skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The amount of staff you have to have on-hand and amount of pre-planning (and up-front capital commitment) can all make that very unattractive long after the basic per-GB price would seem to make it attractive.
If you're a developer, we have several "search-apps" such as StackOverflow (with code snippets), W3Schools, MDN, Copilot-like Code Completion, json checkers, and more. All of them geared to help you code faster. Let us know if you have other app ideas for how to make your coding life better.

E.g. try: https://you.com/search?q=pandas&fromSearchBar=true
The problem is "less than 100mb" is unacceptable (for my use cases).

There are use cases where 100-300mb is no big deal and customer can handle this.

But single binary deployments with a statically compiled language where a fully-featured binary can weigh in from 5-30mb are what I'm after.

And honestly, with upx I can take even those fat Go binaries down from ~35mb to 7-8mb. That's an order of magnitude less than 100mb of Python and all it's dependencies. Not to mention with all those languages I mentioned (Go, Rust, Nim, Zig), I get multi-threading and high-performance as well.
You could just convert the 5-star scale to weighted upvotes/downvotes, like so:

1 stars = 0.00 upvote, 1.00 downvote
2 stars = 0.25 upvote, 0.75 downvote
3 stars = 0.50 upvote, 0.50 downvote
4 stars = 0.75 upvote, 0.25 downvote
5 stars = 1.00 upvote, 0.00 downvote

And then calculate as usual, and then re-map the result of the formula from the [0, 1] interval to the [1, 5] interval.
For anyone like me: home usage workloads are read-heavy with files that are predominantly already compressed. Moving to Zstandard might be interesting to toy with if you have more compute and disk I/O than network throughput, but the benefits would likely be smaller.
> I never thought I'd see an impassioned defense of apartheid South Africa on Hacker News. But here we are.

Good news mate - you still haven't.

But nice try
‘Encrypted’ peptides could be wellspring of natural antibiotics
Industry was funding most of them, not universities. Because they were interested in all of the various applications to metallurgy, design of engines, new compounds and medicines, etc. To the degree that the public funded research, it was military labs and industries contracted by the military.

The idea of universities funding basic research really took off in the postwar era when we funneled trillions of dollars into universities, massively expanding them and reshaping them. Prior to that, universities were much smaller and did not have a substantial body of faculty doing research, they focused on education and training. In modern universities, the faculty focuses on research and teaching is done by teaching assistants and non-tenured faculty, often working on short term contracts. That is all a consequence of the flood of government grants unleashed after the 1940s. Prior to the 1940s, most research was done by private enterprise or the military.
I assure you, rsync can tank a highly tuned db environment. 'updatedb', which updates the db 'locate' uses under linux, running in its cron, can cause issues.

It all depends upon how much headroom you have, the type of io activity, etc. I've operated systems under consistent 80% io load with massive datasets at the time, under spinning disks.

Running rsync would be madness on such a system. I know. I only did it once.
Regardless of your feelings and views, that is still free speech whether you like it or not. What you want is a "platform that only allows what I deem acceptable allowed to be posted". That already exists, it's called reddit.
Edit: And the best part is this is still true regardless of how much you downvote it
I've read Pirates of Silicon Valley, I know exactly what MS's history is. I also know it was a completely different set of leadership and I don't judge current leadership by their predecessors actions anymore than I judge a person I've just met by who their parents are.

Nothing that OP complained about points even a little bit to the tactics used by Ballmer and Gates, it points to: this is a new feature with unstable APIs so it's not fully documented yet.
I built a 35mph capable ebike from a lot on a MTB with dual disc brakes and the best s-pedelec tires I could find and I'm pretty stressed out already at 35kph. I can't imagine doing 50kph much less on a bike that isn't intended for it. You really would have to be almost suicidal.

I have to say though being able to keep up with cars when I can't have a bike lane is pretty nice.
Because twenty years and change ago we decided it should be illegal to crack software. Except we didn't say that, we said that any code that controls access to a copyrighted work has special legal protection. Specifically...

1. You can't legally break such code, unless it's for a handful of statutorily or administratively selected purposes

2. You can't legally tell people how to break such code for any purpose

This provision is part of the DMCA, section 1201. It was policy-laundered through the WTO into US law against the objection of the tech community, so basically every country has the same rules.

The problem with this law is that it's scope dramatically extends past it's intent - hell, half the original law is just exceptions intended to control the extremely broad scope of "no breaking digital locks". What people realized was that they could put DRM on anything, regardless of if copyright actually protected it or not, and it would still have the same effect because DMCA 1201 has horrific chilling effects. Even if SCOTUS says you can't use DMCA 1201 to protect, say, printer cartridge DRM; that decision still took 10 years and millions of dollars in legal fees to reach. No company wants to spend that amount of time and money just to gain access to repair aftermarkets.

On the other hand, the law regarding price gouging is very old and well-established; because it's a very long-running problem. Serial-locked parts were basically unheard of outside of videogame consoles up until this decade. The assumption with DMCA 1201 was that it was going to keep people from copying DVDs, not from repairing tractors. It's one of the few cases in which the law actually needs to catch up to technology (as opposed to someone trying to get away with something and parroting a thought-terminating cliche).
> (...) but it's disingenuous to dismiss historical facts about what white people have done in Africa

You really have to figure out what you're referring to as "white people", not only because of the inherent racism in your statement but also because it fails to recognize the root cause of the colonialism problem throughout the world, including Africa.

For example, do you feel it's appropriate to blame race when colonialist powers were forcing "white people" into exile to their colonies under the penalty of death? How about "white people" taking job offers to work on any industry located in said colonies and consequently ended up making their home there? Are you to blame for a problem just because you find yourself somewhere and you happen to be the wrong race?

Colonialism were the result of oppressive policies driven by authoritarian regimes, but these processes weren't driven bottom-up.
> You never know how much you're going to pay in fees.

Indeed. People who say everything works fine because that one time they had zero issues have no idea what it's like to deal with EUR / JPY / USD / AED transfers on a semi-regular basis. If you do it all the time, you may have found something that works all the time. If you do it once, you may have been lucky. But if you do it two or three times a year, you're in for a world of hurt, surprise fees, delays, cancelled transfers, etc. You cannot have "not noticed this" or say "I never had any surprise".

Worse: if you're working with the EUR but outside the eurozone (like Andorra and Monaco, which both use the EUR but aren't in the EU) you can have very nasty surprises. You better read and re-read any fineprints because you sign any bank account opening because you can find yourself paying 2% + fixed fees + tax on the fees on every transfer to/from the country.

Very often all these are hidden from the consumers and the burden is put on the businesses. I was in Andorra, I bought a bike for my kid: seller was doing 5% discount if I was paying cash... And it's not to dodge taxes (taxes are maximum 10% there for any business): it's not to "cheat" 0.5% on the sale by not reporting it. It's because the banks/payment processors take a very heavy cut.

Now there may be solutions but it's something you have to actively look into. It's not just "I open a bank account in that country, another one in that country and then everything works magically".

Funnily enough: at some point using EUR->crypto then crypto->AED (just an example) may turn out to be cheaper than doing EUR->AED.
It's happening on Brazil I think. It's very hard to hire for brazilian companies since people can earn an extraordinary salary by working remote. Our timezone is also pretty close to the US east coast, and still not that far from SV.
As someone below suggests, ULID is a good alternative which has a temporal aspect in the high bits so it is still a proxy for relative creation time.
> for the ones that do exist (medical, military), you don’t get in just by doing a bunch of multiple choice tests

As someone in the medical field, I would say upwards of 80% of the graded portion of a nursing license and it’s certifications (trauma nursing, cardiac life support, etc), you’re graded entirely on multiple choice questions. People die from mistakes, yet I meet a lot of people who proudly admit to having cheated or googled their way through a much of their studies. Some of them are good and quite a few are downright dangerous at their jobs.
As someone who used and appreciated Scroll (now Twitter Blue) for the same reasons, I'm pissed that they shut down the standalone service and locked it behind Twitter accounts.

Canceled my subscription after that email went out. It's a shame. Kinda wish Mozilla had acquired it instead, although they don't have the leverage to promote it like Twitter does.
Maybe they just mean that when you don't load all the ads, things can actually load pretty fast? 0:-)
It's actually not SEO fodder (necessarily).

Recipes are not copyrightable but if you pair a recipe with a story, the entire deliverable is copyrightable [0] because the recipe becomes a work of expression rather than a rote list.

> In other words, a bare recipe, without literary expression, is not copyrightable

[0]: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=3741a5c0-f146....
Memepreneur culture
Why would anyone want to play a game like that though? That sounds significantly less fun than playing a game where everyone is on an even playing ground. Also, unless the game itself is open source and any forks / successors honor the same chain, how is that any better than just storing who owns what in a SQL database?
Per international user is extremely misleading. Ad costs are wildly different based on geographic area, with the US being far higher.

FB, for example, pulls 4-5x the ARPU for US users compared with international. I'd expect twitter to have a similar pattern (though it depends on what 'international' means: Europe is only half the US).

The other issue with this is that the most engaged twitter users are going be the likeliest to sign up for a paid twitter service. These are also going to be the people pulling the average up.
> If they issued 2FA hard tokens, the attacker would have to wait a few days for them to arrive, but they would be allowed in all the same.

Nope. You won't ship keys to some random address - you will do it to the address on file. Presumably, changing address on file would be guarded by rigorous processes.
I had to look up the word mathematise / mathematize and it is not even a word in both Oxford or Cambridge Dictionary.

Collins had it and turns out it means something like "mathematically". So how can you "De-Mathematize" Maths? How can you teach maths and... not teach maths, so to speak?

So may be I have reading comprehension problem. Could someone explain to me or any non-americans here, what exactly is this nonsense?

And Please, speak as you might to a young child, or a golden retriever. It wasn't brains that brought me here I can assure you of that.
Retool has a self-hosted beta https://retool.com/self-hosted/
It can work it just wouldn't be profit maximizing in the short term
Try nofilter.eth, they mention that domain is the only weakness and this decentralised domain can circumvent blocking.
Hey sushid,

Yea... We found that without the convenience of a navbar search most people won't give it a proper try and stick to the monopoly of Google.

Users also told us that once it was their default, they realized it's great (or sometimes just "good enough") for them to stay with us. Our retention is super high once it's default but when people only try one search like "abc" or "weather" -- they often won't then change their default.

It's tricky to fully try a search engine with just one search. They're so important for so many aspects of our lives.

That being said, we hope we can eventually drop this requirement when we can be a default option in more browsers.

Also, you can try it in incognito mode and any non Chrome browser.

If you set your search engine default to you.com manually in Chrome with "https://you.com/search?q=%s" you will not need the extension either... but for most people convenience wins and well... it's tough to go up against a monopoly?
My guess is it's liability. 99% of the policies that the department of social services has is to cover their asses when they get sued. The remaining 1% sometimes manages to help people as well.

I should note that a lot of the work for open cases goes to (lower paid) case-aids, and certain things can be delegated to volunteers (e.g. I've provided transportation to school for kids who were placed in a foster house outside their school district).
This on its own isn't enough to refute OP, since it could very well be that the equivalent cost of one of these other historic buildings is even higher. (e.g. cost of skilled slave labor vs equivalent labor in modern markets, cost of materials, etc)

EDIT: Hmm, even the payer's power could be factored in. A king may be willing to spend 1/10th of his empire's wealth on an extravagant palace, but the same would likely not be approved in a democracy.
Linux Hates Me – Daily Driver Challenge Pt.1
The "unknowingly" caveat makes that one a bit difficult to answer.
> Alerts from each integration 300 5 minutes

> Alerts from the whole team 500 5 minutes

> API requests per API key 300 5 minutes

Product looks great but those API request limits are too low, because alerts rain when you are having incidents and rate limiting all of them is harmful. That's why other products have deduplication keys / aliases so you don't miss important ones.

https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/oncall/oncall-api-ref...
More of a jealous thing, and, astonishment at how much extra hardware is used to give that headroom.

Over the years, I've run comparatively larger datasets, on significantly less hardware.

edit:

When I switched to SSDs for the first time, to give you a performance example, on some read queries I saw a 1000x to 10000x speed improvement.

This of course was on a read only secondary, long running reporting queries, no one runs queries of that nature on a primary.

SSD were an insane game changer.
A quarter of new Volvos are now plug-in hybrids or battery EVs
Opinion: Blue States, You're the Problem
Interesting to think about how deep-seated incentives keep people from following the values they claim to espose. Would also be curious to see the Red state version of this analysis.
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>In order to ensure that our information is protected, we need one national privacy law that supports small businesses

Is that a typo? Did they mean supports individuals?
University of London offers a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science degree - https://www.coursera.org/degrees/bachelor-of-science-compute....

Full disclosure: I work at Coursera.
If anything, it would drastically increase the lifetime of the SSDs.
Some how I don't think the people that want to pay to get rid of ads are the ones clicking on them.

Anecdotally someone I am close to doesn't seem to mind ads and regularly buys products from them, I block ads and rarely ever buy products from them. I'd pay for not being served ads in the first place
In my experience its split within the university itself, with most of the actual academics being lower paid and about furthering knowledge and teaching. The other administrative departments are the ones with questionable utility and motives, its like they're being taken over by MBAs
This is not a strategy to introduce a national privacy standard.

This is a strategy to introduce a national standard of no privacy.

"Principle #1: The internet does not stop at state lines, so why should one state set the standard for the rest of the country?"

then later

"Principle #4: We must also protect small businesses and innovation. We know that in Europe, investments in startups are down more than 40% since their data protection and privacy law—the General Data Protection Regulation—went into effect. We must guard against a similar situation here. We want small businesses hiring coders and engineers, not lawyers."
> Linux/Unix operating systems

Well, I guess there's no way for me to use it anyway!

> Virtual Machines

It's my policy that closed source software gets installed in a virtual machine. Others need to abide by my policy if it's running on MY equipment.
I'm not sure it's an order of magnitude reduction in real flash writes, but there have been some pretty promising results from experiments with collapsing those three layers. Moving it all to the SSD gets you a Key-Value SSD, and moving it all to the host system gets you a Zoned SSD. Both ideas have seen enough interest from storage vendors and hyperscale cloud to end up standardized. So at this point it's mostly a matter of getting support added to common software like Postgres so that it's easy for smaller operations to adopt.
Why is GE aviation keeping some ownership of the other two? Vs any other mechanism or ownership structure.
>Super cheap bandwidth ($2 per 100GB!)

That’s only “super cheap” if you’re comparing to AWS’s outright highway robbery bandwidth pricing.
Target uses go alert across the enterprise for all on call. Definitely enterprise capable!
Almost certainly means "supports large businesses".
No. You already have 24x7 staff at this scale. Hardware requires thought and skill, but then so does software. It isn't voodoo.
> Privacy does not end at state lines and Americans deserve better than a patchwork of different and conflicting state laws.

Couldn't you replace "privacy" here with guns or healthcare or nearly any other national issue.

edit:

>SEC. 111. ANTI-DISCRIMINATION.
(a) PROHIBITED CONDUCT.— A covered entity may not, through the collection
use or sharing of personal information, discriminate against or make an economic
opportunity unavailable on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex,
age, political ideology, or disability of a persons or class of persons.

Notice they added something to the normal "protected classes" in the US.
But wouldn't it be just as easy to create a cheap camera that tends to correctly expose dark skin in normal lighting conditions, and cannot dial down exposure enough to prevent light skin from being blown out in normal lighting conditions? If that's possible but cheap cameras tend to not work this way, then why is that not the case?
As compared to big tech which gets to "spout whatever they want" via censorship and controlling the discourse.
And everyone has to hear it.
I think the biggest reason why the price is so high (beyond the brand, and the fact that the government policy results in everyone getting whatever loan amount they want) is because they're contractually required to share a huge chunk of that money with 2U (the same company that bought EDx's assets).

The article mentions that the old contract stated that about 60% of revenue gets shared with 2U but then there was a revision to the contract so it's not clear what the current figure is but even if they lowered it to 40-55%, that's still a huge chunk of change for basically running ads to target students into the funnel. It's actually sickening that the contract extends to 2030.

So USC is only getting $115,000 * .4 = $46,000 which while still high is substantially lower and sounds like a reasonable amount to offer the degree at. I'm not sure why they haven't built out an internal function since and tried to get out of the contract.

For the peak year of graduation mentioned (2017, 1500 students), 2U's take at the 60% figure is ginormous. $115k * 1500 students * 0.6. = $103.5 million.

Anyway there's so much wrong with what's happening here.

EDIT: I just re-read the article, it seems like the 1500 figure is a combination of in-person and online graduates for the year 2017. Still the premise holds true: a 60% take rate is excessive.
SLO alerting for mortals
Yeah, this is fine for like "unable to contact database server" or "kafka producer timeout" where you're gonna terminate a large portion (or all) of the application at a much higher, removed level. "Lifecycle" stuff.

But if you make the short syntax do something like this, it's gonna get used for hundreds of library's equivalents of `Atoi` or `ParseQuery`. I don't need line annotations on my `http.ResponseWriter#Write` timeouts, they're slow enough already.

(And if you are going to do it - really, just attach the whole stack trace then and there, it will probably be faster.)
Python docs have pages on the execution model and data model, with notes in implementation details. What more do you want?

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/executionmodel.html

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html

Reading these documents is not hard, and it’s been an enormous help over the years for writing effective efficient Python.
The claim was the VSCode is "winning" because it "embraces modern languages". To me that implies at least some kind of superiority.
Maybe just tax carbon emissions?
GDPR Prompt; Pay 2 Euros to decline 3rd party cookies
Would love to know if this is even legal?
I don't live there anymore and the friends I had back then all sold their farms to large farming conglomerates (another trend).

I would guess that their views have moderated a bit, but probably more because organic can be good for business and it doesn't seem to be going away so there's less risk that capital expenditures and up-skilling to do organic farming is going to be wasted.

To illustrate, when I was a kid I would "bean-walk," which is walking through soybean fields and cutting down weeds with a hook like tool manually. It was cheaper to pay local kids arcade money than spray, so that's what they did. In general farmers don't like spraying their crop with chemical--it's expensive.

Farmers are pretty pragmatic people, but they have to plan ahead and deal with weather, etc. If organic pays enough of a premium to handle reduced yield and perhaps an increased risk premium for risk (e.g., higher insect levels due to a wet spring that organic methods don't fix) they'll do it.
This is just yet another “tax the rich” op-ed dressed up to seem more meaningful than it is.
One of the hardest types of queries in a lot of DBs is the simple `min-by` or `max-by` queries - e.g. "find the most recent post for each user." Seems like Postgres has a solution - `DISTINCT ON` - though personally I've always been a fan of how BigQuery does it: `ARRAY_AGG`. e.g.

SELECT user_id, ARRAY_AGG(STRUCT(post_id, text, timestamp) ORDER BY timestamp DESC LIMIT 1)[SAFE_OFFSET(0)].*
FROM posts
GROUP BY user_id

`DISTINCT ON` feels like a hack and doesn't cleanly fit into the SQL execution framework (e.g. you can't run a window function on the result without using subqueries). This feels cleaner, but I'm not actually aware of any other DBMS that supports `ARRAY_AGG` with `LIMIT`.