skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about graph neural networks although it is a topic that I want to study in the next few months.

But what bothered me in your article is what you wrote about graph data structures.

NetworkX is indeed very slow, this is due to two facts:
- NetworkX is a pure Python implementation and does not relay on some methods written in a faster language like C.
- They use dictionaries to represent the graphs, which may have some advantages when mutating graphs, but of course have much worse locality than an adjacency list or a some sparse matrix format.

But even for python there are much faster libraries such as igraph. The data structure in igraph is an edge list.

A lot of single core graph libraries use an adjacency list internally, and while it is true that the index list for each vertex can be somewhere arbitrary in memory, they usually do not behave like a linked list, unless you graph is really sparse.
One of the most used operations in graph algorithms is to iterate over the neighbors of a vertex, and for this, adjacency lists are very good.

They also have a small advantage over CSR matrices for adding or removing edges, and they might use slightly less memory, as their index type only needs to be able to index all vertices and not all edges, so they need half of the space, which is better for caches.
And you know... markets irrational for longer than you can stay solvent.
"Bitcoin becomes less volatile over time"

Why? What is the mechanism?
From the definition of unions there isn't much overlap. Yes they want to protect Google Workers from harassment which is valuable but doesn't sound like they're fighting for improving wages, benefits, or working conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_unions_in_the_United_Sta...
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While I am very bullish on Bitcoin, this just isn't fair. Both anti-coiners and pro-coiners spend a lot of time on research to find out the truth, and the truth is that either group could be proven wrong long term. These are uncharted waters. Lastly, they did not miss the boat, there is still plenty of time to buy in and use bitcoin the way it was meant to be: a savings account.
Someones performance bonus depends on it, you can bet there is going to be A LOT of heel dragging when it comes to updating those statuses!
This comes up every time Assange comes up. He’s not being prosecuted for being a journalist. The US has very strong protections for journalism that stand up to just about anywhere—-and honestly look great compared to things that have happened in the UK. Assange is charged with actively working to steal classified information.

There’s a huge difference between A) someone gets classified information through nefarious means and shares that with a journalist, and B) “journalist” actively works to steal said classified documents. This case is about “B” not “A” but yet we keep seeing people trying to make the argument that this is some sort of attack on journalism. That’s a gross misrepresentation of the basic facts in this case.
Except my point was

> Original C was created after UNIX already existed, used for UNIX's first rewrite and until UNIX source code left Bell Labs, it only worked on PDP-11 computers.

Regardless of failed porting effort, the original UNIX, implemented in Assembly and running on the PDP-7, was already being used by a small community.
I support your right to run your business as you see fit, and I know that there is both value and profit in that way, but as someone who has seen both perspectives from both sides of the fence I can tell you this:

That does not scale.

If you hire the exact person you want and they get exactly the results you want, you’ve just installed a black box in to your company. You cannot duplicate them and cannot replace them seamlessly if something happens.

In a real way you are now reliant on that specific person and they only have so many hours in a day (and only so much motivation).

Experience tells me that the “20% time” way is the right balance: Support employees in exploring unknown (and possibly much better) ways, and spend 80% of the time following processes that are known to work. Black boxes can cripple a company if work is 100% at the will of single employees, and so much valuable insight is lost when it swings 100% the other way.
I wonder if this is one of the larger natural drops/spikes of legit users that their infrastructure have seen?

* lots of users are coming back to work after the holidays today

* lots of users take the holidays off and fully disconnect

* significant new users added in 2020, with so many teams going remote

Sounds like a possible recipe for infra scaling issues and/or cascading failures to me
Governments take a % of my income. Democracy gives me a voice in how that pool of stolen money is spent. Businesses are private property owned by the shareholders. They can run their biz anyway they see fit, within community standards. I.e. no slavery or child labor, reduced pollution, contracts are binding, etc.

Unions are to protect the interests of employees that have no bargaining power. Big tech employees don’t need this. I can, however, see tech employees using their shares and influence to bargain for a board seat. I think Germany does this.

Ultimately it comes down to the relationship white-collar employees have with their employer. I work at a Big Tech co. I see myself as a hired-gun who is full-time because the taxes and benefits are easier to manage. I don’t care one bit about the company’s mission or values or whatever. I write code, they give me money. Either one of us can dissolve this contract anytime.
>"Well, this makes you irrelevant as a target customer in this heavy subscription/SaaS 2020 market."

My personal opinion is that this business model is simply not sustainable long term except for cases where the subscription model is a natural choice (Netflix for example). If I had to pay subscription for every piece of software I own I'd be ruined. With perpetual licenses however I only update / upgrade when I feel there is a benefit in it for me. Otherwise that old copy keeps working. I suspect I am not alone here.

As for not being relevant: so far I do not feel any lack of software offerings with perpetual licenses so allow me to disagree. I maybe irrelevant to your strict business model but not to the overall market.
The Federal Reserve really changed the game; I am talking about the free banking era.
First, I love E.O. Wilson. I can pick up and read "Consilience" from almost anywhere and find a gem or two in it. But he is a gentle idealist, a good man who's made good in the world. And his words are at least in part a statement about should be, not just about what is. And I agree with him. Professor and Scientist are ultimately distinct because the former is bound to academia's peculiar and dark rules, and the latter is not.

Startups famously cannot afford to do science, Big Corp. doesn't have an R&D budget, academia is stultifying, so that leaves...Gentleman Hobby Scientists! The kind of people who are a software architect by day and watch 3blue1brown at night, or watches Steve Caroll's "Biggest Ideas in the Universe" series (great, btw). The kind of people who 20% time was made for. The kind of people who kick themselves for not dropping out in 1996 when they had solid funding for an internet startup available, but they wanted to finish their degree.

But yeah, "greatness" is always going to be about luck more than anything. The only consolation is that no matter how great you become, on a long enough timeline you will be forgotten. Heck, go out on the street and ask about "minor" scientists like Lavoisier or Leibniz or Gauss or Bohr or Brahe or, heck, Archimedes. You will get blank stares, or worse, ridiculed! So yeah, "greatness" (which they used to call "immortality", interestingly) is a pretty bad reason to do science, in my opinion. OTOH if you want to push the boundaries of human knowledge, and want to be the first to see it (and also one of the first to appreciate the progress of others), then that sounds good to me.
I would assume that all the people who are usually on Slack or Notion are here right now and it's making the server unhappy.
I think this is something that only happens in the US. I've never heard of a union being a supplier of labor anywhere else.
Tell HN: Help the infra guys – grab a book
Loads of services are crashing because herds of people are moving to "alternatives", downing those services as well

I'm a developer and the people who continuosly help me out are the guys in infrastructure

Infrastructure guys are awesome!

I'd like to help them out right now, by not taking down their services and I hope you'll help as well

All you need to do is to shut down your computer, grab a book or something similar, and head to the couch for a few hours of reading :)
Maybe my DevOps folks should not be privy to all internal communications?

That is one reason we did not go with Mattermost.
> We're nowhere as gracious as the residents of Japan or Taiwan.

I don't know enough about Taiwan to comment, but the 'cleanliness' of Japanese is exaggerated in many ways:

1) there's a very large population of smokers and I see them everyday throwing their cigarette butts on the streets.

2) yes, Japanese tend to be quite clean when people are looking (social pressure). However, go in places where nobody's there or nobody's watching, like mountains, and you will see massive amounts of litter dropped by hikers. Go on a beach that's not too frequented, and find out someone did a barbecue party the night before and left all their trash behind. Come back from a firework at night and watch your step as you walk on thousands of plastic bento boxes dropped on the floor after consumption.

So, let's tone down the myths a little.
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America is not a democracy - - it is an AUCTION.
America imprisons the most of it's citizens per capita of any country on the face of the earth.
Every American Commits Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent:
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How are you defining efficiency? Time to “disappear” the styrofoam? If yes, that’s not the problem to solve here. Health concerns are to be reduced from used styrofoam. Burning reacts it with air, and as another has commented, that produces harmful byproducts. Decomposing into CO2 (perhaps which can be captured) and manure is perhaps a better alternative?
How long do health influencers live?
Hey now, my friends dogs and kids are very interesting! Or were when they used to go outside...
Edward Joseph Snowden is the American I admire the most today.

He sabotaged the United States' most ambitious, long-term well-planned program to completely privatise spying around the world (through tech companies that would make money off it - a true capitalist wet dream), thus helping democracies around the world survive a bit more longer.

To this end, Hollywood had also slowly changed the tone of their content to carefully push narcissism to the public, so that people would overshare information about themselves, the people they know and their own activities, publicly on the internet. Private tech companies (like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook etc.) meanwhile slowly moved on to harvesting more and more data, testing the boundaries each time slowly, to create profiles of their users they could analyse for behavioural insights and this allowed them two streams of income - from providing access to personal data of individuals to government agencies and by using this personal data to manipulate the users to sell something.

Another big goal, with the "cloud computing" push is to get government agencies and companies worldwide to store their privileged information on servers online that can be easily accessed. This serves two main purposes - the push to "computing on the cloud" means access to technology can be highly controlled, and denied to other countries. (In today's connected world, US companies can deactivate and cripple nearly all computers, including smartphones and tablets, if it wants, of any country, if it is connected to the internet). The other purpose is that corporate espionage is easier if all data is on the cloud, thus allowing the US and the west to maintain a technological lead over others.

Ofcourse, it's easier to do this with some help with allies and thus we have the "5 eyes" and "9 eyes" program, where other spy agencies of other countries agree to share each others database.

It is a brilliant program but against democratic values.

People like Assange, who help whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, deserve our full praise and support. Democracy cannot survive in darkness and denial of information. The public are not dumb, as some politicians like to think so.
It's not down completely as I'm chatting with my coworkers on it now.
These are the people behind the Google Graveyard, the company's awful track record on UX and product design, and its core business strategy of making you, the user, the product through data monetization?
Go is super easy to learn especially if you already know a different language. I recently wrote "Twenty minutes to learn Go" [0] - anyone who knows a programming language can easily become productive in Go in less than an hour.

> I'm looking to learn something that will pay off dividends for a long time.

Go is in widespread use in server side web development. I love Rust, and I use it in web-related contexts as well, but it is not yet clear if Rust will ever be used generally as a server-side language. It will most likely never reach the status of Node or Go due to it's learning curve.

Learning Rust will be a great experience, and I suggest you go for it. But in the interest of getting hired for web development, it probably should not be your first option. Stick with Node.js or Go and learn something fun on the side.

0: https://ibraheem.ca/posts/go-in-twenty
So earmarking money for specific programs for testing and PPE and vaccine distribution is possible and quite normal?
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As long as you can find someone willing to trade something for Bitcoin, your Bitcoins are safe from USD printing.

Whether it's a pizza that later on is worth billions, or a car or something else. Your bitcoin is worth something, and is just another method of payment.
Every investment is speculation.
Reminds me of another 0-byter (not a hello): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5920732
> There was some pretty exhaustive reporting a decade and a half ago, but no one really payed much attention.

Considering how the media and public seem to usually enjoy getting their panties in a knot when the topic of child molestation arises, is this historic lack of interest combined with the current lack of interest not somewhat suggestive that something a little unusual might be going on here?

> a deep shroud of secrecy around the Epstein affair that doesn't really exist

Out of curiosity, how does one come to know such a thing? Do you have access to a data source that the rest of us don't?
Multi-dimensional rewards for AGI interpretability and control
It's not a currency. It lacks "acceptability", by design - you can never pay for your subway trips with BTC, it just wouldn't scale not even to a city like NY.
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What I meant is high level strategic decisions. Example like cultural revolution. It’s really a single decision from one dictator and get carried out super efficiently. If you are Chinese, you’ll probably understand what I meant how single decisions could collapse China without even my explanation. China is strange, critical policies like cultural revolution and Deng’s decision to open the country was really very short and succinct words on paper
Wow, NYT will publish anything.
Maybe some vaccines are more expensive to produce? Do we know the profit margins on each of these vaccines?
It's a nice opportunity to go for a quick walk!
> Why shouldn't workers seek to capture as much of their labor as possible?

Yes. This is the correct way to look at it.

Another point I don't see so many people making here is it's about more than just raw compensation. A lot of people at Google don't like some of the things the company has sprawled out into doing now, e.g. war and surveillance tech.

A union is about creating some collective agency so labor can get what it wants, instead of being led around by the nose all the time by managers and owners who are motivated only by profit (or are at least not obliged to consider any interest, economic or moral, that laborers might have).

A union would give some strategic agency to labor--that is, the people who do all the work--at Google. If a majority does not want to make war robots anymore or whatever, they can assert their agency and get what they want, and stop making war robots or whatever.
You can leave for another FAANG or high paying company. There is a decent sized pool of competitive paying companies out there, it's not just Google and Facebook.
This scenario isn't as far fetched as people think. I was running a global deployment in 2012 when hurricane Sandy hit the east cost. The entire eastern seaboard went offline and was off for several days. Some data centers were down for weeks. Our plan had covered that contingency and we failed all of our US traffic to the two west coast regions of amazon. Our downtime on the east cost was around two minutes. Yet a sister company had only one data center in downtown New York, and they were offline for weeks, scrambling to get a backup loaded and online.
I was pretty darn clear in saying wealth inequality, not income inequality. Also, inter-industry disparity doesn't matter in this case: your argument would apply equally to NFL players who are unionized, but it doesn't matter that their compensation is high relative to the average American, what matters is getting a higher share of the profit from management/owners in a highly profitable industry.

Similarly in tech, unions can be a way of gaining greater profit sharing for the high-skilled workers necessary for the business to function. Where tech workers lie in income percentile is irrelevant and distracting to this question.
IDK. It's a risk worth chewing on. eg If Google and Facebook tanked, bringing down the stock indexes and all the institutional investors, triggering a sell off... What would the knockon effects be? I don't know (no clue). The 2008-9 crisis largely happened when CDS stuff popped. Is there a similar house of cards on top of FAANG stocks or the digital ad market or...?
Only founders and executives get to be greedy! Employees need to stay in there place. That's the rules apparently.
That was the whole point of this thread, naturally some rather move goal posts to avoid the subject that Linux users rather give money to proprietary desktop platforms than help desktop Linux ever become a reality.
A Fishing Line Encircles Manhattan, Protecting Sanctity of Sabbath
This sounds really cool and interesting.

Was any code dumped anywhere?

I found this which corroborates everything you're saying but provides no further details: https://www.cspensky.info/slides/defcon_27_shortman.pdf
Your post sounds more like an endorsement of walkable communities and dog ownership than an endorsement of commuting.
It hasn't been that long and lots other web services are behaving a bit strangely or are down as well - https://downdetector.com/.

So its probably a wider issue affecting everyone - network level is my guess.