skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to use postgresql in my daily work now but I will always carry a flame for sqlite, my first DB experience. I still use it for rapidly parsing and normalizing huge text files, as well as the backend for numerous one-off webscrapers.

I contend there are few faster ACID-compliant database options for high-speed input, without moving toward a complex multi-machine distributed solution. Combined with a high-speed SSD or an in-memory database, that single write-worker can often put any high-concurrency single-machine database to shame, as long as some thought is put into the code.

There is something deeply satisfying about writing a short python script and then watching a 5gb text file or a huge directory of log files get chewed up and spit out into a tidy little perfectly normalized and portable database. Bliss.

Just between you and me, sometimes I download a hundred thousand files to process just for fun. It's not right.
ooh my god this is such an embarrassing position on this. they had someone from the heritage foundation. stop buying in to the bloviation about free speech for the heritage foundation. I have no common ground with them.
Hi, thanks for the response.

Two responses. First, I'm thinking the manipulator has an outside incentive. If trump wins, they get a million dollar kickback. So losing 500k on bets is acceptable to them.

Second, I'm thinking of the following attack that actually loses nothing (if it works). The attacker doesn't bet at all in the market conditioned on trump being elected. She only bets in the other market. But she bets really heavily that beans will be expensive in that case. So we elect Trump. All trades in that other market are cancelled and the attacker gets all her money back. And she isn't even exposed to any risk on the bean price on this timeline, so to speak.
That and Volkswagen knowingly and deliberately conspired to break the law.
Apply for a generalist position at a company that doesn’t hire for specific technologies (there are lots and lots of these, basically any of the big famous companies and a lot of smaller ones too).
Im fascinated by the popularity of curated lists. There are so many and most of them get a ton of likes/upvotes/etc. any research on why this is the case?
Will the influx of bootcamp grads cause the same effect on the supply and demand of developers?
Except one of those is legal and the other is not. I guess it’s okay to steal from someone after they have x amount of money right?
Yes, for sure for work...would let you know the tone of your email...angry/passive aggressive/etc etc
What’s the worst case? Climate sensitivity
RIP. Had no idea he was living in the town I grew up in (Sylvania).
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Well, first I believe that Equador’s laws would be in play here, because it’s their sovereign land. But it’s also government property, which typically has different rules than private property, presumably including areas like squatters rights.
I'd personally be really cautious about making the mistake of conflating Damore with other topics. Damore, in particular, was fired legally because there are, in fact, some topics not up for discussion (https://www.wired.com/story/labor-board-rules-google-firing-...). Companies aren't legally free to entertain the question "Maybe women can't be as good at computer engineering as men" without running very quickly into established law that prevents acting as if that hypothesis were true.

(Damore's also a bad example for supporting the hypothesis that holding wrong opinions bans you from discourse, because it appears he's been pretty vocal about his opinions since Google let him go).

If a person were concerned about being fired for expressing a politically-charged viewpoint, I'd personally counsel them to consider whether that viewpoint is worth the price of the job, and if it isn't? Be silent. Silence is free. Making the decision that one's viewpoint is more important than the job is always a decision one is free to make.

I don't know why this thought is so scary to some people. I hypothesize that they're too accustom to operating in a pseudonymous consequence-free world where you can say whatever you want without social censure or personal ramifications, but that's not how most of the world works, and the advent of the Internet didn't change that fact.
> You can't appeal to the "spirit" of a soulless ruleset.

This is a great point that I always try to inject into conversations about “tax avoidance.” People often claim that taking advantage of “loopholes” is ethically equivalent to straight up illegal tax evasion, but that claim implies that companies need to “know” the “correct ethical amount” for them to contribute.
They claim to have confirmed this with AMD partners. So it's more than just speculation.
Ah, non-partisan as a group property, not as an individual property.

But then it's possible it was a non-partisan group then
I would just like to provide my outlook.

tweet 1: Against the Equality Act which would have made sexual orientation and gender identity federally protected classes using standard right wing talking points.

tweet 2: Promoting Heritage foundations critique of gender identify at the UN using standard right wing talking points.

tweet 3: (linked below) Support for the border wall using standard right wing talking points.

It really seems like she is getting hammered for being mainstream conservative. I understand the critiques about her not being technically qualified to understand the AI ethics issues. The idea that if you disagree with current transgender talking point you are not allow to work with Google in a public capacity seems extreme.
Arguably the wealthy are now liberals...cultured elites in the cities. I think you can see this by tracking who donates to Dem. campaigns....so just saying...don't be quick to roll out this old trope that Rep.= wealthy. I don't think it's that simple.

I'll counter and say the only way to fix it is to either go to pre-1917 no income tax, and have a smaller government (do we really need $700BN/yr on defense around the world?), or move to a flat % wealth or income tax (if you are pro-progressive, set an offset that neutralizes to $0 at say $50k/year, but I am against).

We can do this without all the loopholes and misaligned incentives that causes finger pointing in all directions. And we won't need the CompSci majors from CalTech!
You probably meant Redguard, Daggerfall sadly lacked any 3d acceleration support.
I think this article misses the point. The daily coffee isn't the only problem with people's spending, but is representative of all the small daily spends that add up without people realising.

It's the petrol in your car when you could've walked, it's the extra bar of chocolate that you add to your lunch, it's the daily newspaper you buy.
Everything adds up very quickly and the coffee is just one example
This is why grownup software companies have milestones like “requirements freeze” and “feature freeze”, and strong project management leadership who enforce these things. Adding or changing requirements mid-project (or mid-sprint, if that’s how you roll) is very often harmful to a software program’s success.
Yeah, they tried exactly that in Zimbabwe some time ago, and now they're giving it another try in Venezuela. Didn't seem to work all that well though, go figure.

(inb4: "Do you want Hitler and Nazis? Because that's literally how we got Hitler and Nazis!" /s)
Unusual Cruelty at the Supreme Court
I read it and came to the same conclusion. The whole crux of the case is that there was unreported income from a loan that was forgiven. The banks did make it complicated, but they did so to avoid driving the company (and themselves) into bankruptcy, and look to still get paid back.

Collecting a billion dollars on a loan that really hasn’t been forgiven and driving the company into bankruptcy seems insane. The IRS would have more of a case if they looked at the situation at the term of the loan and found it hadn’t been repaid.
What they chose to host, and what they didn’t. I don’t believe that Wikileaks has ever posted anything about the Russian government, despite there being a massive amount of corruption to expose there.
>Where might militant atheists and religious fundamentalists find common ground?

Postmodern atheism and postmodern theism converge.
Whenever i re-read Tom Forsyth's (who worked on it) article about Larrabee [1], i facepalm hard at Intel's decision to drop it. It is one of the few cases where i really wanted to put my hands on that sort of hardware. An essentially standalone manycore CPU on a PCI express form that is running FreeBSD or Linux, with a bit of graphics specific functionality that doubles as a video card and you can fully program like a PC?

I have "I WANT! I WANT! I WANT!" signs blinking in my head as i type this :-P.

(facepalm mainly because i wanted it, i do not know the economical details)

Funny enough, the Forsyth's (and another one from another team member i do not remember now) article sold me more on Larrabee than any PR speak Intel made.

[1] http://tomforsyth1000.github.io/blog.wiki.html#%5B%5BWhy%20d...
>This person was peddling in ludicrous Obama-killed-his-friend conspiracy theories.

Can I get a link to what you are talking about? You are very clearly referencing something but I have no idea what it is.
Current Epyc servers have PCIe 3.0 connections. They could use half as many PCIe 4.0 connections and get the same bandwidth.
There has to be some way to reduce these scenarios to a set of principles, rather than defining a rule for every single scenario...
When Reggie Watts broke things down in terms of stacks, it helped me understand a lot more: https://youtu.be/CJQU22Ttpwc
Why do you care only about transgender people? There are hundreds of larger groups which face far more severe marginalisation in society. Trans people have a net positive social status where they are actively sought by employers. Isn't it time to move on to helping other minorities?

Looking at your comments here, it's starting to look like you have a singular agenda will just support whatever larger movement best aligns to it without considering the moral or fairness implications. Nothing wrong with that I guess, but that is the antithesis of inclusiveness or ethics.
Could be a wealth tax instead of income tax.

But, let's stop worrying about "the wealthy"...just make a systems that's easy for everyone and funds the government. Soaking the rich shouldn't be the goal...a balanced government budget providing the basic services we together agree on should be the goal.
Its the post we are responding to though. And the notion, that if you could chose, Europeans would prefer to be spied on by the US is absurd. My posts are about nothing more. The threat analysis for most Europeans is rather straight forward on what will have a larger potential to have a larger negative impact on your live.
From my perspective, columnar storage is an enormous win. One of the best things I've been able to do for clients on MSSQL has been to tell them simply to create a clustered columnstore index on their large tables for analytical workloads.

At one point we had a need to perform a diff between a yesterday-snapshot and a today-snapshot of a billion row table. If I recall correctly, this took 1 or 2 minutes with clustered columnstore vs nearly an hour for rowstore. The order of magnitude is certainly correct, even if my specific numbers are wrong.

If you're curious why we had to do a full diff between two billion-row tables, that is a story for a different time, but there were good reasons and we also removed those good reasons through other design decisions.
> no one in Ireland asked for us to be run by leprechaun economics; that decision was taken by blatantly corrupt political parties

Irish one though surely?
What makes them win elections?
Doesn't that mean, that Monsanto and Bayer were both hopelessly overvalued by the time of the acquisition? I wonder which other company-valuations are overblown only by the image a they have (cough ... facebook ... cough).

Metrics beyond "observables" -- assets, infrastructure, patents -- seem to be impossible, when considering investments, i.e. how much of these values are pure speculation (?). On the other hand -- these lawsuits were also "observable", but not really "measurable".
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If you're not measuring it then it's pretty much subjective, no? You can't quantify what you don't measure.

I don't know how you use Firefox and Chrome (I use both in work) but they behave pretty much identically as far as I can tell, once ads and other crap have been blocked.

The only difference is Chrome is snappier on Google sites and seems to use double the memory to open the same tabs.
Boeing admits sensor malfunctions on 737 MAX caused 346 deaths
The more usual example is:

if I buy a fridge from you, I can't then insist on right to be forgotten and then ask for repairs under warranty later. The seller has a right to keep a record of purchase for that legitimate interest. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

That would apply to employee, yes.
Is Japan's relationship with new construction healthy? From what I understand houses in Japan are like cars in the west, they depreciate over time. When someone buys an old house they knock it down and build a new one. I can see some value in that, since the houses can be more customized to the owner as opposed to builder basic beige that we get here. But it also means houses aren't built to last which I find kind of sad.
Agreed - there is a difference that people - especially populists - like to ignore between "rich" (wealth) and high earnings.

If you have $10M in a checking account, but choose work at Starbucks as a barista because you like fake Italian names for coffee, you are rich.

If you have no savings or other assets, but earn $150K/year, you are not rich.
This has always been the case, there have always been purity tests. When was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate ran on an anti-abortion campaign or a Republican ran on a tax hike campaign?

What’s fairly recent is that millions of us now have the potential to reach millions of people with our social media posts. My Tweets get more views than when I wrote for my college newspaper 10 years ago! So of course if I wind up writing or saying something that a majority of people disagree it will cause me problems.

My options are to either not write and say controversial things (or at least not under my name) or to just deal with being in a contrarian position.

The great thing about expressing opinions is it’s optional. People who are women or gender non-conforming, racial minorities, homosexual or disabled have no way of changing their position in life so we protect them. Controversial opinions and beliefs? Those are easy to mask or change.
Wait until you upgrade your "normal" (SATA) SSD with an M.2 version - the speed jump is similar.
Still, by your logic, every app must be translated into every language. It's okay to exclude people, especially when you're small and don't have the resources to cater for the needs of every single person.
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I share your sentiments. Anybody building a tool that could conceivably be used for work purposes has a moral impetus to treat accessibility as a first-class citizen. The standards are there, the profit motive should be there and thus the resources should be there.

The only reason not to is greed.
>Unionisation is basically an attempt to reject the reality that there isn't enough demand for all that labor to be valuable at/above market-average.

What a shallow definition of Unions.

How about it's about grabbing a larger share of the pie for workers, so the CEO of Activation isn't making 300x the average worker? Or are you of the mind he's "earned" that?
in my opinion the possibility of misuse a defining trait of technology.
How will regulating AI be any more successful than the 1990s attempts by the US to regulate cryptography?
I think this is partly because things have gotten vastly more complex & abstract, and none of that complexity and abstraction has been managed well. We basically always say "Yes right away" to increased complexity/abstraction these days when PM wants something.

Tech debt was lower back then.. maybe all of our practices were worse, but the code bases were thousands of times smaller which made up for a lot.

Heck Agile hadn't been invented yet back then. You got requirements and got to design the core technology first. There was no such thing as an MVP hack and all of a sudden you had a back end that had millions of lines of code and 10 layers of abstraction that was all built on a bad design.
I don't see this as being true. When I check Electrify America in my area (DC/Baltimore) it's a desert. Plugshare shows many stations, but when I view details they're primarily 1-2 chargers. These stations are useless for long-distance trips, because in any location that attracts traffic I expect to wait a significant amount of time for other vehicles who reached it before me. The Tesla network typically has stations of 6-10 stalls (or up to 40 or more in a couple of locations), typically placed and sized to match actual long distance travel routes and demand. The stalls are all networked, so I can see availability on the road. While I'm not a Tesla fanboy and would be happy to see this situation change, trying to pretend that other companies have an advantage on Tesla in this area is simply ignoring reality -- at least here in the US.
Of course the "upper classes" believe they're there because of some intrinsic blue-bloodedness that gives them good taste. It's much more flattering than admitting it's because of daddy's money. Meritocracies are more fun to believe in when you're at the top.
Bankruptcy judge turns back FirstEnergy reorganization plan
You realize that these quotes relate directly to Ireland setting itself up as a tax haven for these big companies in order to siphon off tax money that would otherwise go to their EU neighbors?

That has nothing to do with the US tax system.
Could it be that no Russian citizen is leaking because reasons? If there are no leaks from Russia what can they do?

I remember that the leaks about money hidden in the paradise countries contained a lot of russians too.
What he was accused of doing violated, albeit by my not-qualified-in-law reading, multiple sections of the UK’s Sexual Offences Act 2003. As I recall, the judge in his case said something similar, and agreed to his extradition partly on that basis (although Wikipedia says there isn’t a requirement for double criminality in cases like this).
Sisvel Announces Patent Pools for VP9 and AV1
Notable due to the judge preventing FirstEnergy from shedding the costs to decommission the firm's coal and nuclear generation assets as part of BK proceedings.
>"We don't live in a fair society"

I think it's more correct to say that "the state of nature is incredibly unfair, and our society does not perfectly mitigate this."
Thanks for the suggested read, sounds interesting indeed.

I'm not comparing simple vs. complex but rather sound vs. flawed, although often sound = simpler than flawed.

The 737 here is yet another example of this :
- the MAX design is flawed : faulty risk assessment of MCAS, seemingly unstable airframe in some configurations
- a likely sound design could be : airframe rework, thorough risk assessment, extra pilot training...

While the flawed design came at a lower initial cost, it will now overrun the cost of a likely sound one (further rework + retrofit + sales/reputation damage + legal), including the cost of a probable longer design phase in the latter.

(I concede that legal/sales costs are not directly technical debt costs).
I mean it’s all relative right.

Perhaps if the rest of the country stopped living their lives entirely within strip malls and parking lots for a few years you’d notice how insane that is.
I think you mean more of the money go to wealthy recipients, which (true or not) is different from saying there are more wealthy recipients than non-wealthy recipients (probably impossible since there are so few wealthy people).
not my point. but don't say it is a terrorist attack before proven. don't say it is a racist attack by two white men wearing a maga hat before its proven. can you imagine implications of people lynching to people with red caps in the street thinking its them?
How much you pay in taxes does not depend on how much you use roads. So it doesn't incentivise people to use roads less. That's the point of road congestion pricing.
https://statisticalatlas.com/county-subdivision/New-York/New...

60th.
Huh?

The magic password is the token. The "scoping" options are just a label (I suppose this might have recently changed), mostly targeting folks who are looking at using legacy mail/cal/card clients with only user/pass support, and are unsure what's going on.

edit: Just triple checked -- the 16 character string returned when creating a "Calendar on iPhone" password works perfectly for SMTP via PLAIN over TLS.
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This is easy to say and not unheard of, but in organizations it is common (in my experience at least) that if you say too often "this is hard and might take some time", people will just start to bypass you (and/or your input/judgement) in order to get stuff done quickly but less correctly.
Uncle. You got me on the sights thing.

Fair share as determined by who? The IRS? Some politician who wants more money to spend?
When did I say it interfered with your routines?
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This, exactly. These chips are targeted for the heavy virtualization platforms (see: "The Cloud"). It means you can fit more customers in the same space and power envelope before you start running into noisy neighbor issues.
Knowing what we know it astonishes me that people take devices with anything of value over an international border.

Save everything to the cloud, or use a burner device like a It’s not worth the hassle.

(And yes, I’ve read that this antagonizes border security to a certain extent, if they believe you’ve done just this.)
The original article mentioned divisive. I think politics is the key driver to that, with the mainstream media being a willing and active enabler of division.
This made me chuckle. But, also, thank you for caring.
If you like clever titles, spend some time reading The Economist.
>which is why Detroit moved a lot of their production to Mexico and Canada

Well, I'm pretty sure those auto jobs in Canada were also high paying and unionized.

Source: I worked for one through University.
See also Johannes Kepler:

> Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to humans is one of the reasons that humanity is the image of God.

* https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johannes_Kepler
Multiple nations. You can check a map for Canadian and Mexican stations as well.