skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a phenomenal article about timezones in general that apply to any database, as well as a great explanation of features specific to postgres.

It is interesting that a timestamp without timezone is internally represented a timestamptz at UTC.

Postgres is also has some great functionality converting between timezones:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/functions-datetime.html#F...
My personal belief is that the most unethical thing is the banks driving up asset prices with freely printed money. With sound money workers wouldn't have to work so much to be able to afford rent.
Where is “here”? In the US your rates are contracted with insurers, so for any patient with insurance, a cash add-on is fraud.
They would only need to find a new exploit to install the malware, not rewrite the malware entirely. They have given demos as recently as 2018 where they have demonstrated a 0 interaction remote iphone 0day.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvakb3/inside-nso...

>The entrepreneur, who spoke to Motherboard on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk about the meeting, agreed, but said that NSO would have to target his other iPhone, which he brought with him and had a foreign phone number. He gave NSO that phone number and put the phone on the desk.

>After “five or seven minutes,” the contents of his phone’s screen appeared on a large display that was set up in the meeting room, all without him even clicking on a malicious link, he said.

>“I see clicking on all kinds of icons: email icon, SMS icon, and other icons,” he told Motherboard. “And suddenly I saw all my messages in there and I saw all the email in there and they were capable to open any information that was on my [iPhone].”
Which are made by Sony, and are receiving rave reviews - absolutely fantastic for coding in noisy open offices.

Eg https://www.whathifi.com/sony/wh-1000xm3/review
Requiring a living wage can benefit employees a lot more than it hurts employers. Stopping a race to the bottom does not leave everyone unemployed. But it takes collective action to do so, because yes on an individual basis it would leave that individual unemployed. Group dynamics are different from one-on-one dynamics between one entity with power and one without.
The loan being a benefit I'll call somewhat fair (the money lent to them could potentially get better returns elsewhere making it an opportunity cost) but tax benefits are just reaching as is the supposed value of their exclusivity.

They're a government agency - under that logic the IRS should tax itself - not all of its individual agents paying taxes which is fair but that the agency itself being taxed as a corporation. That would just be frankly an exercise in masturbatory paperwork generation when there is real work of value that could be performed instead. Take a simple halting problem approach - if there is no even potential value to the exercise in any form (even including entertainment) just stop.

Meanwhile the exclusivity isn't something that should be valued in because it would be stupid to actually sell it to anyone. Tax-farming (selling the right to collect taxes to a third party in exchange for an upfront sum) is a terrible practice which breeds abuse and corruption. One can argue if the purpose is valid but accounting for something which should never be solid is asinine - it would be like trying to account for your value if sold into slavery in your net worth while slavery is illegal.
Zuck still wants platforms to control the judgement and censorship of content. I agree this content should be the responsibility and liability of every so-called “platform” that wants to profit off our communication as people — but an ideal platform should NOT be censored at the network level. I want to live in a world where Facebook the company can’t be blamed for people voting one way or another, and I think this is most possible in a world where our most popular communication platform is not a for-profit corporation. Content consumers should have full control over self-censorship and there should be no other interference (parents would control what children access). Maybe Mastodon is taking us in the right direction. We need the tools and literacy discover, judge, and trust content ourselves. Taking that responsibility away from individuals also takes that power away from us. Zuck is right that we need new rules — rules that prevent orgs like Facebook from taking over the internet, not rules that entrench Facebook as our manager of internet content.
You seem really invested in this either not being the Saudi's or being Sanchez (or her brother-in-law as has been speculated). Given the political situation surrounding this whole story is best summarized as "a double shit sandwich, extra runny" I'm wondering if your feelings on the politics are clouding your technical judgement? Of if you are outright trying to spread disinformation.

We have pretty ample evidence that FBI can indeed get into iPhones when needed[0] and I don't think it's a leap to assume that if the FBI can do it, CIA and NSA won't have issues with it either. I suspect Saudi intel services are capable of throwing money at the same vendors that the FBI uses. Apple takes great care to make things as secure as possible but even the most sophisticated encryption schemes are broken when you can arbitrarily, remotely and silently screenshot the data in question. Bezos is the richest man in the world, he's not hiring some fly-by-night security consultancy. He personally employs some of the smartest information security consultants on the planet through Amazon. They also provide cloud services directly to the military and intelligence agencies. He's got plenty of knowledgeable contacts to consult with.

[0] https://thehackernews.com/2017/10/apple-fbi-iphone-unlock.ht...
uber tends to imply greater earnings and less work than is actually required, encourages people to accumulate fixed costs in car investments, and then requires heavy hours to get the full benefits of the system.

Information is hard to organize. It’s easy to say that everyone has the potential to be economically rational but practically weighing decisions is hard.
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China is weak in their ethic, small in their self-restraint. China is not fit to lead the world.

Edit: You may flag this post, but it is incontrovertible that China is NOT a state that is concerned with human rights.
> A slave owner gives an otherwise hungry man food and housing. That doesn't mean slavery is at all justifiable.

Slave by its very definition implies lack of choice by the other person.

> Uber pays people who otherwise might not have a job at all. That doesn't mean paying them incredibly low wages is something that should be free of criticism.

Yes, actually, it does mean that. That's the nature of choice.

If someone is offering you something you otherwise would not have, you don't get the right to complain that they are not giving you more.
I remember watching this on netflix a while back, https://www.netflix.com/title/80076413

It was like 75% failed the first day.
Their mirrorless cameras are definitely not "meh", and have certainly succeeded in shaking things up.
I've been chasing project longevity (particularly in infrastructure like languages and OSs) for a long time, and came up with a prerequisite: http://akkartik.name/about

This quest took me from programming in Lisp, to C, and now to raw machine code. I'm hoping to build back up to high level languages, but with key implementation features that enable outsiders to comprehend a codebase.

https://github.com/akkartik/mu/blob/master/subx/Readme.md
Sure.

http://boston.conman.org/index.atom
http://boston.conman.org/index.json
http://boston.conman.org/bostondiaries.rss

Each one contains the full text of the past 15 entries.
People who have studied economics know that insufficient wages lead to violent revolution.
I'm pretty comfortable assuming that Apple wouldn't design a lipo charging circuit that could fail in an unsafe way due to a single component failure, but I can't speak specifically to what those might be.
Huh? For most people the delay from paycheck to rent payment is weeks to months, and the inflation suffered on that money is less than one percent. How would locking the amount of money affect that in any notable way?

And a housing bubble can still happen in a deflationary economy. Money can still move from the workers to the rich.
The effective price goes up even if the dollar amount doesn't.
In what world would that make business sense?

Apparently they already lose money (counting marketing costs and incentives) per ride, how can they expect to operate a going concern by striving to increase expenses?
As someone who spent quite a few years in the rave scene hanging out with a lot of drug users and trying a lot of drugs, I’d probably put ketamine way down on the list if I’m ranking them on addictiveness. I’d say most people that tried it didn’t even like it. It’s a particular kind of personality that would take a dissociative anesthetic recreationally. I tried it a couple of times and never really enjoyed it much unless I was mixing it with mdma — at best I’d call it ‘an interesting experience’

Which isn’t to say that I didn’t know people who abused it way beyond “normal” recreational use, but those people were abusing every drug they could find.
I suspect the better answer is to just lower costs for the same benefit - customers come to you attracted by the lower costs and you don't have the free-rider problem that it becomes profitable to generate time wasting corps to do a bunch of paid demos to make money at the cost of productivity to all involved.
Link: https://ifixit.org/blog/14883/what-finally-killed-airpower/
Do you have any more details on your recommendations?
Is it just me? I can't make any operations, and tetrominoes did not drop from center (horizontally), but kind of from random position
How can you work less AND get it done faster?
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Nice work. Here’s another awesome font for inline sparkline charts.

https://aftertheflood.com/projects/sparks/
I think “in LA” deserves a mention in the title.
> So then nothing here is Uber's fault, and Uber shouldn't get any blame.

Interesting that this is the line of thought that you decided to follow and refute, despite the fact that I never claimed that Uber was at fault for those particular problems a person may face. I'm not really a fan of engaging strawmen.

It's entirely possible that for some people, driving for Uber is a rational choice. It is also entirely possible that Uber is undervaluing their labor and taking advantage of them. Hope this helps.
“House of Saud”
>With DNS over TLS/DNS over HTTPS, your ISPs can't see what you are doing.

Is this true? They still can see what IPs you're connecting to can't they?
And quite frankly the business model might be to just bank on a steady supply of ex-criminals who have a hard time getting other work and may not understand the financial arrangement they are entering into. Exploit them for a while and when they realize they aren’t making money, just chalk it up to built-in turnover and on to the next unwitting driver.
What does Cambridge Analytica prove about FB the company?

An academic from Cambridge made an app on the FB platform. That gave him access to data which he then sold for commercial purposes. When FB found out, they sent a legal notice to delete this data and cease using it.
Paul probably has really nice internet access.

Most people in the USA have really poor access for running services. I have constant problems with Comcast myself.

One day when we have fiber and static ipv6, then we can run mail, IRC, Http, dns, etc.
But graduation rates are meaningless because they are easily gamed. Compare average SAT scores from 1970's to today and the trend is downward.

Graduation rates are easy to boost: Graduate bad, failing students. SAT scores are not so hard to fake.
Police given stop and search powers
At least it's better than using military to control there. isn't it, US?
In the US, it's guns.
In the UK, knives.

Maybe it's time to attack the problem from the cultural value of life angle?
Yes and I’m sure you haven’t owned a TV in 15 years....

https://www.theonion.com/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-d...

Why do people act like such ignorance of popular trends is insightful?
Show HN: Library to render guitar chords in the browser
Iron Deficiency Anemia Due to High-Dose Turmeric
I get those 473 area code calls all the time. I learned years ago that due to caller ID spoofing I should never, ever call back a strange number because either I’ll get some confused person who didn’t actually call me, or I run the risk of dialing a premium line and getting charged.

If it’s an important call, they will leave me a voicemail or call my wife.
> and intentionally blurs the line between employee and contractor for profit.

What profit are they making by doing that?

> Similarly, in the past, people made the rational choice to sell themselves into indentured servitude. People also made the rational choice to sell their children to factory owners or into marriages for dowries.

And are you blaming the person who took them it, or the conditions that led to that?

> Typically, if people had bargaining power through, say, collective action, there would be a corrective force when a sudden unilateral decision to reduce compensation by 25% is made.

But they do have power. They have the power to not work for Uber. If they did that and there were not enough drivers then Uber would raise rates, either permanently or with Surge pricing.

So they actually have MORE power than an employee in the same situation: The employee would lose their job, but Uber drivers can just refuse to work.
greatadmin, thanks!
Is there some context on what is notable about this?
I cut it myself. I started about 2 years ago. I wish I would have done it years ago. Long on top,short on sides and back and I am done in less than 20 mins including clean up. I found a clipper that vacuums as it cut so there is not much hair to clean up when done. It rocks.

Here it is on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Remington-HKVAC2000A-Haircut-Trimmer-...
De Becker (who is as credible as technical investigators get) said that his investigators along with outside experts developed evidence that showed that the Saudis had access to Bezos's phone. He turned this evidence over to Federal investigators.

Without knowing more, it's hard to say exactly what happened, but there is plenty of evidence of the Saudis, along with other repressive regimes, spending huge sums of money buying and weaponizing zero-days to target critics. So they had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to target him..
I completely disagree with this advice:

> However, when you come across timestamp, you can’t possibly know in what time zone the timestamp is just by looking at it.

yes I do, it's in UTC, because I assume the application is written to correctly handle datetimes.

> It is merely a wall time. Maybe it’s UTC,

no, it's UTC.

> or maybe the developer stored it in local time.

right, maybe the application was not programmed correctly, that is always a possibility. But if they are using the timestamp with timezone datatype, it is 100% more likely they have made mistakes in doing so because it is much more confusing to have to fight against PostgreSQL's assumptions and implicit conversions, as the complexity of its behaviors and decisions using this datatype are described in this article. Does the application come up with the wrong answer if the server it runs on, or the webserver container, is mistakenly set to Eastern Timezone rather than UTC? Is the application ensuring that it knows the correct timezone of timestamps as they enter the application, and if so, why isn't it converting to UTC at that moment? Is the application otherwise receiving datetimes of arbitrary timezone, letting them move around business and display logic in their raw form, and waiting until they enter the database to be correctly normalized? that's too late.

A correctly coded application does explicit normalization of datetime values the moment they enter the boundaries of the application, just like it would also convert encoded bytes into a unicode-aware strings up front, so that within the application there is no ambiguity, both when persisting and when handling.
> a common global framework ....will ensure that the Internet does not get fractured, entrepreneurs can build products that serve everyone, and everyone gets the same protections.

Homogeneity favors business but does not foster independent or challenging thought.

Converging on a "baseline" common set of standards for "harmful" speech and what constitutes "privacy" is only going to reach the lowest common denominator.

Let people opt in to the level of control and sanitization that they want, but do not apply global restrictions without opt-out.
Friendly reminder: Tetris is one of the most valuable, and vigorously defended, game IPs in the world. Such aspects of the game as the dimensions of the playfield and the shapes of the tetrominoes are protected by copyrights and trademarks belonging to Tetris Holdings LLC -- and Tetris Holdings is Oracle-tier litigious. Yes, this has stood up in court. Hope you like unfriendly C&Ds from powerful attorneys.
My point is that a fairly popular platform that large teams use has nearly as much metaprogramming in its widely used libraries as any Lisp or Smalltalk codebase I’ve seen. So, I don’t think that the tendency of Lisp programs to evolve DSLs is incompatible with large teams.
That makes the lack of support in the stock ROMs doubly bizarre.
A semi good news from this is for the politicians to know that: "If Bezos' phone can be hacked by Saudis, so can all the politicians' phones and their office workers' phones."

A good story to tell next time when politician want to enact some new law to weaken the security of phone, for Apple/Android to build security holes for the "law enforcement / governments".
I'm suspicious. When I see a large chart titled "Life expectancy at age 66" it sets off all kinds of alarm bells.

Why 66? Why not 50 or 60 or 70? What was special about 66 that it was chosen, and why wasn't it explained?
Dunno but sqlite3 assumes times are in utc.
> who said it was? (it isn’t.) you asked for examples, and i gave the most recent one.

OK, but then, outside of that kind of use case, most applications are not trivially parallelizable like that.

> most of the multicore programming i do is with actors with a data flow language. multicore programming is so trivial you don’t even think about it.

Maybe I miscommunicated, but I don't mean that you literally are doing all these things, but that something is–some combination of the language, the runtime, and the developer. My point is that no matter who is doing it, these things have costs–runtime performance, memory use, limits on the usable data structures and programming techniques.
I thought "claim with high confidence" is intelligence speak for we don't have a fucking clue but it's the narrative we're running with. 


This is really no better than citing anonymous sources. There is a story if and when, and not a moment before, actual evidence (with some respectably chain of custody) is actually provided.

EDIT: The word "evidence" only appears once in the editorial, talking about an AP article reporting that the Saudi's were sent an advanced digital copy of the pro-MBS magazine.

Read it carefully, Gavin never equivocally states he has any evidence that the Saudi's had access to Jeff's texts. They interviewed people. They were told by other people that the Saudi's had this capability. SA apparently "unleashed their cyber-army on Bezos". And AMI has done [presumably highly lucrative] work for MBS. And AMI is bad because they caught-and-killed a story for Trump, and have done things for Trump in the past. That is all we get here, aside from the ominous ending of Saudi Arabia controlling our media.

I'm just so tired of the conspiracy theories.

Not knowing why AMI started talking to Michael Sanchez is not the same as knowing that the Saudi's told them to talk to Sanchez.
How convenient to use the same number as the top bin Xeon CPU, eh? Can't copyright a number though, of course.
Why does /usr/share/dict/words contain “manbird” on OS X?
Its like they see developers and drivers as two different species. For every twenty something dev that makes $132K, there is a fourty something trying to rebuild a life post-trauma, doing their best to net $13K. Since insurance and gas aren't cheaper, the driver now will net $6K next year, while the dev would jump ship to another company if they didn't get a $6K bonus. While my head understands the economic principles that drive that reality, my heart doesn't understand how such a thing needs to happen.
I guess they should form a union and strike.
While cold calls are an issue, I don't think phone numbers should be able to charge you money without you being aware of it.
As you point out, meditation and yoga are not quick fixes. One usually has to practice them for a long time to get significant results. But people suffering from depression rarely have the motivation and endurance to stick with a practice long-term. Some have trouble getting out of bed in the morning or even doing simple chores.
Yes, so we should be less like animals. People should be allowed to live without having to "earn a living" -- the daily struggle for survival would be abolished by UBI.
Same with canteen workers, janitors and so forth. It's the reality of this economy without any intervention.

>my heart doesn't understand how such a thing needs to happen.

That's why developers, who have the economic leverage, should stand up for everyone working at their companies, including staff that isn't involved in technical work.
> .. the LUKS key is stored in the TPM. Which is protected by a password.

Yup. Nope. The key is protected by TPM magic :). TPM measures stuff, then we put the key in TPM and seal it to PCRs 0-13 measurements (whole boot environment). At boot, TPM will allow tcsd daemon (part of initrd) to read LUKS key once, and only if all measurements match, this is as far as I got.

End result is unlocked volume, without any passphrase prompts, neither on console nor via ssh.
Any decision you are making in your current state right now will be biased.

My advice after tutoring 4 Phds.

Choose the mentor not the field or program.

If you have a good mentor/professor it will make a big difference. You can even work in "botanic" (non-related field) but he will find a way to make you useful.
And being useful is 70% of curing depression.
We need to feel useful.

Check which professors are friendly and have time to real meet with you and talk to you.

I choose mine based on that, some people laugh he was not an start and that he loved star trek too much. Only me and other student finished ON TIME our Phds.
That is true but sickle cell isn't the best example for that. It is essentially a 'useful glitch' of a trait as opposed to something viral. There are ancient viruses embedded in human DNA. Effectively the embedding is just another form of mutation to the genome (although there are distinct patterns). It gets embedded regardless if it is copying errors, mutagenic chemicals, or electromagnetic radiation in cause.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/science/ancient-viruses-d...

Theoretically it /is/ possible for the right sequence of say radiation damage and auto-repair to give rise to segments of a virus in DNA but the odds are stupidly lower. To use an example technically you could scatter scrabble tiles randomly to get quotes from Shakespeare if you do it enough but you are far more likely to occasionally get gibberish than "WHAT LIGHT THROUGH YONDER WINDOW BREAKS" - let alone in the right order.
Jesus, but not in the literally terms.