skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A reasonable critique, in part, but you are missing some important stuff:

SQL:2003 added Window Functions, standardized sequences, and columns with auto-generated values

SQL:2006 okay, this one sounds like it was mostly about XML, but a lot of the functionality that went into dealing with structured content is what made the JSON support workable.

SQL:2008 this gave us the MERGE version of upsert, instead of triggers (which apply to views, and are a powerful way to deal with backwards compatibility)

SQL:2016 LISTAGG (super powerful), Row Pattern Recognition (a lot more intuitive that comparable uses of WINDOW functions), standardized date/time parsing, and polymorphic table functions (which you can kinda see in, for example, BigQuery's legacy table wildcard functions)
Crypto Billionaire Sued by Sequoia After Deal Falls Apart
Definitely agreed. The version of introspection presented here is inherently outward then inward, which is fine, but I'm not sure that's actually that useful. If the crowd has fucked up values, adapting to their fucked up values isn't a victory, it's just conforming to fucked up values. I think YC is a great example of this, many of the companies they fund are unethical and shallow moneygrabs (I'd be happy to detail them, but it's not useful). If you adapt to that, well, good luck because you might be an unethical and shallow carpetbagger.

I've got the problem of being too introspective, which can lead to a lot of beating yourself up, but after 30 years I get myself, which is nice. I'm not sure you can do that if you're constantly chasing what a lot of people value though which is success, "influence", money, a social life, etc. Those are all great indicators of success, but if you don't slow down how can you really stop and think about yourself? Not to introduce Trump (okay, going to do it anyway), but that's a guy who has spent 70 years chasing stuff, being addicted to fast food and TV. Has that guy ever stopped and thought about what's wrong with himself? What he can do better? Strongly doubt it. Much of our society is that, caught up in some loop where they never have the ability to do anything but react.

If we're honest with ourselves, much of what the world values is stupid if not outright evil. When people don't see that I don't believe they've really thought things through. That's pretentious, but we gotta get real about how we and others work or nothing will change.

Guess what I'm saying is by all means be introspective, but really be introspective. Don't measure yourself against bad yardsticks, be honest about your flaws and strengths. Don't do it because it's some game to maximize your utility, do it because if you don't do it, you are worse off.
I would imagine you could do typeof === "string" or instanceof Foo to add JS's limited type support? Elixir is similar in that it's not a typed language but can allow limited types like this.

I personally wish the syntax was similar to overloading functions in other languages, but I doubt that's possible due to the way destructuring & default values were implemented.
So polygamy? People have thought about it. It's uncommon because it involves deeply involved and complex relationships with 2 people, when many people can barely handle that with one (see: the divorce rates around the world).
> Auto repair.

I walk in and sign a form that states I agree to pay diagnosis fee not to exceed ~$120. Diagnosis happens, I get an estimate of the work required to execute the repair. I can't recall a time when I paid anything other than precisely the amount of the quote offered ahead of time. Maybe it happens but it's vanishingly rare.

Best part is that the repair center will triage and rank the problems and often offer more than one treatment which will vary on endurance/cost/etc. Would that medicine could offer the same!
I am skeptical about that. I think that it is closer to 1:1. I could make the argument that everyone that I know is against single payer and universal healthcare. But I know that I would be biased. I think that that is called Comfirmation Biased but don't quote me on that.

We could point finger all day long about who is responsible but at the end of the day nothing changes. I think politics at this point is more about entertainment then anything.
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It seems like ultimately, most senior managers don't care about feedback from developers.

They will ignore and steamroll any opinion that does not fit whatever arbitrary metric they need to meet, and when your dire predictions come true they will act like there was no possible way to expect them.
Jose didn’t have a job lined up in Missouri. They certainly didn’t have the money for the moving costs; those would have to go on credit. Not to mention the fact that he’d also be leaving his home, his friends, and almost everything he knew behind in Colorado.

I moved someplace cheaper to get off the street. I did that in part by developing an online income under very challenging circumstances. I was able to make the move shortly after paying off my student loan.

On the one hand, we need more affordable housing. On the other, I see a lot of potential for reducing our current problems by providing more support for developing portable, flexible income via the internet.

What I did is not easy to arrange. It took me several years and I am certainly not in the lap of luxury yet.

I do get frustrated when people act like there is no housing crisis, there is plenty of cheap housing. Yeah, sure but it mostly isn't near employment centers. If you don't have an income, you can't afford housing, no matter how cheap it is.

The way to promote that idea without being a butt about it is to provide support for people to develop an online income instead of acting like they are just stupid or lazy that their life isn't working.
No one claims US healthcare is free market. Not the libertarians nor the left.

US healthcare resembles the Nazi model where government dictates all the parameters while the private industry acts like government's bitch. FDA, Patents Office and AMA are all in cahoots with the pharma companies instead of focusing on increasing competition and given choice to patients.
No.

>Pick up any text book and before you even get to supply and demand you will go through the "assumptions" that must be true in order for a free market to function.

You will go through the assumptions that must be true in order for a market to be in a state of perfect competition. Most econ books should be pretty good about this lanugage. 'Free market' is actually more about political philosophy than economics although it's usually cloaked in the language of normative economics.
The first embedded language for programming with patterns for Lisp was implemented 1962 by Daniel Bobrow.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6106
And taxes are much higher, too, and goods are significantly more expensive as well.

We’re talking about skilled, professional labor specifically, and boy, professionals are getting screwed over there. Here in the US you can afford a decent lifestyle on a doctor or SWE salary even if your spouse doesn’t work. I don’t know what folks in eg London do. Shit’s crazy expensive in London.
A country where if you disagree with any policy on social media, your kids literally can't go to school, you can't fly and you can't buy a house.

Sure, I'll invest right away!
I think they meant that it needn't be a software implementation. You could run that rule by hand.
Check out http://try-tempo.com/

A few friends and I built this to create more "maker time" for ourselves. It helps you group your calendar events together for the day so that you get longer stretches of time to be creative.

Would be honored if you gave it a try!
>E.g. open source project like Linux kernel where volunteers choose what they want to work on

The vast majority of Linux kernel contributors work for companies who pay them to work on the Linux kernel. Many of those developers do have some flexibility in what they spend their time on but it's not like they can do whatever they feel like.
This is just scary.
>Compared to any business project, the kernel is behemoth.

The Linux kernel's ~26 million lines-of-code[1] is much smaller than the proprietary code bases at Google, Facebook, and Microsoft. E.g. Google had 2 billion LOC in 2015.[2] MS Windows is ~50 million LOC. All those companies have faster commit velocities to their repos than the Linux project.

[1] https://phoronix.com/misc/linux-2017/index.html

[2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
I'd like to believe that in a future where VR is affordable enough for most people, we'll have virtual reality offices that allow us to communicate with co-workers and have meetings as if we were actually there.
Funflow: typed resumable workflows
A few reasons, I suppose:

* No T access or...

* Other transit stations don't have existing office buildings or are equally built out, losing to other advantages as...

* No "scene" - Kendall and the Seaport have a "feel" to them that you don't find at, say, Alewife
Her "status" didn't get her what she wanted, but I can't help but feel that conversation went on quite a bit longer than it should have -- because of her status.
Taplytics (YC W14) is solving hard engineering problems in Toronto and hiring
NYSE suspends trading in Amazon, Alphabet on floor because of $1000 stock prices
"Fortunately for developers it won't be suddenly. Most land in the city is already occupied: even if the construction and banking industry could rebuild the entire city in two years it takes longer than that to get the current land owners to agree to sell their current house which works just fine for them right now."

Well, yes. That's my point: construction takes a long time to change housing prices. It's not a universal, drop-the-mic response to every debate.
I'm not sure of the methods, but it's documented that invariant TSC is constant. Operating systems depend on that if the CPUID feature bit is set.

https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/39/c5... (24MB mobile warning):

"17.17.1 Invariant TSC"

"The invariant TSC will run at a constant rate in all ACPI P-, C-, and T-states. This is an architectural behavior moving forward. On processors with invariant TSC support, the OS may use the TSC for wall clock timer services (instead of ACPI or HPET timers). TSC reads are much more efficient and do not incur the overhead associated with a ring transition [system call, u<=>k context switch] or access to a platform resource. [Device I/O]"

If overclockers methods are breaking this promise, then operating systems have very little recourse. I suspect they are not, however. The point is that the TSC is not derived from the CPU clock.
You got me. I haven’t formally studied Econ, and maybe I would be one of those chumps you would mock for failing the first Econ 101 test.

Anyway, that’s all somewhat irrelevant. I asked a question wanting to know more about “free markets” as is commonly used in discussion, and not the theoretical concept which apparently does require complete information and is incompatible with the common / non-theoretical construct.

My curiosity remains, so I’ll ask if you know of any approachable resource that discusses the taxonomy of market models and their levers?

(In the past I have’nt found Amazon’s ranking of books to be useful as they’re written for entertainment, not exploration).
> Sharing an apartment isn't "spartan", it's "normal"

From my perspective, as the sole income earner of a family of four, that's a pretty shocking statement.

I feel like I've built a very comfortable life for myself and my family, and I make quite a bit less than that.
The big question is which set of prices IMO...
I like fastmail, you actually get enough space & email aliases for a reasonable price. In todays age of $5/month 1TB of storage, charging an extra 21 euro a month for 15GB more storage and more no cost email aliases is a bit silly.

I also like the [anything]@alias.domainname.com feature. Lets you separate out user accounts into unique email addresses, and you skip the username+[unique]@gmail.com filter that a lot of places have now.

And the fact you can host a simple static website on your domain is useful.
Where was the "disrespectful" behaviour?
nice, there's 1 configuration that works... I've had 5 that don't.
The design of Hacker News operates on a similar principle. It looks vaguely like an error page. Non-developers look at a think something is wrong, but technical people stick around and self-select into the community.
There are sort of two issues here:

The first is that RCS is a flawed specification with inappropriate features for the modern world and shouldn't be adopted. It's being pushed hard by carriers, among others.

The second is that somehow Google has ended up as the punching bag for this gripe for the crime of implementing RCS. I mean... no, that's not really fair (and most of the folks here really should know better). But... meh. I mean, they still implemented it.

People need to stop looking to carriers and software giants to secure their privacy. There are multiple good options in the open source world for secure messaging. We need to be pushing those.
> everyone is insured by the State and pays the same prices.

Not in Germany, just to name one high income, developed country.
Haha. Do you think live coding is cool enough a feature to move to a particular language?
I think your argument is logically correct, but you are using numerical assumptions that are off by one or two orders of magnitude. Your typical successful algorithmic trader is probably flipping their metaphorical coin 1,000,000 times, and getting 520,000 heads. Each individual trade may only be slightly profitable, but there is often no statistical ambiguity about the effectiveness of the strategy.

Individual trading strategies often become less effective over time, though. Whether this kind of success can be sustained at the level of a trading firm over many years is an entirely different question. Whether they can beat the market after fees is a third, also entirely different question.
I tried some HFT between altcoins but order latencies killed my margins. Had a few days with up to 6% profit (per day) but net loss was 10%, mostly due failed attempts, bugs and transaction fees.

It felt just like gambling and ate my life away for a few weeks
How so? I'm not seeing a difference.
I'd like to, but the original was from "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal" by Ed Post: http://web.mit.edu/humor/Computers/real.programmers

You would be better off asking him about the veracity of the stories.
I'm not saying people should rush to do this even if they aren't comfortable with it. I'm saying that whoever is comfortable with it will have a huge financial advantage over a struggling two adult family.
Unrelated to managers, this is why I have trouble doing work when I'm home from university: "Could you fold the laundry now...?"
At least in auto repair you have a pretty good idea how much repair is going to cost you, and when you've been in a major wreck you get one bill that you can turn in to your insurance, not ten from the tow truck, the body shop, the paint shop, the several master mechanics &c, and none of them is out of network for insurance purposes.

And the bill is usually honest. The pregnancy test for males isn't a joke, it really happened to a physician colleague of mine.
No room?
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Lasik eye surgery is a terrible example for you to pick for this. Lasik is notorious for being a market where laser clinics bought the machines when Lasik was a fad and were hoping demand would stay high, and are now having to resort to unscrupulous sales tactics to recoup their losses. Laser clinics give sales commission to their eye counselors as an incentive to get you to purchase Lasik even when you might not need it or it may not be best for you [1]. They have incentives to use deceptive marketing techniques to make you think that you need it and that it is affordable, even though the price you hear on the radio is almost never the actual price you will pay (they will tell you that the advertised price is only for some eyes, and that yours are more complicated and require more money). They will try to convince you that there are no side effects, despite an FDA study showing that 46% of people reported visual issues caused by Lasik, with 30% of all recipients stating that Lasik caused them to have chronic dry eye [2]. This is so commonplace that the FDA and FTC had to get involved to guide consumers about how to avoid these shady clinics and to tell these Lasik marketers to knock it off [3], [4].

I don't know about you, but I certainly don't think the 'marketplace' for procedures such as childbirths, biopsies, transplants, bone replacements, etc should look anything like the marketplace for Lasik does.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/04/l...

2: https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedu...

3: https://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ProductsandMedicalProcedu...

4: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/mar...
> Can you imagine any other market working that way? How much is this car? Can you imagine if the response was, "Well, it depends. We can't tell until after you agree to take possession.

I was livid when I couldn't find out how much it would cost for a medical procedure for my wife. All I got were excuses about how they couldn't do it. So many of us have high deductible insurance now. How can they not be setup to do this yet? How is it that we're not all demanding it?

Let's be clear: there's no real problem that couldn't possibly be solved here. All the other industries do it, medicine is no different. If unpredictable problems cause new expenses, then you can either disclaim those from upfront quotes and/or try to predict likely events that would cause additional charges.
The FCA are very consumer conscious - look at the threats of significant fines towards TSB for just a few days of their app and website being offline.
>You blog posts weren't even that bad

Some of them crossed the line and were no longer merely disappointing.

>claims that gay men prey on “impressionable teens”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/business/media/joy-reid-h...
>I think that enabling the user to selectively suppress parts of the site for certain archived time spans is a better solution.

But that is easily achieved by politely asking the good people at archive.org, they won't normally decline a "reasonable" request to suppress this or that page access.

As a side note, there is something that (when it comes to the internet) really escapes me, in the "real" world, before everything was digital, you had lawful means to get a retraction in case - say - of libel but you weren't allowed to retroactively change the history, destroying all written memories and attempts like burning books on public squares weren't much appreciated, I don't really see how going digital should be so much different.

I guess that the meaning of "publish" in the sense of "making public by printing it" has been altered by the common presence of the "undo" button.

Another sign I am getting old (and grumpy), I know.
> 2. Charities. You can start your own: give 5% of your income to underinsured. For example:

That's a shockingly high amount, especially if you don't get healthcare out of that.

16% of my taxes go to pay for my health care system, which covers the whole country. For someone on a median income that's 3% of their income. For someone on a top 10% income that's 4.15% of their income.

To spend 5% of your Gross Income on the NHS in the UK, you have to pay 31% in total taxes, that's an income of £75k, that's circa top 5% income.
Not necessarily bluGill. If new housing is built across most of the city or state, there could well be less thru-traffic from the suburbs into the city.

I do agree with you though that if new housing is only built in a small number of areas, those areas could very well see more traffic. A goal of SB-827 was to increase housing across the entire state, particularly near areas well served by mass transit, in the hope it would result in less people commuting by car.
How are the disks counterfeit?
As far as I understand they are functioning exactly like the 'official' disks.
Etching the brand on them makes them more easily recognizable, as to what purpose they serve. There is no technical difference between the 'original' disk and the ones this person manufactured, so there is no possible intent to fool anyone.
Nobody 'owns' a name or a logo. Intellectual property is impossible. Sending someone who hasn't stolen anything nor damaged anyone else's person or property, that is a crime.
> You can have a free market where this isn't even approximately true, of course, but the farther it is from true, the weaker the argument for the desirability of free markets is.

That's debatable. In some markets (Veblen/Giffen goods, goods with a price elasticity that approaches zero, etc.) you could say that information doesn't matter because price is irrelevant, but I personally would say that you don't have a free market or any approximation of such without at least reasonable information. Which, you know, is up for interpretation.
https://meanderful.blogspot.com

Worth a read.
I wonder why I haven't heard that repeated more often. That is not good.
No need for polyamory... in many parts of the world extended families live together for the exact benefits you mention. (For example, grandparents can watch the kids while the parents are working.)

I think a number of our problems in America could be resolved if we had less social atomization.
If your family doesn't want to live in the city, you end up pretty far pretty quickly.
I have a long lasting gastritis and would love to try you guys out. I am wondering if I should wait for the lactose/fructose/sorbit tests or not.

Another question is I already have a huge list of things I tried, can I just feed those in?
Unfortunately then they will simply move abroad to somewhere they can operate, assuming the employees want to live in those locations - and assuming the employees can't work offset in Canada.
"This is how Tokyo has funded new commuter rail lines."

Japan also runs a massive defecit relative to GDP (~250% vs our ~100% value). They spend like drunken sailors on public infrastructure.
Yes, the communications primitives line up with event synchronizations and the select with the external choice operator, but Go doesn't implement the process operators parallel, seq and interleaved. This is what the guy is getting at, without realizing it. The slightly grandiose noise in the writing kind of reminds me of Wolfram actually (ouch).
> Even the original examples had shared data. But the language didn't provide much support for controlling that sharing.

Can you elaborate on this?
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Excuse me for being ignorant, but what does TA mean in this context?
How to Turn Dreams into Reality: 8 Steps to Make Your Dreams Come True
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634
> Her position was that eyes on the street was the key to safety in urban areas.

I'm sure that's true. However, the unbelievable part was the influence you ascribe to yourself. I do not believe that you, personally, set in motion a chain of events "wherever [you] live" that "lowers crime" and causes "healthier plant life."
Here I made one for you, using just the original frames:

Video: http://alteredqualia.com/tmp/rosetta/rosetta.original.mp4 [15MB]

Mirror: https://streamable.com/l9x1o

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Extra: I also attempted to denoise somehow (with Gimp's despeckle filter), though it's kinda weird :)

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I kind of feel he wouldn't tell her because of the way she approached him initially, and then had to stick to his guns, so to speak. He even kind of admits it later.

That's not meant to be a criticism - just a description of what happened. I think his guard went up based on her initial approach.