skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the intent, but why are they putting badges/indicators like this into Chrome instead of Search?

Sites usually load slowly because because of ads and trackers, and Chrome's only telling me what I'm already seeing with my own eyes. Plus, I already decided to visit the site, and it's probably quicker to finish letting it load than find an alternative source, if one exists at all.

Whereas Search would seem much more useful, since it's where I'm already presented with alternative links, and can actually affect which one I click.

I know Search already says they de-rank slower sites... but obviously they're still appearing, especially for the "long tail" of searches. So badges still seem like win there.

(But the whole concept is sound, I think, because developers often want to build fast sites but management won't dedicate the resources. But if management sees Google is giving them a big red mark, that's suddenly something very easy for them to understand and allow to be fixed.)
Winton is fundamentally dissimilar to AHL. Winton have a reputation for skill and outperformance. AHL have a reputation for blundering incompetence (that is why the 'H' in AHL left to start Winton, and became a billionaire doing so).

The only goal is to make money. I understand your point in that AHL are dissimilar to RenTech but I didn't say any way was correct. The right way is whatever makes money. You have firms that look like AHL and do better.

I would look at who they actually hire. From what I know, there is almost no-one in their quant team who didn't go into Oxbridge (at least for PG). That is not a low bar.

Btw, I have seen this elsewhere. I know of non-quant firms that only hire from Oxbridge, and they get the same result as firms that don't have a specific analyst program (i.e. everyone rotates through admin/sales/marketing).

The point isn't that this doesn't work. RenTech have a high bar, it works. The point is that you have to really understand why you are doing it. Hiring "smart" people without thought only results in a higher wage bill.

And if we are going to get into it: one big issue with AHL has been the management (that is why David Harding left). They have got better but I don't think they are totally out the woods (I have heard they are trying to do momo in illiquid and esoteric markets...which won't work).

Saying it is the clients is one of the worst excuses in investment management. That is actually true one time in a hundred (BlueCrest is one). It is like the crap football teams complaining about good teams having all the money. Good fund managers have good clients because they don't fuck up all the time. The issue is AHL, for whatever reason, kept trying to do the same thing for decades, and expected to print money.
In the US the J-bodies (Cavalier being one of them) are regarded as somewhat disposable cars. In the US, the repair story is somewhat better, but that was more a result of the abundance of them in the states.

The bigger reason that Japanese buyers stayed away from the Cavalier was probably due to it's engine size (JP taxes at certain displacements, I know going over 2.0L is a bump) as well as vehicle size (at least according to Wikipedia, it was too big to be taxed as a compact there.)

Of course, being a J body doesn't help. The fact that many of the automakers had/have an unfortunate tendency to cannibalize themselves doesn't help either. Another example of this behavior from the 80s was the way GM would treat any project that could hurt sales of the Corvette (That whole mess with the Fiero, the way the Turbo 3.8 was quietly shooed away and ignored...)

This infighting was at least part of the reason GM tried to start another car company in the US called Saturn. If you thought Subaru people were culty... Saturn had a whole thing where people across the country drove to the headquarters every year. They managed to build cars that were a bit more reliable than the rest of the GM line (Oh, they still had a couple of problems though. And the engines loved oil.) The original models also had a unique part line and were built in a plant that tried to follow a more Toyota/Honda style mentality. Oh. And plastic body panels. In any case, I tend to see more Saturns still on the road than any other GM small car of the 90s.

It worked for a bit, until GM got tired of waiting for their sales to get up to speed, and started meddling with them TOO.
> They passed muster with Mayo (a deal that no doubt had to pass muster with Shulkin among other world-renown physicians and administrators

I used to work at both Mayo and Google.

Mayo isn't shy about the need to protect their name and reputation. They consider it one of their most valuable assets, if not the most valuable. After all, they built it over a century of hard work. Sometimes it borders on excessive. If you went to a conference, unless you were presenting, it was suggested for you to just say you're "from a large medical institution in the Midwest". If you sold them software or services, you were allowed to use their name (trademark) in the list of customers on your website, but only if the list had at least 4-5 names and it was in alphabetical order.

The day Mayo signed, also in light of their past collaboration with IBM (I was around in the BlueGene days...), I knew that Google must have committed large amounts of money and resources to the partnership. For those who are not aware, Dr Plummer at Mayo pretty much came up with the modern idea of a medical record a century ago and even had a sort of human-powered Google for records, keeping them in the basement, calling them up over intercom and delivering them over tubes.
Heavy-lift ship lifts entire cruise liner out of the water [video]
I don't think it's anyway near reality, but there's actually a number of ways this could work.

If you prepackage your queries, or do some sort of profiling guided optimization, the database could learn what it needs to index to answer your queries efficiently. There's already some precedence for this, with how Facebook for instance packages their graphql queries ahead of time to avoid parsing them at runtime.

Alternatively, you could maybe imagine models where storage is sharded along with the code for running it, so you say declaratively specify the data you need (count for this grouped by that, etc) and then at runtime the data is pre-aggregated per server hosting a certain shard.
Do you mean the meditating caused the weight loss and improvement in oxygen uptake?
Some companies are too big to fail but Google is too scary to fail. It would be nice to hear from government think-tanks regarding Google's role in society,their persistent recklessness and defiance of user consent. It "feels" like they are a very dangerous threat to national security but I would like to hear of a formal independet analysis.
This is so painful to see compared to using conda.
Cooling the motors isn't a big problem. Their heat output is around 10% of the shaft power, compared to combustion engines that put out 200% of shaft power as heat. While piston engines need a lot of cooling air flow and often have cowls that are mostly open at the front, an electric propellor drive can have a small cooling vent.

The batteries may produce as much heat as the motor, and they have a more limited temperature range. Their service life decreases when run above 40 C. Tesla batteries are liquid-cooled.
Possible Data Breach at PearsonVue
For now, I think it's the default everywhere.
>I don't have any more time for this at the moment, but I promise you that your views are not nearly as complex as designing and maintaining a database engine. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings. Remember; I'm not the one bemoaning "poor abstractions" and offering exactly zero ideas as to how it could be improved.

No time or more like nothing left to say?

Why be sorry? My feelings aren't hurt when you're completely and utterly wrong. You should be the one with your feelings hurt not that you've been shown how off-base you are.

Additionally who said I'm talking about a database engine?? I'm talking about the API man. I never mentioned anything about the engine itself. I'm talking about how a USER accesses lower level calls that conduct JOINS and SCANS. We don't have explicit control over the individual commands you see in an EXPLAIN, we can manipulate those calls via a SQL query. I'm literally only referring to SQL.

Man when you started speculating about what I do with "non-trivial problems," that's when you took this argument into no mans land.

The very idea you have to be an expert in something to comment on a problems is literal mental stupidity. I don't restrict myself and neither do you because clearly YOU aren't a database developer either.

Think about it this way, I'm not an expert but am I allowed to comment on the environment? About global warming? Am I not allowed to support either of these causes without a PHD in environmental science? Of course I'm allowed. As are you.

You're even allowed to speculate on my coding practices, patterns and career... "trivial problems" as you've already implied. But it's a dirty low blow when you do stuff like that, I tend to avoid it.
Just another point in favour of working at home friendly companies.

Less likely to be employed by someone who measures your output by hours.
Not necessarily, they could be money laundering instead.
NoSQL means a lot of categories of database e.g. graph, wide, columnar, document.

And so not everything is relational which is what SQL is for.
Yes, of course. If you put Bill Clinton in Europe he's a member of a right-wing political party. If you put him in the US he's a Democrat who can carry Pennsylvania and Ohio. If you put him in Saudi Arabia he's a cartoonish left-wing extremist.

It doesn't mean anything to talk about positions or shifts over time without some kind of a baseline.
I work in an FAANG where the director in charge takes people like this and just forces them to work from home. WFH is normally not allowed so you have to be in the exceptional tier to be offered it, and that gives you the flexibility to manage your own schedule. It limits the ability of those people to influence the culture.
Yeah I work part time in a b2b company that deals at the 'enterprise' level. A small business could almost always do it better and cheaper, but the big banks need a big name or they have no one to hide behind when things inevitably go wrong. Inevitable because the customers usually aren't very technical and we're often stuck talking to marketing people who care more about colours than business rules :D
No, I'm talking about companies that didn't even get to take VC funding in some cases. Building a stable business doesn't mean you get rich. The world is filled with middle class folk running stable businesses.
Since floating point operations are not associative, I wonder if it is legal for compilers to rearrange them. Maybe that’s what’s happening here?
Exactly. GPUs are necessary now, but did not originally herald the deep learning revolution.
Heyflyguy comments downthread that the guy did indeed confide in him that he was bipolar. It seems wayoutthere was on the money.
You can, in fact, put a functional nuclear reactor on a plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95LAL . Of course, it's a terrible idea, but it is feasible.
Details like that aren't important because the right answer to every single data problem is "SQL" /s

Even if the data problem is graph, document, time series, wide table, EAVT etc.
MBTI is actually complete pseudoscientific nonsense with zero empirical backing: https://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5881947/myers-briggs-personali...
Like seven standard deviations better than their competitors. Maybe they're just that good, but normally when something is that far out of the norm it invites suspicion.
This is so annoying lol. Couldn't they have chosen a unique name??
Google "productivity vs labor graph". In the US at least, the "tremendous labor to be done" is a lie that keeps grows each and every year.
I am sure I have no idea why this it is the case. But I would characterise the "novel intelligence" as a combination of creativity and common sense.

RenTech aren't hiring smart people. They are hiring people with technical ability and with a proven track record for solving very open-ended problems.

AHL is mainly hiring grads, definitely very smart people with strong postgrad quals but with no real track record. This can work if your model is technology-based like a Citadel or Jump. But you will get creamed in the world of RenTech.

All I can say for sure is that I have definitely seen this in non-quant investing. Firms that hire people from worse academic institutions, focus heavily on training, and have a culture that encourages teamwork do way better than firms that hire the "genius" types.
Just replying back to let you know that I'm enjoying Mineclone 2 a lot! Thanks again!
Yeah, that's true in a lot of industries. Airlines are another obvious example.

I pay more for our internet company (Aussie Broadband) because they promise not to over-provision and they have local support staff on the phone. They've been very quick to answer and helpful when I had to call and are willing to skip the basic troubleshooting when I explain what I've done already. And I've never had the evening peak slowdowns that my friends have had. But is it worth $20 a month more? Probably not, but it's nice not having those worries occupy my mind.
Adidas to Close Sneaker Factory in the U.S., Move Production to Asia
What the heck is going on in Sweden?
also more likely to be breaking the law
Lynch's ads actually made me understand his style much better. For all his otherworldly weirdety and teasing of Hollywood, his 90s work looks rooted in 90s tv. It's like I watch tv dramas or ads, but with Lynch's twist—just like Pedro Almodóvar's films are 80s/90s tv with Pedro Almodóvar's twist.
People's Choice Awards: Avengers Endgame Named Best Movie
How is it possible to patch this while retaining the ability for users to make custom themes? I'm genuinely curious what the right solution is. CSS is practically a programming language at this point (isn't it Turing complete?) so it seems hard (if not impossible) to accurately identify all of the features that might constitute a vulnerability when the script is deliberately loaded and run by a user.

Is there a way to tell a browser "this stylesheet can't make external requests"? Are they manually parsing the stylesheet to look for the naughty selector (on the textbox element, or on $=, etc.)?

Update: Oh, it looks like this is being entered via an input field in the settings meant to specify a color code. So not actually a fully-fledged user stylesheet. On that note, does Slack support those?
There are small towns in Texas with enough conventional weapons for that. Had me till them
1. The author of this post helped to create the Django framework and runs a successful Python consultancy.

2. Conda is not used as much as you might think... it's really only used within the data science community.
How does changing the purview of the EPA say they "hate" it? Seems like few argue that it has no utility, and many of the complaints are legitimate, particularly complaints about ludicrous misapplication of WOTUS to small agricultural ditches and artificial pools.
Read a couple of tax court rulings, IRS embarrasses itself all the time on overzealous stretches.

With non-reporting the IRS doesn't know how a taxpayer is categorizing a transaction. They wouldn't know if a transfer was a payment for a good/service with a capital gain or less required, or if a transfer was collateralizing debt to a third party that manages their collateral however they want which would not be a tax event, for example.
Tell HN: For all it's faults Facebook is priceless during civil unrest
We're in the process of overthrowing the corrupt narcopresident Evo Morales to the point he's leaving for mexico in exile in a few hours.

Without Facebook communication between the people would have been impossible.

It's made it so easy to share videos, messages, pictures and live feeds from down in the streets.

I've never seen my people so united with a clear message: Evo needs to leave.

I want to thank Facebook for their platform, they've helped us work towards freedom and democracy.
Based on the stories we hear about people waiting for replacement parts when their cars need repair, I'd wager that the are probably running too lean on inventory.

This creates a dilemma of either not delivering cars because then they'd have to wait for replacements, or delivering cars that have parts that are not 100% to spec.

And no, it's not about people cancelling orders because of waits IMO. If you're waiting for the part to finish the car, you can't really finish selling it and get the money you have tied up in that incomplete build.
<20 minutes later>
"Sorry, your dependencies could not be resolved"
My doctor's lobby has a sign that says "please wait in line here, to respect the privacy of other patients", about 4 feet from the desk. The desk itself is probably wider than 4 feet.
https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2019/09/151096-wasabi-walle...

I hope you wouldn't also suggest using a dex with 100k/day volume, and receiving pedocoins?

These privacy-enhancing technologies would be good if a fraction of the people advertising their merits actually used them, but the reality is, the only people using coinjoins/monero/dex are people who need to, which is a huge problem to associate yourself with.
> since "show the tables" isn't in SQL itself,

Actually

SELECT table_name FROM information_schedule.tables;

But yes, that's harder to type/remember than \d.
Please don't break HN's guidelines by being snarky or putting down others' work in a shallow way. If you know more or have a different perspective to offer, try sharing some of what you know so we can all learn something!
Why pipx vs just using pip?
To be clear, that sentence was in there to illustrate the effect that single-bit errors could cause. That incident happened after Google had already long since switched to ECC and obviously wouldn't have been prevented by it.

However, we have a large number of other processes (testing, type systems, formal verification, code reviews, release processes, etc.) to protect against software bugs. There is no protection against cosmic rays. You don't want to be in a situation where all of the defect-mitigation work that the last 50 years of computer science has accomplished is rendered useless by a random freak occurrence.

(The bug in question was actually in a migration script, and made it into production because people thought that migration scripts were one-off throwaways that didn't need the same amount of testing, code review, verification, and general carefulness that the production code does. Lesson learned. The postmortem for it actually had the lesson of "Treat your migration code as permanent, and apply all the same standards of maintainability and reliability of it that you do to production code.")
First, the headline feels almost-misleading -- it's not about battery "icon shapes" as the graphic also seems to imply, just about battery levels affecting your activities and anxiety.

But second, the best trick is just to turn your phone to airplane mode whenever you're on transportation. My iPhone goes from 100% to about 80% if I spend the whole day at home. It goes from 100% to 20% by mid-afternoon if I take a few subway rides. Your phone constantly searching for a new signal drains the battery more than anything.

It makes me wish there were a setting to reduce the aggressiveness of connectivity -- if the accelerometer has figured out I'm in motion, and I'm not using my phone at the moment, then only bother searching for a signal only once every, say, 5 minutes. I don't care about getting calls immediately when on the move, but still want text messages to come through every so often. (Obviously not true for everyone, so doesn't need to be a default -- just a setting.)
Due to life circumstances, I have been unable to write any real intro documentation.

> Compared to Sporth, though, the development model seems less open to community involvement

The biggest reason for this is because I'm actually using Fossil for source control instead of git, and this is a git export for visibility and convenience. Fossil also is built around a cathedral model rather than the bazaar model [0], so it it indeed harder to make one-off commits to the repo. It should be possible to have bidirectional git/fossil support, but I haven't explored it for now.

> It would be great to have a "contributing" guide of some sort, or a repo open to pull requests.

There's no guide yet because I'm not ready for any random stranger to be able to make a contribution.

However, if you (or anyone reading) are interested in using developing Patchwerk, please email me at this is paul batchelor at gmail dot com (no spaces).

0: https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...
It would be easier to condemn this crusade if the examples of actual welfare queens weren't so infuriating. It is a phenomenon dripping with palpable entitlement, at a scale that most people are familiar with.
Not the author, but I'll give my take on this. The Soundpipe library underlying Sporth is ideally suited to doing exactly what you describe. It exports all the required functions in a way that can be easily integrated with any extensible language. So if you want to make a library-for-X version of this, everything is set up for you. Sporth can basically be considered a minimal demonstration of this ability. This minimalism is also one of Sporth's strengths - it made it very easy to port to WebAssembly, for example.

Also consider that Sporth is almost like a markup language for audio graphs, where each occurrence of a verb represents a node in the graph. The graph is then initialized and run with minimal overhead over all samples. It's certainly possible to reproduce this in a library, but I suspect it limits your options in terms of target languages.
The sandboxing ends as soon the browser calls the GL library, and you have really no control whatsoever of what will be happening after that.

Up until very, very recently, driver coders had no idea at all that GPU instructions can be used offensively, and it is still common for buggy GPU code to crash your program/driver/os or the GPU itself.

Sandboxing is nearly useless when you let so much executable code through it.
from the article: "We are building out speed badging in close collaboration with other teams exploring labelling the quality of experiences at Google."

We're hearing about this first from Chrome, but that doesn't mean it will happen in chrome first. I suspect that badges of shame will come to the search result pages long before they actually show up in chrome. Say what you will about google's policies, but the chrome team is really pretty good about announcing this sort of thing well in advance. Look at their multi-year rollout schedule for the "not secure" badging in the URL bar.

Search results, on the other hand, will just update one day with no warning.
Driving 30 minutes on 101 in the bay area at 5pm is much different than driving 30 minutes on a random journey in rural Iowa. You could easily encounter not a single other car on the latter trip which is a far different experience.

I find driving to be a relaxing almost meditative experience while not in traffic. My parents are just short of terrified of driving in normal-for-cities traffic.

Standing room only public transit is still like my own personal hell. Standing in a box that jerks me one way or another jammed between people going to a place where there will be no space which is "mine" and no escape nor self determination besides through a repeat reverse journey many hours later. Honestly I think I would prefer being locked in prison 14 hours a day than have to go back to commuting by public transit to a city center.