skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To the other good points, I'd add that when people start making queries that aren't O(1) or O(n), modern computers and networks are capable of reasonably conveniently moving around amounts of data where it becomes practical for remote client to use its rather substantial power to answer questions on a gigabyte or two of data with its own computing power, and if enough people are doing this at once the combined client power they can have can easily overpower any reasonable amount of cloud compute you might be willing to deploy for this problem as they run non-trivial queries. I may be happy for dozens of clients to download some data and chew through some O(n log n) with mixed O(n^2) components on their own whereas I would not care to provision enough cloud compute to handle it all.

I think people forget that as cheap as cloud compute is, client compute is even cheaper. Generally it's already paid for. (Marginal electricity costs are lost in the noise of everything else you're supporting a client user with.) And while the years of doubling every 1.5 years may be gone, clients do continue to speed up, and they are especially speeding up in ways that databases can take advantage of (more cores, more RAM, more CPU cache). Moving compute to clients can be a valuable thing in some circumstances on its own.
Fetcherr lands $90M to get airlines on board with dynamic pricing
Without at least an appearance of competence (well, technically, tax-raising power), nobody would lend them the money.
The point of fizz-buzz was to serve as a simple filter at the front end of the interview process. It should be simple, but a surprising number of job candidates were unable to do it.
25% of humanity lives in China and India. They've benefted more from increasing fossil fuels than they've suffered from poor climate. The sky over China sounded like a scene from a Tolkien novel for a while there (which, well, such scenes were probably what he drew inspiration from). And they've made more meaningful progress on renewable and nuclear tech than Germany managed.

Between Germany and China, I feel I'd rather be copying China's policies.