skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Author is trying to say something like:

If you want to sell people a tesla, first and foremost, you have to tell them it's a car and it behaves exactly like a car. If that is not a given, they won't buy it, no matter which bells and whistles it has additionally to getting you from A to B.

So if we go back to the topic of the article, it means: If you want to sell a big data platform, first you must make people believe it can replace their old traditional database, but make it faster.
> This is often repeated like it's some universal truth. Enjoying a film (or anything) doesn't mean it's great

Yes it does. What is your definition of great, and why is it better than mine?
Guns murder a lot of people in the US. Having fewer and less potent guns is better. Not good but better. I applaud people who are trying to make things better because the status quo in the US is shockingly bad.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with your second paragraph. I'm not really that bothered if people stop being able to enjoy weaponry. I also don't particularly blush at being called illiberal. Or indeed liberal.

I do care that a country that was once admired and respected has become a thing of pity and disgust. I take no pleasure in that. That the beacon of democracy is also a beacon of wanton violence is something to be saddened by. And I am.
This part grabbed me:

> I remember taking an overnight bus from India to Kathmandu. That bus was probably not more than $5. I remember that morning, after traveling all night, rolling down the Kathmandu Valley and seeing the Himalayas, and a whole city with zero cars.

Imagine all the cars in a big city in the 70s, with all the inefficient carburetors and the leaded gasoline fumes, and arriving at the above...

Nowadays, the not-beaten path probably also has concrete buildings and people on their smartphones. I remember doing a van tour in the steppe of Mongolia, for the last night the driver drove around until we saw someone on a horse. The tour guide asked that man if we could stay in his yurt, and Mongolian hospitality meant of course we could. In the yurt the family had a smartphone, I saw the USB-A plug for the charger, and it amused me that even in the middle of nowhere, Mongolia, people also had to try 3 times to plug in that darned cable...
Why did you concern yourself with the news before? It is not like you can influence any of it anyway. It mostly influences you.
And just to emphasize: This is nitpicky, but it is correct. In the phylogenic sense, birds are dinosaurs. It's not that there used to be dinosaurs, some of which evolved into birds and there are no dinosaurs left anymore, but rather there are about 18000 extant dinosaur species in the world today, it's just that they have feathers and most of them fly.
There are a lot of possible singularities that could have existed, but only one did. (Again: if it did.)

At least, in the context of this universe. But that is the entire and only context available to us.

Whereas all sorts of different clouds of smoke exist, some probably even right this second just here on Earth.
I don't see how databricks doesn't end up like hortonworks, cloudera, or MapR.
The book "The End of Alzheimer's" by Bredesen postulates that there are around 36 risk factors for Alzheimer's. It takes many of them in combination to cause the disease.

This is why studies isolating just one factor have failed to find a significant correlation. It's why there will likely never be a pill to cure it.

The book suggests therapy addressing all of the risk factors. Most of those are simply healthy living. Personally, I've been bending my lifestyle to conform to those. Can't hurt.
Inflammation and inflammatory diet is linked to Alzheimer's: normally at night during sleep cycle the channels in the brain open up more to allow waste to exit the brain more easily, but if inflamed then the channels can't open up as much, and so arguably it can't as efficiently as it needs to clear out; repeat this every night over 40+ years.
Well… don't watch the news. The news are a business and they want your attention. That's how they make money. It's mostly fear mongering because that's what sells.
"The bums lost..." , uh-huh, but "What doth it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?". Many travelled direct to the east to discover there are other ways to live. Win.
> Checkout.com, Klarna, Revolut, Transferwise, Mollie, Deliveroo, Spotify, Hopin, Trustly.

No offense to Europeans, but I've only heard of Spotify.
Apple's Cover Flow and Front Row. I miss them both so much that I am attempting to learn how to program to resurrect something like them. XBMC, Plex, and all of the skins for each don't come remotely close to what I'm looking for.
Good luck controlling an 8 pin relay with 4 accessible pins hah.

The 01s are cheap for a reason - they're useless for most projects, hell I'm always running out of pins even on the esp32-cams.
True or not, I found it an enjoyable read. I came to the comments to hear from other enthusiasts of urban exploration. Instead, I got a pedantic killjoy. So I guess we’re both disappointed.
Ah alright that's more believable, though still quite a bargain.
It's always the opposing side which is brainwashed.
> Take real-time products, for example. Most businesses have little use for true real-time experiences. But, all else being equal, real-time data is better than latent data.

Only if you stare at a chart on a dashboard. If you do serious analytics and collaborate with other people you need the data to be stable and not changing under your hands as you work with it.

Daily immutable snapshots produced by a daily batch are not only cheaper to produce but easier to work with and that's why the entire industry prefers batch.

The only use case for streaming are 'standing queries' in which query result is continuously updated with new rows incoming. Eg. real time anomaly detection in access logs, ML inferrence, fraud detection, plotting numbers on a dashboard.

All analysis is done offline in a batch setup. There is no 'stream analytics'. Stream processing only makes sense if the database is capable of hosting serving layer of the model inferrence application.
There’s a Windows game called Argentum Online which is still actively developed in VB 6.0 under various forks. So at least that isn’t dead dead.
What skills were they?
Those are good points. I haven’t seen much discussion of interest rates in crypto circles even with all the shady 10% APY staking programs designed to compete with savings accounts.
There was clearly no civilization that routinely travelled between continents.

Because animal and plant species were very separated, until the "invasive species" phenomenon the last few centuries.
> At 17, Patrick won a high-profile national competition for young scientists; his project, building atop Lisp, a programming language developed at MIT, placed second in the European Union overall. The winner: his future wife, Silvana Konermann, who represented Switzerland.

What? Are you telling me Patrick Collison lost to his future wife at 17 in a science competition? That's so cool.
The high rolling software contractors I know use "billable hours" as a random meter stick to charge whatever they feel like. I know a guy who has more billable hours than waking hours across the week across three contracts. The customers know and don't care, because he gets things done. I've even heard people complain about clients over beers and say "because they were being so stupid I added 8 billable hours"

charge what you want. Billable hours are to make the departments approving the spend feel comfortable. What are they going to do? Find someone else who can build a complex OLTP system in 2 months?
Learn some of the language and talk to people. Or if you are the antisocial type, find a scenic road and drive a motorcycle and around.
Children, paying the mortgage, and taking care of elderly family are among the number one things.
Well, it could be causal right...

If you can't beat 'em join 'em! (or in this case, propose to 'em)
Ouch. I'm gonna call this one early and say, "no way." Apple doesn't have the culture or ethos to be a gaming company. They have never made games (taxing others' games in the App Store doesn't count).
Good discussion, thanks!
I hate to invoke this but, Betteridge's law of headlines?[1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...

Edit: somewhat tongue in cheek, because this does sound promising.
The author doesn't indicate what the supposed violation was. Does Google not even say which part of the content was alleged to be the problem?
I went to Japan in 2019, without any Japanese knowledge. It was a freaking breeze, I feel cheated of the experience people had in the 80s and 90s.
The internet really allowed people to reinforce their own idiotic believes by following and connecting with other people with those exact same believes. And now you get thousands of loonies all reinforcing each other over the internet and living in a bubble of other people obsessed with some random niche thing.
>Paying for customer service would result in less overall money than their current system of "you get nothing, we only respond if you have enough followers to generate a PR buzz"

Agree.

>The people that aren't affected by the unjust terminations and bans obviously don't care enough to stop using the product, so they tend to not lose any money when it happens.

Hard disagree. A good portion of the world turns because of these companies, and you have to spend an absolutely extraordinary amount of effort to avoid using the big services like Google/Amazon. And even more often, you aren't given a choice at all. Find me a workplace that doesn't use any of the FAANG (or whatever the acronym is now) companies at some level.
At one time in the past, it was richer. But the forest ecosystem was too stable, causing it to continue to grow until it had consumed all of the resources, leaving the soil poor.

But the forest remains, and remains almost maximally stable, so any time that anything dies, freeing up resources, they're almost immediately taken back up by the system and converted into more forest.
Or you could double your client count and avoid committing fraud.
It's inconclusive if it's fraud without knowing contract details.

If you're being paid simply to travel, then it is not fraudulent to also work on another client. If your being paid to travel _and_ focus on that client, then it would be fraudulent to work on another client.
I think that is the exact point they are trying to get across.
Not natively, but there is a community developed one called gore:
https://github.com/x-motemen/gore
Show HN: I made a simple Pastebin clone
These elite institutions are so determined to destroy the abundance we spent the 20th century creating.
I was in a lawtech startup and this is the EXTACT reason why i left and the reason why its hocky-stick never evolved. Sure they have customers, but they cant retain or grow.

Lawyers get paid less the more efficent things are. Thats not a thing they desire, nore incentivize. Eventually they will come, kicking and screaming, but dont hold your breath.
Rash of parts thefts is leaving Freightliner trucks inoperable
FancyZones fork which maximizes windows properly
After the GlazeWM [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31043063] post, last month, I once again went down the Windows window manager rabbit hole, trying:

- GlazeWM - https://github.com/lars-berger/GlazeWM

- nog - https://github.com/TimUntersberger/nog

- win3wm - https://github.com/McYoloSwagHam/win3wm

- workspacer - https://github.com/workspacer/workspacer

- amethystwindows - https://github.com/glsorre/amethystwindows

- MaxTo (paid) - https://maxto.net/en

- AquaSnap (paid) - https://www.nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap

As a ratpoison [https://ratpoison.nongnu.org/] user, a decade ago, returning to the rigid window management of i3-based window managers, no longer appealed to me.

MaxTo provided much of the experience I was looking for, but random crashes when using multiple desktops and my inability to get custom recipes triggering correctly had me look elsewhere.

FancyZones offered much of the functionality I liked about MaxTo, BUT it did not support keeping maximized windows within a defined zone, so, I added this feature.

It's a bit rough around the edges, but works perfectly for my current workflows.

Grab it here: https://github.com/peddamat/PowerToys/releases/tag/v0.58.0-m...
For the most part, negativity dominates daily thoughts because our society is in decline, and so everything is always getting worse.
It's actually a licensing issue, it turns out.

Some what complicated by jurisdictional and statutes of limitations issues.
You need to have a knack for math. This is necessary.

Then you need hard work and good collaboration, also necessary .

But if you have the latter without the former you risk to end up miserable
You just reminded me about the little remote controls iMacs used to come with that looked a bit like an iPod Shuffle - those things were great.
Exactly. I was hoping it was something cool connecting the stations, but it was just “enter one station from the far end and exit the next from the far end”.

There’s got to be better.
Jump – Experiences like you're there (2015)
Thanks! I wish this had a little finer geolocation than just "north america". The webgl site in the main link was a no-go.
Strange; what I get from those articles is roughly:

- Google tailors results to users, so it shouldn't be considered a common carrier

- Google doesn't charge users for access, so it shouldn't be considered a common carrier

- Internet search isn't a vital public service, so Google shouldn't be considered a common carrier

I totally believe you that there may be reasons not to consider common carrier a magic solution, but... I disagree with all three of those points.

(in other words: I think two people searching for the same terms at the same time should see the same results, and I don't think it matters that the service is funded based on indirect (advertising / tax) revenue, and I do think that many people -- in all kinds of environments -- can reasonably expect Internet access and web search to the point where we should consider it a public necessity)
Plus selling addresses to other food services is probably as valuable as spamming themselves.
What a beautiful read!
Unlike now, backpacking was a true adventure - you were on your own, totally cutoff and no one to call if you were in trouble.
Now it seems like you've seen everything and that makes travel a lot less exotic that it probably used to be.
The finalizing Depp vs. Herd trial is good example what happens when both sides have stupid amounts of money to burn... 6 weeks in court for civil matter, and it probably would have been even longer. With seemingly hours and hours of depositions, stupid numbers of evidence and transcripts...
It's pretty solid. Go support is impeccable, Protobufs have lots of language support.

It's a lot easier to add features to a protobuf than to other RPC systems I've used. That's a huge advantage because your clients and server don't have to upgrade in lockstep
I had an online place (I can't recall which) that flagged a Hide My Email as invalid. That pissed me off and I left that site immediately.
Not hearing about Klarna and Deliveroo is surprising. Klarna is everywhere I turn in the US.
Delivering major value !== Irreplaceable
> At this point I think security can be seen on the same plan as legal:...

Considering how Uber ignored legal ramifications of ride sharing intersecting with incumbent regulations until they were dragged into courts, that paints a potentially rather grim picture of the equivalent in software security. But your gist sounds more along the lines of, "include the experts along at the beginning of the ride".

When I said security as a "bolt-on", I should have been more clear. Most of the time when I see it happening, it has been at the behest of the business stakeholders overriding the earnest developers trying to include the security teams from the beginning, but waved off with "it can be added later".

The business stakeholders see in their real life housing contractors walk into finished houses, attach some doodads, pop in some batteries to wireless sensors and the central base station, and ta da!, they "have security"! And think, "just how hard can it be to do the same in software?", dismissing what their tech leads try to tell them.

There is a large element of the principal-agent problem here as well. Shiny proofs of concepts and shallow implementations get immediate bonuses and promotions. Taking 1.1-2.0X as long to implement the right way, the result of which is no drama and no discernible difference to the casual business user, get no or even negative recognition. The incentives structure the choices. There are no incentives that structure payouts over the long-haul tying back to original historical choices, with an increasing gradient of the payout the longer the original choices prove sound. Naturally, since measuring that accurately would be impossible.

The closest I've come to an analogy that works in these discussions but not as often as I'd like is this. I don't throw together four tilt-walls, top off with a roof, move in with a 20-ton safe, open the doors for business and call it a regional bank depository. There are bedrock anchors, sensors, inner reinforced concrete walls, SOP's, audits, man traps, insurance reviews, and on and on, that get designed in before the foundation is even poured.

Clients who didn't find this convincing wave it off with a, "haha, this isn't that important lol". I want a better analogy.
I don't even know what 5/3/1 is but I was planning on joining a gym this month, so your getting my signup.

For the SEO could you go after Gym Noobs like me who know nothing about different programs, teach them what 5/3/1 is and then lead them to your app? Or is that too crowded and difficult?
Just repeating the logic for my own OCD:

Blackmail is when someone threatens to release your nudes unless you pay them.

Extortion is when someone threatens to get you banned on YouTube unless you pay them.

Maybe that's because of trolling, because they don't like your content, or simply because they can get paid.
So did I :) One of those places replaced an interpreted language used for a process intensive core function with Go and saw a massive performance increase...resulting in clear cost savings.

But Go isn't a silver bullet. It's another tool in the toolbox and sometimes it makes sense to reach for Python, or Kotlin, or Swift, etc. But choosing Python when you should've chosen Rust / Go / D is a tough design decision to quickly come back from.
I found it interesting that the article started with “It will take about three minutes to read this column” because it seemed a little long for that (I don’t think I’m a slow reader but maybe). Anyway it made grasp the urgency of the six minute interval theme from the rest of the piece in a visceral way.
Since the columbine shooting the standard has been to go in and engage and neutralize the shooter without waiting for backups. After the report that was done after columbine found that waiting backups led to many more deaths that could had been prevented had the shooters been immediately killed.

The theory sounds good in the planning stage but dealing with someone with an automatic weapon is likely to be a death sentence to whom ever engages the shooter.

Yes, you're right. The problem is bigger than just having access to weapons. But being able to easily buy weapons of war in an urban environment makes the situation worse.

That reason alone is why a limit on who can buy those weapons must be put in place. It can't be all weapons but there needs to be a limit on mass murder weapons. It will not necessarily stop the shootings but it will help police and such bring the situation to a stop and limit the deaths.
Show HN: Free LFS Storage with Datahub and Cloudburst
Hi! this is Dan and Genevieve from Burstable AI, developers of Cloudburst, a Jupterlab-based cloud platform with notebooks, a terminal, and GPU.

We've just added support for git-lfs (Large File Storage) to be able to track datasets and models in git without worrying about storage limits.

To make this useful, we are hosting Datahub, our own open, public LFS server, free to use for any AI/ML-related data. The easiest way to use it is to check out our LFS tutorial on cloudburst (link is on the landing page). Note that Datahub is not tied to Cloudburst: repos created in Cloudburst can be checked out by any git client with LFS installed.

LFS has a nasty reputation as being hard to configure and use, but we have tried to make the experience as simple and intuitive as possible. Please let us know how we are doing! We can be contacted at:

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"When a company has literally decades of bad behavior (including multiple instances of being caught and then promising to do better and then being caught lying about it), it's a little hard to immediately accept at face value their most recent good deeds (especially since even some of them are already looking shady)."

True. Sounds like both of them.
Common law and civil law legal systems are fundamentally different, and they differ meaningfully in how NDAs get written on them. I doubt a single set of terms could cover both kinds of jurisdictions without more or less sticking two NDAs together with an IF THEN ElSE between them.

I am just an American lawyer. Working with colleagues from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada on Waypoint and Guestbook, I was surprised how well one set of terms could serve clients under all those systems.
What do you think that looks like?

Youtube was initially successful because hosting video for playback in a browser was difficult and expensive. It's not difficult anymore, but it's still expensive at scale. It was not profitable and only managed to keep operating because Google bought it early on and absorbed losses for a decade.

Youtube only became profitable when it started running lots of ads and using a recommendation engine that's prone to amplify misinformation and political extremism. That's not the only thing the recommendation engine does of course, but everyone running a massively popular service with user-generated content and a recommendation engine seems to have the same issues. Of course, advertisers are nervous about having their ads run next to controversial content, so these kinds of services tend to remove first and ask questions later.

Those are the reach and monetization bits. What's a better way to solve those problems than ads and a recommendation algorithm?
The Opioid Crisis: Everyone Is Fucking Stupid
You're mistaken. These are wild viruses circulating among wild avian populations. When wild birds come into contact with domesticated animals, avian influenza can infect them causing disease and death in the farm animals.

But farmed animals can be a factor in zoonic infection of avian influenza into humans.
Samael, The Lightbringer? [1] He might use it as a window into human behavior. Is 4chan a good representation of our darker side? Or human fear and insecurity? Schadenfreude?

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3KwXNdexaU [video]
Doesn't Rust also have competing nonstandard ways to handle errors? Right now I think they recommend 3rd party libraries for it (anyhow, one other I don't remember), and those library recommendations have changed over time
I have, and many besides, billed every last penny on the basis of "what I may miss I still understand better than anyone else". My 0.01% failures are 100% of my proposition.
Blackmail is: "I have a video of you doing X, and will post it online unless you do Y".

Not: "I will take down X video of yours unless you do Y". That's just extortion.
BlackBerryOS, although really I think I miss the phones themselves. My last BB that ran BBOS was a Passport and that was a brilliant phone; using the keyboard to swipe around was genius.