skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your comment is borderline flamebait with that intro, making me wonder if you're just trolling...

Anyway, to start of: why would you want a connection manager Middleware for a pet project? Do you honestly expect to need hundreds/thousands of simultaneous db connections?

The original replication does exactly what it was supposed to, but is not what developers often think they want, which is clearly the reason for your outrage. Clustering isn't easy, as mongodb continues to prove to day by making creation of them easy but then catastrophically fail in production under load as the countless post mortems show. I really doubt you're going to need it anyway for a pet project....
No prob ! I legit like this website so keep up the good work !
I do believe making a website is still cheap and easy. Not to mention some platforms like twitter do allow for political discourse on them (even if spotty).

The idea is that if the platform owners don't want it, a platform user should respect that choice.
In 2022, TSMC is effectively the only game in town for the latest generation of chips - and isn't letting up. Anyone who wants to "catch-up" is now stuck with the daunting prospect of spending ~100 billion dollars to re-create a commodity business.

Maybe the fact that TSMC files around 1000 patents a year has also something to do with the lack of competition.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2021/03/15/200....
Mitra also appears in Manichaeism. The name Mehr or Meher comes from Mitra.

Vedic Mitra was invoked along with other Vedic gods as far away as current day Syria/Turkey

[..] Indic Mitra is first attested in a 14th century BCE Mitanni inscription in which an Indo-Aryan king of Mitanni invokes the gods Mitra, Indra, Varuna, and the Nasatyas as guarantors of his sworn obligations.[..]

Also in the treaties signed by Mittanis and the Hittites.

Mitra always appears with Varuna. In the beginning of Rig Veda, Varuna is the king of the Vedic gods and is resplendent and benevolent..but towards the end, he loses his luster and becomes a minor god..mean, dull and almost cruel as Indra becomes the new head after slaying Ahi , the serpent demon who captured Apas, the water goddess(apam-napat or apa also appears as a Zoroastrian deity)

One theory is that this event of Indra rescuing apa from ahi by releasing her frozen waters(ahi froze the waters and indira used his lightning bolt/thunderbolt weapon vajra to melt the ice so she will flow down back from the frozen state) can be times to one of the ice ages ..and younger dryas event + the sedimentation layer might have been after that..which would have been due to thehastened melting of the ice when the comets burned down..causing the ‘great flooding’..an event that is recorded in every world mythology.

Back to Ahura Mazda/Varuna split.. there were two priests classes..brighus and angiras..angiras took some books and went east..the brighus kept some of the Bhargava texts. Even today, the Vedas are bit complete and many parts of it are considered ‘lost’

Shri Jatindra Mohan Chatterji argues that Zend Avesta is the Bhargava Veda text. He asserts that the Bhargava Veda the missing Book of the Bhrigu Angirasa Samhita (The Hymns of Atharvan Zarathustra – Published by The Parsi Zoroastrian Association, Calcutta, 1967).

The Indo-Iranians likely became divided because of differences in opinion about methods of worship and accent on certain principles. Likely leading to the split of the original Aryan land into India and Iran..east of river Sindhu became the land of Hindus.
Would be great to read a story based on programs running in one's head (or heads), perhaps a mix of inception and the matrix.
The satisfaction problem is considered the "ultimate" problem to reduce into. Because SAT is very flexible in representation, is NP complete (and therefore a huge variety of problems map to it), and sometimes is efficient.

You can't solve NP-complete problems efficiently, but SAT (and 3SAT) is basically the best attempt at that complexity class.

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The constraint satisfaction problem is another one that is sometimes used.

For example, Sudoku, Traveling Salesman, coloring problems and more all reduce into the 3SAT problem. However, a dedicated traveling-salesman solver will be faster than pretty much any general purpose 3SAT solver, but its still easier to use another person's solver than writing your own.

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An intriguing "simpler" problem is the maximum-flow problem, which is surprisingly flexible and usable in many many algorithms. Its not as widely applicable as 3SAT is, but maximum-flow is "efficient" to solve (in P-time and P-space).

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A good book into this (including these "cannonical" problems, like maximum flow or 3SAT) is "Algorithm Design" by Jon Kleinberg and Eva Tardos. This only covers the basics of course. 3SAT and constraint satisfaction are their own respective fields with basically their own branches of mathematics.

A lot of Graph algorithms are also worth knowing. It seems like many, many problems map into graph algorithms (max-clique, topological sort, minimum spanning tree, etc. etc.)

> A general solution for a "compiler" that can translate between any pair of problems feels unrealistic but I can imagine developing a mapping between, say, a tic tac toe game and simple chess positions where you could: (1) translate a tic tac toe position into a chess position (2) solve the chess position (3) translate the solution into a tic tac toe sequence

Yup, that's a 3SAT solver for ya. It will solve the problem, eventually, but 3SAT is NP complete, so the heat-death of the universe may come about before the answer comes out.

If you know your problem is less complex than NP-complete, you'll want to map it to some other problem that's got less complexity (so that the algorithm finishes faster).
Docker isn't a cache-all for containers. Docker has a pretty terrible deployment story at this point and I forsee in a couple years it will probably be considered legacy compared to Podman/K3d/Local K8s/etc
hardly anybody actually asks for references now because they most likely won't get anything interesting out of it. they just do employment verification and that's it
C-Band in the US is rolling out in 2 phases, the first uses spectrum from 3.7 to 3.8 GHz. The second - in roughly two years - adds the remaining 3.8 to 3.98 GHz. So for the first two years the spectrum used by C-Band 5G in the US is essentially the same as in most of the rest of the world.

https://www.commscope.com/blog/2021/maximizing-c-band-deploy...
One request from writers, please avoid mentioning “western world”. It kinda gives impression that you know rest of the “western” world (in many cases you don’t) and that the west is something special.

Be specific, if it is your country, just mention that.

Nothing specific to the author of this but in general. :)
That's an observation that David Foster Wallace made in his E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction piece.

"The next real literary "rebels" in this country might well emerge as some weird bunch of anti-rebels, born oglers who dare somehow to back away from ironic watching, who have the childish gall actually to endorse and instantiate single-entendre principles. Who treat of plain old untrendy human troubles and emotions in U.S. life with reverence and conviction. Who eschew self-consciousness and hip fatigue. These anti-rebels would be outdated, of course, before they even started. Dead on the page. Too sincere. Clearly repressed. Backward, quaint, naive, anachronistic. Maybe that'll be the point. Maybe that's why they'll be the next real rebels. Real rebels, as far as I can see, risk disapproval. The old postmodern insurgents risked the gasp and squeal: shock, disgust, outrage, censorship, accusations of socialism, anarchism, nihilism. Today's risks are different. The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists, the "Oh how banal". To risk accusations of sentimentality, melodrama. Of overcredulity. Of softness. Of willingness to be suckered by a world of lurkers and starers who fear gaze and ridicule above imprisonment without law. Who knows."
It's embarrassing how he still has his job. Really shame on the board of directors at this point.
Having a single point of failure in the form of a single box database is the stuff nightmares are made of for me. Even for the least critical things I've deployed as an SRE, redundancy is a must. It costs so little upfront, and can be life saving later on.
I'm personally not sure where to stand on this. On one hand, you're right: you can probably come up with an excuse for every platform as to why "making a statement" shouldn't be permitted.

On the other hand, do we really want everyone able to make political statements in unrelated arenas? Literally everyone feels strongly about something. Letting all causes be elevated via unrelated venues would be untenable, which means you must draw a line somewhere.

I suppose it's not totally unreasonable to draw that line by saying, "all content must be related to the topic at hand" when it comes to, for example, a gaming competition.
i have a different take. i'm very glad flat earthers exist. in general i would hope the population of people who believe an idea be proportional to the probability of its truth. so even the wildest ideas should have some modicum of support. consider a world without this. i would imagine it would necessarily have to be thought-policed. i believe this is how we should frame this discussion.

what i think is the issue is that we have a broadcasting machine (social media, news, etc) that works on sensationalism. so you are always hearing about fringe ideas and given no signaling to the size of the population that supports it.
Imagine being able to do network booting from AirDrop
> A lot of companies will also say if the former employee is eligible to be employed there again. A negative on that plus a January separation date won't look good for those folks.

I suppose that may mean something if you're playing detective with a former Blizzard employee's resume, but I'd be cautious in reading too much into "if the former employee is eligible to be employed there again" generally. I know of a company where HR policy is that all involuntary separations are ineligible for rehire, including things like downsizing layoffs.
What do you mean "The Crucible" doesn't count as a primary source??? ;)
Except there’s an overlap in low level perf tuning in AAA game engines and improving cloud workloads. These folks could easily get a job at FAANG
It's not fundamentally different though. I had the cr48 too and it was just a toy compared to a normal Linux distribution. It didn't displace my similarly underpowered Asus netbook, since the later ran Debian (I think that's the distro I ran back then).

Chromebooks of today are more powerful, which they need to be because web developers of today waste more memory and CPU cycles than ever. But fundamentally the concept and limitations of these "online first" devices are similar. The ability to run Android apps is certainly a step forward, but these things are really designed to lock people into Google's cloud products first and foremost.
That would violate freedom of speech. Which is the first amendment of the bill of rights of America. And blizzard being an American company this really irked a lot of us.

"The First Amendment guarantees freedoms concerning religion, expression, assembly, and the right to petition. ... It guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely."

Freedom of speech does not protect you from harming others directly (yelling "bomb" on an airplane is not protected). But the issue with HK and China is -entirely- what the first amendment is trying to protect (albeit usually this is usually to protect Americans to complain about America).

When Americans see an American company denying someone what we perceive as an unalienable right it becomes infuriating.
Engineered Solutions Are a Lot More Plausible Than Behavioral Ones
Sotheby's unveils 555.55-carat black diamond thought to come from outer space
Yes, KaiOS users are pretty much all in India. KaiOS is basically a step up from a feature phone but not quite at the level of something like Android or iOS so the phones it runs on are very cheap.
I came here to upvote this and add on some more resources. (I read the main comment and literally thought "reductions.")

John Langford of Microsoft Research (and formerly of Yahoo! Research) has some some extensive theoretical and practical work here. In particular as they apply to machine learning problems. Check out his page on this[1]. I'd also recommend checking out Vowpal Wabbit[2] which is essentially a working implementation of many of these reductions in ML.

1. https://hunch.net/~jl/projects/reductions/reductions.html

2. https://vowpalwabbit.org/
A Particularly Sadistic MIT Mystery Hunt Puzzle
The notion that there’s a common indigenous cuisine from the Americas is of course untenable. But there’s a commonality of cultural experience and history that binds a lot of native people and peoples together in a way that’s important. And may be more important than the particular fare offered at a particular restaurant.

I welcome regional native restaurants too, but I also welcome solidarity among
BIPOC and think that deserves celebration as well.
Ah, I follow. Since the topic was Sci-Hub, I assumed you were referring to Aaron Swartz specifically; I'm aware of nobody else whom anyone has claimed has given their life to the cause of open access to partially publicly-funded research. Carry on.
There are both good and bad people at Blizzard. Like each of us, they are complex and complicated and nuanced. No one and no thing is pure evil or pure good.
Reminds me of when gamers voted EA as the worst company of the year.
Lots of words:

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

"or describe items of Native American or First Nations life and culture"
> It's not that eliminating bad nodes is a good solution, it's just that when you eliminate the dangerously influential bad nodes (the bad ones with a disproportionate amount of connections), it can have the effect of redistributing interactions more evenly in the graph, which means any given node is more likely to be exposed to a greater variety of nodes.

There are at least two problems with this.

The first is that as long as you have an algorithm which is isolating people into silos and frothing people for "engagement," all you're going to do is create another one.

The second is that the bad man doesn't actually disappear from the world, and many people will follow them to wherever they go instead, where they're even more isolated and have less opportunity to break out of the bubble. The general trend is also causing alternate social media platforms to spring up which are splitting the population along party lines. Having more platforms is good, having the platforms be implicitly partisan is terrible. And having everyone on the right move to other platforms would leave the existing platforms with only people on the left, which will melt their brains just as much. You need the opposition around to keep yourself honest.

> Which I believe is an alternative formulation of your comment about the need to regulate algorithms.

Regulate algorithms can't work. Never mind the obvious First Amendment problems, think about the incentives. To fix the problem would be to break the business model; stop driving engagement. Billions of dollars at stake. So the political incentive is instead to let them keep radicalizing people, as long as they're radicalizing people for whoever is currently in power. If this isn't sufficiently alarming to you because of who is currently in power, imagine the public official they have to appease is Trump.

What we need are social media companies with a different business model. Ideally in some kind of federated system with competing discovery algorithms so the harm from a bad one has less scope, and people can choose not to use the ones known to be malignant without having to opt out of the networks with the largest network effect.
We can improve ourselves one step at a time.
With few exceptions, ARM-based SBCs of this kind run vendor-specific patched Linux kernels (usually older ones). As one would expect, the quality of these patches varies from bad to absolutely terrible. Additionally, these patches typically never make it to mainline. If you visit the hardkernel forums [odroid vendor], you'll see people casually swapping patches to get functionality like USB to "work". When the devices are EOLed, they become paperweights since one is stuck with the soon-to-be-completely-obsolete frozen vendor-specific kernels.

These are all good reasons for people to stay away.
California should force parents to give away their children
Exercising our rights to boycott their platform isn’t denying their right to lick commie boots. :p Seriously though, this whole “you criticized their speech, but they have a right to free speech” fallacy is really getting old.
Does anyone use this daily? this gets posted a few times a year to HN but tbh it looks like someone just re-invented vi. Which seems kindof like creating a new religion. It can be done, but even the best televangelist isn't going to hold a candle to the spread of the catholic church.
It gives me the opposite impression, the the author is only speaking of the portion of the world they have knowledge of, and don't presume to speak for other areas they don't know about.
It is a good perspective. I mean invoking Shannon part. There are definitely limitations to the antibody levels because otherwise we would just explode, right? But it makes sense to try to keep levels high in the event of pandemic. Our bodies unfortunately could not do it on their own so we have to beat them to do this.
Saying that TSMC relies on ASML and Zeiss is a bit reductive. If those were the ingredients of semiconductor success, then Intel wouldn't be in the position it's in.

Historically, the landscape of the chip industry has had many leading node players.

Now, it has ~1.75. TSMC & Samsung. With Intel and SMIC behind them.

The reduction to those 4 players, coupled with demand from mobile, GPUs, and ML accelerators, is pretty unique since the earliest days of the industry... when pretty obscene profits were also made for a long time (Intel, late 80s to 2000).

I'd call a decade of dominance a pretty stable industry.
It has more or less been at least conceptually proven[0].But I think many people confuse a well-organized mind: which can function well[i.e take better shortcuts] at an old age (and thus give you the impression that the mind is still very fast) with neuroplasticity.This is not necessarily the case, and not necessarily even better, think something like overfitting.Then again without defining speed and time(which are hard to do not understanding the mechanisms of consciousness,if possible at all) the discussions are kind of up in the air.I wonder how much the emotions play a role here, because anecdotally being emotionally engaged can 'slow' time down for a person.
[0] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
The payment wasn't an argument that money is the only valid objective in decision-making. OP used it to illustrate that these believes are weakly held, "virtue signaling" for a crowd with different virtues, so to speak.

I believe unvaccinated people seeking medical treatment from the same "elitist establishment" they had nothing but scorn for is a somewhat more obvious demonstration of the same principle.
> Hell, we have professions now that demand respect (cops) and magically, the vast majority of the population seems to be able to grow up and not act like a child when confronted with an undesirable situation.

By law in most situations you must comply with the police officer. Not really the same.
You're misunderstanding how the first amendment is applied. Freedom of speech means the government cannot limit what you can say. A private entity, such as Blizzard/Activision, has no such obligation.
The Gravis Ultrasound was a 3rd or 4th generation PC soundcard that came out 7 years after the Amiga. Its claim to fame was basically that it was as good as an Amiga.
Need help with Pricing Structure on my Marketplace
I am building an online marketplace for service providers. The service provider will have the option of two profiles, basic vs. premium profile.

My current thoughts on pricing structure are as follows.

Basic Profile - Limited feature set - Free + transaction fee

Premium Profile - Full feature set - $25 a month + smaller transaction fee

How large should transaction fees be in order to not have vendors move off platform / be discouraged from working with us but still enough to make some money? What’s the sweet spot?

Should the transaction fee be taken from the vendor side or on the customer side as an additional charge at checkout?

Should there be a small flat fee put on transactions?

Any other things / options to do?

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated !!
I am not a FAANG engineer but I hold a Ph.D. (computer science). I completed my Ph.D. in 8 years while I was working in the private industry. During this time frame; in my private life, I became a father ;) And, at work, my responsibilities grew - from being a developer to being a manager.
I came close to quitting my Ph.D. many times and many of the fellows - who were also working in private industry and doing Ph.D. - quit in a couple of years.

I know the problems you mentioned are not the same as the ones I mentioned. What I am trying to say is; if you have some kind of stubbornness - and also you like to research, you just start and stick.
i may be misremembering didn't the flat earth movement pretty much spawn from obama invoking a comment about 'the flat earth society' in regards to climate change policy? i always took it as a political middle finger that also happened to attract a few sad true believers who get tracked down for any documentary on the subject.
which one protects giving negative references
I tried kakoune on the basis of a blog post I found here a while back, that described its better-thought out Vim-like command language. I was hooked almost immediately. Now I use it daily. So if you like Vi/Vim's text editing model but wish its language was more orthogonal and powerful, give Kakoune a shot.
Unfortunately, the situation is similar throughout most of the entertainment and sports industry. Employees want to work in the field so they put up with abuse and unprofessional behavior that wouldn't be tolerated in more staid industries.
Certainly I was being facetious in my comment. I could make a very long list of good things that have come from Christianity and other religions.

Interesting fact that I learned recently. Christianity is the reason we don't marry our cousins, and it is believed that the genetic benefits increased human intelligence by a considerable margin.
Hm, that's interesting to me. Is it just regulators (FAA I guess?) falling behind the times? Or is the GPS version really not adequate for some use case that is only satisfied by ILS (not sure what that is but I assume it's the "gold standard" landing approach?)
Personal references are protected, to the extent that liable and slander laws would apply.

Any HR person / lawyer will tell you providing a negative review of an employee, let alone with amount of detail, opens you up to liabilities that aren't worth it.

As an employer, I've been told that, if called, I should only provide the date a person started with the company, the date a person left, their starting and ending salaries (murky now given salary history laws) and whether they'd be eligible to be re-hired.

I ask any employee we fire for cause not to list us as a reference.