skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest we've not looked into Citus in any depth.

My early impression of it (can't speak for the rest of the team) was that it was mostly aimed at sharding analytics workloads, but parts of the docs (e.g. https://docs.citusdata.com/en/v7.1/admin_guide/cluster_manag...) make it sound like it handles OLTP workloads too.

Maybe I've been ignoring it for bad reasons!

EDIT: Managing Postgres clusters is something that a lot of people are working on. Thought I'd mention two projects that have me excited right now:

- Patroni https://github.com/zalando/patroni
- Stolon https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon

Stolon's client proxy approach in particular looks interesting, and reminds me of how people are using Envoy (https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy), albeit as a TCP proxy rather than one that understands and can do fun stuff with the database's protocol. I wonder if we'll start to see more Envoy filters for different databases!
Couple of monitoring ideas I have that I've yet to see implemented: "did I lock the doors" and "did I leave the gas cooker on".
What Happens When an Algorithm Helps Write Science Fiction
stigma of being a bumpkin/Luddite

Which is a terrible assumption to make.

Many farmers (at least here in the mid-Atlantic) are college-educated absolutely not bumpkins/Luddites. Unsurprisingly, agricultural programs have a useful blend of business/economics and science.
You don't need to make a trade off. You can do both contribute meaningfully to an open source project AND practice on Codewars.
Doesn't "false flag" in this scenario indicate the US did this to its own diplomats, in order to frame Cuba (to what end?). I think it's much more like that's it's a third party, either without Cuban knowledge or a don't-ask-don't-tell type of thing. Probably without Cuban knowledge. As others have said, Cuba has very, very little to gain from something like this and a lot to lose.
>Workers are paid wages for creating said surplus value using the company’s capital.

Workers are paid wages to produce. Wages, stagnant for the last forty-plus years, have proven unlinked to productivity, which has risen very sharply over the same time. Wages are also unlinked from investment risk, which compels no rise in wages when it retires.

> then why wouldn’t the workers create it by themselves, thus avoiding the expropriation?

They do - you have described cooperative ownership of an enterprise. To tie back to value: given the fundamental conflict of interest under capitalism in the apportioning of value between creators and expropriators, I think we should expect cooperative ownership to grow in popularity.

It's important to allow that value reasonably includes the satisfaction of workers, customers, neighbors, and the taxpayers who subsidize the enterprise. It's understandable that these things would escape the category of "value" under a system that enshrines the satisfaction of shareholders as the prime motive of the enterprise.
That’s a highly confounding factor too then. For whatever reason, Portugal didn’t have much of a drug culture to begin with. That makes it harder to translate any lessons to other countries that do.
Strange because the paper mentions sockets 36 times, even in the sections discussing the interconnect. Maybe I missed something in my skim since I haven't read it in detail yet.
There is an actual recording of these sounds. Microwaves inducing sounds into a humans perception and at the same time inducing it in recording equipment does not seem plausible.

There is also an easy way to test whether the sound is actual sound conducted in air or the effect of microwave exposure: ear plugs.
Do you mean America? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
So what it is: mechanically modulated, very low frequency, passive microwave transmitter. No wifi anywhere there
They're both 'farmers' in the sense that a guy programming plc's in a factory and an ml/ai guy coding linear algebra optimizations are both 'programmers'. Close to 0 overlap in job markets, prospects, career paths etc.
JPG TO DST Conversion
There is a hidden assumption in your phrase "if something is a number". You imply that a zipcode is "obviously" a number. But it's not obvious. A zipcode is obviously a sequence of digits, but not everything that we represent as a sequence of digits is meaningfully treated as a number.

Leading zeros are one sign that zip codes are just digit strings, not numbers. Another (silly) example: if you REALLY have a number, then it doesn't matter what base you write it in. The number four can be written as 4 in base ten, or as 100 in base two. If you write a zip code in anything other than base ten, it's not really a zip code anymore.

Likewise, you can't add zip codes, nor subtract them, nor even meaningfully say that 11229 is more than 11228. You might as well use the letters A through J instead of the digits zero through nine, and suffer no serious inconvenience.

And indeed, some countries use something like zip codes, except that they have letters and numbers, yet I would hesitate to say that Canadian zip codes are so fundamentally different from US zip codes that they deserve to be stored under a different data type.

In conclusion, even you prefer a strong schema, a case can be made that zip codes should not be integers. Of course, that leaves open the question of what they should be, since most SQL databases have no built-in data type for digit sequences or anything similar. I have no answer to this and would personally just use integers anyway.
Right, but my point was that combining appears to be slower than delegation alone. Perhaps it's due to cache effects, since new servers are unlikely to have the right data in cache, where a dedicated thread will almost certainly have the most commonly accessed addresses in cache.
And it's worth mentioning the possibility that even though the current Cuban leadership might not have allowed external entities to try this, elements within the government, or powerful elements within the society, might benefit from a reversion to the previous status quo.
It's probably mistaken to say that 10% of the software engineering workforce could become millionaires within 3.3 years if {condition}, for all values of condition ruling out survivorship bias.

Have you ever earned $300k in a HCOL? Because I have (NYC) and you're doing very well if you get to save $100k of that. If you're single, by default you lose $120k to taxes, so then you need to keep your budget under $6700 / month. Which isn't really that hard, but most don't. Granted, tax-advantaged retirement savings and other things can change the math here, but my point is that it would take more like 8-10 years (depending on market growth), not 3.3.

And my point wasn't that 10% of engineers are doing that, but just that they are capable of getting that kind of job with some effort. If all 10% of them tried, that would push the market down, so I'm really just talking capability, not whether 10% of devs could all be simultaneously making that.

Finally, I'd like to see a breakdown of the $300k to $450k number. The premium that employers pay to get to fully-loaded cost isn't a fixed percentage, it goes down as comp rises. So yes, it might cost $120k fully loaded to employ an $80k engineer ($40k on top of their salary), but why does it cost $150k for someone making more?) The cost for office space and healthcare are two of the biggest costs of employing someone, and they're relatively fixed, right? $450k might be realistic, just seems high to me.
I understand what the concern is, I just don't think it applies more generally at all.

For instance, whatever else happens, I don't think Moore will win another primary in Alabama.
Which is technocratically correct. But on the other hand, welfare may enable freeriders. Who are fully capable to make a living themselves, but choose handouts.

Of course, next step is that welfare to freeriders is cheaper for the society than freeriders turning into criminals. But even with welfare there're criminals and not all freeriders are criminally minded either.
I can only speak about France and Germany, but we didn't move quickly from our past. We made a conscious effort "this can't be sustained, let's be friends" and worked toward that goal. It didn't come naturally. It required sacrifices.

Still today, both side of the border, if someone attack that friendship either media or politician, they get flamed back into shutting up.

We know what our friendship is worth, but we didn't just have it one day, we built it.

That's why I think Japan attitude to ww2 is misguided.
What’s wrong with parking on grass? Why do people feel a need to pave?
My Aunt & Uncle and in Holland did it all the time and as far as I could tell everyone did it (I'm from UK, we don't have a scheme like that).

In this article after a very quick google they report a 90% return rate in Holland (I'm not going to spend time digging into where the 90% comes from):

http://www.greenglass.org.hk/en/?p=69

So it might be a cultural thing or it may be the deposit figure is too low. As far as I remember in Holland it was 10 cents when I was a kid in the 90s, which would be about a dime per bottle.
i.e. You don't own your car. GM owns ad space inside your car.
I found myself valuing things society forgot about was important.
May be true from a user's perspective, but EV could still be useful to ward off phishing.
So IOTA hit about a $6.00 high today https://www.coingecko.com/en/price_charts/iota/usd

and down to $3.70 and looks like it is picking up again.

Market can stay irrational for a long time
I wonder how they see taxes as thrown away? Yes, government is inefficient. And corrupt. But you do need roads. And bridges. And law enforcement. And even military protection, even if it seems far away and remote from your farm.
You can see in the screenshot of it being the number one restaurant that it only has 83 reviews (likely the originals from friends that likely got him into the top 10,000), yet it's still #1. I'm speculating, but TripAdvisor likely ranks not just by reviews, but probably page views and other interactions that one could consider to be viewers having a positive judgment of the restaurant. In fact, you can see from the other screenshot, the page has the same 83 reviews when it was ranked #156, so it got to #1 without receiving any new reviews.
The screengrab[1] in the article show's only 96 reviews when the restaurant got to #1

[1] https://video-images.vice.com/_uncategorized/1512580232417-n...

(edited to update the image and review count)
I think you need to read the charges more closely. Sexual assault of a 14 year old is not something you can judge a persons character on solely? What in your mind would be a “deal breaker” by itself?
Classical music suffers from a glut of metadata upon which true fans rely. It's not enough to specify composer or piece. Classical music lovers will search for conductor, soloist, orchestra, or even a specific recording made by some orchestra in some year. See some discussion here [1]. If you can address a fraction of these, you will be way ahead of streaming services like spotify, etc.

Other than that, the site looks great!

[1] https://www.dailyrindblog.com/classical-music-metadata-101/
Personally I like the conspiracy theory that the government likes using drug money to fund black ops. The less crazy but somewhat similar explanations are that institutions which enforce criminalization are resistant to change and don’t want to lose funding, and a large portion of the population still believes war on drugs propaganda.
Boy, I didn't realize I needed to set the explicit "irony flag" on that post! The idea is that my math teacher was making a math joke, stimulating his students' curiosity to think about deep things like "what does it mean to add and how do you prove things that seem intuitive" and informing the class that people have written serious and long books on the foundations of mathematics. None of my kids' math teachers (so far) have made any math jokes...
Let me try: You are a clever little boy, saying such brave things. Good try! Let me pat you on the nuts, call you my beautiful little writer for putting that clever post together.

Its a big deal, in a work environment, to deliberately and routinely diminish the accomplishments of coworkers based on nothing but sex. Its actually illegal, and now that its being outed I hope folks who post things like that get fired
How Teams Get Microservices Wrong from the Start
Perhaps but I bet they aren't as flexible. You're paying for that flexibility and functionality (multi-color, dimmable, etc).

For one example imagine if you're away on holiday but want to give the impression somebody is home, you'll need to invest in a timer, with Hue you've already got that.
But it's based on the weight of your car, not whether or not you're spending money at establishments the toll road owner also owns or based on the toll road owner's financial relationship to your car's specific manufacture.
>> Not only do you constantly have to wrap and unwrap potential error values to
>> unify different error types
>
> This is a legitimate issue, although in Haskell you can use one error type
> like Go does if you want to.

SomeException is pretty much equivalent to Go's error, but it's not commonly
returned by libraries and such so using it barely helps with the need to
convert often. In addition all the types used by libraries as error values now
need to have Exception implemented, which they don't. So, in practice, no, you
cannot. Or rather, it wouldn't solve the core problem and create a new one.

>> And as if that wasn't bad enough, there are also actual throw/catch-style
>> exceptions, which are not checked in anyway
>
> This is also the case in Go (panics and recover).

True, panic/recover exist, but in practice I find them to be more akin to
setjmp/longjmp in C than throw/catch-style exceptions in other languages. Off
the top of my head I can't recall a case where I had to recover from a panic
that I didn't create in my own code (i.e. originated in a library call).
Exceptions in Haskell and other languages on the other hand are usually all
over the place (ok, usually not in pure code in Haskell) and I feel like I have
to constantly keep them in mind to avoid letting one slip through the seams and
then later having to track down where the hell that one came from.

>> I stopped writing Haskell maybe a year ago, but at least back then getting
>> GHC to print a stack trace when an exception wasn't caught was a major feat
>> that involved recompiling every single one of your hundreds of dependencies
>> with profiling flags.
>
> This is also the case in Go. Errors do not retain anything about their state.
> You need to use a package like https://github.com/go-errors/errors, which has
> the exact same issue you describe with dependencies.

That's fair and indeed it would often be handy to know where an error came
from. But since errors are just return values I don't really expect them to
have a stack trace attached to them, just like I don't expect any other value
to have that. It would still be neat for debugging sometimes, more so for
errors than other values. I think there are some proposals for improving on
this in Go 2.
What really frustrated me about Haskell though was debugging throw/catch-style
exceptions without a stack trace, because I basically had zero clues about
where it came from and there were no clear paths to trace in the code. In Go on
the other hand, errors don't just plop up from out of nowhere and panics, which
can, print a nice stack trace when not recovered from.
Amazon may do it because others are doing it and as you say they don't have to because they are already trusted and at the top of the heap. And further they don't want to empower other sites as being legit by featuring a design element (the green at the top) that others can easily copy.

An example of this?

Let's say back in the day you were the market leader and had "intel inside" (the processor). But you didn't use the 'intel inside' logo because then others could have the same sticker and the public would think 'oh ok it's the same stuff in brand X'.

Manufacturers frequently come up with different names for product features for a similar reason.
Pokémon GO gameplay will be based on the real world weather around you
Options:

1. Ask for a giant pile of money for the privilege.

2. Come up with visualization that answers their question without giving them access to source code. Presumably "how do we know we can trust results" is a common problem.

3. Walk away.
I get that, my point is that with their "lower" salary I could get the best of both worlds like staying in my current city (Budapest) and earning as much as a good CEO here.

I get offers from companies, but if the job/product is boring, a higher salary does not justify the switch for me.

I don't disagree with you, I tend to gravitate towards a high pay :) We will soon have a salary formula refactor too, but I think the raise might be a rounding error compared to remote pays.
Uber’s Credit Card Is Bankrupting Restaurants
The windfall option is selling the farm, not keeping it. And if you inherited something that nobody wants to buy then obviously you're in a poor situation.
IBM and Pivotal Advance Development for Spring Community
That may be true to some degree, but if a dev makes 150K in Tennessee, they'd have to make 450K+ in SF to keep the same standard of living.

Are SF medicine or schools 3x better? Is public transportation 3x better? Is the culture 3x better?

I think not.

You can get comparable things in cities with a fraction of the living cost which self-evidently shows that people are paying too much for what they are getting.

Finally, if I'd rather live somewhere without any of those perks and pocket the money instead, should I be told that I can't? Should my decision be held against me?
But did he inherit it, or bought in? If he bought in at market rates (or even at a low double digit discount), it would be 'buying a job' which is seldom very profitable. That's very different from inheriting but not wanting to sell because of sentimental (economically suboptimal) reasons.
Unsure, sorry. I use their iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fastmail-email-calendar/id93...) for mobile and their web interface elsewhere
I was reading other commenters mentioning the relatively old age of farmers. Maybe the only good option would be something like removing/phasing out existing subsidies so that only right amount of young people choose the profession coupled with a generous retirement program. Something like social security plus but with your farmland backing the plus part. Maybe in the spirit of what you’re describing. I worry about the unforseeable consequences of paying to leave arable land fallow. You’re essentially raising food prices and that really affects poor people the most.
It's because the WHERE clause is evaluated before the SELECT. The reason that SQLite allows you to do that is because SQLite is much, much simpler than PgSQL, MySQL and SQL Server (all of which don't allow you to do this).

http://tinman.cs.gsu.edu/~raj/sql/node22.html
So you'd create a different table for international addresses, or have 2 zip code fields or ...?
To add one more discussion of classical metadata, see this from NPR:

https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/04/411963624/...
I agree that it's risky but a lot of people here are making it sound like the plague. There is inherent risk in all cryptos. IOTA being a totally new concept to crypto currency makes it a little more risky but that doesn't mean that it should be abandoned or destroyed. The vision and benefits of it are great! $0 transactions and no miners sucking up electricity! I just don't get the hate.
I cringed at that as well! This is absolutely amazing tech why use it for such mundane and lame things? Especially, like you said, to order things for me automatically. I absolutely would never want something ordering more of itself on its own. I'd guess maybe they did it for funding? "See? Our product can make you money!"
If your goal is to get China to change, join the politicking line, and wave your banner as hard as you can. If your goal is to start a business, then you simply have to deal with the current reality, and figure out a way. The article is for the latter group. There are US companies all over the globe, in varying kinds of markets, and political climates, and China is no different.
"The world" during the high days of the VOC was only 8% of the population today so it's kind of difficult to honestly compare, IMHO.

But more importantly, the VOC "perished under corruption" not because it was dragged to court :) It's not really fair to say that "the system" dealt with it when it obviously just succumbed over time under the inevitability of impermanence.
Metaparticle: A stdlib for distributed systems from the co-creator of Kubernetes
Complication (horology)
What kind of point could a 'hurrr'-type statement ever be making.
Well, horses are more renewable than petrol.... personally I think the jury’s still out on that one.

Just because people call it progress doesn’t mean the world is a better place.
The same mindset exists in many small businesses that require regular asset purchases, especially manufacturing. I'm not sure farming is special in this regard.
For anyone interested in index card systems, the idiosyncratic method of Niklas Luhmann [0] is a fascinating example. Many additional interesting opinions on notetaking and modern database translations of classic note taking ideas maybe found on the website of the translator, Manfred Kuehn [1].

Another interesting and radically less complex example that I have personally found useful is the Pile of Index Cards system. [2]

[0] http://luhmann.surge.sh/communicating-with-slip-boxes

[1] http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html

[2] http://pileofindexcards.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
WeWork Is Gobbling Up the Old 'City of London'
I'm not seeing the claimed browser support. The ReactOS Application Store has Firefox 45, which successfully updated to Firefox 47... but then Firefox 52 ESR crashes on start. I'll have to uninstall and go back to 47 to get Firefox to work.

The Application Store has Opera 12.18 (from 2012), so I used that to try and download Chrome. Chrome tells me my computer isn't supported, but offers a download anyway. But when I try it, the installer stops after "On your marks!" so I have no idea how they took that Chrome screenshot.

Opera 12.18 is running okay so far, though.
Many people in the crypto space are peddling their own agendas.

I've read the tangle paper. It seems as the node transaction weights grow, the double spend problem is solved (transaction nodes gain weight as others confirm). Arguably you could have bad actors confirming transactions but that is why the coordinator exists until there are enough transactions happening where a coordinated double-spend attack is not feasible.

Looking at tfha's post history, you can see he does not support POS as secure either and refers to the opinions of the bitcoin team. These are two red flags for me.

There are others that do not act in your best interest taking center stage in the crypto world.

There are many very well respected computer scientists in the iota foundation and I'm sure they are well aware of any issues the coin will have along the way.

Edit: Don't trust me either. Do your own research.
Big city != HCOL

The Dallas metro area is larger than the SF metro area (and so are the individual cities), but Dallas's COL is half as much as SF's.

Edit: For that matter, just to ward off the (valid) point that the SF metro area doesn't include most of SV, the Dallas metro area is larger than the SF and SJ metro areas combined. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara have 6,172,302 people combined as of the 2010 Census, while Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington has 6,426,214 people.