skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Collectors and others of similar nature aside, I tend to wonder if this is going to lead to problems in the future?

I'm not anti-gun by a long shot (no pun intended), but pictures I have seen of some of these "collections" are staggering (like, enough guns and ammo to arm a small platoon of people).

In many cases they aren't displayed as a collection, but closer to a weapons cache in waiting...for what kind of situation I don't know.
Of course there are solutions to outages. Multiple regions, failover, multiple cloud providers, or just don't put all your eggs in $CLOUD, and do some on-prem as well, etc, etc, etc.

There are many ways to handle outages.

I'm just saying if you are averaging 4+ outages PER MONTH across all of your services, you are probably doing something wrong.
These providers are on schedule to pass 50 outages this year!

All the places I've ever worked, if we can count our customer facing outages per year past the number of planets humans live on(1) we consider ourselves a total failure that year and re-work our planning. We haven't had to re-work our plans in ~ 5 years. Our longest outage in the past 5 years? 1 hr long. Granted I'm not the scale of $CLOUD, but there is zero reason they can't get serious about uptime, they just don't bother. People are still flocking to $CLOUD in droves, despite their crappy uptimes.

It's not rocket science to make stuff work, you just have to get Boring(tm).

Where Boring here means using standard, boring, well understood technology that everyone knows and understands and not $NEWHOTNESS. $NEWHOTNESS is guaranteed to break in new and exciting ways.
The LLC access is a sequential cost to processing the packet.
Multivascular networks and intravascular topologies in biocompatible hydrogels
> I first want to say that I don’t think MozReview was a total failure.

Okay. Great way to start an introspection. And we are already 3 paragraphs in and we have no idea what MozReview was.
> Imagine every process having its own "non-volatile" memory area, where all persistent state is kept between restarts...

I'll treat this seriously: as software development practices are just now beginning to mature, with more emphasis on test coverage being considered best practice, sure ... maybe.

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.

> Every entity in the system can be identified through unique IDs which can be handed down to other processes based on different OS policies.

Okay, but how do you write a process which is capable of communicating with any other process?
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I'm saying this more in regard to the current crop of candidates because it's more obvious and egregious that there are some running for President right now that are doing it for attention and money.

Although you're right. This is by no means exclusive to one side of the aisle.
That's not true. You don't need your employer participation to open an HSA.
Disclaimer: IANA kernel developer.

Is there any benefit to having those specialized developers create frameworks or libraries in Userland which other developers can leverage? This way they remain the interface to uncooperative hardware, but the code is in Userland so the bold folks can try their own approach.
Those people will learn soon enough...
How was actually working there remotely? I've worked remotely from an Asian country and I was somewhat disappointed by the internet speed and reliability of the connection.
> This doesn't get mentioned often enough when talking about the "1-percenters" and the wealth gap in Western countries, i.e. that most of the capital behind all of the current economic and social system is directly or indirectly held by part of the general populace itself.

I think the keyword there is indirectly. It's still easy to blame the 1-percenters for the proportional lion's share of the blame when the majority of the general populace's influence/control over their investments is intentionally gatekeeped and/or obfuscated by "professional finance" people, many of whom are 1-percenters or wish-they-were.

In the case of legitimate pensions that is top-to-bottom controlled by finance people with almost zero control from the average pension.

In the case of the modern faux-pension, the 401k, while most individuals could take direct control of how they invest those funds, and that's supposedly a feature, very few actually do/will, because the game is rigged (401k providers have a lot of vested interests in promoting their investment products where they make the most fees) and also a full time job that the 401k "owner" doesn't need on top of their existing job that pays into the 401k in the first place (again, giving the 401k providers the benefit of defaulting people their investment products with the most fees).

Even further, the push to "personal responsibility" to the individual in a 401k system also removes a lot of power of the general populace to collectively bargain as investment holders. Under the regime of traditional pension systems a lot of hedge funds were checked by pension managers when employee/pensioner interest was kept in mind (especially in the cases where pensions were managed by Unions rather than employers or outsourced to professional finance firms; there's a good history of hedge funds versus Unions on the books some of which used to stop leverage buyouts).

> And the real numbers tell the story of a society divided in two, a part that will manage to enjoy its pension and the other part that has no clue how will pay for its old age.

Even when federally mandated pensions existed there was always an interesting line between pension-earning work and the rest. It's not an entirely new worry, it's just continuing to get a lot worse.

Even worse is how much the breakdown of the earned pension system to the "privatized" 401k system is creating a weird muddy ground in between the extremes of people that sort of have retirement investments, but no longer have collective bargaining power, often have more middlemen eating their share of the pie, and everything is much more of a gamble.
I watch his live CEOing youtube occasionally. Is quite interesting, but at some point I feel like I am stuck in a work meeting, with no real objections (understandably) being posed to Wolframs proposals.

I also think the word computation is used a bit too grandiosely by Wolfram. Which is evidenced in the writing here.

I do admire Wolfram for even advertising his CEOing meetings though. He goes into the detail to a level you would not necessarily think a CEO would do. Credit where credit is due, he is not shy. Many CEO's would not bother.

I mean, technically, everything is a computation, but we accredit actually complex things to that term, not everything. To use it "whilly-nilly" deflates the words impact.
I did not know about this limitation in SQL Server, thanks!
Not necessarily. https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/self-employment-taxes/t...

See 20% deduction on self employment income.
You're recalling a very old guess; an analysis since then https://web.archive.org/web/20190121202815/http://weaponsman... puts the number anywhere from 412 to 660 million.

The old estimates are bad, for example, 275 million new in to the market guns were counted by a system the BATFE introduced in 1999 for high volume manufacturers, importers and wholesalers, a total of 66 FFLs, that no academic had previously used in an estimate.
Every single technology that lives long enough has legacy features like these and antipatterns. When compared to other software of similar age, this is remarkable little cruft.

Every tool that's powerful enough needs to have caveats. I agree it's a PITA, but this is orders of magnitude better than say, bash, C++, Linux, or PHP.
Many of their competitors have been profitable for a while now. There's no incompatibility between capitalism and "real journalism", the problem with the guardian is in fact their complete disinterest in capitalism - hence being a literal trust fund baby.
Thanks, exactly my thoughts.

At my work we wouldn't be able to serve our legacy and non-legacy codebases if we could only use typescript.

Yeah, you can only use it if you start new. But if company exists some time longer you can't only rely on TS
Ok, but what if your doctor says you need an MR enterography because there is something really suspicious going on in your stomach? The problem is many people just say, "that's all out of my deductible. I'll take my chances."
Not to do whataboutism, but if you're worried about that, factory farms are a lot worse and a lot more common.
Whenever people ask me what's the biggest difference about living in the US vs. where I'm from, I always say the same thing: "People have to think twice before going to the doctor". It's just so damn weird. I think it's the equivalent of being a woman in Saudi Arabia and having to ask your husband's permission before going outside. Both scenarios can result in your life being completely ruined.
> I guess one could use timestamptz with a constraint saying that timezone is UTC, but is there a point?

There's no need for constraints, that's exactly what timestamptz does. If it's provided a zoned datetime it'll convert that to UTC then store it, if provided a non-zoned datetime it'll assume that's in the local tz ("timezone" system setting) and performs the same conversion.

timestamp, by comparison, will just discard any timezone information (if it's given a zoned timestamp it'll simply discard the timezone information and store the timestamp's value as-is).

> Timestamps in DBs should never be non-UTC…

That only works for past events. Storing future events in UTC is usually broken, because future events are normally relative to a specific timezone (e.g. a meeting at 6 in Tusla, or a party at 8 in Melbourne). If you store them in UTC and the timezone's offsets change your occurrence is now incorrect.
It also devalues open source work, while at the same time taking away the potential for others to get paid a salary for it. From an economics standpoint, this is bad for developers in the long run, but good for Formidable.
> The greeks had two institutions we could use: ostracism and lottery

To expand on the former, if a majority of Athenians voted to hold an ostracism vote, two months later, the person with the most votes (potentially over a minimum) was banished from the city for 10 years [1].

One can imagine a gentler modern version. Every ballot must have an ostracism line. Every candidate on that ballot must appear on this line. If a simple majority of voters choose the same person, a second one-line election is held in 2 months. If a simple majority of voters, two months later, vote again to ostracize, the candidate is barred from appearing on that jurisdiction's ballots for 8 years.

So if a majority of New Yorkers say Richard Nixon is ostracized, he is simply unable to appear on New York ballots for 8 years. Given the ballot will contain all manner of candidates running for many different offices, this makes it sufficiently difficult to ostracism while providing an incentive against polarization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism
Didn't come up with the ideas, here's an example from 5 years ago in asia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfhki3RkJv0
First time I saw this was about 30+ years ago in Nigeria, and have seen plenty variations.
Yeah, either you really don't understand it or you are full-on bullshit mode to avoid conceding that your only objection to the OP was based on your misinterpretation of an hyperbole...
GitLab product manager here.

Can I ask where you're hosting your code today? We offer first-class support for external repositories stored on GitHub with GitLab CI/CD for GitHub [1]. In addition, you can do similar CI/CD integration with any git repository by URL as well [2]. We see both of these as "minimal" integrations and we're hoping to add more first-class support for external repositories this yeah - but would love to know what you'd focus on first if you were Product Manager for a day :smile:

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/github/

[2] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ci_cd_for_external_repos/githu...
It'd be interesting to see if Verizon will take their money. I could see a lot of their executives being squeamish about it.
Those aren't the only possibilities. LBOs don't necessarily strip assets. There are already rules that claw back asset stripping prior to a bankruptcy. Perhaps they need to be strengthened.
Hi, employee from GitLab here. The move to GCP was planned before the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub was announced: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/commit/ab5bf6b03ffc0...
In theory, I think it's true that healthcare costs are high because most people aren't paying them, their insurance companies are. And then the insurance companies just turn around and charge more, so they aren't really (enough) incentivized to lower costs either.

In practice, the current system screws a lot of people at the bottom. We live in a world where by-and-large, the people with the most clout are also the most likely to have better insurance with lower deductibles. If you work at Google, McKinsey or JP Morgan, you probably have the option to get a low-deductible plan with 80%-100% of premiums covered. Work at Walmart? Your lowest deductible for a family is $3,500 with an annual out-of-pocket maximum of $13,700 [0]. And Walmart actually has better insurance than many low-paying companies, presumably because they are a behemoth with a lot of negotiating leverage.

> So now I got a $2k bill from ER for something that wasn't really an emergency. It makes me think carefully about next time this happens where before the cost didn't really affect me. Changing people's behavior is important part of reducing costs of the health care industry.

Yeah, but there are two big issues here:

1) Sure, it prevents some people from going in when something isn't really an emergency. But it also prevents people from going in when something really is an emergency. I recently heard a story of a poor family whose toddler accidentally drank something poisonous. They knew that they couldn't afford to go to the ER, so they drove to it and waited outside to monitor the kid and see if she started having seizures or other side effects from the poison. She luckily ended up being okay, but that's a horrible decision to have to make. I'm personally very lucky to be in a financial situation where a few thousand dollars is significant to me, but not significant enough to take chances with my child's health.

2) Why is that bill $2K in the first place? I once had some chest pain and went to the ER. They took an EKG, everything was fine and they discharged me. Bill was a few thousand bucks. EKG machines are ubiquitous, not very costly to purchase (given how much they are used) and the test takes less than 10 minutes to administer and look at. In almost any other developing country, they'd be able to do exactly the same set of tests for a few hundred dollars, insurance or not.

[0] https://smartguide.walmartone.com/smartpages/Media/Default/L...
I agree. I wasn't cool enough for a cooler :)

But I agree completely, the best way to keep things cold without a cooler or refrigerator:

Bury it if possible, ideally a few feet down. Otherwise put it outside at night and wrap it up in your sleeping gear during the day.
I've definitely noticed this trend in my own thinking - hyper-individualism, along with a healthy dose of woe-is-me. It's especially bad on sites like Tumblr, where people list out their mental health problems along with other ways they define themselves in the header of their blog.

On the one hand, I think it's good that people are discussing things like depression, anxiety, etc. more openly. But as someone who has struggled with depression and feeling suicidal at various points, I think there's a healthier way to frame your thinking, so that you're not acting like depression, or loneliness, or sadness are inevitable, and like you have zero control over your mood or feelings.

I had this epiphany after going through a break up, where I could feel myself heading towards a depressive spiral. I was obsessing over how sad I was, replaying happy moments and unfulfilled fantasies about the future in my head...and then I realized I was actually making myself feel worse, and that I could actually make myself stop wallowing in my own sadness by thinking about other things.

I think the most important thing to do is to get away from staying in your own head and overthinking things. Interact with other people in real life (not on social media), do physical exercise, practice mindfulness meditation, and try observing your feelings and separating your sense of self from those feelings.
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For someone who doesn’t want to do it, a year is a very long time to come up with ‘serious unforeseen circumstances’.

There is no point in trying to force people to do things - the best way is to change the job in such a way that people will want to take it.

Pay them well, in other words, in money, in prestige, or otherwise.
>unlikely you'll ever collect from that 401k friend!

Like WillPostForFood, I'm baffled about where you're even getting this idea.

The 401k is their money. Right now they could withdraw all the money. If their employer goes bankrupt, the 401k balance didn't change at all. The only part that could potentially go away would be unvested company contributions (I'm not sure on this - it's all I can think of though).

If we were talking about a pension, Social Security, or a 457b deferred compensation plan - I get it. There's uncertainty. Pensions get underfunded routinely, private equity shenanigans occur etc. Social Security will likely see big changes in the next 40 years. In the case of the 457b plans, it's not your money until you leave the employer and start withdrawing money.

Please clarify your statement if you have something productive to add.
You should see what is done to animals other than monkeys!
Being government for a year is a better deal than military service, and people don't complain too much about that.
Massachusetts passed a law against using your phone while driving (other than one touch button presses) something like 4 years ago. I'd be shocked if this screen was illegal in the 80's.
South Carolina.
Monbiot still has a regular article there, he's as far left as it gets. Maybe a holdover from the past but the Guardian is still really keen on nationalisation, regulation, state control over everything, the EU etc. The modern left doesn't argue in terms of direct state control anymore, just indirect control through vast and vague regulations.
> Timezone data is separate information that if not included, is now missing from your data forever unless someone goes and backfills it in. Without the explicit timezone stored, your timestamp could technically be in any timezone as far as the database is concerned.

As the article points out, confusingly, problematically, and despite its name, "TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE" doesn't, in fact, store timezones.

What it does is implicitly convert between UTC (the storage) and zoned timestamps (anything you give it, either explicitly zoned or — if non-zoned – assumed to be in the server's "timezone" setting).

Thankfully TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIMEZONE doesn't store timezones either (how weird would that be), what it does is discard timezone information entirely on input, storing only the timestamp as-is: if you give it '1932-11-02 10:34:05+08' it's going to store '1932-11-02 10:34:05' having just stripped out the timezone information without doing any adjustment whereas timestamptz will store '1932-11-02 02:34:05', without maintaining any offset either but having adjusted to UTC:

# select '1932-11-02 10:34:05+08'::timestamp, '1932-11-02 10:34:05+08'::timestamptz;
timestamp | timestamptz
---------------------+------------------------
1932-11-02 10:34:05 | 1932-11-02 02:34:05+00
(1 row)

Time: 0.466 ms

Postgres has no built-in datatype to store an offset timestamp, let alone a properly zoned one. In fact, it has no datatype to store a timezone at all. Though it does provide pg_timezone_names.
Anyone with an HDHP plan can get an HSA. Whether it's through your employer or through another plan provider like Fidelity or Vanguard.
I worked on the xerox product OS (Pilot) written by my manager, and was on the team with the designers of Multics and Swift, MIT's OSes. At MIT we all ran 4.15bsd and then 4.2bsd and UNIX was so far ahead we focused on improving it, mostly. Pilot, Multics, CTSS, were nowhere near as powerful or developer friendly as UNIX. UNIX killed off OS research for a long time!
Yes, Crappy automotive SW is solely because most if not all infotainment SW is written by third party vendors. GM/Ford/FCA have engineers who are good at drafting Requirements and throw these said requirements over the wall to vendors like panasonic, bosch, Lear etc. They write 100 page documents on how the system needs to behave and these OEM vendors need to deliver these infotainment black boxes without any significant issues. (You can imagine why, if the infotainment board (Say intel or Qualcomm FW) has a bug that was found in production; they would need to update over USB or some other form debug method and reflash on the side of the production line and this cost hundreds of millions).

Again tesla has done a great job and implemented OTA and some of the automotive companies are following suit but this still does not help them much as the updates are given by the vendors whose sole job is to cover themselves (So most updates will go through a year of testing even for minor changes to make sure not to brick anything)
What would you replace it with? At the very core you need two things: the notion of a unit of data and some metadata to address it

There were some experiments along these lines. Instead of files, just make everything an object and have orthogonal persistence for every object. In a way, this was what the early Smalltalk implementations were working towards.

I don't disagree that we can drop many of the current filesystem semantics but fundamentally all that really means is changing is the query language to access objects and manipulate their metadata.

One thing which Smalltalk demonstrates, is that the query language can simply be the same language used to implement the OS. Activity which looks a lot like database querying, but for objects, not database rows was just an expert level debugging trick of Smalltalk programmers.
Someone who has political aspirations is unlikely to push for a system where the political jobs are allocated by lottery.
A good metric is - did it do what it was designed to do? I think the answer is yes. It was designed to be an unsustainable failure, in order to trick people into thinking single-payer was the next best thing. In that regard, it has been a resounding success.
There are so many people that view investing like this. It's best to leave your morals and worldview to the side when investing, or letting others invest on your behalf.
I enjoyed the paper. My impression is that you’d shift the burden to the runtimes that, for many applications, currently sit between POSIX and applications (e.g. see the Q&A about POSIX).
In Denmark eggs in supermarkets are in fridges with the milk etc., and people usually keep eggs in their fridges at home as well.
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Thanks. Removed the problematic sentence.
I propose something better than any voting method: try to achieve perfect information