skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But preferably after two particular members of a certain branch of government croak and a republican president gets to replace them. I like my snake unstepped. People who live in certain states that shall not be named deserve their snake unstepped too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11580022
A year long existential crisis where I nearly dropped out of college (where I went, you needed to learn everything yourself, the professors wouldn't help, I dont reccomend it). Then I came upon a poem at just the right time called Curiosity, by Alistair Reid, and I followed that up with a rereading of asimov's the last answer
Like the way editorials in print newspapers are always left justified (ragged right), while news articles are fully justified[0]. It's subtle, but for anyone who's been reading newspapers regularly, it's immediately obvious.

[0] At least, that's the case here in Canada.
Charity, sometimes. Self-interest other times, but maybe charity this time. As long as children exist, we'd best all be capable of speaking for at least some of those who can't speak easily for themselves.
Go read some political pages you don’t agree with. Engage with the people there, and after a while, you surely won’t want to be anywhere around Facebook. Possibly because they’ll be harassing you for days
The title states "Muslims" but the article refers to Xinjiang only. The title is therefore misleading.
There are two ways to built abstractions: either by defining an interface that represents the lowest-common-denominator of functionality such that all the underlying implementations already implement it; or by defining the interface that you want to have, where some implementations can implement it directly, and others require a shim/polyfill implementation, or where the implementation “adapter” will just plain throw a NotImplementedError at your attempt to use the advanced features of the interface.

Personally, I prefer the latter. But it seems like in the ORM space the latter approach is nowhere to be found.

Have you ever seen an ORM that allows you to fluently deal with errors raised by triggers? DB-side computed columns [by storing to a table but querying from a related view]? Where the ORM’s “objects” expose an OOP interface to calling DB-side stored procedures that take that row-type as an input? (Or, even more crazily, where you could define a stored procedure in an abstract fluent AST against the object, and have it registered with the database? Or how about exposing DB-side BLOB handles as native-to-your-runtime IO streams, that could be fed into any runtime function that expects such?

There’s really a lot you could do, that’s still abstract to the SQL level (rather than specific to a particular database) if you were okay with some implementations of your interface not supporting every feature.
It will break down on its own over a decade or so. Burning it off likely isn't feasible because its dissipating off the permafrost over huge areas.
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All the pro gun people I know, self included, have more than that. There are more guns than people in America, but not nearly everyone is a gun owner.
Not uncommon for most businesses.

>You build something, people want it, pay money.

>Competition happens and you need to change or die

Don't change quick enough, you are dead. Big companies can't change quickly, but they can throw money at problems. Death of a company is inevitable.
I very clearly don't advocate violent resistance, but civil disobedience. An entirely non-violent resistance, such as seen in the school strikes and XR protests, or the well known historic examples.

The anti-poll tax riots were as counter productive as they were productive due to their violence. A reasonable police response is necessarily very different to a reaction to polite society women chaining themselves to railings seeking suffrage, or the entirely non violent blocking of bridges of XR. Yet they are an example of law breaking achieving change. So no, using it as a for-instance of change is no indicator whatsoever I believe in violent extremism. I don't.

Violent tactics can entirely reasonably provoke a draconian response. A draconian or violent response to entirely peaceful protest, such as XR or civil rights protests is counter productive for government, and may actually incite riot.
That’s kind of like the thing where parents make kids smoke entire pack of cigarettes when they’re caught with them.
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> In the United States, misdemeanors are typically crimes with a maximum punishment of 12 months of incarceration, typically in a local jail as contrasted with felons, who are typically incarcerated in a prison. Jurisdictions such as Massachusetts are a notable exception where the maximum punishment of some misdemeanors is up to 2.5 years.[20] People who are convicted of misdemeanors are often punished with probation, community service, short jail term, or part-time incarceration such as a sentence that may be served on the weekends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdemeanor#United_States

Public drunkenness can also be punished by 6 months imprisonment in California (not my state, but many HNers live there). Most cases of such are still "punished" by either a reprimand or being kept in a holding cell long enough to sober up.
> In addition, at least one country (Sweden I think), doesn't allow values like 0.01.

There are a few countries where they no longer bother with small coins to represent .01, so cash transactions are rounded to nearest .05 or similar, but the .01 is still valid for electronic transactions. I expect that is the situation in Sweden. (I wish US did this too)
If you knew the characters were ASCII, you wouldn't want unicode support in the first place. It's pure overhead.
If I wanted, say, single payer insurance, I wouldn't be able to vote for it because my democratic candidate wants to stick to halfassed and broken Obamacare, and the Republican wants to abolish it entirely. I have no meaningful way to exercise that vote, even if this is a majority opinion, and not particularly extreme since it's the status quo in most of the world. Ditto for anything affecting monied interests, since the two presidential candidates are by necessity deep in the pockets of wealthy interest groups right from the beginning of their expensive campaigns.

The only way out I see is through constitution-level campaign finance reform, replacing multilayered first past the post, and probably reducing the power of the presidency so this new many-party Congress actually matters rather than so much power in a single (and thus winner takes all) office.

Edit: as another unrepresented belief, if I think Israel is a geniciding state that deserves no international support, well, too bad, the center of both parties if firmly in the pockets of pro Israeli interest groups.
This sounds reasonable but the article indicates sales were good and gross profits high but what killed the company was aptly-named Cerberus' extraction of assets. It's a story we've seen before at Toys 'R Us, Sears, and others. A modern day Heracles is needed to deal with this beast.
Disagree. This has been proposed multiple times by conservatives. As part of receiving unemployment benefits, the recipient would have to perform X hours of community service.
This is great for the dev flow of getting up and running on Azure. When you are ready to do something in production on Azure, you should also have a look at this project https://github.com/Microsoft/bedrock, which provides a model for operationalizing a Kubernetes cluster with a GitOps workflow.
Retaliation is something people do. Sometimes as last resort, oftentimes as warning or attempt to look like bad target to pick. Yet other times out of habit. Plenty times it is done out of anger not as thought out strategy.

Also, people do not see inside other people. Not just that, but when you are causing someone harm, you not meaning to will become irrelevant after certain treshold. That person will move to protect himself or his friends will mve to protect him.
My small British village has a wind farm right on its doorstep. When it was built the utility company had to set up a grant worth millions to fund local projects which immediately benefitted the local area, and I believe we get an ongoing subsidy from it until a predetermined date.

Is this not the case where you're from?

Incidentally, I've walked through it many times and never heard a "thrum". I've never heard them from my house at all and they're less than half a mile away.
> Timestamps in DBs should never be non-UTC

I think you might want to consider why some people might actually care to store timezone data, and why it almost always is needed. 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.

> I guess one could use timestamptz with a constraint saying that timezone is UTC, but is there a point?

The point is you now have a data type that can properly use the built-in functions to more easily run calculations against proper timestamps that do have timezone sensitive calculations.
But why though? Of course giving a well-payed salary to people is something great and I have nothing against it. But the whole "cool" thing about open-source is that it showed that it can do pretty amazing things without capitalism. Instead here we are trying to push the same mentality we use for everything else into open-source.

Why not continue the experiment as it has for the last 30 years (without any major economical incentives); it has only produced amazing pieces of work so far, so why risk to taint it?
What if you just give the money to charity? Does that change your opinion?
The current version (11) does: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/11/sql-createprocedure.html
> great exchange of the white people

What is this referring to?
> Is this true for most real life workloads?

No. It's true if you care about NVMe drives, or high-speed networking--which is to say, it's true if you care about a few kinds of server workloads, but it's absolutely not true for most consumer hardware.
Eh, just counting outages doesn't do anything imo. Most providers consider something like < 99% availability for > 5 minutes an outage. Outages like that are expected in any single region and product.

If I really need perfect availability (I probably don't), then I can leverage the multiple regions and build a failovers strategy.

I do not expect global outages which affect multiple regions at the same time. That's just amateur hour when it is a common occurrence.
Touch screen in vehicles are pretty bad, in my opinion. But worse is the whole "internet connected car" business.
> things like serial numbers

In Postgres, if I had a truly massive number of alphabetic-textual serial numbers (such that I was worried about their impact on storage/memory size), I’d define a new TYPE, similar to the UUID type, where such serial numbers would be parsed into regular uint64s (BIGINTs) on input, and generated back to their textual serial-number representation on output.
Agreed. This isn't a unique tale for a firearms manufacturer. This is a common tale for nearly any type of manufacturer that is bought out by private equity firms. They reduce costs and quality, load it with debt, suck it dry, and then dump it on their creditors.
yes, you are.
But that's the point. The guardian is only reporting what sources say, and they're clear about that.

You're holding the guardian to higher standards than any other UK print media.
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The holocaust was an event witnessed by countless individuals, complete with historical documents and physical evidence of concentration camps. The moon landing was witnessed by a few dozen people, but supported by the efforts of many engineers. The spherical earth has been witnessed directly by hundreds and satellites themselves can be witnessed with telescopes.

Anthropogenic climate change is an increase in aggregate global temperature, imperceptible to any one individual, which only shows a slight trend over a 100 year period when yearly cycles are removed. It posits that a modest rise in sea levels over 100 years, along with a small increase in global temperatures aren't natural, despite plenty of evidence that even more dramatic changes happen throughout natural history without humans. It claims that hurricane activity will increase dramatically, despite no evidence that that has occurred over the past century. It claims that a slight increase in sea levels will lead to the deaths of many thousands, despite the fact that poor building standards in poor countries already contribute to thousands dead every year, and reducing carbon emissions does nothing to improve that.

No, not believing anthropogenic climate change is leading us to apocalyptic catastrophe is not the same as denying events that have firm evidence.
It means you go from an OS that provides complex drivers to one that barely provides drivers -- essentially muxing the raw hardware between processes.
24 hours notice for up to 8 hours of downtime (“read only”) seems quite abrupt.
Pretty sure it is negotiable based on experience on your previous compensation. At least from my experience working in London, you can always negotiate.
> Oddly, I hear more groaning about not being able to buy manuals every day here. It sees more of a metro vs rural thing.

Maybe, but in the city I live in, I hear more and more grumbling about the lack of manual transmissions over time as well.
"Given the nature of this update and the need to ensure the highest level of security, we have provided limited advanced notice. We understand that the maintenance process impacts our customers, and we apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause." -- This is a ridiculous statement. Security does not come from opaque statements made at the last moment.

I fail to understand how updating a "cloud native" service requires downtime at all, much less this sort of outage.
As an aside, I think it's an indictment of the changing culture here on HN that this well-written and detailed comment is being downvoted to gray.

Why downvote this? Because it's interrupting a hate-fest on "21st-century capitalism"?

IMO the Salon article itself is pretty worthless; most of the substance comes from the IEEE article that has been already been well-discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19694207
This is already closer than you think, Amazon actually has a physical store exactly like this: https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011
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iirc the number of guns in America is almost exactly equal to the population but the distribution is skewed a lot. About 2/3rds of Americans don't own a gun. The ones who do on average own 3, with a lot of them having 1 and a few of them having dozens.
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Not a mystery: Private equity firm bought them out with borrowed money, raided their resources to enrich themselves, then left Remington to rot. It is a common story now. The private equity firm makes a bunch of money and people are jobless.
Are you seriously advocating for the murder of people who are "headaches"? Most people in the right are headaches too, do they deserve deplatforming? Whistleblowers?

You describe something a shade worse than facism.
> You are basically saying that free will is the same as non-determinism.

No, I'm saying that determinism precludes free will.

Free will is more than mere non-determinism / randomness.

I believe that people have souls, and they have free will. I reject the notion that we are all a bunch of soulless machines.

I can't offer you a physics theorem that proves the existence of free will and souls, but to me, it is experientially self-evident.
I had a small LCD color one and we plugged the NES into it and played it on the tiny screen. While still sitting in front of our nice 20 inch TV.

It was an even lower resolution than Super Mario Bros 3 as you could tell it couldn't show every pixel, so it was probably something like 120p. It seemed like half the resolution of SMB3 which is 256x224.

But it felt like the future. :)
How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons into Big Profits
I wasn't suggesting that we should be other than ourselves - just that, by being ourselves, there are things that we don't "get", even when we can see the data.
It's a clusterf
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https://benwinding.com
NVMe drives with transfer rates of several gigabytes per second are mainstream now.
There is an intriguing trend in the United States where, for the past several decades, the number of gun owners has gone down but the number of guns has gone up.
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Note that "making choices" that expose one to extra sensory or other stimulation is a central difficulty in autism. You don't feel every hair on the toothbrush as a separate hit against your gums, but someone else may.
What we have here is a failure of imagination (leading to stark black and white thinking.)
I think people can at least try not to bring their bias to work, or failing that actively declare that your reporting is designed to campaign for a particular politics. The Guardian doesn’t even attempt that.

They approach reporting like an angry anonymous Twitter account.
But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. PreP needs to be taken religiously to be effective, or it can lead to increased exposure by people who take it irregularly. So it's mostly only offered to high-risk populations that would have an incentive to take it properly, and afaik, straight white cishet people aren't such a population.

The fact that people don't trust it means nobody's casually taking it or taking for granted that other people are taking it. So it increases awareness of the potential for contracting HIV and underlines the need for protection. At the same time, you can independently choose to take it and provide yourself more protection. So I think it all balances out.
JFC. This thing is a monkey nightmare machine.

https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/gfx/news/hire...

For sure, those are very likely images of fear. If you wanna call them “highly stimulating” well... That’s probably not untrue.

But the only thing that the monkey is likely finding “stimulating” about familiar people in surgical masks is an association with pain and terror. Note the odd expressionless faces standing over them, holding utensils.

Pretty god damned ominous. Not at all images one might call fun.
That isn't the case here. The products were of low quality. Firearms sales ebb and flow but there is no sign of a fundamental trough.
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.

As far as I can tell they're attempting the following:

1. Poison the OK hand-sign in political contexts

2. Wait for a politician to use it, be it as a stooge (unaware of the new association) or as a dog-whistle.

3. Wait for the media to tie the white-nationalist association and politician's use of the symbol together

4. Cry foul: "You liberal media dogs are crazy, that's just the OK hand-sign!"

5. People who are unaware that white nationalists have been using the symbol grow their distrust of the media and may become more sympathetic to white nationalists. After all, the media was 'wrong' about the hand sign. What else could they be wrong about?

Because the white nationalists are inherently duplicitous, they see no problem communicating like this - in the open until challenged, at which point it becomes a 'joke', or a 'misunderstanding', or 'media overreach'.

It's not much of a hoax.
Prime Now has been around for quite some time in quite a few locales in the US. (est. 2014)
> All the IBM Cloud core engineering teams are based in the US which I strongly agree with. Have a nice day!

All US based really is not a selling point.

As a European, I wouldn't bet my company (if I had one ;)) on a provider who's engineers are all in a TZ 5-8 hours different from me.
Largely because it's not really a new reality. IBM faced the same issues on the 360's half a decade (edit: sorry, century!) ago -- you could stream data off of stacked platters in a drive into core much faster than a CPU could manage the copy. And the solution was to invent "I/O Channels", which were early DMA controllers. And the VM layer (when it was added) was cognizant of this stuff, so applications could be written directly to the channel interface.

There's nothing new under the sun, basically. It's an Ecclesiastes design. I haven't read through the whole article, but my guess is that the "parakernel" interface the authors are positing is going to look a lot like the IBM Channel interface.
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Blockchain could possibly help reduce modern slavery
all the analysis i've seen says that brexit is overshadowing local issues. i'm partial to sortition myself: if it's good enough for jury duty, it is good enough for government
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The Greeks who entered the lottery weren't chosen by a (meta) lottery. Greek democracy wasn't nearly as democratic as you may think.
The Boomer aged guys seem to have a hoarding problem--I've seen photos of collections of 200 M1 Garands, 25-50 M1 Carbines, etc. Nobody cares that the cartouche on a stock is a little bit different. There's unhealthy obsession there. Not that I care. It's none of my business how someone spends their money.
> Personally, I prefer the latter. But it seems like in the ORM space the latter approach is nowhere to be found.

sqlalchemy
You should try travelling around another continent, it might be a bit of an eye-opener.
A quick google found the following link. It makes it look like 100gb IB can be about 1 order of magnitude faster than Ethernet - around or less than 1 us. But IB can do RDMA, so that further reduces latency.

http://sc16.supercomputing.org/sc-archive/tech_poster/poster...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=starting%20company&sort=byPopu...

Beyond that, it's hard to say without more information. Have you looked at Startup School and their library[1] of information? If not, I suggest doing that, as it's a veritable gold mine of good information.

If what you're working on is intended to be a scalable startup (as opposed to, say, a laundromat, or a one-man consulting company, etc.) then I highly recommend reading either The Four Steps to the Epiphany[2] and/or The Startup Owner's Manual[3]. The latter is nominally the 2nd Edition of the former, but I find that there's enough difference in the content to justify reading both. If you're more enterprise focused, the former is more centered on that world. If you're doing something consumer focused, the latter title is more oriented towards that (but not to exclusion).

[1]: https://www.startupschool.org/library

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steve-Blank/dp/09...

[3]: https://www.amazon.com/Startup-Owners-Manual-Step-Step/dp/09...
>cracked all the Allied ciphers

An interesting unbreakable voice encryption that the Allies used was SIGSALY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSALY

It was unbreakable because it was essentially the same idea as a fully random one-time pad.
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Live in Zone 3, spend maybe an hour and seven quid a day on the tube? London rents are outrageous, but not so outrageous you can't afford to live there on £50-57k.
Is there a good concise explanation of the 360 architecture available on the web? It seems historically important but I've not seen such a thing.
"Sensitivity" and "specificity" are even worse:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14835

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=14888
I’ve read about this scenario many times, but I’m curious about why any creditor would lend money to a company that’s poised to do this.

Wouldn’t these private equity firms lose the ability to borrow money based on past practices like this?