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Let's say every local government in a country operated that way - all doing their best to maximize attractions for the rich (and 'profit') and limit attractions/spending for the poor.

Obviously poor people must move somewhere, so the end result is society has just conspired to make their poverty and misery government's permanent goal.

I think this attitude is fairly common in the US. Look how many people think punishments or burdens need to be attached to welfare, without any proof of fraud reduction. Things like mandatory drug testing, work requirements, restrictions to what TANF and SNAP and be spent on.
Thank you for the recommendations - I'll be getting them in!

To be honest, my problem with her work that I've encountered so far is trying to see past the generally awful covers they suffer (I know, I know).

I try to avoid reading synopses and back cover descriptions, so having not read any of her work, i found it quite hard to discern whether I'd enjoy them or not.

Thanks again.
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One thing I don't understand is, if it's encrypted, we'll never see hardware accelerated QUIC ?

I've read it's 2 to 3 times more CPU intensive, aren't we implicitly giving an artificial competitive advantage to the "Cloud" ? By the "Cloud" I mean big provider with like (obviously) Google, Cloudflare, Akamaï ...

That is raising the barrier of entry for newcomers, is it not ?

Isn't TCP already versioned ?
I think it also exists to save money when it comes time to cash out PTO when somebody leaves.
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TLDR: One of their five Postgres clusters went into read-only mode due to an Transaction ID Wraparound issue. Restoring this can take up to several days (!).
> Following local news right now it seems people aren't even capable of "Rettungsgasse" (leaving a corridor for emergency vehicle access in traffic jams) anymore

The problem with the Rettungsgasse is that you only need one idiot to screw it up, but you often get many.

When I enter a traffic jam, I see most cars building it properly, but then I see one or two cars ignoring all others. I can understand that people might forget about it right when they arrive at the traffic jam, but once everybody arounds you do it, some just don't seem to get what's going on.

In other countries, like Austria, the Rettungsgasse is formed on the rightmost lanes, while in Germany, its on the left most lanes. Disparity of rules across EU countries doesn't help here either.

Also, for some reason, once the first police car goes through the Rettungsgasse, I often see many cars that just stop building it. Like "good job everybody, the police went through, we don't need the Rettungsgasse anymore!" even though there is still a jam. The ambulance comes 1-2 minutes later, and it has to fight its way through because of all these idiots.

In Germany the problem with the idiots is particularly bad, because while there are a lot of German idiots on the road, you also get a lot of international traffic with their international idiots on the Autobahn. If you learned to drive in a different country, chances are that you haven't even heard about this, and learning about all the different traffic rules of all the countries you drive through is a PITA.
Bloomberg is a multi-billion dollar tech company started and HQed in New York.
Sigh.

"Serverless" is the most ridiculous example of bullshit marketing in recent history. It truly took me a good twenty minutes to understand what it is supposed to represent because I kept thinking, "There HAS to be more to this than vendor-supplied CGI."

People make many arguments for designing WITHOUT portability (and cwyers even calls portability "premature optimization"). What they're implicitly stating is that they can't code to abstractions, aren't effective at coding without using edge cases, and require package specific optimizations to barely get acceptable levels of performance. If the edge cases and package specific optimizations weren't considered necessary, there'd be no real case for making something non-portable.

The fact that people can even rationalize non-portability boggles the mind. It just seems like a poor attempt at job security or something equally silly.
On reflection, that's more likely. It's certainly been our experience of houses. The London apartment was a new conversion in an old building.

I've no experience of those converted or purpose built long ago.
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Got this email just now.

- - - -

Hello,

We’re contacting you about an ongoing outage with the Mandrill app. This email provides background on what happened and how users are affected, what we’re doing to address the issue, and what’s next for our customers.

What happened
Mandrill uses a sharded Postgres setup as one of our main datastores. On Sunday, February 3, at 10:30pm EST, 1 of our 5 physical Postgres instances saw a significant spike in writes. The spike in writes triggered a Transaction ID Wraparound issue. When this occurs, database activity is completely halted. The database sets itself in read-only mode until offline maintenance (known as vacuuming) can occur.

The database is large—running the vacuum process takes a significant amount of time and resources, and there’s no clear way to track progress.

Customer impact
The impact to users could come in the form of not tracking opens, clicks, bounces, email sends, inbound email, webhook events, and more. Right now, it looks like the database outage is affecting up to 20% of our outbound volume as well as a majority of inbound email and webhooks.

What we’re doing to address this
We don’t have an estimated time for when the vacuum process and cleanup work will be complete. While we have a parallel set of tasks going to try to get the database back in working order, these efforts are also slow and difficult with a database of this size. We’re trying everything we can to finish this process as quickly as possible, but this could take several days, or longer. We hope to have more information and a timeline for resolution soon.

In the meantime, it’s possible that you may see errors related to sending and receiving emails. We’ll continue to update you on our progress by email and let you know as soon as these issues are fully resolved.

What’s next
We apologize for the disruption to your business. Once the outage is resolved, we plan to offer refunds to all affected users. You don’t need to take any action at this time—we’ll share details in a follow-up email and will automatically credit your account.

Again, we’re sorry for the interruption and we hope to have good news to share soon.
>debt

The concept of "tiny house" romanticizes a small budget. Poorer people get smaller houses.
Yes, mostly they are fun. For some of the exercises I couldn't tell what is wrong but somehow one option looked better than the other.
Let’s take Syria for example. Do you think the reporters reporting on Syria and the complexity of what is going on there are experts in foreign policy? I don’t. I don’t think government affairs reporters are experts on tax policy either. I think they interview people and create a narrative and write said narrative. They are not usually experts on what they write about. They are writers crafting a story for an audience. I generally think they try their best but they get it wrong due to pressures of the job and limited time/ability to vet things. Especially these days with dwindling budgets for news organizations.
Oh wow. That really is dark and fascinating, thanks!
I think you are missing the propose of the hypothesis step. The hypothesis let's you design the experiment correctly. If you run an experiment without a hypothesis, you don't know what variables to control for.

Multi armed bandit is more like math anyway.
It's an academic course. You learn using models and basic concepts, then eventually apply it to real data.

Ever taken statistics courses? You're not doing multiple regression analysis on real world data on day 1. On day 1 you're learning odds using playing cards and coin flips.
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This. All sushi grade fish (in America at least) has been frozen at least once. I've actually heard people say "I don't eat sushi unless I can see the ocean."

Like they somehow believe that the restaurant employees are just walking down to the beach and plucking fish right out of the water.

You can be in the middle of no-where, hundreds of miles from the nearest bit of salt water, and the fish will be exactly as fresh as the sushi you would get on a beachfront restaurant.
Per capita basis, I believe EU countries take on more immigrants than America
See - that seems like it has some validity - that's exactly the kind of data I'm talking about - why couldn't the author have brought this kind of thing up in the original post?

Instead they seemed to critique it with no data...
I know HN loves politics but I made my original post in the spirit of seeing replies like yours where it's less about ascertaining which side is "best" and more speaking about your lived experience and things you liked and didn't. It's great that you've been there so long and are defending the values the US has because (I suppose) they match those that have always been yours.

I think that's exactly the discussion we should have re: this tech/non-tech divide. Whether what we want is to help our neighbors, or live near only people who can (and choose to) help themselves. And there's definitely people in both camps and you know where you are because you live through both, like you and I did, and get an uncomfortable or bleak feeling at some point, not because of watching election talk or economic lectures.

Also I'm actually Canadian so I don't know where the thread's obsession with communism and Sweden or wherever has come from. The poor people on the bus from my OP see the same sky you guys do ;-)
Ireland - which is a mixed bag in some senses (if nothing else, work culture in tech here is HEAVILY influenced by the US) but still far better than California. Also, I don't mean to toot my horn but I may start a company in a year or two and even though I wouldn't necessarily have picked Ireland in the first place, their comparatively welcoming immigration policy (they have working holiday visas!) means it's where I've built my life.
> As the packet loss rate increases, HTTP/2 performs less and less good. At 2% packet loss (which is a terrible network quality, mind you), tests have proven that HTTP/1 users are usually better off - because they typically have six TCP connections up to distribute the lost packet over so for each lost packet the other connections without loss can still continue.

> Fixing this issue is not easy, if at all possible, to do with TCP.

Are there any resources to better understand _why_ this can't be resolved? If HTTP 1.1 performs better under poor network conditions, why can't we start using more concurrent TCP connections with HTTP 2 when it makes sense?

I'm a bit wary of this use of UDP when we've essentially re-implemented some of TCP on top, though I understand it's common in game networking.
As eloquently as they describe the houses, I feel a photo or two would've been worth a few thousand words here.
People != the market. Anecdotally Facebook usage among my circles has dropped. Most of that activity has shifted to Instagram which Facebook, Inc. owns but the general stigma attached to it is less.
For physical tools, you can make the lifetime warranty basically reliant on returning the product.

'Return your grandfather's knife and we'll send you a new one you can pass down to your kids... because family matters'
All the more reason that calling this guy a Nazi interrogator is useful and reasonably correct! If you called him a German interrogator you'd have no idea what era he from or what role he might have played. The phrase "Nazi interrogator" tells us immediately that he was an interrogator for the German government somewhere between 1933 and 1945.
My choices were nothing special: Pay attention in school, do my homework, get good grades, pick a meaningful hobby, don't drink or do drugs, don't beat up other kids for fun, read books, work in a retail store, stay away from drama, get into a decent college and choose a good major, do internships, network, pick up recommendations, get interviews at tech companies, get tech job, start paying debts, save and invest money, move and get better tech job, save and invest more money, pay more debts, keep learning new skills, get even better tech job, pay off debt, save and invest even MORE money, get promotion, save and invest TONS of money... by now you can see compounding effects are kicking in and not much can stop me. All this from a poor boy born in Raleigh.
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"readability" is such a crap excuse for or against things. Everything is unreadable until you learn to read it. Reading is simply a mapping of what you see, to internalized meaning.

Even if you accept that there is some continuum of "...ability" of these things, it's completely arbitrary and unique to everyone as to where the line between "this should be in" and "this should be out" lies.
If you avoid the news long enough, eventually you will find that your rights have been reduced without you noticing.

You absolutely can take real action with financial implications for yourself from news items - I made £1k from a single Telegraph article on how the Royal Mail IPO was grossly underpriced. I've adjusted my pension allocation on the assumption that the pound would fall against the dollar and done quite well on that too.

But for much news it's not so much "achieving a positive return" as avoiding a negative. It's the Arthur Dent effect: one day you wake up to find aliens about to bulldoze your planet, and they tell you that you were warned and should have known about it. There's a lot of that these days. I'm surrounded by people who have taken Brexit-related actions of one kind or another, especially all the Europeans who suddenly have to register to avoid deportation. I factored it in to my job change, not as a major factor, but it's convenient to be working for a US multinational rather than a company exporting or importing physical goods from the EU.

I don't even seek out that much news any more, it just keeps leaking in via social media. I should make more effort to follow local news, because that really is the place where I can find out if someone's going to put a bypass through my house or disrupt my bus route, and have a chance of stopping it.
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It's not a spoiler. Genly is male and there's no attempt to hide this or any plot mystery about it. The ambivalence is in the gender of the natives of the planet Gethen.
"Live drawing". Very cool and plenty of possibilities here. Shared whiteboards for one. But does anyone remember the flash game "I'm in Like With You" from around 2007? You compete in a chat room with 8 other players. First one who guesses the picture being drawn wins. Usually with funny words such as "Squidward". Kind of a web based charades ;)
My friend bought something similar when he got a sous vide circulator, and let me tell you... it really works. You get the perfectly cooked steak, plus that Maillard reaction we all know and love. It’s also killer for anything you want to melt cheese over, to get that lovely brown crust.

Ever had a Hot Brown? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Brown

It’s the tastiest massive coronary you’ll ever have.
This seems to be (with coincidental timing) the cause of Mandrill’s current outage [1]:

> Mandrill uses a sharded Postgres setup as one of our main datastores. On Sunday, February 3, at 10:30pm EST, 1 of our 5 physical Postgres instances saw a significant spike in writes. The spike in writes triggered a Transaction ID Wraparound issue. When this occurs, database activity is completely halted. The database sets itself in read-only mode until offline maintenance (known as vacuuming) can occur.

> The database is large—running the vacuum process takes a significant amount of time and resources, and there’s no clear way to track progress.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19084525
Well, Google is in control of Chrome as well as the two most visited websites in the world. They can dream up any protocol they want, implement it in Chrome and use it for its sites, at any pace they desire. This is basically what happened with SPDY (now HTTP 2.0) and the upcoming HTTP 3.0 as well.

IMO it's positive. We are getting free new stuff, and I actually prefer to have two incremental steps, where HTTP 2.0 still uses TCP, giving stuff like multiplexing and pipelining, and HTTP 3.0 uses a novel UDP based transport layer protocol, improving stuff further.

There is objectionable stuff like the recent manifest 3.0 version to make ad blockers crappier but this is not one of the objectionable things imo.
If they can't easily implement something as simple as a mapping from IDs to addresses, that seems less like "highly optimized and well defined" and more like "inflexible, cobbled-together mess". I don't doubt that what they're doing works well for the situations they've encountered in the past, but situations change and they need to be able to adapt.

Anyway, a shortcut to implementing indirection for these less-organized postal services you're describing would be to look up the recipient's ID when the parcel first enters the system and affix a label with the full address. That way the sender doesn't need to know the address and everything else about the delivery can stay the same.
no, I am suggesting using it based on what it provides. Lag 2-3 seconds, power: multi-cpu, up to 12 GB ram. So obviously it's not for trivial cases like "click a button, spin up a lambda" but more to "upload a video, spin up instance to resize/shrink/format/compress".

Serverless has many use cases.
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In a country where sick pay is only called sick pay and where if your child is sick and stays home you still have to pay nursery but you don't actually get paid I really don't see a point in doing extra work. I still do it sometimes because it is the way I am but I don't judge anyone if they leave exactly on the hour. I am not complaining since my paycheck is allright but I can't imagine people with lower salaries and how they struggle with things like mentioned above. The whole system is broken.
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>But automation is changing the nature of work, flushing workers without a college degree out of productive industries, like manufacturing and high-tech services, and into tasks with meager wages and no prospect for advancement.

Meanwhile wages for construction continue to grow as the labor shortage intensifies. Something doesn't add up.
That's a good point. I completely understand clients MUST use TLS. On the server side though, a workflow I really like is to have a pass-through proxy that terminates TLS so I don't need a TLS stack in each one of my apps. This is a pretty common pattern so I'm sure libraries will allow for http3 without TLS -- who knows though, maybe I'm a crazy eccentric heathen.
Sam O'nella has a great video on him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYHDj2sB-rc
It also isn't connected to the value the job brings to society, or even to the long-term impact on the market economy.
the barbaric US already has forced redistribution of wealth.
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If your client or server has support for key log files, Wireshark can deal with TLS quite well. In fact, this is usually how I debug my QUIC implementation.
That's a lot of jumping to conclusions. A simple "Hey guys, the server seems to be down, not sure if you're aware. Can you let me know when it's back up so I can submit my request, as intended?"

Shows understanding, shows willingness to reach out and solve problems, shows ability to delegate responsibility.
I currently work for a multinational with an unlimited vacation policy and it's pretty obvious people in places where PTO is protected by law (i.e. not the US) take far more.

It's also yet another way to ensure people who know they can just walk into another job (or that they won't get fired/laid off/never promoted) take loads of vacation, while people who _really_ need to be sure they stay employed or who might be having a harder time at work are always afraid to ask for it.

Buddy of mine worked for a company with unlimited PTO until recently. He would take 2, 3 months off because, as he put it, "I had them over a barrel" (he is extremely good at what he does). His colleagues, for the most part, did not.
I lived in a 600sqft studio apartment for ~5 years with my wife. For the last year of it with our oldest daughter.

I found that size of house to be pretty great.

Then we found out we were having twins. Now we live in a 1200sqft townhouse, which is also pretty nice.

It seems plenty big for what we need. The thing that always amuses me is that all our relatives are wondering when we'll move into a "real" house. Apparently this one is just a "starter" and too small for longer term living in their eyes.
> but I cannot train my brain to intuitively view that line as it will be interpreted.

I... don't believe you. "Will not", "refuse to"? Sure. But "cannot", no.
Have you seen the prices of co-living spaces? When it was called "flatmates" it used to be half the price. Tiny homes is just the next step.
I think you're creating a false dichotomy: either you accept a large gulf between those who have/have not and innovation or you create a society with a more even distribution and no innovation. As I read comments to socio-economic posts from people in various parts of Europe, it seems as though Germany, France, etc. are developing a middle way.

As a native to the US, I think we really need to pay more attention to the middle way. We could use a little more social harmony.
It seems extremely helpful to me. It immediately tells us that this guy was active somewhere between 1933 and 1945 and not, say, an interrogator of Cold War spies in the 1970s, or someone who worked under an 18th century Prussian king or whatever. It also immediately emphasizes the contrast between "the value of kindness" and the culture brutality that would have been all around him.

Maybe he wasn't actually a member of the NSDAP but if you insist on reading "Nazi interrogator" as implying party membership, I would suggest it is you who are insisting on a weird and unhelpful meaning.
If I am reading this right, it looks like you are agreeing with me? We both think that centralized service managers are good, and are consistent with Unix way; and having each daemon implement chroot and logging manually is bad.

Re "nosh": this looks pretty good. I like that it can read systemd's unit files as well -- this means it provides a feasible systemd alternative for those who don't like systemd, but are not ready to rewrite all service files manually.
I don’t believe so. mdBook is a port of gitbook, and I believe it was made with that.
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Interesting topic to base a newsletter on- but do you think deepfakes are going to keep evolving? Having seen deep portraits a while back I struggle to see how they could get much better.