skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can follow your analogy, but it doesn't quite add up.

The researchers took a group of people and submitted each of them to an "extensive neuropsychologist test battery".

That's not just testing 20 different slot machines, that's testing 20 different designs of slot machines.

(Also, each person does each test on their own, which is the equivalent of having them not only play twenty different models, but a unique production per person unit per model)

In that light, the claim that all slot machines have a high pay-out chance is obviously suspicious, but would coming back and saying "these five designs have a higher than chance level of winning!" be an incorrect conclusion?

If each slot machine types is unique, no. But if one slot machine design is known to have a flaw, and if it shares this flaw with another design, and if that other design does not show the same increased performance, then things get really suspicious.

So the question becomes: do we know how strongly correlated the results of these tests typically are? If that is a lot (which I would expect to be true with at least some of these tests), the absence of the other tests is suspicious. If it is low, it might be less of an issue.
There are plenty of animals with exposed teeth. Warthogs, alligators, narwhals, bumpheads, and more. I do agree with your premise that they are over-represented in dino art however.
People should learn to not be anxious of having no connectivity. Self-reliance used to be a thing, and while its inconvenient when you don't have connectivity, it should not cause anxiety.
I experienced the Yondr phone prison last night for the first time (at a Chris Rock show). While I detest people being disruptive with their phones, I don’t think this is the right solution.

From a practical standpoint, it took a lot longer to get into and out of the venue when phones had to be locked up. Checking your phone when you pop out to the toilet meant waiting in a queue to have your phone unlocked, and being kept in a small penned off area. There have been a number of times when I’ve been split up from friends at large venues - not being able to text each other to meet up is inconvenient.

It doesn’t work. Unless stewards are doing a thorough search (which would be offputting in itself), people will manage to bring phones in. They did last night. Mine got locked up, my fiancées didn’t.

In the event of an emergency, this is a really bad idea. At the extreme end, you’ve got things like the Manchester bombing, where access to a phone would be a useful thing. But more likely it’s a fire alarm and subsequent evacuation, where you end up separated from your group. The venue last night (the SSE Hydro in Glasgow) said that in the event of an evacuation you should not attempt to have your phone unlocked but should leave immediately - sensible but if phones weren’t locked up, it wouldn’t even be a concern.

I think the solution is to simply enforce a strict “no phones during the performance” policy. Treat people like adults. If they break the rules, ask them to leave. Last night we were sitting in front of a very drunken, obnoxious heckler. After several people complained, she was asked to leave. This is how many venues handle it.

Interestingly, all of the venue stewards last night were wearing Yondr hi vis vests. They seem to be on a major marketing push. I really hope it doesn’t become commonplace.

The venue seemed to want to distance themselves from the decision, making announcements along the lines of “At Chris Rock’s request, phones will not be allowed at tonight’s show and will be locked in Yondr cases and given back you you. Consequently, Apple Pay will not be available tonight.”
This is amazing! I have been following robinhood for years, can’t wait to move my bitcoin away from coinbase
Outgoing: a huge advertising campaign helps.

Incoming: talk to a LOT of people. There needs to be people at companies who do nothing but just listen to what people outside of the company's bubble are saying.
Yes, just like Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
> I have not heard of any cases of SQLite failure in phone, or anyone needing a DB admin to recover their phone contact data.

For a long time (until API level 11), Android automatically silently deleted corrupted SQLite databases. https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/12388#33896 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7764943

I learned the hard way to limit SMS storage and install Jan Berkel's SMS Backup+ https://github.com/jberkel/sms-backup-plus/#readme after losing my first Android SMS database (this may or may not have been SQLite's fault).

https://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html#_bugs_in_sqlite
Wow, that's a pretty neat approach. I have a bunch of questions, if you don't mind..

Do you do filesystem replication or something else for HA? Is this running in one of the cloud cloud IaaS providers or something else?

Why did you go with this approach? Eg: Was it a deliberate decision after evaluating other options, a "this is what we know" type situation, or did it grow organically from something smaller?

How long has it been running? Whats the rough size of data you have (GB/TB, number of servers, number of DB instances)? Any reliability problems?

If you were building this service from scratch, would you do it this way again?
Nice TRON-esque theme. TRON as in the classic arcade game/movie not the TRON crypto currency.
Yup. The only Google product that I've found hard to replace as someone who frequently needs to semi-coherently communicate in a foreign language is Google Translate. Google Translate still is far from perfect, but it's a decent enough check on my spelling and grammar, but it's lightyears ahead of any competition I've found so far.
Food delivery is hitting the world like a cat-5 hurricane. You can’t watch a network football game without seeing commercials about it. It is an exponentially-growing new industry built atop ride-hailing infrastructure, which itself only emerged a few years ago. The driver network can pick up food from literally anywhere and deliver it anywhere within a city-sized radius.

When Steve Yegge just moved to Google, his final posts were about encouraging his readers to work on Big Things like the cure for cancer instead of cat videos. And now his Big Thing is food delivery?
Still just an idea; not ever been tried apparently.
“Look at me I am old but I’m happy”

https://youtu.be/yJDHkjXBtcU
Building Supervised Models for User Verification
Hi, the link you posted seems broken. Also just wanted to clarify that TimescaleDB is in fact a relational database, being built as a PostgreSQL extension. Looking at the nature of time-series workloads (namely appending data about recent events) we can architect the database differently for time-series workloads and applications powered by time-series data; scaling insert rates and storage capacity, increasing query performance and simplifying operations, while retaining full-SQL and the reliability of Postgres.
I'd put money on their backend being something such as CoinBase...
Simpler than a log file? What's the significant advantage of SQLite vs just appending to a file?
The pouch thing also just seems as if it would have a lot of overhead getting in and out.

I don't really go to this type of concert so I don't know, but if people are asked to silence their phones and put them in their pocket for something like this, do many of them just ignore that? It's not really a problem at live theater, classical music concerts, etc. but obviously the audience and atmosphere differs a lot.
This is especially important if you are also dealing with metadata that you don't want to always denormalize into your time-series tables. If you don't insert it transactionally, you can also lose referential integrity between your time-series and relational (metadata) tables.
I think that people will almost certainly treat it as something different than hitchhiking, and Google wants them to. In fact, the service depends on it, because if people treated it the same, it would happen at the same frequency as it happens today -- which is hardly at all -- and the service will fail.
>> the marginal cost of adding another passenger to an already happening trip

As minor as it is, going to pick someone else up and take them with me is pretty big inconvenience, especially in time.
Unimatrix:  the matrix in your terminal
> humans don't much look like dolphins

Some do. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/COqRV5bUwAAwSkp.jpg:large
There's better data in here [1], page 9, with projections. My conclusion is unchanged. Global warming doesn't care what the energy was used for so it's important to consider the entire energy usage portfolio of the world in these discussions. We gots to decarbonize and we are not on track.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/0383(2017).pdf

Growing plants from sunlight is indeed a large energy flow. However it's not dominant in our emissions to the atmosphere which are changing the climate. 70% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions are non-plant energy-related. Fact is, we use a lot of non-plant energy too because it's very dense energy and that allows us to do things like drive cars, fly airplanes, and heat homes without destroying the environment. Back when everyone was using renewable plant biomass for heat (i.e. firewood) air quality was getting bad and forests were getting destroyed. It's a very good thing we switched to coal when we did, for the forests' sake, but now we need to totally decarbonize. This means intermittent renewables, hydro, and nuclear.

BTW this book [2] has all the info you could ever dream of about world energy usage.

[2] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/energy-and-civilization
There's also the general stigma against, e.g., stealing from a coworker, or vomiting in a coworker's car, or being a shitty driver.
Layers of patterns.

The whole point of programming is to take something complex and break it down into simple arithmetics and logic that a computer can digest.

So you build simple, isolated expressions that do one slightly more complex thing using slightly less complex things, then use these expressions to build slightly more complex things, and so on recursively, all the way up to having a "do the thing" button in an app.

Having these isolated, modular, layers of testable implementations is what makes code that can survive the test of time.
I’m not sure we read the same article. I didn’t hear the author claim anybody should be traveling, including her. I read it as traveling ruins the things that you’re traveling to see, and that everyone should focus more effort on staying put. I didn’t catch any exceptions to those statements.
Do note, with PACER, making a search counts as a page. So does clicking on the second page of results - another page. So does clicking the print button. Another page.
sharing messages, posts and comments with close friends and reminiscing about past interactions

But that’s a false dilemma. Those aren’t the ONLY two things you can do on FB. And you don’t need FB for your “close” friends, you can do that it person, via email, FaceTime, whatever.
From the historical perspective of great dynasties of civilized societies, central government is basically a byproduct of power struggle. One powerful group wants to impose their power on everyone else, or perhaps the whole society wants to impose the collective will on everyone else, so they create a central government. When that doesn't happen, you get nations which are tied together by common bonds, but they decide matters by convening councils and mutual agreement and compromise, and don't attempt to force their will. But all are usually happy to force their will on other nations.

Generally speaking, cultures that have strict observances of Gods that require things of their peoples are a lot more into imposing their will on others. Every society collectively agrees to buy into the way that society works, because the implicit threat is that if you don't buy into it, your neighbor will kill you.
> You are pushing the argument a bit by assuming that people will treat it as something different than hitchhiking simply because it's via an app and in-city.

Are you suggesting that Google will market this as "it's just like hitchhiking, and is no different, don't @ me"?
If you have any branding ideas for "stealing from the poor" that will get those poor to use it, I'm all ears.
What is the benefits of timescaledb or influxdb? surely the enterprise pricing is going to be similar to KDB which has been around for years and a very mature product
I'm quite happy with algolia. Can you elaborate more?
The Artist Questioning Authorship
What I think he is trying to say with the cartoon is that you should start with a "walking skeleton". Do up just enough UI, middle layer and back end to get the data going back and forth. Then start adding features, refactoring and re-architecting from there.
SQLite was built as a solution to the question "How do we put a SQL database on a nuclear submarine stealthily moving away from base for months at a time in secret, without putting a DBA in there with it?"

It can go wrong, it does go wrong, but it's a pretty solid solution, especially if you're not needing insane concurrency throughput.

The problem is many people need concurrency. They're running web apps over multiple servers. It's there where SQLite is a problem.
I think the idea for the original product (I.e. non cypto) is that it's target the "little guy" with no commission on trades. So people feel like they're taking from the rich institutional investors.
Maybe cities should start running a "luxury service" tier along the bus lines that charges 3x the fare, has cushioned seats, etc. Need a smart phone to request a stop. Make it once an hour or so and a sleek black and silver exclusive color. Don't even call it a bus, rebrand it as the stress-free shuttle and get a few celebrities to be "spotted" on them.

You may laugh but this would probably be a hit.
The power is only relevant when you fail to detect an effect.

This is absolutely false. Small, low-powered studies are more likely to produce false results than larger studies. This was well-documented by John Ioannidis over ten years ago, in work that should be required reading for all publishing scientists:

http://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jou...
DRY as a concept needs to have better bounding. I think it's counter productive in many instances. (Albeit highly useful in others.)

I've observed discussions with people citing it becomes particularly pathological when DRY is employed by Enterprise Architects. From my experience I tend to agree with that statement. I think RFC's (SHOULD, MUST, NOT, etc) with a reference implementation are a much better approach. If you want to move quickly use the reference. If it doesn't fit your use-case for whatever reason, document why you're branching out and get on with it. Obviously this approach poses an issue where documentation diverges from reality but ideally writing it down first will help clarify the objectives. Ideally the ABI/API for anything that's shared wouldn't be changing that much so maintaining the document shouldn't be too erroneous. If it is it might be an indicator to encourage duplication.

Pieter Hintjens RFC's for ZeroMQ is a great example of what I mean;

https://rfc.zeromq.org/

The GraphQL spec is pretty good too;

http://facebook.github.io/graphql/October2016/

Yes all of these things take time to write up but if you're going to constrain someone by saying "use this and under no condition nothing else" then it should be well documented.
Contrast this with: "Why I joined Google"

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=why%20i%20joined%20google&sort...
I didn't even know that was a distinction that now had to be made.
Shoe Dog Shoe - Phil Knight and Pitch Anything - Oren Klaff.
Once you develop a habit of doing something, it can be tough to drop the habit without something to interrupt your thought process.

For instance, I noticed myself picking up my phone and browsing certain websites (dopamine sources) whenever my thoughts wandered into a topic I find distressing -- instead of confronting those thoughts and thinking them through. For me, Facebook happens not to be addictive, but other sites are (for instance, Quora). I was wasting hours on those sites instead of doing productive things.

Setting up a content blocker to make me think twice before visiting them has helped. So has adding an app that I can set to block using my phone for a given period of time, forcing me to put it down and do other things.
Yes, one needs a reason for leaving a company. But at the same time, one leaves a company or a religion or a relationship for a reason. The argument and reasoning necessitate the departure; they're not developed post hoc.

Of course, additional supporting reasons become clear as one looks for and finds the door, and the understanding for why a person or institution is wrong for you evolves as you separate.

I'd be interested in hearing more about how that understanding/perspective changes over time.
Does anyone know what happens in the event that a brokerage like robinhood fails? Are the assets insured by a federal agency or is it wiser to switch my portfolio to another broker?
Wasn't there a crypto robinhood called cobinhood already?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16119362
Probably more expensive and less strong
I'm probably wrong about this, or, let's say, understand it incompletely (though I think the same point was addressed in the article in the part in which the therapist relates the need to understand the world to the formation of the ego), but a relevant insight might be that you interrupt the process by trying to understand. Like, at all. That part of the problem is your mind compulsively mapping things out, and then obsessing over its own map, rather than the territory.
Found that really interesting, too. Hopefully he'll talk about it at some point.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2811818

What a difference 2374 days makes. Really, though, Steve can go work for whoever he wants to, as long as he keeps blogging.
If anyone is interested, my company is working on an investment advisor for cryptocurrencies (and stocks):

https://projectpiglet.com/

It works very well for short-term trading on cryptocurrencies, still waiting to release the longer term strategy (buy and hold is honestly a great choice). We've just started revewing some of the results (since we launched last week), and we're already up stagaring amounts:

https://blog.projectpiglet.com/2018/01/30-weekly-returns-usi...

Not to say it'll always be that way...
Is there a UK equivalent for Robinhood? Would be extremely keen to give it a go.
Peano Axioms
Working on projects that never release must be frustrating.
We're talking about going to a gig here: there are many ways that people "enjoy the experience" which might detract from the experience of others: talking, singing badly, moving around too much, jumping up and spilling beer everywhere. If you try to eliminate all behaviour that might adversely affect others, we'll all end up strapped into a seat — no-one really wants that.
Maybe it'd be reasonable if the show actually started at the posted time, rather than first spending multiple hours on horrible-to-mediocre opening acts and breaks.

If people are openly bored at your shows then it's probably time to reevaluate how you're running things, rather than getting into shouting matches on Twitter.
For me in South Africa:

- Waze is a bit more dynamic/aggressive in finding me alternatives when traffic patterns can change due to accidents
- "speed trap reported ahead"
- the "turn left" direction is better timed than Google, Google will tell you to turn while your turn's still a bit far off, sometimes you'd turn into the street before.
- loyalty, Waze was great before Google bought it and used its reports and traffic data, and it's still great even now.

I agree with your Kleenex sentiment, quite a number of people who know their way home, still use Waze for the alerts and reports.
Buy incrementally, hold. If all markets are tanking, cash to USD, wait for the blood bath to be over. Otherwise you are gambling.

Accessible crypto is going to be a disaster simply because of unregulated markets. My friends get shakey when they lose $100 in the market, this is going to be "Weak Hands: The App". Or "Taking Candy From A Baby: The App".

I had to lose ~$200k over the course of a couple months and only after then I started really getting into the swing of things and started making good money while also making it back. It took all that to realize that if I didn't day trade my yields would have been much much higher. Day trading is hard, don't do it unless you really truly know what you're doing. Reading crap about market psychology and fractals and fibonacci this and wave theory that is all trash and does not make you a trader.

Here come the 'I lost my life savings' rants by people with weak hands. Regular people + unregulated market = blood bath.
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Right but there's a mirror image problem, which is that you're working on Y, people need Y, your team is resourced for Y. So if you go off and do X, then why are they paying you to do Y? Let's cut the headcount on Y, and invest in the team working on X.

When the opportunity for more resources is on the table for X, no one is available to work on X. When they're looking to cut head count, everyone is working on X. Where X is some poorly defined but essential feature.
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Very true. I was amazed at the lack of undeveloped land in western Europe, being from the Midwestern USA where most of the land is open.
Apple is just a different walled garden, albiet one with better privacy tools.
Mastodon as a social network makes me happy because it brings to mind the prior glory of Leviathan and Blood Mountain.

...

And then I remember why I stopped using social networks (besides github) years ago.
You are focusing on the loud minority and ignoring the silent majority.
Thanks for this term, this is the model I'm using for a Vodcast for the past month or so... POSSE to RasPi for recording and syndication, serve edge-cache optimized segmented video content from CDN, RTMP to all the other networks. I'm mostly doing it to show that if it can be done for a Vodcast from a RasPi, it can be done for anything and inspire my artist friends (and have a platform for my creations as artist0 :). POSSE all the things.
This is a pretty good idea. Dave Chappelle does it before all of his comedy shows. But I'm not going to be part of some sort of rally against phones. The guy on his phone not talking to the person sitting next to him is just the new guy with his head in a newspaper.
I hadn't fully realized this, but I think you nailed it. I stopped using Facebook regularly well over 5 years ago, and the only reason I have an account is because many people in my neighborhood are on a Facebook Messenger thread together (kind of an informal thing).

When I did use Facebook daily, it was for all the reasons you mention. If I ever log onto the site now I'm immediately driven away, it's just a bunch of advertising and nothing I care to see.
He's talking about people recording the gig on their phone, not playing angry birds.
The Doomsday Clock just ticked closer to midnight
Yup. Combined with this, the "single level of abstraction" principle can make for much more readable and maintainable code.
Cash4Gold?
We here in Germany - and according to Wikipedia most countries in continental Europe - use the long scale. But when I switch to English I also switch to the short scale, I can not remember to have ever encountered the long scale in English in the wild.
If they are too big to effectively function or counter threats then how did they get that big in the first place?

Clearly size has benefits that compensate for some of the undeniable downsides. It's almost a tautology.

Also, look at the great organisational and cultural variety among big companies. Size is not the only thing that defines organisational complexity and effectiveness.
Considering the U.S. government was just shutdown over a purge of immigrants I'm not sure what more proof you need.