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> Unless your data requirements are very specific, mem only, or not adapted to the relational paradigm any SQL engine will provide you with the best and more efficient algorithms to manipulate your data in the most common situations.

Too bad that Michael Stonebraker, Turing Award winner, disagrees with you. SQL are not the best solution for any common use case from the performance perspective.

Nevermind what they do to the design of an application. IMHO less people should default to using a database upfront. At least while protyping the idea.

https://cs.brown.edu/~ugur/fits_all.pdf
As it is phrased your comment is not helpful. Besides the huge generalization (how is hacker news fake news?), you barely provide any arguments for your points. Can you elaborate on how this post is 'fake news'? (I'm not going to go down a 'hacker news is fake news' rabbit hole but am interested in your criticism of this post specifically)
Nothing against 20-year-olds, I was one. I know what I did and what my friends did. I'm no angel. But if was running the engineering team on this, I'd make sure everyone had in their mind "the driver is maximally amped-up, young, and male.
Hylang and Pymacs call python functions from lisp.
It seems incredibly stupid and irresponsible to use any 'modern' hardware systems for fairly simple but critical functions. Like voting machines, you need a chip less powerful than a damn 30 year old scientific calculator to do something as simple as count votes, everything more is just layers of vulnerability. And I would say the same for any critical infrastructure, but money and profit is apparently more important than safety or security.
Yeah, doing a MSc in CS that references a bunch of companies and open source projects... there was definitely some mangling needed to keep the uncapitalized proper nouns away from the start of sentences.
Development and operations are two very different things, that just happen to be friends, so please stop asking me to do tech support.

I’m as bad at using windows as you are, maybe worse.
A similar learning experience for me was when I was exploring Apache Calcite. That again is only query, and no storage. It has a concept of 'adapters' which, I assume, is similar to the postgres-like foreign data wrappers you mention.
> I can’t think of a time when society was this pessimistic

How can you consider human history up to this point when such details are almost certainly lost to time? Did the fall of the (western) Roman empire, for example, really not spawn generations of pessimism? Or maybe it did but those folks unable to document it? I bet a large portion of Europe was pessimistic during WW2.
It can be a bit tricky, there are a lot of gotchas, and it's generally hard to debug if you're new to it.

I've found it helps to walk through and dig into everything the notebooks are doing, how the data loaders work, etc. The Fast.ai library does a lot of automagical self-configuration, which can save time if you're experienced with it and know what to expect, but can burn a lot of time when it does something you don't expect, and don't notice it doing that.
80% of people will spend/lose money right away.

The reason people have no money, is because of the power of their habits and their lack of imagination and discipline.

Money is merely s measurement tool that reflects your captured reciprocal altruism (or piracy of course).

Tons of "poor people" regularly blow $100's/month on drugs such as caffeine, tobacco, beer or even illegal drugs and lottery tickets.

Others will extend themselves with shiny clothes and new cars.

It's frankly hilarious and apalling at the same time.

Primary reason: predatory governments who make you spend 12 years in school and teach little to nothing of finance/value creation.
An ant cannot "see" not comprehend the purpose of a freeway, no matter how hard we might try to explain it. It would walk right over it and not think it were any different than your average rock.
When we bought a house with a pool, I did not keep the existing pool maintenance guy who'd come in every week for $100/month, and neither did I install a better pool vacuum robot.

I love the 30min when I come home after work where I scoop leaves and various kinds of debris out of the water. Very relaxing.
I was visiting friends just west of Grand Rapids, seems like the industry , major foundries Aluminum etc. are polluting the waters. The fishing sucked. The locals were blaming pollutants in the water as well. The party popular in those parts isn't big on regulations. -- Pure Mich. my as#!
Well, the suicide rates were probably pretty high in the Roman Empire, and they were certainly high during WW2, especially among people who were denied entry to the army. Society as a whole wasn’t pessimistic during WW2, there was a very focused sense of doing what was required of you, which is why men committed suicide when they couldn’t fight for their country.

We don’t have a very good view on how the mood was in the Roman Empire, as most information on commoners come from a few lines of text on their burial pottery, so it’s hard to say much about that. It probably wasn’t fun to be poor though.

I can’t remeber either of those periods, and I was making a statement from my own world view, which is obviously anecdotal and may be flawed.
Some militaries use 70 series Land Cruisers, which are basically a direct descendant of the original jeep.
Nothing against 20-year-old Marines. I was 20 once too and recall some choice decisions I made, friends made, others made. It's not their ability I'm worried about. It's their judgement.
How's that a tautology ? I've worked with two people who are way faster than me mentally - just raw intelligence when problem solving - and I know one was ~160 range (or so they told me at least).

And even textbook definition of genius starts at like 140-145.

Having tested in that range and working with people who have - I'm noticably faster than most people at analytical stuff/learning - it's not a groundbreaking difference between from someone at 120 - but those 160 people I mentioned - I can't even keep up mentally without pausing - good luck if you're 100 range.

So that would be true genius in my view, 140 is like noticably intelligent, 120 is standard in professions that select for intelligence.
I ended up with a hybrid approach where Hugo and Golang templates are only for building the data (TOML files) into the required JSON for a read-only REST API. The remainder of the solution is all JavaScript (in my case Vue and Nuxt instead of React and Next).

I came very close to switching to Gatsby early on, and I am very curious to know how my project[1] would have gone with Gatsby instead of Hugo.

I get the impression that for the data manipulation (avoiding complex Golang templates that generate HTML) and for build speed, Hugo takes it. Certainly if you are working in React the simplicity of a single framework is the way to go, as you did.

I also kind of felt a little more weird about mixing Gatsby and React with my preferred front-end framework, Vue, than I did about having to combine Golang template logic in one layer (API) with JavaScript in another layer (App).

[1] https://github.com/railroadpm/site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palantir_Technologies
It took a very long time to go from single cell to multi-cell, implying it is unlikely.
Interesting, but I suppose you still need a human to verify whether its valid or invalid grammar.
That is no doubt the reason, and it seems like a reasonable rule on the face of it.

But there ought to be another rule that takes priority over that one: when you use the name of a person or company, capitalize and spell it as they spell it. They are the ones who get to decide. It's not the prerogative of a third-party publisher or newswriter to override that.

It seems like a simple matter of humbleness and deference to whoever owns the name. It's eBay, not EBay, and IBM, not I.B.M.

What I don't understand is why a news organization would feel it's their business to override that - and why it's especially prevalent in the N.Y.C. media.

It is entertaining though! :-)
Meh. Much more likely they, and we, don't make it past planetary overpopulation, climate change or any of the numerous other self-made catastrophes.
My grandfather (end of WO I and WO II entirely as an adult) always said that people have no idea what bad looks like and will not be satisfied if they have not lived through a war (or two) in their own country. We have never had more peace and wealth and yet I see people around me being more and more unhappy and dissatisfied. Possibly my grandfather was right, hope not.
Shouldn't the title be '..humanity may be the only detectable advanced civilization..'?

After all, the last two terms of the Drake Equation are all about detectability, and what are the chances that a civilization outside the Milky Way would emit a signal that we could possibly detect? Just slapping a couple of internet calculators together, you'd get about 500dB of loss from Andromeda (our closest galactic neighbor) to us, requiring a 1x10^41 watt omnidirectional emission for us to receive a nanowatt signal. This is within a few orders of magnitude of a supernova. Even if you were to focus the beam, the transmitting civilization would likely scorch planets within a couple hundred light years just to say hi.

The paper seemed to inconsistently pepper 'detectable' into the language and I lost interest before trying to figure out whether or not it included those terms (fc and L) in the final conclusion.
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The fact that there is at least one intelligent civilization in "the" universe is not necessarily that informative. This depends on the number of universes. If there is only one universe, then it is informative. If there are many universes, the probability of life in one can still be very small but it can still arise, in some universes. The question then is if there is life on our universe.
have to somehow correct for the fact that we know N is not zero, since we are here

The anthropic principle is the correction. Observing ourselves is a prerequisite of analysis - independently of probabilities which can be any low! So it is not an "independent" observation.
Otherwise we could easily say from armchair, that:

1. Probability of civilization in a certain place is extremely low

2. Universe is huge, with plenty of places

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_limit_theorem

4. Expected number of civilizations in universe (without noticing anthropic principle): 1 (at least!)

5. So take Poisson dist. with lambda=1, as a conservative estimate

6. Probability of more than 1 civilization, if we know that there is at least 1 (again without noticing anthropic principle):
P(X>1 | X>0) = P(X>1)/P(X>0) /Bayes/ = 0.718

So with around 72% probability there is a another civilization. ;)
The Drake Equation actually describes the likely number of detectable alien civilizations.
And suddenly I'm having flashbacks to one New Years eve party where I ended up flying from SF to Edinburgh and having a mate get me into it because he knew the bouncer, arriving just in time for the whole fucking place to be coming up at the same time coz everyone timed it for midnight and the pounding music and everyone off their tits and it was like that scene at the beginning of Blade but without the blood or the scary sword just hooj choons (it was a long time ago) and sure, no, just dining out mate. Dining out is the only fun to be had for young adults anywhere, I am so sorry, please tell me you are still young and if so get your arse to a large, culturally aware city.
> Stop using taps that need washers. All the taps in my house (in Norway) are over thirty years old and none of them drip. The reason is simply that they use a cartridge with ceramic mating surfaces.

Cartridges (ceramic or otherwise) fail for a variety of reason. Gaskets come in some fairly standard sizes and cost a few pennies to replace. Cartridges typically cost $20-$40 each, are quite non-standard even from a single manufacturer, and some manufacturers will require special tools to remove/install their cartridges. Plus a cartridge will still typically have gaskets that can fail (e.g. I recently had a diverter valve that was part of a cartridge leak and flood the under-sink area).
Has the idea of a patent tax ever been explored?

Basically, increasing the cost of filing patents incrementally to regulate excessive patenting and encourage companies to be more selective.
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Looks like they should fire >6% of all of their employees if that is the case. I wish you provided a little bit more detail about what happened. Either way, it should not be something that is fire worthy.

Source: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/major-depression....
Applying auction mechanisms to meeting scheduling (2010) [pdf]
You can't see other reasons for running more servers than just system load?

We are a bit smaller than uSwitch (no Kubernetes though), but we maybe a thousand VMs spread a couple of dozen physical servers and some cloud stuff.

We have multiple environments across multiple sites for each of multiple enterprise customers with multiple server roles. There are no single points of failure in any server role and contractural/legal/privacy requirements to keep data (and staff access) separate between different 'zones'. There are integration points with 3rd party partners, logging systems, monitoring systems, bastion hosts, internal CI build clusters, internal business tools etc etc.

Beyond a certain size and complexity, you need to separate stuff out to stop people treading all over each other. You need to be able to contain breakage by ideally running a single service on each VM. None of this duplication was due to people wanting a big project - it grew over time out of necessity even with conservative 'enterprisey' attitudes to technology.
> Easy solution to all this. End income taxes.

With current political and budget system, I don't see any path to this ever happening. Maybe in theory that could be a better solution (I don't know, it would need thorough analysis) but I don't see how it could happen in reality.

> You could then fund a guaranteed basic income (for citizens only),

Again, same argument applies. If GBU is a benefit for society, there's no reason to gate it on citizenship - we'd be just limiting the benefit on irrelevant metric, it's like demanding to lower your own salary if your boss' last name begins with certain letter - it'd be irrational. If, however, it is not beneficial to society but is a wealth transfer which benefits one group while hurting another, because the former has more political clout - one should argue this should never be done at all, citizen or not.
You can safely append "in my lifetime" to their musings.
I really like Hugo and use it for one of my websites. It is refreshing to get such a fast website.

Where I find Hugo lacking though is I have found it very difficult to theme. Hugo has a very particular way of doing things with sections, sub-sections, leaf nodes and branch nodes, and a very particular folder structure where having an index.md file does one thing, but an _index.md file means something totally different. This would be fine if the docs were extensive and explained this clearly but they are very light in this area and most knowledge seems to be burried in individual disqus posts and other people's heads. I am sure it makes sense to people already familiar to Hugo, but trying to grok it all as a new-comer has been difficult.

As a result working out how to do even trivial things such as listings of pages in grandchild-directories, or even just having a list of child pages with other textual content has been a terrible struggle for me. Existing themes are invariably horrendously out of date, so trying to learn from those is also difficult. To this day on my site, if you go to specific directory paths there is literally a blank page because for the life of me I cannot work out how to make Hugo display just a simple list of posts in grandchild directories. It is infuriating! Perhaps it is my fault for wanting a semantic directory structure (e.g. domain.com/subject1/subject2/actualContentInHere/ and the pages for subject1/ and subject2/ are literally blank).

TL;Dr - good but if you want to do more than CSS tweaks on an existing theme then you're in for a challenge.
I think people like the narrative of east vs west. There is some truth to generalizations. conformity vs nonconformity. tiger moms vs independence. Discussions like this always remind me of Philip Larkin's poem "this be the verse." People everywhere hate their parents. Agassi instantly comes to mind:

https://nordic.businessinsider.com/tennis-legen-andre-agassi...

The reality of things is probably not as tidy as we would like. The differences probably have more to do with thinking about the best possibilities for your child in the environment you are in. There are many dads that want their sons to be quarterbacks and many moms that want their daughters to be dancers. The overbearing parent is a universal phenomenon:

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20553556
Laziness does not exist
Why experience and intuition can ruin decision making?
Multicellular life seems to be one of the biggest stumbling blocks. Life appeared very soon after it was possible, but a pretty huge chunk of the time since was limited to single cells.
There is no difference. There is not a simple classification of some people spend all their time pioneering new things and others spend all their time using existing ones. All growth is incremental, and different people have different ratios of amount added:amount borrowed.
I think posts lumping up the many parts of Europe, UK, Canada, USA (edit: and maybe South America?) together as "the west" is not something worth reading online.
What “we” are you referring to? You and your grandfather?

A lot of other people are poor. I promise.
I’m not exactly sure what point this article is trying to make, but as a regular eBay user, these are my biggest issues when using the platform. I’m based in the UK, so some of these may not apply for other locations.

- Delivery times aren’t accurate. When I buy something from eBay I expect it will arrive within a week, but if I want something to arrive in a shorter time I buy it elsewhere. There is no way to filter listings to find which sellers will post an item today, and ship it via a method that will arrive tomorrow. A lot of listings are marked Fast&Free, but those have an estimate delivery date of Thursday.

- Too many Chinese sellers. A lot of items are sold by Chinese sellers who list the item location as in the UK, but in the description say that there is a 20 day delivery time. If I want stuff from China I’ll buy it from AliExpress.

- Too many duplicate listings. If I search for a common item where there are a few variations, I usually see the same item repeated a handful of times on the first page.
Anything can be an investment. There are laws about gift cards and equity. Cryptocurrency systems are so technically complex and overloaded with ideals, uses, and philosophies that they can be simultaneously nothing like and everything like these things, IMO. It’s not about what’s right and wrong, it’s just amusing to me that if you want to exploit this particular opinion, as a loophole, the way you’d do it is to make your cryptocurrency sufficiently abstruse.

Edit: To be really clear, I’m talking about the opinion that basically says, if your coin functions as equity then it’s equity; if it functions as a gift card, it’s a gift card; but if it functions as a protocol, it’s a protocol, even if it has speculators bidding it up and benefits going to coin-holders — basically a lot of the properties of equities and gift cards that cause them to be regulated.
Hey Ryan! I like the simple design of your blog. It is a shame that Disqus looks out of place as far as readability goes.

edit: looks like you used: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Karla.
> To bemoan the decline of neighborliness,

This strikes a chord for me.

Several years ago my wife and I baked holiday cookies, wrapped them up into clear gift bags with a bow, and went door to door at our townhome/condo complex knocking attempting to spread some holiday cheer.

We had 5 doors closed on us before we gave up.

The immigrant family next door invited us in for a chat, everyone else peaked through a cracked door and waved no thanks.

My mother knew the names of everyone on her block. But it was a different time, people moved into a house, stayed there, raised a family, their kids grew up, and came back to visit their parents. As a kid I went over to the house of the same neighbor my mother visited as a kid.

Now days? Everyone moves. A lot. Chasing jobs, dreams, hopes, and aspirations. We aren't in one place long enough to form a sense of being or community.

I'm actually tackling this with my startup (linked in profile), I'm personally sick and tired of wandering the streets of my city, not knowing the people I pass by.

It does get lonely. The big tech cities are worse to some extent. I'm in Seattle, widely considered to be one of the hardest to meet people in cities in the country. In the dozen years since I've graduated college, I have made 4 solid friends (3 moved away). Something needs to change, we can't all survive being left adrift through life.
It's not about who has or had it the hardest. It's about living with hope things'll get better.
I just bought an electric slow cooker. I leave it on for 12-24 hours depending. Does the same job without the complexity.
There is a paradigm shift between covertly assassinating leaders or orchestrating coups, and detonating suitcase nukes.
Here is more proof that I'm not promoting for MS https://www.google.com/search?q=niveageforge+pen+issue+site:...

I'm the most vocal about this pen issue, that could potentially cost MS billions of dollars if they need to recall those devices. I once posted a pen issue thread that got banned from /r/Microsoft once. https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/82ilso/the_worka...
The intended meaning was that there's a small chance of something unlikely happening quickly. If it happened "quickly" (in geologic time) once conditions were favorable, that is evidence against it being enormously unlikely once those conditions obtained.
Here you go - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPooW6tqQts
I use eBay frequently. I have only bought things, but I want to sell things, however I'm terrified of getting scammed. And eBay does nothing to ameliorate those fears. I got as close as taking pictures, writing a description, and stopped at the last step before putting my item for sale. Everything I've read suggests that it's simply not worth it to try to sell things because you have no protection from scammers.

As a buyer, however, it's great so unless you have enough margins to protect you from scammers, and if you just want to sell one-off things like eBay from the 2000s, then don't bother.

As a technology platform, eBay is an embarrassment. They released features like collections that didn't work on their production website and it looks like they got rid of it entirely now. They have a half-built API that has confusing documentation, and their APIs that do work aren't very useful. Nothing about their site has changed in 20 years, and they're waiting to die, like Yahoo. I'm surprised Amazon or even etsy hasn't been able to destroy them yet, since they're a stationary target that hasn't done anything meaningful in over a decade.