skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes you just have to quit and sleep for a few months, and then sit and stare at the sky for a few more months, before you can realize the psychological and spiritual black hole you have been descending into for years/decades.
correlation does not equal causation.

the article does not seem to consider open relationships and the many other non-traditional arrangements that are becoming more common & widespread.
Success being false is definitely an odd pattern to me. I know I’m not the only one tripped up by it (‘canWrite()’ should return true on success...except if you want to return an error code by value). This is sort of fixed with C++ ‘enum class’, but obviously this isn’t always possible to use.
I just went through a similar system at Hong Kong. It worked well and I breezed through the automated gates while a long line of people were backed up at the traditional line. Perhaps they just did a better job of designing the system, but you scan your passport at one station and then step forward into a scannner with a sign telling you where to look. A gate closes behind you. If it fails, it flagged a human to that lane but kept you locked in the box. In my case, it beeped and opened the door into the terminal.

I’ve lost a significant amount of weight since my passport photo was taken. Several human border guards in other counties suggested I get a new passport. One required me to show a second form of ID. The camera system had no issue.
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Why would somebody remember Nelson Mandela? South africa is a legacy of ashes. Martin Luther King, yes. Gandi, yes.
But the ANC saw to this ones monument deteriorating.
Another story about the CCC's handling of another abuser: https://twitter.com/NGC_3572/status/945680642792189954 (which as far as I can tell wasn't public before today?)
Finding the right saddle for your particular anatomy helps a LOT (I swear by ISM saddles, but lots of people hate them)

So does finding the right cycling shorts (you want a good quality pad, but too thick and you'll chafe).

A good bike fit by an experienced fitter goes a long way towards improving comfort on long rides. You don't necessarily need a $300 3D geometry fitting (unless you're a pro or aspiring pro), but something more than the "free with purchase" fit from your local shop can help.

Unfortunately, a good deal of the fix for sore sit bones is simply putting in the time until your body gets used to the stress you're asking of it. You have to build up the number of hours/miles in the saddle slowly over time until your body adapts. If you're riding for an hour a couple of times a week and then suddenly go out and try to do a 4hr weekend ride... it's gonna hurt.
Just for clarity, cryptocurrencies don't fall under the SEC's purview. Thought this is insider trading, it's not technically illegal.
>"protect himself and his work"

From what? The other spouse or the legal system? Most would assume it is protection from the other spouse. To verify, one could offer to sign a prenup that splits everything 50/50, i.e., that codifies what would happen under community property law. This provides the benefit of clarifying how a separation would occur to protect the spouses and their work from the legal system.

If protection from the legal system is sought, then the 50/50 prenup should be agreeable.

If protection from the other spouse is sought, then what is the first spouse (the one demanding the prenup) going to give up in order to gain that protection?

If the first spouse is demanding a one-sided prenup that only benefits the first spouse, then it can be argued that the first spouse has broken a marriage vow by seeking to enrich his or her self at the expense of the other. [1]

[1] None of this is legal advice and should not be used as such.
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You get out of a meeting what you put into it. If you don't prepare an agenda, if you don't take accurate notes, and if you don't followup by distributing the decisions made and responsible parties for implementing them to everyone, you ain't going to get as much out of them.

And you are communicating to your attendees that your time is more valuable than theirs, so maybe that's why you don't get the attendees you want.
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It seems like your comment has several unspoken assumptions that I'm unclear on, but yeah, I do. Insofar as financial instruments are fungible/transferable, they ought to be transparently so. Once you start creating different classes of financial interest, some with decision-making power and some without, you're creating a tiered system and those with the decision power are both incentivized and empowered to put their own interests over others'.

The basic notion of capitalism is that property rights + free markets = optimal economic growth. As soon as you start creating different classes of ownership you're signalling that that's a actually a fiction.
So many assumptions... Like the common mistake in assuming that everybody on the internet is from the US. I'm not. There's plenty of stuff that I can get from Amazon.com much cheaper than I can get it here. Also, there's stuff that I can't even get here (or hardly). So I ordered that stuff from the comfort of my own home before even arriving in the states.

Then, when I did arrive, I got to spend the time I had visiting interesting locations and enjoying the scenery in stead of shopping in big chain stores for stuff I knew I wanted anyway.
The geek in me loves stuff like this. The old and jaded techie in me says just get something designed to solve the issue like:

https://eero.com or the UniFi Mesh

:)
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F1 does not itself have a storage engine, and can use a variety of them. Spanner is actually now columnar [1] in a way that's similar to Parquet:

> Ressi stores a database as an LSM tree, whose layers are periodically compacted. Within each layer, Ressi organizes data into blocks in row-major order, but lays out the data within a block in column-major order (essentially, the PAX layout).

[1] https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...
People should be treated equally because it’s the compassionate and the right thing to do. I assume you want to be treated equally as well? Regarding the problems you attribute to people simply moving to the area you live in, those problems can be dealt with in ways that don’t exclude others. They also aren’t your problems, but problems shared by everyone including the people who recently moved there.
> It's inherent in human nature

Indeed it is, but the most innovative product doesn't always win in the market place. The never ending desire for the newest thing may have cost constraints, maybe even ones that we haven't historically encountered before.

> We inherited their legal system and commercial focus, it was a big reason why we were able to take the lead.

Is there any reason to believe this is a pre-requisite of success though?

> The other is our scale.

China knows a thing or two about that.

I don't happen to believe there is only one path to success/dominance as it is a combination of many factors, not to mention the fact that luck/coincidence/timing is potentially far more important than people realize. Going on recorded human history, we're also dealing with relatively small sample sizes when it comes to making confident predictions of how things as complex as human cultures and global economics will pan out.
Thanks for your concern. Of course I'm constantly learning new skills to avoid being left behind. However, present-day artificial intelligence is still very far from being able to replace my job.
Thanks, I tried multiple browsers before I read your comment. It took 30s for me.
Reminds me of this guy who used the same technique on the receiver:
https://youtu.be/VZKc3PBs67c
I live in my car in 15°F temperatures. Every week I send out 2 dozen resumes for technology-executive positions. Sorry to hear you are experiencing burnout. Can I help? Let's switch places.
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That seems intuitive and useful.
There are a lot of people who dont get to make that decision, and they probably dont get to choose how many hours they work until retirement.
That's an incomplete view of the problem.

Public transportation is used by people from all walks of life. Not just office workers - cooks, nurses, artists, school teachers, police officers, even employees of trade companies... and every citizen benefits from reduced traffic, lower infrastructure costs, and better health.

Using car taxes to fund public transportation would not materially impact the carpenter. They'd just charge a little more. An absurdly high $1000/year tax spread across 50 clients is merely $20 per job - a more realistic $200/y tax would add $4 per job. Considering that public transportation increase average disposable income, the market can easily absorb that cost.
You act as though this situation is new or unique to businesses. They deal with married business partners every day, and they don't do it by forcing everyone to get post-nups.

I challenge you to find an attorney that would advise her to sign any such post-nup. Maybe a reasonable stock buy-back in the event of a divorce, but asking for a post-nup is completely beyond the pale.
The data at http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Energy/Coal/C... for 2001 shows the US and Germany neck and neck in the coal per capita with the US slightly more. https://www.statista.com/statistics/604946/per-capita-coal-c... for 2015 has similar comparisons.

The 2015 data shows the US at 1.63 metric tons of coal per person (?!) and Germany at 1.38 metric tons of coal per person.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/10/10/why-arent... goes into the breakdown of German power generation. As noted, its actually going to get worse as Germany gets rid of its nuclear power (currently 13% of load).

Overall, for power consumption per capita, yes... Germany uses much less than the US (12,071 kWh for the US, 6,602	kWh for DE).

One thing to note in that is the further north and continental you get (colder winters), the more the power consumption goes up. Norway (24k kWh), Canada (14k kWh), Finland (14k kWh), and Sweden (12.8k kWh) all use more power than the US per capita. Likewise, industrialized equatorial countries also use more power per person (probably for cooling?).
> Using names like first and rest might make a language more attractive to new users, but there is something to be said for designing at least some languages for experienced users rather than new ones, and it doesn't take much experience (a week?) for the words car and cdr to mean the left and right halves of a cons cell to you.

When designing Rust, we quickly learned that the idea of picking short names to satisfy experienced users at the cost of new ones doesn't work in practice. Too many users complain that the language is too hard to learn and ugly; it took years for "Rust is so ugly, it's the resurrection of Perl" to finally stop being a meme. If we had stuck to our guns with short keywords, Rust might have been dead by now.

Choosing unfamiliar syntax such as car and cdr worked for Lisp because, during the '70s, Lisp as a whole was novel enough to gain a sizable following. It doesn't work today. (And note that, even then, Lisp lost a lot of potential users due to the S-expression based syntax.) I'm firmly in the "first" and "rest" camp, because history has shown that readable languages much more frequently go on to be successful than languages with idiosyncratic syntactic choices.
Most new drives can do encryption in hardware with zero performance penalty using either the ATA password or Opal for NVMe. For those doing software/CPU encryption on the swap, or any other partition for the matter is simply wasteful and often slower.
Pete's for produce, Whole Foods for meat, Local Foods/Butcher and Larder for fancy meat. But prior to Pete's, which has a really good produce section, we'd routinely go to Del Rancho or Jimenez for produce.

My sense is: in terms of cost, Del Rancho is lower than Aldi, and serves a more downmarket clientele. But the tradeoffs Del Rancho makes are different from the tradeoffs Aldi makes.
Yep, as one of my fiction instructors once said: The more you do it, the more you do it.
Why are you assuming the surviving partners necessarily has worse judgment than the person you originally went into business with? It sounds like you're arguing from a default position of not trusting other people and needing to defend your enterprise against outsiders, which is likely to be a limiting factor on business growth sooner or alter. You might be better off with a professional corporate structure, like a legal partnership.
This is the first I'm hearing of allegations that Jake and Will are rapists, so I don't know anything about the case besides this article I just read. Forgive me if I'm missing some part of the story that makes this make sense, but shouldn't the first line of defense be to tell the police and let the government prosecute rapists? I don't really think I want the Chaos Computer Club to start deciding who is a rapist, again, unless there's some big part of this story that I'm missing.
Author here: We explicitly moved away from postmortem at Heroku and follow the same at Citus Data because postmortem has references essentially to something having died. The blameless part of a postmortem helps, but blaming something is separate from the idea of examining something that has been killed. There is a ton of value in emphasizing the blameless part though, so very noted.

The business impact is something that is important, and we often do measure. I often aimed to separate two somewhat as leading with that can create some unintended consequence of aiming to point blame/etc.
Sometimes you just need one joke from elders, here is my story:

https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-lies-that-your-parents-t...
> "Perhaps its time we started to design power-consuming devices to take advantage of fluctuating electricity costs."

If your goal is to make money, then sure. If your goal is to reduce the damage caused by burning fossil fuels, I'd suggest reconsidering.

A better use of these negative prices is reducing the number of actively used power stations based on fossil fuels. We would need to keep them until further load balancing capacity could be introduced (i.e. until we no longer had the need to turn the polluting power stations back on). The ultimate goal is a flexible power grid that kept environmental pollution to an absolute minimum.
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I know it's an edge case that doesn't fit Amazon Lambdas atm. I do it by hand ATM, so I know it can be done, but sure I run it on too many preowned servers to handle peaks. Controlling serverless resources in a more fine grained way is a way to use your servers more effectively.
I would accept that if Lisp were a runaway success, but it's not. It is very nearly a dead language [1]. It is entirely possible that the unwillingness of the Lisp community to give up in this obscure terminology in favor of something more user friendly contributed to its demise.

[1] Look at e.g. https://madnight.github.io/githut/. The most popular Lisp is Clojure, with a whopping 0.33% market share. Scheme and Common Lisp don't even make it to the top 50.
I'm sure other people will add links, it's been a long-running story. But a lot of the people involved on both sides are anarchists of various stripes, who would rather handle things themselves than get the police involved.

Edit: well no one else has posted links, so here are a couple. https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/the-forest-for-the-trees.... https://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2012/06/missing-stair.html
The NYT article reads as though Germany is benefiting from the switch to renewables, and that the only problems are that sometimes there's so much power around that they have to pay people to use it.

It mentions high cost of electricity, and that it's due to fees and "renewable investment costs" but then immediately hand-waves that away because "household energy bills have been rising over all anyway."

When combined with your information above (those hand-wavy fees actually account for fully 50% of the costs, with 24% being the renewables surcharge) it would seem that the NYT is being misleading. It seems they want to convey the idea that the renewables are an immediate good thing for everyone (which I do not take issue with politically) while downplaying the significant costs to consumers. Am I missing something?

If I'm not, then this does nothing but contribute to the current view of American media as being intentionally misleading when it suits their interests.
I don't know what those words mean either. I guess I would just push back on the idea that a criticism of Aldi is necessarily a criticism of grocery stores for the working class.

Aldi in Chicago might be a west-side south-side thing? There aren't many south of Fullerton and west of Kedzie, but there are lots of grocery stores for black and latino markets, and they don't look (on the inside) that much like Aldi.

Certainly I don't have a problem with Aldi. They're better than Dominicks was, and in some ways more admirable as a business than Whole Foods.
Well there is plenty of "unprofessional" COBOL code out there, so I suppose the language designers sort of met their goal?
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Sorry, Ashton. I believe it is, and an internet random boldly asserting otherwise is not likely to do much to persuade me to the contrary.
Yes, everyone knows that. It's not helpful to just repeat the purpose of a system in response to a criticism of its ability to fulfil that purpose.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/cheri... sounds promising.
I don't care about new bells and whistles. How about this, your update makes my ux poor, let me go back to the previous version when that os was selling that phone.
If it looks like a half-loaded web page on a nexus (which is the reference device for the platform) then something is wrong.

Please don't take offence, I'm just trying to explain why it did so bad on android.

edit: you don't need to test your app on 1500 devices. They are all the same, if you plan for it only two devices (big/small screen) should suffice. Source: former app developer.
Upper class privilege
I've always felt that the "Scratch" programming that the kids are doing these days may actually get them turned off on programming. While easier to get the kids started, I think the kids quickly start to feel just how mundane and boring programming is when they are just dragging and dropping pre-set elements on their screen all day.
The ones that are meant to program would flourish under a computer with just a black and white Terminal app on their disposal. But give them Scratch and I think they will be thinking of other careers.
You're missing a large public outpouring of detailed accusations that surfaced at the same time against Jakob Appelbaum, resulting in his expulsion from the Tor project. Read the linked article for links to background material and why the CCC is being called out for not acknowledging what is now widely acknowledged by the rest of the infosec community.
That's what I don't get.

Which websites are radically slower on iphone 6+ compared to 7+?

And the camera - what use case are you talking about? Taking family photos to post on Facebook? If so, how is that "hugely important"? Taking professional photos?
The Bay Area is an international hotspot. You have people fighting to move in from the whole world. I would expect it to be one of the most expensive places on the planet. And given it is an American city, I expect the worst infrastructure on the planet.
Rails applications have been doing stateless auth in encrypted cookies for over a decade, and the constructions they use to do it are safer than JWT's, and orders of magnitude less complex. I would want to push back on the idea that a good use case for JWT is "we need to do stateless auth".

Stateless auth is a bad place to start. But, when you need it, there are better ways to do it than JWT.
I really feel like Apple's 30% tax is not optimal and a lower % would actually stimulate more development for them
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"My current partner and I plan to get married for legal benefits and stay together for some time."

Comes off sounding like a business transaction, which is fine if that's how you plan to leverage the idea of marriage, but then again it probably should be properly labeled as a joint business venture/partnership where people have written agreements to protect each other's assets in case of things going badly between them.
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If one's adherence to business practices are more important than one's marriage, then one's priorities are broken.
Agree with the comment. That sentence made no sense whatsoever. Had to re read 10 times to figure out that the hyphen was probably wrong. Then still not sure whether it was a failed copy/paste or multiple words missing.

If you have troubles with using hyphens, I'd recommend to not use any, ever. There are barely any English word requiring one and noone will care if it's missing.
Sure, they'll have an encrypted SWAP, and an unencrypted swap, and developers will choose which to use. Leverage Unix's case-sensitivity.

/s
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> Formalizing the process is a noble goal, but there will always be clients that want your formalized process with "just a few tweaks".

The client owns the process - it's their business after all - so they can define it however they wish. I'm not arguing for canned software. I'm arguing for a programming language in which business processes can be defined directly. (I'm aware of the existence of BPMN, ARIS, and other business process modeling tools, but those fall short of being actual programming languages.)
If you aren't controlling the hardware doing the mining you also don't care about the electric costs to operate it.