skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In the U.S. the class into which you are born determines the class you'll reach more than any other factor. Overwhelmingly. It's not even close.

Who would downvote this, the data isn't even remotely controversial.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/01/economi...
All infrastructure migrations are “kind of a lot”.

People aren’t using the same frameworks and infrastructure they used 10 years ago.
Actually, addicting is considered an acceptable form of the word; https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/20327/whats-the-...

...wait a minute.
The first novel was most certainly not in the 11th century.

There's still a published Roman novel, the metamorphisis. And there were others which were lost.
But the main problem is that he thinks UUIDs are supposed to be random when they're not - their only guarantee is uniqueness. MySQL uses (IIRC) V1 UUIDs, which combine a MAC address with time, while only V4 UUIDs are random.
Has performance been looked at on the database side at all?

While picking apart the Synapse database, I noticed some design choices that would cause very significant performance hits, particularly the use of string keys everywhere.
Jefferson was 80 when he wrote that, so the context is a little different than what people are discussing here.
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The syringes at the park are a direct result of drug policy. Perhaps the person had social/mental problems before becoming an addict. Why not divert resources to making life more livable for more people rather than cages that do not fix anything?
Right, just throw everyone in jail. The true American way.
> If you used UUID() for data that is supposed to be secret (like passwords)...

Since when someone on earth has recommended something like that?

UUIDs are time/mac address sensitive. They have version info within. They make an awful, guessable secret. It's just that: An unique identifier across the globe and not just your database.
Ehm, this is just a fundamental misunderstanding. UUIDs are not and are not supposed to be random. They are not even unique. They are just reasonably likely to be unique enough for most purposes.
Yes. There are a few advantages to offering a money-back guarantee for your product. Especially for a one-time digital purchase:

- As you correctly assume, conversions will be higher with a money-back guarantee than without (although you do have to make it obvious that there is one in your marketing)

- More importantly, unhappy customers will get their money back either way. If you don't offer a refund, you'll just have customers making charge-backs via their credit card provider. These chargebacks are pretty much impossible to combat for digital products, and can cost you $15-$100+ on top of the refund per chargeback.

Even worse, too many chargebacks can lead to your payment processor freezing/closing your account.
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Waaaay back in the day, when I was running my game development company [1], I put that on the website - an unconditional, no questions asked money back guarantee. As you said, nothing stopped customers from keeping the game. However, in 10 years or so selling games, only a handful of people ever asked; and I complied, of course.

Focus on the customers who _are_ willing to pay. Invest the time and energy you'd spend fighting pirates, fraudulent requests for returns (as defined in this post), etc, in making a better product.

I do have some really fun stories about antagonising the pirates - but do it as a hobby, not as part of your business strategy.

[1] http://mysterystudio.com
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This is quite funny. Anyone who has used UUIDs for a while realizes that they tend to cluster. Relying on them for randomness is effective as the old xkcd joke: https://xkcd.com/221/.

They are certainly useful for creating unique id's, but for randomness? No.
...I'm not?
UUIDs (of all versions) are guaranteed to be unique. They are not guaranteed to be uniformly distributed.
How do you know most of the time they aren't lying?
Do you ever need to update your servers to a newer version like say 2016 or now 2019? There are definitely issues on using say old VB6 libraries when you need to upgrade your severs from 2008 to 2019. Not to mention using those old technologies if you do have a new feature or change you end up with an unmaintainable mess. I am MSFT stack programmer, but to claim there are no issues and you just need to patch a server is flat out wrong.
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Ask HN: Does an academic body in EU/UK offer year or less deep learning studies?
What your experience with this? there are tons of similar courses online but Im looking for something I can go to.
Thanks.
You do know a lot of trade people either have a truck stipended or if they are self employed the business pays the bill. My friend is an electrician on commercial sites. He gets a $600-$700 truck stipen from his employer.
> And if everyone is entitled to the same portion of the pie, what’s the incentive to work harder?

Huge strawman. Who's arguing for total and absolute equality of our outcomes?

I live in one of those "safety net" countries. We aren't all entitled to the same share of the pie, it's just that hard-working people don't have to go hungry or work 2 jobs just to get by, or at least not that often. People can get a very good and valued education without going into debt, and cancer doesn't make you go poor.

I get a greater share of the pie than most of my friends, because I was wise at choosing degree, and worked harder at it, and also I was lucky enough to be born with some mild gifts. But when friend's parents get sick, the families don't have to go into debt to get a great treatment.

I can't be expected to know how the economy and society will change, and whether they will leave me stranded after a bubble bursts or something. We can't all be great economists; not that they get it right either. I'll work my ass off to avoid that, but I'm glad to know my compatriots have my back (to some extent), as I have theirs now.
Weekendavisen, it’s a Danish paper though.
if the safety net was too comfortable I doubt I’d have ever felt the need to climb out of it

Americans have been conditioned into accepting a staggering amount of abuse and into perpetuating that abuse.
Great eassy. I read a few of her novels last year (Left Hand of Darkness, the Dispossessed, and some of her Earthsea novels). What struck me is even with the amount of effort that goes into building her worlds, she turns her lens back on her characters near the end, with them either figuring out something about themselves or how they relate to other people.

The "fate of the world" gets evoked a lot in popular fantasy/scifi nowadays but I really appreciate the way she chose to make her protagonists the final focus of her narratives. Don't want to spoil anything ;) so I'd encourage anyone that's interested to seek her work out.
Everything is copyrighted by default?
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Anyone who has used UUIDs should be aware that there are different UUIDs. In fact, UUID3,4 and 5 are all generally random. UUID4 depending on the quality of your RNG and 3 and 5 depending on the quality of the input data.
I don't really need access to your database unless there's an emergency and I need to make bugfixes. At the beginning if there is a need to get to know each other more first I can just get read-only access to your code and be around on calls.
They've always made one. It's lead acid but has more than enough range for a day of work at the farm. Weight just helps with traction. Recent models have the charger on the car so you just need a place with an outlet. There are plenty of tire options out there too. I bought it with turf tires and replaced the rear ones with some nice offroad tires. It drives through pretty much anything now. Here are the ones I got:

https://www.carlislebrandtires.com/our-products/product-deta...

There are plenty ATV choices that fit but ones with high loading ratings are needed to support the car and the load.
This would be the case where you'd find the strongest effects.

Talk of tribes not having words for time has not been substantiated. Time is a very useful concept no matter how you are living.

It is true that there are tribes without number words, and indeed they don't know how to count and have trouble differentiating quantities above like 5. This is the most dramatic Whorfian effect I know of. Paper: http://lchc.ucsd.edu/mca/Mail/xmcamail.2014-12.dir/pdf2Yb7JA...

(But if you put Westerners through verbal interference, so they can't count sub-vocally, their behavior patterns look similar!)

And there are languages where direction is always expressed in terms of an absolute north-south-east-west grid rather than relative left-right: the Whorfian effects from these languages are more controversial.
The theory is actually quite different, even though Pijul and Darcs behave in a similar way on many examples.
Seriously? That already is happening. Look at the opioid crisis and fentanyl.

This is about not taking a clear public HEALTH issue into a criminal justice one.

Why do so many Americans think we can jail or kill our way out of every single problem?
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Ask HN: How to keep your side projects going after you die?
I have a couple side projects that generate income without much interaction beyond paying my hosting bills and keeping packages updated. This doesn't require much technical knowledge, but is likely beyond what any of my next of kin would be equipped for.

I've made some arrangements on the financial side to ensure that ownership transfers properly and automated payments so long as income > expenses, but things change and minor manual modifications will doubtless be necessary at some point in the future.

Is there some service where I can pay someone with technical knowledge (and ideally a fiduciary duty) who if given credentials for my hosting providers and servers, will make sure that the website stays up for as long as possible?
There are a few things that the article doesn't mention that have impacted the weight of mirrorless lenses over time.

Initially, micro 4/3 systems (and to some extent the other mirrorless systems) were mostly kit lenses and standard primes. Both of which tend to be largely plastic construction. And primes tend to weight less for a given focal length and quality than equivalent zooms.

More recently, "pro" level lenses have been made available in micro-4/3. These tend to made of metal instead of plastic, driving up the weight. And, to keep fixed aperture values, the lenses are physically larger. So, weight goes up.

Then, an interesting side effect of this... a heavy lens on a light body is awkward to handle, so bodies have gotten a bit larger over time as well (plus feature creep). See Olympus' new EM1X, which as the vertical grip and 2nd battery compartment build into the body (vs the EM1, which has both as add-on accessories).

Personally, I like the variety. I have two micro-4/3 bodies (smaller rangefinder-style EP5 and larger SLR-style EM5 mkii) with assorted lenses - primes, pro-level standard zoom, and a mid-level telephoto (physically longer than the standard zoom, but lighter because plastic). I can mix and match for any occasion - if I know I'll be inside in low light, I just take the EP5 and the 17mm prime. Vacation - I'll pack both bodies and 3-4 lenses, but on any given day, only carry a subset. Etc.
You don't even need a bot. Just pay people to do it. It works in every other industry.

Google is too big is no excuse.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...

V4 UUIDs are supposed to be random.
> If you are even more like me, you will think that this is like the difference between /dev/urandom and /dev/random

/dev/urandom does not produce such non-random results; the comparison is rather far-fetched. /dev/urandom is suitable for virtually all tasks, including cryptography[1]. It's the same as /dev/random on various BSDs, even.

[1] https://www.2uo.de/myths-about-urandom/
Sure, but it could be a pitfall that someone else could fall into. I don't really ever use MySQL, but I didn't know about the UUID stuff.

There are a million things that get posted on Hacker News that are "beginner level". How many tutorials have we gotten about Rust on here? I don't think that's a bad thing.
This is basic price curves - make more affordable housing for the underemployed, people come to you for it or stay for it. Just like most anyone I know prefers buying the cheapest tolerable toilet paper or dropping the price on a fast food meal attracts more customers or buying certain meats and veggies at the grocery store because they're cheaper that week.

I don't see why this wouldn't also apply to low-income housing demand in this case - it's a fairly well proven economic model and if you want to say it's false in this case, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect at least a semblance of evidence.

Given that this model demonstrates the issue as well as the lower tax contributions based on property taxes and higher demand for social services in low income areas, well, it seems like a reasonable model.
You still support crime syndicate with your money. You still have to deal with shady characters in the dark streets. You still have no clue what you are buying, the potency, what is it mixed with. When you travel, you have no clue where to go.

Decriminalization is a half-assed step from horrible situation, but its still a bad and unfair situation. We can do better once we recognize that some substance is not the end of the world (like weed recently).

Personal example - a friend brought from US a vaporizer with weed oil inside. Its much less health-damaging compared to usual smoking - even compared to plant vaporizers, the potency and effect is predictable, you know what to expect. This is how things improve when market is legal, in just couple of years. And this product is illegal everywhere else, including Amsterdam...
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If you're a refugee and someone posts that, how would you feel? Would you consider it a personal attack? Someone challenges your very existence in a place you escaped to only because the circumstances you came from were so dire you felt you had no choice but to uproot your life and leave the land you were born into...and that's not personal?

You can hold whatever selfish, "fuck you, got mine- try being born into better circumstances next time, losers!" opinion you want. Your free speech doesn't mean everyone else has to listen intently and earnestly and keep themselves from thinking you're being an a-hole for holding the opinions you do. It also doesn't mean some private social media outlets can't tell you to piss off for posting them in a forum about metal music. There are plenty of places online where you can post such an opinion and be back-slapped and congratulated; lamenting that one takes a preemptive stance against opinions you hold is pretty tender for one who takes such a cold-hearted stance against refugees.
How about following news in order to be an informed citizen, who makes informed choices about how to vote, what to protest and what to support?
this is my money back guarantee for my workshops[1]

>If you state after the workshop:
>
>that you care less about SEO now - and
>that you learned nothing new - and
>that your understanding of SEO has not been improved - and
>that you have the feeling that you have wasted your time
>then i will not take your money! I will even invite you for lunch that we can talk about why i failed you.
>Note: that's a logic "and" (think &&, not an ||)

i never had to pay anything back and it takes some preasure out of the investment - if it's a private person wher the invested money matters. i got some positive feedback for it and it's another marketing opportunity.

for books sold over the internet there is a 14 days money back gurantee anyway in the EU, but nobody ever used it anyway [2]

[1] https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/workshop

[2] https://www.fullstackoptimization.com/b/understanding-seo
> Rhetorically, there are more similarities than differences.

Nobody reads Heinlein for the beauty of his prose, but Le Guin is frequently held up as one of the great stylists of the genre.
Using C# in PHP projects and vice versa
That's because the UUIDs returned by mysql are documented to be version 1 which are based on timestamp and node (mac address often enough). Of course they are not random.
The general rule is that you should get to the outer lane once you are at the exit previous to yours. If someone stayed on the outer lane the whole time and you have to cut them off, it's their fault (obviously, you still have to pay attention and let them pass if you can't cut them off safely, but they are the problem, not you).
>Yeah, Netflix's opinion is to use Amazon as little as possible.

This is simply untrue. Everything but their CDN uses AWS.

>Their critical infrastructure (the CDN) is not anywhere near the slimy grip of AWS.

The streaming website and app aren't critical infrastructure? Databases containing all of their business and customer details aren't critical infrastructure? Encoding content so it can be delivered by the CDN isn't critical infrastructure?

That's like saying I don't trust Ford because I buy Michelin tires while I drive a Fusion.
This.

The marginal increase in salary that you might get moving to SF is almost guaranteed to be dwarfed by the net increase in cost of living from moving from virtually anywhere in the country to SF. Therefore net income actually goes down.

I understand the numbers seem like they look good ("omg $150k is higher than the $100k i'm making in smaller city X!), but the BATNA isn't really a BATNA, as the market dynamics are different...it's almost like propaganda with no factual basis at this point.

I'd take my fewer work hours (due to easier commute,) nice take-home, a house, etc. over an SF offer any day.*

*Everyone has their price, and sometimes the argument doesn't hold if the offer is _crazy_ high to make the argument above false...but that's the rare exception, not a rule.
I wish the Amiga had a similar development community.

Unlike EmuTOS, AmigaOS is still closed, proprietary code.

Unlike Hatari, we've got winuae (windows-only) and a bunch of feature-cut, special purpose and/or abandoned ports to other platforms.
Re-learn? Everything you described still happens regularly despite decades of warring against drugs (and even prohibition!).

> a father who is drunk/stoned all the time isn't much good to a family.

Have you ever wondered why they're drunk/stoned all the time? They're not a drunk because they're a drunk. They're a drunk for different reasons. They're depressed. They're not satisfied with their life or themselves. They're hurting. They're scared. They're angry. There's a reason for it and it's not because they can buy alcohol or drugs.
It's also ridiculously easy to use. When his friend left their matrix riot chatroom for lent, this guy made a textgenrnn chatbot out of his friends chat history on Matrix. For the people looking for a demo, it's a pretty good start.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hRVVn-8CzXE
Sadly their demo site is down due to operating costs.
They suggest checking out https://paintschainer.preferred.tech/index_en.html but it's hilariously bad for photos as it cartoons them.

colourise.sg is interesting, though the demo photos I've thrown at it haven't come out amazing. I like the fact they make it clear it's attempting to go for plausible rather than accurate (that seems to match my results).
That filter is exactly what makes it valuable to me. Financial news still has to report political news if it has real-world impact on the economy, or a company or a politician of sufficient import.

So watching CNBC, for example instead of NBC Nightly News, you'll still know all about the government shutdown or the possible resignation of the governor of Virginia or a winter storm shutting down half the country, but you won't have to endure endless, excruciating segments about a kid smiling at a guy beating a drum.
I'm not sure what your argument is. The "Oh, we already tried that? whoops" seems like you just wanted to say something snarky. We have plenty of laws in place around regulating the societal impact of alcohol. Minors can't drink, you can't drive under the influence, there's very strict limits on drinking in public in many places. These are all things in place to address societal concerns.

Those boundaries are likely very different for a drug that detaches you from reality, and discussions around that are where concerns can be met and middle ground can be found.
It seems like these laws often slowly follow what is already taking place unofficially. It makes sense because most police really don’t want to be spending time on pointless arrests.
>>Read fewer articles and more books.

This is a weird argument.

His point is news is a stupid fodder to feed your mind with and its better to get indulged with books like literature, biographies, self help books et al.
> Would it be appropriate to request we stop referring to a mastodon (software) instance as anything other than an ActivityPub/OStatus instance

No. Branding and specialization is important. I mean, you can stop talking about its killer app if you want ActivityPub to die.
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Leaving a blocked lane early reduces the storage capacity of the road.
In slow traffic/traffic jams the rule is to use all lanes possible until very close to the blockage.
If you break that rule the jam becomes longer and could affect a crossing upstream.

Jumping the queue counters this negative effect and is the correct behavior (in slow traffic).
Dammit, I was so damn proud that I knew this xD
If you expropriate the entire wealth of the top 0.1% (6 trillion dollars), it will last around 2-3 years (social security/medicare/medicaid expenditure of the US is more than 2 trillion dollars per year). The "relatively few people" are of course rich, but they are, as you have said, relatively few. Most of the taxable money are made by the middle class.
It's funny that the article states it doesn't happen in the UK, but according to the highway code you are are supposed to. Many people seem disagree with that and like to queue but should read their highway code https://www.rac.co.uk/drive/advice/driving-advice/zip-mergin...
Well, almost everyone knows about the existence of Sumerian poetry, or at least of the epic Gilgamesh (which should have been at least mentioned in school).
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> I think the new generation is caught up in quizzes that stir up emotions, and psychological tests that determine whether a giraffe is your spirit animal.

You're definitely wrong on this point (and as others have said, it's a condescending sentiment).

This has always happened. I'm 28 and online quizzes and tests were _very_ common when I was school age.

My parent's generation also took lots of quizzes and tests, albeit they were in newspapers and magazines (and you had to tally up your own results).
Was not on Reddit, did not understand.
I felt otherwise. I’ve read several fantasy authors I liked (Tolkien, Martin, Jemisin, Gaiman, Pratchett, Rowling, Sanderson, Lynch, Rothfuss, Jordan) and ended up reading all the books they wrote. I was underwhelmed by the first book of the Earthsea series and abandoned it. I think it’s partly that some of elements of the story inspired later authors (to wit, Paolini) so this doesn’t feel original just like Seinfeld Isn’t Funny. But also, the characters were so boring and one dimensional.
I'm curious how you plan to have a less-than-40-hour workweek while still having living wages? It's going to be hard enough to get the capitalists on board with just paying people who do work they find inferior enough to live.