skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I finally realized what bothers me about this article. It assumes that when you retire you are no longer a practitioner of your life's work. Being employed is your only definition of self. I might be a retired but I am still an engineer. I still think and do as an engineer - just nobody is paying me.

All this reminds me of Ursula Le Guin's final book of essays before she passed away. Le Guin received a survey for 1951 graduates of Harvard or Radcliff. The survey assumed that employment is the only value to your life.

Here is a quote from the book:

“But it was Question 18 that really got me down. ‘In your spare time, what do you do? (check all that apply).’ And the list begins: ‘Golf…’

...

“The key words are spare time. What do they mean?

“To a working person — supermarket checker, lawyer, highway crewman, housewife, cellist, computer repairer, teacher, waitress — spare time is the time not spent at your job or at otherwise keeping yourself alive, cooking, keeping clean, getting the car fixed, getting the kids to school. To people in the midst of life, spare time is free time, and valued as such.

“But to people in their eighties? What do retired people have but ‘spare’ time?

“I’m not exactly retired, because I never had a job to retire from. I still work, though not as hard as I did. I have always been and am proud to consider myself a working woman. But to the Questioners of Harvard my lifework has been a ‘creative activity,’ a hobby, something you do to fill up spare time. Perhaps if they knew I’d made a living out of it they’d move it to a more respectable category, but I rather doubt it.

“The question remains: When all the time you have is spare, is free, what to do you make of it?….

“The opposite of spare time is, I guess, occupied time. In my case I still don’t know what spare time is because all my time is occupied. It always has been and it is now. It’s occupied by living.

“An increasing part of living, at my age, is mere bodily maintenance, which is tiresome. But I cannot find anywhere in my life a time, or a kind of time, that is unoccupied.

“I am free, but my time is not.

“My time is fully and vitally occupied with sleep, with daydreaming, with doing business and writing friends and family on email, with reading, with writing poetry, with writing prose, with thinking, with forgetting, with embroidering, with cooking and eating a meal and cleaning up the kitchen, with consulting Virgil, with meeting friends, with talking with my husband, with going out to shop for groceries, with walking if I can walk and traveling if we are traveling, and sitting Vipassana sometimes, with watching a movie sometimes, with doing the Eight Precious Chinese exercises when I can, with lying down for an afternoon rest with a volume of Krazy Kat to read and my own slightly crazy cat occupying the region between my upper thighs and mid-calves, where he arranges himself and goes instantly and deeply to sleep.

“None of this is spare time. I can’t spare it. What is Harvard thinking of? I am going to be eighty-one next week. I have no time to spare.”
> I don't think this will survive constitutional challenge, because it is not the voters of the state who are deciding how the state's electors are decided.

Is this US constitutional law or Nevada constitutional law that I'm not familiar with? There's no law I'm familiar with against faithless electors and Ray v. Blair made it clear that states are allowed to exclude electors if they won't pledge their support a certain way. Finally, article 2 clause 2 of the US constitution gives fairly broad leeway on how states assign their electors.

I could be mistaken though. Outside observers from other countries often are.
No, there are several members of the House that have passed their sell-by date.
> An argument I heard recently against this is, if abolished, politicians won't have incentives to campaign in rural territories, and they won't be accountable to rural territories.

This doesn't effect politicians other than Presidential candidates, and doesn't effect territories (rural or otherwise) because those get no votes in Presidential elections. Though moving to a national popular votes in the states proper could be the first step to a national popular vote of US Citizens, which would give Presidential candidates a reason to campaign in territories.

Also, as long as there is a Senate and Presidential candidates are seen to have electoral coattails, there will be an incentive for Presidential candidates to campaign in low-population states.

Also, the association of low-population states with “rural areas” is wrong: California has a rural population about equal to the total population of South Dakota; Texas—the second most populated state—has the largest rural population, bigger than the total population of South Dakota and the four smaller states; North Carolina and Pennsylvania (also top 10 population states) have rural populations that also each exceed the total population of several of the smallest states combined.
Or the Fry and Laurie "Dr Tobacco" sketch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XewVicFzRxw
Yep, I'll take any 10th of a degree I can get.
`app.json` serves a different purpose from Dockerfiles (which Heroku also supports). Google's Cloud Run also makes use of `app.json`.
> No one mentioned federal benefits.

Sure you did; you said LAC voters don't have their concerns addressed as well because they are part of a large, populous state whose EC votes count for less per capita. My question is, if LAC is capable of managing its own affairs, why does it care?

In other words, you're assuming that the President's job is to "take care of everyone's concerns", so everyone needs an equal vote to elect the President. That seems to me to be absurd. The President's job is to faithfully execute the laws and to make executive decisions about national needs like defense and foreign policy. It's not to address the individual concerns of every voter or the local concerns of every city, county, etc.

Similar remarks apply to the Federal government more generally. The fact that everyone takes it for granted now that the Federal government is supposed to address everyone's concerns is a sign of how corrupt and inefficient our system has become. Everyone judges their Senators and Representatives, not according to how well they take care of national issues, but how much pork they send home.
IIRC this behavior is per-state and some (Maine or NH maybe?) do just that.
"Reader mode disabled."

That's a bug. Shouldnt be possible. Let the site require executing JS to get the txt, but the web browser should have no code to attempt to limit the user.... and yet they are _full_ of it.
But regardless of what forces are actually pushing for it, it is more fair.
Good point! It's hard to make a call as to what to do include in a 5-minute overview, but your point fits in one sentence, and is easy to understand. Thanks!
That's definitely in the spirit of what I was getting at.

I'll have to give it a spin, not sure when that will be, but I'd love to explain to a security audit that we don't patch an instance because there's nothing on it but the application.
Not if you confuse them with a Californian.
Fair point, I deleted the sentence.
> liberated from the Nazis

'Liberated' by invading first you mean. As was done in my country, among others.
Jair Bolsonaro accuses NGOs of setting fires in Amazon rainforest
Why cant states just give out percents of electoral votes based on who voted?

Example: Lets say CA has 10 Electoral Votes (for easy math)
60% vote Dem, 40% vote Republican. California then Gives 6 Electoral Votes to the Democrat and 4 to the Republican instead of all 10 to the Democrat.

Feels like that would more fairly represent the voters of each state no?
Note that 15 acres ~= 2km x 30m, i.e. if the ship in 200m ~= 600ft tall, then the area that can be irrigated is only 1/6 of the shadow.
No errors ...didnt type anything funky... Numbers ....
One should but, as this has never been necessary on macOS, it would be highly unusual.

Java is considered a system-wide framework, even when installed by the user. macOS treats Java applications specially in order to provide them with special macOS-only functionality; for instance, when an application bundle is launched that requires the JRE, the system will open a notification informing the user that a JRE must be installed and provides a helpful link.

There is a further assumption that the version of Java that a user installs will also include a self-updater, ensuring that the user always has the latest version of Java installed to mitigate security issues from using old versions.

The recent modification of Java's licence doesn't seem sufficient impetus to change this behaviour on which all Java applications have depended since Mac OS X first released, one that even continued after Java was deprecated as a built-in installation option.
What I'd be interested to know is how the situation is past the encrypted connections, i.e. inside the data centers. If you can't wiretap the connection, it seems like a logical choice that your next angle of attack would be the data centers. While you might not get insight on Google (without cooperation), the growing centralisation would actually make it easy to access data for many smaller companies: If you can convince just Amazon to work with you, you have potential access to the data of everyone that uses AWS.
Africa Still Wary of GMOs
> Most of the country, and the world, experiences elections by popular vote

Actually, as someone else remarked upthread, in most parliamentary democracies the Prime Minister is elected by the parliament, not by popular vote.
Over http, without a checksum!?
You might be looking for 'Modern Monetary Theory'

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Monetary_Theory
WASM is much smaller and simpler than either. This makes it easier to implement, both within browsers (as evidenced by most mainstream browsers already supporting it natively, and the rest via a polyfill) and beyond (e.g. the myriad of WASM runtimes out there - both interpreted and JIT/AOT compiled - written in all sorts of languages and usable outside a web browser). Same goes for most other bytecode VMs of a similar style/vintage (Dis, Parrot, BEAM, Dalvik, etc.).

Can't speak to mainframe VMs, since I ain't familiar with them. It's reasonable to assume they were proprietary, though (that's how things typically were back in those days), so WASM has a leg up there.
It's still not proportional. Life the limit of Representatives in the house. It was passed by simple law, it can be repealed by simple law. Make it proportional and you will have an argument, though not a great one because the Senate has more power than the House based on judicial appointments alone.
From the outside perspective that is mostly true.

The flaw is that you don't gain mass as you go faster. You gain momentum. That momentum energy even causes gravity in a way[1].

The reason it seems to take infinite energy to go faster than light is that the rate of time for the traveler changes as they go faster. From your observer's perspective, whenever they accelerate the speed increase is exactly cancelled out by the change in relative time rates. The more energy they spend the faster they go, but never quite fast enough to go at C.

From the traveler's perspective it is a totally different adventure. When they add energy they accelerate. Period. They don't notice the time dilation outside of observations of their origin and destination. If they have enough fuel, they can accelerate smoothly to 2 times the speed of light and travel a light year in 6 months. The problem is that more than a year will have gone by in the origin and destination on the way and they were never observed going faster than C.

If we had a way around the rocket equation we could easily cross the Galaxy within a human lifetime. It would just be Earth would be gone by the time we got there.

[1]https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/63961/does-relat...
> National Popular Vote (NPV) rewards states with high population - the higher the turnout, the more power for that state

Without EC presidential candidates wouldn't be focused on states at all, they would be focused on large demographics of the US population, which is exactly what they should be focused on.
so? California has more people - it should have influence proportional to it's population - remember that in most states (except for Wyoming) electoral college votes are dominated by house seats (which are proportional to population).
"It used to be a respectable thing to save money, now you're just hoarding cash!" - @Hipster_Trader
The "gerrymandering" would have to be done by moving state lines. So, probably not actually happening.
Cloud Run doesn't recognize app.json natively. However this project (Cloud Run Button) accepts an app.json that lets the developer configure env variables to prompt to the user.

Disclaimer: I've worked on this project.
It's not hierarchical as you describe. You don't first partition on device, then on time. They are done simultaneously -- see this older post for an illustration/comparison: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/time-series-data-postgresql-...

So this architecture fully allows various striping or distribution options across time and space, even though the default might collocate chunks belonging to the same device on the same machine (at least since the last elasticity event).
Also unbelieveably, Rust has failed to address package balkanization which I would say has ruined the Node community.

I'd say that this is more of a culture thing rather than a language thing.
They discover it now and will update the numbers in 6 months? Why?
The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show slightly higher all-cause mortality for coffee drinkers, some studies show slightly lower mortality. Either way, the effect size is clinically insignificant.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24279995
I feel like I've seen some maps for past elections done hypothetically like this. I can't recall the conclusions though. I think the Senate situation still gives disproportionate power to small states in that model, even if it is slightly less dramatic than the winner take all in each state we have now.
i certainly found myself thinking a similar thought, if only because said username seems highly applicable to my own life. mostly the jobless part as i have done a lot of work to leave the junkie aspect behind but i would be lying if I said vestiges of it don't still remain
Vaping has been mainstream for what, a little over 5 years? And it’s exploded in just the past couple years. Any research coming out saying it’s not dangerous is simply premature. Most young people who start smoking don’t really notice majorly harmful effects within their first couple years either. At this point, most studies can only demonstrate the short term effects. It’ll take a while to determine long term harm.
The thing I've never understood about this argument is why the urban/rural divide is so special that it needs special rules? There are a bajillion other types of ways to categorize people that there is a majority and a minority besides the population density of their state.
There could be a risk that if they did so, they'd get a reputation as "only caring about urban people" and lose votes in majority-rural states outside of Florida.
You can redirect light with mirrors too.
yes exactly - FPP voting as practiced in the US (at the house seat level right up to state electoral college votes) means that vast numbers of people are disenfranchised
Unless I've misunderstood you, that would appear to be a different issue. The size of Rust platform tools doesn't necessarily lead to longer build times or bloat for applications built with Rust.

And IMHO your issue does appear to be being taken seriously, at least judging from the link provided.
Wouldn't that push housing up in big cities?
And he's an Ethics professor?
I am still fuming at having to pay for a (required) Ethics class at business school. What a load of crock that was! Come, learn how to be ethical in one credit spread over 4 Sunday seminars.
Techwear’s Gender Problem
Mitch McConnell represents 6.8M people in TN and he is the most powerful man in the Senate, and one of the most powerful people in the country.

How difficult is it to corrupt a man like Mitch McConnell? How robust is our system of representation when one senator holds so much power?
The secret to successful dating is the same as real estate: Location, location, location. I had much better luck dating in central Mexico (where a gringo who has had a successful career stands out) than in Silicon Valley.

Even with a favorable location, the online dating market favors women. When I was in Mexico, it took about 200-300 matches, which became 40-60 active online chats, which became 12-18 in-person dates, to find the woman who became my wife. So about a 6% match to date ratio.

As pointed out in the comments to the linked article, this guy did well because he was in New York, which favors men. Technology hot spots (Silicon Valley, Seattle, etc.) tend to favor women. Places that favor Caucasian men include Latin America (Peru being a really good place; Columbia and Mexico also are favorable), Thailand, the Philippines, Eastern Europe, the Dominican Republic, and large parts of Africa. In the US, the deep South (Alabama, Georgia, etc.) are somewhat better for successful men.

With places where the ratios favor the women, it takes about 100 messages to get a date (and a lot of you’re too short/too old/etc. canned rejections); to date requires I just send the same spam message over and over (“let’s meet for coffee!”) until someone says yes. The hit ratio is just too low for me to get dating success with anything besides spamming.
He's also said he'd have organized his campaign visits differently, which would've altered the result even further.
I just came here to tell how happy I am with Timescaledb.

I have almost 8 tables with over 60Million rows and I'm very happy with the performance. Considering I have a t2.medium instance(2 CPUs with 4GB RAM). Like, everyone else mentioned, having AWS hosted option will be awesome!

Is there a way to optimize storage? I have set chunk size to 1 day interval . About 2 million rows per day writes.

My many thanks to the engineering team.
Coffee's fine.
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA....

A nonlinear association between coffee consumption and CVD risk was observed in this meta-analysis. Moderate coffee consumption was inversely significantly associated with CVD risk, with the lowest CVD risk at 3 to 5 cups per day, and heavy coffee consumption was not associated with elevated CVD risk.
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Patenntly false. Chairman of the Federal Reserve is largely apolitical. Judges have philosophies that tend to reflect the wishes of the President who nominated them but other than that are largely independent.

Look at how other countries handle election. In Australia the Australian Electoral Commission ("AEC") is responsible for running elections and I can tell you that none of the problems with politicized elections that exist in the US exist in Australia.
Note this is i386 assembly; these types of syscalls may not work on all amd64 Linux distros (won't work on WSL).
When I advice folks... I always like to say, for any good idea you have, 100 other people have already thought of it. For any great idea you have had, 1000 people have thought of it.

The core difference lies in the execution. If you can execute on even a marginally “okay” idea, you can build on that, but even the greatest idea in the world has no chance without that execution.

Corollary: don’t worry about protecting your idea, worry about how you can be the best person to execute it.
I don't see the "use sparingly" conclusion.

It's a complex trade-off of runtime performance, code clarity, productivity, safety, binary size, and compile times. Rust tries hard to eat all the cakes and have them too, but it can't do miracles.

And looks like the author is on the right track to tackling the problem — moving less common functionality behind feature flags, pregenerating data "offline", profiling and trimming code with the help of cargo-bloat.
> Building a distributed time-series database on PostgreSQL

Next order of business: Making mud pies.

PostgreSQL is geared towards transactional work. With time series, you basically just append data occasionally, and do analytics. PostgreSQL is terrible for analytics - its architecture is all wrong. 2 or 3 orders of magnitude slower than the state of the art if not more.
Using autistic as an insult here is inappropriate on multiple levels;
It was not meant to be in the litteral sense, I was meaning retarded which indeed real autists are not.
Most insults/pejorative words are not understood literally usually but well you're probably right.

since politicians actions are only rarely usefully related to their written programs
This is just too excessive, hyperbolic.
If you want to quantify it, there you go:
https://trumptracker.github.io/
much more accessible ways of getting information that is much better at predicting their behavior in office.
Enlighten me then, where is such a thing?
It seems like failing a constitutional challenge is the best case.

Electors don’t actually have to vote the way state law tells them to—that would require a constitutional amendment that restructures the whole process. When they vote counter to state law, they are called “faithless electors”.

A state system which ignores the will of its constituents is going to be much more susceptible to faithless electors, who may face tremendous incentives and pressure to trade votes.

I would expect the first such election to lead to the dissolution of the republic.
Another thing to consider: the average Joe has little or no cash savings. Rich people already are into stocks, real estate and other asset classes. There might not be much juice left to squeeze.
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Let's see:

- Enough states pass this for it to be in force in 2020.

- Trump wins the popular vote in 2020. However, he would not have won an EC vote because of California and New York.

- California decides to renege on the compact, and votes for Biden instead.

- A bunch of red states sue California. Long before the court cases go anywhere, Biden takes the oath of office.

And what then?
Not according to the IARC.

https://monographs.iarc.fr/list-of-classifications
How something raises BP might be important, tho.

/bargaining
I've been a long-time smoker, and at least for me, nicotine alone does absolutely nothing to alleviate cravings. Gum, patches, lozenges, vaping, etc. do zero to alleviate my craving for a cigarette. I'm not discounting that nicotine is addictive (I'm in no position to say), but there's got to be something else in tobacco that is part of the addiction.
Key word “areas”.

Of course it’s true. WY has 1 representative to CA’s 53.
They probably don't care, otherwise they wouldn't have gone with PostgreSQL in the first place.
Sure, California's votes may mean less on a per capita basis, but if you're asserting that California is under-represented compared to Wyoming on a national basis, you're going to have to give some supporting evidence there. That's a pretty wild claim.