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I have strong .net background with mostly pretty legacy code and I'm amazed that this talk is so "wow" for some people. Till this point I wasn't aware people has such problems like described in this talk. Maybe I'm just getting old, but SQL was my first idea to solve problem. I think for most reporting related tasks simple SQL will do. I think some people just get caught in their bubble and forgot the basics: choosing right tool for a task. Of course SQL has its issues: e.g. it is problematic to test it and to manage db model changes (code first aproach wins there, hands down), but for data extensive tasks it is the way to go. This whole talk just remind me some of legacy code I was investigating one time, where developer just though he can implement everythin on his own better than standard library. Probably you need some distance when looking on particular problem to see more just "how I would just loop through all this data an calculate this".
He doesn't propose a philosophical model. He's more of a destroyer than a system builder, and explores a wide range of ideas (My favorite being eternal recurrence, beyond good/evil, overcoming oneself and creating meaning in a world where God is dead)
Where I live; in northeastern US my assets are taxed. Personal assets such as my home and car are taxed on a yearly basis.

As are business assets, which includes everything from the desk I'm sitting at; the chair I'm sitting on; to the computer I'm using.

Disposable supplies, such as paperclips, are not taxed but once a year I have to fill out paperwork--roughly a 10 page document--to pass onto my local government declaring said assets.
Scientists set to unveil first picture of a black hole
I personally am seeing 2 distinct systems.
1. Outside the cities people will have their own storage and power generation.
2. Inside the cities power companies start renting out batteries when you contract with them. And they only provider the power with solar and the battery they provide stores it for the nights and sun less days.
That's why the company was fined, not the poor desk clerk.
Yeah, and the next study will re-instate that drinking can be healthy.

Until those studies have been going on for decades, with counter studies, and criticism, etc, and end up part of conventional 101 university curriculum, any individual study (even meta-study, also shoddily done more often than not) is not worth the paper they are printed on for the average reader.
Do they? In the USA there's Christmas merchandise in every store for 2 months. People buy trees, cars, tree decorations, candles, wreaths, house lights, cakes, egg nog, etc. etc. For Halloween custom stores open all over the place for 1-2 months, candy companies come out with all kinds of special candies, pumpkin patches show up all over town, and on and on.

Europe has nothing like that?
Show HN: Who Survives Season 8? – A Game of Thrones Website for Predictions
Hello HN!
I hope you are ready for the last season of Game of Thrones.

My friend and I have discussed a lot about the series. Topics like "Who will die? Who will survive?" And many more... We are fans of the show and really love it. So we thought about creating a little website where you can predict the fate of the characters. We call it: Who Survives Season 8? https://whosurvives8.com

We have a list of 40 characters that will or might appear in the last season. You have 3 main options for each character: Alive, dead or undead/white walker (green, red or blue). If you open the site, you'll see everyone in green (alive), except the Night King and Viserion (’cause they are undead). You can choose the fate of each one. Who will survive? Who will die? Who will turn into a slave of the white walkers? We’d like to see what you think!

And there’s one more question. Who will sit on the iron throne (if it still exists after the finale)? Cersei has a crown icon because she sits on the iron throne right now. But do you want her on the throne? Change it to someone else if you think she won’t sit long on the cold pile of swords.

After you‘ve chosen the fate of each character you can write a name down that others will recognize you with. Or just take the random name from our own GOT name generator. Now you can share the link with your friends.

After that you can also look on the global site (https://whosurvives8.com/global) to see statistics of all votes. There you’ll see what fate is chosen the most and who has the most votes to sit on the iron throne.

That’s it! A small Game of Throne fansite to choose the fate of the characters!

Valar Morghulis

To the site → https://whosurvives8.com

PS: We’d like to see what you’ve chosen. Write a comment with your own link.
Oh and we’ll post some votes and statistics on our twitter account @WhoSurvives8 (https://twitter.com/WhoSurvives8)
I'd buy a few of these for my kids.
Why is it such a 'one vs other' argument? This is like arguing against levels of APIs, a completely moot argument without proper context for usage.'Wrapping' doesn't prohibit you to go 'lower' if you want.
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Any word on US availability? There are plenty of people who don’t need an entire iPhone, or can’t comprehend one due to age or other handicaps. It’s good to have choices.
Smartphone tech has matured. A smartphone CPU from 2011 would have been a drag in 2015, a CPU from 2018 will probably still be adequate in 2022.
Electroweak theory does describe more phenomena though.

By analogy, Coulomb’s law is simpler than Maxwell’s equations, and describes fewer phenomena. Also, incidentally, Maxwell’s original formulation was very complicated.
Apart from the Google tie-in, I've been wanting a KaiOS phone ever since they were announced. I actually miss the days of my Nokia E71; a stripped down but modern feature phone with battery life measured in days instead of hours would be a blessing.

Unfortunately these are not marketed at all in the Western world and probably wouldn't work on domestic carriers.
Hi! What technologies are you using in the product?
...and what are you going to do about it? The whole Central Europe is supply chain for these manufacturers, the whole political, executive, and criminal world drives their cars. Top management and executives of these manufacturers are basically deities. To a certain extend these manufacturers are the EU.

but hey - at least the headlights are complicated, technologically advanced, and expensive to maintain like never before!
I'm also a c# dev but with less experience. Could you elaborate? Does the mean you copy paste shared code to all of the derived classes? I think I know why you say it's a maintenance nightmare because you start off with a method or properties that make sense in all of the derived classes but overtime the classes become less cohearant and start to develope warts and it would have been easier to modify the duplicated code.
Nope. It's much more toned down.
If I'm paid to port it from Java to Scala, I'll write a blog like this after I'm done (maybe I'll never be done :-) ).
The main model was CODASYL [1], a hierarchical navigational database standard. There were also various vendor-supplied things like IBM IMS for simple indexed storage/retrieval.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL
The struggle between slave/master morality is an infinite game. Any single one in excess is hazardous to the health of a society.

A world that is populated and led by the Last Man, who is tired of life, takes no risks, and seeks only comfort and security is not a world I want to live in.
My thing was sprite-multiplexers. In theory it's very simple. You sort the sprites by y-position, then use raster interrupts to reprogram the sprite registers for "(spriteN++ & 7)".

The hardest part is sorting. It takes quite some time to sort data on a 6502. I "invented" my own sorting routine for this, but I later learned that most coders used bubblesort since most of the time sprites move just a little so it's mostly sorted already.

My routine used half the stack. I took ypos >> 2 and used that as an index to the bottom half of the stack. If the position was occupied I used the next pos etc. To collect I simply used a PLA(pop) instruction. There were holes of course, so you had to check for empty slots.

That routine took about the same time every frame.

32 sprites was not very hard to do, sorting-wise.
Unfortunately, one study cannot “debunk” anything.

Between the state of conflicting information in epidemiology, the replication crisis in science in general, self reporting methodology, publication bias, etc . . . there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical. That’s not even a remark on the findings; even if the findings were the opposite, all these undermining factors would remain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

There's a lot to this, multiple people have come to this idea from different angles.

Consider the baker. In times gone, he'd get his flour from the miller, he'd bake his bread in the early morning, and sell to his customers throughout the day. He would feel an important part of the community; without him, the miller would be poorer and the community would have less bread. His direct interactions with his supplier and customers would provide psychological sustenance, making him feel useful, and giving his life meaning.

Consider the (non-artisnal) baker today. He gets up early and goes into the factory where he schleps packaged inputs from the loading bay to the mixing tanks, twiddles knobs, observes and fixes things that break down in the automated sequence. And then he goes home. He doesn't meet his supplier - at best, he'll exchange a few grunts with a truck driver - and he certainly doesn't meet his customers. He might chat with his co-workers, but fundamentally he's a replaceable cog, and nobody outside the factory would notice if he was replaced. His community doesn't value him, just the product. He's a nobody.
You miss the point. ElasticSearch just do some gardening for your data automaticaly, where in pure SQL you need to do it yourself, but there are tools for it.
> ...growth of clean tech will be limited only by our ability to increase production.

Production is not the problem. Growth of green tech has been (and will be) limited by the ability to store and use output on-demand. Germany is already causing problems in the European electricity grid through overproduction of wind energy. Meanwhile, their base load is covered by coal and imports of nuclear energy. It would require a massive amount of battery storage to even out:

https://www.oulu.fi/blogs/how-much-storage-does-the-energiew...
Capital gains is added on top of regular income so if you had $450k regular income then $50k long term capital gains, $38,850 would be taxed at 15% and the remainder at the top rate of 20%
I might be old fashioned, but sharing your location "always" with your SO seems kinda like "trust issues".
"a crisis without equal on earth" fits quite well with WW2. The present Trump/Brexit stuff is more of a dumb farce.
Any news. I am very interested
This is (2006):

Credits: This guide was originally created by Adam Ferrari many years ago,
and since updated by Alan Batson, Mike Lack, and Anita Jones. It was revised for 216 Spring 2006 by David Evans.
I wouldn't compare a comprehension to a loop because a loop doesn't typically have an output. If a loop does produce an output it's through side effects. List comprehensions are the same as maps, and generator comprehension even more so, as they can compose functions not values.

And a map can be the same as a projection as found in sql.
An amazing book I’ve been reading is

https://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Powers-Calculus-Reveals-Univ...

The author explains the history of calculus leading up to Newton’s treatise on Calculus and how important calculus is to modern life. It’s behind everything you use from cell phones to containing HIV. Highly recommended.
It will probably require a plan. Walmart tried selling a $10 prepaid smart phone and they were all bought up by tinkerers. A $10 phone means lots of hobby and maybe even some commercial projects get a cell phone mounted as a touchscreen interface.
> Because the variants have specific and large effects on alcohol, but do not effect other lifestyle factors such as diet, smoking, economic status or education, they can be used by scientists to nail down causal effects of alcohol intake.

Well, yes, but only in people with a similar genetic background. Using this as a kind of instrumental variable assumes an additive or linear model of genome environment interactions which is about as realistic as a flat Earth model. It may be that this study is being oversold.
The main point of prepared statements is that expensively optimized query execution plans can be re-used, including incorporating things learned from data patterns by previous queries. I've never considered them to be a crutch on parsing.
Very nice project. KaiOS also runs on jio phones and they are selling really well in India. Besides 4g these phones also have wifi support. Kai os phones are the only feature phones(I know of) that provide wifi capabilities.

By the way I've got a question for people who've used Kai OS / firefox os. To use google apps like youtube/ maps etc do you need to log in like in android?
If ads were relevant to the topic of the site, and had no creepy follow-you-around-the-web behaviour they’d be a lot less offensive.
Clean Architecture solved so many of our local Serverless problems
Interesting, I had completely missed KaiOS; apparently it's a successor of FirefoxOS, based on some common components.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16461016
The original source is always best. That said, I've read Hollingdale's translations since I don't know German. Amazon has a wide selection of translations so I'd start there to see which is the highest rated one.
I belive I said the first quote many times during my college years.
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>What is this literal global agenda?

It's basically "some bureaucrats want to secure funds for their agencies and have some global mission to justify them, so they invent new targets when the previous ones have dragged too long, so like the "war on drugs", "war on fat", etc. before, you now have more "war on alcohol", etc. And since those control a lot of money, and public policy, they get to decide where grants go, and you get to up your chances of a career if you go along. Plus all the private interests that can be attached to that (e.g. selling non-alcoholic versions of beverages, etc).

>but it’s very obvious that alcohol is literal poison and best to be avoided

No, it's not "very obvious" at all. It's just the residuals of the tee-totaling puritanical view of alcohol ("it must be bad!"), or considering alcoholics at the canonical example of what happens when you consume alcohol (and not e.g. the blue zone diets, where people live more than anybody else on the planet on average, and still regularly consume alcohol). In other words, it's as obvious as "fat makes us fat".

Science is not about accepting some "obvious", it's about investigating what's actually the case.

And there's the historical perspective:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/09/3-questi...

Or:

To our fruit-eating primate ancestors swinging through the trees, however, the ethanol in rotting fruit would have had three other appealing characteristics. First, it has a strong, distinctive smell that makes the fruit easy to locate. Second, it’s easier to digest, allowing animals to get more of a commodity that was precious back then: calories. Third, its antiseptic qualities repel microbes that might sicken a primate. Millions of years ago one of them developed a taste for fruit that had fallen from the tree. “Our ape ancestors started eating fermented fruits on the forest floor, and that made all the difference,” says Nathaniel Dominy, a biological anthropologist at Dartmouth College. “We’re preadapted for consuming alcohol.”
Cool! I knew it was being worked on; I look it up every few months but keep forgetting the name. RFC 2000 const generics. Any talk yet of a standard ndarray type once that lands? C++ doesn't have one and numeric library compatibility really suffers. Python has one (the buffer interface basically blessed numpy arrays). At our shop python is our glue language mainly because you can pass data between libraries and expect it to work and work efficiently (without unnecessary copies).
Actually, there is. Because the underlying numbering system in the hardware of a computer (i.e., the bus wires) is binary, powers of 2 are just the natural results.

I.e., a binary address bus of 16 bits in width can address 2^16 different memory cells, which is 65,536 individual locations. To make this a 'decimal sized' memory would require either ignoring 5,536 possible addressable locations, or using bus lines that are not binary. Ignoring addressable locations does not maximize the usage of the available numbering system, and building ten value electrical bus wiring in hardware is a significantly much more difficult engineering effort than building two value electrical wiring (because two value electrical wiring is simply "on" or "off").

This is why so many of the "computer units" that were close in size to the standard SI units were measured in powers of 2 sized values instead of powers of 10. Computer hardware is using binary numbers everywhere, and powers of 2 are simply the natural outgrowth of that usage.

It was humans that decided that 2^10 (1024) was 'close enough' to the SI k to call it a "kilobyte" and that 2^20 (1,048,576) was 'close enough' to the SI m to call it a 'megabyte' and so forth.
> and best to be avoided

In any quantity? Prove it

The problem is everything is a poison in quantity. Moderation is key with anything.

The agenda was clearly indicated. Please reread my parent post, Reduce alcohol consumption.

We consume many extremely dangerous poisons throughout the day and there is not a ton of research of the effects of those molecules. Or there is and almost no follow up action.
Never heard of SQLAlchemy. The core part of the lib looks quite nice, the problem is its design is driven by the needs of its ORM.

If you define your database properly typed, defaulted, and not null unless an update field that sort of layer isn't needed at all.

Using the correct native types on your function params or class structures means you'll never run into type mismatch or cast failures loading or unloading from the db.

So I just don't get why the need for ORM. The only thing that needs mapping is the table schema to your data type object/structs.

ORMs don't offer anything of value their and often make things you need to do in your job harder.
More than that, as part of LINQ they built a whole "expression" engine into the language to make LINQ to SQL more powerful than simple method chains could be. What looks like function calls is actually converted into expression tree at the language level before conversion to SQL statements when communicating with a DB backend.

The method-chains-vs-expression-tree semantics don't matter much when doing typical in-memory map/filter/reduce on lists but make LINQ to SQL and other more complex use cases much more powerful.
How difficult would this be to add GIPO to?

This crushes the Raspi3 for the value.
Why is it "q Query"?
Not sure about US but they are available to buy on amazon. It'll probably cost a lot more after shipping charges though...
Actually it does not. $7 in India (or i.e. my home country, or some other relatively poor countries) is not the same as $7 in US. Plus, these phones don't have a touch screen and are much cheaper to make than the Walmart Android phones.
> Combined with nuclear and other zero emission technologies it produces 45% of the electricity without emitting CO2.

Which is pretty embarrassing, given the huge investment made. By that same measure, France is at almost 90% (74% nuclear, 15% renewable). Without further nuclear developments, Germany will depend either on fossils or on massive technological breakthroughs in solving the fluctuations caused by wind energy.
I think when you are trying to envision the universe being contained in anything, you are already on the wrong path.

Maybe akin so asking: "What came before time?". The question itself is a contradiction.
The article says it supports WhatsApp, but the KaiOS publication clarifies it does not. In many countries, that's a no go.
Sounds like you would find the Trait system in Rust very interesting.

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
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A closed-source Google-developed OS for feature phones. Obviously it's the best spend DoD money so far. Just 20 millions. You need to track poor people too.
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Having spent a couple of years building apps for KaiOS (which is really Firefox OS), I can say that it's probably the easiest development platform out there - mostly pure web; with some proprietary extensions.

I wish Firefox OS hadn't thrown in the towel so early. These devices are selling millions of units every month.
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You can buy a Nokia 8110 4G in the U.S.A. IIRC, and it's powered by KaiOS.
It looks like a fake/scam site, somehow. You know one of those who scrape other sites, steal the content and put their own ads on top.
No, psychologist. In that we cared for the internal psychological motives to explain people's actions (e.g. guilt, envy, etc), as opposed to some general idealistic principles.
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Why do you say that? Every source I can find disagrees.

https://www.cdc.gov/fungal/candida-auris/c-auris-drug-resist...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_(microorganism)

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/germ

Etc
We do, but it's very minimal for now: https://dronesforwork.nl/

We'll be changing our company name in a few weeks, followed by the launch of a new website which should have a lot more information than the current one.
Figured I'd leave my vote for Redreader here. It's open source, works offline (has a fully featured cached versions system) and I've used it for years. It also supports custom tabs too, so if you use a decent browser with add-on support (Firefox) you can get ad-blocking working for all articles you read within the app.

https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader/
The desire to write games came later for me. What got me into programming was the desire to write viruses- they were this magical thing that I viewed as a game. A game to enter a system, to stay there hidden, spread and poke around, completely on their own.

It was amazing world to imagine, but was way beyond what I could do at the time. And now, my ethics prevents me from even attempting it.
I get what you mean but it has more to do with who's running those companies.

Google, Microsoft, and Facebook are American companies. In all honesty I'd rather have an American company spy on American people, rather than a Chinese company doing so.

China is catching up with tech and their government is totalitarian. Privacy doesn't exist in China, and it could be scary to think what they would do with data gathered from spying on us. I don't want any involvement of theirs in American schools or companies.
This is actually more a problem of using MySQL than a problem with SQL itself in my experience.
Verizon does not have an official limit on Fios. There is a story about them warning someone a few years ago who was using 7TB / month (which really is a massive amount of data). I can't really think of legal consumer usage that would get up that high. A redditor posted about keeping up 20TB/month usage without getting a warning a year ago.
My experience with .Net Core 1 and 2 was that it felt unfinished. I am planning to take another look when 3.0 is released because I do really like C#.

I wasn't thinking of Desktop although I would love to see something strong emerge there (other than Avalon).