skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Car UI in general is just all over the place. Every car manufacture does its own thing, from door handles to AC control.
For the non data experts, from elsewhere on medium:
“ Semi-structured data tends to evolve over time. Systems that generate data add new columns to accommodate additional information, which requires downstream tables to evolve accordingly.
The structure of tables in Snowflake can evolve automatically to support the structure of new data received from the data sources”

“When dealing with large datasets, the processing power of individual machines can become limiting, necessitating the use of distributed and parallel processing capabilities provided by platforms such as Databricks“
Your original claim that is more complex or slower is unsubstantiated. Yes, it is trivially more complex to add a flag, but it does not actually make it any more difficult to understand or error prone. Your argument is way too pedantic.
Claim about the performance is equally unsubstantiated. To make a proper proof you need to show that on average, we still have all N outer passes executed, before we face no swaps situation. Which almost certainly is never true, especially with non-random data.

Although I certainly agree that Bubble Sort is almost always a bad choice, it still is used in computer graphics, or other situations when you have only one or two misplaced pairs of elements. In this case it will outperform the other algorithms, in average case while maintainig functionally in the less than ideal situation.

Besides it is entirely irrelevant what are the purposes the algorithm is used today, didactic, deliberate or poor judgement, the de facto standard way of doing it today is to check for the early exit. Your argument about poor performance on the already sorted data is a straw man argument, your are stubbornly defending. Well ok, if you believe so...
>uses the manual release handle instead of the right button, and I get a warning message on the screen and the risk of breaking the window glass.

Is there a technical limitation on why the manual release can't also mechanically slide down the window slightly when pulled to not damage the glass?

Also, why did Tesla need to use two obscure looking buttons with no labels on them to open the door[1], when many cars use the same obvious leaver for both cases: pull on it lightly to engage the electronic un-lock, pull on it again with more force to engage the mechanical un-lock. So simple, so elegant.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu-tJc-BgaI
> anxiety so the brain routes it to another part of the brain to deal with it

In a sense, anxiety is like a malignant cancer? That explains a lot.
The cruelty of Canada’s euthanasia policy
I kind of want to install The Incredible Machine now. I just have to find a can opener, a rocket and a baseball. Hmm..
> when drug addiction epidemics entered the popular consciousness

That certainly isn't correct.

The fear of marijuana addiction epidemics was part of the popular consciousness in the 1930s, pushed in part by Hearst's yellow journalism and Anslinger's propagandizing. We see echos of that fear in the movie "Reefer Madness."

The same for heroin.

There's even earlier moralizing against opium and opium dens, connected with "yellow peril" xenophobia as ensnaring white people into addiction.
> ... but nothing comes after death

Rebirth being untrue does not imply nothing comes after death. Even Buddha knew that he did not know what came after death. His teachings were about how to live, not about how to win at death.

> But Buddhism has always proscribed suicide ...

Not true. Himsa is proscribed, because it causes harm, and self-harm is still technically himsa, so a simplistic reduction might interpret suicide as proscribed. But such a reduction would also ignore all nuance.

Suicide causes harm. Not just to you, but to your loved ones, and possibly even strangers. Even if we restrict ourselves to an entirely aelfish point of view — where we ignore any auffering we may cause to others — unless you know, for a fact, that there is nothing after death, you cannot believe that you will not have suffering after death.
Do you agree with the following?

> I tell you I have two children and that (at least) one of them is a boy, and ask you what you think is the probability that the pair is single-sex.

1/3

> I tell you I have two children and that (at least) one of them is a girl, and ask you what you think is the probability that the pair is single-sex.

1/3

If you don’t, why not?

If you do, what’s your answer to the following question?

> I tell you I have two children and that I’ve just sent you an email with the sex of (at least) one of them, and ask you what you think is the probability that the pair is single-sex.

Will your answer change after you have a chance to check your messages?
heresy!
Ask HN: How to avoid the biggest tech co-founder pitfalls?
Are there any guides for tech co-founders who are managing the architecture, planning, hiring, for the first time and cover the biggest pitfalls (eg painting yourself into an architectural corner, technical debt) and how to avoid them?

Even if its with non-technical solutions like having a mentor etc. Just the big ticket items. It needn't be too nuanced but any advice appreciated.
I left Jehovah’s Witnesses and made up my own rules as a BDSM model
Sounds like a great reason to continue being careful!

Maybe one day they'll have a cure for post viral syndrome, until then I'll avoid crowds... like the plague.
Good example of social model of disability too, which I find the most useful way to think about it. You have an impairment, but because of access to an accommodation it doesn't normally prevent you from doing the things you need and want to do eg is not disabling.

But in other circumstances, like not having financial access to vision correction, it would be. Whether a specific limitation is a disability or not isn't a feature of your body, but a function of your society's relationship to you.
I travel on a B1/B2 visa for conferences. When asked for the purpose of my visit, a common follow-up question is if I am going to receive any remuneration for my talk.

It's a tricky question since sometimes speakers receive a reimbursement for travel costs. I imagine that answering "yes" might cause you a lot of headache.
Writing a Pathtracer in Lua, Week 2: Model Loading and Intersection
Managing data yourself is hard. It is hard not because it can't scale, but for more boring reasons like harder DB upgrades and migrations, snapshotting, access control, lacking libraries/SDK, lack of documentation, harder training of new employees etc. The number one reason for extended downtime I have seen in companies is that data is in some bad state. And good data engineers who could do all the things authors expects them to do are not easy to find and expensive.
People typically work to earn money, which they then use to buy necessities like food, water, and shelter.
Wine is suprising me more and more with running these early windows games.
Obviously, it was implied by "My reality".

Anyway the only real safety issue I can see is that rear doors doesn't have such a system, but I guess the theory here is that there should never be a case when someone is left alone in the rear seat (i.e. Tesla's "dog mode" explicitly tells you that it's just for pet, not meant for humans)
This is one of the things I hate of this industry: service providers oversell their proposition and overcharge to infinity, while independent professionals often undersell that same proposition so that they can capture some of that overcharging for themselves. If you are an honest actor, you're left pulling your hair out at the overall mendacity of the whole market.

Profit can be such a cancer.
When you say it's a hoax, what bit were you thinking of? Looking at Tesla's Website (https://www.tesla.com/ownersmanual/model3/en_au/GUID-7A32EC0...), it does say "Only the front doors are equipped with a manual door release."
Note that none of the key philosophers around that time bothered with the "identity", it is a modern concept primarily driven by politics and exposure to outside religions.

So for none of them it was a fork. They all developed on the main branch, in the absence of centralized PR approvers everything gets merged.

In India this identity matters even more as the Indian constitution offers different rights to you based on your identity and you get to benefit from "unequal laws" hence everyone deeply gets sentimental about it.
Also quite alarming how many people defend this design.
I guess the ETL orchestration was the hard part? How did you do it?
For me as well. Dutch Brabant. The ‘ei’ has a shorter tongue movement than the ‘ij’. I’ve tried several words and my tongue doesn’t reach my bottom jaw as hard in ‘ei’ as in ‘ij’. Can’t hear myself though. “In Leiden lijden lijsters leidzaam.” First and last feel more alike than the middle two.

I do love these minute and local details of linguistics and history. We look at Chinese as a hard language because of the sounds influencing meaning while having (trivially!) nuanced examples as well.

Don’t get me started on Greek / Roman / Germanic heritage of words and sounds. I love this.
I work as a solution architect at a consulting firm that builds analytical data platforms for customers. Our company has a partnership with Snowflake, which means all the solutions we build are pushed to use Snowflake. Their sales strategy is very Oracle-like and at least in my circles many Snowflake sales employees are ex-Oracle. This means our sales and Snowflake sales are the best of friends. Formally they'll deny kickbacks, but who knows?

For all my clients Snowflake is overkill when you look from the perspective of growth and scale. They'll never use that part of Snowflake. They might just do as well with DuckDB, Azure Synapse or any other analytical-oriented platform laying around.

What I do like with less-than-big use-cases is that (at least at Snowflake) you pay relatively little if you do relatively little data processing. It's not free, but it doesn't break the bank either.
Digital Identity and Digital Euro [video]
This sounds like British Leyland. I had a ‘68 Triumph 2000 Mark 1 with a horn that would sound sometimes when I turned left. Neither mechanic or auto-electricians could fix it. Death glares from pedestrians were a normal part of my life.
These things can happen suddenly and without warning. When I was 18 I was in a nightclub, my mate shouted a bit too loud into my ear (because the music was loud) and permanently damaged my hearing in my right ear, it hurts to hear certain frequencies in that ear now, and sounds like water stuck in there when it happens.

I'm sorry to hear you have it (or something worse) in both

Take care of your ears, folks.
Ah yes the age old solution to anxiety, eating a shit ton of sugar.
Piotr Wozniak's Genius Checklist
There’s things like encryption keys and tokens that need to be unique so it’s not easy, if you do it like that you would run into new, difficult to predict vulnerabilities.

So it’s difficult and dangerous for not a lot of gain. Perhaps an easier approach would be to boot a few spare systems in advance and hibernate them so they can be booted quickly.
I’ve seen a lot of complaints about this. I would love some insights into the author’s intentions, though. Why did they choose binary distribution? They must have had a reason.
Not Mark Twain! It was written in 1971 by M. J. Shields¹. It has since been frequently mis-attributed to Mark Twain, who only wrote about a similar topic in 1899².

1. <https://allhomosapienswelcome.wordpress.com/2012/05/05/iorx-...>

2. <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70/pg70-images.html#cha...>
Any implication that academic journals are anything more social media for crusty old intellectuals really speaks to your understanding of “science”. Many articles are just diss tracks and callout posts that are seen as Legitimate because they have a two-column layout and a serifed typeface.
Nobody claimed they invented frameless windows, but I am going to claim (without doing due diligence) that they invented the frameless window that must be automatically wound down before the door can be opened.
I don’t think I’ve had anyone in my M3 ever find that release switch unless I pointed it out to them. Usually people who are in my car and haven’t been in a Tesla before are so freaked out about breaking something that they just ask what button to push.
Kindness. You carry hurt in you. Try not to carry that burden.
I have very little understanding on the power requirements for a window, but couldn't Tesla have just reserved some battery off the main battery as an emergency fallback? Just enough power to lower the windows to a safe route, maybe illuminate some LEDs on the emergency latches or paths to the emergency latches? I'm not really interested in discussing Tesla's intended design, but more from just a mechanical/electrical standpoint if it would be expensive (power wise) to have a reserve like this.

Edit: Also, I guess weight also of such a battery, but I suppose maybe the weight can be understood by how much reserve it would need.
Honestly, unless it's some critical customer/business thing (which I have had), anyone who wants me to speak at an international conference with two weeks notice is going to get told "My schedule is packed."
This is fun, but it's including meta data in the outputs. For example, "Reply 1:" or "Reply 2:" or even "Agree:" / "Disagree:".
> understand your true nature as the supreme self

This is nonsense. Buddhism regards the "self" as not really a thing; rather, a bunch of aggregates that beings mistake for a thing. The idea of a "supreme self" is Atman, which nearly all Buddhists regard as illusory. The word generally occurs in Buddhist literature in the form "anatta", or no-self. Clinging to the idea of a self is considered a mistake, and the root cause of dukkha, or suffering.
> looks like Mongolia and the Caribbean are optimal places to organize conferences

The colour scheme of that map is attrocious, but perhaps you have a better monitor or better colour vision than me? I think Mongolia is "Visa available both on arrival or eVisa", which is presumably not as good as Kazakhstan's "Visa not required", for example.
Go to an optometrist and stop poking your eyes please.
The term for this is "indexing windows".

I believe the original intention was to simply create a reliable, water-tight seal.

I've had this style of window on a sports car for about 10 years and never had any trouble. Many situations where battery was dead or winter weather would make it more difficult to open, but never panic-inducing or made me think it was about to shatter. More of a super sticky seal with the rubber.
Any typical analytics use case, where a single dataset (think a single table) is less than 2TB and the total data size is less than 10-20 TB in the organization. If that's you, you very likely don't need Snowflake and definitely not Databricks. An RDBMS would suffice, I recommend Postgres.

These sizes are just my thumb rules. Your mileage may vary.

I have people in my network use Snowflake with a total data size of 50GB!!! It makes my blood boil.
According to my doctor it normally stops progressing at around 40 so I got the surgery as a kind of insurance policy if it didn't. But even then there aren't any guarantees. My vision tests did indicate some improvement, albeit barely perceptible.
https://archive.ph/Mn4g5
It is in the definition in Wikipedia and most other sources I have checked. All the implementations I have seen so far, check if any swaps have happened, and stop if they have not.
Sadly most people might not even see Nepal as different from India.
if you aren't convinced that adding the early exit generally hurts performance, well, it's not surprising; measuring performance is difficult and tricky, and you're faced here with claims you don't really have the knowledge to evaluate properly, so it's entirely proper that you are dubious about them, even if you're confused about what a proper proof would consist of

it might help your intuition to think of it this way:

1. with random input, the first ten positions of output are pretty likely (65%) to have an item that was originally in the last 10% of the input, and almost certain (97%) to have an item that was originally in the last 30% of the input. so those ten items alone account for needing 95% of the passes you'd need without an early exit, minus about five, in 65% of cases.

2. the first 20 positions are pretty likely (64%) to have an item that was originally in the last 5% of the input, and almost certain (96%) to have an item that was originally in the last 15% of the input. so those 20 items account for needing 97% of the passes you'd need without an early exit, minus about ten, in 64% of cases.

3. the first 30 positions are pretty likely (64%) to have an item that was originally in the last 3.3% of the input, and almost certain (96%) to have an item that was originally in the last 10% of the input. so those 30 items account for needing 98.5% of the passes you'd need without an early exit, minus about 15, in 64% of cases.

of course, if you're only sorting 30 items, the first ten positions of output are actually a third of all the positions, so "minus five" is pretty significant. and probably if you're sorting more than about 30 items at a time you ought to use a linearithmic sort or a linear-time radix sort instead of a quadratic sort

similarly, it's reasonable to argue that complexity (in the sense of containing many parts, not in the sense of asymptotic computational work required) is subjective, and to disagree about it

but i think these are sort of moot points

insertion sort still beats bubble sort in the situations where you have only one or two misplaced pairs of elements, and generally replaces it as soon as somebody notices

as for 'the de facto standard way of doing it today', i suggest you argue with clrs, not with me
The libc (glibc) absolutely has a stable ABI. Stop spreading FUD.
Type of evidence: first hand account.

That's better. The singular of data is not anecdote. People make this "mistake" in order to dismiss or minimize someone's experience.
4 in 10 Hiring Managers Admit They Lie to Candidates in the Hiring Process
Word. Most companies don't have nearly enough data to begin to justify them.
Apple Game Porting Toolkit Automated Installer, Sonoma/Apple Silicon Not Needed
https://archive.ph/lx9ol
You sort of can, but drivers have to be in sync with the (emulated) devices they're controlling. The fastest way to go about this would be to snapshot an already booted virtual system. It could be as simple as instructing the restored snapshot to reseed its RNG and (re-)attach to the network, but you'll probably in into a few more assumption broken by cloning a multiple VMs from the same snapshot. If pre-booting and suspending/resuming each individual VM is good enough it could look similar to a pre-forking HTTP server like old Apache versions.
> all the 'fluff' came later.

Believing certain stuff is “fluff” is precisely the dubious attempt at reconstruction that I was talking about.

In terms of their own practices, the Japanese practicing Zen in their own country, and the teachers who came to the West, had the excuse of being born into an existing cultural tradition that had evolved the way it had. First-generation Westerners taking on Buddhism, but only such things as they can feel comfortable with, and then claiming that what they put together is the authentic core Buddhism, just look like cultural appropriators.
The Powder Mage trilogy by Brian McClellan includes gunpowder as one of the magic system elements, and integrates it in a way which the author of the OP might be interested in :)
I mean, you asked a question and I gave some reason that I could think of. How exactly do you "disagree with the spirit of my comment"?

If you don't want to hear an answer, maybe you should just not ask.
True from a purely technical point-of-view, but doesn't take into account how companies make decisions about adopting platform tech and that they're making these choices for good reasons.

When companies choose SF or DB they don't make a decision to install one of these platforms because there is no combination of open-source components and bespoke engineering work that could replace them and even be more flexible and efficient. They are choosing these platforms because they make it easy to manage data operations holistically, because it's easier to hire people who already know them well, because they are opinionated and restrict the range of bad or just strange decisions someone in the organisation could be making if they were not restricted, and of course for enterprise support, available from a single reputable vendor.

See also: 80% of companies don't need Kubernetes, 80% of companies don't need a big-3 cloud, 80% of companies don't need managed security solutions, 80% of companies don't need SAP, 80% of companies don't need Salesforce, etc etc etc...
That was the first thing I tried, but it blew the stack :) You can still blow the stack if you pick a number that's too high, like k[20000] or something. But if you pick a lower number & cache that, then you can (eventually) call a higher number without blowing the stack. This recursive approach is a horribly inefficient algorithm anyway, so I don't think it's worth optimizing :)
I would turn this on it’s head and say that most companies do need one or the other.

My first premise is that most companies will have a BI or Data and Analytics problem, whether it’s analysing their spend, revenue, operations, customer churn or something more interesting.

At that point, having an industry standard, fully managed, fully elastic and resilient platform with consumption based pricing sounds pretty appealing.

Yes I can run and administer a warehouse on EC2, but the total cost of manpower and servers with full resilience is going to be high, especially as you’ll have to add in analytics tools, ETL tools etc which Snowflake or Databricks might have included.

I’m a huge believer in both Snowflake and Databricks. Snowflake for BI and Databricks for anything more funky. The technology is on point and the business case stacks up for the most part.
Great advice for any PhD student or researcher!

Do you have any other valuable advice? How about just give up and quit your job? It would have the same effect.
Note that the claim that Hindus "absorbed" Buddhism and also "put bounty on buddhist's head" is not consistent with each other, only one can be true.
Yet another reason to never buy a Tesla. Along with the rest of the awful in-car UX and the at-best mid-pack overhyped ADAS: https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/active-drivi....

Once I get my NACS adapter for my Bolt, the main reason to buy a Tesla will be gone as well. I wonder if my 2017 model needs a software update to connect.
While we're on the subject of Tesla, add the control stalks. Supposedly the Model 3 refresh will be dropping these.
Assuming you get out with the manual handle and the glass doesn't break, can you close the door or will that break the glass too?

Thinking you're stranded on the roadside and can get a ride, but not a tow until the next day.

Do you have to just leave the door open?
Well, people don’t build apps for the very few users that don’t like JavaScript web crap but are fine with Python Qt crap.
i had a similar realization when i shattered my humerus, one arm completely out of commission for a month then a year of recovery. The only things i could do were TV/video games with a controller, ive always been a gamer but struggled with the idea: is gaming net positive on peoples lives or society? Lots of people "waste" tons of time gaming when they could be improving their situations. Having no ability to work/cook/exercise i noticed that gaming is a MASSIVE boon to disabled people. Im not sure how well id have managed without to be honest.
Is not feasible for many people IN the US too ;)
...and 6 in 10 hiring managers lied in this survey :)