurate. The PCR test was designed to be extremely specific to SARS-CoV-2. The CDC's PCR test was physically tested against human coronavirus (strains 229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1), MERS-coronavirus, SARS-coronavirus, bocavirus, Mycoplasma pneumoniae Streptococcus Influenza A(H1N1) Influenza A(H3N2) Influenza B Human adenovirus, type 1 Human metapneumovirus respiratory syncytial virus (strain Long A), rhinovirus, parainfluenza 1 (strain C35), parainfluenza 2 (strain Greer), parainfluenza 3 (strain C-43), and parainfluenza 4 (strain M-25). All of these tested negative.

In addition, on computer it was "evaluated against 831,910 recent high-quality genome sequences available in Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID, https://www.gisaid.org) as of June 6, 2021 to demonstrate the predicted inclusivity of the 2019-nCoV real-time RT-PCR Diagnostic panel." This all somes from the instructions for use (PDF)[1] for the test.

The PCR test detects SARS-CoV-2 and only SARS-CoV-2.

Besides, regular flu tests continued to be done using the same technologies as used in previous years. More than 1.2 million flu tests were performed in the U.S. and 99.8% of the specimens tested negative.[2]

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/134922/download#page=41

[2] https://i.imgur.com/noBw6zV.png
Nice courts you have there, it would be a shame if they were protected and paid off by the SK Group chaebol
Pascal became Object Pascal. Delphi is a dialect of Object Pascal and descendent of Turbo Pascal, and still here.

There are multiple compilers and IDEs that use Object Pascal such as Oxygene (RemObjects), Free Pascal/Lazarus, PascalABC (open-source on GitHub), Smart Pascal, DWScript, etc...

By the way, Object Pascal is mostly an extension of Pascal, so in many cases a Pascal programmer can transfer their code to the newer compilers/IDEs. Free Pascal/Lazarus even has a Turbo Pascal compatibility mode (in addition to Delphi compatibility mode).

Object Pascal is often ranked between #15 to #20 on TIOBE (and that's without counting some dialects). Lua is presently ranked #39. So if somebody is talking about popularity or who is the dead language, then they should be saying that about Lua, Rust, Julia, Kotlin, Haskell, etc... Those are all languages ranked far below Object Pascal.
They were, I was trying to bring some of that good tone here.
That Hetzner offer is like 5 years old now. If you buy one of their recent offerings, bandwidth is unmetered now. You can easily send around 150TB/month at no extra cost with their offers.

OVH can get you unmetered servers with 1-3gbit/s for 100-400 USD/month as well. That's around 500TB/month after accounting for how much you actually get.

Online.net is similarly priced.

The list goes on.
Address abbreviation helps a bunch. IPv6 (not an expert, but I’m in a class right now!) suffers from severe 2nd system syndrome: it overhauls DHCP in a totally convoluted way, overhauls so much of how the IP layer works, etc. It really is a mess.
> Right. But also nobody acts like limited print runs are mathematically non-fungible.

You misunderstand the word non-fungible here. They are non-fungible because 2 copies are recorded like this:

- token 1, owned by Alice
- token 2, owned by Bob

Bob and Alice may are may not be willing to make this trade, that is up to them. The two tokens are distinct. After they trade, it is still clear who the owner of each token is.

A fungible token is recorded like this:

- Alice owns 1 unit of token CHARLIE
- Bob owns 1.3 units token CHARLIE

If Alice sends their one unit to Bob, he now owns 2.3 units. No one knows which one these 2.3 units was Alices. It's just a counter

Note that no one acts like this is any different than I explained it just now. NFT people do not claim that non-fungible means "you cannot mint two tokens representing the same thing".
It's an idea that just won't die ...

If we concatenate enough garbage: (subprime loans, training inputs, consumer information)

then the result: (MBS tranches, AI, targeted ads) is somehow not garbage.

This appears to be a wonderful model for separating gullible investors from their money so I suspect we'll keep seeing new incarnations of it ...
startups aren’t a game of averages. the averages are definitely worse than the FAANGs. choosing well (and getting lucky) are paths to “definitely better.”

It also depends on what your professional goals are (growth, leadership, impact, fun, next opportunities) assuming they are not only monetary.
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If so, that is a frightening indictment of the world we live in and not you as a person.
Only to those firmly within the HN bubble.
It might be refined and developed over centuries, but it's also the expression of overwhelmingly a single culture.

Western musical notation is not useless for denoting the music of other cultures, but it's also not very good and is frequently quite bad. If you think of western musical notation as "the system", you're at risk of remaining ignorant of the beautifully refined languages, developed over centuries, in other cultures.

It's also a highly abstract language that seems to frequently, somewhat like Javascript, lead its users to have very little familiarity with what is going on at lower levels.