skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ideally you have a reliable Change Data Capture (CDC) mechanism like a Binlog Reader. Debezium, for example, can write directly to a queue like Kafka. A Kafka consumer picks up the events and writes to your secondary datastore. Something like that can probably handle all of your events without bucketing them, but if you want to cut down the number of messages written to the queue you can add that logic into the Binlog Reader so it emits a burst every 5 seconds or so. During those 5 seconds it buffers the messages in the processes memory or externally in something like Redis using a key so only the latest message is stored for a given record.
1. Probabilistic filtering and matching:

Since you mentioned bloom filters - other probabilistic data structures like count-min sketches (roughly, streaming bloom filters) are super useful. Approximate kmer methods like minhash and w-shingling use them in really cool ways. Rolling hash methods like Rabin chunking also work really nicely with probabilistic/streaming hash tables - splitting the data stream into chunks that can be consistently filtered or matched is useful in many circumstances! Think NSA-level data harvesting, or realtime genome/geospatial data classification.

2. Checking for, locating and counting subsequences in giant string datasets:

Wavelet trees, FM-indices, suffix arrays more generally - and structures that allow extreme performance in very niche situations with arbitrary encodings like bitvectors and compressed integer vectors. If you have a million books, or all the genomes ever sequenced, you use the first structures to find where a specific phrase can be found, even if you don't quite spell it right. You can use the latter ones to do super fast comparisons of giant datasets - given a million viruses, how similar is each one to the human genome, and where specifically do they most closely match?

3. Reconstructing structured information from (potentially noisy) fragments:

De-brujn graphs (and related graphs like string graphs, colored de brujns). This is a way to find all the overlap connections between fragments of information, and then weight the possible traversals of those connections by the evidence. These can be represented using the data structures from #1 (FM-indices for example), and efficiently used in some circumstances with those from #2 to enable some kinds of graph algorithms. If you have a shredded set of documents, or a billion short DNA reads from a genome sequencing experiment, this is how you reconstruct the original.

4. Decentralised coordination structures. Merkle-DAGs and Kademlia DHTs in particular. Being able to compare any trees by root-first hashes, and being able to request the content of the subtree for any node hash from an arbitrary set of peers - these structures enable the p2p web infrastructure. Everything from Limewire to bittorrent, IPFS and blockchains, and, most importantly, Sci-Hub.

1, 2 and 3 together are some of the fundamentals of computational biology. If you're interested in understanding them, https://rosalind.info/problems/list-view/ is a great starting place.
Nested Set Model: a way to model nested sets of entities and query them in a SQL database. I haven't used it for anything but it seems fun.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model
Australian here - me too. And I need to buy a laptop now (haven't had one since WFH meant I didn't need anything but a desktop).

I'll be going for a ThinkPad Gen 2 instead.
If you've been tinkering with console emulation then you may have heard of MiSTer, which runs on a DE10-Nano (Intel Cyclone V-based board by TerasIC). It has 110K LEs and costs $225. Resellers are out of stock but I bought two directly from terasIC last month and they shipped within a week.
According to my finely-calibrated bottom side, they may be right.

- Tech hiring is slowed, or frozen

- Some employers are laying off

- Frivolous spending seems reduced, everywhere

It's got the hallmarks of a recession.
I don't doubt it, for one of the Big Names. I know 3x is common even in smaller shops. I don't doubt that places like Wipro, Infosys and the other big names that work the US H-1B market have much larger markups.
The point of GPL-alikes is to ensure user freedom: that the user can modify the code of any software they use.

If a company is intolerant of this, then the AGPL is intolerant of that company.
> That sounds wonderful

There should always be an opportunity for land to return to the commons.
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The modder community is not all open source and there are assets, some of which are not free and already purchased outside the official marketplace.

Again, why are you bringing in Minecraft when you seem to lack relevant info about the community? You're statements have been inaccurate
> dx has no meaning in standard calculus

Sure it does. There is no need to know about smooth manifolds or differential forms to understand the differential of a function of one variable at a point and the meaning of dy = f’(x)dx.
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Well, we have the technology. It's only a matter of time until someone publishes such a book.
>> a very ambitious app for one of the biggest oil companies in the world

An oil major probably makes $20MM in profit every few minutes or at most in an hour. (Apple makes ~1700.00 per second ..)
That's because the unpredictability lies in the details, not the broad strokes. The broad strokes we're pretty damned sure of, and many of them are already happening more or less as predicted - just not on the timelines predicted. They're happening sooner.
RFC 6979 is followed by compliant bitcoin wallets. Statically proving an unknown and black box wallet requires a trusted computational (as would verifying any proof) device to perform the same calculated (after all the private key is loaded via dice). This computational could be a human, by hand.

A zkSNARK wouldn't improve random exfiltration, so both of these proofs are statistical unless inputs are tested exhaustivally to result in the pigeonhole principle for some bounded internal state.
> I strongly believe the reason we see so many problems with construction is simply that the wages today are so skewed and that greatly impacts the availability of talent

I guess that explains why the majority of software is so performant, bug free and a pleasure to use?
>> This week the far left got arrested for protesting abortion rights

Are they in jail? Did someone come bail them out? Are there mug shots?

They got cited and fined 50 bucks, they pretended to be handcuffed by magical invisible handcuffs that disappeared when they felt the need to throw a fist salute to the crowd. Does that about sum it up?

Seriously, "pretend to be handcuffed" is about the lowest you can go as far as getting me to care about your cause.

Don't care.
There is a great (always busy) sandwich shop in Boston called Darwin's that I used to go to a lot that worked that way. When a customer placed an order they would call down the long line, "anyone else for an X?", then make make the sandwiches with the inner loop over sandwich and the outer loop over ingredient.

I took much delight in the efficiency as well as the incentive structure: If you are not picky and you can help us increase throughput then we'll reduce your latency :)
Unlike Warren Buffet, I don't have an 'elephant gun' to take out of the closet.

So maybe consider DCA'ing in. That way, if you happen to miss the bottom ('trying to catch a falling knife') you don't get burned so badly.
How common is seretonin syndrome amongst people who take SSRIs?

My understanding of seretonin syndrome is that it's a serious life-threatening condition that can occasionally occur when people take too much MDMA.
Because they have no idea how to hire and manage teams that build software. It's a lot harder than it sounds if you have no personal experience delivering software (read: most legacy corp CTOs).
Honestly -- I feel like the US works this way also. It's just unspoken and unrecognized. (My POV: raised middle-class, public school (in the US sense), by working-class parents, flirting daily with the lifestyle and members of the upper-middle-class thanks to tech work and salary.)
Timeless ;-). https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1986/08/10
We also realized (IMO realized is more accurate than decided) we can’t stop all deaths from influenza.
You were talking about the 1st gen tacoma... And now you bring up the 3rd gen...
>>> In the first half of the XXth century, there were relatively few scientists, and these scientists were generally not lavishly funded

This statement may not be entirely accurate. Philosophers, scientists and mathematicians in the early 20th century and before that were independently wealthy or had some sort of “royal” patronage that allowed them to pursue their interests for “public good”. Things changed in the later part of the 20th century but a scientist was a rarified breed until the 1970s. I don’t think most people had the means to pursue a scientific career. Grants and funding exploded at the end of the 20th century and foreign students (especially from China and India) provided the “cheap labor” that’s needed for a lot of the STEM fields PhD/post-doc armies. This has essentially led to a proliferation of scientists in academia. Abundance of school loans means universities can expand teaching faculty and then add research responsibility. It’s a vicious cycle.

At least this is my hypothesis.
I think the reason people have negative experiences is because of a few things. One, many companies or individuals have projects that just don't have adequate budgets. So even if the freelancer recognizes and tells them, it can be hard for them to accept the limitations of their budget. This means the freelancer may feel forced to just barely get the software out and get paid lest the project bankrupts them.

The project owner, having never accepted that he did not have enough budget for his project, just blames the freelancer for poor quality.

Another thing is that it is about 100 times easier to sell someone a website or web application than it is to actually make it. So there are going to be people with marginal skills getting lots of business. And, even if their skills are not that bad, they may decide they need to sign customers even though they don't have the staff at that time. It can be easy for projects to go over scheduled time especially as buyers don't want to acknowledge the limitations of their budget.

The trick is to find someone honest. So start with a smaller project and if the communication isn't good or falters then you give them a short warning and then just have to fire them. Don't hope it will get better.
If France is anything to go buy the population only call for drastic action when they don’t have to pay for it themselves. Start putting up gas prices and see what happens.
If the front-end is a website, deploying it to thousands of locations is as difficult as deploying it to one.
Almost all of those are tipped workers. They make at or below minimum wage and then bring in $10-20 an hour in tips on top of that.
Good luck staffing a team of 4-6 competent in house developers
ML may not be good at predicting consumers' choices, but multiple regression is. Multiple regression has been used for a long time for this.

The side benefit is that it is mathematically repeatable while also being tweakable with variable inclusion or exclusion.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22multiple+regression%...
Stop eating carbs, go out and get sunlight. Do mild but regular exercise. I got at least three people of AD medication with this and feel much better myself.
Afaik Vimeo tried to stick to that model and didn't do so well
If a train or streetcar isn’t an effective alternative to a human-driven car (as is the case in the overwhelming majority of car trips in the US), how are they an effective alternative to a self-driving car?
[2] is interesting, saying "For gender, 82 percent think it shouldn’t be considered" in admissions decisions.

However, many universities seem to be opposed to having an imbalance, a situation that would presumably be expected given the gap in high school graduation rates.
Take lots of photos of the disassembly process. Even video, if possible.
> Yet this very simple, very desirable concept is illegal in the US except for a few tiny islands.

I don't see how it can be illegal?

HOAs have extreme power and already impose all kinds of overbearing rules on people subject to them. So you could surely get together with a few hundred likeminded people and build a neighborhood where the HOA prohibits cars.
Can you tell us what level of fraudulence is present in research for other mysterious diseases? Such as MS or Crohn's or ..
Yeah sorry about that! We'll add that soon.
Probably per-instance moderation, like subreddits on reddit. Just look for an instance that serves your needs
And lamer than I had anticipated.

While the actors faces are intrinsic to our memories of those films, there is nothing in the films existence intrinsic to those precise faces and identities.

The existence of nothing hinges on Julia and Tess existing as dopplegangers except the plot of the film itself. And if Julia Real didn't act in Ocean's Eleven, her star needs not be diminished: she'd have taken some other project which could be a hit. Maybe even several in the time it took to film Ocean's Eleven in the real world.

The article's author's brain is wrapped up in la-la land and the cult of personality.
First time I've seen one of those outside of a cage!
Bitcoin was designed with a specific trust model in mind.

The most well known point of trust in 51% attacks.
Lesser known is bitcoin master nodes.
Even lesser realised is the trust that your client is connected to the broader bitcoin network (and not segregated somehow). This also assumes trust in your client, which can also perform all kind of attacks (such as not reusing R values: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=581411.0)

There's no such thing as no trust, only different threat models. I'd reccomend reading https://www.threatmodelingmanifesto.org/
In Seattle, they’re part of Swedish, one of the major health providers in the area. The doctors are part of the Swedish staff directory and the insurance billing is done from their physician account.
Google Carbon vs. Apple Swift
> Am I going to jump to a conclusion that corporate America deliberately boosted racist perspectives to divide us?

Look who funds universities with large endowments and specifically which departments and buildings they fund. Money means priority and importance and is upstream of culture.

It’s no coincidence that what were fringe ideas that were mainly academic (for decades) and an extension of theoretical post modern philosophy departments very quickly became the truth according to the same power structures that own mainstream cultural energy sources. Judith Butler and Kimberlé Crenshaw probably can’t even believe it.
Yup. I bring this up all the time. Turn on Cspan nearly any time congress is in session and you'll see bills passing just fine.
Lots of companies use skiplists without realizing it because Redis uses them as the implementation of sorted sets. For example, last time I checked, every time someone looks at a playlist on PornHub the software is doing a partial traversal of a skiplist behind the scenes.
Thinking motivated by self-preservation, plus overweighting the “we want people who WANT to work here.”

When the quality of a hire isn’t easy to determine, this enables nearly every company (especially those where people are collegial) to think their people are the best.
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and very light punishment for killing and or maiming pedestrians / cyclists
Funny you should mention bloom filters and that use case, I just re-read this post again this morning: https://blog.cloudflare.com/when-bloom-filters-dont-bloom/

Basically, it makes a similar point to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186837 — i.e., cache effects are not modeled in big O analysis, even though most problems that involve large amounts of data (so most problems) are memory bound rather than CPU bound. The blog post makes a good case for a very simple hash table as a better fit for this problem.
Oh, there were flame wars. I don't remember any with individual responses this brief though! I don't remember brevity of any kind being an issue.

Flame wars sucked, but I'm beginning to think it's a case of 'cutting off tails on one side kills them on the other'.

HN in particular has always given me vibes of: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734580/
this is a big story! Robot to human violence!
If the results are fraudulent, why didn't anyone notice in the past 16 years that they failed to replicate?
can't wait for the movie: "I was 9 the first time Skynet tried to kill me"

Careful engineering is going to be required to ensure the safety of sex robots. How are we going to show the public the benefits of that effort, tho; in the face of images such as this one?
If your threat model includes side channel and supply chain attacks then you're pretty much fucked in modern society. Might as well just use cash or attempt to self sustain a cabin in the woods.
Picking a consultant is like picking a tradesperson -- the competent ones already have more business than they can service, so they'd be doing you a favor by taking you on, which usually means an introduction from an existing client is needed.

Oh, and also, if you suck as a client, they're going to drop you and never answer your calls again.
IT Companies, especially ones that outsource have had it coming for years.

I am an Indian (though I only worked for a year in IT before leaving for actual work), and let me tell you, we Indian IT developers are a complex bunch.

3 out of 100 know the actual work, actual technology, impact of choices, etc.
80 out of 100 just get by, as in, do the bare minimum required to get by the day and the task assigned to them. The remaining are bootlickers who get promoted to management.

And there are no qualms about ethics. Want to pass a test by commenting some code? "we will do it once to check first, then we will repeat it without commenting" (and the latter will never happen). I would not be surprised if they have a "test" set of code, solely to pass the specs and an internal "actual" code that will be delivered to the customer.

Also, after 20 years or so of outsourcing, I am sure most of my fellows in MNC IT companies have set up practices and navigation rules to deftly distribute the blame such that even senior management is clueless about whom to punish in case of a failure like this.
Watching from afar the great advances in machine learning over the past few years with AlphaZero, GPT3, DALLE2 I felt it important for me to start understanding what is going on under the hood. Having just completed the private pre-release of the course run through USQ, as my first foray into machine learning this was a great introduction that had me quickly produce a working image classification system. The videos are packed really with insightful rid-bits about practical approaches to iterating quickly to understand the data better to produce better results. Very much recommend the course.
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It is. If I didn't like Windows UX, I'd switch to something else on my own, thank you very much.
Could you expand in this? Do you mean material way of life or how people treat each other socially.
> Another fun moment was visiting a bookstore/cafe/literacy center in New Orleans and picking up a self-published game there…

If you are referring to Iron Rail I am afraid it has been closed for a while. Neutral Ground is still around but not a bookstore.
Almost all schools have a acceptable use waiver the kids (and maybe parents) have to sign to use Internet and it calls out monitoring of internet etc. It's just nobody reads those terms.
Dodd Frank was not gutted by Trump. They lifted the asset cap so that the onerous regulatory requirements only applied to banks with $250B+ in assets, rather than banks with $50B+ in assets, as it was previously.

This was a great thing for consumers and banking competition. There is no reason a small bank with $50B in assets should have the same regulatory requirements as JP Morgan.
Why is this company allowed to exist? I feel like things like this are an instant like [X] where the company should just be actually taken down entirely and the owners thrown in prison.

Same with extremely scammy health insurance companies like United Healthcare.

I legitimately do not understand why they are allowed to exist with blatant criminal behavior.
Waterfall is so last week. Properly scheduled climbing projects meet MVP more often!
This is a very cool way to do this! I'm having a blast taking captures from Amiga or dos stuff and getting them to display with the correct pixel aspect with your tool. Nice
This is not true, or at least a huge red flag for a client implimentation. Bitcoin the network cannot tell the difference, but by convention clients should use RFC 6979.
Sentry used Redis to buffer writes for a similar use case:

https://blog.sentry.io/2016/02/23/buffering-sql-writes-with-...
It's beyond time to do this, but I fear the current political environment will sabotage it for party points.
The jobless percentage of population would shoot up by double digit basis points if not for bullshit jobs that just move money around.
> The IT consulting firm will tell you they have experience with literally everything. They’ll dig up a case study from one of their 400 offices somewhere, claiming to be experts on whatever the topic is. Meanwhile, in actuality, your project will be staffed with a team of 24 year old kids where this is their first assignment. And it doesn’t matter anyways, because the people who worked on the original case study are long gone and would never communicate with other offices even if still around.

#TRUESTORY
The tech is great though, sharing data between the fighters. Countries lining up to buy it.
If SEC considers any of them securities, it's very strange for them to go after a single guy at Coinbase and not the entire company, since they've just declared them an illegal securities exchange.

(As opposed to an illegal commodities exchange for bitcoin.)
Why do you think this is so difficult?
Well, when they indict on the remaining 18 then we can update our models. Until then, the SEC is only alleging that 7 were securities.
Note that re-sorting an array after making a constant number of changes can be done in O(n) and will usually be very fast in practice. Insertion sort will do it, as will Timsort and similar algorithms.
About regular, crypto domains and how to get them
Sometimes the scroll bar that appears when hovering is so thin one must move back and forth to zero in on it while it disappears until you’ve finally found the spot. I would much prefer it just stay visible rather than play hide and seek.
Yeah, that one is good, but I bet is possible to encode trees efficiently as relations without indirections.

That is part of my look at `tree-flat` and I wanna base trees on that for my lang.
Drones can't plant trees, unless they know how to handle a shovel.

You can technically drop a bunch of seeds on the ground if you don't care about survival rate, but I wouldn't call that planting.
That is a good answer
Everything should be made to bounded, is there no max that could have been set?
Not using an expandable storage in test risks deviations from prod (and then you get the prid only bugs that are difficult to keep fixed). I wonder if there us a failure to do pre-prod monitoring as well - it's super handy having dashboards telling you disk bbn usage
Early .NET was basically Java, wasn't it? Java devs should have picked it up pretty easily.
For related reasons I remember thinking the Oscars were absurd because you could never quite be sure if the person who won wasn't just an impostor.

That said, I'm also waiting for the final chapter that ties all of Keanu Reeves' films together into a single episodic narrative. I cannot recommend following me down this rabbit hole.
Seatbelt laws and helmet laws.