skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard it being used as an augment for people who have trouble with other treatments, or if they're also looking for synergies with the other effects of it.

A couple of antipsychotics or even more esoteric drug types are used (off-label and otherwise) for antidepressant effects, often at dosages lower than they'd usually be thought to be effective for whatever the primary usage would be. Why does it work? Ask again in 50 years, maybe.

- Seroquel (off-label)

- Adderall/Ritalin for people with drive problems

- Wellbutrin is a smoking addiction aid, antidepressant, and SAD-specific antidepressant (because why not, biochemistry)

- Strattera is nominally an ADHD med but has been using it as an antidepressant off-label for at least 15y (source: I was given it for that, then)

- Abilify is on-label used as an anti-psychotic, anti-depressant augment, and Tourette's med, because again, why not

- Also, one thing a lot of people don't realize is that you don't want to mix a unipolar antidepressant with untreated bipolar, because surprise, side effects may include P(manic episodes) approaching 1, so the options for each of those can sometimes overlap and sometimes not

Biochemistry is really weird, and neurochemistry is one of the densest places for it in the body.
Also, opting out of the ads doesn't opt out of the data collection. The problem is the privacy violation; once they do that, I guess targeted ads are better than untargeted ones. (Or do they mean that they won't share my data with advertisers if I opt out?)
Ask HN: Data store best practices, managing state/comm/config for a set of nodes
I am writing an application where I have a number of physical hosts that each have ~25 servers running. Each server has a user that "owns" it. There might be anywhere from a few to 50 of these physical hosts. I have a centralized web server that exposes a control panel to the owner of a server, allowing a user to configure it or see its status.

I'm unfamiliar with data-base / data-store best practices. I've done a lot of research but am still unsure, so I'd appreciate some advice. I understand focusing too much on this isn't great for productivity, but it's a hobby project.

I need to be able to

- See the status of servers from the web server

- Push configuration changes from the web server

- Do "jobs", like restart a server that might not well expressed as changes to configuration

Ideally, the number of databases or stores I'd use would be limited. So I've been looking at using SQL to store business data, as well as persist data, while using Redis to manage state, communication and config. I could make a Redis message queue to push jobs, and update configuraton by changing a Redis key. Servers could change some keys every second or two to publicly update their status (how much CPU they're using, as an example) so it is visible to the control panel.

However, configuration should ideally persist. Using SQL to store configuration data seems like an anti-pattern. I could persist Redis, but this seems to go against what Redis is generally used for. I also don't have a high volume of data, so it's not like I need something like Redis.

I've also looked at etcd, and while etcd seems like it would be good for persistant distributed configuration, it seems less good for jobs and status. Each server updating keys every second to signal status changes very quickly brushes up against performance limits. Sending jobs using etcd seems like a terrible idea.

I could use all 3, but this seems like stupidity.

Any advice, HN?
> The simple (and inevitable) solution is to break up Facebook.

There was a time when anti monopoly laws were taken seriously. That you are the number one social network should not be used to also become a big player on advertising, selling items, casual games, etc.

Letting companies leverage on a monopoly to gain other markets is dangerous for the economy.
The DMCA and Its Chilling Effects on Research
Facebook and Cambridge Analytica (Bruce Schneier on “surveillance capitalism”)
For the same reason the mouth passes food to the stomach instead of keeping it to itself. The same reason we remove tumors from the human body. The whole organism (or in the case of human populations, superorganism) depends on nourishment flowing through the whole organism, not concentrating in small pockets.
Google Augmented Reality Microscope, no really...
I tried opening a 3M-line (550MB) CSV. It took a couple minutes to get to 1M, and it seems to have an O(n^2) algorithm because it was doing 40k lines/second on my machine and now (after around 1.5M rows) it's doing about 1/10th of that. Memory consumption is at over 2GB for this first half of the file.

It's definitely a nice tool, but it's far from instantaneous loading!
Going to assume OP was being sarcastic here
A quote in the article states: “[there is] absolutely nothing in this consent decree to compensate consumers.”
By having data about you facebook can infer stuff about other people who are on Facebook and serve better ads to them.
I mean, I interviewed with a company last week for a software engineer role. I won't name names, but I was basically told a bit more about what they do, and the idea was "we track customers across shop websites to see what items they prefer, what types of items, how often, color, etc. etc., and build relations between all of these attributes to help surface more of what the customer wants to buy."

And here I was thinking people the past month or so are putting FB at the forefront of the conversation about the use of what should be private data, when there are already companies doing this everywhere on the Internet. Any typical website with a storefront (Macy's, GAP, etc.) track what you buy, when, why, etc.

It's definitely about more than Facebook. I don't blame FB PR for making sure to explain other companies are using your data and basically manipulating you with it.
I think the plain cost of all of these alternative reproduction methods will make sure that the natural method remains the most popular method for a long time.
I've selected one candidate over another for some impression they were marginally more impressive, but the only reason I have ever given a hard no was arrogance.
> 8:15am is pretty darn early for an every day start.

???

That's less than 4 hours before noon....

Most americans[1] are awake by 6:30am. If you sleep past 7:30am you are in the last 1 out of 6.

[1] http://www.edisonresearch.com/wake-me-up-series-2/
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So if he travels to Israel he's a DBA?
>Facebook tracks virtually every website you visit

Is that true though? Many sites have Facebook share buttons that don’t actually load anything from Facebook unless you use them - they use a locally hosted button (I do this on my own sites, and got the idea from seeing it on so many other sites). I don’t see like buttons (which are directly loaded from Facebook) with anywhere near the frequency I once did either. In fact, the like button is only used on 0.5% of the world’s websites [1]. Even the Facebook pixel, a common target of the scorn of privacy advocates, is only in use on ~12% of the top 1 million sites [2].

12% is hardly “virtually every website you visit”. It’s pretty alarmist to say that.

[1] https://trends.builtwith.com/widgets/Facebook-Like-Button

[2] https://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Facebook-Pixel
GCHQ GitHub account
From the post:
"Facebook ads and measurement tools, which enable websites and apps to show ads from Facebook advertisers, to run their own ads on Facebook or elsewhere, and to understand the effectiveness of their ads."
Candidates often turn up in person to the interview with their new manager, but send a double to the aptitude test which is only supervised by HR staff. Because HR often get bonuses based on how many new recruits they bring in, they often skip ID checks and turn a blind eye to anything suspicious they see.
The idea that there isn't a huge amount of business being done in China right is laughable and shows total ignorance on the topic.

The flow of containers from China is a pretty good indicator of the state of the world economy.

Yes it is hard to do business in China, and as a foreign company to sell into their market without a 'partner' (I use the term lightly). How clever of the Chinese to both guarantee themselves a cut and to get a continuous eye in the kitchen of all those Western companies that can't wait to fall over each other to send their precious IP to China where manufacturing takes place.

Open for business doesn't mean you get to dictate the terms, the USA can do that on its own turf and can limit its companies to do business with the Chinese. But the reverse isn't true, the Chinese will try to import as much as they need in order to keep their economy rolling along and in the meantime they will export the added value of one of the largest (and soon one of the most skilled, give it another 20 years or so) labor forces in the world.

To deny these facts is Ostrich politics at its best, the only parties that were really inconvenienced by this act are the domestic companies that see a chunk of their exports evaporate.

The opaque and arbitrary control of the government isn't all that different from the way lots of other places in the world still work. But contrary to most of those other places China is in an excellent position to become a very large economical threat to the United States and Western Europe, if it isn't already past that time.
Only works if you have an account.
And that's why people deride unions. It's a defence mechanism.
Was there an option to be sedated? I wouldn't handle fever and shaking that bad, I'd panic.

Also I don't think I'd be eligible, I have ulcerative colitis which is autoimmune.
> Try asking someone who owns a Mac how to use MS Office when you're on Windows.

Try asking someone who uses native MS Office to use the equivalent web app.
> if you want a cure for cancer, you have to pay scientists to look for it.

We do that. It's a two-tier system where the public pays for the science and the companies fish ideas from the science to make into medicines.

>The fact that it's hard is the reason it's expensive.

No, the reason it is expensive is because we've signalled that we are willing to pay large amounts of money, essentially regardless of the actual benefit extended by the state of the art treatment. Even if the state of the science doesn't have much to offer in the way of a cure, you can count on the private sector to make drugs that push the envelope of what we are willing to pay.

But because the job that the private sector does is not the "rate limiting step" as it were, dumping more cash on them is just wasted money.
If your red or white wine has sugar added, you need to find a better place to shop.

In fact the only wines I know of with added sugar are some types of sparkling wine, that's all.

Which ones were you referring to?
Thank you for this! I'd forgot the name of the talk, and I spent some days looking for it, with no success...
Bitcoin isn't fast enough for a large city, let alone the planet.
Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website
Not True.

As I'm not in the US getting an approved DnB profile turned out to be painful. Even once I got one, apple still did not consider my profile valid (yes, I did wait a few days)

As I was on a dead line and fed up with the whole DnB crap after a couple of weeks I ended up registering the iOS developer license on my personal name instead of my company name.
This is a compelling thought, but the evidence doesn't seem to back it up. What we actually see in the real world seems to be the opposite - people absolutely _will_ pay for things they could get for free so long as it isn't less convenient than not paying.

Given that the act of making a payment is an inconvenience in and of itself, this does suggest it's _harder_ to get people to pay for a service, but the success of things like netflix and spotify is a clear indicator that people really like the "pay a consistent amount of money and get access to whatever" model.
Jmyles, your reasoned and compassionate tone and plea to consider the benefits of blockchain which might effect those less fortunate is right on. How about the thousands of people who have already sent millions of dollars back home to developing nations where they previously had to rely on western union and their exorbitant commission fees. For the unbanked, blockchain provides significant savings in remittance costs. Even with the higher costs of sending bitcoin and ETH, with a little ingenuity, use of lightning, and buying into the book on GDAX, these fees can be significantly reduced to a point much lower then western union. On the opposite side of the spectrum, for the ultra-wealthy, cryptocurrencies offer the ability to place a portion of one's capital in accounts which are not seizable by any means. This is a significant feature of the technology, and coupled with the level of encryption, already represents a small, yet sizable place in the world banking system. It is expected that the many offshore banking havens like Guernsey, Jersey, Isle of Mann, will continue to expand this feature in providing protection for people's assets.
Eh. We should want innovation - to "let a thousand flowers bloom". But when companies start getting so big they are a detriment to society in some way, we should regulate them.

We let train and oil companies do their thing in the late 1800s - which helped society. And when they got too big and damaging in the early 1900s, we regulated them. We're on the same course again, I think.
And unlike facebook, Equifax DOES sell/license your personal data to third parties. I worked somewhere that bought it.
Right now, for me, I think my age. I have interviewed for several development positions these past 3 months and no offers. One of them I had 4 interviews and they still picked someone else. What I am finding is that I am interviewing with a lot of young people, just finishing with college.

I had one job offer where I was told by the CEO that he really wanted to hire someone out of college but if I was willing to work for $29,000 a year he would give me the job.
The single thing that has had the largest impact for me has been simply making a list of things I need to do the next day on the night before. In the morning, often the hardest thing to do is just to get going. Having a ready made list takes out a lot of the factors that lead me to procrastinate.
Cool gadget: My first experience using meditation glasses
For every possible project name, there's an npm package with the same name.
I'd like to see traffic distribution against the sites which use facebook. I suspect your p90 for all traffic is against a large proportion of sites that use these and thus "virtually" every site in fact is closer to true than your raw numbers.
Don't throw around scores like they're facts. Those are your scores relative to the books you've read. For many WoT is a fantastic series better than many other fantasy series.
I'm curious to know these workers' next best employment option, the one they're forgoing to work at an Amazon warehouse.
My office is an addon, taking the place of some cubicles. The offices are frigid and I've often wondered if the ventilation wasn't corrected for the new layout.

I'm going to pick up a monitor and see what I run in to. Easy fix for now is to get up and walk :P
I would be interested to learn from companies that have been using K8's in their production datacenters and running critical complex applications, how much ramp up time their operations teams needed to learn how to troubleshoot system and network anomalies that don't tend to surface themselves in the typical system logs.
Not to mention having the gal to call it 'being social'.

War is peace. Invading privacy is social.
BOLO: Reverse Engineering – Part 1 (Basic Programming Concepts)
Optimising the Performance of an Ionic PWA – Part 2
That's one beer or a glass of wine with dinner every day, which doesn't really sound excessive at all.
Other countries have proper labor and employment laws. This wouldn't be allowed in the bulk of the rest of the west.
Steaks can be cooked on a stick. Omelettes can be cooked in a can.

The last time I ate campfire-cooked pizza was over 20 years ago, but it was still a pizza. The most annoying part was carrying the oven over the portages.

It folded up, like Skidbladnir for cooks.
Rents go down too if there is construction.
No, it's still my data even if FB mixes it up with someone else's. Deleting just part of the data is their problem, not mine.
> There was a time when anti monopoly laws were taken seriously

Over the past century, economists came up with a measure of firm concentration called the HH Index [1]. The HH Index is "the sum of the squares of the market shares of the firms within the industry (sometimes limited to the 50 largest firms)". (It's derived from the Simpson ecological diversity index.)

Market share is a measure on customers. The DoJ used the HH Index to measure monopolies because monopoly power was understood to result from excessive market share. The case of non-paying consumers was never legally considered.

TL; DR More than apathy explains the delays in bringing antitrust action against Facebook.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herfindahl_index
Also from AACR: Google Augmented Reality Microscope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mz84cwVmS0
You've poured nearly 7 years of work into user experience, and you don't appreciate the benefits of native UX, especially on iOS?

My company builds our app in React, with the performance and UI critical functions in Java (Android) and Swift (iOS). I've spent my career learning and applying one key rule about UX, little things can make huge differences in how enjoyable and productive the user experience is.
This.

You can be a gold standard human who invented a distributed database. But at a large company, you're not going to be hired if you can't solve some string subsequence problem.
If their next best option to working at an Amazon warehouse is starvation, then it's a pretty good thing for them that Amazon has a warehouse there. That said, I strongly suspect they have better "next best" options.
Books 4-6 is where it bogged down for me. I actually considered quitting reading the series after The Fires of Heaven, but I felt like it picked up again around book 7.

Yes it was sprawled out more by then, but at least the plot started to move forward again. I remember doing the math and for one of the PoV characters in book 5 (Rand maybe?) it was less than 48 hours for the entire book, much of which was him worrying internally about things mostly inconsequential to the plot.
also mentioned 2 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10732267

also specific repos have been mentioned before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056254
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That will certainly be true initially, but I don't think we could be certain of that over any significant period of time. Assisted reproduction may end up as cheap as a blood test is today.
> I am pretty sure I could improve Notepad substantially with just a few days of work.

With the diverse and enormous install base that Notepad has, do you really think it would be that simple? There must be all kinds of localization concerns, legal concerns, trademark issues, patent concerns, design and Windows brand concerns, that must go into a core OS application update.

I agree that Notepad should be updated. But updating a text editor preinstalled on Windows should be no easy feat for one person over just a few days. The repercussions of each change are potentially huge, and going in especially with a cavalier attitude of "it would only be a few days work to substantially improve" a piece of software used by hundreds of millions of people daily, definitely sounds like it wouldn't work out as easily as you'd expect.
It's not only worker's rights (which is bad enough). It's many things, for example the environment. For instance, the amount of fuel burned, and carbon emitted, to deliver an item in 2 days instead of 3 is 40% higher (sorry I don't have a citation right now). We're boiling our planet alive for the slightest of conveniences! It's bonkers! Like we're filling the oceans with trash for using completely superfluous plastic packaging that improves our lives in the most negligible of ways. All of this to sell ever increasing (because current market capitalism demands constant "growth") piles of crap.
> forced him to make wildly optimistic predictions.

maybe I'm wrong, but I thought those predictions have fared pretty well.

edit to add:

optimism, or not... this came quickly (ahem, china)

[1] > 2019, Public places and workplaces are ubiquitously monitored to prevent violence and all actions are recorded permanently. Personal privacy is a major political issue, and some people protect themselves with unbreakable computer codes.

from his 1999 book, via wikipedia

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictions_made_by_Ray_Kurzwe...
Nothing to see here. Just another highly connected businessman making a ton of money on a startup exit.
Facebook Ads on third party websites.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/05/26/facebook-starts-selling-of...
Letter to the Undead of Geekdom (2012)
counterpoint: please cite a single arbitrary code execution vulnerability that was found in 7z.exe
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I'm confused why NirSoft software is not open source. I've always seen open source as easier than doing all the work on your own.
Facebook runs an ad network (Facebook Audience - how successful, or how much used this is, I don't know though.

If you're visiting a site or using a mobile app served from facebooks ad network, you don't need to be on facebook or have a facebook account to be shown an ad.
Two ways:

1. Facebook runs its own ad network, so you might see Facebook ads even if you never go to Facebook's website.

2. You might still go to their website even if you don't have a Facebook account. Many local restaurants and community organizations only have a Web presence through their Facebook pages.
You but you'd say "look at all that lego" not "look at all those legos" I assume?
“Ad targeting is critical for the functioning of our core product”, _and_ ”if you don’t want us to use your Facebook interests to show you ads on other websites and apps, there’s a control for that too”?

Possibly, but that would mean a narrow interpretation of ”Facebook interests”. Data obtained through tracking pixels on other sites technically could fall outside ”Facebook interests”, for example. I don’t see how that would fall within the GDPR requirement that they must tell users what they do with their data in a language that the users understand, though.
That's not conclusive.

The primary reason for MySpace's userbase crashing was the founders exiting after the News Corp acquisition.

If Facebook had been acquired instead and stopped innovating at the same time they wouldn't have things such as the like button, status updates, or feeds.

They brought those things in frantically to knock off Twitter just like they've been knocking off snapchat recently.

Users these days seem to be totally delighted by decking out selfies with icons and tacky animations. They seem to be completely alright, and by in large prefer it when videos play at full volume by complete surprise, automatically when scrolling and flipping.

Be weary of projecting your personal aesthetic tastes on the population at large