skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Make it even more extreme. I bet that the Treasuries would also outperform if you take 10'000 year timespan. Simply because: Which company would really survive 10'000 years, huh? So the total return would be 0. And as long as Treasuries>0, that research paper is little more than a fairly obvious statement, at best.
it's got nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with capitalism. restricting the advanced workforce and research to the thin slice of a population with the opportunity (mostly well off parents, sometimes race and sex) you lose out on a tremendous amount of human resources with the potential to create value.
What, pray tell, is socialistic about this?
Why is it necessary to replace all fossil fuels? You can keep gas turbine power plants around.

I support nuclear power but it's very very expensive, even in meteorologically inactive places such as UK. Maybe India and China can make it work, but in the west you can forget it. Hinkley Point C is a failure and it hasn't even been constructed yet.
Remove their habitat.
Why not compare Philippine Treasuries and US Stocks next? #1 rule in finance: use the correct benchmarks ;D
Bill's Brain Calls BS on Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers Theory
Sodium is already commercially produced through electrolysis, so if you use carbon-neutral electricity for that you should be good.
What is the solution then? Are you talking about event sourcing or something different?
Yeah the 60% of Americans believing in pseudoscience is somewhat concerning, but I don’t see a problem with people buying them if thats what they’re into. And the injustice of mine workers not seeing their fair share is a classic issue of resource extraction from poor countries. I imagine they’d rather have the option to dig than not.
You could potentially plot spread like this:
http://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/...
Oh, libdispatch has been ported to other platforms?

That's great!
Absolutely true. That was not the argument made though.
I predict that there will be a huge market in giant crystals, once rich people get hold of this.

Giant crystals are one of the few remaining truly scarce assets, more rare than that limited edition Bugatti, and unlike gemstones (diamond, ruby, ...) they have a novelty factor (not to mention sheer size).

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/88/b9/04/88b9046dcf1acc04c63d...
It’s better than bleach enemas or even antivaxers, that’s true. It’s still a scam though, about the same level as homeopathy (that’s slightly worse because people use it to replace real medicine)
Looks really nice;

I don't like the fact that an unknown command is executed before i can see/inspect what it is. Currently you won't even see what command was executed afterwards, you only see the result...

Would be nice to be able to also show the command below the item/result.

--print is possible, but it's cumbersome and not interactive: you can't "accept" the command after inspecting, and execute it.
If we're using clean power to power extraction of CO2, wouldn't it just be better to connect that clean power directly to the grid and thus reduce the required production of CO2 at other power plants? Otherwise we'll be having massive efficiency losses.
It is a massive wealth transfer. It may be a good idea, too. Currently 2/3 of non-elderly people have insurance through their employers. If we need to extend coverage to those who don’t have it, those 2/3 will have to pay for the other 1/3. If we are proposing a massive income transfer of $3 trillion a year for the good of the country, we have to be honest about it.
The iPhone 11 Pro fall test was a bit disappointing
I have a similar concern with my daughter; I have a Kindle and have had for years, have more or less ceased reading physical books, and do most of my reading before sleeping - so while I read daily, my daughter sees very little of it and almost never something that looks like a book!
https://outline.com/4E3k2S
It took a while to get the jump from 10 to 30. I actually was unlucky for selling just before, as it took too long ( holding it for a year).

I see it going to it's old peak soon. And it will just be as swift as it was before
I don’t think this is a good idea. Criminals aren’t deterred by the punishment terms, and upgrading minor thefts to serious crime levels is contributing to the mass incarceration problem across the US.

Building a society without incentives to steal and focusing on reform and rehabilitation is what we should be aiming for .
The article does not mainly focus on whether the belief in crystals’ healing powers is bad. It is mostly about the mining operations that bring the crystals out of the ground to begin with, and how a surge in demand for them is driving that mining.
> Energy is a physics not a technology problem.

There's plenty of energy out there, delivered by the Sun. You just need cheap tech to harvest and store it. Energy is most decidedly a tech problem.

What has moved PV and wind turbines from niche tech to the real deal is production scale. Once production is scaling up, there's plenty of money for research in practical problems.
That's photosynthesis, not respiration.
>there is no way of knowing what they're even running on ARM v/s x86

They run the same workload compiled with Clang for each platform, as described in a PDF on their website.

https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf
A trick if I decide that a book is not worth my time: I open Wikipedia and read the summary.

However once it happened that I changed my mind and continued the book because I found a part of the summary interesting. Usually I take care not to read a lot about a book before starting, because it would be a pity if I learnt about an explanation before figuring it out by myself. So it is a real switch for me, and then I read Wikipedia slowly, ready to stop midsentence if I want to resume the book.
Not sure, I vaguely remember hearing or reading about it.
The "ORM or not" discussion quickly runs off track, because there are so many different ORMs with different features and working on different levels of abstraction.

Recently I have most experience with EF Core (from .net) which does not have the "select * " issue the article describe (you can select whole entities, but you can also project individual columns if you want.) It uses Linq for expressing queries, which means it is more concise end express relational algebra clearer than SQL.

On the other hand I have tried Hibernate, which had such a verbose and cumbersome query builder syntax that it made you long for plain SQL.
Here's my question. As far as the national debit, somewhere on planet earth there are people who are owned this money. They are out there presumably collecting interest.

How does this whole platinum coin exchange change their situation?

Aren't they still owned money?
I get where you're coming from with this, but it's snarky and the parent comment does have a point: these charts aren't very good renderings.

There are no legends, so taken out of context you'd have to just know what the colors mean. In grayscale they are virtually the same, so you couldn't tell anyway. Even if they draw the lines the same, they could've used different style endpoints. Again though, without a legend you wouldn't know which is which. Even if you're not in "wellness" mode you may be in say, "color blind" mode (sadly not really optional) and in that case these may be particularly difficult to read.

They don't have vertical axes either, so putting the charts side by side or overlaid doesn't make sense, because you can't know if they are the same scale unless you compare the endpoint numbers. (Hint: they aren't the same scale.)

These charts aren't necessarily misleading by design, but they lack the fidelity they probably should have in order to be truly useful, particularly taken out of context.
Brazil’s Army Wanted to “Occupy” the Amazon Before. Leaks Reveal New Plans.
I think this is a good distinguishing feature for Apple. The more Bluetooth products in a house the better these tiles will work.

I use a wireless “magic pad” and keyboard and used to use a Magic Mouse. It works great via Bluetooth and my keyboard goes weeks of daily use without a charge.

Surprisingly I tried to get a Bluetooth mouse for my windows machine and couldn’t find a decent one that worked without a dongle. Maybe it’s improved in the past two years but I was surprised that I could just pair a mouse with a windows laptop via Bluetooth without any custom drivers or custom hardware.

With Mac it was very easy. Easy enough to walk my parents through on the phone.

If all of a sudden MacBooks and iHomes and iPhones let you find your keys and remotes and whatnot, then I can see this being very popular.

Especially if they came in the form of some sort of metallic super sticker in he shape of apple’s logo that you stick onto something and the battery lasts for a year.

Or maybe this comes free with an apple+ subscription. This could be a reason to keep an apple+ sub current if you get 10 tracker stickers every year.
In other words, Trump's Republican party is losing votes in more highly educated districts, which not surprisingly fare better in the information-age economy. Conversely, it gains votes in districts with a lower education.
Trump’s week of dithering over Iran makes America look weak and foolish
Embarrassment of Riches
Isn't the tendency to use more and more large pages (1MiB) on x86 anyway? And then just use user space allocators to split them up for malloc.
You live only once.
Not sure if you're joking, but just in case you're not... to me the political agenda was particularly clear.
This is why in the Netherlands both private parties and the government are forbidden from using the ‘SSN’ for anything but a defined set of purposes. Your employer knows the number but can’t use it as your ID in their databases, your municipal authorities can’t link your garbage disposal pass to it.
He doesn't. Plants use up oxygen and release CO2 at night. They only do the opposite during photosynthesis, in the presence of sunlight.
ORM=Rube Goldberg Machine?
Imagine I owe you one trillion dollars. I pay you a trillion dollar coin. Our debt is settled.

The way this works out is that every single dollar is worth slightly less after minting this coin.
You are being dishonest. Please do not speak about being honest.
Beethoven? You mean the deaf man who couldn’t hear many of his own greatest hits? The man who died in the early 1800’s, before audio recording, and whose music we can listen to because it was written down? Good analogy ;-)
I use EF, it helps me with migrations and quick coding.

If I need something extra, I just write the SQL.

All in all, in general, I program much faster than other people who don't have this setup/flow.

I recreated an API someone was working on for 2-3 hours in 9 minutes. This was the "senior" developer of 55 years old.

Including creating the project, creating the migrations, creating the api and a small test.
There are only two charts in that article that matter. The ones on productivity and education. These explain everything else in the article.

The article over generalizes on geography. My city is deeply red but it recently passed San Francisco in population and is growing faster in nearly all metrics including jobs, housing, wages, and so forth. I think the article is generally correct in that urban clusters tend to be more blue and rural areas tend to be more red, but that is a product of population density more than anything economically related. Despite my city now having more people than San Francisco it is also growing geographically and can maintain its average density. It is now geographically larger than Dallas. If this rate of growth is maintained this city may enter the top ten of US cities, both area and population, over coming decades and it will probably continue to be a red congressional district.

Also, next door is a suburb that is possibly the wealthiest mid-sized city in the country and it’s also in this red district.
1. Link goes to a 404

2. The role of a lead varies widely from one shop to another. In some it's just the first among equals, in others it's the most senior in terms of time with the company, in others a lead is formally a manager.

3. Pride in your ability isn't a bad thing; being an asshole about it is. While the role of a team lead varies by the company what seems consistent is that the leads go to far, far more meetings than non-leads. As such, about that is there to be prideful: that you spend more time in meetings instead of programming?
The Curse of the Downvote
There's an additional wealth transfer between the owners of healthcare related stocks and non owners. If the US approached EU type health care costs we could easily give every one health care for free. The cost would come out of healthcare company margins.
Help me understand which point you think is incorrect?
“Granola Crunchers or simply Crunchers, terms comprising the prototypical sandals, unrefined fibers, daffy arcana, emotional incontinence, flamboyantly long hair, extreme liberality on social issues, financial support from parents they revile, bare feet, obscure import religions, indifferent hygiene, a gooey and somewhat canned vocabulary, the whole predictable peace-and-love post-Hippie diction“ -Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Usually third party stuff has documentation. Home grown stuff often hasn't. And usually better tested.
Nuclear power is expensive in no small part because of the bureaucracy and safety measures that are required but also because of the policial headwinds.

Nuclear is expensive in the short run but much better in the long run. It's capacity factor is almost 100 compare that to wind and solar which is between 20-40 depending on season etc.

Furthermore nuclear is expensive because we compare it with the non-true cost of ex. wind and solar which both need backup energy to be useful (not calculated), the decommission (not calculated).

It's completely backwards that we are investing in making wind and solar cheaper not nuclear. Wind and solar are linear solutions to the exponential problem of energy. They don't point to the future but to the past. They are great for some things but never as a foundation for a modern society energy needs.

I don't think it's necessary to replace fossil fuels as such but many people seem to think so and they have the problem I tried to outline in my previous post.
language like that just means someone is arguing, not reasoning
This article takes me back. I remember being pro-trillion dollar coin, if it came to issuing that or defaulting. Too bad Obama didn't know what Trump does: obeying the law is optional for the president.
Yeah but I am sceptical about being able to enter truly deep thought while walking. I wonder how much work Torvalds actually does on it. He doesn't actually write much kernel code these days so might not need deep thought as much any more.
Similar stuff is going on in NZ. A university in Auckland recently halted a pro-Democracy protest organised by HK students after a university official was summoned to the Chinese embassy. There were of course no issues when mainland students organised a pro-Beijing rally.
Yes! My partner eventually quit her job university lecturing because she was explicitly told time and time again she was never allowed to fail any of the international "full fee paying" students. If she lodged a fail mark she was raked over the coals and forced to change it as a passing mark.

She was only allowed to give failing marks to Australians who pay approximately half the university fees compared to international students.
Does it have to be for the outcome to be good?
There are plenty of 40nm MCUs already
Yeah, they will shock the user if opened in a protest area.
Do both.

We are at or close to the point where we need negative emissions to stave off catastrophic climate change.
Opportunity is often missed because it looks like work.
I'm guessing crazy lobbying shenanigans like in the US
Lack of testing, lack of documentation and lack of use would be reasons that your claim is usually untrue. You can't Stack Overflow a problem and see if anyone else has encountered it before.
It's a common Feng Shui belief that plants in the bedroom are bad, which is probably reinforced a bit by the recent uptick in worrying about sleep CO2 levels. If you do a quick Google, you'll find a decent amount of Quora answers and blog posts asking about if it's safe or not, so it seems to be a not-entirely-unheard-of concern.
Probably not much. It doesn't help, but by the time $60/mo is a lot to pay (for Comcast trash internet no less) you're already hurting.
I'd question the survey they conducted.
That's exactly right. This is as much science as it's engineering!
Not just intellectual endeavours, the planning fallacy shows up everywhere.

I have a book called Industrial Megaprojects by Murrow[0] which gives a lot of examples of financially disastrous multi-billion dollar projects. His conclusion? It's not really the doing of the project that was wrong, it was that the projects shouldn't have been done in the first place. The estimates and preliminary investigations were underdeveloped and this typically leads to overoptimism.

Bent Flyvbjerg has also done a lot of work on megaprojects[1] and his basic conclusion is that well-estimated projects don't get built, because almost no megaproject is ever viable or cost-effective in itself. So there's a survivor bias towards "bad" projects, ones that are poorly planned in the first instance, magnifying the effect.

In terms of software, agile/lean has the advantage of limiting commitment. It's easier to terminate something that's cost very little and not gotten far than to terminate something that's several years and millions of dollars into going nowhere. The former can be dismaying and annoying. But by the time serious time and money have been spent, there's a sunk-cost fallacy and often, personal pride or status of powerful individuals is involved.

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/97811192010...

[1] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2424835
Ok, by expanding the money supply. Fascinating. Thanks.
I'm also awed by this!

:)

1. Whether `Selectable[]` can be used to query for a subset of fields and how.

Right — this is not (currently) supported. I guess if you had wide tables of large values, this could be an important optimisation, but it hasn't been a need for me as yet.

2. In the `to_jsonb(authors)` example, what would you get back in the `author` field if there were multiple authors with the same `author.id` value? An array of `author.Selectable` objects? This part is awesome but brittle, isn't it?

Multiple authors with the same id isn't going to happen, since id is intended as a primary key, so I'd argue that the example as given isn't brittle. On the other hand, there's a fair question about what happens for many-to-many joins, and since my use case hasn't yet required this I haven't given it much thought.
More on Chrome updates and headers (2018)
> Currently 2/3 of non-elderly people have insurance through their employers. If we need to extend coverage to those who don’t have it, those 2/3 will have to pay for the other 1/3

I thought the uninsured rate was closer to 10%. Some googling suggests 8% or 9%. This is short of 33%.

Of course many are insured but under insured, or insured but paying (or in I guess 66% of cases having their employer pay) for massive amounts of waste. There are entire industries like medical billing which don't strictly need to exist.
The article references a Geekbench score that's now taken offline.

Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=de&ei=ewaGXa...

Results (also in the article): Geekbench v5.0.1 Tryout for Windows x86 (64-bit); 1275 single core, 23015 multi-core for 32C/64T @ 3.59GHz Base Frequency (and with 32GB DDR4, no info on 4 or 8 channel).
Mobile phones, tablets, computers, TVs are amazing e-ink devices are not working specifically for me :(.
> I believe the poster is talking about deserializing and validating json from REST requests and serializing json for REST responses using the mapping defined for the ORM.

These are also things that the json functionality of Postgres can do. For example, look at to_json and json_agg.
Number 6 will surprise you!
Science education in this country is seriously broken. The elementary schools jump right into teaching procedural skills such as the 'scientific method', which is really just experimental design and is useless without teaching the basic critical thinking and philosophy of science. Those are way more important for the majority of students, who are not going to go on to be scientists.

We need to start the education at the preschool level, teaching the kids how easy it is to be fooled and why we have to always question. You can then build on that at the elementary school level with concepts of objectivity and repeatabily. By the end on elementary school you can then begin philosophy of rationality and empiricism. This can all happen in parallel to teaching 'science facts' that we do now.

But none of this is currently happening at any kind of large scale.
Wiki:
> [The film] initially offended some Viennese inhabitants, as it focused on the disgrace of the destroyed city. Vienna's newspaper critics hated the film, except for its music.

I understand the sentiment of the time, but I found it really striking to see the rubble and destruction in the city.
I've never been a fan of codegen, but I think I could get past it for this library - it looks great!

Good news. :)

Maybe we can agree that typegen smells less than codegen?

Reminds me a bit of the SQL type provider for F# (which I was amazed by when I first saw it in action).

I should look that up — sounds interesting.
You know, there are transparent umbrellas out there...
In defense of Hofstadter's Law: it's about perception more than actual outcomes. And it doesn't predict infinite time. It can be converging to a limit, just that the limit is higher than expected.
> But it's also pesticides, machinery, medicin, chewing gum, sports equipment, textiles, toothpaste, guitar strings, contact lenses, fishing lures and I could go on.

How about adding concrete (coal) and asphalt [0] to that list? A world without fossil fuels would indeed look dramatically different.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt
Yeah. I was disappointed to see that there wasn't a comparison between 2011 and 2013 to try to identify how big that effect was.

Wikipedia has images that can give a vague idea of the geographic shift (which I like especially because they show which districts flipped in the election). It looks to me that some of the major shifts were independent of gerrymandering (e.g. Dakotas becoming solidly Republican, Dem control solidifying over coastal Pacific and around NYC), while others might have been tied to it (e.g. compaction of Dem control in UT, AL, MS).

2010 election: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/20...

2012 election: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/US...

2018 election: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/US...