skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean the sum over all blocks of block reward times bitcoin price at time of mining?
“The Case for Learned Index Structures”: Data Storage and Retrieval as an ML Task
> Fair enough, but that's not what you were saying.

Then tell me, what was I saying?

>> I see very little connection, and I've seen list comprehensions in several different languages.

And then...

> So, your problem is [...] not the list comprehension proposal as such?

...you should get off your high horse. Your juggling with math terminology
earlier is not impressive. I know you wanted to sound smart, but you overdid
it and got smartass instead.
Based on the paper, I think there is sufficient evidence for "mice who have increases in sEH expression in Müller glia cells" to consider they stop taking Omega3. As I understand it, that's some sort of genetic condition?

This paper is not very clear for the layman and even if it was, it's very common to find completely contradicting results for similar studies in the biological sciences. Biology is not easy!

Anecdotally, there is a fair amount of papers related to Lutein being beneficial to T1DM and retinopathy but the best I could get out of my endocrinologist was "it doesn't look like it will do harm and could help, so go ahead".

The best I could say is to further investigate sEH in humans (which I will be doing also), speak with your doctor and make the best informed decision you can for yourself. Don't forget that you're not a mouse.

My primary questions will be 1) how does soluble Epoxide Hydrolase relate to T1DM? and 2) what is the likeliness that either T1DM patients in general (or me specifically) may have elevated sEM expression?
Why should they? I don't walk around "justifying" my lifestyle choices to people who make less than I do.
Off topic, but did they really have 16,251 builds of windows.

Is that low, high or normal(expected)?
Don't do this if you want it to stick around.
They emailed my Comcast.net address, which I didn't even know I had.
Wikipedia is entirely free, and asks for donations to cover its costs. It does not lock any features to paying users only. There is a world of a difference. For this to be the case, on a website made by user contributions no less, is even more upsetting.

And yes, I prefer an unreservedly free website with banners reminding you to donate to a website that makes money off locking certain features to paying costumers only.
Rats can gnaw through standard concrete? No wonder they ended up everywhere on Earth. I would love to see some video of rats chewing holes through concrete walls. A quick search on youtube did not turn up any live rats chewing concrete.
Oh: Silicon Proven Verilog Library for IC and FPGA Designers
Rogers and Cogeco both do this in Canada, as far as I remember.
By making use of tasking libraries that took ideas from Erlang, and async/await patterns
> Thus anyone claiming an objective basis for a problem in society is taking a simplistic view. And that’s my issue with saying technology is causing progress.

The author seems to create a false dichotomy between solving “wicked problems” according to a pure engineering approach and the alternative, which is not articulated.

Yes, there is probably not an engineering solution analogous to building a bridge to issues such as poverty. There is, however, a boatload of research about various facets of the problem that will inform a good solution. A good leader will become apprised of this research and use it to support a position that they advocate for. The ultimate position will of course be motivated by values, culture, etc but if it ignores evidence - gathered by science - or execution - informed by engineering, then it’s not a good solution.
#1 flows from the strange rationalization that regardless of anything else in life, studying humanities for four years in college turns one into a great abstract thinker....while studying engineering for four years permanently transforms you into a robot

amazing that people still believe that an undergrad education either turns you into Napoleon or R2D2
As a big ISP that stands to profit from the current FCC standpoint, Comcast is in the crosshairs of the internet community.

But if what has been said by all parties is true, I can't find significant fault with Comcast.

Here is the text of the "ad" (typed from viewing the attached image in the OP):

Get ready, we're increasing Internet speeds in your area.

Our records show that the modem you currently have connected to our network won't be able to handle these faster speeds, so we recommend updating your equipment.

<b>Buy from a Retailer</b>

Before you make your purchase, visit https://mydeviceinfo.xfinity.com to view a list of modems certified to work on our network with your speed tier.

<b>Lease and XFINITY Modem</b>

Call 1-855-242-2876 and we will send you a Self Install Kit

<b>Equipment Update</b>

Seems appropriate and to the point. They tell the customer they can either go buy a modem from a retail store, or lease one from XFINITY. Hardly a high-pressure ad.

Injecting anything into a website makes me feel a bit dirty, but nobody has refuted Comcast's claim that other communication methods were tried first and that this was more of a last resort.

Speaking in general terms because I'm not involved deeply with DOCSIS, older devices are less efficient and generally use more spectrum(even in a cable, there are RF spectrum limitations) to deliver the same speeds. Customers using old devices that don't support the newer and faster standards reduce the total bandwidth available to all customers, increasing costs for both Comcast and its customers.

edit: fix formatting. HN needs a preview button.
> You can easily get more bandwidth though, it's not that it is somehow forbidden. You just don't want to pay for it.

Exactly, I'd like my viewers to pay for it. There are limits to my generosity, after all.
Yandex did. Russia’s version of google. If you YouTube search “yandex postgresql” you will find them giving a talk about the wins for them in switching.
This clickbait headline is leaning on a study behind a paywall so we can't argue the actual points or data. Don't bother
People in the marketing business would say when someone attends a Foo Fighters concert, or buys a Foo Fighters tee, or posts about them on social media, that they are "engaging with the Foo Fighters brand"

They imagine the same thing could be achieved by brands selling computer chips, tampons, washing machines, cars, and so on.

Personally, I doubt the words "brand engagement" have ever passed Dave Grohl's lips - but I can kinda understand where they're coming from.
normal, modern dev with automated builds and git creates a build every time you commit (or every push), and you can commit for a missing comma so ... with 10 or more people working on it on a daily basis it can go up very fast
It's really easy to replace systemd with sysvinit on Debian: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14581820

All my Debian systems run sysvinit, and they work great - certainly better than the one system I co-administer which runs systemd.

I frankly do not understand why Devuan exists.
> Their volume is low enough that the support costs are minimal, even if many of them malfunction or fail. Toshiba in particular is notorious for this.

Toshiba isn't what I see in enterprise environments... there I see HP and Dell, but especially Lenovo/Thinkpad.

> It is absolutely not profitable for them to divert attention to low volume products. The opportunity cost lost is enormous.

I agree with you on the general point. The problem and danger for Apple is: their initial success and brand was built by artists (no matter if photo, video or audio) and designers where the performance of Apple equipment pretty much left Windows based systems dead in the water. When these professionals jump ship to Windows, the appeal of Apple as "hip" and "modern" gets lost.

Apple does not have much time left to prevent this - people doing heavy loads like 4K or 8K video work are already jumping ship left and right where possible (of course, anecdata rather than scientifically valid data, but the trend is alarming) because Apple equipment fails to deal with the requirements on every front... especially as more and more video production shifts to 4K.
Ya, I believe CA is in a worst position than US (in terms of a competitive market).
There's certainly a social incentive to choose highbrow books, but saying that people can't enjoy those is weird. Besides, what would be the point of recommending trashy pulp? They're entertaining, but there's plenty of them, no need to recommend. And generally I can't even remember the titles a week after reading them - easily read, easily forgotten.
The Numbers of Women in Tech Rise and Fall, but Sexual Harassment Is Ever Present
Woah, no shit??

(One google later...)

Daaaaaamn. Makes sense, but seeing it called out is very striking.
Just released a new app to teach people how to solve cryptic crosswords - initial version is on iOS but the Android version is coming soon.
blue tooth physical keyboard on ipad: caps lock kills controls.

please update to ignore case in controls.

also bug, BT KB kills any touch control on an ipad... plus it hangs on a certain direction and contrl dies very fast...

way too buggy to even play on an ipad with a BT KB
The basic assumption is independence, so I'm not even considering centralised hosting by Amazon or Alphabet.

I am also assuming that if someone cares at all about seeding something, they will make sure it's not down too often.
Cryptobank for Cryptopeople: a new banking paradigm
Why is the problem with Subversion?
> problems with many interacitng parts where there is no predefined objectively right or wrong solution

This actually defines most problems engineers solve. Well, at least the "predefined right solution" part. If you really already have a predefined, correct solution to your problem, do you really need an engineer to solve it?

Most engineering solutions come in the form of making acceptable trade offs. While there almost certainly exist "wrong" solutions (risking human life for little to no benefit would be an unnaceptable tradeoff and a wrong solution), the pool of acceptable (and therefore correct, in a sense) solutions is most often at the very least greater than unity.
Thanks! That was really informative and helpful.
When you run code on a website you don’t own you have to be extremely careful. You’ll learn this quick building WordPress themes and plugins. They’re pretty careful not to directly affect the website by running their JavaScript in a scoped context and using IDs in the CSS selectors, but there is nothing to prevent the website front modifying their pop up. For example if my website had the .closebn class with display: none !important, a visitor would not be able to close the pop up. That’s a pretty common class name. To prevent this you should use dynamically generated class names that get swapped out at build time, or in this case even inline styles. Something like the close button of an injected pop up is pretty critical and inline styles would guarantee that it wouldn’t be messed with.

(I haven’t tested any of this, this is based on a quick glance at the code)
ah, yeah that makes sense - I was thinking of “releases” not so much “builds” and thats why it looked weird to me...
OP is conflating "method" and "mindset".

The engineer is a methodical thinker and tinkerer. I would think in fact engineers would make excellent central committee material. :)

"Salesmen" as leaders. Well, let's see how that turns out. MAGA or GAGA, tbd ..
You are fine. One of my co worker's kids was licked in kindergarden by another kid. Nobody made a big deal out of it.
This thread is incredible to be. I think it really is an HN/SV bubble, but people really can't stop comparing and equating moral failures and business success.

Moral failures (which Uber has shown time and time again) should not be compared to whether or not their business is useful to you. Business failures should be compared to business success, and moral bad should be compared with moral good. Uber has shown little to zero moral good. Not treating their employees who drive for them like crap would be a good place to start. Or their customers when raped would be another.

Lyft also provides huge business value in the exact same industry but without all the immoral baggage (as far as I've seen).

But this view on HN hat business value somehow replaces moral value mind boggling.
Don't invest in either bitcoin or stocks.

If you don't have a emergency savings account I fully agree with itamarst below and invest in a emergency savings account.

If you already have a emergency savings account I personally would use it to either:

1) Invest in myself (e.g. materials for self study, like a Pluralsight account)

2) Invest in goods which improve my quality of life (e.g. a new development box, kitchen peripherals, whatever), or:

3) Invest in bricks (e.g. my house)
Especially as financial motivation is not the only reason for pulling that off. Currently majority of the miners are based in China. What happens if state orders them to approve a transaction of their choosing?

EDIT: I am not saying this is a probable threat, but there are some risks associated with Bitcoin.
Problem: It's been shown time and again that this doesn't work.
(For all but the lowest simple, mechanical, repetitive tasks.)

http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1999-01567-001
So.. Calypso?

https://github.com/Syniurge/Calypso

And plenty of C++ code actually already works in the mainline branch.

You'd be hard pressed to find other languages that are as developed as D and support C and C++ so natively. C is 100%, and support for C++ is definitely growing every year.
Storing billions of lines of code in Git on a laptop
So no VAT on cryptocurrency-service, cryptocurrency-cryptocurrency transactions, but yes VAT on cryptocurrency-goods. And standard rules on capital gains, income tax, corporate tax if you treat your bitcoin as an asset with a liquid price. ie you pay income tax whether you are paid in money or assets of equivalent worth. You pay cap gains on annual asset appreciation.
so I am either a lifelong academic physicist or I am an idiot?

Who takes out your garbage?
It's most likely Comcast's own fault the other messages were ignored. They pollute every communication channel with marketing spam.

The Boy who Cried Wolf didn't have man-in-the-middle technology available but the lesson remains the same: if you want to be heard, shut the fuck up until you've got something to say.
I recall having this occur a while back. I do not recall receiving any email to my actual email address (maybe they used the comcast one?) nor my physical address, nor seeing any notification in the billing portal.
glibc's actually pretty bad, and many people prefer alternatives such as musl. Ideally, it would be easier to use an alternative libc. Wherever possible we should encourage modularization and standards-compliance, not lock-in, so that the best implementation can rise to the top.

So yes, the same centralization/reducing-choices arguments apply to glibc.
While I agree with the gist of your comment (and would add that I think HFT is great for the economy as it boosts the liquidity of capital markets), some HFT trading does involve front-running in the sense that financial institutions invest in infrastructure to reduce latency for their HFT traders in order to trade on information not widely available to the public
Apple isn't that alarmed by it. The artists have been leaving for a long time. Creative Cloud and Office 365 were the final nail. Apple is still selling increasing numbers of laptops every year. Apple hardware has lagged for those kinds of workloads for like 6 years.

The only video production houses I know still using Apple only buy it because the people in charge of purchasing either are 10 years out of date or they want their clients to see all the slick, expensive hardware they have around the office as a truth signal.

The market has proved that Apple doesn't have to care.
No, no Lloyd Blankfein, you have not read this to completion yet while simultaneously running a huge bank, sorry. No one with ANY day job is going to have that book finished any time soon, let alone a Fortune 100 CEO.

Why? Reading 1000 pages takes what, 12 hours, if you're not particularly fast. If you just read for 30m a day, that's less than a month. What's so unbelievable about that?
counter example: the world economy, most of which is still kept running with the threat of repercussions
Yeah the displays and touch panels are also sometimes inferior. That’s a real shame about your phone sorry.
I think it actually has to be erased, otherwise, some future employer, acquaintance etc, might judge you for something you've moved on from. People do learn and move on from their mistakes, but not when they are continually berated for them because that causes them to be self-defensive and it's my experience that as soon as the defenses go up the ability for self-reflection is lost.

What I mean by balance is that political scandals should definitely not be forgotten, but thoughtless things written by a minor should. I just don't know where the line should be and personally, I think it varies widely by the circumstances.

There is a movement across the globe currently to try to make the internet forget: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten.
I dropped Comcast for a provider that doesn't do this, but given Comcast is a monopoly in many areas, I know this isn't a good option for everyone. But frankly, the only leverage we have over these people is how we spend our money.
No exponential notation?? I don’t see why this change makes it suitable for machine-to-machine communication. This looks like rather for the human readability, not for the machine. It surely removes some branches but I don’t think it will much improve decoding performance. At least this has to provide convincing reason to use it over JSON e.g. performance comparison.
I'm annoyed by this on several levels. The biggest issue is that I'm using an Arris SB 6121 and I'm getting notifications that my modem is EOL. However, the SB6121 is listed as a supported modem for my speed level on their supported modems page.

If I go to their supported modem page, I literally get a page where my current modem is shown as not supported, and the exact same modem is shown next to it as "supported."

I'm calling Comcast, and if this isn't immediately resolved I'm filing a fraud claim with the Illinois attorney general. This is the third or fourth time I've had a supported modem that Comcast has claimed isn't supported, and I'm sick of jumping through hoops getting this resolved.

Every time this happens their customer service reps tell me that the only way to avoid this is to use one of their modems. I'm sick of this. What a terrible company. Fix your shit before you start injecting garbage into the websites I visit.

edit: Proof https://imgur.com/lzKBkMs
Sorry about that, it's fixed now.
Kind of reminds me of SubSpace. I think, it has been a very long time since I've played it.
Thanks for this quote.

It prompted me to do a quick afternoon experiment with how git would handle a billion lines of code:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15892518
Go to a store that specializes in running shoes. The people tend to be fairly knowledgeable.

For example, I overpronate, have high arches, and 2EE feet.

Running shoes are like Cinderella's slippers. No one shoe is perfect for everyone. Nikes tend to be too thin for my feet, and it happens New Balance is one of the few brands that have 2EE running shoes.
PIXI.js for the graphics. Serverside is mostly Node.js.
> I made a previous comment about this being a hard problem[1].

That comment doesn't address the same problem. I'm fully aware that current software makes it virtually impossible to conveniently and securely host stuff ourselves right now. I am also fully aware that a general purpose computer can never be idiot proof.

What I was saying is, we should write special purpose software dedicated to a few chosen forms of hosting (mail, web, some P2P stuff for big files…). The software can be simple, secure, and easy to use. It just doesn't exist for the most part.

Also, one problem at a time. Wikis are great, but we're talking about allowing untrusted write access to the system, which is possibly the hardest problem of all. Let's start by single author publishing and build from there.
It is also plain bad but even more important is lock in that you mention. Bugs can be fixed but wrong philosophy can't.
I mean, maybe it's worth doing anyway, but it's an extra bit of friction. Plus you probably can avoid issues where the binary doesn't decode properly because of version changes, different environment, etc.
Engineers: Know your place and stay within it.

Get those silly little ideas out of your head and back to whatever it is you do. Isn't your boss waiting?
Debian officially supported Upstart until Stretch? That's news to me. Do you have a link?
I can't read the pay-walled WSJ article but it looks like it's related to the recent book by Dr. Marie Hicks. She recent gave a talk at the Computer History Museum, which covers an example very close to what you objected to.

At https://youtu.be/WTLJ7saIV3o?t=2198 you can see the advertisement "This typist can control your invoicing, stock records and sales statistics all at once ... electronically, but not without help from Susie her computer."

Hicks then says that ad copy goes on to describe the types of programming this typist will be doing, "but she's still just a typist, not a programmer."

I therefore believe the proponents argument isn't that they themselves conflate the two, but that (British) computing in the 1960s did the conflation.

As for Adm. Hopper, yes, certainly some women stayed in the field. But then there's pictures like https://youtu.be/WTLJ7saIV3o?t=999 where a woman in her 20s or 30s has a "retirement" party, because she's getting married, so has to leave the workforce - which could be compulsory or coerced.

Then once it was realized that programming was more than a clerical task, women were more and more forced out because it was expected that women were going to leave once they got married.
Safari on iOS is generally buggy. WebGL and WebAudio are very glitchy.

I don't have a BT KB so I didn't test that case. Will do!
It is so odd to me that all of the evangelists seem to come from well-off high-tech backgrounds in countries without any of these problems, yet point to Venezuela and Greece over and over as a justification for using BTC over anything else. Surely the demand for BTC isn't being driven exclusively by people in nations with high inflation, right?

This is especially true given that the large majority of people, would BTC really take over the world, would still hold their money in "banks". If BTC is a "store of value", then it is orthogonal to the banking industry and simply provides another investment vehicle like bonds to defend against keeping all of your wealth in currency.
No.

Unsubmitted changes at Google usually come in one of two flavors, short-lived (abandoned or submitted within a few days) or perpetual. The latter flavor is often for "I think we might want this". It's not uncommon for those to be completely rewritten if they're actually needed. There's usually a preference for submitting useful things (with tests!) and flag gating them to cut down on bitrot.

I have seen exceptions -- I reported a bug in a fiddly bit of epoll-related code and an engineer on my team had a multi-year-old fix -- he hadn't submitted it because he wasn't confident he'd found an actual bug. The final changelist number was more than double the original CL number (unsubmitted changes get re-numbered to fit in sequence when they're submitted -- the original number redirects to the final submitted version in our tooling).
It's not about locking features to paying users only. It's about making new features that have enough value to you that you want to pay to use them.

Take the example from the white paper (paid help from experts), I don't get how you'd feel exploited that way, since it's not even related to contributions.