skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although after this, I would think that this is a good opportunity for Apple to work with Goldman to better understand the algorithm and strive to make the process become more fair and transparent. Just like Apple how deals with 3rd parties making their devices where they can help enforce work and environmental rules.
I'd feel about the same as I do when Comcast wants to use my own cable modem as a public wifi hotspot.

At this point I'd just like to have a built-in wifi hotspot for my own usage in my car. My Chevy can do this. My fancy high-tech Tesla cannot.
Remember to include every business that buys ads from Google as well.
Yeah, I would've thought the same thing about their manufacturing & labor relations depts., and yet...here we are.
Sure. Their biggest business outside of search is YouTube. But that doesnt make much money on subscriptions, its ads...
Pretty sure SpaceX's "planning ahead" for this case is exactly what they did, i.e. proceed with the launch and rely on Starlink's low orbit to rapidly deorbit the failed unit.

SpaceX is going for vast scale with this project. Failures up to and including the loss of a launch vehicle can't derail the rest of it.
I thought it was intellectually interesting in that I wasn’t at all expecting Khosrowshahi to say that. Then it seriously got me to rethink how deep KSA’s talons are in Silicon Valley. I came up in the Sun Microsystems and Google generation of early profitability and fierce independence. This anti-unicorn era of unprofitability and obsequious dependence is disappointing. But if you are beholden to your funder then you are beholden to their politics. It really was the SV business angle I found interesting.
There isn't much they can do about it?

All they can do is corrupt or block the packet, which looks to the end user like high packet loss on random connections... earning that router type a reputation for being very slow and pushing it out of he market.
German cars tend to be less reliable than Japanese ones, as in this survey, possibly due to those tolerance. My 2018 German car feels a lot nicer than a 2018 Toyota, but has already had more problems, too. :|

Sometimes I wonder if the US auto industry suffers a bit competitively vs Germany and Japan due to a higher amount of "brain drain" to other higher-paying forms of STEM jobs in tech.
> If my employer has the data - the government can subpoena it if it really wants to. It's effectively accessible to both entities.

"The government" isn't a single entity, and most of "the government" can't access your data via a subpoena any more easily than a private company can.
Your description sounds so familiar to a situation I was in over a decade ago I almost wonder if it is the same! In my case the "brilliant" engineer wasn't really that brilliant although he did have grand intentions. He ended up building an XML based configuration systems so wildly over-complicated it retarded development for everyone else involved. He'd come in overnight and make massive change that would require everyone to spend their entire day re-doing their work. He was also extremely toxic from a personality standpoint, often getting into angry exchanges with his piers. He was the type of engineer who tried to dominate technical discussions by insulting and dismissing others rather than by demonstrating the merit of his ideas. Most engineers would just avoid the confrontation and this allowed him to railroad bad ideas through. Eventually, after I left, he bypassed all dissent entirely by working overnight so that no one could even challenge him.

I was on contract so I just left. No way was I going to deal with that environment. I lost all respect for the technical management there too. The director in charge of the project seemed to be confusing arrogance and belligerence for ability. Rather than reign in a clearly toxic employee he actually encouraged everyone to work around him and touted the benefits of the crazy XML system he was building. These benefits, of course, were no more than empty promises from the employee himself. But they were politically expedient ... the director could claim the team was building some advanced system that could potentially be reused. It gave him some cover to explain why things were taking so long to deliver.

IMO, this is the worst environment possible for development. You have directors favouring empty promises for incredibly complex systems to give them good talking points. You have toxic developers who make any dissent to their bad ideas so unpleasant that they gain control. This creates a feedback loop where good engineers see bad ideas and bad behaviour get rewarded with special treatment.
I've recently taken up weaving and it's a lot of fun. You can start simple with a frame loom and do more tapestry stuff. I picked up a rigid heddle loom and have done a few fun projects on it. Soon I'm going to build a 4 shaft loom.

Weaving has a lot of patterning and strikes, for me, the perfect balance between "I need to pay attention to what I'm doing" and hit a rhythm and zone out. Plus the Jacquard loom was had a lot of influnce on Babbage's Analytical Engine!
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Sure, but it's really complex. They existed but were somewhat rare because there just wasn't that much incentive because there wasn't any money. The ones who went that direction tended to either be in a different part of the sport that favored technical competency less (sorry US mens 8+...) or were just extremely frustrated with their performance because they didn't understand the multifaceted nature of the competition.
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VW are also rolling out the same "Virtual Cockpit" display, just skinned differently across Skoda, Seat, VW, Audi, Porsche, Lambourghini, Bentley, Bugatti :)
But then it wouldn't be valid JSON.
This is adding so little value it's difficult to take seriously.

Typos on the front page:

- ressources

- Cliend-Side

Priority is in three different colours, but none of them correlating with the thing identified.
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This strategy seems like it makes it very difficult to write. What if you lose track of what you've already said? It seems like a better solution is to just disable backspace.
Most companies use a Third Party Administrator (TPA) for the actual back office claims management. That doesn’t mean people in HR and Finance don’t have visibility into claims data.
I don't think this is very true. You can trace the deep learning revolution back to VGG and a fundamental driver in the success of the first multi-level networks was the ability to train in semi-reasonable amounts of time using GPUs.

Even today distributed training is relatively uncommon while pretty much everyone uses NVIDIA GPUs.
Not ridiculous at all. Ads for (for example) heart pills are on TV now, placed at great cost, but currently blaring to an audience of mostly disinterested targets. Imagine being able to cheaply target the subset of those people who are not just part of a certain demographic, but who actually (for example) saw a cardiologist or went to the ER on a heart-attack scare in the last 12 months.
Remarkable how relevant everything he said in 1986 remains today. The big
thing he didn't foresee, though, were WANs and cellular networks obviating
CDROMs.

His disdain of feature creep is spot on.

> Features are kind of crummy ... and features are only beneficial if people take the time to use them, whereas speed–that’s worth an incredible amount. If you can give the users a few simple commands [to compose into more complex actions] then you’re much better off.

This "kumbaya" sentiment is horseshit. Gates only said it to appease
non-technicals, and should have stopped at the first sentence.

> Some of the great programmers can’t work on teams; they just like to work on their own. But I think there’s an element of greatness that comes in learning how to work with other people and teach them. I really get satisfaction from somebody else on the team becoming a great programmer.
I think all of those have their place.

There are loud bars/clubs you go to with your friends at times when you want to let all your energy out and just drink, dance, and listen to music without having to worry about carrying a conversation.

There are also quieter and more fit for socializing bars and music venues, where you wanna go to shoot shit with the bartender, have a conversation with your friend you haven't seen in a while, or just relax and talk to people in your neighborhood who tent to visit that place often while chilling with a drink.

And I love the fact that in most cities I've lived in within the US, there are plenty of both, because I definitely like to utilize all of those options. More choices is always better.

The only example of yours I heavily disagree with is the gym one. It isn't a proper place for socializing imo, assuming you are talking about the weightlifting/cardio stuff. Team sports areas like basketball court or a soccer field (where I see a LOT of socializing happening) are a completely different story, however.
The problem is that when you do this, and then don't go to the meeting, and then a decision is made that you don't agree with, you are told, "well you had a chance but you didn't come to the meeting".

The other problem is that sometimes people will literally see you working in your cube/office during the meeting and then ask you why you declined if you clearly weren't busy, because they don't equate coding with being busy. Sitting at your desk == not busy in their mind.

So now you have a political problem because you're seen as uninterested/not a team player.
Hi HN,

I've been working on Gazette for a little while now, having used it as a proprietary solution in my last couple of companies, and having now open-sourced it. I'd appreciate the community's take on it.

One of Gazette's contributions is that it unifies "my real-time event stream" and "all of my historical data" into a single source-of-truth with a representation that's super easy to integrate (plain old files on S3).

Going forward, what excites me is its potential to unify 1) stream processing, 2) Data Lake build-out, and 3) ad-hoc analysis (via BigQuery/Athena/Hive/etc external tables) into a single system. If that's interesting, I'd love to talk with you about it.
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Yeah, I probably should have said: "The answer is almost certainly yes"
food cart pods, spread throughout the city. less than there were, but still quite a few. typically, they range an entire city block.
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I live in the middle of nowhere and rent a wonderful studio in a beautiful old building for next to nothing. The Bay Area is the armpit of America when it comes to value per dollar spent.
Concentration camps, not internment camps. Different claims. There are verifiable claims and then there are claims which are not verified. People look terrible when sick and dying and most people overlook that the being sick and dying is happening while receiving medical care in a hospital setting. The images from the Nazi concentration camps is something completely different.

The same thing happened after WWII where some people tacked on unverifiable claims to the long list of Nazi atrocities. A well-known debunked claim although not of atrocities is by someone claiming he was nasally administering cocaine to Hitler.

Claims like these require investigation and detract from attention given to real leads, but that takes work and people instead form mobs and repeat the most relatable claims.

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I don't see why I need to spell out how to decouple my personal experience from the narrative I presented. Seems trivial to generalize.
> Larry and Sergei are still into the idea that we're on the cusp of getting the "everybody has a wearable personal-area-network"

Over my dead body.
Claiming that your file format is anywhere near relevant to the quality of health data processing cases suspicion on your competence in both file formats and health records.

Please stop spamming HN to promote your project. We've all seen it and decided whether we are interested.
I am not sure that I understand your point: as you probably know, Bernie Sanders is not a communist, so why would anyone associate his persona with the horrors of authoritarian communist regimes?
Nowhere did I mention that we need a paid or free service.

The argument at hand is that we need something other than Twitter to blast out a message that most likely won't be heard. A service (again using the most general definition) that collects feedback from their users and provides feedback to large corporations that can look up the most pressing issues.

Today, that's through feedback surveys, support forums, BBB/Consumer Reports and worse, Twitter.

Could you provide a more substantive argument? I like the idea if a government had a website service that collects feedback enmasse and shows the top voted concern for that corporation. Whether what gets done and the "enforcement" part is I think an entirely different problem and that's what laws are for. I am simply talking about fragmentation of ways public complians to corporations. A .gov website where public can vote, would be amazing. And truly funded by public through Taxes.
This is such a great post! Soooo many databases have implemented some kind of “column store extension” where they change the on disk representation and declare “look now we’re a hybrid database”. But the academic literature suggests that the bigger win for column stores may be in the execution layer. I love that Cockroach has taken the opposite of the usual approach and been so rigorous in measuring everything.

After doing all this work, is it your opinion that (hypothetically) a columnar on-disk representation would be a bigger or smaller win than a fully-built-our vectorized execution engine?
But as you said, there's a time and place for the brilliant IC, and that's usually the very very early stages of a business.

There are two kinds of ICs that I like to call capability guys and capacity guys. Capability guys can bring new skills into the organisation, and capacity guys can do the bread-and-butter work that actually pays the bills. You need to balance the two. Make sure the capacity guys benefit from learning the new skills and make sure the capability guys don’t go off on a tangent, and it can be a very enriching experience for everyone.
Reads like a fluff article which has nothing to do with control freak managers and everything to do with promoting the company's product.
Except string size isn't co-determinate with output size either. Number of code points is sometimes an approximation of number of glyphs after text rendering, more usefully approximate with ASCII, and a lot less usefully approximate with a large amount of Unicode.
> Well, it's the government that keeps health data sort of confidential now.

The government plays almost no role in keeping most health data confidential, since most PHI is held by private entities.

And it's not like the government has a great track record of what little PHI it is responsible for - there have been plenty of breaches against CMS and Medicare affecting large numbers of patients.
With Premium and TV, they are making a big push to change the YouTube revenue model away from as dependence.
Your project being popular is enough. I had no idea who Andrew Kelly was but after reading Zig's documentation, trying it, and feeling like it satisfied what I want from a language of that style going forward, I started chipping in a bit each month.

It probably helped that I watched his video demos on YouTube and such and saw there was a person behind the project.

I'd imagine the project being something exciting or something that makes programming more fun helps a lot as well. An extremely useful but boring project probably won't inspire as many people to donate, even if that's not really fair.
Why was the Sony PlayStation 3 so hard to develop games for?
So it's crap to visit IRL but it allows you to take good Instagram photos.

This is what we want now?

Fair enough if it's what people want, but say that.

Don't pretend like it's also a place you will enjoy as a cafe or find visually appealing to look at with eyes.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/2D+Cafe+%E6%96%B0%E5%A4%A7...
I worry that the moderation of deep fakes will only lead to deeper and deeper fakes, until no content on the internet can be trusted, and nothing left believable.
Most companies use third party administrators to do the day to day management, but that doesn’t mean people in HR or Finance can’t access data on individual claims if there was a reason to. If an employee used $1M in healthcare believe me you don’t have to tell your company - they will know.
I mean, I suppose you could call regulatory capture 'capitalism'... But seeing as most people's response to 'capitalism failing' is to call for more regulation, I don't think that that's really fair.
Interesting, I guess it depends on the person and on the thing you're learning like someone else mentioned. I do think you need some time by yourself to really go deep at your own speed to learn something.

Pairing and mobbing are not fads, they've been around for a while and in my experience they've been very useful, I'd recommend you try it with someone with experience with it.
Didn't CockroachDB target OLTP workloads? What would the write performance be like for a columnar store for OLTP workload?
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this already exists. it's called Muzo, and ElectroBOOM reviewed it as an obvious scam.
Pretty sure Google dipped out of rolling their own fiber because dealing with city councils, pole sharing nonsense, lobbying from incumbent ISPs, and customer service overhead was a huge pain in the ass that doesn't fit with their current operating model.
> I wonder if that's why google dipped out on rolling out fiber infrastructure.

Google stopped deploying fiber for several reasons:

a) they weren't able to get reasonable access to poles for deployment.

b) incumbents started large rollouts of gigabit capable services (FTTH from telcos and DOCSIS 3.1 from cablecos) in markets Google had announced, but hadn't built out

c) maybe? lots more LTE deployment
And TSLA (16 years old) is already well on their way to accumulating a similar track record as GM (111 years old) or Ford (116 years old).
I would examine your biases to see if they are not clouding your judgment and ability to see the other side.

Without restraint, these efforts will undeniably bolster their ability to conduct targeted advertisements, which is bad. Hopefully regulation and consumer backlash will take care of that.

But you cannot deny the amount of good we stand to gain from an advanced electronic health system. The insights that can be generated from cross correlation of all patient data, the amount of preventative measures that can be taken from detecting problems before they become bigger problems... The benefits far outweigh the negatives. It's unthinkable to have all this data and NOT attempt to find insights in them.
I don't think anyone is arguing that they're the absolute worst carmaker. A comparison to Toyota or Honda would have been a better choice.

I don't want a power plant that is advertised as "more earthquake resistant than Fukushima" in my backyard.
> If they had planned ahead, they could have had a system to lift a bunch of satellites off together, then take off/replace the bad one, and then put all the rest back again.

My guess is that they did a cost benefit analysis of doing this, and realized it was worth more to them to launch a dead satellite and verify it deorbits as planned than it was to miss a launch deadline, take apart the stack, fix the bum satellite, reintegrate the stack, put it back on the rocket, and schedule a new launch date.

The satellite's cheap - that's literally the point. Verifying failure modes with NASA and the USAF? Now that's expensive. It's worth more as a science experiment than a time sink.
> Most companies use a Third Party Administrator (TPA) for the actual back office claims management.

Yes

> That doesn’t mean people in HR and Finance don’t have visibility into claims data.

I mean, this is technically a true statement - "A does not necessarily imply not-B" - but kind of irrelevant, because as it turns out, HR and finance generally do not have visibility into individual-level claims data (as opposed to aggregate data, which is necessary for underwriting).
Well I'm saying it's both skill and luck, combined with hindsight bias.

They're famous because Medallion is the best performing quant fund. Even if quant funds were just chumps tossing coins, if you pick the best of a number of them, you'll get something that looks good.

Now that maths still doesn't stack up that they were just lucky - they probably had skill too. But I think it's more likely that they had a modest edge and were lucky than it is that they had a large edge and got an average result.
No you're not alone. But most people do it because garbage mainstream "inoffensive" music is blasted almost everywhere you go
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Of course, I'm just some "mansplaining" asshole. You should just ignore me.
"potential founders of healthcare startups" are likely to be in the set "reads Hacker News", but would be a tiny subset.

Even if they all know the difference between claims data and healthcare records, that wouldn't show up in the commentariat at large.

Your fear is unfounded.
It would be kind of hard to fire a laser over obstacles like a mortar. Unless, perhaps, you send up a attach a mirror to a balloon and fly it over the battlefield so you can bounce your laser. :)

The same goes for Katyushas (rockets). Most of them have a range that's well over the horizon, so it would be difficult to fill the same use case with a laser.
> encrypt the packet first using the packet number as a nonce, and then encrypt the packet number using some of the encrypted packet as a nonce (and a different key).

I may be missing any number of details, but I would expect a simpler scheme to work well: encrypt the packet number in ECB mode using a separate derived key.