skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a widely cited counter-example, but I think most linguists think the case is closed regarding whether this is actually a counter-example to the Chomskyian program. Andrew Nevins and David Pesetsky have an extremely convincing rebuttal of Everett's claim.

http://semantics.uchicago.edu/kennedy/classes/s07/myths/nevi...

https://www.academia.edu/3112859/Evidence_and_argumentation_...
Yeah, I'm blown away that this was their evidence, especially for such a strong claim.

Expats/emigrants/travelers are basically the group least able to generalize over their countrymen back home.
So much nonsense in this article, don't know where to start...
I thought that we knew that they don't report bugs that they know about (because they don't care about the greater good).
SQL queries can be composed like in your example if you use subqueries.
> trees take time to grow and accumulate carbon

They also burn down or are harvested quite regularly.
I would have generally agreed with this sentiment until we took a leap of faith and chose Entity Framework 4-5 years ago. That, coupled with the power of LINQ has allowed us to do things we simply wouldn’t be able to do otherwise. Pass IQueryables around without realizing them right away. This leads to functional, composable queries. And the queries we generate would simply not be possible to be written by hand. If we need to write SQL, we can and do. But with good design and good indexes, we rarely, if ever, do. I was skeptical, but EF is a tool we have not regretted.
We also haven't seen the devices in the NSA's TAO catalog taken to a lab or showing up at DEFCON. That's half the point of targeted hardware attacks.

And yeah, it was a graphic that wasn't entirely accurate; welcome to print journalism.
What'd be better for the environment is to not build anything at all, and force people to use existing resources more efficiently through higher pricing rather than buying more resources to run at 1/30th the speed a real programming language would be able to do. Not a realistic proposition, but let's not get taken by the narrative that a multi-megawatt datacenter can somehow be as green as they claim, once you consider the downstream effects.
If I had to guess why there's so little money in politics I'd guess it's because there are more efficient ways to spend the money.

Political contributions right now seem to function mostly as a tax avoidance strategy. These donations are effectively free. A company or wealthy individual can either pay taxes or donate the money to a "non-political" think tank to promote policies they'd like to see.

Convincing someone to influence elections is easy if they'd pay it in taxes anyways. I'm guessing it's difficult to convince someone that their post tax money is most efficiently spent influencing the political system.

One last note, there's also many other types of interactions companies have with the government. There's state level, regulatory bodies, local and county influences. Companies interact highly with the government at the local levels because they're easier to manipulate than the federal government.
A major issue with this is that digital goods do not degrade or deteriorate, unless built-in.

For indie games, a free "used" digital goods market would mean the end of sales for that indie game.
How many gamers would not sell off their Subnautica or Super Meat Boy in a heartbeat just to spend that money on Cyberpunk 2077? Many I guess, in the thousands even.

So very shortly the supply of "used" copies of a game would VASTLY outnumber the demand for that game.
Thus effectively ending the sales period for that game, probably forever. No reason whatsoever to buy a "new" copy of a digital good unless it uses some additional DRM locks and microtransactions.

Now why this problem isn't as prevalent with physical copies is that:

A) It's actually not legal (in many jurisdictions, at least the ones with copyright lobbies, of which there is no shortage of in the EU) to make copies of the discs for any other purpose but personal backups.
B) All discs deteriorate and degrade with time and they can't be circulated forever due to point A.

If an open market of "used" digital goods becomes the norm then that could spell the end for many smaller studios as we know it.
Or it just makes a Streaming future even more inevitable, or Steam will invent some clever thing to circumvent this whole thing.
Maybe instead of buying games you simply buy "tickets", I leave this up to the lawyers to figure out.
I pretty much agree... I roll my own ORM usually, though... mostly for niceties like firstOrCreate, and such. I always keep a sense of the actual MySQL being ran behind the scenes.
Elixr, Phoenix, Postgres, Ubuntu and Gitlab CI/CD, hosted on Digital Ocean.

In my case, since I'm teaching this stack (at https://alchemist.camp), it was a great choice. I think there's a bit more credibility in using what I'm teaching instead of just using an off-the-shelf solution, and it's also been a source of inspiration for some of the content, too.

Being able to handle more visitors and traffic than I'll ever likely get on a total infrastructure cost of just over $7/month, is great, too.
Yeah I'm also pretty critical of their narrative of how centralized currency came about. Their timeline is wildly wrong. The author makes it seem like states started minting coinage in the middle ages, when the advantages of a standardized coin with a mandated-by-fiat face value (possibly different from the actual value) were well-known - and famously used to great effect by - even the early Roman Empire.

Then there's this sentence, which is just nonsense:

> All money was borrowed from the central treasury, at a rate of interest set by the king.
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Unit testing code that touches the database is not useful, and in fact it indicates there is likely a design flaw. Code that acquires from or changes data in the DB should be self contained.

An integration test that doesn't use the same DB as production is unsatisfactory.
I changed mine at 2008 as well when the system showed off its ugliness. No way to deal with local corruption, these talk about how a foreigner can free ride a system may be great for one. And unlike old days in Soviet Union you American can seem to integrate into it. But that it is a totalitarian state. The elite those rich communists you do not see has power you have no way to control.

Now the axe is to of the New York like Hong Kong my home town, I feel all these are just trick.

And this guy do this comparison like USA should covert to china. Even advocate wechat pay without concern that everything you do is now in the government hand. One day if you said something they do not like, your kid will suffer and there is no appeal.

Such a strange video. But poison one can drink like all those food he can eat. One day when the axe come good luck.
>A license is not the same for a physical copy vs a digital copy.

>A physical copy is an actual tangible thing, and courts have ruled that licenses travel with the ownership of the actual thing--i.e., copyright law does not trump property law.

>A digital copy is an ephemeral, transitory thing. The very nature of a digital object means that the object used/viewed/etc is not the same digital object that was stored (i.e., the copy on your hard drive is not the copy in memory, though they may be identical).

...as defined by courts, but not this one. It is those things because we say it is. In another reality it's perfectly reasonable to assume courts ruled that there is no difference. It's a situation which benefits the producer, not the consumer.

I agree that it's tricky because you also can't allow for a buyer to produce copies and undercut you but, at the same time, I am getting a low less with my money.

>or for PC game prices to go up dramatically in the EU if it is not.

There has been a second hand market for games since they have existed (which was also fought against btw, along with rentals.)
I think we would have other information (rumors, etc) if there were a large bank in trouble and, AFAIK, most repo is tri-party reducing risks further.

Another reason I feel this is not a single name problem is that the spread of FF to IOER had been rock stead until 2018 when FF began to trend from -15bp to parity/+5bp. So this pressure has been around awhile now.
In principle yes. But in practice, we are talking about nanoseconds; and I would very much like to see benchmarks/measurements showing anything that can be perceived by users. Also, this blocking cost is still orders of magnitude lower than network latency and blocking requests (even with a slow adblocker) will result in a noticeable performance boost while browsing the web.
> I have a moral and ethical obligation to prevent my source from being used for evil.

Okay, but where do we stop?
Yeah, I don't understand why developers feel they should use one over the other in every single case.

I guess there's a certain appeal to only using nails or only using screws, but at some point it doesn't make sense to compromise the quality of your code over ideological purity.
You seem to be say that both

a) Single instance of application doesn't scale over multiple cores, and

b) Multiple instances of application scales well over multiple independent servers

Can you explain why they are unable to efficiently run multiple instances of the application on the same CPU (with multiple cores)?

The only thing I could think of would be running up against IO/Memory bandwidth limits.
Just because it's hard to do in a way that ensures the safety of the sources doesn't justify any sense of trustworthiness.

In national security matters like this it's okay to be skeptical about reporting and sources because journalists have gotten in wrong before, probably because of how difficult it is to investigate without endangering the sources.
Probably some tech support scam thing. It seems to be the biggest business around in shady blackhat circles.

You could push a lot of scareware with an extension with full access to the browser.
What a weird statement. In many ways, SQL is a higher-level abstraction than an ORM. A better analogy might be functional versus imperative styles, but even that breaks down pretty quickly.

ORMs generally serve some subset of three purposes: 1) constrain the dynamic nature and expressiveness of SQL in such a way that it can work well in less expressive languages 2) serve as a bridge between a typed language and an untyped language and 3) a way to avoid your team needing to learn and work in two languages for backend dev (similar to arguments of using Node so that your frontend and backend can be the same language).

To claim one is superior to the other without context is just a very inexperienced statement to make. I'd highly encourage any team that is comfortable being a polyglot to consider avoiding ORMs and embracing the DB as much as possible.
> but more for admiring an illustration or a diagram

Consider the aspect ratio of most monitors. It's ideal for side-by-side viewing of pages. Also, most books that have mixed illustrations, pictures, and text are designed for side-by-side viewing.

This, and all of the other shortcomings I mentioned, are technically very easy to accomplish. For example, Foxit does support side-by-side display, but if you switch it to full-screen display, that goes away. It's almost like they had to work extra hard to make side-by-side not work.

Side-by-side is also very useful for "flipping" through a book. You can do it literally twice as fast as page-by-page.
Or maybe you worked only on “toy” projects and never understood that you are doing more work that could be expressed more elegantly in a functional SQL expression instead of using the imperative statements of the ORM engine?
The craziest thing in this discussion is that I have to defend SQL that is probably my least favourite language... I never expected this honestly.
Riiight, Snowden even said in Citizen Four that they claim their access is going dark but in reality it just keeps getting better and better.

Oh and don’t forget James Clapper, who TOLD CONGRESS that they weren’t collecting American’s phone records, or at least “not wittingly”.

Don’t mind if I tinfoil hat a little bit but I wouldn’t be surprised if “Intel” put that in there just for them.
Yes and no.

A heat pumpt doesn't generate heat, it /pumps/ it from one location to another. It can only achieve above-100% efficiency if you don't include the source of the heat in your calculation.

For a more practical example, consider a (simplified) geothermal heating system. It consists of a probe that's drilled some 10-15m into the earth, a radiator in your living space as well as a pump and piping connecting the two. The earth's temperature surrounding the probe is relatively constant at 10-15 degrees C.

In winter, when the outside temperature falls below those 10-15 C, you pump warm water from the probe into the radiator. Using the example numbers, 100W of electrical energy might provide you with 400W of heating output. The 100W has no part in generating the heat though, it only moves it from the warmer probe to the cooler radiator. The reverse applies in Summer, when the surface temperature is higher than 10-15 C.

What you're describing exists in the form of district heating. Heat is generated in a central location (e.g. as a side product from garbage incinerators), and a heat pump is used to transfer the thermal energy from that location into a bunch of surrounding houses. But, in any case: the whole process only makes sense as a way to capture excess energy from the heat-generating process; and you are always limited to (at the theoretical maximum) capture all of the excess energy output, but not one Joule more.
ORM or not ORM, LINQ to SQL is amazing!
I was responding very specifically to the statement that cable television watchers don't want to think.

For the rest, you're missing it by over-analyzing.

People don't have time to learn everything, but they do want to learn/hear about interesting things. It's really that simple.

This is orthogonal to the idea that the victors get to rewrite history. THAT observation has nothing to do with the conversation here.
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I'm surprised they're advertising. They should just reveal more details slowly like Tesla. It should sell itself as they become available for test drives.
Is it more from leisure (maybe due to Instagram vacation sharing, etc.), or business use?
Thanks for the reference. BTW, I've now and then sent these lists to PDF reader makers. None have ever paid any attention nor acknowledged it. So I complain here :-)
As someone who’s been using mostly Clojure recently, wouldn’t this apply to programming language based object systems, too? Maybe the problem with the object relational impedance mismatch is the objects.
The basic idea of the relational model was actually data independence, i.e. optimization for flexibility. If you are interested you can have a look at the original paper from 1970:
https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
It is.

Though ES2017 added a number of string operations, including String.prototype.padStart.
Oh. Are we still taking NSA's statements at face value post-Snowden?
Right. That. An ORM for (only) PostgreSQL would seem odd -- though I do wonder if that might pay off in some ways.
If only they subscribed to such common logic...
Tablets didn't die. We still inscribe words onto metal and stone. And, yes, I'm including tombstones and other memorials as being tablets.

I can't think of anyone who still makes scrolls, or papyrus, or vellum, or writings on birch bark, but I'm sure someone does it, if only as art.

Some technologies do die, like Williams-Kilburn tubes and mercury delay line memories, but others are relegated to roles where they still shine.
That's not really a problem. Addresses aren't the entire ECDSA public key, but a hash digest of it. The entire public key is only revealed once a transaction is made from an address to another. So an address that has only received coins, but never sent any, is entirely immune from QC. (This, by the way, is why you're never supposed to reuse addresses, since once you move coins from an address once, it's possible for someone offline to try and break the key.)
What area?

But yeah, property taxes can be rough, they’re meant to ensure that you’re not sitting on land that could be used more productively. On the other hand, your neighbor’s investment in land has apparently paid off in terms of appreciation.

With prop 13, I’d support age-based property tax abatement, but the current way it’s set up is insane (commercial property gets the same treatment, the tax basis can be passed on to heirs, if you sell less than some fractional share of the land, it doesn’t trigger a reset, and some other insane provisions).
The keyword I used was "unlikely". The point being that it would be a coordinated effort between Microsoft and some other company (Monotype), increasing the unlikelihood, because it would require joint effort. Regardless of Microsoft's market cap, it would still have to deal with the lawyers and royalty concerns of its partner, it couldn't just unilaterally decide to open source it without negotiations. Given the nature of font design, Microsoft may not even have access the "source" for Consolas today, and maybe/probably only licenses the final TTFs from Monotype. (Plus, it's an old enough font that whatever "source" there may exist would only be glyphs in various proprietary formats and build tools/chains that would require conversion to tools more appropriate to open source.)

Yes, Microsoft has the resources to do all of that, given enough time and it becoming enough of a priority, but the likelihood of that becoming a priority one would directly assume is related to how much effort that would take. It would likely take a lot of effort.
Using a DB inside your unit tests is an antipattern and arguably a violation of the concept of a unit test in the first place.

Integration tests should run against a test environment, otherwise, what integration are you testing? I don't see the value in writing integration tests that test the integration between my code and a one-off integration test DB that exists solely for the purpose of integration testing.
"Exclusive access" means writing. But the reader doesn't know when it might change. Sometimes that's exactly what you want.
No, I get it, but that's not what I meant. I meant changes to page layout/design which is in the db.
Aside from the flaws of the article, there are something to be said about how centralized bitcoin has become. Most of the bitcoins are held by centralized exchanges, or "qualified" custodian (locked up in ETF and other exchanges). They essentially act like centralized banks, the exact thing we're trying to avoid. The only saving grace is we can send to native wallet, giving us some freedom from the institutions.
Not impossible, but I doubt it.

(1) Existing power usage doesn't work that way. You're basically on the hook for a predicable amount of usage. Of course, this could change, but the inertia behind this paradigm is high.

(2) Google has a bunch of hardware with relatively fixed costs that they'd prefer to run 24 hrs/day, 365 days/year.
Some commenters have asked what kind of business would deploy this kind of technique.

I’ve done it. For MLS syncing software, there are lots of properties, not thousands but can be hundreds. And each MLS RETS has its own Schema, so for any kind of logic portability this is necessary.

Actually, storing the raw data as a blob is a flexibility technique and is a separate concern than the number of fields. As I can’t predict the future set of optimized queries I’ll need, and I don’t want to constantly sync and resync (some MLS will rate limit you), then this way I can store the raw data once, and parse plus update my tables/indexes very quickly.
>they are not enforced ... widely, rigorously and thoroughly

That's a major source of the danger. If they were being consistently and equally enforced, then it would be obvious when there were issues. In the case with selective enforcement, the government can point to the law and say they're in the right, but only apply it when it suits them. This lets the people making the rules and the people who are in their good graces do what they'd like due to selective enforcement and not face the consequences of their actions.
I'm ignorant in stock trading, I admit. But I dont understand why AMD stock isn't blowing up. It's done a recovery after a market wide dip, but hasn't all this Intel beating news raised the hype? So many other tech companies are so severly overvalued and hyped daily. Why is AMD a steady 28-32?
> Do you use the same database engine for your unit and integration testing as you do production? I don't. I use sqlite for unit and local integration testing, and aurora-mysql for production.

Yeah, don't do that.
I agree. Unfortunately each database has its own SQL dialect with small differences, so migrating to a different database becomes a problem when using plain SQL.

You also lose compile-time checks.

I'm trying to combine the best of the two approaches in the V language. It has a built-in ORM that uses SQL-like syntax:

uk_customers := db.select from Customer where country == 'uk' && nr_orders > 0
println(uk_customers.len)
for customer in uk_customers {
println('id: $customer.id; name: $customer.name')
}

https://vlang.io/docs#orm
$40B is about $72,000/person/year[1].

Yes, I know what you meant, but...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...
People who can't create successful startups yet run a consultancy business
and offering packages for you to be connected with investors and advisors. It's basically a paid ad service for entrepreneurs.

These guys aren't really offering value. Don't pay people to get an introduction. If their introductions are valuable they wouldn't be running a business on connecting you together, use logic. Multiple successful entrepreneurs have warned people about against paying for services like this one is offering. The moderator of r/startups reddit created it https://www.805startups.com/paid-memberships/

You are basically paying for an ad-spot. If it's any good you wouldn't be paying to access that list...do not fall for this type of scam. If you see anyone is running it, just know they aren't successful. Successful startups and business people don't offer services for consultancy or for you to connect with other successful people.

From my personal experience, successful people introduce people for free if they think you can help provide value. They don't charge money. These services are run by people with no creativity, skills, successful businesses and give out very poor advices. It's like selling a book on how to make money writing a book.
I mean, I guess if you use a dedicated host, it's more reliable - but I've always just pushed from the client using Ansible whereas with Salt you have the master running the cloud running somewhere most usually.
Not really. It isn't a SQL issue; it's a database driver problem.

The Django ORM takes take a whole of an hour to read, and after that you have 90% of the use cases covered. Considering that I've been using that framework for many years now, the overhead of that knowledge is irrelevant.
..no I'm not. They handed over the boards as part of an investigation. Withholding evidence in an investigation involving national security, along with all the false statements you'd need to make in order to make that happen is a great way to not see your family for a few years. I'm not the first to suggest this.
How do you do this in practice? What do you use for OCR, and what do you use to search all the books on your phone?