skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How unpatriotic. I hope the border wall will also keep Americans inside to contribute to the economy instead of spending their money abroad. The health care industry needs money to survive! Pharma companies need money to do R&D! Build that wall, Mr. Trump! /s
No, I absolutely will not be voting to replicate California. I grew up in California surrounded by democrats, socialists, and communists. As a young adult, I began to question the basis of my beliefs. As I grew older and more aware of the world, I became more and more conservative.
I understand the basis of California's socialist principles, and I look upon them as misguided.
Animal cruelty is a great analogy because the people who oppose it, which are the minority, are more vocal than those who are proponents of it, which make up the majority.
How can I win the battle with endless captchas from cloudflare? Getting like one an hour, it's really annoying and I'm tired of training your machines or training your partner's machines.
Excellent work by the PostgreSQL folks. I did a naive implementation of `ignore nulls` a while back when exploring porting my product from Oracle, but it was slow. Great to see such progress implementing these extremely powerful features.
There is a vast difference between 6 mini hubs and 2 major ones, especially when different airlines have different mini hubs. It’s a lowest hanging fruit change especially and airlines are trying to minimize hops which really makes a difference.

Remember, mini hubs are near major destinations so people are very likely to be starting or stopping at one, Combined with different airlines 1 hops vs 2 or 3 is common, but more so 2 hops vs 3 or 4.
That's a fair criticism, and I regret my tone and making the discussion personal. But as a life-long New Yorker, I do feel a personal stake in all this.

I believe OP is right that the month's free rent offered on an apartment is recouped by the landlord: in the form higher rents, which have become a real problem for many people born and raised in the city and which would likely only be exacerbated by Amazon's setting up shop here, especially under the conditions offered by the city.

Over the past 20 years New York has experienced an influx of wealth without commensurate investment in public services. The MTA is dying, urban blight is spreading and many of the new professional class moving here don't seem bothered by it.

Another piece of "anecdata": walking down Bedford Ave. in Williamsburg a few years back, I heard one wealthy newcomer say to another that she couldn't wait for the local pharmacy across the street from the new Duane Reade to close. Maybe this anecdote doesn't have the force of a "real data" but it may help some people on here understand why New Yorkers aren't thrilled by the prospect of a building a big Amazon campus and welcoming them with a handout.

https://harpers.org/archive/2018/07/the-death-of-new-york-ci...
Unlike the author of this article, I'm not averse to my city changing, but I'd like to imagine something other than the change we've been seeing...
If you have basic knowledge of linear algebra I recommend "Numerical Linear Algebra" by Lloyd N. Trefethen. Much more concise than other textbooks and more focused on computing.
> the reason why data is better kept in a database system is because it often has a very different life cycle than applications. It often lives longer and gets used by more than one application.

It sounds like you're thinking about web and enterprise apps that share data sources. For those, absolutely, use DBMS. You don't want to solve concurrency and consistency yourself.

I was talking more broadly, of apps of all kinds. Does a TODO list app for your phone need a DBMS? There's not going to be any concurrent data access there, nor huge amounts of data, nor complicated queries. But that describes most apps, and most of their data! Even for web apps, an exclusive data store is more common than shared (just think about all the WordPress blogs online!).

> Also, procedural code is often far more complicated than a SQL query regardless of the number of records being processed.

If your language doesn't have some kind of declarative query framework for sequences, you're probably better off with SQL. But these days, who doesn't have that? Even Java caught up.

(I'd single out C++/STL for offering non-composable primitives, until ranges get into the standard. But C++ is a wrong choice for a data-heavy app in general, IMO. )
The idea is that we're in "Puzzle World". This is one of the things that most people take for granted, that the way this is set up has the ring being rigid, even though that's not genuinely feasible. We assume that in the same way as we are assuming that the Earth is a perfect, homogeneous sphere.

I might add a note to that effect - thanks for highlighting this.

Added in edit: I've now added a note to the page to address this question/issue. And when I say "address", I really mean "try to avoid".
This is the approach I recommend; Colaboratory's GPU is helpful when the sequences are really long.
Your pitch deck isn’t an application for financial aid
Except it's a vulnerability to SWATings. Also the cost acquisition and maintenance is non-negligible.

More like it's a sugary pill that gives you diarrhea that also does nothing useful.
> So, I get what you are saying.. but what kind of monopoly tactics are twitter/facebook actually doing? In my view it's virtually nothing.

You are correct - monopolies are defined to control the supply of something to manipulate prices and hurt consumers.

The problem with these platforms is not that they are anti-consumer, the problem is that they are anti-competitive because they control the entire audience that a product can be sold to. This results in the commoditization of suppliers (eg news, books, etc.) and reduces competition in the distribution space of the economy that targets consumers.

It's a different way to think about it because it's a new concept in our modern world, but the mental model that I've seen is that there are three stages of creating something and selling it to a consumer:

1. Supplier / Manufacturer
2. Distributor
3. Consumer

In the old days, monopolies controlled supply and distribution, which resulted in consumers being hurt. Now, "aggregators" control distribution and the consumer, which leads to suppliers to drive down their costs or not even participate in the consumer space.

I HIGHLY recommend reading about aggregation theory on Stratechery to get a deeper understanding of this as Ben Thompson does a great job in explaining why the FANG companies do what they do: https://stratechery.com/2015/aggregation-theory/
You are not treated as customer. You are treated like a "resource" whose wallet needs to be exploited.
New York isn't literally giving Amazon $3 billion, it's a tax break. Big difference. It's not like New York is foregoing $3 billion in income from other businesses in order to accommodate this subsidy package.

And like other commenters pointed out, the state still makes money through payroll taxes, sales tax, property tax, etc.

I agree that the politicians should have made it more clear that the additional tax revenue would be used to fix urgent problems like the failing subway, poverty, etc.
> Choose not to do business with them

This has no effect whatsoever. You can try but it won't matter. You make money for Facebook and Google even if you spend every waking hour trying not to do so. Your very existence - that you have opinions, ideas, that you go places, spend money, etc- is sufficient for these businesses to choose to do "business" with you without your knowledge. They'll take things you thought were yours and then use that to sell ads to other companies.

> Advocate that others not do business with them.

Again, this won't matter one bit. This kind of change takes decades to propagate throughout society, way slower than is necessary to avoid damage done.

> ...

> The likelihood of success in such methods depends heavily on the ability to get others to agree with you and take action.

So none of your ideas will work. The 'markets' are broken when looking at long-term financial gain through sustainable growth and consumer choice. Do not look to broken-since-inception-on-purpose "models" to dictate how you think a modern economy should function.
This comparison is more absurd than apples to oranges
Why do you call that behavior irrational? Seems like it would save some bandwidth costs, as the parent suggests.
Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j56s46e97Lo
Just finished watching, amazing talk :)
There was no "giving away" anything. There was "not taxing Amazon as harshly as others". It's like I tell you "I want to rent space on your frontyard for my sign" and you say "ok, $100 per day would do nicely" and I say "I need it for the whole month and $3K it too much, maybe $1.5K would do it?" and you say "I am not giving you away fifteen hundred bucks!". Then I say "OK, was nice talking to you" and you got $0 now instead of $1.5K you could have. But you're somehow happy you didn't "give away $1.5K", which you never had.
Just for fun some bash:

for k in $(seq -f %04.f 1 501); do
f="${k}_A.csv"
! [[ -f "$f" ]] && echo $f || :
done

or more succinctly,

for k in {0001..0501}_A.csv; do
! [[ -f "$f" ]] && echo $f || :
done

and if you have GNU parallel installed:

parallel -kj1 '! [[ -f "{}" ]] && echo {} || :' ::: {0001..0501}_A.csv
the treatment is fine. The billing practices are plain corrupt.
R&D for insulin?
New York City wasn't going to give Amazon a special discount. The company qualified for existing incentive programs that are already available to everyone: the Relocation and Employment Assistance Program, and the Industrial & Commercial Abatement Program.

https://www.nycedc.com/program/relocation-and-employment-ass...

https://www.nycedc.com/program/industrial-commercial-abateme...

It doesn't make a lot of sense for a city to offer incentive programs and then complain when companies attempt to use them. The city should make up its political mind about what incentive programs are available, and who qualifies for them, as part of the decision about whether to offer such programs. Programs should then be implemented neutrally, in a way that does not play favorites or pick winners and losers. Many other companies have benefited from these programs - the entire point of these programs is to achieve some kind of policy objective by being used.

The uproar in this case seems more like political brinkmanship, not any kind of sound economic policy designed to benefit the constituents of the city. These incentive programs were presumably passed in the first place to benefit constituents - that's why they're there, to attract additional investment to areas of the city that otherwise would not receive it. ("The Relocation and Employment Assistance Program (REAP) provides a refundable business tax credit for commercial and industrial businesses relocating to designated areas of New York City and making capital improvements to their space")

If people in NYC think that these incentive programs are a bad idea, harmful, inappropriate, or whatever else, then they should direct their anger at their political representatives, and cancel those incentive programs - not direct anger at the companies who take up the offer that the city put forward.
How do you calculate savings at the 11-year mark? If you'd invested the same amount in index funds over an 11 year period you'd see your money double in an approximately 10 year period.
I agree. Apple doesn't believe in freedom unless it's curated and prescribed by them. You can see this philosophy in their hardware and software design.
Which is now why I use Linux, and so should you.
Both facebook and twitter (and pretty much everyone in the market of social apps) build their monopolistic walls out of the network effect - we have the users people are interested in so nobody wants to use your service.

Mandating open communication between these services would help to break this monopoly and possibly just naturally evolve into the idealistic goal diaspora was aiming for, small networks of social groups that have news feeds floating between them and the ability to pick and chose from locally hosted and separately hosted feeds.
Although -w is supported by both GNU and BSD versions of `seq', BSD's ignores leading zeros in input. Thus a more portable approach is:

comm -1 -3 <(ls *_A.csv | sed 's/_.*$//') <(seq -f %04.f 500) | sed 's/^0*//'
I am not confused, but perhaps you did not understand my meaning. There is no version of "sleep()" that accepts an argument in anything other than seconds. Of course Microsoft has "Sleep()" which does, and of course "usleep()" and "nanosleep()" do. Is this unclear?
Betterment has had a similar feature called Smart Saver (https://www.betterment.com/smart-saver/), which offers 2.23%, but is not FDIC insured.
Agreed. In the US (just like in many places) you're not exposed to many problems if you have a good insurance and/or have enough money. The system is usually fast, you're treated well and the infrastructure, equipment etc. are great.
Game of Thrones showrunners made a Rick and Morty audio commentary
> Humalog without insurance costs $95 per 3 ml cartridge, let's say it's a $100.

You have a citation that it’s available from every provider in the country at that price? The person quoted specifically said they’d been quoted that much and I would assume that people aren’t making up reasons to go on 5 hour drives.
Life expectancy vs % of GDP spent on healthcare.

The US is a huge outlier: we spend way more than other countries and don't even live as long.

There are other ways to measure it too, which is good to investigate, as it is a complicated subject.

Here's a HN relevant way to measure it: how much time does your average 5, 50, and 500 person company spend dealing with health insurance stuff?

The startup I worked for in Italy spent 0 time on it, because it's not relevant to the company at all. Of course, Italy has massive amounts of bureaucracy for other things, which more than make up for the lack of it in health care, but that's another story.
Theoretically, yes.

But if you live in a larger state like California, you have much less say in the federal government on a per capita basis than someone who lives in Rhode Island between the Senste (2 senators per state regardless of population) and the electoral college, not to mention gerrymandering.
Being a customer in a non-free/competitive market isn't that great.
None of the problems you cite are inherent to blockchains. They can have mechanisms to reissue coins for lost keys or undo erroneous payments.
Please stop believing this self-serving bullshit propaganda by the companies. If other countries raised their prices, prices in the US wouldn't go down a single bit. They would just make more profits. The problem is that the US allows these insane and corrupt billing practices.
Even if I agreed with the reasoning behind regulating Facebook and Twitter, I'd be uncomfortable with the suggestion just based on my observation of unintended consequences around just this sort of thing...
Just by doing advanced exercises. For example take a look at the SQL homework for one of the CMU courses on databases:

https://15445.courses.cs.cmu.edu/fall2018/homework1/

While doing the exercises you'll be doing some research and looking at question in stack overflow.
> typically used
We haven't thought about that much yet. What kinds of apps are you thinking of building?
How exactly could they be regulated?
I’ve tried to love it while using it as an interactive shell, but it’s hard for me to lose the Unix muscle memory and remember their verbose commands.

For anything more than a single pipe, or anything that requires loops or control flow, I switch to Powershell in Visual Studio Code with the PowerShell extension which has intellisense and helps to poke around the methods on each object. From there you can select subsets of your script and run with F8 which helps me prototype with quick feedback.
>> we seem to live in a world where experts are undervalued and loud confident sounding people are listened to

"loud confident sounding people" is fairly self-evident

Can you share your definition of "expert", please? :)

The former get a lot of airplay (here and elsewhere). Finding the latter appears to be a whole lot harder.
Maybe in an IBM megacorp but Facebook and Google at least are totally cool with people working 9 to 5 and taking sick days (outside a few bad managers).
Mastodon and Diaspora are federated.
> The ability to get info out of a SQL database is pretty standard, obviously.

I wouldn't have a job if this were true. And on a related note, I've found software engineers to be generally poor at writing queries (compared to DBAs/Analysts/Data Scientists).
Some related statistics on consumption of 'ultra-processed' foods across 19 European Countries:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/02/ultra-proces...

The countries consuming the most ultra-processed foods are UK, Germany, Ireland and Belgium.
Antoine Griezmann did the same thing last year, finally staying at Atletico de Madrid with a huge new contract
If that were true, we wouldn't store any data in memory at all - everything would be in the database to avoid "the attendant issues about concurrency/corruption/performance/etc".

But we don't. Perhaps because the attendant issues often aren't issues in practice? There's no concurrency problem if it's just your app working with data, and it's logically single threaded (i.e. possibly async, but serialized) - which is by far the most common model for non-web apps. There's also no concurrency problem if you use immutable data structures. There's no corruption problem if you are using a memory-safe language, and your data structures enforce their invariants, as they should in any good design regardless of anything else. Performance is going to be better, often significantly so, until you have enough data that dumb queries over it are slower than the overhead of communicating with the database. And so on.

So, no, the complexity doesn't necessarily exist. The complexity of your data is constant, and of the kind of processing that you need to do with it, true. But we're talking about complexity of the pipeline you use to access that data - and there, you can absolutely make it more complicated that it needs to be, and I'm arguing that it is what usually happens in practice.
With corporate charity arrangements, how “commendable” it is always remains to be seen.
I suppose I could also use DO's Spaces, which is S3-compatible, though also has an annoying minimum (I do not need the 250 gigs you get for $5/mo) https://www.digitalocean.com/products/spaces/
George Will? He's part of the status quo that laid down the foundation on which Trump build his successful candidacy. That George Will? The old white blowhard? That failure is not Trump's fault, it's Will's & Co. But people like Will don't have the integrity to stand up and be counted.

George Will has been a solid conservative for decades and written numerous books lauded by conservatives. Consider the possibility that it was precisely his integrity that caused him to abandon the party. Perhaps it's possible that Trump represents a part of the party that a reasonable person with some sense of moral and intellectual consistency wants nothing to do with. How far right does the party have to go before you will question the state of affairs? Trump called Ted Cruz a liar. He implied Jeb Bush is a wimp. He implied that Ted Cruz's wife is ugly. He implied that Rand Paul is ugly. He said that McCain is a loser because he was a POW. He was a loser for getting captured. Trump agreed that his own daughter is a nice piece of ass. This was on the Howard Stern Show. How far does the man have to go to lose credibility in your eyes?
Genghis Khan was arguably also a questionable human being but if I found myself at the head of clan of steppe tribemen about to square off against another clan of steppe tribemen, then I might want to know how the great Khan would have handled the situation.
There aren't many of these databases around... Which database was that? is it still around?
A few fallacies as I see them in this article.

One is that everyone, like the author, is starting from a 'clean slate'. This is an extremely privileged position. Almost no one in this country is completely out of debt AND mentally/physically healthy AND able to 'choose' to not commute to work.

Another is that everyone has, or can afford, an appropriate 'makerspace' in their place of residence.

Finally, this article simply takes the 8 hour workday for granted, rather than asking the extremely obvious question: Yes, Robert Owen did coin the phrase "Eight hours labour, Eight hours recreation, Eight hours rest", in 1817. With labor productivity skyrocketing since then, why have we not reduced this, even to 6 hours?
As an example, I still can't wrap my head around the price difference in a medical bill if one has insurance or pays out-of-pocket. Providers charge insurances excessively more than out-of-pocket prices. And this is done openly. Then the insurances are charging the patient with higher premiums. I mean, come on! How is this even legal?!?
There is still volatility, even though they are bonds it's a bit different from a straight cash account that Wealthfront offers. I've used SS and it's been lackluster.
If the sales didn't start until after the public announcement, how do we know that it was Amazon employees who were buying?

Regardless, I suspect Amazon employees would know better than to bank on Amazon following through on a commitment.
Question to me is, can you do this with i.e. Random Forest too, or is it specific to NN.
> If you are rich and can afford it the american system is great but it is awful for everyone else.

I know plenty of incredibly wealthy people who fly to places like France and Israel to see specialists, so take from that what you will.
Agreed. Many years ago I knew people who worked in an IVF office in Northern California. There was some drug they needed / used / prescribed / ??? that was crazy expensive. One of the nurses would drive down to Tijuana once a month to stock up. I thought this was just common practice.
I would say the opposite. A couple of big companies are already switching from Mongo to other databases.
Not really ethical though.
I would prefer that tech companies come up with solutions to these problems and therefore not require law to try to solve them. And yet, I think regulations are often a sign that an industry had conflicts and just kept avoiding the issues, so people got tired of waiting.

I personally am tired of watching Twitter, Facebook, Google, and others give the impression that they didn't know fake accounts were being used to manipulate the actions of individuals--either to hate someone, vote against someone, send money, download a virus--as this seems to be the storied history of spam. I'm tired of interacting with someone who appears real but may be fabricated to trick me into doing something. This problem is not slowing down, as the This Person Does Not Exist site showed us the other day here.

I yearn for the tech company that creates a platform where I interact with people who are verified to be who they say they are. Please, tech companies, let people verify their accounts. Let the overall verified users on your platform increase. Please do something before regulators step in so that they don't believe they have to.
Insulin has been produced by bacteria since the 1980s when recombinant DNA techniques became viable. That’s very precisely controllable compared to the historic animal sources.
I don't know about TOR, but a couple of years ago we had a site on Cloudflare that had the CAPTCHA come up for visitors from mainland China - where the great firewall blocked the requests to Google. Chinese users were effectively locked out. We contacted Cloudflare about this and got dismissive replies.
Key and Peele