skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would surely look at ClickHouse for such use case.

If you're rolling your own solution (rather than using DBaaS) ClickHouse is unparalleled when it comes to scaling and efficiency. Its SQL is somewhat restricted but it should be able to do what you're looking very well, especially it was born out of the needs of Yandex Metrica which is quite similar use case of yours.

If you're using Kubernetes there is great Operator available from Altinity to run Clickhouse on Kubernetes.
Yeah he put it on his site and never talked about it publicly.

Which is why he is mostly a one-issue candidate. He could have been about the great issues of our time, and probably polled at least double what he is now. Many people who may not embrace UBI care about the environment.

I was the one who built yang2020.app and painted the giant Yang mural in Brooklyn. Privately I was trying to exhort his campaign to turn “how are you going to pay for it” into an opportunity to talk about Pigovian taxes and how he was going to avoid the fate of Macron and the yellow vest movement by redistributing the money back to the people. That may have led to his campaign putting a mention of it on his site, because they later wrote back and said “good news, it’s on the site”.

I think Yang will be an amazing candidate, just not for 2020. Ah, well Biden and Bernie are pretty old, so there will be other opportunities to run without primarying them.

Actually, what I really believe is that there should be a third party that has people like Yang and Tulsi run. Not left, not right - forward. I got the domain name for this party: “rational.party”. :)
> There are many roles where this will have little effect on productivity, likely less office-based roles. Another reason not to roll this out nationwide is simply that lower paid roles may also see even lower pay.

What kind of roles are you talking about? The food service workers gotta keep flipping burgers all week while you eat out on your midweek weekend? You sure that won't affect productivity/caring-about-health-code-standards? As somebody who has seen the actions of disgruntled line-cooks behind the scenes, I'd pay extra to have my food prepared by a relatively content worker -- even for selfish reasons.

> That said, given the opportunity, I believe I would much prefer to work four days a week if the pay was adequate to support myself comfortably.

Of course you would, you're a human.
My experience of cleaning sensors by vibrating the sensor isn't great - I don't recall it shifting any visible spots of dust/debris. Perhaps it's more effective on some models, I imagine those with IBIS have the advantage here.

For me, swabbing the sensor (of my D500) a couple of times a year is the only solution.
On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality – Reproduction Study [Pdf
I think that food is less of an issue since there is plenty of food other than beef that most people like.

However, although land itself may not be limited in the near term, land that people want is limited. Even if you have the same number of acres of land as the previous generation, if that land is less valuable, then your wealth and quality of life have gone down.
There is a reason why security experts recommend to everyone to never permit any app access to your camera on iOS.

This is probably also the reason why I never would recommend anyone to use android, ever.
Isn’t that basically logging in with Google? I mean Google isn’t asking you if you logged into Medium with a push but by the time you’re doing that Google already knows it’s you and pushed you a notification to log you in initially.
I wouldn’t touch their cameras with a 10-foot pole anyway because they don’t follow the ONVIF spec and so can’t inter operate with anything else (vendor lock in).
Boooo reality
There are a lot of comments here that are espousing the value of getting more time to do the work - this is fine. Some businesses need to be open 5 days a week.

However, if your work does not really require you to be in the office, then I see no issue with people working even two days from home.

What I feel is that in order to get to the office, a lot of work needs to be done before you can get there, and it is an expense (in terms of time as well as money) that the employee bears.

I think we need to realize that we are in the 21st century, and that most things can be resolved by video-conferencing and email. We have so many tools for remote communication, and they are really very good.

It is high time, we took full advantage of them, and give people less stress in their lives, and more time to spend with their families and developing themselves.
How do you find the commit hash that is the last known good? Looking through jenkins release logs, asking someone, something else?
The synopsis is enough to tell you the article won’t be worth reading. A CS degree isn’t there to churn out coders.
Where are the statistics proving overall humanity is much better off? I'm doubtful anyone can prove "overall" humanity is better or worse than "x" generation. Also how do we measure it?
This is mostly talking about creating a probabilistic ID graph - creating a unique ID across devices. This is technically not same as browser-fingerprinting. Latter is much simpler
The Truth Behind Why Airliners Don't Fly over Tibet
Has someone in the Intelligence community approached the author? Oops that's classified. :)

This has implications for extracting sounds from noisy recordings or am I off base? Does it only track pitch patterns?
It seems a very anti-human thing to say that what you have worked for your whole life, that you've already paid tax on all along the way, cannot be given to your own offspring.

It strikes at the heart of what it is to be alive, and the relationship of the individual and the state.
The point is that in the case of most modern nations, they did not exist as separate nations until they asserted that they were, often by waging war on those who insisted they were not.

These nations bootstrap their nationhood, and are first legitimate after the fact.

One would hope that we will extend civilization to the point where people who want independence don't need to kill to prove they're serious.
Webench Power Designer looks nifty, thanks for pointing it out. :)
Humanity is jumping the shark but we've never been higher!!!
Apple’s code quality is way down. The OS has become more complex and distributed due to ambitious projects like userspace drivers and the separate “T” CPU that manages Touch Bar and security functions; yet they don’t seem to invest in stability versus churning out a release every autumn, damn the bugs and torpedoes.

For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week. I remember Windows 98 being roughly as stable. It’s immensely disappointing.
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My favorite version of this is the M-H then T-F weeks. That way you get a 4 day weekend every two weeks and the office has 5 day a week coverage if you put people on alternating weeks.
Playing battleships over BGP (2018)
hah, good point ;)
Ask HN: How to pass my startup on to someone else?
Succinctly, I'm solo founder of a promising stealth startup with angel funding [1], but due to personal circumstances I need to take an extended amount of time off (likely a year or more). One option is to give the money back and kill the startup, letting go the one other fulltime team member. I would much prefer to transition the startup to others to take the reins, while I maintain a minimal supervisory role with a little equity [2].
Is there precedent for this? Am I crazy to think this is possible? Any examples?

There are people I'm confident can take the reins -- I've been recruiting them to join in December. How can I suggest this plan to them without showing weakness (in the company and myself)?

[1] The angels really invested in me, not so much the business, so I anticipate they will want their money back.

[2] Honestly don't care about keeping a massive amount of equity. I just want to see the tech deployed and help people.
Being able to read, understand, and recommend improvements on code is definitely a mark of a good engineer.
What you describe is a caricature of a product manager. In reality, differences or changes in “time spent” or other metrics are extremely useful to explain problems and opportunities for improvements that might otherwise be missed.

Most certainly you could misuse the statistics for blind number worshipping, and I’m sure there are many anecdotes of that kind of behaviour. But I’m also quite certain that successful organizations can use these to improve their products in meaningful ways. I suspect any gmail product manager who tried to slow down their product (or resisted fixes) to improve meaningless time spent metrics would be crucified.
"general English" reasonably applies to the common subset of the language.
Another interesting number is the total transferred size (in MB), maybe even the most important number since that is what people on metered mobile connections pay for.
Key paragraph from the article:

. . . Consider healthcare. Total healthcare costs in the United States now exceed $1 trillion, 14% of the gross domestic product. Of this total, a disproportionate share is spent on the care of elderly patients shortly before their deaths. Most elderly people have the bulk of their medical care paid for by Medicare, a state-supported program. Workers pay into it during their years of peak employment, and as retirees they then draw down from it as they age. However, the 5% of Medicare recipients 65 years of age and older who die in any one year account for around 30% of all costs of the Medicare program. Seventy-seven percent of the Medicare decedents' total healthcare expenditures occur in their last year of life, a staggering 52% in the last 2 months, and 40% in the last month. We are basically spending a fortune as a society for healthcare for very old, very sick people that does not increase the lifespan of the individual by more than 30 days, if at all.
Hard Cider: Understanding the Jack-In Process
If you don't mind me asking what's the law you are referring to?
By the time the G5 required massive liquid cooling rigs and was nowhere near ready for laptop use... even die-hard Mac users were not parroting the party line any more. For most, the Intel move was a welcome one, as that was also during the height of the move from desktop to laptop. There was almost no chance for a decent G5-based laptop, at least not one as nice and sleek as the G4s that were already in existence.
Those days are today again, that's exactly what the root commenter describes.
If his idea helps Louisiana kick the habit of corporate tax giveaways I’m all for it (and yes I know what economic theory says about corporate tax and deadweight loss getting passed to consumers, these recipients are not consumer products companies by and large)
Are you self employed or is this something you have been able to negotiate with your employers?
“In the Year 2525” – Zager and Evans (1969)
Totally not true.

It does limit you somewhat, but a large part of the web, in HN, slashdot, bbc, most news sites, TheRegister, wikipedia, most of stackexchange, and a shedload more all work fine.
You just have to spell it out once at the beginning of the article, then it's fine. The author never did it once.
It's actually the pollination industry that's the root of the problem as I see it, and there's a lot of evidence to support it. There has been a major shift in the past couple of decades and now pollination services account for as much income for keepers as the honey itself. So just out of wintering, when they're at their weakest, they get all the hives together to pollinate the almond crops, and of course to trade the latest parasites and diseases. Once they've got all caught up to date on those, they load them back on the trucks and do a nice tour around the country, spreading the joy.

My parents kept up to 100 hives for almost two decades in northern Manitoba, where it gets down to -40C, and we rarely ever had overwintering losses. Farmers and keepers should treat their livestock well, feed them over the winter, give them a bit of shelter, and they'll do fine. Bees can survive almost any cold if they've got the fuel to burn to keep the hive warm.
Sure, which is why 60-70% of research findings are difficult to impossible to reproduce.

Which is why "economists" are all filthy rich from their highly accurate, highly precise predictions about economic trends.

Which is why stories about a software bug potentially skewing the results of thousands of studies was at the top of this site all of last week.
It would scale if the technology to create these financial instruments easily and to monitor the land existed. There are startups working on it.
There was an interesting example of this when I took a course modern Middle East history in college.

I forget the exact time period, but basically in pre-modern times Islamic law said that you weren't allowed to pass wealth onto your children. To get around this, the wealthy would found charities and give their kids cushy jobs running them. Even though a lot of the charity's money was presumably routed to giving the kids a lavish lifestyle, this system still resulted in the Middle East having the best social welfare system of the time period.
>£45k is for international (that is non-EU, for now, sigh) students, right? It’s £27k otherwise.

You're quite right it's £27,750 for home/EU students currently, but I'm including maintenance/living costs in my figure too which realistically will probably be about 5-6k a year. Some universities make working part-time more feasible than others, which can help with this aspect.

If you're international, the total can be closer to £90k after three years (based on a band 2 UG course @ Warwick + £5k per year maintenance/living costs).

>I think we shouldn’t complain: it’s much less than what top US schools charge

I'd respectfully disagree - aiming to be better than the US sets an incredibly low bar. Just like their healthcare, US education is ridiculously expensive and some of the (private) loans seem almost predatory. We should be looking at Europe where in quite a few countries tuition is a few hundred euros a year. Or, thinking back a few years where tuition was £3k or free entirely.

>the tuition loan conditions are extremely manageable

It's definitely a forgiving loan in terms of repayments - but my loan accumulated interest at ~6.3% whilst I was still studying with no proper income. That interest rate is worse than a bank loan.

If you want to take advantage of not having to repay the loan, you're essentially betting against your future earnings potential.
I just love how the author snuck in this little story about arbitrage:

> (For those of you thinking of funding your research this way, forget it: the cost of collecting and transporting the cans eliminates the profit. However, about $10 million worth of empty bottles and cans do get smuggled into Michigan from neighboring Ohio and Indiana, which do not require a deposit on beverage containers. Returning those out-of-state bottles and cans in Michigan does make a small profit. Michigan lawmakers have proposed requiring that beverage manufacturers put a code on all bottles and cans that are sold in Michigan, and that automated bottle return machines be programmed to read the code so they accept only containers originally sold in Michigan.)
The limit is 65k. You pay 25% to the mandatory pension fund. Of the remaining, they assume 22% of expenses and tax you 15% on what's left. So you take home ~42k net after taxes. If he were to earn 65.001 euros, he'd take home ~32k net after taxes. You need to earn at least ~80k to break even. So if you earn between 65k and 80k, you're screwed. Needless to say, that 65k becomes a ceiling because if you get a raise, you start earning several thousands of euros less. So either you're stuck at 65k, or you bite the bullet and take the hit until you reach 80k, at which point you can start increasing your take home again. So a 1 euro increase gives you a -10k "raise", while a 15k increase gives you a 0 euros "raise".

It's probably the most stupid tax system in the developed world.
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Use browser plug ins

* ublock origin

* no script

* cookie auto delete plug in, deletes cookies if tab is closed

* (I use also I don't care about cookies for the EU cookies clusterfuck)

* Canvas blocker

* Privacy badger

* Glyph detection blocker

* Decentral eyes

* Privacy settings

* Privacy-Oriented Origin Policy

* WebRTC leak protection

* https everywhere

* I have a browser spoofing plug-in too but don't think it works so well.

Use VPN

use different browsers for different purposes.

use startpage.com instead of google

Here, try your luck:

https://amiunique.org/

https://panopticlick.eff.org

Does not work so well. Instead of preventing canvas, fonts, browser ID etc., the plug-ins should randomize it.
HN had a google captcha it subjected me to for a while. It did not need JS[0]

At the same time I have come across captchas that do need JS. I guess google offers both.

[0] if it had, I would have stopped posting here as I never accept browser JS outside of a VM.
Sometimes you sucker the bank, sometimes the bank suckers you, depends on which scale beyond your own resources you can talk them into letting you operate, and where you are on a capitalistic continuum ranging from investors to consumers.

Where does it say merit or even sensibility is supposed to be a factor?
I'd say that there's something to what you are saying. But the flip side is that where there isn't a well studied problem lurking underneath, and the CRUD app is just a CRUD app, formally educated computer scientists are more likely to find a mirage of one and end up way overcomplicating the solution.

While a good manager should be slotting the right people into the right projects, an important meta-skill for all professionals of whatever background is self-awareness of your own skills and weaknesses and using that awareness to play an active role in determining where you work and what you work on.
2020 is going to be the golden age of new programming languages
That's a specious argument. For example, I might not have children, does that mean I shouldn't pay school tax? No, we all pay the tax, whether I directly benefit from them or not. It's a social contract.

Allowing for special classes is the problem, not a solution. It is the collective good we are striving for. Otherwise, we end up in a situation of the tragedy of the commons, and no one wins.

Perhaps, instead, we should also focus on extending life expectancies for African American men, rather than allowing them to not contribute to Social Security.
Did you really just copy/paste the top reply from the article, without attribution or comment?
At first sight I cannot see any particular added feature this (nice) program has (apart it being Open Source), when compared to old tools, like the Nirsoft one:

https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/wireless_key.html

though having an aternative is always a good thing.

A 74 KB portable program seems to me a lot more practical than a 4 MB setup/install, when/if you need to recover a password.
Can't we just show a "This site may harm your computer" message whenever a site is recording too much timing data? The page is justifiably considered malware at that point.

For example there's nothing preventing someone from timing all my keyboard events for keystroke biometrics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
I'm not OP, but he's referring to the so-called "flat tax" for freelancers.
This needs a 2009 tag.
I don't think the EdgeMax is the 'advanced' line by any stretch. They both run a fork of Vayatta and share a CLI. The Unifi stuff has more features accessible via the GUI and receives far more attention from Ubiquity.

However, the biggest and most major difference between the two lines of products is the requirement of the Controller to run the Unifi line of devices. For that simple fact I would pin the Unifi line as more 'advanced'.
Good point. Still, this seems like a reasonable start.

Being OSS, someone with the right skills / motivation could probably replace the Microchip pieces with something suitable.
That money is out making more money by investing in the macroeconomy. It isn't sitting in their bedsheets. Bill Gates doesn't sleep on a pile of gold like scrooge mcduck. He created something the world needed and valued. Now his money out creating new things. Money does NOT follow the laws of thermodynamics
It's in their 'comment' section. Perhaps they had a special issue or something with opinion piees
>For me, Mojave on a 2017 15” MBP crashes hard about once a week.

That's insane. Think I've seen one crash on my windows machines this year
One reason companies do things on "the basis of only three complaints".

If three people complain, there might be hundreds or thousands who didn't bother.
True, but I'm actually saying that poverty is being defined to allow resource savings to trickle up so you had a healthier and more sustainable life at the poverty line a decade ago than today.
A reminder that most scientific studies that report sensational results enough to "go viral" are wrong.

And this doesn't even claim to be scientific, AFAICT.

But it does report that we don't have to make hard choices. We can pay less and get more. You can see why this message travels fast.
I use ubiquiti hardware in my house, and I was already concerned by the quality of their UI, it filled the disk once with mongodb logs (5TBi !)and crashed my home server, now it is running in chroot with limited disk access but that was a pain to setup.

Anyway, I am looking into alternative but I can't find anything yet. I only need WiFi AP that can work together for roaming. I would love open source, and would pay premium to support an open source solution.
Few people stay at the same job forever.

We want to increase mobility by mass transit. Ideally, you could live in Brooklyn and commute to New Jersey, for example.
> Are we to believe that a 100 year old bizops practice is the optimal solution?

Over the past 100 years a tiny minority were doing any kind of knowledge work. Do you want to stick with an optimization for manual labor at your tech company?

9-5/5 is less bad for this kind of work than the Chinese 9-9/6... but it's still bad.
Finding potential software vulnerabilities from Git commit messages
In the Middle East and Southeast Asia even a 2-day weekend is rare!

People CHOOSE to work ALL week, only closing for a few hours just for Friday prayers because of social norms.

Expat workers in the Middle East get only a couple consecutive weeks off per year to go visit their families.

In developed societies, I think even keeping it a 2-day weekend and allowing employees to have at least one day of their choice to work from home would be great.
Everything that you need to know about the author’s reasoning is in the “prestige” section. He claims that it is prestigious and therefore good to have a CS degree with no explanation of his logic. This is not a reasoned conclusion, it is an opinionated dig at those whom he feels are invading his space without paying their dues.
Dollars are how we account for net value provided, and their only value is in society’s collective agreement that tangible goods and services person A provided to B yesterday can be balanced by unlike goods and services A received from C today. They’re literally the debt that society owes the holder to compensate for past services to the society.

It’s not the only system of distributing goods and services to the populace. In theory, a centralized authority could evaluate everyone’s current need and provide it to them directly. This has gone disastrously wrong whenever it’s been tried in practice, though.