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Any opinions on Cloud Spanner? How does an older more traditional offering that say Oracle provides compare to these newer database services?

I assume Spanner is what Google uses internally and now has made available for other businesses to use.
It actually costs in an entirely different way, when you screw with everybody's sleeping schedules, cause accidents with wildlife getting surprised by brisk changes in traffic peaks. Personally, I never dealt well with the change, either, so this means I have one less thing to worry about in pollinosis season. Good riddance.
I think that everything in history comes down to taxes eventually.
Thank you for that, I was curious what in CSS would cause this effect that I don't hear often about so I could avoid making that mistake in CSS, looks like it was vmin versus using em. I don't recall if I've ever used vmin, but now I know now to use it for fonts at least, or to mostly avoid it. Looks like your PR made it in too!

The PR for those curious:

https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm/commit/052c880d15a21b...
It is my experience that if you tell a doctor they can't just throw a drug at a problem they get very upset.
> It will be counterproductive for all of us if we simply dismiss all results we're not comfortable with that it's only publication pressure.

That's not what he said. Just those which "each 5 years" have completely different results.
We are working on new benchmarks.
Year-round summer time sounds horrifying, is there anything I can do to prevent it?
Bravo India! You 1. Don’t have this stupid time shift. 2. You don’t patronize your citizens’ ability
> left untouched by previous generations, is gender

Stonewall was 1969; gender-fluidity, androgyny, "glam" etc were a big part of 70s and early 80s pop. I do agree that there's a big fight between second-wave feminists and trans people going on at the moment.
Why would you expect it to show?

Would you also expect "echo something < file.txt" to show the contents of file.txt?

Perhaps you are thinking of cat or some other command, because piping things to echo is such a strange and unexpected thing to do that you normally won't encounter it.
There are a lot of cases when you don't need strict consistency and current state is enough for processing. For example you want to save requests stats from web servers. Would you stop all operations until you counting and writing to DB to be precise? Off course not. Some current number that you have is good enough for you. Off course you need to be aware of side effects.
> So where's Haskell's advanced object system

Doesn't need one.

> restart/condition system that Common Lisp has

Utility is questionable, but you could build one in the continuation monad.
I'm not convinced it works, other than in the short term. That's my problem with it. It feels too much like we're just throwing a drug at the symptoms because that's the lazy way to get you out of the doctor's office and of course pharma inc. prefers those solutions.
I think the market will rise to meet the need for alternative to manufacturer parts. Look at the availability of iPhone spares, for example. Whole screen, touch digitiser, front camera : $20.

That said, I think the automotive parts industry is an incredible achievement and I’m constantly blown away by the availability of stuff.

Btw I run howacarworks.com and I’m working on a parts-based startup. I’d love to pick your brains. Drop me an email: alex@howacarworks.com.
This is irrelevant as long as we live in a world where anyone can set up a new edge service or application -- which is what net neutrality guarantees.
Great moralisms, but most of us have a hard stop from sleep at 7something am to go to work. Others of us have stress issues such that falling asleep isn't easy, and you wake up 'naturally' 45 minutes before the alarm with a mind full of worries.

The whole idea of 'natural' is normative garbage.

Let me guess, you sleep immediately on a plane as soon as doors close, too? We're not all built the same way.
avoid artificial light after 8

To follow this advice in my location (sunset today 6pm) should I be going to bed at 8pm? Or should I be trying to read by moonlight or something?
You can't do value comparison without making dict item comparison a pissed in function or making dict values immutable. If you're doing something that really looks like a mathematical Union that will raise if there's any overlap then it's a really confusing abuse of notation. I don't think there's a way out.
I didn't write the program, and I only looked from a distance of 10 feet. On the other hand, I've seen my share of papers with "obscure LaTeX glyphs". So yes, it is really really good, and I'm undecided whether this project is a serious attempt of forgery or just malicious satire.
But is that really an effective long term solution? Ketamine is addictive after all, you can't keep doing that every few days.
Note that I haven't really researched this past personal perception, but:

This year NC was hit by a couple of hurricanes, both more severe (and to be honest, 2 more in frequency) than I ever remember growing up here, and for sure more than in the last 5-6 years.

Also, does your second comment imply that one of the 18 hottest years was in 1843, or like, well before humans were practicing agriculture?
Is it odd that this is written in Java? What advantages does this have?
DST is not in effect during winter.
Bits of Advice for the VM Writer [pdf]
No, you are most likely not, but you are also not likely looking for expect.

It sounds like you are doing something simple in a very roundabout way. Explain instead the intended outcome and many people will be happy to help.
It's being released at RSA as open source, so it's more correct to say that it's not open source yet.
Calling the European Parliament "EU Parliament" would be like calling the US Congress "USA Parliament". Not wrong, but silly.
I'm not saying it has everything that Common Lisp has - it's different.
The Polestar 2’s secret weapon against the Tesla Model 3 is native Android Auto
The electric Pininfarina Battista is my new dream car
I also have the feeling but people continue to state that it takes 15 years for products to come out in the past. I just don't see how in our day and age we see all the wonders of graphine promises and still sit here waiting for some to start coming to fruition. It holds so much promise.
Impressive how "expected" AI generated text can be.

I wish it could generate entities like "the house" and not words like "the", "a" as if they have some meaning.
Interesting, but the site made my computer crawl almost to a halt. Computer which is used for (and good at it) advanced rendering and simulations. A 12 core machine with two modern GPUs inside. Modern Web, and chrome, is a travesty.
Sadly, this is true of any tech-related job.

The entire system, from slavish devotion of following trends to bad interviews is designed for churn and cost cutting.
Personally, I think the economics will keep EVs in a growing niche category.

People in general are poorer than they were 20 years ago, and that trend isn’t going away. Outside of the cohorts if folks who buy cars every 3 years, I think the values of EVs will crater as the novelty fades and repairs are a big question mark.
This is an enjoyable overview article that highlights the many challenges remaining (regulation, battery, noise), and outlines where we are and some possible solutions. Surprisingly good, I thought. Also offers a taxonomy of "flying cars".

Many people are used to the amazing speed of improvement embodied in Moore's law, with doubling of performance every two years or so. My understanding is that battery tech (in particular, the specific energy (kWh/kg)) is improving much more slowly, at maybe 5% per annum, doubling only every 15 years or so.

Thus, we're still several decades away from electric aircraft competing directly with fossil fuel aircraft. But for many niches, electric aircraft (what I like to call PEVA, personal electric VTOL aircraft) are getting really interesting now.
Making long-lived positronium atoms for antimatter gravity experiments
>spending tens (hundreds?) of thousands of $ on apparently unserviceable cars, then opening up the high voltage systems on them with no help from the manufacturer.

Once you get to the level at which you're comfortable working on any one of the subsystems alone there's a snowball effect. Rebuilding a flooded car isn't fundamentally harder than any individual repair. It's just a bigger job. It's mostly a question of available resources (space and cash flow being the two most common bottlenecks) and motivation.
SQL access to REST APIs without coding
How to customize your portfolio list with Jupiter X
How to Deal with Deadlines When You're Still Learning
We’re talking about internet access, not free markets.
If you're talking about stack allocation, memory usage will be the same. Stack allocation reduces GC pressure just a little bit, but if your software uses 25G RAM, it won't help. There's no JVM optimization that I'm aware of, to inline object inside another object.
I honestly don't know. I found my way out through a path that may or may not work for others. I have a pet theory of how and why depression works, and what can be done about it, but I'm not deluded enough to believe I must be right just because I seem to be from my own perspective.

However, years of experience have led me to believe that throwing drugs at this problem does nothing but mask some of the symptoms temporarily, while often having somewhat undesirable side effects. I think we just keep doing it because depression is not well understood, doctors (like the rest of us) are lazy and incentivized to get you out of their office as quickly as possible, and phrama is big business.
What blockchain should I build my dapp on?
Hundreds of NASA photos. Arranged in a new and unique way. Never before you had to wait so many seconds watching sliding animations to view the next picture. Am I missing something?

Random link shows just a gray background under firefox then I have to wait 30 seconds to watch the initial animation again (ok, I can skip it down to 10 seconds).

I don't know what did they use machine learning for. What's good about having small bubbles as links instead of a clear list of albums?

I'll drink coffee just in case but I think that's not the problem here.
Exactly. So dont keep the extremely valuable stuff in RAM and reduce the attack surface.
Sound waves are often compared to water waves in this way. The water just moves up and down, and the horizontal movement is (mostly) an illusion.

But everyone knows intuitively that the water is moving horizontally at least a little bit. Some ocean water gets left on the beach or the boardwalk, or perhaps your toy or ball gets swept out to sea on the waves.

Is this the right analogy, or are they talking about something different?
Maybe all Asian scripts was not planned to be included back then?

Seems strange they would miscount so grossly otherwise.
Big fan of .update(), .extend() and similar methods here. I do use

{ **d }

but I don't like using features just because they're there.

Let's try to write code that can be read by people without having to wonder about commutativity and such semantic details, especially when you're trying to build something that's supposed to be predictable.
I also don't take photographs when we're traveling. Unless I see my wife looking particularly charming or the mood strikes me, I just wander around and look at things.

What I've found is that since EVERYTHING is photographed all the time and I'm constantly exposed to them, most of these spots to visit are anticlimactic in the extreme. St Paul's Cathedral? Meh. I've seen everything in it from every angle shot by professional photographers that have been given access that I'll never have. Every beach we visit, every set of mountains we hit, I've seen photographed and captured at its most perfect. My random Sunday afternoon visit will never live up to it. I still find some enjoyment in it but most of the joy of a new discovery has been sapped away.
> Academia has had their chance

Oh, so what should we go to now in order to try to expand our knowledge about this? What are you suggesting?
Top nation-state cyberattacks, WannaCry, Not-Petya and more
He literally told me nothing I didn't already demonstrate knowledge of in the post he replied to, implying he didn't actually read it. Providing "help" when you don't even take the time to understand the problem is not helping.
“Imagine local monopolies start creating meaningfully poor experiences for internet users. They would not be monopolies for long!”

I don’t have to imagine it. I lived it for years. As the “for years” part hints, it persisted. I moved out of that place years ago but from what I hear it’s still like that.

You have a nice theory but it doesn’t seem to match the real world.
You would have to purge your system and shower head with vinegar every day just to keep things clean.
> "I like having a bit of daylight in the mornings in the winter"

I am the opposite. For me, the early morning winter sunrise is an annoyance, and just feels a waste of daylight if it's bright outside when I'm asleep. Sometimes in mid-winter it seems like its already starting to get dark when I'm just getting started with my day. Awful!
The reason I asked the question was to find pointers to people to talk to about their experience making money off open source. I have been wanting to build tools in some domain and am struggling with how to monetize desktop based software tools in 2019.
https://nocable.org/news/whats-happened-in-the-three-months-...
Key Factors for Deciding If New Tech Is Right for Your Organization
For what it's worth, it seems the companies that have been benefiting from the not "green" tech and society have been and still are spreading propaganda to minimize the fear/awareness/etc of climate change.

I mean, look at Trump and this coal stuff. Look at how much money Oil companies spend on this. One large difference, I think, is that the money being spent by the oil giants is influencing the opinions of fewer, but more powerful, people, such as congress-persons and other political figures.

I guess technically your guess about nothing happening is as good as anyone's, but it really doesn't seem like that is the case. I'd love for climate change theorists to be wrong and actually it turns out that the Earth is fine and we haven't caused irreversible effects to the climate and planet, but wouldn't you rather we work on cleaner energy and be wrong, than do nothing and be wrong?
I am aware that it is a huge accusation. And I am not making any claim that it is. But there are definitely a number of things about this organization that make alarm bells ring.

I agree that there isn't anything wrong with a political agenda (as long as it is overt), but that's exactly the problem here. Many of the OCCRP supporters are know for officially pretending to be non-political, yet having track records to the contrary.

It's entirely possible the the OCCRP itself is not aware of whatever political agenda they may serve. From their perspective, any exposed crime might be a good thing (and I agree with that).

However, it is the absence of information I would expect to be part of their data/investigation (as was the case with their Panama Papers), that makes me suspicious of the real goals behind this operation (which might go way beyond the awareness of OCCRP itself).
Volunteer to create iOS mobile applications for a 501(c)(3) organization
It'd be great if IBM and Google could contribute that into OpenJDK. Would that collide with project Panama [1] currently under way? (Or maybe that's a goal of the project?).
Also, wasn't that the goal of Azul's ObjectLayout [2]?

If that could make it into the developer's IDE somehow, it'd be awesome. As in, the runtime detects which fields suffer from cache misses, tries a different layout, gathers data; and it all comes as fields being painted shades of blue/red in the IDE. It is one thing to have an optimized JPA object layout, but it is another to only have flat relevant data in the first place. Sort of like a database pushdown optimization through the developer, if you will.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/

[2] https://www.azul.com/presentation/objectlayout/
Too cynic? IMO the topic demands a huge grain of salt, but perhaps I was otherwise unproductive.
Game changer!
Because the World War 1 allowed recovery. The war caused trauma, but basically everything proceeded like before after that. Climate change has the potential to induce a bifurcation, making it impossible to revert back to the world we know today. Think about the Neolithic Revolution, but backwards.
There's a lot more going on than just incentives to make a product "unnecessarily complex". It's certainly a concern but many companies make it work. I judge this an acceptable answer, not a wrong answer.
I'm curious to see more about how this gets implemented and adopted, i haven't seen an option like it before.
"Mould is almost unavoidable in any (not only underground) houses with a high level of energy efficiency (in Europe those that would be classified B or A and higher, even if in my experience issues start happening at the D or C class) unless a proper (and properly calculated and maintained) mechanical ventilation system is installed."

Don't all modern houses have a decent mechanical ventilation system? In my experience, mold is mostly an issue for older houses, which tend to have lower energy efficiency. Bad insulation does nothing to prevent mold, and if your insulation is so bad that you don't need mechanical ventilation to prevent mold, it means the wind is blowing through your house.

So just get your energy efficiency as high as possible and use proper ventilation.
Awesome! Please don't forget to submit it as a pull request once the code's on GitHub.
I think regularly indoor lighting while reading is fine, it is screens that become the real problem. So many people I know lay in bed reading their phone.
Great job Progress!
> field shrinking based on dynamic range analysis

Could you expand a bit on this? Can't find any ressource about it, words are overloaded.
When I first had a kid, it was living hell. I mean, it was wonderful, and joyful (really, I'm not kidding) but waking up 5 times a night with a screaming 2 month old was effing brutal. I wore a 50 yard stare all the time, my colleagues tell me.

Now, though, with an 18 month old I do a lot better - maybe even better than before having her. She still wakes up early (6:30 AM or so) BUT now that I know I absolutely, positively, HAVE to get to bed at a decent hour, I go to bed before 10 PM most nights - 9:30 or even 9:00 is not rare (and I find myself considering it a luxury). I used to know that I _should_ get to bed by 11:00 PM or so but often pushed it to 12:00 or 1:00 (mind you in college I tried to get to bed by 4 AM as a rule - I like night).

I wake up before her even some mornings, and we have a couple hours of daddy-daughter time. We even watched the sun rise in winter; it's nice.

But before her I HATED getting up early.
They already use it for string concatenation. Multiplication would be more natural though (or, better, just concat function).
Fixing the Ethereum Fee Market (EIP-1559)
There are many, however that's not even relevant here, considering NSA is funded via tax dollars.
Why would you bring up something relatively obscure and ignore all the other major non-emoji changes?

In addition to what grandparent listed:

> UTS #10, Unicode Collation Algorithm—sorting Unicode text

> UTS #39, Unicode Security Mechanisms—reducing Unicode spoofing

> UTS #46, Unicode IDNA Compatibility Processing—compatible processing of non-ASCII URLs

I think plenty of people care about these changes.
Do you feel ok if you only sleep 5 hours a night?
It seems that this wouldn't be an issue if they had made the signature a separate file and had it hard coded to check the entire pdf file.
Grim C++ Tales from the Crypt: The Visitor Pattern (2017)
What a great idea for connectivity. Really opens up alot of possibilities.
But that's not what the word "equity" means either.

Regardless, if she wants to define a word to mean "the structural hurdles that women face as engineers" specifically she should not criticise other people for using the word equality to mean equal treatment. She definitely has no right to claim those who disagree with her have a "flawed and incomplete" understanding of anything - she simply has no intellectual leg to stand on. Put differently, there is simply no plausible interpretation of what she's saying here that isn't a nasty attempt to manipulate the language.
A hard cut of caffeine after 10:30 AM, cutting blue light (and screens if possible) after sunset, and if nothing else having a kid can do it.

Or, try camping for a few days. Try not to look at your phone after sunset.
Meant to respond to top level parent who said:

> dicts would subclass sets

Was trying to make the case as to why treating dictionaries as a child of <generic collection> with an extend/merge operation using ‘+’ rather than a child of set with a union operation ‘|’ makes more sense (to me).

Changing the behaviour of a well defined operation like union seems bad - although my case is somewhat undermined by python’s overloading of ‘+’ to mean extend.
radare2 is an other open source alternative
> 10 years ago, traveling was that hype thing that everyone neede

oh honey, it wasn't 10 years ago -- it was when you and your friends were 10 years younger. The post-adolescent wanderlust continues to cast its spell as it did 20, 30 years ago..
Here's a quote from Macaulay's Motel of the Mysteries for you: "The clustering of hundreds of monumental inscriptions mounted on huge poles along both sides of a highway was quite common. Each inscription represented a different religious sect or point of view and was placed as near as possible to heaven." (Section 1, The Motel of the Mysteries, p. 12)
The first approach is also appealing to very bad programmers who think they're good programmers.
You can’t avoid negotiating–but you can make it easier
"Character Set" is usually the phrase.

A character set can be encoded in a variety of ways, for Unicode / ISO-10646 the encoding UTF-8 is the most popular for a variety of reasons that I'm sure will one day be an exciting historical artefact for HN readers to remark upon.

I don't like the word character, because it tends to cause idiots to build software that thinks Unicode codepoints are the indivisible unit out of which strings are made, and that's no more true than for bytes. I prefer the nice fuzzy word "squiggle" when I mean the thing you as a human are perhaps imagining when saying "character" and to use nice technical terms like "pictogram", "grapheme", "glyph", "code point", "code unit", "symbol", and so on when I mean those specific technical things. But in the phrase "character set" that's what we ended up with, so be it.
Hmm. And bailouts for repeatedly failing companies.
The Digital Unconformity
I'm giving nVidia the benefit of the doubt and assuming they have legitimate reasons for not wanting to open source all their code. That makes this a legitimate conflict, Linux enforces all driver code must be open, and nVidia doesn't want to open their code. No one is at fault per-se, there are two solutions to the problem and neither party is interested in compromise.

> You said "be done with it", which means no one will maintain it expecting it to be forever compatible?

I don't know why you'd immediately jump to "forever". Nothing is forever. I just meant "a sufficiently long time". Like with Windows APIs, which still have a lot of compatibility with applications compiled 20 years ago.
This is really cool, extremely good for non-devs.

Personally, I like writing HttpClient code, but it can be a PITA, especially trying to figure out the shape of the data and what verbs are supported. It's nearly impossible for non-devs to accomplish this.