skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US probably spends more on defensive security by orders of magnitude.
It's rather more trivial to leapfrog an existing technology when you're able to steal & learn from all of the IP it's based on and then target your R&D efforts accordingly. You don't have to suffer the organizational difficulties of sunk costs, path dependency, legacy systems, etc. So even if their equipment is more advanced, they still got there on the back of massive IP theft.
Propofol-only deep sedation is commonly used for minor outpatient procedures. If you’re going to have a patient down for less than an hour for a colonoscopy or endoscopy, it’s a very popular alternative to combination sedation as patient recovery is faster and a lot more pleasant.
Are you arguing that the 13th amendment was a positive right addition to government responsibilities?

If so, the main issue with slavery was that it was legal, not that it was rampant.
A terminal (to the company) focus on short term profits over long term sustainability. Profits, after all, boost stock prices, and a good portion of a CEO’s compensation is typically in stock grants (not to mention share holders or board members).
> While there was still something left after the fall of the USSR (such as free healthcare and education, something rich countries such as the US don't offer, and that most post-USSR countries promptly removed)

The US is no good example for anything related with Socialism besides the paranoia maybe. Free healthcare and education is not something unusual on the continent. No matter what political/economic system you have.

> I agree the Soviet Union left behind a quite terrible legacy. I also believe, however, that it is wrong to argue that every socialist country will share the Soviet fate

This is because you assume that the SU was in control everywhere. In the Warsaw Pact countries it was the local government that was to blame here primary. Their versions of the ideology were what caused the problems. Not often they were even in conflict with the SU line.

> Even then, your choice removes from the discussion quite a few altogether different societies, based on radical democracy, such as Republican Spain during the civil war, and the Free Territory of Ukraine during the Russian Civil war.

The first existed for 3 years the second was an anarchist movement. Both fall much better in your category of societies developed in an environment of extreme hostility from other nations and did not show to be a relevant model to run a country.

> I'm sorry, but I rarely hear someone cheering for the DDR, or for the USSR in general.

I was able to vote for at least 2 parties who either completely or represented by a strong wing do cheer the DDR pretty much (die Linke, MLPD). There is a strong and relevant movement within the left in Germany to do just that.
I've just been experimenting and evaluating inheritance for a new project for the past week, and while I felt it could have been a great fit in some cases, I choose not to use it due to the many recommendations to stay clear of it. I finally felt good about my decision a couple of days ago when I saw the "official" recommendation here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This#Don.27t_use...

Now reading this post, I'm curious again :-) One case where I had inheritance in mind was to track row ownership and dates for app users. For instance, I currently have 56 tables which all contains the same columns (owned_by, created_by, deleted_by, created_at, deleted_at). Now as far as I understand, I'd still have to define foreign keys for owned_by, created_by and deleted_by on each table, so I wasn't sure the gain of inheritance was good enough considering potential downsides I wasn't able to evaluate properly without more knowledge / experience. I think my case looks a lot like the notes example, and I wonder if there are any pros/cons in using inheritance for a case like this?
> if we manag to limit it to <1.5°C we won't enter a region where climate warming accelerates itself to a degree that makes it unstoppable.

Grateful if you could point to a source that shows a >97% consensus on that statement. Genuinely interested, not trolling. Thanks.
I'd never heard of Bob Widlar before, but it's great to see someone praised for significant innovation in an esoteric field. It's great to see such specialized work appreciated. It's also interesting, and kind of weird, to see a giant of Silicon Valley engineering design whose education was primarily "home grown," as contrasted with the highly academic engineers of today.
Well, in socialist countries there was no index that would spell out explicitly what is strictly verboten. Ordinary people were expected to know that via hints and rumours. Well if the official media was calling genetics nasty names then that was a strong indicator that genetics is verboten. I guess that the media used to be more directly orchestrated.
Switching between paired devices can be done with the power slider, without the Bose app. I don’t know how to do #1 without the app though.
Tidal power is very challenging. Tidal stream devices like this have a very high LCOE (levelized cost of energy) because the stresses on them are massive so they are built like tanks but capture little of the energy flowing past them. Tidal range designs like La Rance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rance_Tidal_Power_Station) are significantly more economic, but actually developing them and building them due to the size they need to be to be economic presents a major headwind for developers. There is huge potential globally for this but the will from investors and governments to really focus on it hasn't been there. These are mega-engineering projects with big risks, so capital flows to simple solar and wind instead.
Which lappy? Where did you get it? I want one too.
> Appeal to authority (argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam) – an assertion is deemed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it.

You have to be careful with this one. When someone has enough credibility, sometimes you need to question yourself if you disagree. If you are playing chess and Gary Kasparov comes along and tells you what your next move should be, you can disagree with him, and you might even be right, but given his expertise in chess, his move is most likely going to be better than yours and it's worth considering (unless, of course, you are chess master at his level). The same thing is true with software. Some people are really strong engineers with really strong expertise in a specific domain. If you follow their advice within their domain of expertise, you might not come to the optimal solution, but you'll probably come to a good enough solution. Of course, there are exceptions, but in my personal experience, I've seen more people mess up by not following experts' advice than by following it.
>unfruitful if you are interested in the truth.

Do you really think its possible to find "the truth" of numbers when it comes to things like democide?
Well, we could require that countries (trade partners) pay tax on their emissions as opposed to companies. How these countries tax their companies internally could be an internal affair entirely. And this also solves the bookkeeping at the border.
The source choosing can be done (with the power slider) without the app. Just FYI.
Saudi Arabia is part of the problem in Yemen, they're a belligerent?

The Sunni-Shia conflict is an ancient one that's also a serious problem in the region for muslims, although how much of it is a religious conflict and how much is just a regular Iran-Saudi power struggle is hard to say.

Yemen is unfortunate in being both strategically located, having little oil, a huge problem with the drug Qat, and rapidly running out of water.
The 13th amendment abolished laws that had built up protecting slavery. It meant that the slave interests could no longer use the government to enforce what they wanted. It recognizes (does not grant) the right that we all have to not live as slaves, and requires the government to protect that right. It is an important protection from the use of government power to enforce the claims of slave owners.

Prior to this, various laws and judicial decisions (such as Dredd Scott) had made aiding fugitive slaves illegal, and had practically made slavery legal in all states regardless of the will of the people.

Surprisingly, slavery persisted even after the Civil War. Here is a powerful, true story of someone who was a slave around 1900:

https://www.amazon.com/Emancipation-Robert-Sadler-Twentieth-...
Kobalt build tool uses a Kotlin DSL (typed language) and lets you establish dependencies between files in a straightforward way. It currently only supports java and kotlin jvm projects but it meets your criteria.

https://beust.com/kobalt/home/index.html
Grew up in Alberta, but spent a lot of time as a kid in the Kootenays in British Columbia, so no stranger to grizzlies. I've seen a few while hiking as well, very scary.

I think the idea that a handgun cannot penetrate a Grizzly's skull is a myth anyways. Plenty of accounts of people shooting attacking grizzlies dead with a large calibre handgun. Bear-spray can work but what if it doesn't or what if there's wind working against you?
For me personally left buttons are often annoying on mobile as I have a wide phone (like lots of people) which I hold with my right hand (like lots of people) meaning I'd need to stretch or use my other hand to press the button.
It's reasonable if you look at it from user's point of view: this application can calculate your location through BLE[0], giving BLE access is essentially giving coarse location access, so we should let the user know.

Permissions ideally shouldn't overlap, but in this case, they somewhat do.

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[0] - and given the disastrous lack of ethics in the tech sector, it's very likely it will do that, or one of 30 adtech libraries it includes will.
Slavery was enforced by the government prior to the 13th amendment. So no, its not a valid example of government increasing its power over the people, its an example of limiting its power.

That's the point of constitutional amendments: to limit the power of the government.
Now you have APIs that people depend on and will get pissed if they change. If you do it all internally then major API changes are not a problem.
How to Save the (Institutional) Humanities
There is a paywall? Why is this even on front page? I am on phone, maybe I’m missing something.
What does "free-as-in-speech" mean in the context of software?

A strict interpretation would suggest something along the lines of "we don't censor what the customers of our software do with it", which is true for almost all software (aside from social media platforms). I don't see how this would apply here, since this software isn't being used for the creation of anything.

A looser interpretation would suggest that, if the software is used to access content (eg. web browser) then, aside from technical limitations, it doesn't censor content that it could otherwise display. I can see how this might apply to a DNS.

I don't see, however, how "free-as-in-speech" has any reference to open or closed source. (Not sure if that was what was meant.)
Unfortunately the switch only allows you to connect to one device at a time - if you want to use the dual source feature (which is a huge bonus for me when i’m at my desk) you gotta use the app to manage it.
Much of what is discussed in this article as something "we should try out" is already a well-researched topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_grouping
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My gun range headphones have physical noise elimination by nature of their construction. Better than anything Bose can do digitally.
Isn't this why most people on HN and in the tech community writ-large oppose patents in tech? Faster innovation happens when IP protections aren't holding back innovation.
I believe the problem comes from a conceptual mismatch of what a timezone object should be. The datetime people envisioned a dumb object that just contains some constants, not the dynamic objects produced by pytz. Using .localize as emphasized in the pytz documentation solves the problem completely.

It would be less of a problem if pytz defaulted to the last offset in the database rather than the first.
In simple terms I'd say there are authoritative opinions and there is evidence presented by authorities. You may trust some authorities to provide you with all the necessary evidence to form an opinion, seek evidence from multiple independent authorities, etc. and form an informed opinion. But you cannot trust an authoritative opinion in a newspaper. Newspapers exist to make people trust them, to appeal to authority so they can influence people's opinions arbitrarily any way they see fit and sell that influence, pretty much guaranteeing you are not exposed to an informed opinion.
Well, everyone in my family thought I was crazy for constantly looking at Robinhood during Christmas to snatch good deals.
Hi. Creator here. I developed Perfalytics out of my frustration with analyzing
Postgres performance. I've been optimizing Postgres full time for the last three
years and I still find it difficult to get a good understanding of why certain
queries are sometimes slow. It's clear other people have a hard time debugging
Postgres performance issues based on the number of Postgres performance posts
that have appeared on Hacker News over the years.[0][1][2]

Perfalytics is like EXPLAIN ANALYZE on steroids. It's a Postgres extension that
records the query plan of every query as it runs. By recording all this
information, you're able to detect and diagnose performance issues way before
you would be able to otherwise. For example, you can use this information to
detect potential problems like sequential scans and on-disk sorts as soon as
they start occurring. When a query suddenly becomes a lot slower, you can use
Perfalytics to dig into what exactly changed between when the query was fast and
when the query was slow.

In addition, because Perfalytics records so much information about your queries,
I'm able to make specific recommendations on how to improve of your
database. This enables all teams, even those without much Postgres experience,
to lean on Perfalytics to get the expertise they need to scale Postgres.

If you have any questions about Perfalytics, feel free to reach out to me at
michael@perfalytics.com. It's my goal to make scaling Postgres a truly painless
experience.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12606480

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19955462

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15761026
If you trigger memories in a PTSD patient and then knock them out with propofol, you may disrupt the long-term storage of those memories or even create a window in which they can be changed. It's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, essentially.
I wonder how many problems in the world are ultimately caused from shares not being seen primarily as a source of divident, but as an asset to gamble with.
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I've used several of the high-interest rate online lenders, such as Able Lending, Kabbage, Fundation, etc. They are all the same. The company was over three years old, which is sometimes a requirement (or a key factor in risk assessment). The business was doing about a million dollars top-line, but not quite profitable. We did not need to point to growth, but did need to outline a plan that shows how we pay the loans back. The lower the amount borrowed, the less the lender was concerned with future cash flow. Almost all of the lenders required access to either Quickbooks or the business bank account.

Kabbage was fairly easy for $50,000; 18 month term loan around 19%.
Fundation was fairly easy for around $100,000 for 18-months at 13%.
Able Lending was an involved process for $500,000. That was a 36-month term loan at roughly 16%.

Since we can point to some months of profitability, significant capital expense in the form of R&D, and consistent cash flow, an SBA loan (in the USA) is a possibility now. The interest rate is under 10%, the term length is 7 years (?) for working capital (25 years for real estate). That's really the best deal in town, if you qualify. It's not that hard to qualify, as long as you are not just starting out.

I've also borrowed $250,000 from a supplier. That was a pain in the ass, but was critical to staying alive. In all cases, I've had to personally guarantee the debt.
The problem is that most fallacies have a base on cognitive biases. And even when we are aware of them, they are unconscious. So we can't avoid them. But we can try to mitigate them[1].

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_bias_mitigation
No. "Something was missing" because a boss above my boss could come in at any time and make changes to the team, project, or anything beyond my control.

I can't tell you the number of times this has happened, where someone in a high position wants a ridiculous feature added to project I am working on..and I need to grit my teeth and add it.

The company can also be taken down a path I disagree with..with little or no option but to follow.

It's fine for many people to enjoy the comfort of a regular salary and benefits that simulates being part of a startup or owning their own company with little risk. But I want the real thing. Even if it means the potential that my decision will cause me to fail.

I pay for my own healthcare for my family (which isn't really that expensive) and opened my own retirement account. I have no set schedule for work and can work from anywhere with an Internet connection. I spent years working for other people and many more building the life I have now.

It has nothing to do with an emotional attachment when all of the things that I mentioned above actually happen. It's really about power. I want to remove as many people that have power over me as possible. This is true freedom.

It's like an animal being in a zoo that looks like their natural habitat and calling them 'free'.
> I’m thinking through how Twitter would combat something like this.

twitter's bot can pull the link via Tor with a randomized UA
The mistake here is obviously to compare China and the USA as apples and apples.

The US is an empire comprising the mainland, as well as vassal and occupied states. China has a smaller periphery (Taiwan, Tibet, Xinjiang, HK, etc.)

If you actually wanted to make this comparison, you would need to compare the treatment of people in the USA's occupied territories, such as Iraq or Palestine, to the worst in China, not the worst in China to the worst in the USA, that by default grants a huge arbitrary importance to national borders. (Although the worst within the USA is very bad). China's appalling assimilation of muslims should be criticized, but Americans rarely draw a baseline comparison to how they deal with large muslim populations (invading their countries, murdering their people, drone-bombing weddings, etc.)

Reminds me of a friend who said "Churchill may have been a belligerent racist, but I'd rather have lived under Churchill than under Stalin!". The assumption is that "soviets" lived "under Stalin", but "englishmen" lived "under Churchill". However, it turns out the victims of Irish and Indian human-made famines also lived "under Churchill". He automatically imagines himself as an english citizen, not an indian subject... and it's not clear why?

Or, to put it more simply, if the middle east or historical comparisons don't work for you, you can just look at the Monroe Doctrine that has been openly re-centered thanks to the efforts to realign Venezuela into American consensus.

If you compare all of China to all of the Americas, you get a much better comparable population + land mass, and you can really contrast how the USA treats peripheral regions: blockades, banana republics, coups, black sites, paramilitaries, etc.

Americans will tell themselves "we may be bad but we are better than the enemy" over and over again, and that is what we will eventually study as the core repeated mantra of American propaganda during its waning years.
Hiw do you get lost performance which is done by hardware back by using software? If HT is disabled at BIOS/UEFI level, how is software bypassing that low level block?
Depends on how you view theft. If China has been artificially keeping their currency low while the government has been pouring cash into companies to allow them to sell at a loss - causing competitors to declare bankrupcty, then buying up the assets. I'd call that "stealing" from both shareholders and the insert country of origin of the asset they're acquiring.
Sure, but Google was a search engine since 1996. They only incorporated once they figured out a potential business model. Until then they were “a company” in the sense of being founders working together on an idea with the goal of monetizing it; but, since they had nothing to sell yet, no brand, and no salaries to pay, they didn’t bother to wrap a legal company around the “company in their hearts.”
Well, it doesn't seem to like Privacy Badger.

So here's the archive.is version: http://archive.is/o8uvi
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Many people miss the key point of this article:

Break your make build up by recursively including make files instead of recursively invoking them.
>Poorly isolated single-family homes in the south relying on air conditioning through the summer will be more expensive compared to flats in northern brick houses, etc.

In general it takes more energy to live in colder climates than warmer ones.

So a better comparison would probably be a large house up north vs a small apartment down south.
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By treating people as cattle.
She had a gun, it's in the article.
Good points. I feel software engineering as a field is growing a lot slower than it could, for a couple of reason.

The first is what you mention: everyone ignores lessons from the past and try to relearn everything from scratch, reinventing the wheel and best practices over and over and over, making the same mistakes again and again. Some communities also heavily encourages concepts like how experience doesn't matter, best practices aren't a thing, etc.

The second (and part of the reason the first is a thing), is the amount of people acting as experts that really aren't. Even big names and pseudo-celebrities in the field frequently have no idea what they're talking about. Once people realize this, they start questioning everything.

And thus, we're stuck in software engineering stone age. Being unable to separate the good stuff from the bullshit is holding us back a lot.
If censorship isn't effective, why don't we see any dictatorships embrace freedom of speech?
If you are using 1809/1803 builds of windows, they are noticebly slower due random background crap consuming all ram and cpu. 1903 is more responsive.

For azure workloads, patched server past 04.2019 see less cpu busy time for me.

On older CPUs the specter mitigations <2019 have a significant performance impact.

Other things I've noticed. The new ssms built on newer .net framework is significantly faster (gui) at everything.