skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>One study estimated that viruses in the ocean cause a trillion trillion infections every second, destroying some 20 percent of all bacterial cells in the sea daily.

That excerpt really put it into perspective for me. I guess I always thought that viruses didn't have much of an impact, aside from ocasionally causing a pandemic and incorporating themselves into our genome. But the thought of viruses killing a fifth of all bacteria in the sea everyday is staggering.
The abuse of eminent domain to make way for the new Dallas Cowboys stadium in Arlington, Texas was so bad that they amended the state constitution to prevent it from happening again.
Is there really such a thing as a “future proof” job?
Corporations like Intuit TurboTax spend millions of dollars of the money you give them to loby the government and keep the system so convoluted that you need them to do your taxes.
too bad they sell your tax information, in all likelihood to companies like Equifax. now they don't have to ask your employers your salary anymore, you can just tell them.
I was with this article until the last paragraph, "Millennials rightly demand more from their products and services than any generation before, and are increasingly skeptical toward disingenuous brands like Walmart and McDonalds. They abhor deceit and trickery, and increasingly gravitate toward brands that align with their values."

Really? Only millenials (whatever that means) are characterized by these values? How do you figure? My experience has been exactly the opposite, actually. But Brandon Read appears to believe that purely because of my "generation", I gravitate toward deceit and trickery. Okay, thanks for that valuable insight, Brandon. Whatever.
Suit, super, sue, suicide, suet, etc.
A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16838860
Well LBC (the company the made the vast majority of the bricks in the uk) took to importing a new set of workers from a different poor country every generation.

Which is why my home town has the one of the highest diversity's in the world compared to its population.
Fewer ignorant citizens*

If you keep the ignorance distribution stable, then nothing changes.
I can't speak to the best but typeracer [0] and Nitro Type [1] are certainly not the worst (read: "least fun") methods/tools/products/sites out there.

[0]: http://play.typeracer.com

[1]: https://www.nitrotype.com
(IRS) says less than 0.04% of individuals reported their crypto gains or losses
Six high-tech foods that are changing the way we eat and drink
For the record, Turbo Tax handles this fine. I have used TT for over a decade now and they have been able to handle every situation with no issues. Doing my taxes usually takes me about an hour. Cheaper and faster than having a CPA do it.
BPD is a really specific personality disorder with fairly clear characteristics. While personality orders in general are somewhat controversial, and notoriously difficult to treat, I’d be interested in seeing evidence of overdiagnosis.

Depression on its own can be crippling and lethal, so complicating it with an addictive, potentially reckless or even psychotic second state is a nightmare. Mania is often misunderstood as just elevated mood and high energy, but the reality is more often of the “running up crushing debt, promiscuous and dangerous sexual activity” flavor than “spent all week coding a masterpiece.”

In extremes mania leads to a psychotic break to the point of being difficult to distinguish (even in a clinical setting) from schizophrenia. I knew a lovely guy who worked on motorcycles for Harley, and he was always troubled, classically bipolar, but refused to get help because he loved the highs. Then one day I got a call from his wife that he had spent three days “talking to Jesus and the devil” and pleading the case for his soul. He had to be committed for observation, which turned into weeks and then months of inpatient care. Bipolar disorder really is no joke, and the tendency for people with the disorder to struggle with substance abuse doesn’t help. “Dual diagnosis” is a phrase that portends a world of trouble, especially if you’re not wealthy enough to avoid various aspects of the system.

The last point is that BPD typically improves with age, while bipolar disorder typically becomes worse.
Well in the UK when I left school you needed 4-5 decent O levels to get on an apprenticeship i.e. the same entry requirements for a nursing career or entry level in a Bank.
Webpack is basically zero configuration now - with v4 - so I’ve no idea what you’re doing to make it impact your life so.

It literally is one command running in the background
Another one to add to the list of static site generators: https://www.staticgen.com/
I agree with this assessment and have had this experience a lot myself.
Ah I take the point
You should view the article on mobile then, where all the SQL is indented... and in a font 2x the size of the rest of the article, and you can only see 25% of a line.
We often pick up a bunch of disgruntled Intuit users at https://usebx.com
Webpack is not hard, the config is a simple javascript app that has to return an object following a specific schema. It's a list of entries (the starting file of an app) and the loaders to use for each type of file, based on a regex test of the filename.

It is maybe 0.05% of the difficulty of any actual app. Why is it so confusing when you can clearly create real apps without a problem?
Sad news. I remember listening to Art late nights in the mid 90s. Some.of my favorite topics: exorcist Malachi Martin, Mel's hole, and the guy who called in while "flying" over area 51 and was "shot down" on the air by a rail gun...

Rest in peace.
The Mirror Man (2014)
I liked the fact that you use "Instagram 10.3.2 (iPhone7,2; iPhone OS 9_3_3; en_US; en-US; scale=2.00; 750x1334) AppleWebKit/420+" as the user-agent. Is using the official Instagram API so difficult that you have to resort to these techniques? (Just asking, I'm totally for doing this, I also hate Instagram and everybody in the Facebook family for their walledgardenness.)
Do you have experience with React? React is really simple, and I think Vue looks simple on the surface but quickly turns into Angular level of mess.
As much as I'd like to avoid criticizing "moore's law", this is a good example of why we shouldn't be using the term unless the effect described is a properly scientific description of a universal truth.

Both of these statements are mere observations of trends (short term ones in the grand scheme of things).
Nothing about the trends observed in "eroom's law" must hold true in the future and, similarly, nothing about the trends observed in "moore's law" must remain true in the future.

There are no causal links behind either of these "laws", nothing to make them universally applicable throughout time. Indeed, both are stated as functions of time with an implied start date. These qualities make both mere observations of trends rather than proper scientific laws.

In the case of Moore's "law" the implied outcome seems optimistic and I think that is why we have so far given a pass on calling it a "law". In the case of Eroom's "law" the implied outcome is much more pessimistic so I am betting that we'll be unlikely to want to recognize it. However, if we accept Moore's observation as a "law", we'll have a hard time pointing to a distinction that prevents Eroom's observation from being a "law".

In my opinion, the right answer is to stop implying that either of these observations are inevitable or representative of a truth about the universe. Then we can properly recognize that both trends are easily subject to disruption through hard work and breakthroughs in related fields, or the lack thereof.
I guess I'm one of those .04%.
can anyone recommend a really good postgres GUI client? ive not found one yet for OSX, which is almost baffling
I really want to like this, because browser-based stuff is great, and their UX seems great in every aspect, but I fail to see the point also.
That makes me sad because I loved Victorville while passing through. Seemed like a cute, if struggling, town with a lot to recommend it (like the best burgers in SoCal at... Atlas I want to say it was..?).
Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips

https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4
The 'Architecture' Documentation page states:

Why RocketMQ?
Based on our research, with increased queues and virtual topics in use,
ActiveMQ IO module reaches a bottleneck. We tried our best to solve this
problem through throttling, circuit breaker or degradation, but it did not
work well. So we begin to focus on the popular messaging solution Kafka at
that time. Unfortunately, Kafka can not meet our requirements especially
in terms of low latency and high reliability, see [here] for details."

[here] https://rocketmq.apache.org/rocketmq/how-to-support-more-que...
Interesting project!

Does it generate pure html, without react support?
> ... but am curious to know if there is an actual problem, or if this is simply a hater-ade/fanboy party with no substance.

You've never had to deal with Oracle sales or "support" staff or -- even worse -- manage or support Oracle products in production, have you? If you had, well, you would already know the answer. Oracle RDBMS might be the one exception.

(FWIW, I mean "real" Oracle products, not, say, MySQL or Oracle Linux, for example.)
Would you consider remote?
Well, for an easy start you might look into our military bases in foreign nations.

From there you can look for US based corporations that have mines, factories, etc, in foreign nations.
His show added to the conversation bring fridge topics to the mainstream. Many guests brought light to government activities, military and unexplained activities. Forcing everyone to accept a white washed version of events by labeling everything else nonsensical is doing more of a disservice to the public. People need to be allowed to make up there own mind.
Which acquisition was this?
Haha, the downvotes. Then people wonder why the GPL is falling in disuse
Final improvements to Odroid XU4 home server with a 5V DC-DC converter in place
The guys at work seem to love DataGrip from the IntelliJ folks.
> There is no causality in either of these "laws", and that fact makes them mere observations of trends rather than proper scientific laws.

There's a lot in science that's mere observation.

The law of gravity is one example, since nobody knows where gravity actually comes from.
How we scaled DropBox - Kevin Modzelewski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

The initial Node.js presentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY&t=597s
Datagrip? I almost prefer it over SSMS for Sql Server, and it looks like its postgres support is on par.
I just found out this link and states the difference https://rocketmq.apache.org/docs/motivation/
Sadly, netbooks seem to be gone. Even chromebooks are full-size, full-weight.

Do you know of termux.com, for linux without rooting? It's basically a linux distribution, adjusted for android's slightly odd filesystem. The app itself is tiny, and you install from its repository. e.g. there's latex, youtube-dl, curl, vim, clang, ecj, python, ruby, perl, lua, erlang etc.

A bluetooth keyboard completes the DIY linux netbook... sadly, bluetooth keyboards are also almost gone, presumably as people adjust themselves to "touch" typing.
"To Read the Full Story, Sign In"

Who even do this?
> I honestly think you must be a sadist to use something like this.

A nitpick, but this says something a bit like the opposite of what you intended. You mean "masochist".
The M1 Abrams actually uses a gas turbine for propulsion too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_AGT1500
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c
The Mess We're In - Joe Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
Thanks. I, wow, somehow really messed that up.
Try slowing down and typing in a very steady rhythm. Then try increasing the rhythm gradually over the next few weeks.
Conclusion of the Powers of Tau Ceremony
Drain the swamp indeed.
Good catch, I had to correct that bit upon re-reading.
What I am truly aiming at is the quality of universality (applicability throughout time and space) that these observations lack.

With gravity we see a principle which, when mathematically described in sufficient detail, is consistent throughout space and time. What we know of it, we know only due to the observations we can make locally and in our timeline thus far; however, even with such a limited view, we can already see that gravity very likely is as it has always been and is the same throughout the universe.
This is certainly not true of neither Moore's law nor Eroom's law.
Piratebay should have best of collections.
David Beazley: Discovering Python - PyCon 2014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8

This talk is both inspiring and funny, I got introduced to David Beazley by this talk and although every time I listen to him my barin melts, I enjoy his talks the most.
I don't think calling out the standard values of one generation necessarily means he's taking shots at other generations. I just think that millennials have been hit with more advertising over the course of their lives than the generations before them, and are therefore more distrustful in general. I think that's all he's trying to say here.
Postico!
We moved from pgadmin to DBeaver at work and have been pretty satisfied. It's based off Eclipse, so benefits from the windowing/panes, and being able to use any eclipse plugins. My db usage world changed the day I got vim support and auto complete in my query editor.
No donations for the overall project, though some contributors may ask for some here: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Donate

The best way to support the project, without contributing code/documentation/etc, is to spread the word!
Ok. Granted fewer people will itemize in 2018. And so what? I don't think TT has a stranglehold on the industry because people worry about their itemizations. In other words, I don't expect TT to have fewer users and less revenue for 2018 returns. No one is going to say "the standard deduction makes sense for me...I no longer need turbo tax"
Anything by Kay really.
While agricultural use is a problem, we have resistance problems even with classes of antibiotics that are never used in agriculture. The problem with antibiotic resistance is economic, not scientific. There is no incentive to develop new antibiotics (or tweaks of existing antibiotics that overcome resistance) under our current regulatory system.
Side point, but AFIAK `fold()()` is most idiomatic in Scala.
Gerry Sussman talk is awesome and reflects very well the currently state of computer programming. It's a shame. The worse part: there is people around us with a lot of pride ABOUT DON'T KNOWING TO COMPUTE BUT STILL DOING [INNEFICIENT] THINGS. (sorry for the caps, good bye)
I do hate that they lobby for keeping taxes hard to file, but I have no issue paying them $60 to do my taxes. The website is such a great user experience, and they earned that money in my estimation. Why should it be free? They clearly put a lot of work into their site.

My only other issue with them is that they keep emailing me telling me to get started with my filing, but I already completed my tax return weeks ago.
Socialist threat? Peasent demands? Right... Are we maiybe missing the forest for the trees? The cause of the peasents plight is to be blamed, not the fact that the poor landowners couldn't turn to the state to repress them. Geez.
Wouldn't matter what it's built on :-)
You don't have time to sit on a couch and talk about your day together?
There's a book by Francis Spufford, "Red Plenty", which is a fictionalised (but, according to the author, trying very hard to track the true story as much as possible) about this era, and Krushhev features heavily. Highly recommended if you find history and economics interesting.
> The law of gravity is one example, since nobody knows where gravity actually comes from.

Please stop this. While I agree with your overall point, we know what causes gravity (the uneven curvature of space due to the distribution of mass). You can find this out by googling "what causes gravity". It's not a mystery anymore.
That’s a little disingenuous. Most consumer electronics are created in China. So are many of the largest commercial ships.
Index Queries in FaunaDB
React also tends to turn into a mess quickly... not saying vue or angular are any better, it’s just js ui code is a awful mess in comparison to even 20 year old desktop ui frameworks.
I have a different algorithm, it's called "anti-fomo"
How my bot net purchased millions in cars and defeated Russian hackers.

https://youtu.be/sgz5dutPF8M
So glad someone posted this. Basically everything Bret Victor does is gold. His website [1] has a bunch of great things he's written/done; two of my favorites are The Ladder of Abstraction [2] and Learnable Programming [3].

[1] http://worrydream.com/

[2] http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction

[3] http://worrydream.com/#!/LearnableProgramming
maybe a sadomasochist
Teixobactin, I assume? Their new method of parallel testing promising proto-antibiotics is really neat, but given the ratio of successes to failures, I wouldn't hold out much hope for a second golden age.
"golden hands" etc.

has nothing special with Soviets. It was the same at tsars times. The culture started by tsar Peter the Great who was quite good as a locksmith. He has several rooms in his palace with lathes and other tools.
After mostly relying on ORMs for years, I wanted to brush up on SQL, so I wrote this...

https://github.com/amorphid/learn_sql_ruby

Basically I just used the pg gem for Ruby to execute a bunch of raw SQL commands and wrote tests to check to see if the output was correct. It taught me a bunch in just a few days!
Writing NES Games in Assembly
Steering contracts is the way you convert political power into personal wealth.
> * In China, nearly all innovative industries are completely legally restricted from foreigner owned businesses (in contrast, in the US, the lone restricted industry is mortgages).

Umm, what? Airlines must be majority owned by US entities, broadcast is controller (why do you think Murdoch got a US passport), Qualcomm couldn't be sold to a company incorporated in Singapore...I could go on.
I found it laughable they think lawyers are robot proof.
I think you lost a factor log n there. Pretty sure (n + O(log n))^2 is (n^2 + O(n log n)).

In any case your notation works perfectly fine as an equality of sets. It's not that unusual to add and multiply sets together, there's really only one sensible definition, and the slight abuse of notation to use x instead of {x} is perfectly acceptable if you're careful.

The problem is that f = h + O(g) is generally used in a way that's false as an equality of sets, it's usually used to mean f ∈ h + O(g), which just makes using '=' needlessly sloppy notation (especially since you can make it correct by just changing a single character, no mess or quantifiers required).

Still, that's nothing compared to the suggestions on stack overflow which suggest using = to mean ⊆. Which is a terrible idea, equivalent to using = instead of ≤. In fact you point out one of the reasons it's terrible yourself, when you note that all equality signs only work one way, going against all mathematical convention.

Even stronger, ⊆ has some very nice properties. It's a total order on the big O sets, which is one of the nicer properties you can have (it's merely a partial order on the f + O(g) sets, but you can't have everything). Why on earth would you sacrifice all that just so you can avoid a scary math symbol?
Nature of Poly-Existentials: Abolishment of Intellectual Property Rights Regime
There's some really good DEFCON talks as well.
It does. Monterail has a Nuxt repo for hackathon type sites and some pages used a Vue based markdown component.
I use Psequel (psequel.com) when I am out of the CLI and it works nicely and plays nicely with osx.
> Webpack is not hard, the config is a simple javascript app that has to return an object following a specific schema

There's so many variations in what stacks people are using and what build steps are required for different projects that setup issues and bugs to workaround are virtually inevitable.

I want to move up to the next major version of Webpack for one project for example but after spending a total of several days getting my builds working correctly already, I'm almost certain it'll eat up at least a few days to get everything working again (e.g. production and development builds, source maps, live reloads, hot reloading, template compilation, TypeScript compilation, SASS compilation, project paths, optimizations).

Saying it's just simple JavaScript is completely overlooking all the plugins and configuration you have to stitch together and when things go wrong it can be challenging to know what to Google for.
don't they float?
Yeah. Cruise is an engineering disaster zone.
That is just the mathematical description of gravity according to general relativity. We don't have a theory for how the uneven curvature of space happens and we don't have a quantum mechanical theory for gravity either (gravitons are hypothetical, not proven).
> 6. UPDATE multiple rows with a CASE expression

Oh, man, as a seasoned DBA/Data Analyst, don't do this unless you have a really good reason to. This is premature optimization of the kind you want to avoid.

Yes, it's really neat to update everything in a single statement, and in some situations it can perform significantly better, but CASE expressions in an UPDATE statement quickly get complicated to map out in your head. It gets extremely difficult extremely quickly to tell where you have an error, and it's very, very easy to make a very costly mistake.

If you really need an atomic change you can just do this:

BEGIN;
UPDATE reward_members SET member_status = 'gold_group' WHERE member_status = 'gold';
UPDATE reward_members SET member_status = 'bronze_group' WHERE member_status = 'bronze';
UPDATE reward_members SET member_status = 'platinum_group' WHERE member_status = 'platinum';
UPDATE reward_members SET member_status = 'silver_group' WHERE member_status = 'silver';
COMMIT;

In general, however, make your queries difficult for the server and easy for you, because you make a ton more mistakes than the server ever will. Let the query planner and optimizer do the work. If performance becomes a problem on this query, you can fix it later when you can focus on just that one issue and understand the specific problem much better.

> You can imagine how many round trips this would take to the server if multiple individual UPDATE statements had been run.

If you're not returning data and you reuse the connection like you're supposed to, "round trips" cost is essentially nothing. What's expensive here is that the database server has to scan the index or row data on member_status. However, if the table is not billions of rows, it can probably fit that index (or even the row data for small tables) in memory and will cache hit on everything.

However, the list of single UPDATE statement can perform much better than a monolithic statement. If you're only updating a portion of the table, or if the number of rows that you'll actually be updating is comparatively small, then the list of single UPDATE statements can perform much better. It all depends on exactly what you're doing with the table.
Even though Evan You addresses how this measures up to Nuxt, unless you absolutely need Markdown out of the box, I find Nuxt already has Vue’s static site generator crown. Just run `npm run generate` to get a static site you can host on S3, Now, Nearly Free Speech or wherever you prefer to host static files.
I am so grateful I got to experience this exact thing. And your description of the experience is spot on.