skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Writing a program in C++ or Rust will not just make it use memory more efficiently than Go with the GC for free. Many Rust programs do a lot of heap allocations, and lots of people in C++ liberally use reference counted pointers which both require heap allocation and atomics.

It is possible to write Go programs which efficiently use memory using object pooling just as you would in C. Go additionally can stack allocate many variables that would require a heap allocation in Java, where the GC is a much bigger issue.
Though I agree with your sentiment my understanding is that the Panama Papers had very little for the IRS to work with because the law firm in question, who were not interested in fighting the US government, actively avoided having US citizens as clients.
For the record, the first approach was just used for simplicity in the blog post. The production system works differently (and doesn't have to waste memory per-datum) - we have typed containers, each of which have a primitive slice within.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/blob/master/pkg/col...
Growing up in Iowa (wide spaces, no traffic) my primary unit of distance was and still is living far away from home, time.

Everywhere I would want to go would be 5,15,30,45,60 and further increments of 30 minutes after that.
Thats why you suggest an alternate time, so that the onus is on them. Alternately if you know someone competent and willing to attend to make sure it goes right, ask them if they'll go.

Whether you come off as disinterested or busy is up to you.
This comment is out of line. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131314 for the note that downvotes are allowed to express disagreement.
Was also the time of 4GL and how everything could be reduced to a form based language front-end to a database https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

and other wondrous promises of overselling dreams and delivering something that many have now forgotten ever existed. Let's be fair, C is still alive and kicking despite the promises of that 4GL era.
A database is a server. Your malloc isn't deterministic, either.

According to the Go Wikipedia article, as of 2017:

> Garbage collection pauses should be significantly shorter than they were in Go 1.7, usually under 100 microseconds and often as low as 10 microseconds.

According to [1], "A trivial SELECT can take in the order of 0.1ms to execute server-side", i.e., 100 microseconds. Any I/O will of course significantly increase that.

This sounds like an entirely reasonable price to pay. Writing high-level functionality in C in 2019 would not give me much faith in their product.

[1]: https://www.2ndquadrant.com/en/blog/postgresql-latency-pipel...
Article is more than 2 years old.
That probably depends a lot on whose house and where it is.
I'm saying that it seems likely that there is at least some deterrent effect, yes. I'm not sure what the magnitude of the effect is, but I can't imagine that knowing someone inside is armed has no deterrent effect against would be invaders or that being armed provides no defense advantage should they do so.
That definitely looks cool. I remember looking at these when you mentioned them before, but then I got lost looking for example audio scripts. I just looked a bit harder and I think I found them:

https://github.com/PaulBatchelor/Patchwerk/blob/master/runt/...

I guess the documentations is in-progress, but the language seems like it has exactly the improvements over Sporth I was thinking of. Compared to Sporth, though, the development model seems less open to community involvement. It would be great to have a "contributing" guide of some sort, or a repo open to pull requests.
Again, this is why you

1) Start from the 'respect' angle.

2) Suggest an alternate time so that it can work.

3) Leave a paper trail.

I would only involve a manager if it became a serial issue and you've made your concerns clear and in writing.

Whether you come off as disinterested, not a team player, or just busy and the other person isn't willing to respect your schedule is up to you.

But it all depends on you.
Q-tips aren't supposed to be used for cleaning wax out of ears. That's not what they're for, and the manufacturer and much of the medical establishment actively advises against it.
>I find humans amazing. An adult mammoth is something even the more largest predators would not attempt to hunt. And yet, here is a band of puny 2 legged mammals armed with sticks with a flint at the end, hunting and killing masses of these mighty beasts.

Humans are the only animal with the ability to communicate complex abstract future plans (e.g. "today we all shore up the pit, tomorrow you guys wait over there and we'll drive them into this pit"). And it's not like animals can outrun us either. We're quite slow in a sprint but out cooling system is optimized for a very high duty cycle so we can just keep on chasing. Imagine being hunted by Terminator or Agent Smith. That's what the water buffalo or mammoth feels like
> Fuck tech. Fuck computers. What a waste of a career.

I'm coming around to a the-medium-is-the-message / technological-determinism perspective on the Internet, that it cannot exist as anything like the way it is now and mostly be a force for good. Just can't.

Always on ubiquitous wireless Internet. Decent battery tech so you don't need a power cable to everything. Low-powered cheap computers and sensors (cameras, microphones, those creepy human-body radars Google's about to start putting in phones). Storage so cheap you can collect everything. Algorithms to sift through it.

I don't see any possible way for all those things to exist and for the results not to be, overall, disastrous.

I also see exactly no way to stop it.
uh... unless that data science is on like cancer research or something please go back
absolutely. I don't think there's an easy answer here, but it poses an interesting question regarding a company's willingness to balance the idea of a true and open forum vs once bound by some set of ethics.
I did mean Christian Slater. Although after being blown away by Bacon's performance in White Water Summer I can't help but wonder how much darker Pump Up the Volume would be with Bacon cast as the lead.
I would argue its because academic success is more related to having a great memory than having novel intelligence
Sure, that too
Maybe millionaires aren't the favored customers of credit card companies. They'd get a bit more on interchange fees than the average customers but they'd never run a balance and pay interest or late fees.
Ah. Yes, sure, I very much share that opinion. Its done everywhere nevertheless.

I don't know the people at YC (other than dang from his comments.. a great mod) and their moral/ethical stance. But they are in the business of trying to raise unicorns though, with potential multi-billion valuation.
Seems relevant.
Maybe some kind of global financial technology company such as Ant Financial.
One person has died from radiation from the Fukushima accident. The possible range for casualties ranges from zero to hundreds. The evacuation killed over 2,000 people. This for an earthquake ~10 times greater than the tolerance it was designed for. I’d rather live within a km of Fukushima now than 10km of a coal power plant.
> “Since the 1990s, Republicans in Congress have put a lot of pressure on IRS to prevent payments going to people who didn’t deserve the credit or who didn’t qualify for the credit,” Kiel said

It's part of the war on "Welfare Queens".
You can't just apply a streaming paradigm to a batch style workload.

And 90% of all tasks are batch orientated.
Even with the actual hook logic running on the CPU, this prevents a large amount of possible detection from various filesystem/workingmem vectors...
> I think that is unlikely; there's too much code for Homebrew maintainers to be experts on everything contained in homebrew-core and follow every single patch.

By that logic, everything in any package manager should be treated with distrust then. Debian, RHEL, Arch, etc etc.

Not saying I disagree with distrusting, just making the point that risk exists everywhere, at some point you have to decide what you’re comfortable with.
Quite the opposite, IMNSHO: "I don't like people using + in their emails, ban that! Everyone should have an address [a-z]{3,}@[a-z]{3,}\.[a-z]{2,4} - anything else is HERESY! You gotta make accommodations, else you'll break my overly restrictive assumptions."
I actually found it mentioned in a different paragraph. It explicitly states your Google account.

You can have your YouTube account shut down and still have an email account
Yeah, something about the way they use "people" as if it describes absolutely everyone is off, as practically everyone I know (1) considers their phone a necessity and (2) keeps it charged because 1. There's always weird situations like when your kid unplugged your charger etc. etc. but thinking of life entirely in terms of battery anxiety is not something I can relate to.
Revealed: Twitter boss met Mohammed bin Salman months after Saudi spy discovered
Not directly, but certain IRS ranking officials have targeted specific groups in the past for both administrations.

However, there is also rampant fraud with the EITC. Similarly with the Child Tax Credit, it is likely because it is refundable, meaning that you receive a check after your taxes are paid rather than a deduction which can only bring your liability down to zero. Also auditing these are fairly trivial and usually only done through the mail so they can send them out en masse based on red flags.

> "The IRS estimates that 22 to 26 percent of EITC payments were issued improperly in Fiscal Year 2013. The dollar value of these improper payments was estimated to be between $13.3 billion and $15.6 billion."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/report-massive-fraud-stil...

https://www.eitc.irs.gov/tax-preparer-toolkit/frequently-ask...
Hanging laundry in the UK is also kinda in the same condition - in your own back garden fine, but if you live in an apartment with a balcony it is usually a 100% hard no to hanging laundry.

Personally I never liked the smell of clothes that had hung dry, much preferred them "done properly" in the drier :)
I think you've missed their point. Those engineers are aware of the cost of context switching, and because they plan accordingly they're able to get more done than those who don't
On the other hand no one brings this point up about Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB etc.

People like complaining about names that they wish things didn't have.
Capsule living: a 'cheap' option for young people flocking to LA
> Hopefully, the mods will come along and hide this entire discussion of why my comment was temporarily greyed out before being upvoted. Discussion of downvotes is something the guidelines ask people to not engage in. I'm not redacting this comment cuz reasons. But this is all off topic.

I have to say, I don't have an issue with downvote discussions when they are initiated by someone other than the original poster. Such conversations frequently lead somewhere interesting, as this one did, whereas the opposite type (in which the original poster complains) never does.

I sometimes come across fully grayed out comments that I simply cannot imagine why anyone would ever downvote. I upvote these, but I'd very much like to know why they were downvoted in the first place. Did the author get their facts wrong? Is there an angle I'm missing? Could the comment be construed as offensive?

I've heard it suggested that no one should downvote comments without leaving a reply on why they downvoted. This strikes me as completely unreasonable, but allowing users (who aren't the OP) to ask "hey, why was this downvoted" in cases where they're legitimately confused seems like a good compromise.

I do also see how this might get out of hand if it was officially allowed... but maybe worth a try?
>I highly doubt Newegg is going to throw away their entire business and reputation just to screw you out of $100.

You'd be dead wrong. Newegg was bought by Liaison Interactive in 2016 and has been in steep decline since.

They lost their customer service advantage to amazon years before that.

Customer service isn't a checkbox its a series of systems and when one company does it better they win.

If you're unhappy with your purchase amazon will take it back, most of the time you won't pay shipping. Newegg doesn't enjoy the same reputation.

Amazon does have an issue with counterfeit goods I don't understand given their data driven supply chain, so I hope they can solve it soon. If not someone else will eventually figure it out do better.
Guitar playing (justinguitar.com)! Swing dancing (or other types, look up classes in your area)! Writing (journal, or essays, look up writing nights on meetup)! Weightlifting (r/fitness FAQ beginner routine).
This sounds really cool, but could use better docs. As someone who is new to programmatic music composition, I'm not sure what the value proposition here is.
Lee Ballentine's answer to Why does Joe Biden say the word 'period' so often?
I'm on a slow connection. This page took a good while to load.

100kB of JS, 100kB of fonts. The images get a pass.

There's jQuery in there. It's a blog post. wat?

Just send me the text.
Show HN: tor.js - Minimal JS library to check if your visitors are using TOR
I Was Fired from Deadspin for Refusing to ‘Stick to Sports’
Sure it's easier, but it seems like the return on investment must be lousy. Is it really easier to audit 1 million people who end up owing an average of $100, or 10 people who end up owing $20 million?
But the Internet was created literally decades ago.

By now the marketers and propagandists have long taken over, social media was just one out of their many trojan horses.

"Content" has merely become an excuse to drive ad revenue and interactions up, lure users into signing up accounts, to harvest as much data about them as possible.
When companies actually honor the DNT headers I may consider this, but for me as long as these sites refuse to stop tracking I feel I have no choice but to block their ad software.
If you like this you should check out Meow Wolf. It’s in Santa Fe and has a very funky vibe.
The internet is neither a "tool for freedom" nor a "tool for control". It's just a tool. There are groups using it for both of those (as well as many orthogonal) purposes.

In the same way you can hire a construction crew to build a library or to build a prison, but modern construction techniques don't have an inherent social ideology.
Yep. Looking at it cynically, this could be a way of playing hard-ball with web admins: "if you want to keep using Google stuff, and you don't want this badge of shame, you better use AMP"
I didn't, but part of why I use websites like this is to get multiple viewpoints. I don't need anyone gatekeeping conversations with me.
Call me crazy, but I think the meditating >1000 times might account for 99% of this.
mmap() anyone?

Seriously, this should be the top of the list and default solution when you need to process large file that does not fit in memory.

The exceptions would be when you can read the file once (then stream might be easier but not cheaper), when you don't want to rely on FS cage (you need your own) or when you need easy interoperability between different OS-es.
I can imagine two really amazing effects from electric airplanes

1. Noise pollution could be significantly reduced . So many flight paths over homes.

2. Cost efficiencies could be amazing with fuel anywhere from 25% - 35% fluctuations, https://www.statista.com/statistics/591285/aviation-industry...

I imagine the operating cost of electric would be even less due to the simpler design of engines for electric vs gas

In my dreams airplanes could be designed to be more comfortable due to fixed operating costs... that would be nice
Only when such robots pass the Turing test.
People do not want to hear about how they’re working way, way too hard to feel special.
Same for me growing up. The weird thing has been my time in NYC with mass transit. In my earlier days, driving 30 minutes to go to a specific restaurant in another town felt like such a lift.

Now? 30 minutes on the Subway, even standing room only seems normal, even though I've only gone a handful of miles, not 30 miles.
I have an Audi S8, and it's "holy fucking shit" fast... but the exhaust is so quiet :( It's quite an engineering achievement actually, that big V8 is moving a ton of air. I wish they hadn't done quite so well.
Those are really good points, and would have been a much better response than the soda can thing.
For those of us who don’t work with medical image data, can you share why he was incorrect?

I realize that relational databases are not the right box to fit certain kinds of data into, but you have to put your data somewhere that allows it to be efficiently manipulated. What is that if not a “data base”?
Honestly I do not remember at all why I put in that script tag. It was something to do with github-pages not supporting HTTPS properly in the past, the details escape me. I should probably remove it
I can't imagine trying to deal with a mammoth. Especially with only stone cutting tools.

The only thing I can think of would be luring one near a winter camp and killing it nearby, when it would be cold enough to keep or freeze.

Even if you could butcher the several tons of meat and get it dried or smoked in time, transport and storage would be huge problems.

It's enough of an ordeal to process a moose, with modern tools and machinery.
Awesome project! Having unified tools is a boon for those of us who work across many different dialects.

One piece of feedback though - I've never been a huge fan of using backslashes for anything that isn't escaping as it can get confusing to know when it's escaping or if it's syntactic (do I use two slashes here? Or three or four? Especially when piping input or putting stuff in text files).

Very cool though and will be keeping an eye on it!
mmap can really help with this too. It won't stop you from being silly and using random memory access patterns, but it does abstract away the file access as a piece of address space. Short of running on a 32bit machine, this can help a lot. Even on a 32bit machine you can abstract it away with another later and window the access.
WTF did I just watch...

If I ever get a time machine I'm going to go back in time, get Julia Child and have Lynch direct a remake of The French Chef.

I can think of no better, nor higher, use of such a device.
Efficient Computation of Positional Population Counts Using SIMD Instructions
This is an attempt by Google to force everyone into AMP and nothing else.
> On a 64-bit CPU, y=x+1 is O(1) time when Y < 2^64, but becomes O(log N) time for larger numbers.

I thought that big-O does not actually consider the underlying hardware. How can you specify the CPU model / instruction conditions and still use the semantics of big-O analysis? The mathematical definition of O(_) does not involve hardware, it implies that there exists some coefficients and a constant. I get the point you are making but is big-O an appropriate way of measuring in this context?
Electric motors and batteries are very efficient, and therefore extremely cheap to operate.

Biofuels make sense I think for aviation because you need that energy density to get a usable range, but the fuel is likely to be expensive for a long time. If you can figure out how to make liquid fuel for about fifty cents a gallon or so, it might be competitive with electricity for car use.

I don't know what the energy requirements are for modern batteries, but I expect it varies a lot depending on battery chemistry. Battery sizes vary a lot, too.
I kinda wonder if we’ll come out the other side of this DRY era and rediscover redundant systems. Turning really important decisions into a single bit in memory is overoptimization. Especially when all of the less important bits are consuming gigabytes.
Maybe I'm being naive but couldn't this be good for users. For instance, if a page is taking forever to load and the slow badge comes up, the user would know its not a connection issue.
Meat keeps just fine in winter as long as you don't let other animals get to it. Foraging/gathering plant based food is also much less productive in winter. If you kill it at the right time it will feed you until spring. That said I think that approach won't work well with the climate in Mexico.
Twice for me. Both in lower rent apartment row houses in college in different locations. Tons of electronics stolen and I had the S/N for 80% of them and one firearm, cops didn't seem to care. On one instance I gave them the likely culprit. Which was someone I had known from the neighborhood that I saw looking in windows when I drove left the afternoon I got robbed, didn't think too much of it at the time; just thought he was trying hang out with friend and was trying to see if they were home.
How long before the Communist Party hijacks these cars to transport their owners to re-education camps? Or perhaps a list of places the car refuses to go to or stop at?
I never thought to set up something like this, but it's a fantastic idea!

Now... this may seem like a silly question: What does the '--' do before the channel url? I know '--' is normally used for parameters longer than one character, but that one is kinda just floating about haha.
I believed this and that's exactly what I did, I bought a 2015 15" rMBP used. It went for $700, but you can get them for even less.

The most obvious part of the decision was the lack of magsafe connector. How could Apple have made such an obviously anti-Steve Jobs decision? Nobody gives a shit if all the connectors on the sides are uniform. You don't get points in real life for making them that way. It's a point against, not a point in favor, they should be heterogenous.
> From my experience, Americans often do grocery once every couple of weeks, because the super market is usually a non-trivial drive away.

Overwhelming majority of Americans live less than 20 minutes drive from a proper grocery story (i.e. not a gas station convenience store), and most probably live 10 minutes drive. In my metropolitan area of 4 million, I can't think of a place that's more than 10 minutes from a large supermarket.

Americans don't do grocery shopping very often simply because it's such a waste of time: there are 5 large supermarkets (two Safeways, one QFC, one Whole Foods and one local chain) 5 minutes drive from my home, and there's also Costco 10 minutes drive. Despite that, I go grocery shopping once a week, because it usually takes an hour. Doing this more often would replace one hour-long trip with three 45 minutes trip. Since the drive is only 5 minutes, living literally next to them wouldn't change my habits much.

Also, let me assure you that most Europeans don't live in 5 minutes walking distance from grocery stores, so the travel time here is not what makes the habits different.
There's the opposite problem too! If you over-specify, you may be denying the machine a chance to optimise.
Blackfoot natives used to hunt buffalo in Alberta using a similar method, dressed up as coyotes and wolves. One of the known sites has the awesome name of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-Smashed-In_Buffalo_Jump

My favourite part of the given history:

> According to legend, a young Blackfoot wanted to watch the buffalo plunge off the cliff from below, but was buried underneath the falling buffalo. He was later found dead under the pile of carcasses, where he had his head smashed in.
They said the same thing here in the UK years ago (the 90s I think) when they started forcing labels on food to have metric.

"I want a pound of sugar, not 453g!"

Turns out the world didn't actually burn down. The containers mostly stayed the same size, but I think they slowly gravitated towards logical sizes (so e.g. that 453g package became 500g or 400g at some point)
Perhaps they used salt as a preservative?
Is there a home remedy for this, or is this ear wax extraction something only a medical professional can perform?