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I think it's debatable whether that's a bug in PostgreSQL, an underspecified interface, or a bug somewhere else. A more interesting question is how we get it fixed.

The new Linux errseq_t design makes sure that every fd that was open before the error will see the error, and that at least one fd will see the error even if it happened when no one had it open (but only for as long as the inode doesn't fall out the cache). Before errseq_t came along, Linux was undeniably buggy here, since the AS_EIO flag could apparently be cleared in various ways and userspace could never be told about it.

The things achieved so far since the PostgreSQL community first crashed into this problem (thanks to the efforts of Craig Ringer):

* PostgreSQL now panics on failure, in cases where it previously retried (unless you set data_sync_retry = on, which should be safe on eg FreeBSD, though I don't think there is much point in it so the setting was included just as a matter of principle, when rolling out such a drastic change)

* Linux now reports errors to at least one fd in versions new enough to have errseq_t (in addition to reporting it in every fd that was open at the time); that came out of discussions between Linux and PostgreSQL people about all this

* There have also been changes to OpenBSD, though I'm not sure what exactly

* PostgreSQL hackers are working on a plan to make sure that file descriptors are held open until the data is synced, so that there is no reliance on the error state surviving in the inode cache during times when it's not open (this is complicated by the use of processes instead of threads)

* Longer term, this whole thing boosts interest in developing DIO support for PostgreSQL (previously thought to be a performance feature)
I believe this article makes a valid and important point.
Not really, Monsanto GMO roundup ready crops are crops specifically modified to be able to take larger amounts of their roundup pesticide, leading to more chemicals being sprayed on our food.
Reminds me of this:

https://www.uky.edu/~eushe2/Pajares/moral.html
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The article is linked from the OP here.

OP is narrowly focused on a particular one out of fourteen companies under investigation for unclear reasons. They don't say whether they've tried similar analysis of any of the other form comments. If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say they expect more clicks here than with a more in depth investigation of everyone involved, for reasons left as an exercise to the reader.

>Astroturf exists and is a problem on all sides, yes, but this specific instance is far beyond the pale. Which is presumably why it merits this year-long investigation.

14 organizations are under investigation, not just one.

>But also beside the point. CQ claims they vetted their submissions for "questionable submissions".

And also gives a few examples, all of which are trivial to bypass, and all of which are automated, so it's not clear why you'd think they are manually looking at any of these before submitting unless it fails the automated tests.
Nail on the head here. The US increases the military budget year over year yet soldiers pay does not increase.

Instead the president looks to raid funding for military housing for his own boondoggle.
> Heat pump water heaters exist.

Yeah I just put one of those in, mostly because I didn't want to run a gas line. And feel a lot more competent running a 30amp circuit than cutting and sealing a hole in the roof.

Works fine.

Also friend in Florida says she has a heat pump with an air handler. It produces heat in the winter and cooling in the summer.

Not the end of the world.
Journalists always simplify things to the point they become meaningless.

But avoiding DOM layout and its performance issues was relatively innovative at the time. It wasn't unheard of, but no one had really turned it into a framework like they did.
This is something I know well, since I prefer to keep quiet about x political opinion at work. Since if I'm not perfectly in the expected mold, it could sour relationships critical to my career.
Maybe you can come down to New Orleans and explain this to our bought and paid for City Council that can't seem to understand the sentence "Peakers will be stranded assets by 2025"
It did used to be true. Windows 10 and its adoption of no-QA and "our time is worth more than the users'" parts of open source culture put an end to that.
> people from different backgrounds and walks of life would live and work together at least once in their lives.

I have to disagree with this one. Rich kids would be butter bars and everyone else enlisted. They would probably also get to go to college first since you need a degree to be commissioned. Also, it would likely eliminate the only guaranteed escape hatch for non-wealthy people to finish at least a four year degree without crushing debt.
Love the idea of a nerd on HackerNews demanding conscription.

It's like Rico from Starship Troopers, but instead of a self-aware jock caricature, it's a geek with unironic fascist tendencies.
People here are mixing up the concepts of registering for the draft vs actually having a draft. Ending the SSS would just eliminate the registry, NOT the possibility of a future draft. Conscription has already been ruled constitutional, and there are a million better ways for the government to look you up today than a partially complete registry of where some people lived when they were 18.
Exactly. You would get so many more benefits if you got those people planting trees around the city instead of shooting each other.
Yeah, and there is no dearth of low quality instructions on Linux.

IMHO, Ubuntu is particularly bad about this. All I can say is what I use everyday with no problems.
It would introduce a very serious social problem that has otherwise (mostly) been eliminated: the use of force to make people do work. That is: slavery.

The USA has always had a culture and set of laws (back to the founding documents) that prioritizes individual volition. Mandatory (ie, enforced with violence) military (or civil) service would be a refutation of the very things the military is there to protect.

We (the USA) are really not at war (despite the problems with the executive branches' increasing power to use military force without declaration of war). Mandatory military service is very wrong and immoral in that context.
Do you have any examples? Are you thinking about California Conservation Corps types of things?
Have yet to read article, but I believe that it is always beneficial to learn how things were done. If only to gain context around way things are the way they are, ignoring anything else.
It would create a shitton of problems too.

* Young people dying for causes they don't believe in and didn't volunteer for.

* Absolutely massive opportunity costs for each individual pressed into service.

* Dramatic expansion of the US military, which is already far too large given our real defense needs and our military strength compared to teh rest of the world.

* Significant economic drag as money and time is diverted away from productive ends toward largely wasted military training. You'd be surprised at how little non-military utility there is in knowing missile destroyer subsystems.

* Labor shortages!? Try diverting ~5% of every able-bodied person's career to military service.

> Look at how the society is in countries with mandatory military service (S. Korea,Switzerland to name two)

Look at how society is in some other countries with mandatory military service! Myanmar is fucked. North Korea is fucked. Russia is fucked. Israel is semi-fucked. You have seriously cherry-picked some of the highest functioning examples out of a set that is not obviously better or worse than the overall population of countries.
I did live coding on twitch back a year or so ago, for about 2-3 months. It was nice to get a bit of company working from home on my own sabatical (aka. financial dive) year.

Overall though I don't think it's worth it. You get the usual lurkers that come say hi, and then a bunch of drop-ins that have language questions, stackoverflow type questions, or start rambling about technological choices which eventually distract you from your burning floor todo list staring back in your eyes as deep as the abyss.

Fun though, but counter-productive.
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Most of the legal related points you raise above are demonstrably false.

Nearly all of Lego's patents have expired across the world, and as of today it is perfectly legal for companies to release competing products that are compatible with Lego's interlocking brick system.

There are many manufacturers releasing compatible bricks, most famous of which (at least in the west) is Mega Brands, a Canadian company, known for MegaBloks and Mega Construx. More recently quite a few Chinese companies have popped up such as Lepin and Oxford.

Today, most of Lego's legal battles involve companies stealing the designs of Lego sets (as in, the full set design, brick for brick) and re-releasing them, the primary culprit being Lepin. Oxford primarilly release their own designs and therefore are left alone.

Your quality arguments do hold some merit though, as the design process of both the set and element design that Lego goes through is unmatched. However at least in the quality department, Chinese brands are coming close. They however have the benefit of Lego doing all the design for them in the first place.

EDIT:

Sources:
https://boingboing.net/2005/11/17/judge-to-lego-your-p.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/lego-loses-...
http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?language=en&num=C-48/...
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/02/business/worldbusiness/bu...
Right? The only reason user accounts exist at all in Desktop OSs is that all of them today were originally server OSs. Placing restrictions on user accounts is only useful for protecting the system from users, which is a valid concern on a network with shared resources but worse than useless on a personal desktop.

Mobile OSs got this right: on a personal device, the permissions model should be applied to the applications.
> Look at how the society is in countries with mandatory military service (S. Korea,Switzerland to name two)

Or France, or Germany, or Israel, or Eritrea.

The US is unusual in that it never had a mandatory peacetime military service program [1]; this is a practice that has been fairly typical in many countries, particularly European countries. There doesn't seem to be much actual correlation between having a mandatory military service and having a cohesive social structure.

[1] We have had conscription, which was a lottery system, and we even had peacetime conscription, although that was in a period of time where the US knew it was likely to be drawn into a major war very soon and that preparing before war broke out might be a good idea.
They are not working with Chinas 'NSA' that's for damn sure.
It's a nice idea but if history is anything to go by it wouldn't work out that way. The rich would just get exemptions (like the current President did during Vietnam).

Not to mention, the countries with mandatory service don't often send those soldiers to foreign locations anyway.
So we should force a quadriplegic to join the military? We should force a hemophiliac to crawl under barbed wire? A blind person should have to learn to shoot a rifle?

You said "no exemptions".
How exactly do you pay to train and provide foreign trips to every person in the country? Another few trillion dollars to the military budget?
Not if interests rates go up. I'd recommend this book by Bethany McLean: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0999745441/ref=dbs_a_w_dp_099...

The reason investment has died off even with the price of oil rising, I'm guessing (based on the book) is because of the slight increase in interest rates.
So an Frenchman, creator of he first practical monoplane, crosses the English channel before an Brit does... but the Channel is named for the English so the Brits get the credit? Nice dude...

Here are a few places for you to begin your research:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_in_the_pioneer_era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Semaine_d%27Aviation_de...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Blériot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_pour_l%27avi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%A9ro-Club_de_France

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornu_helicopter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27A%C3%A9rophile

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arm%C3%A9e_de_l...

Aside: How many American-made components do you see with big bold French labels on them? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fdr_sidefront.jpg
We had until about a decade ago a system in Germany that forced us to choose between 9 months of military service or 9 months of civil service (everything from emergency service to elderly care). It was highly unfair in the sense that women were exempt and all male with physical "disabilities" unfit for military service were also exempt from civil service. (I put disabilities in quotation marks, because people found ridiculous things that never impacted them in regular life that gave them an exemption for military service; think the chronic backpain of the sports team captain.)

It made sense to give up mandatory military service, but I still think it was a bad idea we also gave up the civil service system instead of making it fair and mandatory for everyone.
For some of us, we live in jurisdictions where all ISPs are legally required to keep all metadata for all connections. (In tinpot pseudo democracies with governments who fail to understand technology but pass intrusive laws governing it anyway, then declare "The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.")

In that case, a few bucks per month is a pretty good deal - it won't protect me if the NSA or any of their FVEYs friends get curious about me specifically, but it _will_ protect me against all my internet metadata getting bulk collected by my ISP and handed over to "national security" relevant agencies, such as local councils, dog catchers, and the taxi commission (yes, those agencies really do request and gain access to ISP metadata!)

I can and have run my own VPN (and VPN-like) endpoints on cheapo vpses, but it's worth my while/time to pay FSecure/Freedome, to do that for me.
I’m in Indonesia at the moment, where tempeh is a food, not a ‘meat substitute’.

I enjoy it quite a bit, it has a mild mushroomy flavour and a nice texture.

Consider frying it and serving with a coconut curry sauce or a sambal. Don’t think of it as meat or use it as a meat substitute, that’s setting up for failure to enjoy.
If society believed it was immoral to start a war unless you're personally exposed to the risks of warfare then there would be outrage every time it happened.

In my opinion any politician calling for war needs needs to at least have a family member fighting in real combat. If I find out they don't then I will happily vote against them, even if it means voting against my ideology.
Do you have any reference to backup that claim?
Perhaps it's unconstitutional, but there are biological reasons why across all cultures throughout history (as far as I'm aware) men are the ones who are sent to war.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but the idea of being okay with sending my mother, or daughter onto the battle field is more unethical than treating the different sexes as if they have biological differences.

If women want to apply, then fine, but I do worry about a society whos men are willing to send their women to war.
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Also, where are you getting the claim that it was submitted in alphabetical order from? It's not in OP.
On the other hand, violent conflict is terrible and contributing to these conflicts is, from at least my moral standpoint, not a good thing to do. And then after you deal with the morality of this, you get to the horrible causes of all these conflicts which can usually be traced to either rich people/companies and their {oil, gas, gold, etc} or religious conflict. Count me out of this tyvm.

Some sort of motivation for civil service would be pretty sweet though.
I know meta-discussion on HN is frowned upon, but seriously, I just have to ask those who down-voted this comment: why? Just... why? What is the problem with this sentiment with respect to its contribution to this thread?

If it helps, I think this is a reasonable point (don't try to fake the meat, just skip it - i've thought it myself often).

I haven't commented in here in SO LONG, and I know I will pay for the insurrection of asking the invisible commenters to justify yourselves, but I just can't help it because I do not understand how down-voting this is justifiable in any way with respect to content moderation.
> DNSSEC == authenticated records. dnscurve, dnscrypt, DoH, and DoT == authenticated and encrypted resolutions.

But notice that authenticated resolutions get you authenticated records provided you do them all the way to the root. The root servers on down could support DNSCurve or similar and you could operate recursively using it, or have your trusted recursive resolver do so as you in turn reach it using the same mechanism.

Meanwhile that wouldn't break the cases where you want your DNS server to modify records, e.g. for blocking tracking domains.
Where can I read about how Curiousity’s hardware and software works at a low level so things like communications still work in safe mode? Truly fascinating engineering.
Yeah, it's probably somewhat that, though I usually do most of my reading before bed and I'm still not able to concentrate nearly as much as I was able to.
Mandatory service by the government is slavery. It is anti-liberty. The government does not own the fruits of your labor.
> a lot more people would be exposed to the world outside of the US

Lol is this meant to be satire? Too bad most of “the world” doesn’t wish that kind of exposure
Whats wrong with Python maintainability ? As long as you CI and lint properly, i haven't seen much issues
Actually yeah, lots of software that was compiled for Windows 95 really does still run fine on Windows 10. Games are a big exception. What doesn't work is 16-bit Windows applications, at least not without DOSBox.
I seem to remember a couple articles by Army Generals that specifically thought mandatory service is a real problem given budgets and discipline problems. They want people motivated to be there. It apparently got fairly bad in the 70's.
You're right as well :) But I think it's the stuff we did to take it from ESP32+LCD (which there are thousands of) and make it more like a phone are what makes it useful. Not having to build your own power supply and battery charger every time you start a new project is pretty useful. Or a nice enclosure with buttons that work right, feel nice, and are splash proof, etc., etc.

It is technically a phone. Just not one many people would want to replace their smartphones with. Home phone or backup phone maybe. We aren't marketing it as a smartphone replacement. The mobile form factor is useful and not just an evil marketing trick.
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The real problem with typical Live Coding setups is that the text size is often way too small. You have to massively increase the size of the font or zoom the UI so that it's readable for the users, especially those who are viewing the stream on mobile/a small subwindow (one unintended perk of the Electron-based IDEs is that changing font/UI sizes uniformly is easy to do).

I strongly disagree with streaming at 720p30: the low resolution combined with what's said above makes it very hard for the viewers . As long as your upload bandwidth is sufficient (>6 Mbps) and your computer processing power is sufficient (quad-core CPU), I do recommend 1080p60 for future-proofing. Your viewers can lower the quality if necessary, and the exports to YouTube maintain 1080p60 as well. (EDIT: Maybe not: transcoding is apparently not always available for smaller channels, so bandwidth for users can be a concern)

It's worth noting the Streamlabs Alerts are just HTML, and as a result supports as many CSS hacks as you want (e.g. fonts/sizes/colors)
Agreed. However, as a military officer I think this a bad idea.

The US military is actually somewhat small considering the size of the population, so a mandatory draft wouldn’t apply widely enough for the mentioned benefits to materialize in a meaningful way for social change.

It would also change the internal social nature of the military by filling it with people who don’t want to be there. In addition to being a part time military officer I am also a senior developer at a really big bank. The disciplined young people in the military seem substantially less entitled than some junior developers I have worked with. In the military I can choose to raise performance standards for the people I manage, but in the civilian world if you try that people will bitch and go get a different job.
How would that work? If there were 80 women left and only 20 men would the expectation really be that the remaining men knock up 4 women each? That doesn’t seem like it would ever fit our social norms and seems like a completely unimportant point.
When I look a different Patreon accounts of people I know, where I have a rough understanding of their dayjob and life situation I often wonder about the sums.

The sums listed are often too high to be ignored, but too little to call it a job, even jut part-time. Few hours a month.

Me that would put in a strange situation. I would get the feeling of having to return some work for that, which takes the fun out of some projects, but doesn't pay the bills. (especially if I add time for accounting, declaring axes on it etc.)

Of course my view dosn't transfer to others and I understand that many people have a need for a more diverse income sources and eve low recurring (monthly) Patreon payments are planable, giving some base line, but I understand the author's point.
People have deeply held ideas about food. It's often directly tied to their personal ethnic or religious identity. Notice how many holidays and traditions have special foods, and how much effort often goes into it.

Here in the US there are people who would genuinely shoot you if you tried to get rid of Thanksgiving turkey. I don't see that changing in the next 100 years or so.
Maybe if there is a "civil service" arm of the service where you still go through basic training but serve in a social service department.
> discipline training

I would argue that teaching people about how to be free and respect the freedom of others is more important than teaching them how to follow your every command that might go against their morals.

> Look at how the society is in countries with mandatory military service

Greece, Turkey, Iran, North Korea, multiple African countries. Does not sound that good. Why not look how society is in countries without military service instead?
How about we replace both with "service"?
There are various moral dilemmas that are brought up when discussing diet involving animal foods:

1) Environmental impact
2) Animal suffering
3) Nutrition

Often times people focus on number 1 in spite of number 2 or 3. What if moving away from animal foods in our diets causes an increase in heart disease, cancer and overall mortality?

https://www.escardio.org/The-ESC/Press-Office/Press-releases...

With 3% of emissions coming from cattle, the average person could do more by driving their car less, avoiding transatlantic flights and having less children. Just having one less child is equivalent to 60 people on the vegan diet.

https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hire...

I am skeptical of any imitation meat until they can guarantee to provide the identical nutritional profile of real meat. In the meantime the best we can do is buy locally sourced, grass fed foods that are net zero emissions.
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