skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I highly recommend reading Frederick Douglass' "A Plea for Freedom of Speech in Boston." It was written after he was deplatformed by protesters shouting him down while he was trying to give a speech. It talks about how he thought it was good enough that the government could not block his speech and how wrong he was about that.

Obviously Jones is no Frederick Douglass, but the culture of deplatforming/censorship is a dangerous one nonetheless.
I hope it is becoming apparent that you need more than a rough understanding of one of the properties of pi to contribute usefully to the discussion.
Legendre's constant
I am also curious about this site, too. But right now, it is still one of the fastest English site to report scandal from China, another example is this[1] one I submitted before. I've tried to read some China news about this scandal in Chinese and I thought most of the content in the report is basically the same (BTW, I get this scandal in Chinese first, then try to find some article about this in English for submitting here and find this news by Google).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16544058
I agree and thank you for the instructive clarification. Obviously banks can and do fail, so there are limits to their money creating ability. I'd like to expound a bit in the hopes of sharing and gaining knowledge.

I agree that in practice statements like the above are acceptable, but in an erudite paper like the Economist, when the article is discussing banking licenses, I expect a higher level of precision.

Part of the trickiness here is that even electronic reserves[1] and deposits are really different data types. There is something a lot like automatic boxing and unboxing between the two types that greatly confuses casual understanding of the operational realities of the banking system. When one withdraws paper notes from a bank, not one but two accounts are debited[2]: one is the deposit account, which is the one the customer sees, and the other is the institution's reserve account. Getting a grasp on these mirrored transactions was hard, and communicating that is even harder. I'm afraid I'm probably failing here too.

Edit: Similarly, creating deposits is a lot like a malloc(), and extinguishing those liabilities is a lot like a free(). I'd bet money the banking system actually is Turing complete.

Edit edit: It's also interesting that banks usually need reserves to clear inter-bank transactions rather than to meet reserve requirements. This is because inter-bank transfers (like depositing a check from another bank with yours) are also dual operations that involve both reserves and deposits. While a bank can create a million dollar loan without any reserves at all, they can't clear a $20 check drawn on their bank without at least $20 in their reserve account at the end of the business day.

[1] Reserve notes are the only form of reserves the vast majority of citizens ever hold. However Fed members can hold reserves in an online account.

[2] Informal usage
I used one yesterday on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter because the new version of the only application running there needed .NET 4.7.2. It started IE which after a long sequence of allowing web sites (tracking and not, included Google Analytics) eventually managed to download the installer. IE was already on the server. I really wanted to install Firefox to avoid all that absurdity of whitelisting sites.
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Let’s make a deal, when they start to come for the modern equivalent of a Frederick Douglass, I’ll care, and we’ll still be high up on the list with plenty of time to fight. Until then this feels a lot more like a slippery slope fallacy, and not a sound argument. After all the poem is all about how many chances for intervention were passed by, not that only ideological absolutism can prevent tyranny.

Not to mention that despite attempts to silence him, Douglass was ultimately successful and still remembered.
Haha, same. When I first used a postgres database, I got super annoyed trying to figure out how to simply show the databases and tables as I kept trying to use show and describe.
This was the documentary I was thinking of: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/death-by-fire/
But the banks are owed all the money anyways because they own a matching loan for the same amount.
But China goes around this, by harassing American tech companies which continue to operate in China.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/05/01/chinese-police-raid-u...

Even if American companies obey the law they will be blocked. Zuck has pleaded with China saying he will follow every censorship law there and still China won't unblock him.

Visa and Mastercard too are blocked in China. What censorship law did they break?
They don't have advertisers (listener funded) so they're able to sift through the news in a reasonably balanced way.

Each show also has crowd-sourced, listener produced podcast album art that's generated about an hour after the show airs live.

Try listening to the noagendashow at 2X speed to start.
Can you point to some graphs/data to support your claim regarding more extreme weather? There doesn't seem to be much actual evidence of that according to https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica... which says:

Despite the apparent increases in tropical cyclone
activity in recent years, shown in Figures 2 and 3,
changes in observation methods over time make it
difficult to know whether tropical storm activity has
actually shown an increase over time.

And this survey (https://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/trends-in-extreme-we...) says

It is therefore surprising to discover that by all the
various real world data considered here, the weather in
the first half of the 20th century was, if anything,
more extreme than in the second half. I have not found
any data, including in SREX, that contradicts these
trends. Furthermore there are no signs of this trend
changing (i.e. lessening and reversing) in recent years."
Where does it say that Ctrl-C handling has changed?
Thank you for this very well written and helpful comment.
I think it a little funny that you are attacked for this. Personally I have a hate for China due to nationalistic reasons, perhaps unreasonably. But it is good to question the source of information. After all that is the idea of a free press, no? Should we not all question the source of the information to find bias? For myself overall, I would say fuck China.
Who gets to decide who is a Frederick Douglass and who is an Alex Jones? What makes you feel so confident that you will be on the right side of history when the modern Frederick Douglass is deplatformed?
phpPgAdmin, started ~2002:
http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/doku.php

Basically a port of phpMyAdmin to postgres. I used it for several years around ~2003-5.. it's nearly identical.
I agree with you 100%.

I certainly am not pro-development at all costs. Heck, I choose to live in the Yukon precisely because it's not Vancouver or Toronto.

I hope "Africa" can see what the West has done, learn from it, and do a better job instead of just blindly going down the same path and screwing things up in the same ways.
Yeah, me too. I think 80% of incoming calls on my land line are coming from scammers. I never pick up the phone, though. I sometimes just ignore them, or look up the numbers on sites like http://whycall.me and block them in the end. It's a waste of time talking to those scammers.
When that modern Frederick Douglass is deplatformed, we can talk, instead of this hysterical “when the world ends where will you be?!” shit. If you have something more than slippery slopes to offer, and comparing Alex Jones to Frederick Douglass, I’m all ears, otherwise, have a good day.
Historically postgres was slower than MySQL, harder to manage than MySQL, wasn't available on shared hosting and generally speaking wasn't beginner friendly. Because of this a generation of programmers learned MySQL, especially as everything PHP used MySQL. As such the install base for MySQL, was quite large so there were more potential customers for MySQL projects (WordPress, drupal and Joomla all run on mysql, so we're talking about 50% of websites before talking about custom applications)
Ecstasy Turns Antisocial Octopuses into Lovestruck Cuddle Buddies
or that time he couldnt put back together idiot proof IBM PS/2 desktop.
Nice story. I (jazz musician) was introduced to the Shaggs 6-7 years ago by a musician friend. I mentioned them to my best friend - he was into them already. Yes, they had the Shaggs on their phones hehe. I became a fan. It's fun playing them to people (especially musos) who never heard them before. I guess it's a bit Ornette Coleman-ish, the childlike melodies over...uh...superimposed rhythmic pulses. But I like them more than I like him.
One way to get around this without relying on the secondary market is purple pricing:

https://hbr.org/2013/05/any-business-trying-to-sell
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> (as opposed to Contributing Editor, which means you're an employee)

It might mean that at PC Mag, but it definitely does not mean that on other magazines. In fact, at most publications it refers to someone who is not an employee. For more, see [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributing_editor
I think this tax related scam call has became a worldwide problem. I have just read some recent reports filed by people regarding IRS scams at http://www.whycall.me/204-289-3038.html. We need to keep spreading the words about this scam to everyone. These scammers are never getting tired of trying to steal our money.
Ernest Lawrence, who worked on the Manhattan Project (and won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the cyclotron), famously recommended a non-lethal demonstration of the bombs:

> At the May 31 meeting, Lawrence suggested that a demonstration of the atomic bomb might possibly convince the Japanese to surrender. This was rejected, however, out of fear that the bomb might be a dud, that the Japanese might put American prisoners of war in the area, or that they might manage to shoot down the plane. The shock value of the new weapon could also be lost.

https://www.osti.gov/opennet/manhattan-project-history/Event...
I am getting some other spam. I will say my friend came up with the abbreviation of Kazakhstani Secret Military Aptitude Police. That was not the official title, but how my friend characterized our work.

Myself I worry that I have said too much online. A person these days cannot discuss the past without giving away the self.
“I get no spam!”
More like cuttle buddies.
That is not my argument at all. What I argue is that brains attempt to resolve the problem, while computers (when they pattern match in typical ML algorithm) do not.

It is possible that brain has specialized circuits to solve small instances of SAT, and it just gives up on large enough instance. I am sure you know the feeling that you get when you understand something - it's very much like the pieces of the puzzle that suddenly perfectly fit to each other.
The way banks create money is as follows: you lend a bank X, the bank then lends 9x X and calls the X you gave them "reserves". The reserves don't get lent. If you want to know where the 9x X comes from, the answer is: thin air.

Banks count on (depend on!) there not being a run on the banks, and they count on borrowers to not default at a higher-than-expected rate. As long that is the case, the banks thrive, the borrowers thrive, and the savers thrive. If however, the economy tanks hard enough, then too many borrowers go broke, savers get scared and ask for their money back, and the banks go bust.
It is important to consider total compensation and not just cash wages. I'm assuming when you say "wage stagnation" you are referring to cash wages. Here is some data that includes total compensation: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-...

According to BLS-generated compensation cost indices,
total benefit costs for all civilian workers have risen
an inflation-adjusted 22.5% since 2001 (when the data
series began), versus 5.3% for wage and salary costs.
I still prefer chat messages, even if the other person sits right next to me. You can finish whatever subtask you are working on, take some time to think about the the question being asked and probably give a better answer
I don't understand why banks would give this bank their money. Shouldn't they be getting this same rate from the Fed? Something is left out.
Myself, I would say this is 80% correct. The bigger deal is the spectral convergence of the trapezoidal sum for periodic entire functions.
You're not alone. I immigrated to the US from Asia in the 90s. For many years I didn't understand spoken English fully. Arguably I still miss some words now and then, even nowadays, after over 20 years living in an English environment. I had great grades throughout high school and college here mostly thanks to having excellent reading and writing skills in English, since I came from a place in Asia that emphasized learning English since childhood. Listening to spoken English is not easy for non native speakers.
You're certainly right. In fact most authors actually have Analyst or Reporter. I was looking at Tim Gideon and a few others as an example, who happen to have a pcmag emails. Thank you for the correction.
You may be confusing him with Robert X. Cringely, which is a pen name.
Imagine some dystopian future where you walk over homeless people on your way to work, hear about people without access to healthcare, and affordable housing crisis across the country... Meanwhile the government spends 5.6 trillion on in-perpetuity wars on people living in tents, or 4 trillion in helicopter'd money for Wall St; and somehow the people who are working constantly--who actually create the foundation of our economy to fund these wars and plutocrats--hardly ever complain about it because their limited free time to consume the news is overloaded with partisan politics, the latest Trump gaffe, etc?

Way to be good serfs.

No way you look at it, the Fed is not managed as an altruistic institution. At the very least, a very long time ago it should have been handed over to algorithmic monetary policy... but primarily just serving the role as a lender of last resort.
https://www.fastcompany.com/3056389/why-google-was-smart-to-...

Not really misinformation, thanks for sticking up for a helpless company though.
I would say that you were very much alive, and in the moment :) ... reminds me of one of Laurie Anderson's monologues where she describes being carried down off a mountain by a fellow hiker because she was about to die (from altitude sickness I think), and the hiker told her stories the whole way down in order to give her something to focus on...
Thanks for the reply. I have edited my comment so that it is less personal. Is that enough to remove the ad hominems?

Also, there's plenty of room for nuance to judge the bias, like the other authors on FT that I pointed out in my comment. Her bias is quite clear in my own opinion, given that there are many articles by her on China in FT, and most of the content (at least first few pages) is critical of China (not just one or two).
Well nothing stops you from investing abroad, For instance Investing in Indian Bank as a depositor will get you a guaranteed 6-7% return per annum depending on the bank. Long term deposits have even higher return rates, some smaller private banks even give as high as 8-9% on deposits.
I've just been going through Siracusa's old OS/X reviews, he does talk about this a lot right back to the earliest days.
Julia requires patched versions of things like LLVM in order for all tests to pass because upstreaming bugfixes take time. This has given some Linux package managers an issue since they try to build using system LLVM/OpenBLAS/etc. with the known bugs. I agree this does cause some distribution problems, but as a scientist and mathematician I do like that the standard distribution of Julia uses the most numerically correct versions (as of current knowledge) of the dependencies as it can, and has a test to identify known potential issues. To me this is good practice.

But anyways, I was talking about the Julia Base library and its numerical routines. I just look at the Julia code and don't touch the build systems.
Do you mean KdF beetle stamps? that particular investment didnt end well.
Presumably data integrity is ensured with encryption, which is not covered by this document.
Contentment could just be the way that your physiology signals that your needs are met, and that there is no current need to expend energy.
Sorry, I forgot how poorly sarcasm translates over text. I completely agree, and think that the current copyright period is far too long, preventing expansion on existing works.
How is it premature abstraction if it takes zero extra lines of code to support it and have it optimized? That's kind of the beauty of Julia.
Well that or Unix philosophy of do one thing and do it best.
> The Narrow Bank would take deposits but not make loans

That can't work, not if you scale it up across the industry. The Fed could not continue to pay interest even on overnight deposits without it directly turning into inflation. The economy could not function without loans. Alternatively the Fed would have to become the one (and only) lender for commercial (and muni, and...) purposes so that it could make the interest income on those with which to service deposits from these "narrow banks". A narrow bank is essentially free-loading, and politically untenable.
I recently mostly switched to Postgres from MySql, and using Postgres really points up some of the odd behavior / 'features' of MySql -- e.g., its parsing but not enforcing check constraints, "USE database_name," disinclination to handle JSON data, etc.

Also, Postgres' documentation is really fantastic. I bought a book on Postgres when I switched, but really I could have just stuck to the online manual and saved the thirty bucks.

I like many things about MySql [as you imply, syntax a bit more verbose but easier to remember - e.g. "SHOW TABLES" vs "\d" ; I also like the nonstandard behavior of MySql 'GROUP BY' as it makes good sense to me ]-- but overall I'm really enjoying the flexibility of Postgres. PGadmin4, on the other hand, leaves much to be desired -- I generally stick to psql.
You don't think it's intuitive for a command line application that is entirely driven by commands, there to be a command to exit it? Instead of a key combination? I'm used to Ctrl+D now, but it sure took me a while to figure it out. Are we not confusing intuitive with standardized?
Juniors are wonderful, but they make messes and are a training and maintenance burden on more experienced developers.

They really are like puppies, and if your org can't take care of them you shouldn't adopt one.
Well that was interesting, and I had no idea that "getCoalescedEvents()" existed. I've been a little disappointed when trying to write drawing applications before - circles end up looking like polygons unless you add some kind of interpolation.

So today we have mouse events, touch events and pointer events. And due to the demands of modern platforms we have things like these passive and cancellable flags. Is there any kind of best practice these days on how to handle user input? As far as I know, iOS doesn't support pointer events (I'm not even sure Chrome was keen on them until recently?) Do I just have to register handlers for all three? Does that affect performance?

And is there any way to get pen data into my browser (pressure, tilt, proximity, ...)? I remember this used to be possible with a plugin (eg the Wacom plugin), but I've been disappointed every time I've looked at pointer/touch event pressure values.
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Up until recently the Fed didn't pay any interest on reserves (IOR). It was actually extremely controversial when they introduced it, but with quantitative easing it was operationally necessary in order to continue to set the Fed Funds Rate. Generally speaking Fed accounts are like checking accounts. The Fed doesn't issue CDs, they let the Treasury handle that.
I have a vague recollection of someone suggesting small bits of DMT might be released while we sleep and that our dreams are like snack low key trips.

Well dreams are a fairly beneficial things to have especially if you have some epiphany or figure out the solution to a problem you're having.

The near death thing might just be your brain dumping that DMT out of your pineal gland all at once either when your body is shutting down from natural causes or when you are in some kind of traumatic accident.
Notice the physical fitness requirements and the requirement to participate in raids?

This is almost military. Think about going into boot camp. There is in fact some version of that for this job.
Yea, I dislike the current debt-based economy for a reason.
In fairness, some of this is historical baggage that MySQL got stuck with from it's early popularity.

mSQL was a free/low cost SQL database in the early 90s. Originally it was an SQL translator built on top of Postgres (that used POSTQUEL). That was too slow (because Postgres had higher system requirements), so a new lightweight engine was developed for it.. and that's what later became MySQL. The point was a lightweight SQL database that ran well on cheap early-90s computers.

The compromises to make mSQL fast were inherited by MySQL, and they can't be easily changed without breaking the ecosystem that was developed around mSQL/MySQL.

Postgres on the other hand, was a university project in the 80s and 90s being developed on mainframes. It was always a slow moving, cautious project. Yes, it didn't make the compromises mSQL made, because it didn't have to. It used more memory, more CPU, but was more correct/safe than MySQL.

That was the same reason it lost in the 90s. mSQL was out being used by websites and other projects on cheap computers. Postgres was mostly waiting for computer tech to get fast enough so they wouldn't need to compromise their code too much to take it off the mainframe an on to cheaper computers. Postgres only adopted SQL in response to mSQL's popularity. Early Postgres was also harder to setup, another point that wasn't addressed until after mSQL took off.

MySQL was popular because of the compromises they made. If mSQL just kept Postgres as the engine, MySQL never would have existed. And if they instead waited (even a couple of years), and did things correctly, they wouldn't have beat Postgres -- which had a decade lead in development and was more advanced than mSQL/MySQL.
Agat user reporting. We actually had a full classroom of these things in 89. Dreadful but interesting.
> So clearly there is some "huge" feature that is really holding things back from running on a resource-constrained microcontroller in a stripped-down runtime. What is it?

Garbage collection and goroutines.
You could probably strip back the implementations a bit but you can't get rid of gc - there is no explicit way of freeing memory. Possibly you could ban the go keyword and run on a single thread, although you'd have to deal with parts of the stdlib that use it.
In my workplace we have a unwritten rule: don't disturb someone with headphone/earbuds. This works quite well for us.
And, EC2 does not live migrate VMs across physical hosts. I couldn’t find anything explicit from AWS on this, but it’s something that Google is happy to point out.

Is it a good idea for a production database to depend on a feature not being used when the vendor hasn't said that they don't or won't use it? They may very well live-migrate when convenient, but just don't expose that functionality to customers since they don't want customers demanding it.
Aurora announced support for parallel queries[1] for MySQL, with Postgres coming soon.

(I work at AWS but not RDS/Aurora)

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-parallel-query-for-amazon-aurora/
It's also how something like React.js works. Wrapping stateful DOM manipulation in a functional shell, made performant thanks to the Virtual DOM diffing algorithm.