skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just emergency rooms, example of a food store in San Francisco:

'...When I sit down with Desaulniers, he's tired and stressed and the deep creases between his brow are furrowed.

In our brief meeting, I get an up-close look at how much he's juggling by the number of people who approach him as we're talking at one of the tables in the grocery store's cafe.

For starters, there's the worker who has arrived to fix the $4,000 broken window due to a robbery early that morning. There's also an investigator from the District Attorney's office who drops by to share that a customer who bit Desaulniers in the arm is being subpoenaed (This is the second customer who bit him). And there's the employee who asks him to deal with an uncontrollable customer who is shoplifting and hollering that he needs to use the bathroom'.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/SoMa-San-Francisco-Ha...
You also get "mariabackup" which is a fork of perconabackup for consistent, physical backups of InnoDB and Aria/MyISAM
That's incredibly well written, constructive feedback by the Uber team! I wonder if the Postgres team has taken this on board and attempted to resolve some of the design issues, e.g.: by moving the cache in-process.
Do you have a horse in this race? I ask because the writer's background is in writing Wayland, a lot of other commenters are writing software related to compositing, and there are even a few developers of X Window Systems.

I only ask because it's very easy to be cynical online and I'm not sure that this comment comes with much to back it up. There's very much an 'old man shouting at cloud' vibe to it, even if unintended, but I ask in good faith in case you have insights we don't know yet. :)
Looks extremely cool. I used to enjoyed developing GUIs with WinForms but now as this technology is obsolete and no relevant replacement is available (both web-UIs and Qt are too complex and WPF is Windows-only) this seems extremely attractive. Can it also display progress and output data (a matplotlib plot and/or a data table)?
You're not giving them involuntary mental health treatment because you deem them ill - you do it because they are mentally ill AND have kicked a nurse in the chest and threw feces at others.
> What solution do you propose?

Ban those people from emergency services.
It’s not getting sloppy drunk, it’s even having a few drinks. “Telling lies” is also short hand for “talking shit” and you taking things to the extreme (drinking == “getting sloppy drunk”) and taking “telling lies” literally, kind of proves my point.

When I’m out with my friends or we are playing cards and we are talking trash to each other, I’m not concerned with “having standards”, we are going to cuss, drop some f-bombs, make off color jokes about ourselves, etc and not have to worry about offending someone’s sensibilities.

It’s like going to an all you can eat Brazilian Steakhouse with a holier than thou vegan who I know from past experience is card carrying member of PETA. Why would I put myself around that when I am trying to enjoy myself? I have to put on enough of a false face at work and cater to corporate norms.

As far as being “welcoming” not only would too many churches not be welcoming of a non straight couple (I am straight), according to surveys, 20% of evangelical churches still think interracial marriage is a sin.
Everyone likes to pile on WeWork, and I get it, but as someone who dealt with both startup and solo office leases in the pre-WeWork era: my God is WeWork's model comparatively amazing as a customer. The spaces are nice, there are no headaches, you can purchase the exact amount of space and duration you need, and you have a guaranteed decent place to do some work or just hang out anywhere you travel.

The "no competitive advantage / anyone can do this" crowd is sort of ignoring the fact that no one did, at least for folks that care about the things I mention.
What I have heard is that the sweet spot for high-speed rail travel in the US is to place major stations about 300 miles (500 km) apart. So running from Texas to Minnesota up the middle of the country you'd have 6 or 7 major stations. Travelling East-West from New York to Los Angeles, you'd have 11 or 12 major stations.

The only viable (and still not funded) project is the Southeast Corridor project, from Washington DC to Atlanta Georgia. Top speed is likely to be about 110 mph (180 kph). Average speed will be lower because the passenger trains will always be held up by slower freight trains (no dedicated tracks, like the TGV has)
I honestly don't know what to think of your comment. I will say though, that from a perspective, you are basically saying you read with interest until you found a reason the "stupidly short-sighted" black man shouldn't have been hired.

When compared to the reality that almost an entire race of people in North America were stolen from their homes and brought to a new land as slaves to benefit their white owners... any potential wrong you are focusing on here is only visible with a microscope.

Your bad behavior doesn't need intent. You didn't need to intend to be a racist when you put him under a microscope like that -- but that doesn't mean you weren't racist when you decided it was important enough to write about. Especially considering the exact behavior is frequent among all races.

And it's the top comment at HN. I can't help but think this says something important about what is really going on.
Haha. Well, he's a gay vegan millennial academic cum populist writer. Not to cast too broad a generalization and with the utmost respect for all parties, I think it's safe to jest that, statistically speaking, a flair for drama goes with the territory. ;)
Nazi is short for National
Socialist.

Socialism is a left wing machine.

There is a far left group called Democratic Socialists of America.

> As I said sometimes, far right leaning workers have traded their social rights in order to piss off black people and the jews.

What is one of the social rights which has been given up by far right workers and why did this upset blacks and Jews?
This could be due to the fact that margins are slim and they're trying to make a profit?
AFAIK Linux is actually more performant these days, network-wise.
This isn't limited to ERs. I have a close friend that works as a nurse at Stanford (not in the ER) and the treatment they have to endure there is insane. Patients have punched her, spit on her, asked her for sexual favors, massages, and the list goes on. Worse, Stanford wants their nurses to treat patients like hotel guests which makes matters worse. The staff has no recourse when patients act this way. Seeing all of the sexual harassment backlash in Silicon Valley makes me wonder why it hasn't applied to places like hospitals - it's as if this treatment is expected and hospitals are immune because they're seen as a last resort for sick people. Where else do you send them?
I'm talking about after they've already broken the law - not just when some doctor declares they are ill. I assumed intentionally, violently kicking a person in the chest to the point where they medical intervention is illegal.
I think once you get to a certain traffic level you are forced to do kernel-bypass stuff like DPDK. Regardless of Linux or FreeBSD being the kernel.
I don't see how netflix' "good values" are so much better than adtech. They're not exactly saving the planet, feeding the starving or growing artificial organs. Adtech is about getting eyeballs and converting that into money. Netflix is about getting eyeballs for hours and people paying for that privilege. Contributing to OSS projects they use is sort of the "not eating babies" baseline, even oracle and google do it!
apparently english language helps you think more creative??
The "state hospital" in my area was shut down in the eighties. It turns out that many of their treatments were ineffective and inhumane. I believe there is still a support group for former patients that is active.
There's definitely pay per 6 minute desks in every city I've worked in in the USA, did you mean something else?
You may want to look into the "Media OS", aka BeOS and it's derivative Haiku. The Media Kit API is a monster, but it was specifically designed to allow fast transfer of buffers between nodes using kernel API's in order to achieve the best possible performance time guarantees. On 90's hardware their latency was/is lower than latency on all desktop oriented computer systems today on 20+ year newer hardware.

Disclaimer - i'm working on a Haiku native media editor (video and audio) and the latency is excellent.
This definitely happens.

Check out some rural newspapers for these type of police briefs or court news.

However, imprisoning the mentally ill carries its own set of issues.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/04/25/6056661...
This would not be a good measure of society.
Facebook is working on AR glasses it thinks can replace your iPhone and Android
> interesting times where applications are getting tied to certain DEs with little to no cross-compatibility

What's old is new, apparently.
Is carte blanche to wander the streets of San Francisco and menace pedestrians really more humane or compassionate?
Vikings Went into a Trancelike Rage Before Battle
That’s a sad finding. If anyone wants a friend to geek out with I’m game. Alex at Alexandar Narayan (all one word) dot com
I adore mine as well. Did you ever know about the speedup hack that was found back in the day?

https://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuseum/archv003.c...
It depends on how exactly each is tuned. Cache and buffer sizes, drivers, TCP congestion control algorithms, and more can affect this hugely, and are different. The defaults on linux (and probably on freebsd) also change reasonably often, so you can expect linux 4.x to have singificant differences from 5.x.
Chill out.

The reason the original commenter doesn't like it is because said behavior is cheating. Injecting race as an attribute doesn't change the fact that the behavior is cheating.
Guessing that they have managed services in aws for maintaining all the nodes and where they are. If each box has 2x the ips, they would need more mgmt resources to keep track of what is on that box, if it's online, stats, etc.
Can WhatsApp Counter Misinformation by Limiting Message Forwarding?
Postgres jsonb column type has worked great without much effort. The old JSON type wasn't great and required special index, but that's decently in the past now. Not sure of MySQL in this aspect.
> What I want, as a consumer, is an identical workflow to how I buy paper books

You mean like video cassettes? No. That's not how web works—and there's no need for longform to hang-on to workflows of the past.

I cannot believe that you just defended Sony as someone for 'not building a walled garden' in your response above. Their eReader died for exactly for same reasons you're using against the web. Either you have no idea about what you're talking here or don't understand how web works generally.
This is fantastic, I thought I’d found the best deal with DigitalOcean but this looks great, cheers
I don't remember hearing that IBM suffered a huge losses (or any) as a result of this, so could it then be that it wasn't such a big deal?

There's so many variables at play when hiring it's just silly to presume that 100% perfect fairness in tests is of any huge significance to "fairness" of outcome or to maximizing the benefits for a company, especially when compared to the things like racial or other purely personal biases. The idea of "keeping the bar high" is too idealized, as tests and interviews even today just measure how prepared is that person for taking the tests, and not the real world knowledge and abilities. Ultimately what company really cares about is estimating the future performance of that employee, not just the knowledge. People who had to fight hard for a chance to work will often be much better hire and work harder and do more for the company, than someone a little more knowledgeable, but who lacks that kind of drive.
I'm sorry, are we seriously pretending that the "inefficient rules" aren't going to just happen to be the ones that affect Google ads?
The question was directed to Abishek, and I didn’t ask about general advantages of productivity. As you have noticed, they are easy to enumerate.
I love how the founder sold her company to Warren Buffet, and then opened up pretty much the same store right across the street, forcing Buffet to buy that one as well(with an added non-compete clause)
java script has no future. try VBScript
Realistically, Disney, or whomever competition, is not going to have enough technical expertise to deploy FreeBSD.
If it's just serving files you don't necessarily need DPDK/XDP. For server-grade hardware there now is P2P-DMA and TLS accelerators which can offload everything to peripherials while still using normal socket APIs. You get NVMe -(PCIe)-> crypto accelerator -(PCIe)-> ethernet for the bulk of the data.

Neither CPU nor main memory see any of the network packets as long as they stay on the happy path. Only connection setup, DMA orchestration and occasional TLS renegotiation have to be handled.
As previously mentioned, I agree that there is much less difference between them than there used to be. Use what you know or have access to those who know.

Personally I prefer PostgreSQL and the main benefit of using MySQL is how easy it is to set up replication and operate in master-slave, master-master, or group replication.

For high write volumes, TokuDB and now RocksDB do work well, the former for sequential writes and the latter is LSM Tree based.
Just because a developer doesn't intentionally put in code to block racism doesn't mean the developer is biased.
Once someone commits a serious crime like battery, they need to either go to jail, or be involuntarily committed to some other kind of institution.
And what is the real question? Say what you mean.
Let’s take this way of thinking to the field of software, where every additional license sold has essentially zero cost.

Are software companies allowed to charge a price for their free-to-produce products at all?

If they are, how would you justify that?

And why would that justification not apply to CPU vendors, if they’d label their hardware as freebies where you’re just paying for a perpetual license?
Ah I missed that top banner, must have automatically scrolled past it. Fair enough; thanks for responding.
- This particular problem was artificially constructed with the specific goal of demonstrating quantum supremacy. It has little to none practical use. Essentially they looked what the easiest thing is for current quantum computers to do, and formulated a problem based on that

- Because of the above point, this does not mean that the quantum computer can do anything useful (definitely not factor numbers). It is nowhere near high fidelity enough to run highly error corrected algorithms (which Shor's and Grover's algorithms demand)

Since this is a mostly theoretical exercise to begin with, it's weird that they mention the computational cost of the classical method in terms of real computer times on supercomputers, and almost don't mention the theoretical bounds. The practical cost doesn't matter much as far as demonstrating quantum supremacy is concerned.

As far as I know, the key to claiming true quantum supremacy in this case, is actually the proof of the theoretical complexity of the classical algorithm. The quantum computer is obviously efficient at solving the problem, considering that the problem was constructed with what a QC is good at in mind. And the hardness of any classical algorithms had been somewhat demonstrated already, by Aaronson and Arkhipov in 2011. They managed to show that if there is a polynomial time classical algorithm capable of solving this sampling problem, then the polynomial hierarchy would collapse, which is seen as extremely unlikely (on the same level as showing P=NP).

PS: Aaronson recently gave a 3-part lecture at ETH as part of the annual Paul Bernays lectures. Links to recordings and PPTs here: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4301. Part 3 is specifically about this topic, and gives a good high level overview of the current state.

Edit: link to more info on the Aaronson and Arkhipov result, including link to the original paper: https://gilkalai.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/aaronson-and-arkhi...
Which processor, though? There are a few.
Shareable Tweets- https://2fb.me

A chrome extension that puts a Facebook reaction bar on Twitter. It let’s you create publicly clickable Facebook share links on Twitter, rather then simply linking an account to Facebook.

Use it in API mode:

https://2fb.me/https://news.ycombinator.com
They also have their own CDN, to reduce load on ISPs.

https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/how-netflix-works-...
The one thing that I find hard to believe in our society these days is the amount of violence shown to medical teams in hospital emergency rooms and also first responders and paramedics who are trying to save lives in the field. It is endemic here in Australia too, not just the US.

I grew up in South East Asia, where I and my friends were taught to pretty much revere the people in this line of work. I guess it is still that way in those countries too, highlighted by a recent video of the protests in Hong Kong where huge crowds of protesters would willingly make way for ambulances to get to casualties in the crowd.

Is it something that we need to ingrain to our kids as they are growing up, so that they have more empathy? It astounds me that a paramedic friend of mine was recently kicked and punched by 2 "friends" of an unconscious person as she tried to save his life on the street. She says it is a really common thing nowadays. Where is your mindset at when you try to prevent someone from saving your friend's life?
Let's say you are recording and processing audio in realtime. You have one function available which runs on a separate thread and provides you with the samples (fixed number every call). As I understand this article (and similar ones), you are not supposed to malloc on that thread (as that thread hanging could result in dropped samples). But if you want to save the audio, how else are you going to save it without appending to some array (for which you need to malloc)?
Excluding or accounting for outliers is a pretty common thing in statistics.

Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_minority
Just imagine how far ahead the other industries would be if we handled patent and trademark law like we do in the software industry.
Congrats, you have very mainstream ethics. Imagine trying to run a business that uses no fossil fuels and does no business with anyone using fossil fuels.
Buffett talking about it and Mrs B this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg1XfTNKRJk
"Wealth" transfers to the poor to keep people alive and in good health and help lift them out of poverty are great policy. We need a lot more of those, because there are too many poor people, and they are suffering. The US is the richest country on earth, and this situation is plain wrong.

In this particular case, though, any transfers are more 'chump change' than 'wealth' from the rich: Social Security tax is only levied on the first $132,900 of earned income (2019). With the exception of the surtax, Medicare taxes are only due on earned income. Rich people don't make the bulk of their money from a paycheck, so it really isn't like the rich are contributing a lot of their wealth or even income to the Medicare and Social Security systems.

On top of that, the rich still get all the benefits of the same Medicare and Social Security programs. So what if they pay in a bit more over a lifetime than their nanny or the schoolteacher of their children? These are insurance programs, and that is how insurance works: everyone pays in, and everyone benefits, but not necessarily to the same extent.
There was no sexual harassment backlash in silicon valley because there was no a particular sexual harassment issue in silicon valley which probably the safest industry for women to work.

What happened in silicon valley was that women didn't want to put the time and effort to become good programmers, partly because of lack of interest and partly because they didn't deem the geeks as a cool group to hang up with. But then they realised those geeks are making a lot of money and on the way changing the world so they tried to jump on the bandwagon in the only way they know, shaming.

The funny thing, it still doesn't work for them because you still need to put the time and effort and to take the risks and to build companies from the ground, so they prefer to be nurses or doctors where there is much more sexual harassment but they couldn't care less because that's not what it was all about in the first place.
The best measure of society is compromise and social valor. Those who have neither deserve none.
yeah that's really interesting, i'm wondering if you're in the US (or that's where your friends are)

in my experience in the US couples tend to basically turn into a military style cornered unit with an us vs the world attitude as soon as children come, where the focus becomes some mix of family:work to the exclusion of all other activities, to include hobbies, fitness, eating right, etc. i hear jokes about "date night" as if that's somehow abnormal, so it seems people have to move mountains just to get dinner together.

i wonder if in the US there just isn't any sort of community setup so couples feel like any energy shared outside that is somehow hostile to their survival, e.g., you hanging out with your friends means you're not "all in" on your family or something.

it could also be a signaling thing, e.g. if you signal you don't have time for friends, perhaps the world views you as really virtuous and family oriented.
I’m thinking of starting a cryptoparty in a few of the cities I regularly inhabit to teach and meet more people, after being inspired by Snowden’s book. Seems like a good way to improve my communities and also meet interesting people.
Security personnel at hospitals who have the right to restrain violent patients until police arrive, while continuing to treat them if necessary.

If nothing else, it should be clear that the behavior will result in immediate corrective action. If it’s not, then there’s no deterrent at all.
Entropy can be used to understand systems
pre-malloc the array.
Note that the savings rate was over 10 percent before the 1980s. Also note that it is ‘savings’ in a balance-sheet sense; it includes debt repayments. This is not unusually high. 4 or 5 percent is unusually low.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PSAVERT
AirBnB doesn't cheat? Uber? Facebook? Cheating and breaking rules is lauded in Silicon Valley, dare I say admired in entrepreneurs.

Black employees though, not so much.

This is racism.

EDIT: Before you start nitpicking my examples:
http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

"They delight in breaking rules..."
I own the domain policies.dev and would be happy to hand it over to this project if you’re interested.