skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody have experience with TiDB? How does it stack up against CockroachDB? Seems hard to find comparison. Probably hear less about it mostly because it's developed in China? Looks like it's an impressive piece of tech, though.
Its totally unrelated.
Like most issues with prostitution, it is simply caused by poverty.

China is a very materialistic society with incredibly high inequality and it lacks any sort of welfare support network.

If you just walk around in shanghai, then the country might seem pretty close to first world levels of development. But if you go deeper inland, you will find hundreds of millions rural people who have been left behind, and still live in grinding poverty.

When you are that poor, then becoming a prostitute can be a acceptable option for you.
I did, although I admit it was only for awful projects, where people used to comment out code instead of deleting it... hundreds of lines of commented out code and occasionally one or two lines uncommented in the middle of that. Not fun to maintain code in such state.
What does “deliberate practice” mean for math research and math education?
Ask HN: What if insurance could subsidize fruits and vegetables
1. obesity cost a fortune

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-pays-high-price-for-obesity/

2. fruits and vegetables are 0 points on WW

http://www.weightwatchers.com/util/art/index_art.aspx?tabnum=1&art_id=59781

3. what if insurance, medicaid could give a gift card only used for fruits and vegetables?
Credit card fraud and identify theft are distinct threats with distinct solutions. On underground forums they're also distinct products obtained and sold in different ways (cvvs/dumps vs fullz).

It has taken a long time and a lot of media exposure to raise awareness of these two concepts to ordinary people. My parents now know what both identity theft and credit card fraud are - and they understand the basics of how to deal with each.

To start over again with any of these terms because of a nuance of definition and semantics would be extremely counterproductive.
What do you mean by not adequate? Go tooling is way better than Rust. The only thing that Rust does better in that field is package dependency and it's going to change soon for Go.
I think this is a big part of it. I currently have 15 PTO days per year, which includes sick leave. If I'm feeling off, I'll ask if I can work from home, which I always get denied (which is odd, since I do after-hours maintenance and on-call incidents remotely).

So rather than piss away PTO, I dose up on drugs and drag my ass to the office. If I had dedicated sick leave, I'd just take the day off. But this miserly PTO policy results in me hoarding it.
> If all three mobile OSes said "there is your industrial-grade isolated vm, do anything you want and note the time/battery/memory restrictions" then problem would be solved

Yes, well, being theoretically possible is not the same as being viable and having solved the chicken-and-egg problem. I think webasm has nowadays more possibilities to become adopted as the standard for a common platform.
Actually, C was a lot worse. For the first 9 years C was basically whatever AT&T wanted. In 78 K&R published The C Programming Language, creating a specification. In the next decade C was very much tied to Unix and non-Unix usages often had some oddities and interoperability issues. The last 3 decades have been good though.
If it is question about being paid well or not at all. Then I rather get paid well. The world isn't going to get better just because I refuse the work. In fact it might just get worse, since at least I can try to influence the product or at least half ass it in some way.
I have noticed how slow HEVC encoding is on my High-Sierra 2017 MBP too. Would love to offload some of those tasks to iPad Pro. Would you know of any HEVC encoding apps?
Low trust versus high trust society is the thing you need to understand here. You live in a high trust society which means that, in general, it is more efficient to optimise for conversion rate than to deny valid but incompetent or "unable to provide all the details" consumers.
As long as its all your fault somehow, right? I mean, I had no ability to control Equifax or how shitty they run their business, but somehow it's now on me to pay to freeze my credit? Fuck that!
One day I found a fake profile that copied my description. Support said that they can't prove that he got it after me and they will not take any action.

I know two persons who were banned forever after applying to about 20-30 jobs and not getting them. Support said they are not qualified enough to be on Upwork, ever.

Sometimes they ban digital nomads for moving around the world too much. Sometimes they ban people because their clients got unsatisfied and clients are more important for Upwork than freelancers.

So the support is dysfunctional on many levels but Upwork is the only place where a non-US/EU freelancer without connections can find jobs relatively easy.
Very true, as someone who grew up in the 80s and mid-90s, we usually met "friends" for an hour or so in a day and the rest of it was spent with solitary pursuits and perhaps with family. These days we're "connected" 24x7 thanks to the Net and particularly mobile. Almost everything we do is either over these mediums or at least shared on them, commented upon, collaborated and so on.

Individual activities like gardening, woodworking, philately, reading a book, birdwatching, stargazing, painting and so on are either increasingly waning or being substituted by their "online" and "connected" doppelgängers.
The people who built this post all the time on Who's Hiring. Maybe they'll show up and offer some insight, technical or otherwise.
Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15346763

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15345739

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15344960
I think I disagree that this is Whataboutism. I did not get the impression that the commenter was trying to "discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy" (from the wiki link), but rather that he/she was pointing out an instance of apparent double standards.

I could be wrong. He/she might be attempting to defend China's policies. It just didn't come across that way to me.
I'm using Firefox and had no trouble viewing the static chart.
Has anyone been able to find the data used in the study?
What if you give your progress-bar some brand style?
> No need for name

Technically there is never a need for a name for a CNP transaction. Merchants have no way of verifying it.
Twitter Tests Doubling Character Limit for Tweets to 280
> features are still bolted onto the camera that get used roughly never

I see your argument about making sensible choices on smaller form factors but DSLRs aren't point and shoot.

There's only one button I "roughly never" use on my D750 (the little "i" button). Everything else gets a hot supper. And it's not just that I use those features, I mean I use them all the time. In environments where I need the muscle-memory to affect them quickly. Things like ISO, bracketing, flash and focus and aperture priority modes. I don't think I'm unique.

I won't tolerate a camera that forces me to disengage with what I'm doing so I can fanny around in a menu system.
Also, if we're gonna nitpick, neither the free market nor capitalism were created by Adam Smith.
There are more tradeoffs involved in building a browser than just "powerful extensions vs browser performance". So you have a false assumption built into your question, that the two browsers in question are making identical compromises across all facets of things when that is in fact not the case.

And there are more than two browsers - if you do want a browser that still supports powerful extensions at the cost of browser performance, I hear Pale Moon is a good option (I haven't used it myself, so can't comment).
Not everything has a convenient wrapper, just the high profile stuff like files and GUIs. Are there wrappers for things like dlopen()? posix_madvise? All the various set... functions? Filesystem ACLs? COM objects?

(I'm something of an outlier here, maintaining a big legacy MFC application that targets Windows CE, but I can't be the only one. One implication of this is that I'm using the Microsoft MIPS compiler with this banner, that's probably older than some of the readers here and certainly predates C99:

Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 12.00.8804 for 80x86
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1984-1998. All rights reserved.

... but my point is that it's not sensible to say nobody's using the system native APIs in 2017!)
The media hates the Internet. They totally despise it and will attribute and blame "the Internet" for all kinds of criminal activities that merely use technology as part of the process in any fashion. The concept of "hackers" plays into that fear mongering.
There is evidence for both situations — the general case seems to be that either too much OR too little police presence leads to disruption.

Ideally, police would be responsive to community demands. So, if a high-crime community demands more aggressive policing in the Broken Windows mold, they get it. Conversely, if community representatives see that policing is causing more trouble than it's solving, they should be able to request an easing-off without being deemed "pro-crime".

Unfortunately, most cities tend to take a much more top-down approach with the allocation of enforcement power.
The industry term is application fraud - its a subtype of credit card fraud. It requires identity theft/identity fraud in the same way card not present fraud may require someone to break a database or spread a keylogger.
Three other (somewhat related) reasons I’ve heard stated by FB folks:

1. Makes it easier to identify talent out in the world that they want to go after.

2. Raises the technical reputation of Facebook, making it easier to get candidates to say yes.

3. Makes it easier to ramp new employees up on Facebook’s stack if they are already familiar with a lot of it from open source.
Browser? Have seen some odd behavior since I updated to safari 11
Let’s not forget that it often makes sense to call in sick just to be able to complete work that requires concentration in a quiet environment.
And then the article goes on to list several possible reasons, each little more than hypothetical. Reports of crimes != crimes.
What is PTO?
I just wanted a list, not an article. :~(
So you could do the same in C/C++, if you use unsafe it's unsafe that it's. I can't believe people arguing over unsafe used in a safe way.
Ask HN: Is there any website that consolidate past and new token sales?
The article fails to list the 68 things...
What you consider helpful to the common person is not what they consider helpful to the common person is not what someone else considers helpful to the common person.

Adding variables like time-frame, varying definitions of "common person" only make it more complicated.

People have beliefs about what is good for society at scale that no not align with yours. The current administration thinks that deregulation of industries and trade policies that protect domestic industry are the right thing to do. That belief may be misguided but it's what they believe.

Whether they're right or not is still to be determined. You never really get a good picture of that until the next administration takes office anyway.
What? No. You just bring-up a replica, compact that (or do any other slow operation you want), wait for it to catch-up, then fail-over, making the replica the new master.

There's no excuse for doing slow, blocking maintenance operations on a live user-facing database.
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British English would use "Sick leave". But I also speak Norwegian so perhaps that explains why it seemed unremarkable until I saw the comment above.
Especially the noise is wearing me down.
Dealing with illness and work is something that's important for everybody but I think it's something contractors (or other non-salary workers) need to be especially cognizant of.

I've been contracting for the last 13 years. I've had a few occasions where I feel I "worked through" a period of illness too enthusiastically and ended up making myself feel worse and lengthening the illness. Knowing that you need to bill, and therefore need to work, is tough to balance against stopping work to get better. It's been a tough lesson for me, but I try very hard to slow down or even stop work when I'm sick.

On the last occasion I really tried to "power through" an illness (with a persistent bad cough and even more persistent sore throat) I started thinking about Jim Henson's death. That made me slow down. Nothing is worth that.
I never get sick, so my sick time is just personal time for when I don't feel like coming in work. But mainly I just use it for working on my own personal projects. Silent environment at home is amazing compared to a busy office. I wish our open office space, was converted to sound proof cubes.
Maybe in the PDF? http://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=3167&file_nro=1
Apparently there are some British car fans here.

Ever since Dyson started selling "bladeless" fans, I've been a little skeptical of their claims.
<rant>

I call B.S.

1. "associated" means nothing. "Anything" can be "associated" with "anything else". "significantly related" is almost as worthless. Correlation is better than association. Causation is better than correlation. Where's any of that? This is just a hypothesis, not a conclusion.

2. I've been working in corporate offices for 38 years in every possible environment imaginable: private office, war room, open office, basement, hallway, double office, even a closet. One place someone came in and yelled, "Get out of here now! There's mold everywhere!" Sure enough, hazmat had to clean the office.

3. I have NEVER missed a day of work. EVER. Some people say I'm lucky. That's probably a little bit true. But not really. Read on...

4. Here's a list of things that I believe (without any supporting data or government research) have "significantly more impact" on sickness absence that open-plan offices: diet, lifestyle, movement of any kind, drug use, tobacco, alcohol, stress from work, stress from non-work, medical history, genetics, donut consumption.

5. I loathe open offices for many reasons (mainly because those deciding these things have no idea how to achieve, but that's another rant). But cut me a break, blaming open offices for sickness absence is really a reach. Without proper controls, the statistical evidence presented by OP can be caused by many other co-factors. (See #4 above.)

6. Never get health info from the internet.

</rant>
Paid time off
For a more "systems" approach for ODEs, you should look at Modelica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelica It's very powerful stuff.
This is a wonderful idea but it is not cognisant of risk or user experience.

I am sort of surprised more HNers don't understand risk and the tradeoffs involved and seem to be taking an absolutist stance on this.

Equifax is an unforgivable failure of infosec but the general ideas around the risk of it seem like ...

Practically speaking, without significant landscape changes (and yeah equifax counts as one) it has generally been cheaper to trust people and write off the bad apples than to verify more. Or else there would be more verification!

Thats because most applications for homes, high value insurance or financial products are not actual fraud, they are usually consumers having trouble with you shitty process despite your best efforts to optimise for usability.

I don't know fully what the equifaxopocalypse means for americans though.
Ask HN: Is anyone using web components in production?
Lately quite a few articles have come up on HN about why javascript is taking it too far ('5000 lines of code for hello world' and the like). Which has made me wonder what the current state of web component support is and how well they work in production.

The proof is in the pudding however, so I am wondering if anyone is using web components in production and what their conclusions are. I have duck-duck-go-ed the matter, but so far have only found a few older blog posts.

TLDR: Is anyone using/has anyone used web components in production and what are you conclusions?
Too many variables to isolate on this study to provide proof that correlation equals causation. Even with the isolating they've tried to do with the 95% CI the range is:

1 Person Office: 1 (They didn't report a range here)

2 Person Office: 1.13-1.98 sick days

3-6 Person Office: 1.08-1.73 sick days (LOWER than 2)

6+ Person Office: 1.30-2.02 sick days

Great item to study further. This isn't scientific proof of anything. As a solo worker you may come in to the office when sick as well since you don't have to worry about getting anyone else sick and so many other variables they didn't control for make this interesting but far from proof.

Direct PDF link to full study: http://www.sjweh.fi/download.php?abstract_id=3167&file_nro=1
That’s correct. But the protocol author mafintosh is currently working on a major new release which introduces multi-writer capabilities.
The Real ID Act establishes a national identity whether we want to admit it or not--states have to knuckle under. That the Federal Gov doesn't have some central database doesn't make it any less of a de facto national ID. Also, now that you must have one to fly (or a passport) we're inching ever closer to that police state. I didn't have to be this way--we can see from the Equifax and OPM incidents that all this data aggregation is as dangerous as anything else.

I support aviation security, but not all the big government, police state add-ons that are there mainly to increase the profits of major political donor corporations.
Google doesn't have an public finance API to use for creating a better product, do they?
>Portfolios deprecation information:

https://support.google.com/finance/answer/7534448?hl=en
I'd say it's time to look for another job. There are better places to work at.
Why is western media so concerned about China when their own government ramped up their control over their own people ? And hackernews mostly westerners going ga ga over this. You should be concerned about what’s happening at your home than what’s happening in some other country. Stop policing the world.

There is a proverb, fix the dust in your eye before trying to fix the dirt in someone else’s.
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RAM per connection is quite big with HAProxy, so if you're simply load-balancing lots of connections, something like nginx has a smaller footprint.
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How algorithms are transforming artistic creativity
Wow. This is so petty. They might hate it but I thought they would at least try to replace it and not hurt those that are using it. Shutting it down to reduce enrollment is beyond evil.
"Almost nothing is as fast/effective for this as a gun" drugs ? especially considering it requires far less will power to take a few pills vs to pull a trigger?
> [citation needed]

- vacri, 6 hours ago.
I don't think you can really undersell the cult-building aspect, in addition to the psychological factors, which are heavily intertwined.

Co-working spaces have actually been rather successful in outsourcing these factors - both the cultism and the necessity for human interaction. Not every company needs its own brand of Kool-aid, especially when the cultural attraction of many tech companies is indistinguishable from the industry as a whole. It may be beneficial to have core values that are shared among a cluster of companies, and reap some advantages of scale that brings with it.
It didn't keep Shkreli out of trouble though.
Raspberry Pi I2C clock stretching bug
"Personal time off" or "paid time off". It is an informal term that is usually synonymous to a more formal term such as "casual leave" in many companies.
Playing devils advocate, the issue is that if there’s zero responsibility on your end, then it’s also easy to claim it wasn’t you when it really was.
"An open-office plan encourages collaboration"

They always say that but from my observation this is simply not true.
CERN isn't just colliding particles, it's welcoming artists UK
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While that might be true to a degree, chances are that what is really going on here is that it is more profitable to externalize the costs of insufficient authentication to unsuspecting people. While both result in higher profits, one does so by actually increasing the value that is being created while the other does so by making a third party pay, possibly even more than the increase in profit, so one of them is more efficient for society, while the other is just more efficient for the company but might still even be less efficient for society overall.
It should be called "Reputation Theft". Because what the criminal is doing is harming _your_ reputation with companies that _you_ want to do business with in the future.
> a secure government authentication method, but that's not beyond implementation

We have secure epost for communications between people and the state here in Norway already. The authorities keep pestering me to register to use it so that they no longer have to send me paper documents.
This is not a fallacy at all. It is only a fallacy if there is a conclusion like "therefore $BAD_THING is not so bad after all".

The usual conclusion, however, is that both sides are bad (to a varying degree) and that the currently better side should be aware of slippery slopes.
I love 1/4-20 sockets. Attach my camera to a flash bracket? Yep. Attach an eyebolt to attach a carabiner to attach a neck strap? Yep. Attach a hand strap or a 40mm, 80mm, or 200mm Arca Swiss plate. Yep. Yep, Yep and Yep.

There's nothing stopping a photographer from permanently attaching an Arca-Swiss plate to the bottom of a camera body with a bit of cyanoacrylate or some screws if it makes better photographs. For me, walking around with an Arca-Swiss plate on my camera made me appreciate that 1/4-20 socket is flush. Walking around with a 120mm plate made me appreciate that the 1/4-20 socket is flush both top to bottom and front to back.

Like everything in photography 1/4-20 and Arca-Swiss are defined by engineering tradeoffs. The cost of slower direct attachment of 1/4-20 is in exchange for the physical strength of bolted connection and the flexibility adopting a broader standard affords - I can build a camera mount from general components available at the hardware store (including round stock and a 1/4-20 die in a statistically unlikely universe).

edit: I left out all the electronic/software rants because photography is undergoing Cambrian explosion in regards to controls and computation (but mirrorless cameras are nothing new).
Tell HN: MIT Technology Review disallows reading in Incognito mode
I tried to open MIT Technology Review article [1] in incognito mode and it seems it doesn't allow reading in incognito mode to apply the article restriction more strictly [2].

This is first time I am seeing something like this.
Are these kind of blockers becoming common these days?

[1]: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608953/slack-ceo-how-well-use-ai-to-reduce-information-overload/

[2]: http://prntscr.com/gqbstw
The place (federal government) is great, but my current contract employer has some puzzling policies. I've never had a better work/life balance than this place.

In a few years, the contract will be rebid and I'll roll the dice with my next employer. I rarely get sick, so it's not that big of a deal, but I was highlighting how poor policy can induce sub-optimal choices by the employee.
sounds to me like you've already made your mind up about everything about them. You're not commenting, you're soap boxing.