skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Living conditions have a large impact on productivity and general mental wellbeing. For introverts, I think there's an argument to be made that splurging a bit on more space for yourself could lead to better performance in many areas of life. It's hard to put a dollar figure on that. For extroverts, this may be less true.

I feel like I should point out that in most of the country, including large cities, it's hard to even spend $2k/month on any apartment, let alone save that much by opting to have roommates.
Possibly through their testing package (which is proprietary)

https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

"The TH3 test harness is a set of proprietary tests, written in C that provide 100% branch test coverage (and 100% MC/DC test coverage) to the core SQLite library. The TH3 tests are designed to run on embedded and specialized platforms that would not easily support TCL or other workstation services. TH3 tests use only the published SQLite interfaces. TH3 consists of about 57.3 MB or 782.3 KSLOC of C code implementing 42213 distinct test cases. TH3 tests are heavily parameterized, though, so a full-coverage test runs about 1.7 million different test instances. The cases that provide 100% branch test coverage constitute a subset of the total TH3 test suite. A soak test prior to release does hundreds of millions of tests. Additional information on TH3 is available separately."

https://www.sqlite.org/th3.html

"TH3 License

SQLite itself is in the public domain and can be used for any purpose. But TH3 is proprietary and requires a license.

Even though open-source users do not have direct access to TH3, all users of SQLite benefit from TH3 indirectly since each version of SQLite is validated running TH3 on multiple platforms (Linux, Windows, WinRT, Mac, OpenBSD) prior to release. So anyone using an official release of SQLite can deploy their application with the confidence of knowing that it has been tested using TH3. They simply cannot rerun those tests themselves without purchasing a TH3 license."
Arm Cortex M3 and up cores usually have 'Memory Protection Units'. The MPU allows you to set permissions on memory regions and gives basic kernel/application isolation.
Wait until your kids get involved in sports and you have to haul around a trunk full of equipment.
My first JavaScript library – diver.js
Seems like it isn't that reality dissolves into nothing, it's just a few channels that get overly stimulated.
I would love to see Walmarts online growth split apart from the acquisition of Jet. Chance's are they are riding the coattail of that acquisition and once that drys up the only thing left is to spend a ton of money on customer acquisition to fuel "growth". Having both used Amazon and Jet, I find that Amazons customer support and checkout experience is significantly better then Jets.
In Shanghai, China, there's been an emerging trend towards industry focused Toastmasters Clubs. Well worth looking into in your area. This is a great way to leverage your time since you can derive so much professional/personal development besides making more like-minded friends. You can expect better leadership, public speaking, and evaluation skills to name a few. I served as an officer of a community club (mixed membership), am currently an active participant, and act as a city-wide club coach supporting clubs which need stronger growth. Great community to be a part of.

Vince Fulco, CFA, CAIA
vfulco[@]weisisheng.cn
NOw Google is locking journalists out of their Google Docs
Happy to answer any questions you have! It's all of our job to be transparent about the new tablestakes of design, because that transparency builds exact dialogues like this! It would be more audacious if we didn't publicize what we're doing and these techniques remained the dark patterns that keep people hooked to social apps that have poor alignment to what people actually want out of life!
What happens on an iPad? Do you mean memory and CPU on the server or on the client?

I do wish that it were server-rendered by default. SPAs are not ideal for content websites for several reasons. And one shouldn't need a recent browser version to read and participate in the WWW.
Google Docs Locks Users Out of Their Files Citing Terms of Service
Contrarian, not evil, is more of the motto. You don't get anyone to listen if you just talk about an AI SaaS platform for long-term habit formation. It comes off as wonkish. Trust me, we tried ;)
Looks like they somehow converted the hyphens to underscores: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2017
What other serious alternatives are out there though? I know of Firefox and Edge. But aren't Opera and Safari now reskins of Chromium, to some degree?
> I think the constraint of 140 characters leads to more thoughtful, creative expression

No, it leads to long tweet storms.
Holy cow, I just realized that I met him at a backyard barbecue... Very sharp guy.
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Please add also relational databases incl MySQL and Postgres (both work great for time series) and Cassandra itself. While also kairosdb, heroic, blueblood, hawkula are based on Cassandra, it can be used for time series as well.
Sometimes I start to believe in some sort of conspiracy that all the people working in media were the early investors and now they push the service 24/7 for the stock price :)) it's amazing how much publicity they get.
Ask HN: Would you trust your real work to Google if they can just lock you out?
This spate of people being locked out of their Google Docs is disturbing. I have now transferred all my work out of it. I can't afford to be stopped willy-nilly just because they think my journalistic work might not agree with their views.
If they're shipping features that need testing, it seems like the Beta version is the right place to ship them, not the stable Chrome or Chromium build. As in: ship the possibly-broken features to people who have already opted into testing, and don't subject your users that chose the "stable" to random testing.

Getting the bad end of someone's unannounced feature testing is the kind of thing that makes me decide to use another browser for a few months, hoping that the problem disappears if/when I go back to it.
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I'll continue to use Google Drive as a backup, of course. Thankfully, all my computers have LibreOffice.

In the end, I'll just make sure I have multiple copies of all the current files. That's not a bad thing.

PTL I don't have a Chromebook. Those guys could be royally screwed.
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Presto has connectors for various types of non-SQL databases including Redis: https://prestodb.io/docs/current/connector/redis.html

Presto is a distributed SQL query engine for big data, so basically the complete opposite of SQLite, though it often gets used in federation scenarios, as does SQLite.

An interesting anecdote is that the team working on what would become osquery (https://osquery.io/) asked if they could reuse the SQL parser from Presto. We get that question a lot, and after explaining that the parser is the easy part (semantic analysis and execution is the real work), I determined that what they really wanted were SQLite virtual tables: https://sqlite.org/vtab.html (and those worked out great for them)
> for working during the morning commute, and getting off earlier

Surely you mean turning your 8 hour shifts into 10 hour shifts?
Also used for other purposes. Consumers would never consent to it if they understood it.

https://www.wired.com/2016/11/block-ultrasonic-signals-didnt...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/beware-of-ads-th...

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/your-...
The men and women who write your software control the boundary conditions for your experiences there. They control what and how you can think, feel, and believe in that experience. When Twitter doubles the numbers of characters you can tweet, they're making a decision about the quality and size of thoughts people can express - and in turn what depth of dialogue we have there.

Analogously, when someone designs a diet app, they're creating the boundary conditions of a new behavior pattern for users. Their use of Dopamine aligns well with their end user's goals: in the same way that you hold friends close because you know they rub off on you, so too should we think about our software. Having an app on your phone you chose to let close to your mind and behavior - to be a new venue of your thought and future self - is a decision about who you want to become. And if that app can use good design, a good interface, and persuasive tech to help you achieve your health or diet goals: you win.

That's an alignment of what tech wants and what humans want.
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Could also be incompetence in regards to managing servers and load testing with laziness for not shutting down instances and ignorance of using reserved instances?

Ahem, I mean it could be.
Blink (Chromium’s engine) was forked from WebKit (Safari’s Engine) and the two have developed separately. Safari is not a skin of Chromium or vice versa.
Following is the URL to bootcamp info:
https://bootcamp.berkeley.edu/data/
By the way, I have first hand experience that raising kids in SF is quite good apart from some financial questions. There is a lot of community in places like playgrounds etc. More so than in some other places I have been. The average kid my kids meet is far kinder and more socially aware than what I grew up with, for example. So when people say SF is geared exclusively towards childless 20 somethings, don't believe them. Of course the financial picture continues to be challenging for many people, but many would be surprised at what a great place it can be for kids.
I should have explained how these are made. They train another neural network[1] to produce an image that most maximizes each class. This acts as a prior that the image must have a very simple and regular structure. And so the results seem to be very simple and even abstract, instead of pixel vomit.

[1] Not technically a neural network, but a CPPN. Which is something like a neural network with many different mathematical functions as activation functions. This allows things like a neuron with a sine wave activation that can repeat a pattern across the image.
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Google Cloud does reserve instances automatically...
I'd been working on this on-again off-again for a while after reading Dan Luu's post on page bloat[1].

I'll provide hosting if anyone wants it. That said, ease of deployment was a major consideration right from the start. That's why I chose golang over Django/Rails and decided to offer SQLite as an option to support quick deployment for internal / low traffic sites.

[1] https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
We love that one! Required reading.

His work on why you, me, everyone on this thread, and every species that's part of the subphylum Vertebrata shaped the course of thinking from contemporary Machine Learning techniques like Q-Learning to us!

Not evil, have done our reading though ;)
Video game addiction is a hard thing to admit. Society also mocks you. For this reason, I've never touched World of Warcraft (WoW). I knew that once I started ... I could easily see myself playing for stretches of eighteen hours a day. YouTube showed a clip about someone who had played about 14,000 hours. Granted, it's his life and he can spend it however he wants ... but jesus, 14k hours?!

I'm not sure what it is - certain personalities are just so easily addicted to video games. I'm one of them, so I try to avoid them as much as possible. I find myself so easily addicted that I'm sometimes worried that I'll fall back into a video gaming binge. Every now and then, I'll mentally trick myself into thinking I have enough willpower to play just "one" game and I'll get the craving out. Nope. It's always six hours later and I'm late for whatever I had planned for the rest of the day. More frequently than not, the next day I'll trick myself again into one "last" game. I'll blow through another six-eight hours that'll feel like minutes. Day 2 is normally when I have enough angst to uninstall and purge the game. I'm older now (29) so I'm better at realizing the mental tricks of the "one" game fallacy, but even this weekend I played six-seven hours straight of Starcraft 2. (The mental justification was I was "thinking" about AI/ML strategies to play SC2, sigh.)

I'm averaging about six-seven months between each relapse, so it's not like I have some absurd problem - but back in college, I could easily spend a week of non-stop playing some forgettable RTS, sleep, drink and then repeat. There's some pang of sadness as I wish I had done something a little more useful, but in hindsight a lot of those failures made me realize how bad video games were to my personality.
A good example of "the devil's in the details" is the decision chart of how Slack decides whether to send a notification for a particular message.

I mean, how complicated could it be, if the user is in the channel and he doesn't have notifications turned off, then send it, it's just a simple nested if statement, right?

But, it turns out that when you map out all of the decision points, it's quite a bit more complicated.

https://twitter.com/mathowie/status/837735473745289218
WE HAVE A FAX!!??!?!
I tried to emoji fistbump you here, but HN won't let me.
So it lightens the load on their servers with less number of tweets.
Google will soon display wait times for restaurants in search and Maps
Interesting that simple optimization ends up with high-frequency noise similar to adversarial attacks on neural nets.

While I agree that the practicality of these visualizations mean that you have to fight against this high-frequency "cheating", I can't help but shake the feeling that what these optimization visualizations are showing us is correct. This is what the neuron responds to, whether you like it or not. Put in another way, the problem doesn't seem to be with the visualization but with the network itself.

Has there been any research in making neural networks that are robust to adversarial examples?
I don't understnad your trains comment.

As for the government never creating wealth, most innovations that came out of government basic research came out of the DoD/partially NASA. Although mostly the DoD. Are you advocating for more defense funding, and then I'd be all behind you.

As for your income inequality chart, it shows exactly what I'm talking about. One of the highest "equality" ratings of the Gini coefficient is the Netherlands, where the Jante law holds sway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante

As I said, those are countries who seem like they're stagnating. Do you really want countries with low outcome equality vs. equality of opportunitity vs countries who actually let you excel and keep the fruits of your labour and skill? Outcome inequality is not a bad thing.

Also note that in your gini chart, most of the countries which are awful have no statistics. Are they equal or just a blank slate that you can project your own feelings on?
> Companies should be

Yes well, but they aren't - so these improvements are at least pragmatic.
Assuming this is being sold to companies other than strictly self-improvement apps, how can you consider this to be an ethical thing to have created?
Which end of that range do you consider "that high?"

Anecdote for anecdote: most of the people I know who are in the 3-5 year experience range are earning closer to $200k/year than $140k. In my bracket (>10 years) it's closer to $250k than $200k for average senior developers (in which bucket I place myself).

Also $40k is not consumed by the difference in rent and taxes. At most about 85%-90% of it is (say, $20k for rent, a generous $15k for taxes).
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Yes. See attached.

https://youtu.be/Qsi08xvhaQ4?t=4m21s
This article reminded me of what Bruce Greenwald said in an interview [0]:

If you look at a company like Deere, making equipment is a small part of what they do. A lot goes into putting it to work and making sure it works. A lot of the company is driven by local software. Because the equipment lasts longer, the secondhand markets are a big deal. Those markets are local. For financing, you need local information so you can know the good risks. Imagine that in Illinois, 90% of the tractors and harvesters and seeders are made by Deere. Who will have the best service? Which second-hand market will be the most dense and therefore easiest to sell? Who will have the best information and financing? Deere. Kubota will have a hard time trying to break into that market. And Deere, even if it temporarily suffers in sales, has a service base that means it’s not going to compete on price.

[0] http://www.barrons.com/articles/bruce-greenwald-channeling-g...
I think the China/US rivalry will guarantee that there will always be at the very least one major rival to Waymo with global ambitions.
With the right client support (collapsed tweetstorms and stats), readers could delve as deeply into a topic as they were interested, and writers could see how far most readers cared to delve. That's seemed like a no-brainer development in Twitter for some time to me. Entire articles could be written and released in such a format.
Symphony Roar V95 Release Date, Full Specifications, Features, Review, and Price
The Symphony brand has announced their new smartphone, which includes a 1.3 gigahertz processor and 1 GB Ram. Besides, it has 5MP rear and front camera. This low priced phone has responded a lot.
Although it may not be a roaring success, I believe FaceTime is at least fairly successful. It also works really well in my experience, and on the desktop is far more efficient for 1-1 calls than Hangouts in the browser which spins up my MBP's fans.
Paul (author on that piece) is wonderful!

Not so much remorseless, we were just shooting for contrarian and attention grabbing...And here we are....knee deep in front page of HN hate mail...
Initially, I thought of adding no style at all, like this blog[1]. But, without a max-width, I found it hard to read. I'd love to hear your suggestions. What content do you think should be put to reduce the whitespace?

[1] https://danluu.com/web-bloat/
Apple working on a solution to its infuriating letter ‘i’ bug
If you want a one bedroom apartment in SOMA or Mission you pretty much have to pay more than 3k. A lot of people are saving costs by staying in larger "mansions" and splitting the rent, but 3k+ is absolutely standard and I know many people paying that.
> self driving cars will make traffic worse, not better.

I definitely see your logic towards higher density with things like 'office cars' so people do more travel. Or sleeping cars but that would be outside typical peak hours. But would self driving increase volume that much? Possibly if people stopped getting trains/busses but this should be remain cheaper and faster via priority lanes most cities have.

Also in general;

Freeways; most traffic jams are caused from someone breaking and then the next person breaks a bit more and so on creating a jam. With self driving car the computers will be able to talk and do a 'everyone accelerate on this mark' and get the flow happening even on very crowded roads. And ideally accident reduction that often creates traffic jams.

Cities: Algorithms will start making little efficiency improvement to driving. All the little things like removing unnecessary lane changing. People double parking to drop something off. And like those futuristic car intersection scenes where cars dont stop at lights but all go through an intersection from every direction reducing traffic back-ups.

We will need to make rules to adapt and keep the flow, e.g. stop people have cars driving around the block rather than parking. Ensure we have 'road neutrality' so the wealthy dont pay a premium for faster trips where other cars in the fleet move aside and slow everyone else type deal.

Anyway, I dont profess to know the answer. Its all a guess! I do suspect the benefits will outweigh additional trips people might take. Besides, who knows, maybe by then we'll have the 'Boring company' or equivalent making private roads so only the plebs use public roads anyway....
Discourse uses too much memory on the client and crashes the browser.

As you said, someone shouldn't need latest gen hardware to use the WWW. I personally don't have a lot of control in what the predominate platforms are on the internet, but I have remarked to myself in my bunker that Discourse is a first world echo chamber because no-one else can run it.

Look at hacker news. It isn't pretty and it has lots of glaring usability problems that are trivial to fix, but it could literally run with Firefox 1.0 on a P3-500 just fine.
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Do you have any data to back up that claim?
"Fuck you forever for breaking e-mail for everyone in the world."

Did, uh, anyone else understand that bit?
To build a mass air fleet you need a lot of resources and a lot of time. A skilled opponent will try to deny your resources or simply attack you earlier.
Yes, you can certainly be conservative by ignoring the requirements of the project and throwing away features. It will be a complete failure, because it doesn't do what it is supposed to, but it won't have any dependencies.

I will stop instrumenting my projects because its not needed, no matter what operations says about our SLAs, and my gRPC endpoint will stop talking gRPC because its not needed, and it will be more reliable because clients can no longer talk to it by the expected protocol, and I'll ignore the usability requirements of the CLI and configuration management because specification documents and usability requirements be damned, and I'll implement by own helpers for the database code because NIH syndrome is fantastic, and I'm sure my employer will be happy for me to reinvent the wheel. Except I probably won't have an employer any more, because I seem to have stopped delivering the software they tasked me to.
So, if you would love to clear up the misconceptions, actually answer all of the questions you listed? The only one you answered is about discounts for your product.
That TLS anecdote is pretty fascinating. Middleboxes are holding so much back on the internet. I wish the IETF didn't use such euphemisms as "middlebox robustness"!

I hope HN'ers push back against middleboxes at workplaces.
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