skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The biggest issue related to statistics I've encountered is when using jsonb columns. As far as I understand they have a hardcoded statistic, which can cause pretty bad plans if your data isn't close to that value. You can create an index on individual keys in the jsonb column, which do have their own statistic, but that is not really an option for most cases where you'd use jsonb in the first place.

Bad statistics can really mess up queries, so any tool to fix this kind of situation is very welcome. I don't think this specific tool would help with this variant of bad statistics, unfortunately.
> Twitter however now also displays tweets people I follow have liked and that has been the worst change for me.

I rarely go on Twitter but I've noticed that the "X liked this" are usually the worst of all on my newsfeed.

But there's a fix for this: click on the "..." menu -> "I don't like this tweet" on a few of them, and then you shouldn't see any more of the "X liked this tweet"

The only one I see now are "X and Y liked this tweet from Z" but in that case I follow both X, Y, and Z.

This has improved the quality of the feed dramatically.
> The USPS lost $2.7B last year, why anyone would want to give it more responsibility is beyond me.

The loss comes from having to serve literally the entire country by law. A postal service in cities is profitable - a postal service that has to serve even the remotest ditch in the deepest desert of a flyover state with daily mail will always incur loss. And that is what society is for: to bear the cost of providing everyone in the country with affordable mail.

To add banking services to the unbanked (or those who do not trust the megabanks any more, given their historic lack of customer support and historically low image) is something that can very well be used to offset these losses.
Sorry, maybe "social contract" isn't the right term. I just meant the work any person is expected to do in order to be a good citizen and a good neighbor.
Go check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasties_in_Chinese_history

China has always been ruled by dynasties. I don't see any specific reason why it should change under Xi. It is a wet dream of USA to bring instability to China to weaken rising dragon.
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Our startup is split between Silicon Valley and Poland. I would say the biggest problem with the current government are taxes. Desperate to fund the socialist policy of "500+", the government changes the "interpretation" of the current tax code. Suddenly programmers are taxed at a higher rate: e.g. https://www.wykop.pl/link/4196755/informatycy-nie-moga-byc-p... . Besides that, the government tries to be friendly to tech startups.

Another problem is GDPR. It sounds like the life of European startups is going to get much harder.

One potential upside is EU funding. Having used both VC and EU funding I am not sure if it's really worth it, even if it's equity free.
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Pretty much what I know of sales is from The Office and Glengarry Glen Ross. What's a day in the life of that usually like?
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> Uber has a video depicting this journey, which took place staring in then midwest and then via short haul to Sanders, Arizona, where it was loaded onto an autonomous truck and then transferred to Topock, Arizona, where it made the switch to another human-driven vehicle. This is a big step towards commercialization of Uber’s autonomous truck tech, and it seems like it puts it ahead of some competitors who want to do similar things, including Embark trucking. It’s also the first we’ve heard about Uber’s self-driving truck business in a little while, so it’s good to see Uber’s continuing to make progress and devote attention to this issue.

Uber's main line of business i.e. on demand car transportation is loosing money. They tell a story that they fix it with self driving cars which incidentally would require gigantic additional funding. Now they have expanded into self driving trucks that do already some services with some capacity in the name of their own surely significant trucking business for some customers that call for them through their app. This is the real deal, I know because there is a video.

Musk heaps one money loosing business over the other but at least they all make sense and are different. With Uber it was doubling down and now tripling down. Not impressed.
There is probably a distinction between personal software and websites in contrast to accounts at web services. The fundamental point here is who is in charge of running a service. Even the self-hosted website is probably entangled with a contract for the domain and a contract for a VPS, as well as updates and maintenance. Similiarly to a family residence left behind, such things have to be managed: Who is capable or can pay neccessary reparations?

It will probably quickly turn out that things which currently look important are unmaintainable for the long term. Software updates are expensive and even companies frequently do not invest budget in old software.

This does not render the indiweb useless on the long term in contrast to a mainline blog provider such as medium.com, it just gives it another quality. To cover such services: Even if they guarantee you today the service will be free "forever", they do not need to comply with that in 10, 50, 100 years. Where is geocities today? I think in the digital age, decay goes much quicker then in the past.

What can be done is to make sure information go to well-preserved standards. PDF-A, static websites, https://archive.org/ , these are more likely to hold up for a longer time.
I don't. I just don't think the cost of the track is the significant issue. I think the main issue will be safety.
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I use twirssi with regex highlights and just read the highlights. All I ever read are posts caught by the regex.

I think adding links to user profiles might be a good addition if I wanted to see a all of a specific users tweets but I rarely do.
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Looks a lot like my old 1979 Honda Civic hatchback
Is that a picture of the custom news reader itself, or is the custom part just producing the ATOM stream and you're using a standard news reader?
I've spent almost my whole career as a remote worker. You're definitely right that not everyone can handle it, but my experience is that most of the time, unproductive remote workers get cut much faster than their co-located counterparts.

We all know people who are allowed to coast solely because they're friendly with a lot of people in the office. Many employees depend heavily on this halo effect, and expect to be able to wink and nod their way out of what is sometimes sickening incompetence -- and the kicker is that much of the time, this works well.

It's psychologically easier for people to trim non-productive remote workers because there is no physical absence to miss, and the people in the company are less likely to have a deep personal bond forged over years of lunch breaks and the like. It's a purer professional context, at least as far as our profession is concerned.

Declaring yourself a remote worker is a declaration that your work product stands on its own as a representation of the value you provide, and that you don't need to depend on niceties like "he tells really funny jokes by the water cooler" to stay employed.
But what if you have digital assets that are generating revenue without needing much maintenance?

This revenue could be going to a family member for many months or even years after you have expired rather than just coming to an abrupt halt because you were paying for hosting month to month.
> By this logic, we should be using IE on Windows

But, if you know nothing about the web and are just learning, and you've got a Windows machine, sure, use IE (or Edge, if it's Windows 10.)

Just like if you are starting from zero programming, and self-teaching, sure, use whatever is available in the base install of your OS.
But the calculator you're criticizing does not adjust for inflation...
China is a hyper-capitalist country; referring to it as a centrally planned economy is intellectually dishonest.
You're making a semantic argument. That's often fine, but is irrelevant in this case.

To the extent talent is innate, it's a matter of luck.
To the extent it takes thousands of hours of practice, well... how is it that one has the opportunity and ability to practice some thing for thousands of hours? You generally need a some mixture of support and dedication. Your level of support is clearly a matter of luck... and the qualities of dedication and working hard must be either be skills that you have to acquire somehow or innate talents. Which again, both seem to be matters of luck.

To me, it seems like a fools game to try to find reasons to justify why you're more deserving of this or that than someone else. The deeper you dig, the less reasons you can find to actually feel superior (or inferior, for that matter).
If only we had guaranteed lifespans.
Including general information about gun control and mass shootings would be out of place in the article, yes.

Excluding a controversy whereby that particular product model has been a major subject of discourse on US politics across the globe, with major news publications writing pieces with a primary focus on the AR-15, seems... remiss.

The attention given to this model by the public and media is a testament to the product's notability, a metric that's a tenet of Wikipedia editorial policy.
Can anybody shed some light on the practical implications of this change?

Does this in any way affect organisations who are using K8s?
I've been using Debian (always the stable versions) for at least 5 years. Packages are sometimes old, but whenever I need a bleeding edge version of something (generally node+ruby+python+emacs+firefox+blender), I just download or compile it in ~/bin and everything is fine. I love the stability & tiny updates that comes with Debian (When compared with gigabytes updates with forced reboots from windows).
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Yes, and it is problematic when the US does it, and it will be problematic when China does it.

One country doing terrible things intervening in other countries is not an excuse for other countries to get involved and do the same thing.
I remember reading an intro to Orwell's Animal Farm that discussed Orwell's ability to see the dystopian use of technology, but couldn't see how it could liberate a citizenry from totalitarianism (like the shortwave, for example).

I think the same of this high level tech as well. I could be wrong, but I think individuals do desire freedom and agency, and as long as that desire is there in some, it's going to be hard to squash.
Increasing atmospheric oxygen from early photosynthetic organisms did drive most anaerobes into extinction.
You have some interesting points, but I want to mention some things where your perspective doesn't make sense to me. I am a tech focused city-dweller for what it matters.

> Putting people on the moon matters. Putting a tesla in space doesn't matter.

Wait, what? The USA didn't just launch people to the moon in one go. They also hauled up hunks of useless metal first. It's a step. SpaceX is going to be colonizing Mars with new families and new biology and a new chapter in multi-planet life. Do you not think that matters?

> Fake videos don't matter.

Sure they do, especially at scale. We are currently witnessing the large-scale attempts at altering American's realities by forceful propaganda from foreign countries. I've been told by the moderators here not to call out any specific countries, but Americans and others are reading false text with false attribution to their rural neighbors and they are getting confused. This helped enable a culture of hate and racism that is rising in the US, and this is not a stable or okay thing. Fake video will accelerate that enormously if not combatted - this stuff really matters, especially if your focus in life is community, family, love, people, and real things of that nature.
So, to paraphrase, the market in it's infinite generosity allows paupers to invest in stocks as well as billionaires?
5 minutes for you is not 5 minutes for someone new.
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> Who knows what they would do to Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, etc.

Okay, that's at least two countries that killed 10000+ of their own people since WW2.
If we are on the subject of what crimes against humanity should prevent a country getting what kind of weapon, Asia-raping Japan is on the brink of acquiring nukes according to some comments below, do you find that disturbing?

Sorry for the whataboutism but I think how each country is perceived when spending money on military is worth discussing.
No, I was not advancing a straw man. A straw man is an intentional mis-statement of an opponent's argument (e.g. "We can't be descended from moneys because there are still monkeys"). That's not what I was doing. I was making a straightforward claim about what is believed by a significant portion of American society. That claim might be wrong, but it's not a straw man.
Smart until Alzheimer's kicks in and he stars rounding up citizens who post memes on WeChat.
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Well, that’s exactly my point. China could probably annex some Indian territory too, without provoking a nuclear response.
Who cares about history? Europe was ruled by monarchies until it switched to democracy, for the better. China should do the same.
> China has always been ruled by dynasties.

The exact same thing was true of the West until about 100 years ago.
I think the transition to near 100% renewable technologies is a foregone conclusion at this point: the economics of carbon-based fuels basically don't make sense any more, and it's just a matter of transitioning away. Natural gas has already basically killed coal and that transition is well under way, and renewables+batteries are now starting to eclipse natural gas peaker plants, transportation, etc.

But there's still 200 years of carbon emissions in the atmosphere to deal with.
I mean, part of the motivation of getting rid of nukes is that 'it's only a matter of time' before someone decides to use them. Nuclear weapons have been around for less than 100 years, so it's not a lot of time to draw conclusions from about how likely Nuclear War is over N years.
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You might also consider creating a video of yourself explaining what these things are, why they are important and how to access and use the data.

That would also be a good opportunity to share thoughts with her that she may appreciate more when she has matured. Life seems to get in the way of saying some of the most important things. I have so many regrets about the conversations I was never able to have with my mom. She was a single parent and died at a young age. Our last conversation was an argument.
Geeky version: let's assume you want to "time release" something (e.g. unlock it in approximately 5 years).

Encode your assets/keys/passwords and share just a portion of the key.

If you extrapolate computing cost/power trends, you can estimate how long until it will be practical to brute-force decrypt the portion of the key you didn't share.

Of course, this is an approximate, not precise, timing system.
So the postal service loses money because it's mandated by law that it has to serve the entire country. But mandating that it has to provide banking services for the entire country is going to save money? Ok.
Are current Start-ups cross referenced to this list anywhere? I'd love to check out more of them in the Med-Device space, specifically, but I imagine a listing would be useful for other areas as well.
Ah, the author of the piece may have agreed with you and has updated the title of his piece, so I have done here also, to match...
The article was basically about this ("So I began to take note each time I experienced a little hit of outrage or condescension or envy during a Twitter session. What I found was that nearly every time I felt one of these negative emotions, it was triggered by a retweet."), and in my experience this is largely how the "mute" functionality is used: literally to protect yourself from experiencing the learned emotional trigger associated with seeing specific keywords or phrases.
Are you seriously comparing Singapore's relative military spending to China's? There's got to be a point where % mean nothing, and this is definitely it.

Singapore could spend it's whole GDP on the military and China can still wipe it off the face of the Earth :/
That certainly appears to be the perception they've created with many. I don't see it that way entirely, because it seems like any programmer using Python will have to come face to face with the intricacies of how Python 2 and 3 differ. If they write all their projects in Python 3 they may never feel comfortable approaching legacy codebases, but if they start off in Python 2 they're going to be peer pressured into learning 3 as well, and get experience with what goes into porting from one to the other - I'd consider that an invaluable lesson.
"so they can stay up for 2-3 straight days to log more hours and make the trip" - by the way, is that legal and actually happening in USA? Sounds like a horrible risk to everyone else on the road; in EU you're not getting on the road without a tachograph recording your driving & rest times, and driving more than 9-10 hours per day (including at least 9 hours uninterrupted "rest" eash day) would result in massive fines; if the cargo is urgent and you need to drive on then it's literally cheaper (as in, it actually happens) to fly in a replacement driver with a low-cost airline than to risk the fines.
That's why I only get google/nexus devices now, as they get fast updates (I assume the pixel is the same). I've given up on Samsung.
> The part in parenthesis is implied

This assertion nullifies your point. The part in parenthesis is obviously in no way implied, and is just hyperbolic rhetoric in an attempt to create a strawman. If you're interested in reasonable debate, I would suggest refraining from such tactics.
This works badly with monorepo and uniform build systems. Same reason why Google is still on cpp11.
>I believe we need a more serious national conversation on China and the role that technology companies play in enabling dictatorships.

if this interests you, I recommend reading "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation" by Edwin Black

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
Hey, who even needs nuclear weapons if you've got the Akira project anyways :P
It indicates that K8s is popular and will be supported by the CNCF by a long time. You can bet your business on it.
It's a lot worse than that. The US has been a superpower for ~75 years. In that time, the US hasn't been annexing territory in Latin America (and yes, the US is guilty of repeatedly meddling in the affairs of nations in Latin America, and it deserves all the flack it gets for it).

The Monroe Doctrine for example has never included a drive to conquer Latin America and annex it. That doctrine is about driving out European colonialism. The territorial integrity of countries in Latin America has been well served by that shield. If you're Venezuela and your entire nation has collapsed (which it has), you don't have to fear someone conquering you due to extreme weakness and annexing you: the US would never allow that and everyone knows it. Historically, at nearly any other time or place, Venezuela would get invaded and conquered while they're so extraordinarily weak (they have the largest oil reserves on earth after all).

If the US were to behave like China is already (much less what might come next), the US would be threatening to annex Toronto and Vancouver, along with Baja Mexico and the entire Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea.

We don't have to wait for bad behavior out of China. They just used their military to steal territory about four times the size of Texas from their neighbors.
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From the FAQ:

What is my retirements purchasing power today?

Inflation is inevitable. If that word is new to you, it simply determines how much purchasing power your dollar has. Historically, inflation has always increased with time.

In order to get a good understanding of the purchasing power of your future retirement savings for today, you can do a “simple” calculation: Take your total retirement savings and multiply it by 3%. For example, if you have $1.25m (retirement savings), multiplied by 0.03% (inflation), you get $45,000 in inflation. Then you subtract that number from your total savings: $1.25m - $45k = $880k. This will give you a baseline to understand your financial situation.

I don't even.... What !? There are so many things wrong with that calculation.
That's why this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AR-15_style_rifle
page specifically lists all shootings involving AR-15 clones. There were no Colt rifles used in any recent shooting. Should every shooting using an AK-47 pattern rifle be listed on the FB Tantal article, regardless of whether or not an FB Tantal was used?
So, connect the dots for me: everything reported against Australia is necessarily as real as Australia itself? Or where are you headed with this?
The problem will be the moderators and the internet trolls. What would happen when 4chan invades the US Senate and turns it into /r/the_Donald. Tumblr then takes over the House and every opposing opinion will be met with caps lock screaming, threats, and comments about OP's mom.

No, thank you. I'll stick with the mess we already have.