skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google search has defined itself by being the way people access the web, and already has heavy antitrust pressure put on it but the EU for related reasons. Extending that would go against their stated world view, and more importantly raise even more regulatory concerns.

This situation differs from eg. YouTube because they do not themselves host the content, and are not subject to copyright laws related to it.

Also: Google is made of human beings who have already protested against, for example, censoring Google within China.
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It will, however, from my reading convert the data to an actual pandas dataframe for certain operations. Which presumably is bad if your data doesn't fit into memory.
Medical imaging data is typically dense 3D grids of density samples. A relational database could hold a pointer to the file, but not the 5GB-500GB dataset files. One dataset is typically a folder of various files, metadata, and other information representing an entire filesystem. Back in the day, the datasets would be RAID across several machines. Now they're virtual filesystems. The database could manage this info, but not hold the actual dataset itself. I imagine this is what the commentter means. The DBA probably said "it all needs to be in the database", and that just doesn't make sense.
Remember that organizations with a bigger "mission" component usually pay less. Your personal happiness and excitement being part of their mission is a real part of your compensation.
TGS is famously secretive. They went prop in the early 90s; no external investors. You won't find their returns anywhere.

The only public data available (that I know of) is related to their charitable giving.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-05-08/three-mys...
If you are the lead you generally have permission to push directly to master. This isn’t always something you do, but it’s occassionally helpful to clean up the last mess before a release.
vaping killed 26 throughout 2019

But, hey, opioids killing at a rate beyond HIV at its worst, for years on end, and we just sort of shrug the whole time.

...or like, hey bath salts, the deadly plague! ...but opioids? meh.
> What they've managed to do shouldn't really be possible and is out of this world.

We don’t live in a world of wizards. When impossible feats are delivered on schedule for years without others figuring out is a hint that something is up.

Someday, we’ll learn about whatever combination of corruption, grift or other bullshit that was lurking behind the curtain.
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I'm pretty confident they are going to be laser-focused on improving care and will actively shed any work that doesn't advance that goal. Not only their business actions, but also their leadership choices.

In terms of business actions, lets look at the NHS brew-haha. Hard to blame Google for NHS screwing up the research protocol that led to the specific 1.6M patient records being transferred to Deep Mind. And they corrected the research process years ago. They passed muster with Mayo (a deal that no doubt had to pass muster with Shulkin among other world-renown physicians and administrators). They have deals with McKesson, Cleveland Clinic, and now Ascension. These are major players.

Their leadership choices give you additional insight on their motives. Their new Chief Health Officer is Karen DeSalvo, former National Coordinator for Health IT and Acting Assistant Secretary of HHS (and no doubt candidate for next Secretary of HHS). David Feinberg, their new VP for Health, is coming from serving as CEO of Geisinger and UCLA prior to that. These people are reputationally allergic to mixing medicine with adtech.
It doesn't say, but their average tenure is listed as 1.5 years.
"The left shoulder blades are missing."

800+ bones from 14 mammoths, but only right shoulder blades. I'm not quite sure what the chances of that being an accident are, unfortunately they didn't say how many right shoulders they found which would make the math easier.
In short, how do you write a research paper? Do you write and perfect the abstract before you do the experiment?
The obvious solution to this problem, assuming it is as pervasive as you describe (I feel you are slightly exaggerating, but it's really not the important part), is to regulate the data hoarders.

That said, that's completely different from what I implied in my original comment, so point taken.
> We... hope to land on something that is practically achievable by all developers.

There are a LOT of people who have websites that depend upon software that they don't directly control, best example might be Wordpress users with plugins. I myself have built a number of hobby websites that I just don't have time to figure out how to update based on Google's recommendations. For example, according to PageSpeed I need to "Serve images in next-gen formats" and I just don't have the ability to do that now (underlying image processing libraries don't support it) without a serious time commitment.

So I'm worried that a lot of smaller sites that don't have the resources to keep up with Google's requirements are going to get a "badge of shame"..
We even hunted them to extinction, many thousands of years ago.

I believe hunting big mammals is where we had a comparative advantage over other predators, so we did well on that.
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I wonder, sincerely, if this is to do with the sun / the idea that other people are awake and there is opportunity for disruption...
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> it seems like the main advantage is the environment that allows for more fluid iteration combined with functions for audio.

That's exactly right. Having a terse and precise notation for expressing a patch was originally why it was created. There are indeed lower level libraries in other languages powering this (Soundpipe), but I found working in C to be too slow for creative working. Sporth eliminated some of those keystrokes and enabled me to compose music I wouldn't have been able to do otherwise [0].

0: http://paulbatchelor.github.io/sporthlings/
Depends on the fee structure.

If those poor people end up owing $100, but the IRS can slap $500 of wrongful filing fees on them, and then come up with a 15 year payment plan at 30% interest, they get $25k.

Rich people would just pay the fine and move on, or claim bankruptcy and become rich again in a few years.
We are still having issues with Google Cloud print. Anyone still having ongoing issues?
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Sure, hydrogen peroxide poured into your ear will dissolve it, but it might take a few "rinse and repeat" cycles.
How does Google know which sites “typically load slow for users?” Is this collected via Chrome telemetry or is there another mechanism?
Amen brother. The day frontend developers stop acting like toddlers, then they will be treated like adults.
„Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.“ Steve Jobs

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As per James Taylor's comment above, using cat means you can easily replace it with head e.g. for testing.

And not change anything else in the pipeline.
That's well and true for people at HN, but I fully believe that the general public needs a lot more help.
It sounds like you're being used for cheap labour. Fixing as a service was Tweakys business model @ $80 per fix before they were acquired so there is a market there, just stop underselling yourself.
And the motor _should_ be a lot more reliable.

But discouragingly, just last August, in Norway, a Pipistrel Alpha Electro lost power shortly after takeoff and crashed. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/228207

Hopefully, these folks in Fresno, CA will get their electric aircraft flight school up and running sometime soon. But summertime in California's central valley is challenging: https://sustainableaviationproject.com/2018/10/28/we-hit-the...
Right. I've used Bitcoin for a decade, and I've never used an exchange. There is no link between Bitcoin and my meatspace identity. Bitcoin is only for playing online.
I recently gave a talk at SRECon [1] about a partial solution: Using a PID controller. It won't solve all instances of this problem, but properly tuned, it will dampen the effect of these sudden events and quicken the response times to them.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon19emea/presentation/...
Isn't this just going to reward the facebooks, amazons, etsys, pinterests and all the other websites that stole the users attentions away from homegrown sites... even more?
That sounds great, but also expensive.

Electricity and gas are relatively expensive in Australia compared Europe or US, so I’m lead to believe. Might be better in a new house with good insulation on the pipes.
I've always disliked the term "big data" because all of the attempts at a definition seemed either stupid or vague. After a while, I came up with this definition: it's a set of technnologies used for processing data that are too large to be processed in a single machine.
For me, the issue with GC never has been about how long it runs for. It's been about the unpredictability of when it can kick in. Granted a malloc can be unpredictable too (albeit very very rarely), but at least you know a malloc is the only time your process could stall waiting for memory.

Databases make extensive use of scratch space for undo logs and redo logs and especially while processing JOINs. It's tremendous pressure on the GC that results in frequent performance dips. With C/C++/Rust, you'd pipeline the query stages to malloc/free that space outside the hot path to minimize query response times.
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We don’t have a solution for an asteroid coming toward earth anyway right now.

It’s not illegal so SpaceX will try and do it and then astronomers can try and adapt. If it turns out to really bad, SpaceX could be forced to deorbit the satellites I suppose, but that seems unlikely.
Your understand is incorrect. Catalina runs perfectly on my 2015 rMBP and can run on machines as old as MBA 2012.

Apple has been notifying developers for 3 macOS versions that 64bit applications would be deprecated. Do you really want to use software that a developer can't take the time to update it having several years notice?

In any event progress marches on. Apple isn't shy advancing their hardware and software deprecating old code. That's how the state of the art advances.

Funny that Apple is almost alway correct when they make these sorts of decisions.
Here’s another source if you hit the paywall:

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
This! It's simple, performant depending on application and costs zero in extra development.
I'm currently running an index that requires over 64GB of ram. There's no possibility of lowering this, but I don't have a really high requirement for latency. So my solution was to get an M2 storage instance and create a 100GB swap space. Works like a charm and in the future, if I need the higher latency I just change the instance to something that has enough ram.
They would be.... an extremely unwise website to target with that kind of extortion.
Just wanted to add that tree and graph structures of course can be stored sequentially on disk or a flash drive (log-structured). For instance with a really fast random access storage and some additional space you can even save the history, that is lightweight snapshots of your data. That is you always append data.

This way you can also use clever versioning algorithms to predict the performance (no read or write peaks) and to lower the space consumption.
It's also worth mentioning that Brave's adblock engine is native (written in Rust), not a Javascript-based engine like uBlock [0]

[0] https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust
There's an enormous amount of literature and technique in the mainframe world for dealing with data bigger than ram. Because that was the norm.

Whole companies have been built around the problem. e.g. syncsort.com

I hope some interesting techniques don't get locked up and lost in proprietry mainframe software.
Next you'll be amazed how many high school students discuss trying to not get caught breaking school rules.

Or how many drivers speed.
> I think that there is far too much work done in the world, that immense harm is caused by the belief that work is virtuous ...

That's a privileged position. I benefited from a work ethic of a grandfather that knew poverty and hunger, via a father that grew up in the depression. They would both be known as workaholics in this age, as they frequently, or usually, worked from pre dawn to post dusk for the necessities. My father stood in awe of his father's capacity for work, and I'm in awe of my father's.

My own child, if I had one, would be less impressed with his father's work ethic, as I also grew up in a privileged position, without poverty or hunger, due to my father's work. It would be better for a child to inherit my father's work ethic than mine. Not for any virtue other than its capacity to promote thriving and survival in an unstable future.
The problem goes further than that. Obviously there are agreed upon facts, but so many things are arguable.

So many things suffer from propaganda (our diets) to indoctrination in schools (lots of things, both left and right, but now mostly left).

Very few people read up on history and follow a garden path to education and realization. It’s very few people. Most people heed a “trusted source” like their club, their union, their mentors, their teachers, etc.
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> Eyeballing the numbers [0][1] I would expect one bitflip between once every year and once every 100 years on 128GB of memory. I'm willing to take those odds.

Throw in the likely hood of the flipped bit being consequential and the odds look even better. To potentially do major damage the flipped bit would have to be in an area of memory of something being executed and it has to flip after being read and before being executed, which probably ads at least 2 more orders of magnitude. Even for general bitrot of data has to be in memory and get flipped between reads and writes. Those odds are vanishingly small compared to programmer error.
Well, if your website is exceptionally slow because you chose a substandard way of building it, why should Google lie to users to... preserve your vanity?

It doesn't take much in the way of "resources" to make a webpage that is "fast" by Google's definition.
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>Q-tips aren't supposed to be used for cleaning wax out of ears.

Well, they've worked just fine for me and millions of others (it's their most popular use). That said, there are indeed accidents from misuse.

Not sure what other people buy them for in the billions and have them at every bathroom. Cleaning vinyl records and nails?
I think there's some truth to this. Back when I was just about to replace my phone, the battery on the previous one would survive about 2 hours of screen usage, so I would start to measure aspects of my day to make sure I don't run out of battery and therefore lose all of the functionality that comes with having a working phone.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that I would start using my battery as a unit of distance or time, but I definitely memorized the battery consumption of my evening commute more precisely than the distance.
Because the other browsers havent made the @page size property available, which is the only thing we can't polyfill.

But Firefox is now looking at this, and Safari too. I hope we'll get to support more browsers soon enough (Firefox is my daily driver)
Just for an interesting spin: anybody have recommendations for first day of a FULLY REMOTE job?
Not true.

This is a "viralization" of the article linked below, with this very clear headline:

The IRS Now Audits Poor Americans at About the Same Rate as the Top 1%

That's of course a problem in itself, but very far from the "internet truth" that the rich don't get audited at all.

https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-now-audits-poor-ameri...
I wish I was good enough to work for them. It must be fascinating.
I worked in one team where they declared "scrum hours", which were 4-6 hours during the day everyone agreed to be in office. This gave enough flexibility to creative people and enough face to face with people who wanted questions quickly answered. Not sure what the best balance is, but that seemed ok.
I think it would be better for plausible deniability to just use a coin that has default privacy built-in. That way no one can point to the fact that person went out of their way and spent money (transaction fees) to attempt a measure of privacy.
Another one: reservoir sampling. It's used in Deep CFR, a form of CFR that uses neural networks. CFR is an algorithm used for finding equilibrium strategies in imperfect information games, most notably poker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampling
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> Shortly after, Lynch directed his own version of a space opera / sci-fi film: Dune (1984)
While they steal your data from Fitbit. Fantastic
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Since we use Blink rendering engine, and columns, we do have the ability to set up widows and orphans as we want it :)
What's the benefit of this over tools that you're likely already using to build an API, such as Postman, insomnia or Milkman?
Yeah, I'm speculating and so are you. Your citation is an Elon tweet.

I'm not talking satellite to satellite latency, I'm talking total latency end-to-end. I'm also not saying the system will be 100 ms, just that it takes significant engineering effort so latency doesn't get out of control. IMHO, it's a fundamentally much harder problem than existing transatlantic links, despite the greater signal speed in a vacuum. I'm skeptical of what the latency will be. You disagree and that's fine.

Maybe we'll see an actual measurement soon enough. The competition can do 60 ms round-trip to NYC to London.
I gladly encouraged him to work when he wanted, sometimes that meant he'd work 48 hours straight and sleep for two days and show up Friday.

It's extremely common for brilliant people to be twice exceptional. Problems like ADHD, ASD, OCD, etc. are fairly strongly associated with very high IQs.

This means if they pull an all-nighter, it's not because they pushed themselves to be productive. It's because their brain was on fire with an idea and they needed to get it all out right now and literally were incapable of sleeping until they could get it done.

That can't be replicated from the other direction. You can't say "I know! I will stay up and work all night and it will be brilliant!" That's not how that works. Not by a long shot.
The overwhelming majority of products sold on Amazon are from 3rd parties. That's where the counterfeit goods problem comes from. There's no easy solution there.

Also, we shouldn't laser focus in on just one company. Newegg was an example... and it's still the place to buy computer hardware. Their customers do enjoy free returns, and often free shipping too.

Zeroing in on just Amazon is like cutting off your nose to spite your face.

In the end, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
If you genuinely are an X times programmer, unless you find the right environment, it is irrelevant. You will find under-utilization is common and so burnout comes quickly. As you can see in the comments, many places are unable to find ways to maximize your productivity. And once underutilized, you are of less value and so less valued. And even though these places will want you, they are a catastrophically bad match.

Since the risk of burnout from frustration is real, if you value your career, you will need to leave such places quickly until you find one that can utilize you maximally.
Awareness and planning cannot compensate for the fact that lost productivity is lost productivity.
I guess it's an age thing. I never turned in a rough draft and basically never typed an assignment until college for a class (leaving aside a thesis, etc.) The only time I really did back and forth editing was for newspapers.
I also don’t think it would work as-is on macOS due to two-level namespacing…
They're just your typical Android phones. Nothing special. medium resolution touch screen, a little bit of extra heavy plastic on the case. The usual OEM crapware is permanently installed on the device, and sending analytics back to the mothership.
Good questions. Waiting for Outlet team to respond.
Except of course unless it's one of Google's sites...

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...

Gmail scores a 50% on Google's own PageSpeed. And that's just the login screen. If Google can't even meet their own metrics and standards then they have no place telling other people what they should be doing with their websites.
InfluxDB is written in Golang as well. It's rather performant and scales out nicely, given my experience I don't think I'd consider Golang a big concern.
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Twin Peaks season 1 for part of it. Season 2 of TP Lynch was mostly out of the project. Season 3 had some very, very good moments (gotta light, but also the coin flipping scene), but I am still on the fence on how good it was to close the series.
They said no content and nothing - there's still stuff (and people) left over from the early days. If the internet had been designed by marketers and propagandists from the get-go, that would not be the case, so I think "because marketers and propagandists were not originally involved (and originally is suffiently recently)" is a valid answer to "Why is the internet not (yet) devoid of anything trustworthy or believable?".
their site is pure hidden text spam (aka paywall) and they still give them views. i don't know why you'd say that
But I mean you do have a choice right?