skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Edit: Nevermind. This turned into a weird ego battle I'm not interested in joining.
I believe the newer funds were created well after the original fund and were designed from inception to have a larger trading window. I’m sure you could commit fraud front running rebalances, etc, but not to the tune of $6B a year.
I wouldn't read too much into it. "X is dead" is such a common sentiment on HN it's somewhere between funny and tiresome.
Are these actually funding Hacker News? I just thought since YC owns Hacker News they were giving out free job postings to the companies they fund.

IMO hacker news basically pays for itself with all the publicity it gives YC and the various YC companies. I'm sure other companies would be willing to pay a fortune for that kind of marketing (although it can obviously be a mixed blessing).
Yes, technical interviewing is hard.
> I'd like to rebuild unix front the ground up.

Pls implement proper async syscalls this time. Thx.
I think the generally this sort of comparison is based on the brain:body size ratio.
Ok, that makes more sense.

I guess initially I would think of this as a round-trip requirement. In theory at least I should be able to download the entirety of my history (in an appropriate format); delete the record on the EHR; re-upload my history and end up with the identical EHR record mutatis mutandis.

Sticking "email" in there had me thinking your were focused on transmission.
> People no longer think about their destination being 10 km away or 10 stops on the tube. They think about it being 50 per cent of their battery away," said the study's lead author, Dr. Thomas Robinson.

Are people really like this? If so, I think we need to pump the brakes on phone usage for children because this is out of control. People are literally slaves to their phone.

Imagine the absurdity of a 1960s equivalent:

> People no longer think about their destination being 10 km away or 10 stops on the tube. They think about it being 50 per cent of their book away," said the study's lead author
Comparing the US to third world countries makes me think you never really visited a developing country. Maybe just flew through the airport?
If you don't want a solution, then you will fail.

I frequently make healthy meals for $1/plate; don't tell me I can't when I do. Covering meals in 25 minutes or less means time earn for other needs. Give me specifics, and a willingness to make money work, and I'll give you good inexpensive solutions to all needs.

The notion of a "worker driven job market", where menial tasks make enormous salaries, or "there should be some alternative", is pure fantasy. Of course everyone has alternatives: anyone can pick a preferred job, find an open position for it, and apply. Supply-and-demand is an economic law: garbage collection is not a high-paying job, because there's always someone willing to do it for less. You think GC should be high-paying, but you're not willing to pay someone high to do it; concocting (and forcing on others) a society inclined as you indicate would quickly devolve back to what we have now, precisely because easy & widely-available jobs are not worth high pay.

Bottom line: it takes a certain amount of effort to live off the land (go watch Primitive Technology on YouTube); everything else is an alternative because we contract for better options, and wishing for better doesn't work.
How do you feel about ad blockers?
I mean, hedge funds on average ARE consistent losers. People invest in B through marketing and proximity to A.
Since Google was building their own servers it seems like they might have been able to sidestep the ECC tax too. Normally ECC costs so much more because it's the "serious user" solution so vendors feel free to mark it up.
https://wanna-joke.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/funny-peop...

I think the picture makes the point on its own, but at the risk of being accused of Reddit style image replies: Prior to phones, people weren't automatically any more social with random strangers than they had to be.
Also ~75% black, but I'm sure that does not factor into the IRS' decisions...
I think the author completely misses a mention that sequential access to cold store is nowhere as slow as access to ram.

Cold store looses big in only scenarios where you have sequential and completely random seek patterns, and there are lots of way to optimise that in read and write heavy workloads. This was the art of running performant multi-terabyte DBs in a world prior to SSDs and ramdisks.

For very big index walks, you want to have data to be more flat, and seeks to be sorted, so there is higher chance that needed records would be accessed without page eviction. Modern DBs, I believe, do something like that internally.

And for write heavy loads, there is no alternative to revising "data structures 101." You can reduce the disk load by may times over with a properly picked tree, graph, or log structure.
It's extra helpful on the 1st of every month. There seems to be more and more varieties of the "Who's X-ing?" posts every month.

The hide button is a great way to unobtrusively clear out stuff you don't care about. One of the best features.
An (experimental) high performance WebAssembly interpreter written in C
that's an excellent option, but make sure you aren't logged into your gmail on that same computer. Your script shouldn't access the cookies of the browser, but if somehow they are able to, they will disable your gmail account when they realize you are watching from the same IP with a headless script that can't watch ads.
I think a lot of companies post job openings as a form of advertising. I'm not saying that is what is happening here, but there always seems to be a set of companies that have the same positions listed for over a year, despite being relatively small companies.
> ‘IMO hacker news basically pays for itself with all the publicity it gives YC and the various YC companies.‘

‘I’ll just take this soda, the grocery store can afford it.’
Can Urban and Rural Residents Together Reduce Incarceration in America?
>The issue is that this would then target those with money and power something the IRS appears loath to do.

Ability to fight back makes one a less desirable target. We need to equalize access to courts so that wealth is not a factor.
Options for non-engineers to build a startup
There are many stories on HN where a founder of a startup found a niche problem, created code/website, and provided a service for customers. I applaud those that can get up and running as a solo or dual founder and build a successful home/internet based business. Your stories are inspirational and make me wish I took up software engineering when I was younger.

For those of us that are not programmers, coders, engineers (all three the same?), what resources are available to us to ramp up a website with backend programming to service a niche need?
That’s all well and good, but I think pg is writing more for founders who want to go big. And just like on StackOverflow, it’s not necessarily helpful to derail conversations around “how to do X” with arguments over “whether you should want to do X in the first place”.
Yep, one litre is equal to 1 dm3 or 1 kg of water.
This is an attempt by Google to influence the bloated websites out there, rather than a browser feature intended to attract users. It's probably mildly helpful as a user to know if a site is slow (as opposed to it just being slow for you), but it's a big incentive for a website owner to speed up their site if this badge of shame appears it for a majority of users.
As you mentioned, claims data is arguably worse from a privacy standpoint. I work for a hospital and we constantly struggle with the fact that we can't assume we have a full medical record for any given patient. As an easy example, we have no idea if our patients actually fill their prescriptions properly once they leave, making it impossible for us to do any sort of intervention on medication adherence.

With that said, we actually do have access to claims data for a significant chunk of our patients now, and that percentage is growing fast. It's part of a big push towards shifting risk from payors to providers to incentivize cost reduction.
... not to be confused with ... U-SQL

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/u-sql/
As someone with tinnitus, it is so much worse than background noise.

Now I love background noise because it's the only way I can escape tennitus (I hate headphones)
Is that a "yes it is"?
What I can’t stand is the lyric heavy “upbeat” music in grocery stores, even when it’s absolutely dreary out or late at night. I’m sure some folks like it. Maybe I should grocery shop with earbuds.
There's at least two different ways to read this comment.
Related:

https://splinternews.com/organized-labor-is-in-a-life-and-de...

"For an entire century, the corporate class in America has dreamed of destroying organized labor, which eats into their ability to amass endless profits. They’ve chipped away at unions for 40 years. Now, it is no exaggeration to say that they are two steps away from total victory."

...

"This is a very scary time. Take it seriously."
But no worse of a problem than it currently is for fossil fuel engines, right?
PHP and MySQL are pretty fast out of the box - and have been for a couple decades (a single server was well into hundreds requests per second by 2000).

What’s slow are the frameworks on top of them, and a lot of that is going to require big changes since things like the WordPress plugin world or most of the JavaScript world have not had a great culture about monitoring and optimizing things. Simply moving this into the category of problems you can’t ignore would be positive - along with tracking data usage for mobile users on metered plans.
`Outer Worlds` the video game? I want to play it now.
I understand a lot of the distrust of Google her one HN, but I also don't think that would be their style. To me, the sites done with Google ads aren't the ones that are the problem, then tend to load fast and not put a bunch of crap in your face.

Yeah they track you and such, not denying that or supporting that, but Google generally pushes back against the sort of bad experience you find at so many sites.
> Wouldn't YC also get value - maybe enough to fund HN - from analysing usage data (upvotes, downvotes, link clicks, maybe PII even, etc.), e.g. to perceive market trends, other topics of interest for services they provide their startup ecosystem?

That kind of thing isn’t so popular around here.
Elon talks about 20ms or 10ms, not 100. He wouldn’t be wrong by a factor of 10. You’re really just speculating based on some non IP based overarchitected mil spec monstrosity you’ve seen before

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/11329039145865297...

Besides we’re talking about the latency of the satellite to satellite links, not the downlink (since that’s the difference between using a downlink close to the client vs close to the server).
Conservatives most likely to be duped by new AI Text Generator from Salesforce
As anecdotal support, I used BuildZoom for a recent home build solely because I saw their job postings on HN.

(The experience was just ok, but we did find a builder we love through them)
> how do they iterate/experiment with such few employees?

Faster!
A few years ago, I found surprisingly difficult to sort a file that didn't fit in RAM in Python; I couldn't find any simple libraries for this kind of stuff.

Disappointingly, I ended up writing my data to a text file, sorting with unix sort (w/ some tuning on --parallel and --buffer-size) and reading it back.
The government shouldn't be picking who to prosecute based on ease of conviction. Wealthy criminals are just as guilty as poor ones.
It loads for me within 500ms. I don't think that is particularly slow.
When I see a position that's been open for awhile (one company has popped up here on and off for what feels like ~2 years), it seems to raise a red flag. If you can't fill the position, something is off.
It is self enforcing. More speed needs more fuel which needs more money. New ships are already built with engines optimized
for

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_steaming

Older ships are being modified. All engine manufacturers advertise those kits/modifications and their benefits.
Im following closely the development on an alternative to data.frame that works on disk (disk.frame),using the same API
> If you torture any mammal, it bites back. Until we learn to invest in the wellbeing of others we are cursed to deal with other humans who grow up to become cruel leaders or their henchmen.

Exactly.

Seems like ultimately the solution is to reduce inequality and increase opportunity around the world.
> Only way is to completly anonymize data, which is way harder than it sounds.

What's complicated about it? So long as it's not attached to a name, social security number, or some other personally identifiable marker - how would anybody know it's you? You're just an anonymous collection of data points.

I understand whatever fingerprint they use for your data is almost definitely completely unique, but that doesn't mean it can be associated with the corresponding person unless you allow that to happen. I mean I get that it's obviously not trivial from a security perspective, but what's the main blockade here?
I just checked one of my sites with their tools. Performance 34/100. Biggest issue Google's own ad tech. Third party code blocking the main thread.

https://imgur.com/a/RM8JkbI
It seems to be mostly targeting the poor, in particular the Earned Income Tax Credit, because Republicans hate it and constantly pressure the IRS to target people who use it.
I do enjoy myNoise, but I find their mobile apps to be usability headaches a lot of the time.
'We cannot tell the world Hong Kong grooms local terrorists' says gov. source
> I take it you have never been assaulted by an angry drunk before.

That's a non-sequitur. Regardless, if you are looking to get assaulted by an angry drunk talking to homeless people isn't a very effective method. For best success try pick up bars with an 20-30 year old clientele, or just accost someone on the street who is already visibly drunk and antagonistic; they are (unintuitively?) unlikely to be homeless but will often happily have a go at you.
If Google is getting Protected Health Information (names, addresses, dates, etc.) from providers then they have to sign a Business Associate Agreement, which effectively makes them a covered entity under HIPAA. They would be criminally liable for any misuse of the data, which would include using it to inform their advertising.

Using the data to create a model for use at the providers would be a clearly proper use of the data. That's standard practice across the industry.
I'm not a bot either, and why would you start your post by saying you're not a bot?
That's what I'm saying. Targeted advertising isn't guaranteed to satisfy rule 0. The industry is under threat from multiple sources, and more importantly, no single industry ever goes forever without encountering a storm.

A naive approach would be to hyper-optimize on ad targeting to pursue rule 0, but Google does its best to not be naive. The company's ownership model is designed to target the long game, which is what they seem to tend to do in their decisionmaking much of the time.

That isn't to say that advertising doesn't factor in or that they definitely won't ever use biometrics for ad data, merely that "We could use this for ads" probably doesn't by itself justify buying Fitbit. But potentially uses in advertising and Assistant might.
It's not an issue at least if one partner earns less because they (voluntarily) work fewer hours for money.
There's such a pressure group in the UK: https://pipedown.org.uk/
This is one of the best usecases for docker -- testing your system by spinning it up as it would be in production, with throwaway versions of the dependencies (the more realistic you can get them the better) is a fantastic way to test the overall system.

I'm surprised anyone is still not doing this. The most useful tests are the ones that test a customer's flows -- who cares if some function in your backend code does weird things when it takes a malformed string, the business's first concern is usually whether a customer can completely some flow.
Sailors aren't on deck during a battle any more, so are unlikely to be suffering laser reflections (!) from tiny projectiles thousands of yards away.
I have been looking for a faster alternative to pgcli [1] ( with features like auto-complete for table names and columns) and was getting excited.

Sadly this is "just" a plain old CLI.

Also: had to install with `go get -tags "no_sqlite3" -u github.com/xo/usql` since the sqlite3 package did not build.

[1] https://www.pgcli.com/
Those forms you sign when you go to the doctor include consent to transmit your data to third parties as allowed under HIPAA regulations.
It's the meaning of nobody every got fired for choosing IBM/Microsoft/AWS. These were definitely never the cheapest. You paid a premium for being able to pass the buck--"hey, we just did what everybody else did and which was considered 'best practice'".
"We found that people who let their phones batteries run out are viewed by others as out of touch with the social norm of being connected and therefore unable to be competent members of society.
Phones have become such a nexus for everything that we are that an inability to effectively manage battery life becomes symbolic of an inability to manage life."

Scary.

I just have a Caterpillar Tractor phone with 3 days of battery life, and don't worry about it much.
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Off topic, it was the first one that came up in search. In related products there are others for $30.
Sex robots. Disrupting the power of women in the sexual marketplace is bound to yield unprecedented profits.
Disable JS. Fixes 99% of it. Using a JS enabled browser is downright annoying now.
You do need to get a paid developer account though and Apple has announced that in the next version of MacOS bypassing notarization is going to get more difficult.
As someone who has built prototypes and has worked with others who do the same, I couldn't agree more.

The problem is there aren't many prototype gigs out there, so it's not a great specialty.
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. There are no doubt people right now plotting highly technical 15-person bank vault heists, but I absolutely expect the police to investigate a B&E of my house.
> I guess initially I would think of this as a round-trip requirement. In theory at least I should be able to download the entirety of my history (in an appropriate format); delete the record on the EHR; re-upload my history and end up with the identical EHR record mutatis mutandis.

I like this test! Yes, passing the copy/paste test should pass this test as well.
Are you sure it's Firefox doing that? I've got 70.0.1 on macOS and it's displaying fine (with the red crossed out padlock in the address bar).

You sure you don't have HTTPS-Everywhere or something similar running?

(There's noting in the response headers or html meta tags that look like it'd be redirecting you too https there...)
The point about survivorship bias is a fair one.

But, if a given fund (Medallion in this case) is able to thrive/survive during the 1998 Russian financial crisis (which felled LTCM), the 2000-2004 tech bubble bursting, the 2007 quant quake, the 2008 financial crisis, and 2010 flash crash, it would seem to suggest that their statistical arbitrage strategy performs well in all manner of environments.

After their very hefty 5/40 fees, their worst year between 2001 and 2013 was a 21% gain [1].

I understand that there are all manner of epistemic and mathematical problems that prevent us ever from completely disentangling luck and skill, but a conceptual framework like "The Superinvestors of Graham and Doddsville" would seem to apply here. I.e., after a long period of consistent overperformance, the case for skill starts to look much more likely.

[1] http://archive.is/JdQiw
The problem is that your close is fallible in the first place. In general, resource reclaim code should always be infallible. When you deallocate a resource, be it a file descriptor or a chunk of memory, you're returning something to the system. You're providing a gift. The kernel should never refuse this gift.

Linux confuses the issue somewhat. close(2) can report errors, and I'm guessing that when your close() throws an error, it's just propagating something it got from the operating system.

Thing is, close(2) errors aren't really errors. There are three cases: 1) close(2) succeeds; 2) close(2) fails with EBADF; and 3) close(2) fails with some other errors. In case #2, there's no problem. In case #2, your program has a logic bug and you should abort, not throw. In case #3, the close operation itself actually succeeded, and the kernel is just reporting some error that occurred during file writeback in the meantime.

Errors in case #3 should be ignored. If you care about file durability, call fsync(2) before close. Catching and propagating IO errors from close(2) ensures nothing, since the kernel is allowed to defer potentially-failing IO operations until after the close!
Of course, this all assumes there are no loopholes in the current cryptoasset system. That is, there is no way for the government to go "we found your tax fraud, now you are going to jail for life" – they can't, as long as it doesn't "undermine" the purpose of this inquiry.
There have been plenty of drastic improvements in cars in the past 20 years, but I'm not convinced that reliability is one of them. Compared to 1969, definitely. Quality back then was awful. But there were plenty of very reliable cars around in the 90s, I'm still driving one of them.

Those Buicks having major transmission problems within the first year of ownership would have been considered a disaster even in 1969. Same with Ford's powershift transmissions from a few years ago that tended to last ~25K miles.
We fit a Bayesian model to your data (profit/session) - which gives a mean + variance at each price point, and we sample randomly from the model within the confidence intervals - this balances exploration + exploitation.
The 2JZ engine was one of the best (as in, most durable) engines that Toyota ever produced.

The sheer number of Supras, Lexus IS300s (1st generation), and GS300s that are still running today, most with over 200k miles, is a testament to the amount of over-engineering that went into that engine.

And then there are the crazies who took the NA version and added turbos...
What about gauchos? Argentina used to supply a lot of beef to the word such that they had been prosperous at one time.
I'm doing neither of those things. Unless you have some kind of evidence that shows that Apple is going to prevent software from running if it's not notarized, you're imagining the worst-case scenario and reacting to that.

Now, granted, that statement can't possibly cover every single reason that someone might have for leaving Apple's platforms but those don't seem relevant when having a discussion about this specific context which is what the article and these comments are about.

The fact is that nothing that's been done changes the ability for people to run software as a developer. The difference is whether the end users trust you directly or whether the expect Apple to verify that trust for them. Both scenarios still allow them to run your software.

If you want to bring more clarity and point out where I'm arguing a straw man, I'd appreciate it.
I love a good merge sort, it's just built for chunking. I've used it to sort data that just barely fit on disk.
For every discussion you can find about that i can find a hundred not about that.

Again in the US the one accident we had wasn’t catastrophic and was handled by the insurance they had.

So a lot can be handled simply by not putting it at high risk areas which in the Us is a lot. And never nuclear powerplant will be even safer.
Good process is a pact to ship bad stuff