skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it finally got into the heads of American executives that you do actually have to put in some effort and not cut every corner. Probably because sales numbers were not in their favour.
Pretty much all SQL DBs support pagination, and many libraries that abstract the DB away hide this as an iterator.
>With or without headphones, the only strangers who come up and talk to me are people who want something from me, like beggars, people seeking directions, or people trying to sell me something

In the US maybe. In other parts of the world it can be quite different...
>Your argument appears to be that lighter tax evasion shouldn't be prosecuted as long as there are heavy tax evaders that haven't been prosecuted.

I think the argument is more along the lines of: "Something is wrong if the police spend zero or minimal effort investigating major burglaries (when they have the resources to do so, as evidenced by their investigations into lesser burglaries). This lack of investigation incentivizes major burglaries by those who have the means to do."
I figure it'll be a cascading effect, once the price drops below a certain threshold, any horizontal organization is going to jump on board once they see others doing the same. Some for research purposes, some for economic, some to act as watchdogs, but most of them propelled by the motivation of being among the first to market. The window of opportunity to launch a station with ease might vanish as near-Earth space inevitably becomes coated in a thick spiderweb of legislation. Also, to evade taxes.
Could we get carbon credits for paying these ships to go slower?
I'm bipolar II and I'm right there with you on work output and aligning your schedule with your illness, however as others have mentioned it's unfair to assume the subject in question is also bipolar simply based on his work schedule.
Also it's not really "mysterious" if we know what it is.
How would you write automated tests for it? How would you keep those tests from being really flakey?
90something% efficient electric motors vs 40-60% efficient gas engines however.

If you can make up in other areas like drag in the design because of the different power plant it's not such a mental gap to close.
> Furthermore the statements in question are rather specific and very unambiguous, not the other way around.

Or rather, the ambiguity is around how specific the statements are.
Read - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
Asymptotic notation isn't about what's "in practice."

We have very good asymptotic complexity for multiplication, but don't use the ones that scale the closest to linear because the time constant is enormous.
No, but they have been snarked at by forum commenters and their assumptions. Should the parent distrust every person commenting from now on?
LINQ lets you query and filter collections. You're thinking of LINQ to SQL.
I have only my anecdotal experience, but when I did full stack work at two large employers HN readers would definitely recognize, we had some really talented developers, and nearly every poorly performing part of a page was dictated by a product owner.

The business can't easily and explicitly monetize "fast" to the same degree it can bloated features and ads/tracking.
They aren't that common. And are easy to ignore. It's not like they have a banner constantly taking up the top 4-5 spots. Or popups. These sorts of posts aren't even on the front page more often then not.
Hi, once upon a time, I worked with medical image data. I literally had a DBA suggest storing the volumetric data in a database. I worked to diligently to explain to him why he was incorrect. When he resisted my explanations and tried to push forward with his plan, I worked diligently to get him fired. I was successful.
The IRS publicly says that it audits poorer taxpayers at a higher rate because they require less manpower to audit.

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
> Eating bone marrow played a key role

This conclusion is a big leap, even as per the article you shared. "The strength required to access the high calorie content of bone marrow may have played a key role in the evolution of the human hand and explain why primates hands are not like ours, research has found."

It's just a possibility. They can't even make a strong claim about it.
Plus, swap performance is being improved bit by bit, so it's not as much of a dirty word as it was before.

https://lwn.net/Articles/717707/
Don't forget gaming. They're going after the Twitch business model there. Combining that with traditional YouTube and Stadia offers a very robust social gaming platform. They're basically going after digital entertainment all across the board, looking for opportunities to leverage cloud/ai to leapfrog encumbants.
Did the GP ask you?
Incentives Build Robustness in BitTorrent [pdf]
You could argue that it might even increase the audience if specific users can hide companies they won't be working at and as a result they'd see more job postings from other places.
All of what you say aside, nuclear still loses when compared to what solar and storage can reasonably be expected to cost. It makes absolutely no sense to build a new nuclear power plant now. It would be a way of destroying billions of dollars for no good reason.
I mean, that argument could be used for any kind of data exhaust at all - data mining still has a massively negative reputation, particularly on HN.
I hate when people nitpick this stuff. What if we just straight prefer the first one?
Especially since the IRS has come out and said they go after minor tax evasion more since going after the bigger fish requires more money and resources. The IRS also has it’s budget decrease year after year.

It’s not like going after the bigger evaders would yield bigger fines and maybe lead to bigger budgets.
When they close your YouTube account, they close the associated account on the Google side of things
The funny thing is, I've noticed these too, and all I come away with is the impression that nobody wants to work for ZeroCater. I can't imagine that impression bodes well on recruiting.
Okay, so, lithium is used to treat bipolar. Metformin is being tested to treat lithium weight gain. Modafinil is sometimes used for treatment resistant depression. And escitalopram is an anti-depressant. All of that, plus the hormones (which some doctors think might help folks with depression), makes me think that the author has a health issue and his biohacking success is actually just reflective of him getting better. I can't see how he could convince a doctor to prescribe these meds otherwise.
It is hi-story.
> Now, if you just dumped your other ad networks and ran everything through us, I bet it would be load much faster and that badge might magically disappear...

My experience with everything google has touched lately suggest that this wouldn't improve speed any. Gmail and youtube make continental drift look speedy and even the search page takes 1.4MB and takes over a second to load for me (maybe corporate network issue), that's approaching the size of doom to display a dozen links.

Google doesn't have any moral authority when it comes to bloat.

Edit - for reference HN takes about the same time to load, but that has to cross the pacific ocean whereas google supposedly has local data centers.
I wouldn't really call this a rootkit, it seems more like a function instrumenter. To me it looks like the hooks are not persistent and require the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to be set to function, which is very easily detectable. The only cool thing here is storing the log data in GPU memory instead of the system RAM. The actual hook logic is also still running on the CPU.
Google's networking stack – Snap: a microkernel approach to host networking
That's like saying, I don't like having an @ symbol in my email address, fix it, make it work the way I like it.

Sometimes you just gotta make accommodations to where you live. Having a last name for legal purposes doesn't really change anything about you.
> Republicans hate it

It was created under the Nixon administration. The biggest expansion came under Reagan and he called the EITC the “the best anti-poverty bill, the best pro-family measure, and the best job-creation program ever to come out of the Congress.” George W. Bush administration also increased the benefits.
You forgot to multiply by 100 when you went to %, so it's actually 0.1% higher. Still pretty low.
As Snowden said the problem isn't the data policies, but the data collection to begin with. Solve the latter and the former is irrelevant.
So, assuming nothing against the law, how would they do it legitly? I am guessing:

- Treat the markets as a complex dynamical system and use the tools from statistical physics such as the Gibbs Ensemble, to derive internal states from input and output.

- Treat the markets as an encryption algorithm and use the tools from cryptanalysis, such as differential cryptanalysis: Even when unable to decipher the full algorithm (total break), one may still derive details and a subset of system functionality.

- They were probably the first to heavily use Hidden Markov Models (see Baum–Welch algorithm and the IBM speech recognition recruitment) and keep on the frontline with new machine learning algorithms (their deep learning revolution would have started 10-15 years before industry).

- They'd have an extremely solid backtesting pipeline, where any new feature can be stress-tested for signal. Features could be very arcane (% of mentions of the currency on neighboring state television) and are constantly (re-)added and removed: concept drift and market competition would gradually weaken signals, but fresh signals are added to keep the performance.

- All features are fed into a single final model (which may be an ensemble of many different forecasting techniques as to lower the variance). This model is very dynamic year-by-year (with just a few long-term signal features).

- Finally, I suspect there are strategies that only become available when you have 1 billion under control. In a physics sense: That is a lot of energy / control theory experimentation budget. Normally, hedge funds would like to avoid feedback loops and their trades moving the markets, but I suspect there is a lot of money to be made when you can calculate in which direction the market would move when the system is deprived of - or infused with a jolt of energy. More hands-off: Buy for 1 billion in stock at market open, sell at market close. Buy signal will take a few hours to converge and result in a higher price, so you make a profit when you sell your portfolio to the very buyer's market you created, causing a drop in price to complete the loop.

- The extreme returns for 2007/2008 could be due to the increase in volatility of the crisis (you can make more money when there is a lot of action, and competitors suffer from human herd bias / hysteria), but also, in part, due to them being the first to effectively exploit signals in growing social media platforms and search engines. A few years later it was public knowledge that gauging frequency and sentiment on Twitter was once a valuable signal.

- The NSA/CIA type recruits would not work on industrial spying, but on cryptanalysis, (graph) data mining, OSINT, HUMINT, IMINT, and for the security of the firm (which probably runs a tighter security than the intelligence agencies of smaller countries).
I do the same kind of resource management with books when I travel. It's no fun to go on a trip with a mostly depleted fiction paperback and end up lugging around dead weight for 5 days out of 7.
I just completed my own CRUD App and feel super proud. Simple no non-sense user interface all in Vanila JS along with my own personal hand coded CSS and HTML. Backend using Python Flask with form packages for input forms. Database simple SQLite and authentication using Flask login system. Super simple yet lovely and useful.
> For example can Trump ask IRS to target say H1B employees ?

I anal but my guess is no, at least not as an order, and at least not in a way that is consistent with our laws.

> In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for intensive scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy

However, sitting senators and representatives can write letters to the IRS or any federal agency and my understanding is the people at the federal agency actually read those letters.

Here's just an example I found on Google search

> Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Ways and Means Ranking Member Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass., today questioned whether the Trump administration is wrongfully pressuring the IRS to produce 2018 withholding tables that would result in systematic underwithholding of federal taxes from taxpayer earnings. In a letter to Acting IRS Commissioner and Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy David Kautter, Wyden and Neal asked about interactions between Trump officials and the IRS regarding the development of the tables, which are expected to be released in the near future. If an undue amount of taxes are underwithheld by employers now, millions of hardworking Americans will owe taxes next April instead of receiving a tax refund.

https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/010818%20IRS%20...

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-ne...
When I had to use gmail for work I switched back to the plain html interface. It was startlingly fast

As far as I could see all the complicated front-end stuff added zero to the user experience. Ok, so yeah, you needed a page load to view a message or whatever, but it was quick and hardly noticeable. All they needed to do was freshen up the stylesheet and call it a day. But, I guess, all those developers and product managers needed something to do in between building a new messaging app and killing the previous one.
Appreciate the response. The good news is I have the broad tech fluency, work for a large tech company as a Program Manager, past life was system admin, etc. I just don't have the literal "programming/engineer" skillset to sit down and code out frontend/backend solution. I looked at Fiverr and HireAFreelancer.com however not sure how successful those solutions are.
I'd be interested to see ancient solutions to this.

For example, if you were to tie the mammoth down, you might be able to cut off a few legs and eat them, while bandaging up the mammoth to keep it alive for a week or so till you kill it and eat the rest.
This is the problem though, all your competitors go cheap, you go cheap. Customers (often, not always) don't notice until it affects them, and eventually acclimate to the new normal that is trash service.

Just see for example how shitty phone bots have replaced call centers which were already outsourced. The thing is no one chooses a cellular provider based on the customer service, we generally just accept the service will be terrible and optimize on cost of plan which will be what we use it for primarily anyway.
I don't see why not, it appears nobody is held accountable anymore
Even before having a phone I was thinking of being 2 songs away from sth
Sorry, but there’s no way anyone can completely blame the POs on this mess.
Unfortunately we don't have Aldi yet in the bay area, which makes up for a good proportion of HN readers. However we do have Grocery Outlet, which IMO is the best discount grocer in the US, having previously lived in the midwest and southeast.
It’s at a disadvantage vs pgcli and mycli because they’re in Python and have access to the excellent Prompt Toolkit (which also powers ipython), while usql is in Go.

I started using mycli recently and it actually made me joyful about how good it was. DBeaver is really good but for most things I’d prefer a cli, and the autocomplete actually makes it faster to use for many things.
Cool idea but highly unlikely to go anywhere constructive. Lots of anon accounts at the least.

I’d like it, but it’s doubtful.
Can't say I had the most favorable phone interview with you guys, but I did appreciate the incredibly responsive process even through the "proper channels".
The article very clearly says:

> The data involved in the initiative encompasses lab results, doctor diagnoses and hospitalization records, among other categories, and amounts to a complete health history, including patient names and dates of birth.
Ask HN: Paranoid about 3rd party browsers?
There are a lot of cool productivity tools on Mac (Fluid, Station, Sidepad) that are basically browsers with some specific functionality. Am I the only one who is cautiously using them? I don't want to log in to a 3rd party app with some important accounts like Apple, Google, etc.? I wonder what are your thoughts on this.
How the Sunrise Movement built a viral climate campaign without Twitter Ads
what do you mean by "proper"?
What Is a Citizen Planner?
That’s not the right reading of the convention. The rule is against unnecessary suffering and even excessive lethality. For example hollow point rounds are more effective at killing but solid rounds have the same disabling effect and give the recipient a chance of survival. Hollow point bullets are banned by the convention.

Its also illegal to use excessive calibre bullets against human targets. Even though such large projectiles are much more likely to kill.

The exact phrasing is:

“It is prohibited to employ weapons, projectiles and material and methods of warfare of a nature to cause superfluous injury or unnecessary suffering.”

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul...
I went out of my way two years ago to get a 15" 2015 MBP after coming to the same conclusion.

Last 'good' keyboard, replaceable storage, built like a tank , etc. And you don't need to calibrate the trackpad every time you open the damn thing.

It also happens to be the model/year I fixed the most at my uni's (super duper apple certified) repair shop, so I'm confident I can keep it alive for a while.
which all look carefully curated to me. i cant find any with more than one person in it within first few pages of results
I have never seen high fructose corn syrup in the UK. There is a bunch of chat right now about not watering down our food (and other) standards to allow US-quality food here after/if Brexit happens.

FWIW brown bread in the UK has been "a thing" since well before I was born, so there there is not just an expectation for white.

I would wager that the typical couch surfer is the sort of person who as well as focusing on value on where they choose to sleep probably also subsists on fairly cheap basic foods.

Certainly in the past decade or two the UK you'll see a lot more variety in what you can get even in convenience stores in London: white, brown, granary, soda, rye, sourdough, bagels, barbari, boule brioche, baguette, challa, chapati, ciabatta - you name it. It all seems to get sold and presumably eaten. Not saying it is any good of particularly authentic or "correct" but there is a lot of variety in the most common of shops.
Hello, fellow brilliant engineer here.

In my experience, it is not as often as you might think. The key issue comes down to brilliance coupled with selfishness.

If you look for it, you can see some common themes in these comments: "...the other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match his work," or "Meanwhile we were all left to deal with his fallout," or "...this particular eng ... ended up costing almost as much to clean up his mess as the value we got from him in the first place." We have all had to work with that guy. In the early part of my career, I have been that guy.

People are not arguing because they don't understand your brilliance and are jealous of your productivity. It is because you are making their lives harder. That is what makes people bitter.

Turn the problem around: instead of asking "how can I get all of these over-zealous, jealous people to leave me alone", ask, "how can I apply my brilliance to make their lives easier instead of harder?" Unless you are doing something basically trivial, there is usually too much work for any one person to do it all by themselves, no matter how brilliant. You need those people. So help them out. You will have a much better time. And so will they.
I take a similar view. But it’s not so much about a desire to not pay for good content. It’s that there are way more content sources than time in the day for attention and money.
Exactly. I always say SQL servers are kernel of beautiful relational theory wrapped in about 4 feet of duck-tape and bubble gum.

The SQL server presents itself as a black box, saying "just say what you want and I'll figure out how to get it" and then completely fails to deliver on this and you have to open up the black box and find that its insides are dark and scary and full of jagged sharp ends.
I don't think anyone would be that far out of order arguing that the Republican party of today and its principals are very different than those of a decade ago. Your mileage may vary on a case by case basis.
We wrote a (brief) blog post about this decision way back in 2015 that you might be interested in: https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-go-was-the-right-choi...

We're generally pretty happy with our choice to use Go for the database, even when it causes us pain like the kind you see in this post. Rust wasn't really ready when we started working on CockroachDB, and we think that we wouldn't have been able to make progress as quickly as we did if we had used C(++).
Well it seems in the US that just being poor is a crime
The only reason we have electric cars being pushed as much as they are is because of Tesla, specifically Elon Musk. It is not some government program. If it weren't for them we would have the Nissan Leaf and that is about it. And it wouldn't have half the performance that even it has today.

Short answer: Monied interests don't really care, or don't think it is possible or feasible.
You're only being downvoted because the thread you started is too off-topic to the actual discussion
"the death of one is a tragedy. the death of a million is a statistic" Stalin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwKPFT-RioU
The EPA was also created under Nixon, good luck arguing that today's republicans don't hate it

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-trump-administration-has...
The Power of Collaborative Debugging
>What do you do? Must be some super crazy dream project for solving some ultra hard problem. You talk as if you're elite.

I don't have any more time for this at the moment, but I promise you that your views are not nearly as complex as designing and maintaining a database engine. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings. Remember; I'm not the one bemoaning "poor abstractions" and offering exactly zero ideas as to how it could be improved.
There are legitimate reasons for wanting privacy/anonymity. Not everyone who uses a tumbler does so to evade taxes or launder money.
I think their arguments is you went say eth->btc and then through a tumbler, they would be able to charge you for tax avoidance on the eth->btc (assuming you didn't declare this and pay the tax) and then money laundering on the tumbler because it was meant to obfuscate that.
That doesn't really help in an emergency. You could be dead from a drug interaction before they even know you're in a hospital.
What about Healthcare ?
Massive and still highly inefficient industry here.