skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it's not, say that have 2TB of logs daily, good luck designing that with a regular RDMS without sharding / clustering / re-balancing capabilities.
They think their NoSQL datastore with 10 million records and a single page frontend is the like putting someone on the moon.

And that they need to interview you, accordingly.
read "processed" to mean "all values extracted beforehand"
If the firmware in that car is so fragile that any such thing as a truly safety-critical update could still reasonably exist after they've been out on the road this many years, then I definitely don't want to drive one, and I'd prefer not to share the road with them either. On the other hand, if there actually were some epidemic of Tesla crashes due to faulty firmware, the intense media scrutiny they've experienced would almost certainly have turned it up by now; so I'm willing to believe that any updates they'd be trying to push would not, in fact, be safety-critical.
It has nothing to do with murder and everything to do with suicide. The family is arguing that CTE caused or contributed to his suicide.
I see your point, unfortunately it will be hard to parse what the extent of the CTE was and how it affected him in combination with the results of his trial.

I just know that if I were in the shoes of the victims families, it would be crushing to see the family of the murderer walk away with a payout.
My impression is that laziness forced people to invent new abstractions to deal with IO, because you can't rely on the easily predictable evaluation order of eager evaluation to provide a good enough solution. And it's those abstractions that make Haskell elegant.

However now that we've invented them, while some things benefit from laziness, eager evaluation is probably a better default.
Calling it wishful thinking is incredibly dismissive and contemptuous.

If you were genuinely interested, you could read the multiple articles I have already written and linked to. I don't think you have bothered to do that.

I see no reason to engage further.
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That's rational.

We are getting older, and more broken.

We are currently 'shifting' what we value in life.

If we spend more on doctors, it may be that they provide more value to us.

If we'd rather invest in new surgical procedures over some new kind of social network, well, that's what we want, apparently.

Of course with healthcare it's always more complicated, but it's rational that we spend more on health if that's what society values.
Also discussed here, which links to the full Oracle JDK distribution for windows, macOS, linux and solaris: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15306295
In which case they would not be designing for the future.

Did you miss this: "(unless of course they are already starting with a huge amount of data)"?
It seems that a variety of animals exhibit at least phases of sleep where one hemisphere or part of a brain is asleep while the other is awake:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unihemispheric_slow-wave_sleep
Wages don't grow because there isn't a shortage condition for labor. If there was a shortage, the price of labor (wages) would increase.

From what I've read, it became fed policy to make sure this labor shortage condition doesn't happen around the 1980s as a response to the stagflation of the 1970s. It was believed that one of the causes of the inflation was wage growth.

From what I understand, wages tend to go up when the red line is below the blue line in this graph, and you'll notice the red line is under the blue line a lot more before 1980 vs after. You'll also notice interest rate spikes start around the point where the red line meets the blue line, and spikes of unemployment happen soon after.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=3uOu&utm_source=direct&...
For most people the reaction to something proposed by a spy agency is to immediately assume there is an ulterior motive. Your rational explanation helps control this thought process and is much appreciated.
Author here. Interesting to hear your perspective on this. I'm personally biased towards Flask, which I was trying to avoid when writing this article. Glad to see my thoughts on the two frameworks are reflected by other developers as well
If he wasn't put in jail with a lifetime sentence would he still have committed suicide?

Maybe. Maybe not. There's no was to know his thoughts leading up to the suicide.
For those who might be a bit confused......

This feature will not make your coins more secure or prevent coinbase from being hacked. However your coins will most likely be moved to "Cold storage" which will make your coins extremely difficult to steal in the event that either coinbase or your account is breached.

As far as cryptocurrency exchanges go, Coinbase is among the most secure, practicing what they call "Paranoid Security".

Brian has written about it in the past.
https://engineering.coinbase.com/how-coinbase-builds-secure-...
too bad Marxian policies stifle innovation by providing no incentive to pursue it.
I know that HN is a very specific crowd, but humans are not machines - just because I know flying is safer than driving does not make me feel any better about it. Same reason why I feel very unsafe when I'm a passanger in a car vs. driving myself - I feel in control of the situation, even though statistically it's not a safe situation to be in at all.
Why would they dig a fake 18-level underground city?
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The problem is that when you talk only about "distribution is effectively zero" it's already a totally forgone conclusion that you are biased. It's getting worse when you imply all data is just numbers and regulating numbers is silly and stupid. Those numbers have context, that's why they are not just numbers.

Labels are not only distributers, not all artists are interested in marketing, distribution, mixing, etc. And at some point you need to get those investments back.

If you remove payments or restrict it to special ways like patreon people will still produce music, that's obvious. But it's not clear that it's the same music we get today.

Art will not vanish, but it will change the arts, probably in a major way. But what it will be like is up for discussion.
> Why does the family of a murderer get a monetary reward? Even if it is proven the the CTE somehow cause him to commit the murders (which is a long shot), why would his family reap the benefits of the settlement?

Because the NFL is the murderer. Aaron was made ill by them to the extent he is not responsible for his actions. This is before you even get to the suicide.
Except that'd be willfully lying in pursuit of financial gain, so no you can't really do that. The burden is on you to correct the record and defend against ID theft.

Sucks. I'm not defending it. This is how it is.
Pretty close. How did that happen!? I feel like I was 23 just a few weeks ago!
Please stop trying to get me to commit to reading this series. My expected lifespan is already too short to complete my queue. Thanks.
I've got no issue with the IRS and/or the private sector continuing to use SSNs as surrogate IDs or usernames. Being public doesn't prevent it from being used to disambiguate similar users or associate records between datasets. In fact, having the mapping public would make it easier, since that's one less column you need to store securely.

What it would prevent is the illusion that providing my SSN on demand is in any way an indication that I am in fact the human being attached to that number and not some third party.

I don't see a problem with the IRS continuing to use it as-is. I would have no more incentive to lie about my SSN than I currently do about my legal name or my mailing address, for example. In fact, I might have a significant disincentive if I knew that my boss, my HR manager, the auditor at the IRS, and anyone else who cared could spot check whether it matched what I told them all my name was. Besides, the IRS has been dealing with endless attempts at tax fraud for a century and a half now. One more awkward but plausible avenue for cheating is likely to be background noise against their existing caseload.
"By default, blas64 and lapack64 call the native Go implementations of the routines. Alternatively, it is possible to use C-based implementations of the APIs through the respective cgo packages and "Use" functions."

Performance comparison? Algorithmic equivalence? How close are the results numerically (e.g. how do they compare on badly conditioned matrices)?
I'd write some document, call it the law-of-the-land, make everyone that wanted to stay agree with it, everyone else could leave. It would set up some very precise and strict rules about what I (the government) was allowed to do. I would let individuals cooperate as they see best. I would protect people's rights and punish those who infringe their neighbors. I'd probably follow these rules for a couple hundred years, then say "screw it" and do whatever I wanted.
> Unfortunately, most connections I've used give you a burst, and then drop drastically down, so you only experience the 12 Mbps for a second or two, then watch it fall over 30 seconds to around 1-2 Mbps.

I've not experienced this. I've had Comcast and AT&T (DSL) and typically get 60-100% of the putative max speed. Sometimes it's under 50%, but then if I call in they admit that there's a problem. More importantly, I can do anything I want with 6 Mbps downstream. In fact, I had 6 until Comcast got rid of the plan, and I'd happily stick with that speed if I could pay 60% of my current bill. Maybe I'm peculiar in this regard, but we have 5 tablets, 4 computers, and 2 iPhones in our house. We're definitely not the "average" US household in this regard.

> "Broadband" used to mean "really fast". Redefining it to the lowest threshold that internet is usable does not sound reasonable to me.

Reasonable minds can differ on what this definition should reflect. If the government is going to regulate companies based on a definition, I'd rather it be closer to "minimum usable" rather than "really fast".

Then you can use that threshold with multipliers if you want, akin to how we use the poverty level threshold. (For example, you qualify for certain benefits if you have less than 150% or 200% of the poverty level.)
I noticed hash indexes are now crash proof and replicated -- this seems to make them actually usable in production. In other words, this release effectively "adds" a new index type. That seems like a much bigger deal than is being talked about, is there any reason to believe that new databases shouldn't be using hash indexes for columns that won't be supporting range queries? (In other words, pretty much all keys.) I've seen mixed reports about hash indexes being beneficial.
Facepalm. Russia is 1155 years old.
Haven't most studies around UBI shown that the only people that usually don't work when given a UBI are students and mothers (so they can focus on school and their children, respectively)?

Living off the basics is pretty dull. Most people who live ascetic lifestyles by choice usually come from a position of relative wealth and choose it more as an aesthetic or affectation than anything.
I don't think what you said is controversial, it's sound.

Marx's observations were mostly sound, and I think, not inconsistent with Adam Smith. It's his solutions that were crazy-balls.

Ultimately, all things being equal, tech that makes companies more efficient will drop employment and wages. 'All things' are never equal though :).

We should consider the fact that while modern countries are going anywhere fast - 100's of millions of people are coming out of abject poverty. That's often overlooked.
That is to force ISPs to provide a minimum level of service everywhere -- what good is it if you are prepared to pay for 50Mbps in a rural under-served area, but the ISP will not provide it to you because they don't have the infrastructure for it.
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Because his daughter, by being deprived of her father's presence and income, was also hurt by the actions that were quite possibly induced by the CTE he suffered. And while no one can know CTE caused Hernandez to kill people, it is known that CTE causes cognitive impairment, impulsive behavior, and emotional instability; aggression is a suspected symptom [1]. I don't think the idea that CTE made Hernandez' bad behavior more likely and/or more severe is easy to dismiss out of hand.

[1] http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-trauma...
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You have to look at stocks and flows together.

M1 is the stock of money.

But if that money doesn't flow, then it doesn't drive economic activity.

Here's the velocity of M1 -- it falls off a cliff in 2009 and continues falling to the present day.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1V

If velocity held constant as the money supply increased, then you'd have a very good point.

You can flood the system with liquidity, but if nobody spends it, then it makes no difference. I believe this is what economists call "pushing on a string".
Yeah, that "love your neighbor as yourself" would be brutal.
They mean to raise the concern of the family receiving that money, instead of the state or a CTE research group, for example.
It did cross my mind, but it doesn't seem to rhyme with what I (think I) know about the author.
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To be honest 6 TB of data isn't that much. I'd say big data starts at around one petabyte because one petabyte requires 3 servers with 45 [1] 8TB hdds. At this point your data is so large it's impossible to store it on a single physical machine.

"big data" usually doesn't require transactions though or at least no transactions across servers so you could probably get away with sharding postgresql via citus.

[1] http://www.45drives.com/products/storage/
I know what you mean, but I wasn't even espousing an opinion here; I was offering the view of a particular school of economics which has found a recent resurgance in academia from names like Anwar Shaikh and Richard Wolff. I simply can't think what would mean that someone comes along, reads my comment, for whatever reason disagrees with the fact (not the view, as there is very little view in my comment) and then clicks the downvote button.

I'm sure I've read that dang has said that downvotes shouldn't be used to mark opinions you disagree with - yet here we are. I would really appreciate explanations, surely this is not above those people who have 500 karma - like I am, they are entrusted with extra powers over the content on the website; perhaps if they behave in such a way antithetical to the idea of Hacker News (that of sharing strangely interesting ideas and perspectives) perhaps they should not have that ability.
Good questions. The NFL has enough money for everyone affected.
To clarify, are you claiming that, e.g., the Ford motor company in the 1950's purposefully overpaid its workers based on the belief that, if they were not overpaid, its workers would foment a communist revolution, which would damage Ford's bottom line?
> Part of what killed wage growth was the demise of Communism. Communism was once a serious ideological threat to capitalism. From the 1920s to the early 1980s, there was real fear in the business community that communism might work. It might deliver a better life to workers. There was competition in ideology, and capitalism had to provide an increasing standard of living or risk countries going communist. Communism never did deliver a better standard of living, but the presence of a competing system which more or less worked kept capitalism honest.

This is the biggest fattest lie of them all. I don't blame you for believing it; but there there was a time when the paper glamorized socialism. Hell we live in a Socialist country yet we refuse to acknowledge it; whenever someone talks about adding another socialist policy people act like we're not one.

No the real problem is Parasitic Capitalism; when you worked for Sears during the 70's and 80's it was a wage you could send your kids to college on. Sure it wasn't pretty; but things worked. Step forward with companies like Wal-mart and Samclubs delivering lower prices for the same products.

No one ever asked how walmart produced such low prices; but the truth is they pay rock bottom low wages ensuring that all their employee's require state help in order to feed them.

The Walmart's are rich as rich; but we helped them out to the tune of 2.1billion dollars I've heard per year. I suspect that's a bit high but regardless when companies can succeed by destroying a market. We all loose.

There's a number of companies doing this; we have 6 media companies now that own each and every news paper outlet pretty much. There's very little companies who own the radio; just 2-3.

Large part of it was the deregulation of the Clinton era; it was thought to bring us a competition. The fuck it did

Lastly; I blame the Clinton's and their policies.

Stop blaming people because they are lazy and in low-skill or low-wage jobs. That's just the party line that Fox News and other people lie to you about.

Getting angry at Millennial's isn't the answer either. Most adults don't get it; the world is different from when they were a child and they refuse to acknowledge it. Their life is good; their life was good. Why can't their kids be the same?

Wake the fuck up and start smelling the bacon burning. Banks are stealing your money left and right; and yet you keep putting money in the bank. When they tank that monthly fee out you just say yes sir thank you sir.

And you wonder why people are pissed off...

Lastly, no Communism was no real threat to capitalism. If it was a real threat you would see it more. Russia is not Communist nor is China.

Remove the titles and start looking; they are not what you are told.
How is the NFL responsible for those murders?

He didn't start in the NFL until 2010, after he had already been involved in a double shooting and bar fight.

Also, there is no direct evidence that CTE leads to murdering people.
Will JVM ever play with the browser again?
https://twitter.com/globalmaxima/status/908089963752808448

It would be great if Oracle licensed & worked to get bytecode into chromium and Microsoft did likewise with cil. It will take wasm 10 years to mature anywhere near those two. It'd be nice to not have to wait.
The current Achilles heel of CRISPR/Cas are the off-target effects. Interestingly, none were observed in this case.
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Yeah.. You should never use floating point when your use case wants uniform precision across the full range. That's the opposite of what floating point gives you.
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Protip: Julia Loiuse Dreyfus is related to THAT Dreyfus, just in case you ever need help segueing into late 19th century French history at a dinner party
As far as I can tell, nobody in this thread "picked up the banner of identity politics," and I can't find anyone arguing that "gender is 100% a social construct" either. Those seem to have been brought up exclusively as an out-of-left-field criticism of transgender people. What I'm saying is, at least in the context of this thread, it seems like a straw man argument that associates the idea "transgender people are real" with other ideas that literally nobody here is claiming.

I agree there probably aren't that many transgender people, but the best estimates I've seen suggest that there are probably a little over a million in the US. It is a tiny fraction of the US population — less than half a percent — but on the other hand, cities with that many people are considered a pretty big deal. It seems like an issue worth considering — not the cornerstone of a political movement, sure, but I don't think it is the cornerstone of one, unless you're considering "trans rights" as a political movement of its own (in which case, that's kind of tautological).
I have a feeling its the same as pouring a few bottles of poison in a swimming pool. We just have so much atmosphere.. sure, there will be a minimal but significant drop in temperature and some plants may not grow as abundantly as normal, but globally, the consequences are not (as) cataclysmic.

Edit: apparently people do not know how vast the amount of water that goes in a typical swimming pool is..
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I don't think we disagree, but I want to be cautious about saying "whatever we start with is always good enough."

I'm co-founder of a company, doing all of the technical work, and I too am using a very vanilla stack: Postgres, Elasticsearch, Redis, Memcache, Rails. However, having worked on massive scale-out projects before, I recognize where my pain points are going to be with my tech choices.

[1] I'm storing calendar data in postgres. This data is primarily key/value based, needs to be persistent, and on a per user basis potentially is tens of thousands of records. This is a medium term problem, and I'll likely move this data out of postgres and into a scale out solution sooner rather than later. I need relatively fast lookup times, but this is primarily a "high write, low read" scenario, that Cassandra is well suited for.

[2] I'm storing a bunch of text from blog posts, news articles, etc., in Postgres. I really dont' need the data to be in postgres, it's just a handy place to store it to synchronize with Algolia & Elasticsearch, where the true work happens. However, I dont' want to hold onto TBs & TBs of news articles in a postgres system. As that system scales out, it'll be unnecessarily expensive, as I don't need all the bells and whistles I'm getting from Postgres, for what is effectively a form of cold storage. This is a long term problem, and I likely won't tackle it for well over a year.

So, you're right, I'm not contemplating what DB to use, but I'm definitely aware of why I won't just leveraging the same database in perpetuity. Being focused on delivering customer value is vital, and that's my intent; however, scalability and cost structure do matter over the long term, so an understanding of where one will go is good as well.
> If there was a shortage, the price of labor (wages) would increase.

If price of labour was increasing, that would suggest that there isn't a shortage[1].

"In economic terminology, a shortage occurs when for some reason (such as government intervention, or decisions by sellers not to raise prices) the price does not rise to reach equilibrium. In this circumstance, buyers want to purchase more at the market price than the quantity of the good or service that is available, and some non-price mechanism (such as "first come, first served" or a lottery) determines which buyers are served."

What I believe you are saying is that we have reached equilibrium, so there is no pressure to push prices up or down when measured across the population as a whole (individuals may still see increases and decreases).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortage
Because workers being super special is not what has driven productivity gains.
There's a hypothesized link between C.T.E. and violence.

http://www.traumaticbraininjury.net/does-chronic-traumatic-e...
There is a kind of beauty in the blast, so if I knew it was going to happen I wouldn't mind being perched on a good viewpoint beyond the blast radius. I'd then jump straight on my motorbike and have a first ride sans helmet (compulsory here), then slam the bike into a tree at 200kph.
Science wasn't a lie, there was just an artificial cap on it, one that those scientists wouldn't even hit in their lifetime.

And honestly, the cap seemed a bit contrived to me. I read it more that the Trisolarians headfaked all of humanity and three books later Humanity never realized it. There's more to science than smashing subatomic particles together. It would be quite the subversion of "Trisolarians suck at lying" meme that emerged later.
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