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I'll back this up, I work with enterprise customers to adopt kubernetes. I frequently have customers do installs on both AWS and Azure. I have never had a customer as much as consider GCP without me asking whether it was an option. Even then, it was uniformly dismissed. Google has a cool platform, but they've got major mindshare issues.
You can certainly face consequences, just the government cannot be responsible for imposing them. I'd much prefer that bad and dishonest ideas be dismissed and the speakers censured by their community rather than jackbooted thugs forcing silence at gunpoint.

It's obviously not a perfect way of going about things, but I think it definitely errs in the right direction.
The fact that this article does not break down the various transportation costs sets off massive red flags.

The $3k/yr number mentioned for the cost of transportation via car in Houston is on the same order as an MBTA rail pass in the Boston area. Driving everywhere in Houston results in a hell of a lot higher quality of life than riding public transit everywhere in Boston.

Yes of course transit is not free but that's true whether regardless of your mode of transit. The premise is solid. The analysis is lacking.
> But there's still a lot of software out there for which "restart the application" (or even, "restart the stinking OS") is the only practical solution when it's behaving badly.

Which, in principle, doesn't prevent a program from crashing or misbehaving when it encounters a corrupted file left over from its last run. In the imagined system, the application developer would be fully aware whether he is putting a data structure in the "volatile" or in the "non-volatile" memory areas, with some safety guarantees from the OS. Restarting would zero only the volatile area, enabling a clean starting state.

> Okay, but how do you write a process which is capable of communicating with any other process?

Why would you need to communicate with any process? Maybe I need to communicate with the currently running instance of "HTTP Server App" or "Database Engine App", not with an unrelated process my program knows nothing about.
Supposedly Chrome is closing the loophole (a test of local storage IIRC/IIUC). Still ironic under the circumstances.
The part I don't get is how Cerberus made money. It seems like it was a zero-sum for Cerberus. They loaned the holding company 225M, and presumably got that money back through the holding buying the stock back from Cerberus after the holding sold the 11% corp. bonds.

Is it that between when the holding bought the stock back from Cerberus and Cerberus (via the holding) sold the bonds Cerberus had control of Remington (via the holding stock) and therefore effectively sold Remington's assets, paying themselves through the holding's stock. Then, when Remington was valueless, the holding bought the stocks back from Cerberus as if Remington still had value leaving the bond holders hanging?

That's such a dumb scam. Why would anyone buy those bonds, and how was Remington able to get a loan to buy the holding's stock if Cerberus raided it?
It can prevent the concepts from being used outside of experts in a particular academic field. A personal computer's "file system" is a nice concept tech-illiterate people can understand and use, and it's unquestionably proven a useful metaphor. Even though it falls apart in certain cases, it works pretty well for most.
my last employer had 3 plans, all high deductible. The one with the lowest deductible was significantly more if you hit the max out of pocket and included the higher premium. It was like $10k vs $6.5k, worst case.
That's pretty much our points. Shipping speed is mostly about factors other than Prime membership.
Short answer: No.

Long answer: Fuck no.
After spending time extracting data and text from PDF I would also say it’s the worst file format. We have perfectly fine structured documents, convert them to PDF to lose half of the information and then we spend insane effort to get the data back somehow.

It also doesn’t render well on different resolutions.

PDF is a perfect case study how inferior solutions can become standards.
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Fits perfectly with Betteridge's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

tl;dr: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
I've been watching NetSol devolve in this direction. It started when they were acquired by web.com. They have really gone downhill. I had to teach their escalation support how to use "dig" against external / authoritative servers.

That said, I have found they are still better than most of the registrars that have popped up since. Some of the registrars can't even handle apex names as NS records. The scammy upselling appears to be a trend and isn't limited to registrars. Comcast did that to me as well with their bandwidth plans.
Important to highlight because Palantir initially lied about what they're building and what it's supporting. Makes you think about what else they have their hands in
I don't know. I personally think plain text is a more important file format. It's read and writeable by a million programs. Any first year programming student can easily build their own program to read and write plain text. It is fairly easily parseable. Etc.

I just opened a random PDF on my computer in a text editor and it starts off with "xÕ\ko‹∆˝Œ_1@ÉbD 9|ÌËáƒZçÌDJÇ¢)UZ[nıÚÆÏƒA˛Pˇeœπ"
Ask HN: AWS SQS down in us-east-2?
Seeing 503's in both the AWS console, and in our logs.

[edit]: It also appears now that the following services are all experiencing issues in us-east-2:

- SQS

- Lambda

- CloudWatch

- IoT

[edit]: As of 11:18 AM PDT, it appears that SQS and CloudWatch are back up.
But every time there's a "b" in the output string, the lyrics to All Star are added in plaintext.
Why's that? Verizon already sells porn.
This is custom software built for these use cases, not something generic like Excel. They're worlds apart
Really? that kind of puts them on a tough spot, between not willing to sell tumblr and letting it get overrun by porn bots...
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!
Maybe. But I was already bored, lonely, angry and stupid before devices and social media were even invented.
> For example, I enroll my family in my employer's HDHP. The total premiums from our plan is about $19k this year (employer pays about $14k, I pay about $5k). For this, we have $4k deductible and an $8k max out of pocket coverage.

Posts like this really emphasize to me how broken healthcare in America is. This is a fairly standard setup and yet you're paying $23,000 per year before you get anything from your insurance other than price negotiation. The median annual personal income in the USA is $31,000.
As I was reading this, I remembered the days of my youth setting the IRQ and DMA address for my soundblaster (compatible) soundcard.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/20140918/NEWS03/1409...
Comments on that video place it in Brazil, but your main point still stands.
The notion that reasonable reporting is some kind of unattainable ephemeral ideal is obvious nonsense pushed forward by ideologues. Before 2014 most of the mainstream media were keeping their biases in check. It doesn't mean they had no biases or that they were always objective, but they tried. Today they simply don't. It is normal to pepper news articles with expletives, inject political rants into unrelated subjects and do wild speculation.

It's not like all the news articles from before 6 years ago have been lost in a fire. One can still go and read them. Even look at front page snapshots via archive.org. The different is astounding.
You had views dependent on views? Object oriented database schemes sound problematic.
Pre ACA, pre-existing conditions could disqualify you from insurance. People with pre-existing conditions are the people that need health care coverage the most. We can't under-weigh the moral obligation we have to this previously marginalized group, when considering service may be slightly worse for people who have employer coverage.

How I see it: if you were in the pre-ACA pre-existing condition pool, your perspective would be vastly biased in a different direction. And nobody wants to end up in that pool. Nobody chooses that. That's why it's a net win overall.

People died because they don't have coverage (unfortunately, still happens, but substantially decreased by ACA). If things are slightly worse for people who already had access, It's such a small price to pay.
The problem with engineers (speaking as one myself) is that we're prone to focusing only on the mechanism itself, abstracting away the details and ignoring the parts of the system we can ignore. In software we can often get away with this because the rest of the system is just further machinery; there are benefits to taking it into consideration, sure, but nobody gets hurt when you don't.

But business and finance are not software. Their systems are made of people. When you waste a CPU's time by ignoring its nuances, you simply get less out of it. When you shuffle money around, writing off the nuances of industry and economics as blips in a monetary machine, you destroy lives. I understand the appeal of the engineering mindset, but you have to be a psychopath to continue in it while leaving such destruction in your wake.
Sorry, no, I wasn’t aware of those.
Free pass? No. Is it the primary source of their traffic? Hardly.

Infowars peddles in hate. CNN comes by it occasionally. There is a difference, and it's huge.
Why so negative and condescending?
I wish he'd cite sources rather than implying by omission that everything is his idea. There's a reason A New Kind of Science was self-published.
I find Stephen Wolfram to be a an interesting person. On one hand, he is undeniably exceptional and created an impressive computational system. On the other hand, the "Wolfram language" is really a pretty poor design as far as programming languages go, and would not even be noticed if it wasn't for the giant standard library that gets shipped with it, called Mathematica. I use the "Wolfram language" because I have to, not because I want to.

In other words, if I could easily use the Mathematica library from Clojure, I wouldn't give the Wolfram Language a second glance. I can't think of even a single language aspect that would tempt me to use the Wolfram Language [context: I've been a Mathematica user since 1993] over Clojure. I have (much) better data structures, a consistent library for dealing with them, transducers, core.async, good support for parallel computation, pattern matching through core.match, and finally a decent programming interface with a REPL, which I can use from an editor that does paren-matching for me (ever tried to debug a complex Mathematica expression with mismatched parens/brackets/braces?).

This is why the man is a contradiction: his thoughts are undeniably interesting, but his focus and anchoring in the "Wolfram Language" is jarring.
Where should the line that ends free speech be?

I imagine it's somewhere between deceptively yelling fire in a crowded theatre and expressing genuine, if provably false, concerns about vaccines.

Deplatforming from social sites and banks is the least we can do when it's not clear where the law should step in and claims dispute overwhelming evidence.

As someone whose had a comprised immune system I'd prefer to err on the side of stopping the spread of false medical information.
This is exactly the point I was trying to make in my original comment. Really good healthcare plans (with minimal deductibles and great coverage) used to be a benefit that employers could reasonably provide. Employees/family members who got sick would get good coverage without going broke. Now the cost is of providing that kind of coverage is completely untenable.
Yes, but why does the creditor play along?
My last sentence would appear to agree with you here.
I know someone who pre-ACA had employer insurance who was dropped by that insurance after they got skin cancer. The official reason was lying during the application process (10+ years earlier).

They forgot to list childhood Asthma on their application form ten years earlier.
...except humans instinctively organize things by hierarchies (even something as counting is done hierarchically).

Just saying “we need to change this” without saying what the short comings you want to address isn’t a super useful statement. Multiple platforms have attempted to have the user interface to their data be tag based, but that simply doesn’t scale for the amount of data people can manage with hierarchies.

Finally what the heck are you talking about in that last sentence: how does changing representation result in a new age of experimentation and (???) craftsmanship? Why is craftsmanship gated on the user level abstraction to bytes? Experimentation already happens today, what does this change?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this what Plan 9 does?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that the HN crowd is not Indigo's target audience.
Mark may be bombastic, but he's not usually wrong.

It's hard to believe they actually did the pre-auth - anybody here at PayPal reading this?
Really? What I vaguely remember that the storage nodes were embedded linux boxes. Yes, they understood indices and would return only minimum needed, but it was still software.
I know nothing about train tracks past my BRIO days, but a bit about graphs. Can you explain how a track would not be bidirectional except for a permanent loop?
Yes, but if I understand correctly, you do end up with a bill afterwards.
> The problem when no one has to pay anything is that people don't care about price.

And yet somehow the U.S., where we expect people to pay for their health care, spends twice as much per capita on health care as the average industrialized country: https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0006_health-care-oecd
Yeah, it makes me very uncomfortable when people say "housing is unaffordable in ${region} for anyone making less than ${salary}.

On the one hand, I appreciate that they're trying to put numbers on a problem we all feel in our gut. You can't hand-wave it away by saying "well, things change".

But, at the same time, things DO change. At a time when many goods and services are at an all-time low in terms of costs, why WOULDN'T housing costs go up? On the one hand, costs will be affected by constrained or increased supply. On the other hand, there's the demand side. If I can afford to cheaply feed and transport and clothe myself, why would I not choose to allocate a greater share of my income towards housing closer to work, or with more space, or in a more desirable neighborhood? The choices we all freely make with how to allocate our income necessarily drives affordability for others.
My employers have been complaining about skyrocketing health insurance costs since my first job in 1998. This all predates the ACA by at least 20 years.
Well it’s still Congress’s fault for being scammed by a corporation.

In way, US is run by corporations so I think this was by design.

This is a country for corporations, run by corporations.

What’s written on US passports is a lie.
Database algorithms are typically designed for worst case storage throughput i.e. the bandwidth floor, which for hard disks is not sequential access patterns. In the spinning hard disk days you assumed a few MB/s per disk, because you would often see that in real systems. Even with a disk array, it usually wasn't enough to keep the CPU busy if real-world access patterns kept disk throughput near the floor.
Both of these things can be true: that the top 1% own a large fraction of wealth, and that an even larger fraction is owned by the pensions and retirement plans of the non-wealthy.

Wealth comparisons are tricky, e.g they'll show that Americans are some of the poorest people in the world because there's a large fraction with debt (e.g homes, credit cards, student loans). While technically true, that doesn't really match our intuitions for what wealth means.
Wrong!

http://markwadsworth.blogspot.com/2019/05/killer-arguments-a...
Sort of. Intel's server parts top out at on the order of 48 PCIe 3 lanes (Skylake-SP). Those parts have 6-channel DDR4 memory (rated to DDR4-2666), giving a theoretical DRAM throughput limit of about 128 GB/s.

Meanwhile, a PCIe 3.0 lane has a theoretical throughput limit of about 985MB/s; 48 lanes makes 47 GB/s.

Both are theoretical numbers and in practice will be lower, and you're right that it doesn't give you a lot of free CPU to do any kind of processing on the data, but it seems like the CPU can keep up (as long as Intel continues to have an anemic number of PCIe lanes and until PCIe 4 comes along).

(FWIW, on a dual-socket Skylake-SP, Anandtech only achieved 122 GB/s (of theoretical 256 GB/s DRAM maximum). But Intel claims the dual-socket can reach 199 GB/s with an AVX-512 workload.[1] Scaling both of these numbers down by a factor of two gives a very crude estimate for single-socket DRAM bandwidth on a conventional workload (61 GB/s) and AVX-512 (99 GB/s).)

Meanwhile, AMD's Zen server parts have more than double the PCIe lanes but only a few more memory channels, so I expect you're correct there — huge/fast PCIe arrays could be bottlenecked on DRAM on that platform.

[1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd...
I hate them. They take out all the benefits of the database and add only cognitive load. I guess the case for them could be made in the same way that why would you write Assembly instead of C but to me an ORM is to the database like visual basic is to C
>>The purpose...is to determine “whether the intense preferences of the minority outweigh the weak preferences of the majority”>>

Given this, apparently the problem is that strong minority preferences are being snuffed out by majority preferences? Of course, this is the inherent flaw in democracy.

In the US we have two guards against that - the first is the Electoral College and the second is the Constitution. The former ensures that even the least populated states have at least a minimum (as opposed to effectively none) effect on the outcome and the second ensures that the government can't be used for something evil just because a majority has voted to to use it for that purpose.

So if there's a "zealotry" problem as the title implies, why can't these tools be used to manage it? What is wrong with them such that we need this new, additional layer?
> Accounting 101, capital items do not count towards profit.

Technically yes and no. The initial capital amount does not, but its amount gets depreciated/amortized over time.
It's so easy to monkey-patch a set of tracks, especially when you have different lengths of track, lots of them and a saw or router.
Avoid like the plague.
That study is super flawed. Its conclusion is directionally correct, but aggregating negative wealth just doesn't make sense in this context, so the numbers "8" and "half" are meaningless except insofar as you interpret them only with the precision "few" and "lots".
The additional resources to send your toothpaste many miles by plane, truck, etc in additional packaging because you don't want to travel to the local grocery store to buy it.
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I hate on the ACA as much as the next guy, but the article you linked blames drug overdoses and suicides. For that I would blame the for-profit health care system pushing opioids and the (Great Recession + inadequacy of our mental health care system). To blame that on a law that sought to eliminate preexisting conditions and to establish a baseline as to what a health insurance plan ought to provide seems like a stretch. Having a free yearly physical isn't going to help your crushing depression and economic anxieties.
It's bizarre that it's legal for me to look at pictures of a naked person, but effectively illegal to use technology to do so, just because advertising is subject to the whims of a moralistic and prejudicial minority.
> For money amounts, use NUMERIC(19,4)

Note, if you'll ever encounter yourself dealing with cryptocurrencies you would probably found yourself wanting to have at least 18 decimal places (BTC and lots of coins have 8, and ETH has 18).
Basically they disagree on how to treat their fellow citizens.

Democrats are against outright hostility and blatant marginalization of certain classes.

But both have largely been ok with everyone being exploited by feudal trade economics, bombing other nations to satisfy global political norms, and swindling developing nations out of their resources, while emotionally coddling elites.

It means something to not be outright hostile to the truly marginalized, but the Dems have not exactly been labors friend. And most people are laborers. They’ve failed the majority plenty.
Thankyou whoever made this come into existence
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Microkernels tend to do a lot of what you're talking about. They accomplish this via interrupts and virtual mapping of the device memory to userspace for the userland app to access.

"If we wanted, we could even replicate a kernel device driver style API in userland that network device drivers program against, done as a set of userland library files loaded dynamically based on detected hardware."

This is how many microkernel based embedded RTOS's work. Common API's written for a hardware device, say a NOR flash chip, and the driver for the hardware onboard implements the interface specific to that hardware. You can then dynamically link the driver specific to your hardware. That's what I was doing as an embedded C developer some 10 years ago, and that solution had already been implemented for at least a decade (or 2) before that.
Yeah, that's fair - the big caveat with London is that you'll basically be renting in zone 2 outwards if optimising cost of living is in any way important to you. That's one of the tradeoffs I always forget when comparing Berlin and London.

Though to be fair, London being what it is, plenty of places in zone 2 still very much feel like bustling city living if that's your thing. Berlin, less so - once you're out of the central neighbourhoods it gets 'suburban' rather more quickly.
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What problems did you have? It's dead easy.
Haha, me too.
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> a hard-to-extract format such as PDF

What's hard about it? It's an open standard with libraries in every language known to man.

If you use it as a dumb wrapper for scanned images, that's going to suck. But as a way to store and faithfully reproduce nicely typeset documents with images - ie, to make an archival copy - I don't think it can possibly be beat.
For more info on the PDF format:
[VIDEO] Programming data for display, the PDF Story by Chas Emerick - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAki8C6qFHY&list=PLGRqfvsPiR...
I think he's inferring to the government being able to get to it in the future. Whether it be by future legislation of extended early withdrawal penalties, or new tax laws. Yes, it is your money but is still subject to federal and state laws. It's different than a bank account.
Yeah but what it state here is that if you want to add a limit on field size, then add a check constraint... Much easier to deal with than changing type
Even among non-technical people this isn't true. Those people use excel and word far more than pdf. For devs, we're all about various text formats.
> price transparency

And even list prices themselves are typically starting points for negotiations when a provider is dealing with a large payor whereas an unwell individual (y'know, one who is about to spend a lot of money on healthcare) is not in a great position to bargain with her caregivers, and so is forced to negotiate after the fact, from an artificially inflated starting point, under the guise of bill reduction, or worse, debt relief.