skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you accuse a lot of people of "nasty arrogance", I think it's a good idea to read your own posts and try to weed out examples of the same.

You use some pretty harsh and condescending terms as you dismiss a topic quite a few people are enthusiastic about. Is that really productive? What do you get out of it?

You also make some strange technical remarks. Julia does not allow "arbitrary subclassing" (or typing). It doesn't allow subtyping at all, except for of abstract types. In fact, composition is the preferred approach in Julia, and frequently held up as preferable to inheritance in general.

As for your preference that it's better to have good performance for only some selected parts of the language, in stead of good performance in general, that seems so idiosyncratic that I'd like a better explanation. It's hard to tell if you are serious.
I'm trying to lay the groundwork for moving to Estonia in a couple years, and getting a fully-remote job is a primary requisite for that.

I'm thrilled that remote-friendly is starting to become mainstream. I wish it had happened under other circumstances, though.
Yuri Selivanov tweeted yesterday that Python 3.10 will be "up to 10% faster" https://twitter.com/1st1/status/1318558048265404420
I think that should mostly be up to the maintainer. It’s easy to complete pull requests in whatever desired way: Rebase, Merge, Squash, …
When a founder tells you "the salary is low, but you get equity" he is screwing you.

If you take a market salary, and see equity as what it is (a lottery ticket that might, maybe get you a few tens of grands) then it's fine.
I was misdiagnosed inflamed tendons and it turned out to be something else, hah

HN Reader take this message: medicine can be a to and fro, go back if you're not convinced and get a second opinion if you think somethings still wrong :)
Purdue Pharma Pleads Guilty to Criminal Charges for Opioid Sales
The reason this is a good discussion to have is because, at a superficial level, it looks like ORM's should be faster than writing SQL, but when you get down into the details you find that the complexities are a lot deeper than a superficial view suggests. "Do what is best for your project" is good advice, and the author states a good case for ORM's not being "what's best for your project".
Javascript or PHP were not designed to be fast as well.

Oh, wait...
> Leave the features: Take the cannoli

Now that's how you title a thesis paper.
> it's like there's something inherently satisfying when the big guy gets knocked down, the idea that being big is bad in and of itself.

It is surely true that some people see it that way, but I think most people would be fine with Google being gigantic if they perceived the company and it's services as being strictly beneficial for everyone.

If there were no concerns about abuse of power, loss of privacy, squashing of business competetors via ethically questionable means, etc -- if people believed that the phrase "don't be evil" was being 100% followed at Google, I don't think most of them would have a problem with its size.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHX6tHdQGiQ
Sorry, that wasn't the best word choice. Certainly a counter is another viable way of performing that check. (And obviously comes with its own set of trade-offs which I'm not interested in performing value judgments on!)
Nobody is stopping anyone from doing this, and people are doing this. Whenever I lock my screen on Windows, I get an unremovable ad from Microsoft that says I can earn money for every search if I just switch to Bing. When you click "help" in Windows, it doesn't give you help -- it opens your a browser for a Bing search for something vaguely related to the problem, and the search returns no useful results. (It doesn't link to as much malware as it used to. Maybe that's because of my ad blocker though.)

The reality is that Bing sucks. Hard. It can't even return Microsoft's knowledge base for a search term that Microsoft explicitly set up. Every time, I cut-n-paste the term into Google and that is how I resolve my question. (Of course being linked to Microsoft's own website! They wrote the software. They wrote the documentation. But their own search can't find it!)

The problem is not Google being anti-competitive here. It's Microsoft that can't compete. They don't have two employees that said "hey, we should set up a monthly sync to make sure all the help in Windows gets linked to our knowledge base in Bing" between someone on the Windows team and someone on the Bing team. And that's the kind of thing that makes your company go out of business. The government can do very little to help you with that.
Well, it's easy to find. We're all on a browser anyways.
It seems like you are arguing that it would be good if it was the first. I think that's a fringe view. I think most Americans would love if the government had more power to actually pursue what is in The best interest of the citizenry. Attacking the big guy because he's big is a fundamentally anti-American sentiment that most Americans would reject.
Outlook's Portuguese translation uses the word "Lixo" (Trash/Garbage) for the "Spam" button. Sometimes people report emails as spam when they're trying to delete them.
Not without backlash from those people.
aiui they still return results for pinterest and quora so it can't be that good.
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> That's assuming that the mining hardware doesn't get more power efficient

If mining gets more power efficient, holding everything else the same, the difficulty will go up until the efficiency improvement is negated. Bitcoin is designed such that efficiency improvements are eaten up; otherwise every time there was en efficiency improvement it would become cheaper to attack the network.

> I think there may be a future where energy is no longer the deciding factor in profitability vs the hardware itself and operational costs (land, employees etc).

What would the catalyst be? If anything I see this going in the opposite directions: the more money at stake in mining, the more it makes sense to make big, efficiency-improving investments that take upfront capital but are amortized over time.

The one exception to this would be if there were a truly breakthrough improvement in hashing technology that was captured by a single miner, in which case that miner could essentially force everyone out of the market by pushing the difficulty above everyone else's break-even point.
This reminds me of Quad/Graphics in Wisconsin... I toured their facility the 90s. If you read pretty much any magazine, Quad/Graphics probably printed it. They had a gigantic 10+ story warehouse full of everything they had ever worked on, and automatic fork lifts on wires to fetch or put away anything. We met the founder Harry Quadracci, and it seemed to be the thing he was most proud of. They had printing presses the size of a school, and the warehouse dwarfed them.

A fire destroyed everything in july, 2002... 1 person waiting in a car outside was killed when the building collapsed on them. 2 weeks later later, Harry was found dead in pine lake under the pier on his property. It was deemed an accidental drowning, but if you could see how much he cared about that factory, you'd probably question the coroner. I heard a rumor he had rocks in his pockets.
They do, it wasn't called OpenTelemetry at the time, it was called OpenTracing:

> By 2017, open source projects like Open-Tracing and Open-Zipkin were mature enough for use in polyglot runtime environments at Netflix.

I don't think OpenCensus even existed in 2017, looks to have been announced in 2018:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2018/01/opencensus.html
Python is the duct tape of programming languages.

Never the best tool if you have strict performance requirements, but so damn versatile it will never go away.

Cython does need better docs though, the steep learning curve means it is under-utilized.
"wah, this is hard" is not an antitrust case. Anyway it's clearly not all that hard since Bing exists. The fact that Apple sells iOS users' attention for six billion dollars a year is strong evidence of Bing's strength. Market prices are set by the 2nd bidder, not the highest bidder. The price Google pays to Apple is what those eyeballs would have been worth to Microsoft, not how much they are worth to Google.
You can resolve libs by full name beside the system default version.
I believe your comment is a bit tongue in cheek about Microsoft's settlement over IE.

The concern here is that government, especially lawyers, are not good at coming up with remedies. If the court rules Google is a monopoly, then what? What changes will be demanded, and will they "fix" the issue that the government is trying to solve?
Was it?

I think people often forget that PayPal has a $250B market cap and is one of the largest companies by valuation in the world...
While opinions differ on appropriate action, with some arguing for strong policy responses, there’s very little evidence of anything that merits the word “hysteria”
I would disagree, especially for PayPal and Stripe. They are large players but the payments industry is very diverse and there are no shortage of providers. If you want do want to talk about dominant payment processors, I would look first at SWIFT, Visa, Unionpay, and MasterCard.
Sure, individual coins could have better movement but I would like to track it on a whole, as individual stocks also have better movement than the index. Is there a composite index for the coins at least say the Top 100?

I picked BTC as by volume and market cap, as that's the biggest out of those, about 5-6x of the second biggest in market cap. In the same URL you shared I compared Nasdaq with BTC and both seem to be correlated in the last 1 year. In the last 2 years, Nasdaq seems to have the lead for a while but the end returns seem to be the same.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BTC-USD/chart?p=BTC-USD#eyJp...
Without making a judgement on the veracity of the claims.

There is at least circumstantial evidence in this case. I have noticed that the tactic used to defend biden has become to place insurmountable burden of proof on anyone who claims wrong doing while giving the bidens every benefit of the doubt. Which is gaslighting.

That is akin to saying "there is no evidence OJ killed his wife. The bloody glove found at his home has all the hallmarks of being planted by russian intelligence".
What I found most interesting was that older players are a bit past their prime, but on par with folks in their 20s.

If you're young, your best years are ahead of you, middle aged you're in them, and beyond you're just 20 again but presumably sleeping more and much wealthier.
Well I would not be so fast in condemning the US as this issue is also occurring in Europe with regards to these very large technology oriented companies. If anything these companies are some of the largest accumulations of wealth and governments want a piece of it. Oh there may be some break ups involved but what is coming down is regulation which will funnel more of the money back into government under the guise of "for the people".

US wise, the threat isn't the money in politics or where it goes but that two parties have near exclusive say on what is allowed and what is not. It took someone with the fame and money of Trump to defeat both of them and that extreme of an example should have made it obvious to people the real issue; that for any other party to gain traction is impossible and every attempt to limit how people may assemble and spend money only needs to looked at when it is done through the two established parties. As in, they need reigned in, not political movements looking to get into the game
One key insight I found from the article is the distinction between European Commission and US approach when it comes to innovation and investment in tech.

> Third, Google will argue that its deals for Android distribution and the tying of search defaults to Google Play Services (including the Play Store) (...) but is also Google’s just reward for having invested in the creation of Android. This last argument didn’t work in front of the European Commission, but it may be more effective before a U.S. judge. The Justice Department, meanwhile, probably has the strongest case on this point: sure, Google created Android, but it also made the choice to open source it, and if its attempts to re-seize control through blatant tying aren’t illegal then it’s hard to imagine what could be.

This argument did not work with EU presumably because they look at it from the current stage perspective and hurting of choices vs just rewards for innovation. Android is open source, but very few manufacturers fork it because they are incentivized not to. There are customizations, and something better could come up if more people work on it. (slightly cheeky, but then maybe Google would not look to Apple to decide what features to add). I remember one time when Samsung was trying to create an OS for its smart TV based on android but decided against it and signed an exclusive MADA with Google years ago (and renewed in 2019 as well).

The question I have here is: what if Google decides to take android private and claim ownership? It wont be well received in the dev community, but are they even allowed to do it? What would be the repercussions of the same?
Voice-Controlled Raspberry Pi
In my experience there's almost no place implementing SRE at all, much less as a cult.
Religion, Violence, Tolerance and Progress: Nothing to Do with Theology
also "in" is english.
I don't disagree that they need to be confident in dealing with people's health. In the end arrogance born from confidence is still arrogance and I would argue (understandably unsubstantiated and difficult to quantify) that it is pervasive in the medical community.
I think the distinction is important to address for the current discussion about P=NP, because of the meta nature of the discussion. Any argument about natural phenomena meaning anything a priori is obscuring the computation required ot assert meaning.
See Bing
I'm a little confused. A 'toy' bank app would have individual accounts with some amount of money in each. The problem arises when you subtract the debit from one account and error out before crediting the amount in other account, or vice versa. Now you're in an inconsistent state.

How would you typically design a relational schema that could avoid this scenario?
Any insight into what QUIC/H3 stack you'll be using for the proxy?
My pleasure! Feel free to reach out if there's anything else you have questions about (email in profile).

The biggest thing to realize is that you can control that particular calculated metric in the first place. At which point, you can decide subjectively what constitutes a bounce for your business/site, and explicitly match your implementation to that business definition. Which may even fluctuate between sections of a site, but rarely aligns with what you'll get out of the box leaving everything with Google's defaults.
That last paragraph was oddly hard for me to parse this morning, possibly because I havn’t thought enough about this aspect of confirmation bias.

Be conciencious when dismissing something that’s inconsistent with your world view, seems like very good advice, at least if the source is credible.
It's ok - you made up for it with a much better comment! as allenbrunson pointed out.
Just to add to the above answer, you will have to add your "Personal Access Token" to the extension so that it can get access to the analytics data.

The token itself is stored in your browser's localstorage, btw.
I agree. There is nothing wrong relationally with self-referencing tables. Support for traversing such data models may have been poor in the past but with the support added, what is the problem?
> is there anything stopping anyone from starting a new (better) search engine

Nothing, but that's always been the case, with every monopoly. There was nothing stopping anybody from running telephone lines and competing with AT&T in the 80's except for AT&T's massive incumbency head-start.
The harm is pretty trivially demonstrated in the privileged search rankings Google gives its own products. This drives down competition in these other verticals and leaves consumers with winners that won because they are Google's products, not because they are the best.

I also really dislike the use of the word "hatred" here, which is a loaded word deployed when a writer wants to make those they are arguing against seem overly emotional and irrational.
Forgive my ignorance, I'm not super knowledgable on the subject but does this mean you just add decorators to existing functions with typing and it enhances the speed?
As described in the article: It's a chicken and egg problem. More people using a search engine, leads to more data for analytics, more analytics lead to better results and again more people using it.
This is just pushing testing to the customer. Why would the customer report a bug instead of switching to a less buggy product?

Why do you think the customers are going to report bugs? I can't say that I've ever attempted to report a bug on an iPhone app, Windows, etc. It's like yelling at the wind.
Maintain AWS Tags When You Fall Behind
When User Experience Means Life or Death
The businesses where Google is biggest and the ones where it isn’t
Irrelevant if they moved all their assets to other companies and took their cash out sadly...
I don't even know what mass hysteria is supposed to mean. It conjures visions of people running screaming in the street tearing their clothes off. I suppose the nearest we've had so far were panics such as mass buying of toilet paper and cleaning products.

We've had serious problems with mass delusions such as ant-vax, chem trails and pizza-gate propagating through social media since long before Covid. Of course now there are similar memetic contagions that are Covid related such as the 5G conspiracy theories, but crazies have got to crazy. If they weren't crazying about this they'd be crazying about something else.
Because Coke doesn't collect massive amounts of data from their customers to feed AIs?

I think you may have replied to the wrong post, because your post doesn't make a lot of sense as a reply to the parent.
Firefox usage is flat or slightly trending down. However, overall internet usage grows each year, which means their market share is shrinking.
ANY virus infection can do this. I've had a human Parvovirus B19 infection last year - infection which is mild to zero symptoms in most adults, but in fewer than 5% it causes serious complications, some of them life long. Well, unfortunately it looks like I'm in this second group as I'm still struggling with some issues over a year later(reactive arthritis for which I'm getting steroid injections) - and the best the doctors could tell me "yep, it can happen with any virus infection, sorry".
What was my point, then?
Why not? Perhaps it is better. I will try to see.
I'm curious what you use as a definition to identify monopolies, if the legal definition is not sufficient for you?
I'm really enjoying this series of blog posts from @markosaric - on some sites I work with we've been really struggling to understand the differences in visitor counts from various analytics solutions, and some of those sites depend on those numbers for funding. I was quite excited when CloudFlare announced an analytics product as really they should know better than anything else we can install and run, exactly how much human traffic is hitting our URLs. But what we got seems to be almost useless.
This means Louisiana's Governor is John Edwards, a democrat, and normally one refers to a US State being led by a Governor... not an AG. Though a legal filing is led by an AG... so the comments when added together led to ambiguity I found funny, and decided to play with. I should have linked to the Governor first, and fully explained my joke. I understand comedy is not what we come here for, but sometimes, it's good to not take everything so seriously.
> It wasn't revolutionary - all it did was introduce the anonymity of cash to the Internet

I think you missed the point? That's it. That's the revolutionary part!
This resonates with me. I was tasked in my organization to apply ML to most of the processes and sub teams..just because. People hand me over spreadsheets with 10 or 100 records expecting black magic. Many companies need to create a stream line process before they embark into the ML path. And once they decide to take that trip from what I have seen is that hiring ML engineers and DS, may not make sense at the very beginning. What I believe is that path from Analytics, then API/black box products from Cloud vendors selling "MLaaS" where they use tons of data to offer solutions in specific areas, such as finance, manufacturing, etc. From there pivot and continue to invest more in ML if it makes sense.
I suggest adding `details_schema JSONB` and validating `details` against it. Now you can still add fields to `details` without deploying code changes, but every dev in the company won't throw random garbage in there – or expose that field as raw JSON in an admin panel somewhere.
I am a Google costumer, as in, I pay Google to show my ads in search.

To me a literal monopoly is obvious, no other competitor comes even close to Google in performance of search ads, but Google keep increasing in hostility too, they do everything they figure out they can get away with, like blatantly allowing click fraud, making fighting fraud harder, allowing people to use it's tools for extortion via fraud, and so on.

I really want to not use Google, but I have to.
It's called GitHub pages.

And several third-party developers are building user-friendly CMSs on top of it.
Gold dipped slightly and rose fast, nothing compared to what happened to say BTC or the big indices. Gold dipped by 10% from its peak when lowest, BTC by 50%
ESA – Climate from Space
Thanks for adding it. I learned window functions using SQLite, looking forward to learn recursive queries next.
Firefox's waning market share and need to suckle upon Google's teat to survive will only get worse and more dependent with time. So if Google doesn't meet all the qualifications of a monopoly now, it'll be much worse if the US waits to take action.
It certainly isn't a legal or financial definition because Americans seem to have no problem at all with regional monopolies.
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You say "death rate" in the first sentence, but then talk of "death count" and "deaths" in the rest.

Did you mean "death rate" in the rest too? If you meant "death count" or "deaths", then it is not the cast for South Dakota. Their deaths have gone way up per capita over the last few weeks.

There are two big questions most people would like answers too:

1. What are my chances of getting COVID?

2. How screwed am I if I get COVID?

There are a couple of different numbers that can be used for the second.

First, the death rate among people who have COVID can be given. Second, the deaths per capita due to COVID can be given.

If you have the answer to the first, then either form of answer to the second can be computed from the other form of answer.

What's going on in South Dakota is that they are doing very badly on the first half (getting COVID). By "badly" I mean that they make the worst in Florida, back when Florida was the epitome of mishandling COVID, look great.

So even if the death rate among people who have COVID has gone down a little, the deaths per capita has gone way up. The death rate among people with COVID would have to go down way more to offset the way the number of people who get COVID is increasing in South Dakota.