skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linking to the discussion on the follow up from Databricks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29232346
Yes it does in a way that I cannot describe. Seeing the collective consciousness of thousands of hackers constantly at work makes me feel the world is alive and buzzing. It’s like glancing outside my window (on a skyscraper) looking mixed traffic go by on a super highway.
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I think this is exactly right, but the truth is that developers are slow to adopt new databases and databases are slow to support a broad array of use-cases. While we're also working on that piece, we think we can make relational databases easier to use and faster by caching them at our edge. To cache them, you have to connect... hence this announcement :)
Isn’t that what the official TPC does?
The HTML isn't bad, sure, but the process of generating appropriately scaled and formatted copies of images can be if you don't have other build steps that require similar automation.
Once we expose our alien conquerers to social media then we'll win.
By being funny.
Stop trying to make Go complicate. Stop try my to add templates. Just stop. KISS
Climate disaster is a fundamentally global issue? I fail to see how this invalidates anything
Even worse, they claimed to have similar performance to Databricks AND claimed databricks "lacked integrity". WOW, talk about chutzpah!
Let me just inject some cynism into this: no executive ever thinks their strategic initiatives are anything other than the purest form of willpower given articulate form. At all the companies I've consulted for, OKRs inevitably run into either:

- Non-SMART formulated key results anywhere in the chain allow opportunistic employees and/or managers to spin tales about how they're doing great regardless of actual results.

- The executive team does not publish company-wide objectives in time for downstream teams to build their own objectives upon them, so the downstream teams just do what they've been wanting to do anyway and then spin a yarn about how it fits into the company-wide objectives when (and if) they arrive.

- Lack of responsibility, nothing happens if you fail to meet your KRs. Also nothing happens if you beat your stretch goals btw.

- Reorganizations every six months make a year-long planning cycle meaningless in the first place.

- The whole company failed the planned OKRs for the year so badly that the executive team just decided to not mention them ever again "for morale reasons". (True story)

- And many more.

Don't get me wrong, OKRs can be a powerful tool in small enough teams where the Principal-Agent problem is not yet rearing its head in force. But to say that it "just works" and has no problems is simply false.
Counterpoint: Ed Wood loved making movies. His movies are often featured in worst movie contests. People told him he had no talent, but he still loved making them.

In a weird way, his movies are watchable. There are movies which are more painful to watch. But I think he's a good example that genuine passion is NOT ENOUGH.
Databricks is a rapidly approaching IPO. Trying to justify their valuation with their overpriced in-memory hadoop.
I haven't heard anything about symmetric encryption being easier to break with quantum computers.
Sometimes I almost lose my mind over these situations where git on windows reports a permissions change (git status claims a diff) but there is no way to commit nor revert. This happens maybe once per year and I’ve no idea what a proper fix is. Typically blocks rebasing etc but revert and commit can’t fix it. (Apologies for the poor and ranty bug report.)
In other words, a solution looking for a problem to solve.

Fear definitely works, especially in small-town Portugal. But I'm not sure it will win those votes?
My former company enacted a paternal leave policy around the time MSFT required suppliers/partners to offer them in order to continue doing business with MSFT.

Shortly after I became the manager of my team, one of my reports informed me that he wanted to use 3-4 weeks of paternal leave (out of a max of 6) a few months after the birth of his child (company policy allowed it within 12 months.) He said he'd keep his laptop nearby in case of emergencies. "You're crazy!" I told him, "take the full 6 weeks! And leave the laptop off!"

As a manager, if it's the company policy, then it's the employee's right to take the time off. There should be no amount of brow-beating (assuming sufficient advance notice, of course.) I checked in with HR for procedural details, and overall it was easy/painless from top to bottom.
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The felt experience of exercise is incredibly important. Not just the feeling aspects but the results on the physiology, which are not completely distinct from psychology. Though you can be enormously depressed even while hitting the gym hard 4 times a week.
Energy density doesn't seem all that relevant as long as you have a decent area collection system. Indeed, high energy density can create more problems than it solves (major problems with confining D-T fusion comes to mind).

I also have no doubts about running human civilization on sunlight and wind as long as you have robust electrical storage / chemical conversion / distribution systems. By conversion I mean using sunlight to reduce H2O to H2, then CO2 to CH4 or longer hydrocarbons. Notably this also works for fertilizer production, i.e. nitrogen + hydrogen -> NH3 etc.
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Another annoying issue is with timers.

When cooking we'll tell the one in the kitchen to set a timer. Then we'll ask what time is left. If another one hears the question it yells "there are no timers set" so we have to whisper to the closer one.

Another thing that to me suggests nobody at Apple is really using these things.
"everything already takes care of it for you" is fine if you're willing to have a dependency on "everything". It's "whatever" relative to how much the people who load your page care about bandwidth.
From what I've seen CUs are not competitive with the big banks for jumbo loans. I got a significantly worse interest rate on my home loan with the CUs compared to BOFA (who I ended up going with).
https://archive.md/DxlTL
Related post (2 days ago, 95 comments): [Snowflake’s response to Databricks’ TPC-DS post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29206959)
using it.

but i need some logic on top of it, like that i described.
Assuming they're already on the same wireless network.
I mean, I have two kids. One never touches her iPad. The other would do nothing but ipad if we let him. Kids are different.
OAM is an open standard that Intel + AMD seem to be supporting though.

And with AMD now the owner of Xilinx, there's a good chance that this technology will be across Xilinx FPGAs + AMD GPUs + AMD CPUs.
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This isn't quite true. When muscles stretch, they store energy like a spring does. But for very long, of course, but if the cycle is repeated many times that's still many times more efficient than not storing it. Don't know if that applies here though.
I'm in a similar position, thankfully in a country that cares even less about degrees than the US. I've just had to accept that, at this point in my life, going back to university would be a vanity project and nothing else. After >10 years experience, I'll never recoup the ROI on a return to study.

My advice would be that, if it's something that you would actually enjoy, or it'd scratch an itch you can't quite shake then go for it.
Do you really think your father is a horrible person because some of the ideas in his head might be wrong, or come from a different set of values than you? Are all of your own views self-consistent? Have you ever come to a conclusion, and later changed your views after thinking further or getting new evidence, or from discussing them further?

I also find myself disagreeing with my father's politics often. I do compartmentalize it into a judgment of his political views, not my view on him as a person.
Databricks results are available at tpc.org [1]

Snowflake has shown NOTHING close to this.

[1] http://tpc.org/results/fdr/tpcds/databricks~tpcds~100000~dat...
This is true of most internet speed tests though. Even speedtest.net uses their own servers. If you're measuring for speed you just need to be sure that the server has higher bandwidth available than your ISP.

If you're looking for a generic internet connectivity test then you'll need to test a few dozen sites at least, with diversity in which CDN's they're using and so on.
So I tuned in out of curiosity. I'm assuming these guys are biased in favor of the defense? They were just laughing at the fact that Rosenbaum is dead.

Or do they just have a dark sense of humor or something?
> There is a reason why IMDB is a thing. If they remove ratings, it becomes useless. Ratings are the foundational aspect of IMDB.

Are the ratings why people go to IMDB? I use IMDB as a database on the internet for movies and TV cast/crew credits. I almost never look at the ratings for the things I look up.
As much as I love seeing competition in the space and am enjoying my popcorn, I really don't understand what Databricks is doing here: this feels like a childish foodfight rather than an obsession with the customer...
Twitter started trashing its API 9 years ago. That's eons in developer time. This was before the first public release of React, for example.

I think if they make a meaningful effort to engage, there will be plenty of developers ready to meet them there.
> When I was at apple, we did this thing people called "key[n]ote-driven development"...

> Big yikes.

If Apple's products are essentially sold via a "keynote", it makes sense to have a keynote presentation as the internal hurdle as well. If it can't be presented in way that looks like something people want to buy, there's no point in moving forward with the project.
That is exactly the role of tpc.org.
The problem of taste is philosophically deep and relates to issues in epistemology that have only recently been resolved with new ideas from information theory and machine learning.

Part of the problem is about complex inductive processes. Human knowledge has encompassed simple deduction (Aristotelian syllogism), simple induction (P values, N=200 medical studies), and complex deduction (operating systems, compilers, etc). We are comfortable with how these systems of reasoning work.

But art relates to the fourth quadrant - complex induction, with billion-parameter models trained against enormous datasets. When a human says "I think this painting is beautiful, but that one is ugly", they are expressing something about the response of their visual cortex (a multi-billion parameter learning system) to a rich stimulus (say, 1 million pixels). With the advent of research like GPT-3, we can now build these systems, though we don't understand their properties very well. There is a lot more for us to understand here, both conceptually and technically.
“connect automatically unless the airpods were recently paired to a different device”
You need a definition of done for your definition of done. (e.g. your requirements for the requirements they give you.)

It's an essential part of integrating with a team that you are able to get good requirements. Maybe you can get them to express requirements in a way you like. In some cases I've gotten written requirements that were inadequate but developed some process like "ask a few questions", "write my own version of the requirements and send it back for approval")
> I'd advise the author to go one step further and adopt the ANSI layout instead of ISO. So you can just get the US version with most of the keys already etched with the correct symbol, no matter where you are in the world.

Totally. I once had to use a UK keyboard with this weird vertical ISO enter key - it's a pain.

I think I might live with a smaller space bar, as I got a rare IBM SK-8835 keyboard in JP locale before I could source a US one ( see: http://www.komotch2.com/junk/kj/sk8835lj.htm ): the true dealbreaker was the ISO enter key.

The carveout from the spacebar were actually pretty handy, to map with AutoHotKey extra keys staying right by my thumbs :)

> They are, for instance, the only country outside of the United States to have built and operate a nuclear aircraft carrier.

I love that a lot of countries do a lot of things: we need more alternatives to avoid duopolies (MIPS to avoid AMD64 vs ARM64, Firefox OS to avoid Android vs iOS)

And it's even better when the 3rd alternative offers unique advantages!

But using a different keyboard layout for no reason at all... sorry, I don't get that. It makes life harder for everyone, with 0 practical benefit.

It's like if some country mandated a square USB-C connector: breaking a standard, just for the pleasure of breaking it, to make things more expansive, create more e-waste, etc.
Apple (or the military that controls them) can revoke the certs for any app at any time, rendering it unlaunchable.
There's no 3rd person. It's first person judgement. The 3rd person and criteria must be judged too, so in the end it all boils down to first person judgement.
This seems the problem of every big company. Eventually they become slow and their priority becomes puzzling to people outside of the companies. Complexity aside, my theory is that as a company grows, the headcount always grows faster than the quantity of work, and more people become obsessed with visibility and promotion, which leads to promotion-oriented and visibility-oriented project planning. Consequently, product quality deteriorates over time, first slowly and then suddenly.
It seems "ended up liking Gnome" was intended, like "In the end, I liked Gnome".
If you're an Amazon Prime subscriber, you can get a full WaPo subscription for $3.99/month.

It works great for me on my Mac, less so on my iPad when following links in Twitter. The Twitter browser view doesn't seem able to handle logging into Amazon, then reporting success to WaPo so I can read the article. I think it works OK if I remember to open the link in Safari.
Wanna bet? Apple still hasn't yet made good on their promise of encrypting OCSP (the making of which I would like to believe is my fault).
> It's sad.

In reality, there has never been much tolerance for free speech. This has been the norm for all of human history. It has also been the norm that people with non-controversial thoughts have believed they had freedom of speech. It’s only once you finally happen to have a thought that isn’t tolerable by those in power that you realize there was never any freedom from the beginning. Is that sad? It’s an increase in awareness. The world is not a happy place.
I set up Ubuntu with KDE (Kubuntu?) on an old laptop for my wife. Win 10 on the laptop was so slow that the machine was unusable. She uses Firefox, Google Docs, and she uses a printer. She's had zero problems in two years and I've updated the machine twice for her. Of course how usable the machine is will be dependent on what software you need.
I don't get where you're coming from: last week I upgraded a WPF .net 4.6 project (probably from 2017) to .net 6 without a glitch except of course the things I wanted to change (I moved all database calls to Dapper), while reopening a very simple Flutter project made in January this year I find a few deprecated things that needs to be corrected.
Installed W10 Pro last summer, no candy crush in sight, no tricks done.
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similiar as to how SAP is still showing growth even thought their core product (ERP Financials) hasn't changed much.
Sorry, entering? Just like climate change some of us have been warning that a lack of focus on and willingness to challenge the fundamentals of building software and systems would lead to non-securable computing in the general case. That warning has been sounding since the 1990s. Nobody cares. It took a meat plant and pipeline paying a ransom in cryptocurrency for everyone to notice that we are completely and irredeemably fucked as a computing species. We are already there, my guy, and it’s only a matter of time now.

Think about someone trying to do basic ETL. Like having a tabular file and summing it or something. Don’t use Excel, we say, stand up a $4 million Spark and AWS architecture with seven hundred pitfalls that can let bored Russians take over your whole network as if they were going to the dry cleaners because remember, you just might be Google someday. That’s where we are. It’s been a complete industry failure for a decade and it’s only getting worse. Accelerating, even: now you need some operationally-terrifying Kubernetes to even be at the table, and then as an industry we (rightly) say running this stuff ourselves is too hard, so pay Amazon to do it rather than even ponder if we have settled on the right approach.

Tada: Humanity just lost computing to three companies. We very likely aren’t getting it back.

There are probably 5,000 people doing this work who can adequately secure such a system and make it mostly impermeable. Where middle computing is royally screwed is that nearly all of them work in San Francisco or its clones abroad. So then you get “best practice” blog posts and industry think pieces and the lowest bidder ties them together into something resembling a competent computing system. That’s been the state of the art since 2004 everywhere except Santa Clara county.

With the exception of some areas in the IC and DoD, I just described the entirety of US government IT. That ETL example? It’s actually real and underpins a small part of Medicare across several government contracts. Because the tools the valley exports are all they’ve got, and we sure love building systems with massive footguns, and then shaming organizations publicly for missing item #543 on the tribal “secure your computing system” checklist and shooting themselves.

The entire industry must change, top to bottom, but just like climate change, again, that’s a nonstarter. Posix and the Web are not the path forward and I hope I live to see the industry figure that out. I’m increasingly skeptical. The good news is my hometown might flood into the sea first, sparing me from considering in my last moments that every argument I’ve ever made in this profession has fallen on deaf ears and that everyone has to derive our industry’s peril from first principles for themselves.
Is this a shot over the bow? How serious is this?
https://numpy.org/doc/stable/user/building.html

It is. Maybe it's a very fancy wrapper.
ROCm 4.5 is also the last release to support their own Vega 10 based accelerator. (Radeon Instinct MI25)

https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm#amd-instinct-mi25-...

aka AMD doesn't care... they just want the supercomputer contracts where the customers are savvy enough to build their own very specific SW stack.
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Yes, I wasn't saying they were lying about their tpc.org posted results. I'm saying both companies made use of clever indirection, wording, presentations of stats, etc. Like price/performance, and which of your competitor's tier's to select when doing that, and which of your own. Or over-provisioning the competition's setup, for example.
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i don't mind a chatbot when i'm already looking for something/someone to talk to, but a chatbot that pops up when i'm just browsing is annoying and an interruption

it doesnt seem like a big deal to website owners who only work on a single product, but their customers may be evaluating tens or maybe hundreds of products a day, so while one chatbot popup may be nothing to a founder, tens or hundreds of chatbots for us gets old real fast

be different; idk maybe make the chatbot text you directly
Also given that there are now a whole new generation of developers who weren't around when the whole trashing began years ago.
In my opinion, if you can put in the time, I would just suck it up and go get the degree. You are still relatively young, so if you can get a degree at 35-40ish, that's still 25+ working years. Anything beyond Bachelor's is probably not worth pursing, but having the B.S. could definitely help you.
I put myself through school by delivering pizza, then I got a M.S. part time while working. Yes, it was a slog, but it was absolutely worth it.

Edit: To add to this, I think working in tech industry now is very fast moving. I also put in a lot of effort to refresh & stay current. If you end up with the attitude of "it's too late to study", then you'll get left behind very quickly. Young people have a lot of free time and they catch up very very quickly.
>Now interview a real user of subscriptions instead of a brand marketing executive and ask them if the user experience is worse.

Their experience is better when they signed up, mostly due to Apple's integrated API and enforcing standards.

Their experience is much worse when they have dispute. Because no user think of themselves as Apple's customers. They are using your App or Services. Telling them to go to Apple doesn't solve their problem.

If the experience is truly better, and if Apple owns every single transaction and relationship. Why is it the developers gets the blame every time when there is a problem while Apple sitting their enjoying their 15% to 30% commission?

Apple is muddling rent-seeking, developer tooling, support, discovery, distribution and services all into that 15-30%. And they happily dance around that one of these stance every time they are questioned.
Just looking at the video titles, I'm getting a strong right-wing vibe. Particularly the ones mentioning Project Veritas.
Ask yourself where you want to be in a couple years.

I don't think a degree is going to help in say 3D graphics, but it will help your career. Definitely a disadvantage for those that don't.
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> Car dealers sent coffins containing the keys of unsold vehicles

This sounded so strange that I had to look it up and found this article https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/anti-inflation-...
They're playing to the crowd. Many people already have opinions formed when they hear the word "Rittenhouse" due to the ongoing US culture war, and media outlets don't generally like to alienate their audience.
"where I could never seem to care about the course material or putting effort into my classes"

I'm feeling this at my job now. Maybe it's better you felt it in school rather than at work. I dont want to "drop out"CB of my job since I need that for living expenses.

"But then I look around and see the cool jobs in 3D graphics, in distributed systems, in machine learning, or other "hard computer science" fields, and it feels like I will never be qualified without a graduate degree."

I have a masters. I feel this way too. I'm not qualified because I have no experience in these fields. If you're good and have side project experience in this, then you might get in.

The only thing degrees help with is not getting your resume trashed prior to an interview.
ROCm doesn't support RDNA at all https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCm/issues/887
Exactly, not “free.” I am still waiting to observe this “independent / free” authoring force that presumably I choose with.
what do they use now instead of storm?