skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During 2006–2010, 10,649 deaths
of U.S. residents were attributed to
weather-related causes of death
(Table 2). Exposure to excessive natural
heat, heat stroke, sun stroke, or all were
cited as either the underlying cause or a
contributing cause of death for 3,332
(31%) of these deaths, and exposure to
excessive natural cold, hypothermia, or
both was cited for 6,660 (63%)

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr076.pdf

And most global warming mitigates cold extremes rather than increasing hot extremes (polar amplification, increased night-time temperatures, etc.).
What can the compiler actually do with '__builtin_expect_with_probability'? I understand that '__builtin_expect' can be used to choose which branch to prioritize but can you expect the optimizer to get better by having a probability attached?
SAAS and the goals outlined in this article can be perfectly complementary if you let client-side JS do most of the work. Just because an app runs in the browser doesn’t mean that you also have to share all your data with the developer, or lose your ownership of it.
Maybe worth a try. Sometimes one business fails to find the right recipe/market but another might very well do.
Upvoted for your honesty :-)

I like cars and enjoy driving too, but I hate paying ridiculous amounts for parking, dealing with rush hour traffic and driving on crowded city streets. So I take the bus in to work and avoid all the above.
Why can't a US company buy ad space on a South American website?
I don’t know about you, but my WMATA rage (raging at the fact that the ride is super jerky because they used all their maintenance funds for hookers and cocaine and thus had to turn off automatic train control; raging at sitting stopped because some switch broke down again, etc.) raises my blood as much as toad rage ever did.
I just checked and it's still not available in the US on iOS
> I try to guess in my head what is the best length for this field to optimize for performance, but sounds like using unlimited length (textfield) field doesn't make any difference.

That used to be a good idea. I guess it's fallen the way of defragging, or "parking" your hard drive.
by illegal, I believe the poster was mostly referring to child or violent content as opposed to copyright.
This checks out. A single 12 TiB RAM u-12tb1.metal on AWS EC2 goes for $30.539/hr. For a month for one (24 * 30), that's a bill of $21,988.08 USD.

A single i3.16xlarge, with 15.2TB NVMe SSD goes for $4.992/hr, or $3,594.24 USD a month. 16.33% of the price.

I'm not going to argue whether an in-memory database (measured in ns) wouldn't give you performance improvements over fetching data from an SSD (measured in ms). But not everyone needs that speed or can afford it for that price.

Sources: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-amazon-ec2-hi...

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/i3/

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/on-demand/
Those are more like add-on features a driver can use if present. They don't push peripheral interfaces into a standard channel-like format. Nor are they close to one that can be exposed to application programs.
There are no American cities with “decent public transportation.” NYC, DC, and Chicago are the only candidates. The first two used to be good, but have fallen off a cliff due to deferred maintenance. The latter is pretty good but inaccessible from vast swaths of the city.
Most of that stuff is horribly illegal in the EU. Explicitly even.

Plus if you took them to court after getting a surprise-bill, I'd imagine even a US court siding with you.

This is just fraudulent.
Google Is Inescapable, Here's Why
"sorry, i don't buy it. it's not a matter of attitude, it's just common sense and sanity."

It's not 'common sense' or 'sanity' to break existing code bases. Companies and individuals have generally spend millions on their software and breaking changes cost time and money. There's a reason that Python 3, for example, took over a decade to be fully adopted. Breaking changes should only be implemented with considerable evaluation of the actual need and of existing options. If users cannot rely on you to not break their systems, they will move on to someone they can rely on.

"either don't upgrade or fork away, don't make others suffer for your unwillingness to change."

I manage a number of databases, mostly of a financial nature, and I can tell you that if I were using a database system developed the way you suggest I'd be in trouble. On the one hand, I have to keep my data secure so I have to patch my systems on a regular basis so I can't use a version of a database system that isn't being actively updated. On the other hand, I have to manage hundreds of thousands of lines of mission critical code, most of which I didn't write, and a large amount of data which absolutely, under no circumstances, can be lost, if I want to keep my job. To that end, I can risk breaking changes and usually wouldn't have the bandwidth to accommodate them if I could. There's a reason that many big companies are still using mainframes despite their being better options: rule number one as a system administrator is to not break the existing system.

"a better example commenters could focus on is the type `money` - if best advice from postgres about handling money is to not use `money` type - it shouldn't be part of postgres. how is that in any way controversial?"

Let's actually take this example seriously. Let's say that there is an off-the-shelf accounting system that uses PostgreSQL and because of bad decisions made in the past, uses the 'money' datatype internally. Presumably they've worked around its limitations so it's no longer an issue for them. Let's say that PostgreSQL decides to remove this datatype in the next release of the database. Well, suddenly not only does that accounting system no longer work, bu every company that uses the software is SOL. In addition, any integrations and custom code that worked with that accounting system are now broken. This is a loss of millions of dollars in software dev time at the very least. There's also a possibility of dataloss, which when talking about accounting systems is a matter of legal compliance. This is a much worse outcome than people accidentally using 'money' in new development in future. Considering that the later problem can be ameliorated with just a warning, that seems like the more obvious trade-off.
Due to compound returns, a marginal advantage makes a huge difference over a 40 year career.
The Unreal, Eerie Emptiness of China's 'Ghost Cities'
I'm not sure why the comments here are unusually toxic, but I think it is good to hear this. The EU tech sector has an opportunity to create customer-first text services with a strong focus on privacy and data portability, but it'll need some concessions and some support. There's no reason why the EU cannot replicate at least some of the success the US has had in the tech market, and even internally it has a large enough market to give rise to some healthy entities.

Of course these might be actually sustainable businesses and not startups playing the unicorn game with VCs, trading at impossible sky-high valuations instead of what they're really worth and without a vision for profitability, so whatever metric you use to calculate success should definitely take that into account.
Flexible File Sharing with Macaroons
They do have to publish prices, right? See: https://www.google.com/search?q=doctors+and+hospitals+must+p...

Maybe these aren't the "true prices"? I certainly wouldn't know where to look to find how much a "knee surgery" would cost, and I'd probably need to know some obscure medical code I don't have access to, as well as the intricacies of the knee surgery to know exactly what price to look up. I don't know how publishing "true prices" would work.

What kind of knee surgery am I having?
Will I have to pay extra for the anesthesiologist? What kind of anesthesia will they be using?
What about surgery preparation? What costs do I need to include for that?
What about post surgery? There's probably a dozen cost items to add to the total for post surgery.
The nurse brought me a glass of water. I'm not sure if that comes with a charge or not? Presumably someone has to pay for the plastic cup. Etc.
The solution to that is postscript. I still see quite a few papers being distributed in postscript form.
I'd argue, between the two companies, a significant portion of my free time over my life has been spent consuming their content.
we call this beecryption
Remember when they put a wildcard in the gLTDs? Assholes.
Oh. So that's where their crypto stablecoin comes in.
TLA+: design, model, document, and verify concurrent systems
Oh, hi. I hope life is better now.

Cheers.
I had the same experience where as a sole proprietor health insurance for a family of 5 is now $2,000/month. $24k/year not for great healthcare, but for the privilege of paying a "discounted rate" on "select services" when you actually need healthcare.

We haven't needed the coverage for two years but when we did, what we needed wasn't covered so we paid full price anyway including $80 for a bottle of Ibuprofen that was casually offered to us. The markups are almost criminal.

For a $1M home you can find insurance for $1,500 per year. It's exponentially less expensive.

ACA was the worst possible compromise to a serious problem. A public option, universal healthcare or deregulation all would have been better options.

It'd be much nicer to be able pay a doctor to make house calls as needed and waive your right to a malpractice lawsuit than to pay to support this insurance/legal/government system we have now.
I missed the part about "petabytes a day". I'm curious, which companies stores petabytes of data a day in a single database?
> outside programmers

This is not true. Ask a Lawyer, Accountant or a Journalist wading through govt pdfs.

The reasons cases and investigations take forever is the time spent manually reassembling related data residing in different orgs. The same data across all orgs will show up as 25 differently structured tables.
This is changing slowly but putting public tabular data in pdfs has probably cost the economy billions.
Universal computation is about information processing, and information processing is definitely an important thing that intelligent agents are doing.

(I wrote universal computation - to mske a distinction to common physical processes like what forks usually do - we may obviously say that a glass of water computes in a second where water molecules of that water will be in a second, but that is too direct and missing the abstraction level that my mind has (sensing and modelling my environment) or a universal turing machine has (manipulating symbols which may stand for(modell) something)
On the web site, the opinion pages (including capital-E Editorials) have a cream background, while everything else has a white background.
This is a huge misrepresentation of this voting system. It makes zealotry possible, not expensive...
Do you feel the same way about companies that use Twitter for official communication?
Your subtractions are off by one because you're treating the boundary as a "release" without accounting for the previous inter-release period. Those periods reflect, respectively, TWO major releases in 8 years, and FOUR major releases in 11 years. So things since 22 are about about 50% faster by my reckoning, which is notable but maybe not as much as as my intuition held.
Partly, it sometimes works. Partly, the people who own the private equity firms also sit on bank boards.

Because you know, we stripped out most of those laws.
I mean you can spin up a new company that brands differently but uses their hosting infrastructure.
Not to mention things like the mental stress and sedentary lifestyle.
Steve Mould had an interesting video on eye movement:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaC2RXBss2c

The title is "How To Move One Of Your Eyes On Its Own," but the more fascinating content was his description and demonstration of the different kinds of voluntary and involuntary eye movements we make when looking around our world.
Why Bernie Sanders should give his millions away
AFAIK, preexisting conditions weren't a disqualifier for any employer-provided health insurance (which is why group policies are so expensive).
The eSports team was "Team YP" and there was no explicit or even suggestive reference to YouPorn on the website or jerseys.
Was the ACA the best to address the problem of pre-existing conditions?

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/06/why-has...

"There were supposed to be millions of people who were uninsurable because of pre-existing conditions. We heard lengthy testimony about their terrible plight. I don't think it's too strong to say that this fear--that you could get sick and no one would insure you, that's right, you, Mr. & Mrs. Middle-Class Voter--was one of the main reasons offered for the health care overhaul. It was estimated by Medicare's Chief Actuary that around 400,000 would sign up (the CBO estimated 200,000, but only because they assumed that HHS would use its authority to limit enrollment in order to stay within the $5 billion budgeted for the program). So where are all the uninsurable people?"

So if this is accurate, that is the size of risk pool isn't that large. Wouldn't be better to create a special program for people who fall into this category?
Clearly. However it IS a good approximation. For RTGs, we desire primarily alpha emitters as alpha particles are generally the easiest type of decay product to shield (the thin metal casing will stop all alpha particles). And common Alpha emitters such as Po-210, Am-241, Pu-238, and U-232 all have a decay energy of about 5-6MeV even though they differ in half life (and thus power density) by 3 orders of magnitude.
> If you're saying the ACA harmed the health care system, strong disagree.

The system? No. Corporate welfare is great for "the system." But the consumers? Absolutely harmed!

> Again: the cost increases you're talking about were a fact of life before the ACA.

I've been working for over a decade now. 100% increases, year-over-year have never been even close to a thing with employer plans I've held. Not even close. Typically something in the realm of $20 per year at worst for a quality plan.

Here is another fun anecdote. I recently lost a job, and my firm was too small, with only 4 insured, to qualify for the COBRA. Total premium for the plan was roughly $150, roughly $75 per party as my employer paid 50%. Comparable coverage through the same insurer through the marketplace would have cost me nearly 4x as much.

The reality is the ACA allows insurance firms to sell obscenely over-priced plans to consumers. A sane system would have seen price controls in conjunction with the requirement for insurance. Instead I am forced to pay an insurer, pay the government, or prison. I would happily pay taxes for a fully nationalized system, but the ACA is obscene.
I always giggle at the concept that Reddit is anti-corporate, because they are the easiest people to advertise to if you do it correctly. Generally speaking, they already pre-assemble into groups that are very often themed by patronage to the Corporate Gods (marvel, GoT, video games, whatever), and it becomes their entire identity.
PDF don't need to use base64. (nor base85). They can embed pure binary just fine. A PDF with a JPG is just a few more bytes than the raw JPG.

Same for text. Text can be pure text,but for space saving, it usually will be deflate-compressed.
> Look into any religion hard enough and you will find all categories of them to be logically and historically unsustainable except Catholicism. That's why I'm here. It is the only belief system fully compatible with intellectual integrity. Saint Thomas Aquinas said the same thing when he said that anyone who actually looked into Islam would see clearly that it is utterly absurd and full of contradictions.

Roman Catholicism says that communion will turn wine and bread into literal flesh and blood. How on earth is that "compatible with intellectual integrity"? Or believing in a literal virgin birth? Another thing I can't intellectually justify is insisting on priest celibacy and keeping women out of the priesthood.

I'm not going to debate in favor of Islam, but it seems that mainstream protestant beliefs (or at least those which I'm familiar with, the beliefs of United Methodism) are just as capable of claiming the good parts of Christian philosophy, without insisting on the parts which clearly just exist due to the the Roman Catholic penchant for power wrangling and hierarchies.
API for unlimited access to realtime Amazon price, ratings and review counts
The lifetime max was multiple millions, I don't remember the exact number. As I stated, it was just about the best policy available for any amount of money. There is no credible way to spin this as actually being worse for those employees. I like to hire "expensive older" engineers, so dialing healthcare benefits up to eleven was intended to attract that kind of employee.

All insurance policies have implicit lifetime maximums, unless the laws of economics and finance have been repealed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast.

My guess is that the professional community, people that earn money manipulating/contributing paid-content to Reddit, is quite big. Or, at least, their impact is really big. Most people are just readers and Reddit professionals have time, motivation and knowledge to game the system.

I have fun reading Reddit. And I read it very often. But, I do not trust all the enthusiasm about any movie/service/app or similar that the community generates. It is usually over the top and not very useful to actually get a good idea of the quality of such a product.

I think that as a society we need to develop new mechanisms to deal with the situation. Probably regulation is one of them. But, for people to able to understand that not everything in the internet is true is also important. It will take time, people still think that reality shows are real, but I think that is feasible.
Understanding Uber's Bleak Operating Economics (2017)
What I'm talking about here is not academic database technologies in laboratories, but the typical mysql/postgres/oracle/sqlserver production world regular programmers live in. So yes, I know pragmatic strategies for avoiding deadlocks, but in all the databases I've used, you have to proactively employ such a strategy. Many if not most of these programmers have at best a rudimentary knowledge of transactions and/or whether they are even using them (thanks to ORMs). My concern is that someone reads a blog like this, concludes that serializable is best, and proceeds towards disastrous consequences.
No, of course not, lots of people enjoy driving and drive as a hobby. Lots of people also hate it. You also can't deny it has massive externalities.
A Quantum Physicist Breaks Down the Time Travel in ‘Avengers: Endgame’
A Firebase for CRDTs
The unique part about computation is that we can throw an immense amount of energy at specific problems in isolation to force rapid evolution, and backtrack to snapshots easily if we don’t like where we ended up.

You can select for an intelligent swarm of fruit-flies, but it’s going to take you a lot longer to get your result than if you could simulate the whole process. Now, if it’s simulated, will you be able to walk your final result back to meat-world DNA? Not unless you included that level of detail in your simulation, which would be extraordinarily expensive to do and fraught with problems due to the scale. But even then, the simulation gives you some advantages: affect the flow of time, backtrack in time to explore other paths under alternate simulated conditions, etc. In the real world, you can’t have that kind of perfect reproducibility.
>It might be nice to pass this information along to the agency to see if they'd be willing to convert all their forms.

If you see a way to, make them pay for it; there is money to be made.
> Extract and move is fine, but many programs extract to a temp dir first, and then copy the file. I don't think anyone minds an extra rename (and, as you say, it gets you a sort of atomicity with the extract) but moving a file out of a temp dir can mean doing a full copy, if the destination is not on the same FS.

The way many programs deal with this (Firefox, rsync by default I think) is to create a temp file in the destination directory with a throwaway initial name. This approach seems like a good tradeoff to me. I agree that using a temp directory for an arbitrarily-large file that is intended to be written to disk is a big mistake. I don't think any tools I regularly use do this, but my /tmp is a tmpfs so it wouldn't be too pessimal on my setup.

> As a side note: for POSIX OS's, this is why I much prefer the FD based operations. I don't think it quite exists, but I really think the right answer here is to create a deleted file, and then give it a filename. That is, you write the data out to disk, and hardlink it into its final resting place. Atomic, but with no mess of figuring out a temporary name. This is the reverse of how temporary files work, where you create a temp file & then delete it, before writing to it. (Linux allows this; it'll clean up the file when it is closed. It's backed by disk, and since it lacks a name, it can't be inadvertently opened or messed with by other programs. It's a way of saying "give me anonymous disk space".) There's a syscall to create deleted files in one-shot, now, but I don't think there's a way to hardlink them, yet. (Note that you need to still provide either a path, or the FD to a directory, s.t. the OS can determine what FS should back the file, and that you have access to disk at all.)

How would you specify which filesystem the deleted file should be created on?
No need for it in the crew compartment, overall it’s likely worth bringing and additional 70kg of equipment back than a computer that can likely won’t survive the landing.
Is it so hard to just put up an optional explicit content filter? I don't know why it has to be all or nothing when you can just serve the "Yes I am 18 and agree to see adult content" popup that's been around for decades now. Reddit seems to be doing OK with that system.
>Maybe these aren't the "true prices"? I certainly wouldn't know where to look to find how much a "knee surgery" would cost, and I'd probably need to know some obscure medical code I don't have access to, as well as the intricacies of the knee surgery to know exactly what price to look up. I don't know how publishing "true prices" would work.

This is exactly the problem. They publish "prices" but those prices don't mean anything.
What are key differences of RCS from MMS?
I don't like the entire concept of "pre-existing conditions". It goes against the entire concept of caring for sick people.

We are all people. We all get sick sometimes. Sicknesses can last a long time, or a short time. Sick people need help. Help the sick people. Pay what you can (a reasonable amount) into a common pool and take what you need (only as much as you need)
This is a treasure trove of information; however, it's not what I would call concise. Did you run across anything else to supplement this during your program?
You can still deduct contributions from income taxes, and you can also transfer funds after contributing to your employer sponsored HSA to your individual one.
Original article that broke the news: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/pornhub-i...
Save file as Static PDF Form from Livecycle/AEM. (That means advanced capabilities like tables that can "grow" are removed.) Open in Acrobat Pro. Extract the pages (Shift-rightclick the thumbnails on the left side) to a new PDF.

If you asked Adobe, they would say this is not possible. :-)