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Better late than never, but the main question is who are left behind and do they have the same mindset as Eric. He is the virus that has multiplied well. Just another member in the club of Gates, Ellison, Ballmer, Jobs, Zuckerberg & more.

Question is, can we undo the damage done. In 2019 lingo, reverse the Thanos snap. Not sure of Sundar but I still hope that Google twins might do the right thing.
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It's my daily driver for past 6 months and didn't try it before that, and I haven't had a beta impression at all.
Yup, who make money the more you engage with or watch their advertisers. It turns out anger/rage seems to be the best way to do that. People (on the whole) don't consume political media to be challenged in their views... they get a dopamine hit from hearing that their view is correct and continue in a spiral hating the other side of whatever issue is at hand.
How do you define right and left wing?

Modern, colloquial usage has strayed very far from original usage (right = pro-monarchy, left = pro-democract or anarchy)
>I fail to understand how updating a "cloud native" service requires downtime at all, much less this sort of outage.

Probably something to do with DB consistency.
When two sheets of graphene are stacked, and twisted with respect to one another, they form a metameterial, with properties partially dependent on the twist angle.

At a twist angle of 1.1 degrees, the energy required for an electron in one sheet to tunnel to the other sheet drops to zero.

The problem is that certain angles represent a lower-energy state than others, so twisting to a magic angle also requires overcoming some buckling and creasing in the individual sheets, that allow regions to locally align to a non-magic angle (like zero degrees). This confounds measurements of the properties of the metamaterial.

Certain angles have been shown to exhibit superconductivity. While less useful than previously discovered superconductors for the purpose of moving electrons, these are more useful for studying superconductivity itself, because the superconductor is 2.5d, composed of a single type of atom, each with identical bond configurations. A lot of the variables that appear in other superconductors drop out.
Screens are important in cars, for backup camera, bird view camera (incredibly useful), for everything else I use the head up display, I still don’t understand how more companies don’t adopt it, I can’t drive without it anymore, incredibly useful and does not take eyes off the road
I'm not sure about the CDRT part, but otherwise I think Tim Berners-Lee's new SOLID project ticks those boxes? https://solid.inrupt.com/

(Except the encryption, I think.)
The actual term is "great replacement", and it's a conspiracy theory regarding an alleged systematic replacement of native Europeans (i.e. "whites"). The Christchurch shooter was a big fan, apparently.
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At least in database kernels, we noticeably reached this threshold around five years ago with typical server hardware. This is an interesting computer science problem in that virtually all of our database literature is based on the presumption that I/O is much slower than CPU.

If you cleanroom a database kernel design based on the assumption that I/O performance is not the bottleneck, you end up with an architecture that looks very different than the classic model you learn at university. It is always a tradeoff of burning a resource you have in abundance to optimize utilization of a resource that is scarce, and older database architectures are quite wasteful of resources that have become relatively scarce on newer hardware.
i agree. i sometimes think that a two party system is worse than one party as it is ultimately a waste of resources for very little difference
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>OpenGL: Basically the Javascript of graphics API’s.

Not trying to be rude, but I'd just like to point out the apostrophe on API's indicates ownership, as in "John's dog jumped". APIs is fine, as in "John has two dogs".
TechCrunch, HuffPost, Yahoo (News, Sports, Mail, Finance...), Engadget, Edgecast... Still some big stuff left. I think they are trimming the fat (big money losers) right now.

Mostly selling ads, but they are working on video too.
Sounds like something a person without such a hat, would say...
In most situations, I find voice commands to be very annoying and inconvenient. Particularly in a car.

Plus, given that most voice recognition is done in the cloud these days, if something has voice control then I am immediately very suspicious of it.
Fashion. GCC isn't a library, so doesn't have the same kind of hard compatibility concerns that major version numbers are supposed to reflect. Other stuff at the same time started doing the same stuff (c.f. Fedora, Firefox, Chrome), so they did too. Other GNU projects did likewise: Emacs spent a few decades to get from 19 to 21, and now all of a sudden we're at 26.
There was a great blog post I read a while back about constructing a caching layer across network by Dan Luu: https://danluu.com/infinite-disk/

I asked a friend who works in a quant firm and he was like yes it’s true, and it is pretty insane.

I think there’s research Microsoft and Google are doing for RDMA over 100G Ethernet for intra data center communication as well. Pretty neat.
> I find it amazing that viruses, which are supposedly “simpler” aren’t more vulnerable.

That's WHY they're less vulnerable. Less complexity reduces the attack surface. With microbes, there are lots of ways to disrupt their biological processes, but viruses have fewer attack vectors, making it difficult to target them.
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Hmm. If you remember, could you drop me a link the next time you come across this in a recorded talk? It's pretty weird with a word like geek. Something that ends with a voiced sound as in dog of course will be tend to occur with a final /z/ rather than /s/ (though word-final devoicing is a productive process, so even dogs is often realised as /dɔgs/).
So getting free labor in exchange for an existing public service, while denying unemployed people the opportunity to spend their time getting education or training, or searching for real jobs. I'd say that still fits in with my original assessment.
I think you mean “half a century ago”.
That's an interesting perspective.
I always had the feeling that it is unsustainable or unstable to rely on underpaid work.
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The pilots and the airlines didn't design, build, and release a semi-autonomous system which isn't resilient to erroneous data, despite the failure case for that problem being catastrophic.

If an Automotive OEM released a vehicle with an adaptive cruise control system that refused to disable itself except by the human driver intervening through power cycling the vehicle, while driving, it's difficult to put much warranted blame on the driver. The OEM sold a potentially catastrophically faulty system, irrespective of that the fault can sometimes be managed into a fail-safe condition by the driver.

The reason people put the blame on Boeing is because the system implementation didn't fail, the design did.
No, not on a phone. Using Feedly, which is quite a popular reader after Google Reader died. On phone you need to go into the comments before seeing the HN page which has the link in it.
I have implemented an event ticketing system. One of the things I (fortunately) realized early was that storing times with timezones would be a problem: Events get moved, occasionally across timezone boundaries. If you store epoch-instants, then the logic for "set location" would also have to update every timetsamp in the database associated with the event.

IMO, in a database you should store the "natural" representation of date-time as your users think of it. Sometimes (like your alarm clock), it's timezone-less concept. Sometimes (like a sporting event) it's a combination of datetime + location. Sometimes (like historical events) that's a fixed instant in time. Recognize which is which and model appropriately.
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Showing some geopolitical sense, in that Europe, EU and U.S. interests are not given to be the same.
Here's the conclusion from the paper itself:

The differences between deglacial and modern warming preclude us from unequivocally ruling
out the possibility of large-scale natural methane releases to the
atmosphere from old carbon reservoirs in the future. Our results do,
however, suggest that such releases are unlikely. This is consistent
with recent atmospheric observations, which suggest that renewed
growth of atmospheric CH4 since 2006 is not driven by emissions
from the Arctic29, where the most vulnerable old carbon reservoirs
are located today. Instead, our results support the hypothesis that any
future increases in natural CH4 emissions to the atmosphere will be
driven by contemporaneous sources such as wetlands.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1038/nature23316

Another piece of context is that the "don't have to worry" quote was from "Scripps Oceanography geoscientist Jeff Severinghaus, who has been involved with this research project since 2000 and leads the study of ice core records at Scripps." He's in no way a global warming skeptic, but rather an advocate of decarbonization by 2050 to reduce anthropogenic warming, yet he says the sudden arctic methane release is something we don't have to worry about.

There is always more context. Basically anything can be "potentially deceptive", but that does not mean that it is either deceptive or inaccurate. This appears to be a case where the university press release did a pretty good job of remaining true to the paper.

It sounds like you are uncomfortable with the conclusion, rather than the summary of that conclusion.
It's probably being downvoted because it's a long and rambling way of yet again blaming the pilots for not following procedures when the official investigations have proven that this was absolutely not the case.

Being "well-written and detailed" doesn't make it correct.

(I didn't vote either way, FWIW).
ICE was the merger of numerous things, including the INS which pre-dates WW2 making it older than the Air Force, Department of Ed, and dozens of other government agencies.

Saying "only formed 16 years ago" is only right among the "well, actually" crowd.
Sure, I guess my point is just this--it's tempting to see oneself above the ideological fray, when solutions like this come from priors just like any others. This technocratic third way approach tries to bury its political identity in the appearance of objectivity. I'm not even necessarily criticizing its content, though I happen to disagree, I'm just saying that when trying to come up with a balanced system, this approach necessarily favors the center, which, like I said, is an ideological position.
Ironically, and as someone who doesn't really "get" Tumblr, this is also one of those big backfiring things too.

No longer can you see a nipple on Tumblr (well, you can, but that seems like what they're going for in blocking content), but a few errant clicks can easily find you in hardcore Tumblr bestiality territory that's apparently survived unscathed.
You tell me. It wasn't me who posted the one word question, "Elites?"
This sounds like a scam. If that guy is real he has the power to crash the entire bitcoin economy since he premined so much of it
Read the toys r us threads here on Hacker News from a year ago to understand.

The cult of modern business thinking blinds folks in business from the obvious stupidity of the private equity business model. Self dealing almost never ends well.
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Ask HN: How to Price a Software Library?
More than once, I've built a software library - usually something required in specialized industries - which I've then gone on to sell to enterprise customers. Each time, however, I feel that I'm leaving money on the table by pricing it wrong.

It does not seem wise to charge a fixed one time fee of a few hundred bucks when the customer then uses the library for years in their own products. Is it still common to charge per installed CPU/core? How do you then deal with cloud systems where that number always changes and may even be difficult to determine? What about charging "per end user"? In general, can libraries also be charged on an ongoing basis like a SaaS (x EUR per month or year), i.e. do customers accept that?

I've offered maintenance and support packages but when the software works beyond the initial warranty, customers usually don't order them. I could turn the library into an API and charge for that but that's not always what the customer wants.

Any ideas on how to maximize my revenues here?
> they have stupid followers who commit the actual damage

Then shouldn't we ban/punish these followers?
The stats. First time fails are very likely, is stat one. So try to find a fail-cheap opportunity.
Funny how they are doing this on "World Press Freedom Day" while at the same time covering deplatforming of news outlets.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/technology/facebook-alex-...

Now I get they are using platforms which can indiscriminately ban whoever they want. Fine lets say infowars makes their own platform.

Doing okay on their own platform when all of a sudden...

Now common payment processors ban them from being able to receive funding through traditional methods.

When all banks ban you where do you go? Crypto currency of course.

When all common outlets ban you at the same time it doesn't seem much like "World Press Freedom Day" it is more like "Globalization Freedom Day" where you talk against the mainstream opinions and will be silenced. No freedom for you!

Just my 2 cents, not that I endorse infowars I just believe in true and honest discourse and to let the idiots keep talking to be able to show how stupid they are. Banning them only reinforces their audience and empowers them to be more fringe.
He directly inspired SpamBayes, a Python based plugin for Outlook. That thing was like pure black magic back in the day. Worked amazingly well.

Also, Yahoo! Mail implemented at least partly Bayesian based filtering not long after the original PG essay.

I'm guessing GMail is using some kind of statistical filter for not only spam, but general categorization, though as others have pointed out GM is pretty aggressive in filtering. I think that GM might be using collaborative data, aggregating across user behavior and I believe many users deal with signups they're tired of by marking as spam, sharing that behavior across the userbase would cause things that you willingly signed up for to be filtered out.
> but the impact on driving ability is very low.

Are there studies to back this up? Because it sounds like that UI has a much higher cognitive load, which can be as bad as having to take your eyes off the road.
> White nationalists are trying to ruin the OK hand-sign for everybody else by posing for photos in large groups while making the OK hand-sign.

No they're not. People have been doing this for decades. They're not white nationalists.

It's a prank by 4/8chan users. Like 'rainbow parties' and 'thigh bridge' and any number of other things created to waste time. That you (and the NYT) believe it is falling into the trap and doing exactly what they want.
Or their domain registrar drops them. And their hosting company. And their ISP doesn't allow them to self host. And then they're effectively blackballed from the internet.
To the first part: sure, if you're confident a single API service will be the only thing inserting into the DB, then you can skip the DB level limit. I think you may as well add it, since you've already put thought into what you want the API-level limit to be, so why not stick that same value in one more place.

To the second part: that way lies madness. It's true that you don't know all your future use cases, but it isn't a good reason to leave things unrestricted. It is much easier to increase the limit than to lower it (because you are likely to be deleting data if you lower a limit, which is a tough pill to swallow).
> they all deserve treatment equally.

Absolutely true, but rarely are there enough resources to treat all patients simultaneously, hence triage. If the death rate in one group is higher and faster than another, you should focus on that group first, generally.
Postgres uses TOAST tables, an abstraction which allows PG rows to have unbounded lengths. Essentially, this works like a filesystem that supports extended attributes in both “small=intrusive” and “large=external extent” modes. When you have unbounded-length fields in your row-type definition, you end up with

• one “regular” PG table which has a row record type defined with a fixed length (like a filesystem inode), where all the static-length fields are held in the record itself, and any unbounded-length fields have a certain amount of space reserved for them in case they fit into that small space (if they’re even smaller, this space is just wasted);

• and one TOAST table—essentially a table of extents, that the unbounded-length fields of the previous record can, instead of holding data directly, hold pointers into.

TOAST for such columns only gets used when the column’s reserved size within its record gets overflowed; which I believe, for current PG versions, is 127 bytes. So, any row-type where all the fields are bounded to a length of at most 127 (either by literally using VARCHAR(127), or CHAR(127), or by using a TEXT column with a CHECK(length(col) < 128) constraint)—will never use TOAST, thus guaranteeing your stride width and memory bounds.

And, as well, any query that doesn’t try to “unwrap” the value of those unbounded-length columns, won’t have to join against the table’s TOAST table. So you can optimize for the memory bounds of specific queries on a table (by bounding the length of certain fields, keeping them out of TOAST) while leaving other fields as unbounded-length, if no hot-path query uses them.

(There’s also an extra optimization where values that are just barely too large to fit into the 127 bytes of reserved in-record space, are transparently compressed, to see if that’ll make them fit. Thus, although you need the length-check to guarantee that you won’t be using TOAST, it may turn out that your table “gets away with” having some values a bit larger than the bound without ever using TOAST.)
Doesn't this apply to pretty much all social media "influencers" anyway?
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This is already a thing and there are lots of developers putting effort into the `dat://` and `ipfs://` formats and protocols. Persistent naming in content-addressable networks that can be trusted is presently being tackled... and how to structure apps on these protocols...

I'd be down for working on projects in this space. I'm presently contributing some work into the Lean theorem prover where I'm hoping, with a bit of elbow grease, it will be fairly low-cost and attractive to build out more p2p protocols and libraries that meet our privacy and security demands.
While f/64 sounds like a small aperture, it can be worth remembering that it was on large format cameras. A small sensor like on iPhone 6 is wide open corresponding to depth matching f/113!
(iPhone6 is f/2.2, crop is 7.21, 8"x10" camera is crop 0.14. 7.21/0.14*2.2 = f/113)
What shocked me was that after I let my Prime membership expire and ordered something to be shipped, I got the usual 7-10 business day ETA on my package.

The package came the next day, and no extra cost to me. I've made two other orders since then, and they both arrived next day despite the order confirmation telling me 7-10 days.

I'm sure that there's some shipping infrastructure slack that allows them to do this, but I find it super strange now that I get prompted to pay an extra $10 for next-day shipping only to get it anyway.
But you also wouldn't want char(n), because as the article notes:

char(n) doesn't reject values that are too short, it just silently pads them with spaces. So there's no actual benefit over using text with a constraint that checks for the exact length.

So even if you're using pure ASCII, you're supposedly better off just setting the character encoding appropriately and using a text or non-limited varchar field.

That said, I thought the main benefit of a char field (and its padding) was that you could use it in select instances where is was useful to have specific length records. E.g. if all the other fields of the table are fixed length, every record can be fixed length if you use a char(n). I'm not sure if that's a benefit or not to modern databases anymore though.
Oh, I'm aware. I'm arguing for universal lottery, and I think it would work.
AKAIK It refers to demographic trends in the Western world where white ppl have lower fertility rates than other groups.
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Many years ago, I worked on computer systems for luxury RVs. At that time, anyway, the primary issue that electronics had to deal with wasn't temperature or vibration (although those are certainly factors), but electromagnetic interference. Vehicles tend to be insanely electrically noisy.
You’re supposed to not spend more than three times your salary on your house, according to most lenders. So that’s £150k. Are there many houses that cheap in Zone 3?
Flashback to the time I encountered a project where they'd been storing text in bytea columns 'for performance'.

To make matters worse, there were no indexes on anything other than on primary keys.
There is no such thing as impartial journalism. You have to select and interpret events. You cannot but do so from a particular perspective. The Guardian does a far better job than most newspapers at upholding accuracy in their writing. They don't lie to or manipulate their readers.
Compare to social media games like Farmville - most people might spend money they personally consider excessive, but that balances out with some other forms of entertainment. Meanwhile I've heard they had people spending upwards of $10k PER MONTH. Enough so that it wasn't "that one weirdo".

So while the "average" owner might have 1-3 guns (in this case), and the average "fanatic" might have 5-10, you have enough obsessives to throw things off.

(Carefully does not look at bookshelf with literal hundreds of RPGs)
Who said greed good?