skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time Trump's twitter feed has mentioned civil war since 2013,

http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/archive/civil%20war/ttff

Okay, count=one referring to this country as a whole and it was a retweet.

Right out of the gate they headline it as "Civil War Tweets" plural as if he harped on the subject. Why? Because it sounded better.

And no, characterizing current events as an attempted coup is not a reference to a civil war.

And where does declaring something will create a "civil war like fracture" become a call to (or even reference to) civil war? In a country where people lack basic literary skills and discard metaphor?
On the ground it might be more helpful to think of Pro-Saudi vs. Pro-Iran rather than involving America directly - those two political hegemonies are much more relevant to locals.
I don't want to be fired. I absolutely love my job and the people I work with. But I can just smell that we are about to hit a sticking point with how I don't do on call (it was never mentioned in the interviews or part of my contract) and I don't respond to work after 5pm.

If it does come to that sticking point I'm trying to figure out how to be the most assertive and diplomatic. I.e. How do I convey that I badly want to keep this job but those new terms are a non start?
I've long been a proponent of the "block" schedule, but this would be a side benefit too.

People are forgetting the economics of this and focusing in too much on the "teachers are heroes" thing. Teachers are paid what the market will bear. If the market pays too low, prospective teachers find other things to do. If the market pays too high, there will be more teachers coming in to the market. It's simple economics.

As for the "teachers are heroes" thing: yes, they are heroes and so are firefighters, police, military, nurses, doctors, PAs, social workers, counselors, pharmacists, EMTs and other first responders, rehab administrators, volunteers, those doing compulsory community service, those doing volunteer community service, medical technicians, lab technicians, anyone working for a nonprofit, public works employees, linemen(and women), sewage treatment operators, and anyone else working in a job that keeps the public safe and educated and healthy. All of the aforementioned should be paid well for their services as long as the market will bear it. Why society has chosen to put teachers on a pedestal over the others - I'm not sure. They're all important. Let the market do what it's supposed to do and things will settle themselves.
google "work to rule"
Kings School, all Catholic run schools (which are the majority of the private schools in the region) and the other various religious schools have this clause.

My neighbor was fired over it and had trouble finding work at other private schools as there are just a handful of Montessori and language immersion schools, with everything else that isn't SPS having a Morals clause.

Edit: The GSBA directory only lists 2 schools, most private schools in Seattle are not supportive: http://thegsba.org/business-resources/guide-directory/single...
I don't have any alternatives without rough edges. THat's for overpaid economists to figure out ;)

However, I'm thinking more along the lines of production. So if an individual/company produces more units of something, the FED could print that much money and put it into their accounts directly.

With expanding society, more money will be brought into circulation.

With lesser production, lesser money will be matched and produced by the FED.

The consequence of this would be that there is incentive to produce more with less. There will be more value for physical labor and that the rich would suffer as much as the poor. Hoarding money at the top will just result in lesser and lesser money being produced for the rich to earn.

Now you could go and take a loan if you wanted to. But not from a bank. Take it from any other party. It's between the two of you and you both go bust if the loan fails.

There are caveats here but what it removes is the creation of money by debt. Thus, to be richer as a civilization, we don't need more debt as a society. We need to produce more goods and services that are actually desired by others.
This is one of the best things I have ever read on hn.
In Norway you have some insurance companies lowering the premium if you have FSD or AP since apparently it reduces accidents.

This new feature though is not available in Europe and I guess it won't be until the European manufacturers start having the same features :(
Steve also said "There’s no better mobile computing tool than your finger"... Now they're rolling out mouse support on the iPad.
A lot of large companies capture a market and then slowly switch to defending the status quo while the world changes around them.

I don't believe that Facebook is at that point yet. If they were they would have missed the switch to mobile, struggled against Google+, lost to Snap, etc.
Could you break this down for me? As a small-time investor, how much am I getting screwed when I use say, Robinhood?
Probably a good time to mention this* excellent piece on how they make money.

In short: it’s interest on cash deposits. Not payment for order flow.

* https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/6/26/how-brokerages-make-mone...
Although I'm going off Dropbox because of their attempts to become a "platform" I think people are forgetting a bit of what file syncing was like before Dropbox and how far behind the competition still are (at least in my view). Block-level syncing (so entire files aren't transferred with each small change) and rock-solid reliability is a pretty compelling combination for me. This is particularly so given that their prices are a drop in the ocean as a percentage of total expenses.

I keep trying other services (they'd need to be hosted by someone else - I don't want the added headaches of managing my own setup), but none have come close yet.
Off-hand I don't know of any that make this ergonomic, at least none that don't make use of exceptions. Rust isn't unique in this regard.

What makes it a potential impediment in Rust is that the constraints and burdens of the borrow checker are offset by mechanisms like Box. The fact that all the extant examples choose the convenience of Box over handling OOM, even in situations where not handling OOM is obviously a deal breaker for production systems, speaks volumes about the significance of the problem and how the language shapes people's choices. Async/await is in the same boat--technically doesn't require a non-failing heap allocation, but who's going to bother making it work? You technically don't need async/await to do asynchronous programming, either, but the whole point was that this is the type of thing that needs to be addressed by the core language with some primitive (i.e. generators) that does the heavy lifting and which can be built upon.

I don't know enough Rust to know how easy it would be to create a Box-like implementation that rewrites the AST to automatically propagate allocation failure via the idiomatic Result<T, E> protocol. But that seems roughly what the proper solution might look like in Rust; either that or finally getting over the anxiety and aversion about exceptions.

Lua handles OOM quite well. Lua doesn't have try/catch, just "protected calls" which are not as light-weight as regular function calls. (A pcall initializes a recovery point with _setjmp.) In Lua you tend to use protected calls at, effectively, transactional boundaries--the points in your call graph where you're willing and able to rollback application state for non-specific, otherwise unrecoverable errors. AFAIU you could technically do the same in Rust, except Rust makes unwinding optional at compile-time[1], so it's not the kind of thing people will make a habit of deliberately designing for in their libraries. Which makes me think the likely solution for Rust, if any, is to permit libraries to opt-in to OOM recovery with an allocator pragma that does something like the Result<T, E> propagation mentioned above.

[1] Lua is GC'd. The cost of running destructors outside the normal call/return protocol is fixed and independent of whether an application uses protected calls.
The Future Venice of Rail Stations
Fwiw my question was not intended to be facetious and it may not be obvious what makes Windows worth using.
It's verbose compared to a lot of other languages simply by using words rather than symbols or abbreviations for most things. Though I tried to convey that I did not think this was a bad thing.

The only case where things get really verbose for me is when I need to do subqueries for columns. Often I might need to run basically the same subquery but return aggregates over different fields, ie sum of net weight, sum of gross weight, sum of value. For performance reasons I can't write that as a join, at least on our SQL server.

I agree there should be a shortcut syntax for joining using foreign keys ("join X on foreign key"?) though.
Fortunately, we're not all bastards
“Only” 7%... that is definitely real money and they would have probably preferred to keep it coming in
You are not very far from what could be the reality. According to some research the Solar System has 10% less hydrogen than other galaxies, so Bussard ramjets will have an harder time
I fail to see how this isn't a win for the US. The Iraqis get a less terrible government no matter who it is and we get to wash our hands of the situation without pissing off Israel or the Saudis.
Dude, this is insane. I sincerely hope that you don't apply this logic in public shooting ranges. You asked for citation, got it, and choose to ignore it.

What you're saying is equivalent that you could go on a car that weighs 5.65 tons on a bridge that can carry only 5 tons, (given that for such bridges the both standard body and constructor explicitly says: "do not do that").

Is it possible? Of course. You even could reload your ammo with nitroglycerin and it still will fit into the rifle.

Yes, there could be some protection built into construction, but this risk worth it?
There's a dark side of everything, but there are people who believe they want to transition who then find out it doesn't help when they do. Being able to diagnostically assess the likelihood that it's the correct treatment would be good for everyone.
Gutsy effort to produce comprehensive study of intestinal gases
Outsource things you aren't good at. You think Tim Cook knows how to write the code required for iPhone hardware to communicate? No.
I think a lot more work needs to be done in quantifying "cognitive empathy" before we can begin to do studies like this. Their methodology for quantification of something so complex is extremely primitive.
>> insurers are eventually going to either: increase rates on cars with FSD, or just stop offering insurance on cars with FSD.

This occurred to me as well. I have wondered if Tesla started their own insurance pool as a contingency plan to address the risk that other insurers will begin to decline coverage or price it impractically, or to show that it's possible with reasonable prices.
He dumped 20 billion dollars into WhatsApp, a company with a dozen employees, when Facebook already had a successful messaging app. That's an astounding lack of sentimentality.
This is great news for small investors like me. I like to constantly buy, but the etrade fees were cutting into my margins. Their numerous tax integrations kept me attached to the platform. I won't be moving to RH
Everything you're saying is fundamentally correct. But because your post has a political "tinge" to it it's going to get downvoted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeganism
I believe that the only way the US could legally do that is by exerting control over up/downlink stations that are in US jurisdiction. I'm assuming that things like Starlink will have up and downlink stations in places outside of the US as well as inside.

Extralegally, though? All bets are off.
Kudos for an extremely humble reply! I think you might still have a good point, though. :)
To categorize what's found on the shoulders of highways entirely as an ore of some trace metal is to completely dismiss the rest of its content as irrelevant, despite being the bulk of its volume, in a discussion ostensibly about pollution.
For Bogle-style[1][2] total-market low-ER index investing, free trades of ETFs is nice -- slightly more of each purchase goes towards shares, and that compounds, over a few decades.

I happen to be married to Fidelity already. Their great support, even when I've been poor, means that I'll show some loyalty if I'm ever rich. But it's nice to know that Schwab, Vanguard, TD Ameritrade, etc. are also out there for people.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Bogleheads%C2%AE_investment_...

[2] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Charles_Schwab
It's amazing that something so sexist could have been suggested without backlash.

Imagine if studies indicated that low testosterone limited or in some way hindered another desirable human capability. People have been fired for it and reputations ruined.

Suggesting men are emotionally stunted. Oh that's fine.
No, in a truly free market the corporations can just pass on the negative externalities of their actions without any consequences if the other actors don't understand the negatives.

I would argue that, in a truly free market, the "corporation" as such, would not exist at all. Consider that corporations are legal fictions created by the State and could not exist without the government granting their special "limited liability" status. That in and of itself is a market distortion.
For those not up on Matt Levine or where to find his newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-02/the-tr...
I did as well. I actually wouldn't have been opposed to paying more for more clients, but they wanted $20 a month for a ton of space, which I didn't need. There was no in-between.

I switched to OneDrive which as actually been really amazing, even on Macs & iOS devices.
If you're day trading a lot! If you buy and hold most of your investments 6+ months it's not worth worrying about.
You would use different metrics. It costs nothing to make the post so you can just pump them out, you don't need to use impressions as a metric anymore because you're not paying for impressions. Instead you get good at curating titles, images and articles that gain traction on the site. This isn't a wild idea, it's all over the reddit frontpage every day.
In California, the DMV has kiosks to handle basic services. https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/dmv/detail/fo/fo_sst

They also partner with some private companies like AAA so members can do some of the basic services in person. I was able to pay my registration and get proof in under a minute at AAA.
I don't think we have proven that programming is gender neutral at all. We currently are engaging as a whole in gender discrimination against males to the point that we see that there are many more trans females than trans males programmers and yet we aren't even close to 50/50.
It is fair to say that some things normally associated with capitalism depend on growth, e.g. equities.

Yeah, I think that's true. If people expect perpetual growth, that seems to imply constantly growing revenue, which would seem to imply the need for constantly growing consumption, which would seem to imply the need for perpetual population growth, etc. My only point is that capitalism, in "textbook form" at least, doesn't specifically demand that. Now, maybe it's an inevitable emergent aspect of capitalism... I honestly don't know. Whether or not that is the case would be an interesting thing to research.
They got in, shot down Saddam, got a bunch of anti-Saddam parties and gave them power... most of them were hiding in Iran or worked with Iran during the Iraq/Iran war they didn't understand the powerplay by Iran, they kept struggling with troops in or out whos who etc... withdrawn and left the incompetent government alone, gave Iran, even more, breathing space to take over
Since Wikipedia says "Quebec occupies a territory nearly three times the size of France or Texas, most of which is very sparsely populated"... well, yeah, you can buy a nice two-floor house for 250k CAD in most of sparsely-populated Texas too.
If the user hasn't messed up (with a double free), re-using the same block if the next malloc/new requests the same size block is the most efficient approach; it will have better caching behavior than selecting a completely different block. So this behavior isn't surprising. It seems you are asking for the allocator to spend extra cycles and produce worse caching behavior as a defensive measure. It might be possible to cheaply check for this particular error condition (the double free is two consecutive free calls with no intervening malloc or free) but the exploit writer will be able to see the code and work around it. The right solution is to guarantee that your codec doesn't do a double free.
Yeah but so is their marketing budget. I’m sure this move is driving lots of new customers in the door.
It's not a win for the USA because one of their enemies gained influence in the region. It's really as simple as that, but:

The invasion also led to the rise of ISIS, which is widely seen as a embarrassment to the USA because they were supposed to be rebuilding a country and ended up allowing a large and deadly terrorist group to form under their noses.

And just to add on, there are literal losses as well. When the Iraqi army retreated from Mosul in 2014, they left behind a bunch of US supplied equipment that ISIS took control of. Iraq has "lost" at least a billion dollars of military equipment in recent years, most of which has been taken by ISIS and enabled terrorism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Mosul https://www.newsweek.com/us-military-lost-track-1-billion-wo...
Of course not. That's 1) deeply illegal and 2) wouldn't even be profitable.

Edit: I love how I'm getting downvoted for stating the truth. Nothing gets people with no knowledge of financial markets as irrationally excited as HFT and payment for order flow.
> Jammers (to my knowledge) operate by actively producing an inverted copy of the signals it actually sees.

No. Usually, all you need is to do is to send a signal - any signal - on a frequency you want to jam with enough power to overwhelm the target signal. A directional antenna won't get a milliwatt satellite signal if it starts picking up half a kilowatt of random noise, even if that noise is coming from the side. It's essentially a matter of how much power your jammer radiates and how high you can put it. Whether or not jamming interferes with other radio communication depends on how much of the spectrum your jamming signal covers.
> I prefer my tables to be fully normalized.

Computed columns essentially make the base table into a transparent materialized view over the (noncomputed) “real” base table. But it's closer to an ideal materialized view than actual Postgres materialized views because it self-refreshes on need. But, conceptually, it fills the same role as a matview.
"because of a few business-critical software packages"

What are they?
To be fair to Schwab, they keep advertising SWVXX on sign-in page, which yields 2.02%, but getting in/out does take a day to settle.
Actually train stability is way more subtle than that. Even the "stable" one has a critical speed at which it will become unstable. This is called Klingel motion or "hunting". It is caused by the effective damping from the contact reducing as train speed increases.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_oscillation
The technology that "turns off" the internet is not, in any way, required to run the internet. A router that uses deep packet inspection can process fewer packets than one that simply routes.

When communication networks can be accessed wirelessly, the devices that can block those communications will simply become part of what we understand as standard communication equipment.
Relative to other galaxies? Yes, in fact I believe there’s a galaxy or two on a collision course.
> I'm trying to figure out how to be the most assertive and diplomatic.

Having a job offer in hand does wonders for one's communication skills.
Well, you should tell that to bulgarians

http://www.errc.org/news/welcome-to-bulgaria-well-not-if-you...

and there are tons of links, there are roma ghettos and mutual hatred
Think about it this way, as a small-time investor, you won't always get the best price. Your strategy should not be dependent on that. You should be building positions or trading appropriately to your scale. (Read: Buy and hold or trading at stop-loss prices, not market orders)

Said another way: The big guns will likely beat you, and you over time with LOTS of trading may lose a few % but for most small fries it shouldn't even matter.

That said, it looks like Robinhood is making more than most on their orderflow:

> In September 2018, Logan Kane, a contributor to Seeking Alpha, stated that Robinhood's payment for order flow generated ten times the revenue as other brokers receive from market makers for the same volume. Bloomberg has analyzed Robinhood's reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and calculates that Robinhood generates almost half of its income from payment for order flow.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/active-trading/020515/...
This is actually making me consider investing again.
Yes, it tells them which face shape they have.
It's actually worse than that: IIRC (this is 10 years old), traffic to Google passes through a custom DNS resolver that geolocates the lowest-latency active datacenter; a load balancer; 2 levels of reverse proxies; DDoS protection; a bastion server that lets SRE quickly kill non-critical traffic if it threatens the stability of websearch; the webserver; numerous application servers (for core websearch this could be tens of thousands per request, but for a feature like this it's probably just one); and the storage layer. With various push technologies, all of these need to be made aware of the need for a server push, and modified to handle potentially long-running connections that receive events at the data-source's command rather than at the user's request. With polling, you write the new data into the data source once and then the infrastructure just picks it up periodically.

Websockets etc. are great technologies if you can handle all traffic on a single box; I use them extensively for my startup. They are a terrible technology at scale. If you want to run websockets at scale, I would actually recommend pulling all the real-time features into a side-channel that's updated via RPC when a relevant event happens and listens directly on the Internet, and then making that as lightweight as possible so that it can scale vertically and as non-critical as possible so that users don't care if it goes down momentarily. If your users don't really care about up-to-the-second information (as with sports scores), just don't do it, and use polling instead.
Ask yourself: how much does a $5 Billion factory affect net-income.

Answer: a $5 Billion factory costs $0 in terms of profit. Its a capital-expenditure, affecting Cash Flow (not profits). Depreciation is how factories "wear out" in the income statement.

Tesla is not selling enough cars to make up for its $5 Billion investment in the Gigafactory. After many years, Tesla will only have made ~$4 Billion from a $5 Billion factory, by the time it has to replace all the equipment and pay $5 Billion again. (Made up numbers to roughly estimate what is going on here).

Tesla needs to make more cars out of the factory it has already built if they want to be able to rebuild the factory by the time all the parts wear out.
> If you're using an ORM, you can use a view but it's kind of awkward

If it's awkward to use a view in an ORM, it's a bad ORM. Your ORM shouldn't care if a relvar is a table or a view. (It obviously might care if it's updatable or not, but updatable views—both automatically updatable and updatable via specific trigger programming—arw a common thing, as are read-only base tables.)