skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The VOC’s stocks pushed the company’s worth to a massive 78 million Dutch guilders, which is a pretty solid business even today, but translates to a whopping $7,9 trillion dollar worth today… Yes, really, trillion. That’s 7,900 billion – or 79,000 million!

Leaving aside the terrible everything-must-be-clickbait-nowadays writing style, that doesn’t sound right.

Comparisons of monetary values over timescales of centuries are always pretty fraught, but this one sounds like pure rubbish. According to that conversion, a single Dutch guilder was worth $100,000 in today’s money, which sounds like an unreasonable amount of money to be carrying around in a single coin.

As it happens I was doing a bit of research on prices in this era the other day after watching a movie about the Dutch tulip mania (Tulip Fever, 2017) and trying to put the thousands-of-guilder prices being paid for tulip bulbs in that movie into perspective. The Wikipedia article on the tulip craze mentions that a skilled workman made about 300 guilders a year, which would represent about $30 million if we take this site’s conversion at face value.
Google support seems to charge per person, so suppose you are a few persons, ie at least 3 sharing the support then it's $750/month. Also, you are assuming US salaries, when looking at many other countries $250 is upwards 10% of the salary. Google support is valuable, but, going with AWS for example is a lot cheaper. Now, if you are a VC-backed or otherwise funded company, then this is a non-issue, but there are hundreds of thousands of businesses that have a total spend on infra that would be less than the support fee from Google.
Glad to hear that you enjoy using GitLab! Here's a link if anyone wondered https://about.gitlab.com/product/pages/
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In real life there are still projects that are failing, that are going over time and budget. There are smart guys on those projects with masters in c.s. who are making completely boneheaded calls that will mean they aren't adding any value.

We can talk about how easy software is and it's just glueing a bunch of components together. But whole we do there are millions of devs that are flailing and failing to do that.
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They must have considered it many times (not least when making the partial posix support for NT) but felt that supporting it wouldn’t help deprecating it either.

AFAIK it’s only unix/Linux (posix) OSes that implement fork. Perhaps that’s what you meant by “every other system”, ie unix + clones/derivatives?
Here in the UK we receive a letter from HMRC saying how much I'd paid (in income and NI, not counting sales tax, fuel taxes, etc), and where it goes.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/millions-start-receiving-...
> a song is stuck in your head and you can't get it out?

never. although that sounds like a blessing :)
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I think your assessment is clouded by some strong moral issue you have with the idea of finding a spouse abroad, exploiting a differential in welfare between two countries.

You insist on the idea that the wife has been "bought", and that it implies some sort of dominant/ controlling attitude on the male's part. In fact I would argue that the opposite could be true: men who resort to "mail brides" are simply trying to find their way around a system that puts them at the bottom of the ladder, often exactly because they are not dominant enough. Dominant psychopaths don't need mail order brides, they are often successful and can find plenty of partners anyway.

Also, if we're authorized to draw psychological inferences from these choices: what do you think of women who choose to date (relatively) wealthy foreigners online, refusing to find a partner in their own country? It's not that there is a shortage of males in Ukraine or Brazil or the Philippines. These women are choosing to ignore local partners for the prospect of a life of comforts (because this is the idea you get from foreign media).

So if we inform our psychological insights to our moral biases, who's the psychopath here? The naive loser who thinks he can trick the system and get a partner above his level, or the ambitious girl who shuns her local suitors for the prospect of a wealthy life abroad with a stranger?
>It is a norm to be expected, not something you "have to disclose".

Because it might be something worth mentioning before you start telling people to plan their bathroom breaks.

>Could you work 130 hours in a week?” The answer is yes, if you’re strategic about when you sleep, when you shower, and how often you go to the bathroom. [0]

Adding "Oh and by the by I have a nanny, gardener, chef and maid too." makes the advice seem a lot less relevant.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-marissa-mayer-interv...
Even if we are in a robot Utopia, the benefits are not going to be passed down to illegal immigrants directly via a basic income. You still have to ask what will this group do instead because the option of "stay home" isn't always on the table.
Saudi-Aramco might be something that comes very close to the VOC: a for-profit company protected by armed forces, arguably for hire.
It's not process creation that is tricky, it's process termination!

To see how Libreoffice does it, see https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/sal/osl/w32/proce...
I think it's a frontend framework configuration, like enabling a gatsby plugin[1]. Anyway it seems like comparing apples and oranges to me.

[1] - https://www.gatsbyjs.org/docs/plugins/
I believe you are incorrect: https://cloud.google.com/support/ states $250/month/user. Hence, it seems to be tied to a single contact person, why else would it state pricing per user?

Regarding suspension, if this is the case, why do we see so many desperate cries for help from people whom are unable to get in touch with anyone at all at Google to help them with their termination? They have to resort to public blog posts and hope that a good Samaritan at Google comes along, sees them and acts.

They all have the same story, "couldn't get in touch with anyone, "tried to appeal, denied without explanation" and they all had several days if not weeks of downtime.
I use those GDRP screens for a little moment of mindfulness now to consider, whether I really want to read the article behind it. The answer has turned out to be almost always no and I don’t think I’ve missed much.
"The Future of Databases is Not a Database" - isn't it a funny concidence that this one has been cancelled?
You are right that it is suboptimal. (I do think that Scribble's choice of braces is not too bad in this regard.) On the other hand, I can't readily type backquotes in my mobile phone or recent macOS [1] so there is a trade-off :-)

[1] Annoyingly enough, macOS Sierra and later maps a backquote to a Won sign in Korean keyboard layouts.
I guess sociopaths can do no wrong except live too long.

But it would be the opposite for Bill Gates wouldn't it?
how can you compare money from befor bretton woods and after, though?
Arrived to read about a markup language, discovered something properly useful. Thank you.
It's an example. Think of something else, eg an HTTP client call that sits waiting for a response, instead. The call parallelism is the issue being discussed.
This looks really nice, do you have plans to implement text search of note contents?
No matter how methodical I get with tags and hierarchies, nothing beats search for recall.
Org mode is great, at work I use it since half a year to keep myself organized. For instance when I'm debugging something, I can keep notes and clues or the sometimes not avoidable request that just won't fit into the issue tracker.
> Are you sure?

* shrug * no idea tbh. others with aphantasia don't seem to share the same effect, so maybe it's some kind of other dysfunction.
Are Apple Google and Facebook so rich? And how do you measure it? (Have not read the link).

t the time of his death in 1937, John D. Rockefeller was worth an estimated $1.4 billion. Rockefeller was the first man in history to ever accumulate more than $1 billion (nominal dollars) in total wealth.

Rockefeller's $1.4 billion net worth in 1937 was 1/65th of the total GDP of the United States. In 2011, the total GDP of the United States was $15.09 trillion. If somebody currently had 1/65th of the total GDP of the United States, they would have a fortune of over $232 billion.

It's also important to note that Rockefeller gave away over $500 million (nominal dollars) over his lifetime, which helped to significantly shrink his net worth.
Grotesque in the context of typography is a category of sans serif typefaces, specifically the one from which typefaces like Helvetica descend (they are usually called neo-grotesque). So the GP joke is based on a double meaning: on a first read it may seem an insult, but typographically he is just stating a quite obvious thing: that Helvetica Now is a grotesque typeface.
I can’t answer for Nginx but normally on windows if you want “worker processes” you just start N of them and have them read work from a shared memory queue. That is, workers live longer than the tasks they perform. If one crashes, a new one is spawned. This does seem like a more sensible way of doing things than forking tbh. It isolates work in processes but doesn’t pay for process creation per request.
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At least this has a reasonable lower limit, so it doesn't screw over small platforms.
When I can't access the page content I read the page source. Disabled users can do the same. There are other workarounds like graphic captcha solvers. There's nothing unsolvable about accessibility, it's just annoying.
Great book with the same title: https://pragprog.com/book/rwdata/seven-databases-in-seven-we...

Explains different approaches / benefits and drawbacks
> 232 billion

I mean, there's a guy coming pretty close to that right now.
You are comparing apples to oranges ie. VOC at XVII/XVII century to British EIC at end of XVIII/XIX century.

Dutch had been able/lucky to grab/monopolize the most profitable trading route and hold to it. But at some point spice trade lost its appeal.

British had been unable to muscle into Dutch controlled trade (they have invented 'free trade' to justify their attempts).

But in their 2nd best trading posts in India British EIC had to built up military (because Indian and French presented tough military opposition) and find creative ways to finance its presence there (textiles, opium). As a results after 200 years British EIC became a force to recon with while Dutch VOC had been in decline.
I believe it started out as an independent company, but was later taken over by the Dutch government.
As we use Confluence for our collective brain, awareness of this was an unexpected bonus. Thank you.
This has all got to be satire, right?
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> bijective to org syntax

To date, I haven't seen a flavor of Markdown that has a comment feature. I use it extensively to hide all my notes that don't have a place in the final exported document people will read.
You did mention its usage on pre-2003 Apple keyboards (Univers 57 Condensed Oblique), but I'm so nostalgic for that usage in particular that I wanted to share a photo for those who aren't familiar: https://i.imgur.com/eiSx7nn.jpg
So reading this has made me realise that my mental visualisation might not be normal. I definitely can't visualise images photo-realistically, there's maybe a similarity to synesthesia where I visualise some colours but I know it's my mother, a room, etc and it's sort of helpful for remembering other properties of that thing I'm visualising. Some things I can kind of visualise photo-realistically (in the sense it might be similar to a dark room where you only catch flashes of the thing): things I build from first principles (like say a mental model of a pulley system or an electronic circuit).

I'd literally always assumed this was just how peoples brains worked, I'd be interested in hearing if this is or isn't similar to other people.
Yes, and it's dumb. It's a bureaucratic nightmare that most likely inhibits progress. Not only that, this is also being used as a cudgel to silence the people that did the grievance studies hoax. [0]

[0] https://reason.com/blog/2019/01/07/peter-boghossian-portland...
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As of September 30, 2018, we served over 500 million registered users but only 12.3 million paying users. The actual number of unique users is lower than we report as one person may register more than once for our platform. As a result, we have fewer unique registered users that we may be able to convert to paying users. A majority of our registered users may never convert to a paid subscription to our platform.
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And there I was thinking they would expose their fork() implementation.

Interested to see what this paper has to say.
I also have aphantasia, and my wife has hyperphantasia. makes for interesting conversations.

1.While I do not experience visual images in my mind, I do 'form' what I can only explain as proprioceptive relationships between things. I can mentally rotate objects or my environment, but have no visual experience of it. This is a long-winded way of saying I have very good spacial understanding, direction and concept of how things relate to each other - I'm a hang glider pilot, motorcyclist, loves driving and hiking around, and never get lost.

2. I do relate with having a superhuman ability to put bad experiences behind me. I don't dwell on the bad for long, and tend to forget the bad experiences pretty quickly.
My memory of accidents are also more proprioception and relation to things in my environment than visual.
He just lost 25% of his money.
Thanks all, this is probably a very good starting point
I think the problem is mixing terminologies:

• Programmer: glues together existing tools (your example)

• Software engineer/architect: builds/designs systems that can handle large loads efficiently; invents and applies techniques so the systems can become large while keeping them maintainable

• Computer scientists: invents and analyzes algorithms

That said, roles are usually mixed up as well, where a computer scientist in industry can easily spend 90% of their time programming.
Do you have some examples of places where you have seen this so I can avoid working there? It sounds incredibly boring.
I realize that "compating" is a misspelling, but I prefer to read it as a portmanteau of "compatible" and "competing" and think it's quite an excellent word for that difficult concept except that it errs slightly too far on the "competing" side.
A programming book I’d love to read
It's arguable that the fact that there are multiple implementations is itself a sign of success. If Org-Mode was to become widely adopted, it's pretty much inevitable it would get multiple implementations too.
GDPR disclosure is atrocious. We literally legislated pop ups back into websites and mandated that they basically exist.

I'd rather they not ask me anything and just assume consent. It's not like EU legislation is going to stop a Chinese company anyway.
I've been a C# MVP for many years before they didn't renew me because I was too critical towards MS' direction (this was before they OSS-ed .NET). When I was awarded, it felt like I received an award for my position in the .NET community. When I didn't get a renewal years later it felt like I didn't get it because I didn't fit into their marketing machine. It was fine by me btw. The free MSDN universal subscription is nice, but that's about it.

> ServiceStack has been a valuable contribution to the .NET community, and your continued development/support of it should defacto make you an MVP.

Yes, and back in the days when I received my MVP title, this kind of thinking was part of the criteria. Nowadays... no way. It started 7-8 years ago I think when they decided there couldn't be more than X mvp's for a given category and they wanted at least Y mvp's in a given region. So less in the west, and more in say India. While it's fine to make it a more world-wide program and recognize people in communities which are less known to people in 'the west', the criteria to accomplish this changed with it: if you started a user group somewhere in a region without an mvp and someone nominated you, you had a good chance becoming one.

This is all OK btw, if your criteria is about evangelizing. If your criteria is about 'the people who are the most skilled in ABC' then it's not. So this shift in who would receive the award changed the program.

Nowadays it's rather silly tbh. If you want to get renewed you have to fill in a form where you describe why you want to get renewed. wtf... it's an award you receive. Why would you need to tell MS why you'd want to receive an award you haven't received yet as they decide who gets it...
The most important advantage of Firefox for me is being able to run extensions on mobile
I do think there are some fonts that develop into having certain associations and meanings; I can't see how a font can be designed to have that association beforehand, but then, I'm not a designer or psychologist.

But there's a definite cultural meaning to certain fonts; what springs to mind is Impact (memes), comic sans (trolling / badly designed websites / your aunt's emails), and "gothic" fonts (nazis) (https://www.dafont.com/mtheme.php?id=4). I can imagine that font designers can take these fonts and their cultural associations and craft something new that evokes these.
I think the discussion here is mainly of undergraduate degrees.
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Where can I read more about the history of these “big hitter” fonts? It’s interesting to hear about the context within which they were created.
Which part of the paper made you laugh out loud?

Their arguments of why fork() is not a good fit these days seemed pretty reasonable to me.
Having a dashboard mounted phone as a GPS unit is fine, interacting with it any way other than briefly looking at it is not.
And you think we couldn't get to that point without A/B testing? Yellow journalism has been around for much longer than websites.
or use netlify.

the whole point is that I don't want to futz around and use terraform, or read a tutorial, or build a bash tool or whatever.

It's literally like 3 clicks in Netlify and it'll handle _everything_ for me. I point my DNS to Netlify and then I've got HTTPS for free as well.

I used to deploy to S3 as well, and I had a small little `yarn deploy` script that did the webpack build and upload to S3 - its not that hard https://github.com/joshhunt/destinySets/blob/ae08807e3d23de9.... But Netlify is so much easier, especially when working from multiple machines.
It's the feature I'm working on as we speak :)
Absolutely - as I said elsewhere in this thread, I hate the typical tech uniform of jeans, t-shirts, and hoodies, but felt I wouldn't get taken seriously if I looked 'pretty'. Marissa made that ok for me.
I don't use Jekyll.
You shouldn't be upset about that. You should be upset that Facebook is performing tests on its users to optimize against the interests of those same users, without letting the user know what they're doing.
The replacement (Monarch) is similar to borgmon except:

* All metrics have an associated type. Eg. Response time (milliseconds). That's great because units for derived metrics can be dynamically computed. Eg. Bytes/second.

* The query language can fairly efficiently compute metrics at query time rather than needing everything precomputed (eg. 95 percent latency across 1000 tasks can be calculated in real-time).

* The config system is a mess and nobody likes it. Borgmon uses a DSL which is obscure, but almost identical to Prometheus. Monarch has various different config frontends (mostly around the idea of running code to produce an expanded protobuffer config) which all suck. Luckily because there isn't a strong requirement for rules to aggregate data, you don't need much config for most services - just say "scrape everything and keep it for a year".

* There are "levels" of storage at different speeds. In memory, on disk, etc. You have to configure where to put what data. You can also downsample (eg. Change scrape interval to 5 mins after a week).

* Metric names follow a directory-like heirachy. Since tasks can easily have 10k exported metrics, that's pretty important. No need to scrape the ones that aren't relevant.

* It has a shinier UI.

* It has support for exemplars. So to answer the question "Give me an example of a request which saw this high request latency". With not much added code to the monitored service, a small number of exemplars are captured and aggregated in a way that median and outlier exemplars are available. They're super useful for finding out the cause of random slow performance.

* It is run as a service. Rather than code that every team has to run, the new thing is a single instance for all teams in Google. That in turn means it can be more complex, have more dependencies, etc, without being a burden on the user.
In fact an average citizen or a resident of a particular country usually doesn't know even 1% of its laws and can't get the laws to read for free - you have to either buy books or a DRM-ed database, all these are copyrighted. I actually find this ridiculous, if a state wants people to comply to its laws it should make all these laws easily available to everybody for free.
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Looks more like a ground effect boat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)
What is lane surfing?
usually when something becomes so mechanical it is automated and the job is eliminated
'I also voraciously read fiction, so I doubt you not liking it has anything to do with aphantasia, but find overly descriptive portions of text boring and will often skip them.'

As should be clear from this thread, aphantasia is a highly varied condition. It manifests in people in different ways. The fact that you read a lot does not mean that there is no association between aphantasia and not liking fictional books.
It might be more effective if we moved filing to the first week of November.
It'll also lead to even shittier UI because you can't test your actual users for it.
I don't quite get this idea. Is the ability to draw reflection of a sign (as if it was in mirror) or transposing a matrix or 'seeing' the graph of a function in my mind the same thing? I am terrible at remembering faces in details I can defiantly say if I saw a face before in my life or not but if you tell me to describe face of people who I lived with for many years I can't "see" them in my mind.
I can mostly picture things but its not particularly vivid like a photo. If I think of a big area it kind of seems like there is a spotlight of detail where the focused area I am thinking of will be fairly detailed but the rest fades away.
I didn't think if that, the jurisdiction would be where the person died, so potentially anywhere in the world with an extradition treaty could charge them.
Apparently the invention and usage of ultra-specific collective nouns for animals (related to hunting) was fashionable in courts in the 14th and 15th century [1].

Most of the sources about collective nouns refer to the "Book of Saint Albans" as the origin of a large number of them [2]. But the book was meant to humorous, and includes collective nouns even for groups of people: "a superfluity of nuns", "a melody of harpers", "a doctrine of doctors", etc.

I imagine it was a fashionable court game to recite all the hilarious collective names for a vast number of animals and professions. Still, completely pointless from the point of view of communication.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_noun

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Saint_Albans