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BitInt's "n" suffix appears to stand for "numeric", but that seems confusing when typeof 1 === "number" and typeof 1n === "bigint". Why not an "i" suffix for "integer"? I understand that a "b" suffix is probably reserved in case JavaScript adds support for binary literals.

https://tc39.github.io/proposal-bigint/#prod-BigIntLiteralSu...
I don't see vendor lock-in as a net win for anyone but the vendor.
Not having enough RAM can significantly degrade database performance.

Also, gotta wonder if you have good indices on the data.

As others have said, the amount of data you're talking about is not very big. I regularly deal with Postgres databases that are two orders of magnitude larger, and they are lightning fast.
I totally agree. My first thought was of the world of Snow Crash where there are districts owned by businesses and individuals that set their own systems of law and order. It was not a pleasant future.
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The NYT, surely - as they helped produce one of the best Perl profilers out there: https://metacpan.org/pod/Devel::NYTProf
TPB neither dead no alive. It's been in zombie mode for months. Torrents are very old. Only porn vidz are still being actively uploaded. The search engine is a shadow of itself. In fact, I feel it's been intentionally crippled and here's why: Many times, the search bar claims zero result. I use a different torrent search engine and see a link to the same stuff on TPB!

Not only that, spammers have taken over the site - probably, randsomware spreaders. Torrents few minutes old would have thousands of seeds with ridiculous file sizes.

It's sad. TPB's like the Github of torrents. TPB's reputation system and comments was a godsend. Till now, there's still no replacement for it.

I feel something's up with the current owners of site.
And here's a list of cities that have city income taxes

https://www.thebalance.com/cities-that-levy-income-taxes-319...

It's still strange to say SF has "extremely high taxes"
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You can already simply click a domain on reddit and it shows you all the posts that linked it.
Nature makes a perfect counter-ideal to technology for several reasons. Nature (that which is outside the power of the system) is the opposite of technology (which seeks to expand indefinitely the power of the system). Most people will agree that nature is beautiful; certainly it has tremendous popular appeal. The radical environmentalists ALREADY hold an ideology that exalts nature and opposes technology. [30] It is not necessary for the sake of nature to set up some chimerical utopia or any new kind of social order. Nature takes care of itself: It was a spontaneous creation that existed long before any human society, and for countless centuries many different kinds of human societies coexisted with nature without doing it an excessive amount of damage. Only with the Industrial Revolution did the effect of human society on nature become really devastating. To relieve the pressure on nature it is not necessary to create a special kind of social system, it is only necessary to get rid of industrial society. Granted, this will not solve all problems. Industrial society has already done tremendous damage to nature and it will take a very long time for the scars to heal. Besides, even pre-industrial societies can do significant damage to nature. Nevertheless, getting rid of industrial society will accomplish a great deal. It will relieve the worst of the pressure on nature so that the scars can begin to heal. It will remove the capacity of organized society to keep increasing its control over nature (including human nature). Whatever kind of society may exist after the demise of the industrial system, it is certain that most people will live close to nature, because in the absence of advanced technology there is no other way that people CAN live. To feed themselves they must be peasants or herdsmen or fishermen or hunters, etc. And, generally speaking, local autonomy should tend to increase, because lack of advanced technology and rapid communications will limit the capacity of governments or other large organizations to control local communities.
Well, the author of a work should be able to control certain key aspects of distribution. Either you agree or disagree. Anything else is just a special-pleading logical fallacy.
Well, I think it's meant to discourage permanent immigration and also protect jobs which are in short supply. The worse you make conditions for immigration the fewer immigrants you have.

As population density increases, it's only natural that countries want to reduce population. Between telling people to not have children and preventing immigrants from entering, politically it's more palatable to stop immigration.
That Swedish domain doesn't have a TLS certificate for their fancy name.

Compare:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=xn--frskrings...

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.forsakrin...
The Republicans also had control of the House and Senate for the last two years. That's not the thing that's different this time.
WPF definitely requires "drinking the Kool-aid". For WinForms Devs, it might be tough to swallow, but it's good medicine. The state of WinForms development before was not sustainable and incredibly challenging with large applications.

Having tried to develop a WPF app like a WinForms app, it is incredibly tedious because it's not what WPF was designed to do. Drinking the Kool-aid and working within the confines of how WPF was designed to work makes a lot of things significantly easier, but the trade off is having to explicitly set up view models, use data binding, and find alternatives to doing everything in code behind.

IMHO, the biggest challenge was dealing with the databinding ecosystem, which is incredibly powerful, but also complex, opaque, verbose, and tedious. There is practically no debugging of databinding, which is incredibly frustrating. It's hard to figure out why it doesn't work or why you don't get what you expect to get in whatever is actually being called.

Whether it was old winforms databinding or various js databinding approaches on the front end, its always been fairly straight forward to get what I needed. WPF always seems like it's jumping through hoops for things that should just work. I'm sure there's a lot of logic behind how WPF's databinding actually works for it to be able to support all the various situations that it does, but, for me, it's never been very clear, and I've wasted countless hours trying to find and debug the right databinding syntax only to have it still not work and have to resort to a less elegant/hacky way of achieving the result that I'm looking for.
I remember when folks felt stupid spats on slashdot mattered.

It didn't.
When non-profits succeed they have to ask for more money. When for-profits succeed, they fund themselves. So it's far better for a for-profit to solve a given problem than a non-profit, as they are inherently more scalable.
i don't know the size of the dataset you're talking about, but it may help to open things up to use ram more liberally in particular as the default configs are rather conservative. https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Tuning_Your_PostgreSQL_Serv... may help. good luck :)
You’re suggesting that actors/directors/musicians shouldn’t be paid because the marginal cost of their product approaches $0? Wouldn’t that disincentivize production of new TV/Movies/Music? Enshrining the right to piracy is enshrining the right to destroy your artist community.
Honest question: What is TPB good for these days? Recent mainstream movies are available through iTunes and similar venues. Older and/or lesser known movies usually have very few seeders on TPB IME. IMO it’s more convenient to just order the DVD by mail in that case.
First of all, if it wasn't obvious to anyone, the Fujifilm X series is totally different from the GFX line discussed in this post.

> The kit lens it comes with is not great

If you're talking about the 18-55mm, it's considered quite good (and good value) for a kit lens.

Fujifilm has probably the best lineup of lenses for APS-C sized sensor. They're not cheap, but they're well-made and cheaper/smaller/lighter than equivalent lenses for full-frame cameras, which is why I love the X-mount, especially for travel.

Micro Four Thirds is an even smaller sensor, but it's standardized across many manufacturers so there are many options.
> I get the best possible quality of audio, directly support the artist (or more directly than via streaming), and I get to keep the music indefinitely, as long as I can manage the storage requirements

This is why I love Bandcamp. Lossless format for my good stereo at home, mp3's for my car, and streaming when I'm at work.
This is a special case of the general trend that increasing quality is a barrier to entry. Even with a bit of competition, it's just harder to compete as complexity goes up and users have higher expectations. For example see the top-selling movies or games.

Open source code somewhat mitigates this: Apple forked KHTML, then Google forked WebKit, and now Microsoft is building on and may someday fork Chromium. But it remains the case that some projects are very hard to do from scratch with professional quality, and even maintaining a fork requires a lot of expertise.

Also, sometimes you can reverse the aesthetic so that some people prefer stuff that's not professional quality, so you get an "indy" market.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Subway_rolling... says they have about 6,500 cars. The number of cabs is more difficult to find. Given the common rule for newer ones

“Cars ending in 1, 5, 6 and 0 have single full-width cabs and are known as "A" cars.

Cars ending in all other digits have no cabs and are known as "B" cars”

, I guess it is about 40% of that, or 2,600.

So, about 2,600 cameras (motion detectors might already be enough, if the culprit spends sufficient time in the cabin) in the cabs likely would solve the “what do they look like?) problem. Because of the differences in car widths, you even likely need fewer to cover the lines where this occurs a lot.
Understanding the response to your work seems logical, in every field.

Also hello NYT slack!
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The irony when they talk about affordable housing but don't say a word about AirBnb which is fucking over long term renters in popular tourist destinations.
It looks at average deficits, which is silly. If X blows up the deficit and then Y gradually shrinks it, Y has a higher average even though Y reduced the problem and X caused it all.

And of course this is not a hypothetical at all. Bush and Obama followed this pattern perfectly. Bush’s average deficit was $443 billion. Obama’s was $816 billion. But Bush inherited a surplus, and left office with a deficit of $1.4 trillion. Obama inherited that and left office with a deficit of $665 billion. Am I really supposed to conclude that Bush was better at controlling spending?
I acknowledged there are workarounds/frameworks, and I especially recognized that modern PHP is often a different beast from classical PHP problems.

Ruby wasn't built to be embedded inside HTML, so I don't Ruby would have the worst problems of classical PHP even if Rails didn't exist, just as Perl (which both PHP and Ruby took inspirations from) even at its worst CGI architectures never quite had the same raw architecture problems that were rampant in early page-based mixed HTML and PHP design. The trade-offs for those architecture problems was development speed and "ease of use", PHP succeeded so well on the early internet almost precisely because of such problems.

ColdFusion too presumably succeeded as much as it did in Enterprise because of those problems in that space (easy to sprinkle a bit of server-side code in the middle of a page at will), though with no excuse for being free or easy to host. It's unfortunate that that also leads to the legacy of spaghetti code it will perhaps eternally have left behind in big-E Enterprise.
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I feel like you're just setting me up for the line where in American court dramas the government is reasonable, the courts are just and the defendants are bad, so if it's different in Europe...

But seriously, if you're at the point of having to rely on "the spirit of the law" it's pretty much always because the letter of the law is poorly drafted. It doesn't really matter which continent you're on.
The solution to income inequality is not going to come from venture capitalists and private companies.

I have an idea for a non-profit that tackles a systemic problem, but I can't help but look at some of the other yc grads and think that their companies seem hopelessly out of touch with the problems they're trying to tackle.

Promise is mentioned as "tackling mass incarceration", but their company seems geared more towards improving efficiency in criminal justice agencies. Do they really think that an app that sends reminders is going to help failure to appear rates? Crime, recidivism, failure to appear etc are deeply rooted in poverty and hopelessness.

How does a reminders app fight any of those problems? People fail to show up to court because they don't see the point, because they think the system is stacked against them, because they can't afford to take the time off of work, because they can't find child care, or because they don't have transportation. It's ridiculous to suggest that an app that sends reminders of court dates will make an impact on any of these problems.
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> A more secure open source world

A world built on proprietary services is not an open source world.
The status quo and abandoning copyright aren’t the only alternatives. It would also be possible to reform copyright. One obvious change would be to shorten the time that a work can be copyrighted.
Thanks I'm glad you liked it. He's a very interesting man in my opinion.
'hash' column (varchar). Index created in advance slowed down the import so much it wasn't usable. I couldn't create an index after the import, too slow. I just want to find if one or multiple hashes are present in their data set.

I used Clickhouse previously with large data like this and worked much better. Obliviously, I compare oranges with apples, but PostgreSQL could support a columnar data engine or some kind of index?
You're just being silly now. No one's saying "merge the PR to change abortion laws". They're talking about tooling to look at proposed differences clearly.

It doesn't seem absurd to me to have a diff, watch that evolve as new versions are proposed by people, and then finally watch what goes in. Obviously ground truth is still in the books, with laws debated in parliament or congress or whatever, but this acts as a shadow tracking that movement. Even if the act of passing were to end with a merge in of whatever law is debated, that's still hardly troublesome. It only increases transparency and doesn't remove any checks or balances.

Bit hysterical of a reaction for a rather minor request, in my opinion.
> It was never intended as a retirement program - instead it an insurance for those those that lived beyond the average life expectancy.

Just for context, do you happen to know the change in life expectancy at age 30 over the relevant time period?
I'm not privy to the technical reasoning, but the Yoda split-and-reorder is part of their brand identity, so to speak.

It's an in-joke in journalism that the NYT routinely starts headlines with prepositions (followed by "location/context, noun/subject verb noun...")
I'm thoroughly curious what could have motivated this engineer's behavior, imperiling his livelihood and his employer's existence. I'd be unsurprised if a get-it-done-yesterday, deadline-driven, process-be-damned culture played a large role.
I honestly don't know what Gusto does that is different from companies like ADP (established 1949), especially in being framed as Government 2.0.
This is another example of the EU trying to "tax" US companies through fines. If you disagree with how Google uses your data _you have a choice_, stop using Google!
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Okay, but honestly, counting submissions is the weaker metric.

There ain't a fucking day that goes by that NYT isn't on the fucking main page, and it AIN'T because the articles are that good.

You mean to tell me NYT is just naturally in the top 30 submissions, ALL DAY LONG, for 100% of days, for months at a time?

Even above 90% of days gets to be slightly disgusting for a supposedly diverse news aggregator to stay "intellectually stimulating."

The articles that get vote brigaded to the surface are fluffy, political and shallow. Also, with copious political bias, according to the usual NYT leanings.

You know they're looking at the github repo and operating accounts to circumvent the usual vote ring detectors.

How many other outlets do this? Maybe arstechnica and techcrunch. Not even wired is on the main page this much. Not BBC. Not CNN.

I've stopped clicking NYT articles because I've grown to hate their ultra polarized reporting and journalism, ever since November 2016.
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ever since I started coming back here for the first time in several years, I couldn’t help but notice the high percentage of NYT articles posted here

The Times has had a dedicated Science section for as long as I can remember (going back at least to the 80's), even pre-dating the existence of its Sports section by a decade or more. And it's well-known for being on top of business news and current events. So it just seems natural that its articles align with the interests of many in the HN crowd.

Over the last ten years, especially the most recent five, the NYT has done a lot of leading-edge things in the arenas of technology, transparency, and disclosure. It seems to be more and more a tech-friendly publication, in a good way. (See also: The Guardian.)

It's always done the hard data mining, but more frequently it's showing people how things are done behind the scenes, and done some very interesting Apple-quality experiments in presenting its articles online.

And if you're into design, the printed version of the Sunday Times is full of different interesting delights each week.

/Not an employee, just a print/online subscriber.
If anyone wants to help Veterans, I am an attorney, 5+ years in assisting Vets get VA benefits.
I have A LOT of fully formed concepts, but amateur/hobby technical ability.
Most immediate goal is to compliment but go well beyond the very minimal efforts that USDS has been doing for Vets directly the last 2-3 years. VA has coopted USDS into assisting the VA first, Vets only incidentally.
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There are plenty of private companies that are positive or, in many cases, even necessary for governments and democracy to function. The media is one example, and so are internet providers. As this request is written, really any contractor that does something better than the SQ would qualify.

And, of course, YC even funds non-profit startups. Recognised tax-exempt organisations almost by definition work on goals which are also in the government's purview.

As it is, it appears your comment simply takes umbrage with the title? There is even a footnote explaining that the goal here is not to replace government but to improve it. That footnote may have actually been added as a response to your comment, because your's would seem to be a rather odd reading of this request.
Samsung AI can animate highly realistic heads using in some cases only one image
In this example they are capturing light scattered from the main pulse as it passes through the medium, they are no capturing the light pulse itself. If there is one photon then you can observe it only once (when it is absorbed by your detector).
and it, and others like it, will continue to live forever. Before TPB, when I was in college, I used to hang out on #warez on EFNet's IRC servers... Before 1996, I used to dial in to BBS' that would host these. The tech doesn't matter when the problem is entirely ethical. Pirates, like porn peddlers, are the first to adapt and adopt new tech to perpetuate their ideology. No amount of tech, or even legal action is going to address issues of ethics.

With that said, how do you address it? Probably by making software more affordable for those who pirate it, wish to buy it but cannot. Offering low cost subscriptions, e.g. instead of exorbitant one time fees. I don't necessarily want to buy a game.. I dont play games that much anymore, but I wouldn't mind subscribing to a service that offered it for a month or two, get my jollies and then leave when I'm not using it.

So rather than try to defeat it - and ideas are notoriously hard to defeat... try to "compete" with it and pray that people's conscience kicks in at some point.

I don't see what more past that one can do.
> start trading amongst themselves, and eventually get a financial crisis that destroys all that "wealth" when there are no more buyers

> how every other major period of rising inequality has ended

This is an interesting idea. Can you offer an authoritive source, or any canonical examples that are broadly regarded as such by economists (and say which ones think so)?
How so? "You are not allowed to use my work unless you agree to particular conditions that I care about".

In one case the condition is "I get paid", in the other "you have to contribute back your changes", but it's a similar underlying concept.
I have found PayPal to be excellent in response to phishing attempts- but that's an N of 1 and as an outsider.
It's a great fallacy that the government prioritizes serving citizens over "making money". Government always prioritizes making money. Look at the entire democrat political spectrum concocting different ways to increase taxes, and the republican spectrum to increase spending.
Well, bigints are fine as array indices. However they are not interoperable with numbers in any type of arithmetic. I don't think it's reasonable to expect to use bigints in any place where one uses numbers.

"Regular int" is not a distinct type in javascript. There are now two numeric types: 64-bit floating point, and bigint.
RT is not comparable to VOA. VOA has journalistic standards that are similar to those of NPR. RT's standards are below those of Fox News - it routinely engages in fabrication, misinformation campaigns, selective and reactionary reporting, and extreme editorialization.
I'm in agreement. The problems of government are best solved by pairing civil servants, the ones who know how to run the country, with enthusiastic, well-funded teams.

The end goal should be open, accessible projects built with open accessible tools.

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/
Music travel 2.0, explore music in city you visit
Hey

I personally like to meet local culture while traveling

and music is part of that.

Imagine you walking through the streets of Paris and Jim Morrison pops up on your playlist

because of tight relationship of him and the city.

Or Edith Piaf who maybe you wouldn't listen otherwise but that's the sound of the streets

you are walking through and that creates emotional relationship when it plays in background

during sightseeing.

Friend and I are developers and music lovers who would like to create app for it.

So you could walk around the city and check map for hidden local diamonds instead of commercial western music on every corner.

You could also read something about history of this location and it's relation to the artist

We are looking for a feedback from you guys.

www.markwebkitchen.com/music
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