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It seems quite disputed that the cotton gin was invented in only 10 days.

Apparently the “overnight success” founding myth was alive and well even in the 1700s.

Another interesting note, is that Greene went bankrupt trying to defend and monetize the patent.
24% sounds very much like return on equity. While the 5% for the restaurant are somewhat likely return on revenue.
Dai is centralized in the sense that it relies on oracles to work.
A lot of middle class families with kids move out. Bad public schools despite huge taxes is not great for those raising their kids.
lol, I didn't know what Neumann and his wife looked like, before I read this article.

I looked them up, expecting them to look like actors from Vikings or LotR, but they looked rather average to me.

But I also couldn't understand the hype about the Snap CEO, who looked to me like an average nerd put in some fancy suite to me.
Was just going to write a similar message. Most of us where I work do the exact same thing as you, and no one has any problems like the author describes. I wonder if he was using a TV and not a monitor? I’ve noticed some of the TVs only scale to TV resolutions—1080p, 720p—whereas a proper LG or Dell scales to many resolutions.
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It is very easy to point at a company that is extremely successful today and say that it was "just a matter of investing in AAPL". The difficult is to know which company is the good one at the IPO. Thousands of seemingly great companies have failed during the last decades. Moreover, 30 years ago AAPL was a failing company. I don't think there is anyone with good sense that bought AAPL at the IPO and held that investment in their portfolio during that period. Less so with MSFT, but even MSFT lost 80% of its value in 2001. I don't think anyone wise would keep their fortune on MSFT, unless required by law.

If you read the "millionaire next door", you'll see that they made this money by saving, not by (just) investing in the market.
The connotations of "stressed" and "upset" are totally different.
They might have gone to the library, but it probably wasn't for books. My local library has a bigger selection of movies (and television shows) than the last time I went to Blockbuster.
It's called a buzzword, nothing more nothing less, it's like "cloud computing", eventually it becomes meaningless.
The poster thinks the tech lead is in idiot partly based on the fact the tech lead doesn't close as many tickets as juniors.

Any good interviewer will figure this out if it's mentioned.

Then they will know the poster doesn't know as much as they think they do about the job of a tech lead, and that they jump to damning conclusions from dubious judgement. This correlates with "this person may be challenging to work with", which matters a lot.

They might still get the job, but it's not an advantage.

Instead, why not start a constructive discussion with the interviewer about how they found the way work was done disappointing at the last job and would like to know how things are performed in the new one, or if going for a lead job, how they envisage going about the lead role.
Libpng is not a good example. Often in real-world applications there are dozens of libraries that are dynamically linked, and they can get quite large. The other argument is that having them dynamically linked increases cache coherency. For example if all applications share the same GUI library, the core rendering loop of that library will be likely to get kept in the cache. However, I have not tested this theory and it seems like the library would have to be designed for it to get any real benefit.
Even more watched porn on the internet.
You used to be able to deduct _all_ interest expenses, including things like car loan and credit card interest. They removed those deductions back in the '80s but kept the home mortgage deduction as lots of small businesses dual-purpose their property for working and living in.

Fully repealing the mortgage interest deduction would, at this point, recover ~$25B/year, or a little over 2% of the current annual deficit. I suspect the political cost to touching the MID again is much higher than the fiscal benefit to the deficit.
We need people to move from California to flip the Senate. Just a few hundred thousand moving to the Dakotas or Wyoming would flip it.
How many kids with school projects do you hang out with? How many seniors without a computer do you know?

This isn't a study in how many people you know.

I know no one who goes to movies or libruaries but this study didn't capture that.
I’m happy to see https://kde.org/hardware exists, but why do all of the pre-loaded laptops come with 1080p screens?

This includes the $2395 model, so it can’t be cost.

I haven’t had a daily driver screen with resolution that low since 1998. For almost all of those years, that was with desktop Linux / Unix. The problem clearly isn’t software support.
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That's true and I hadn't really thought of it being used for removing features!

But, also, the features can only be removed from the language. The compiler must support them forever. :/
Spanish Flu is on list. And it killed 50 to 100 MILLION. Way, way more than the typical yearly flu did in the two years it was active. And probably more than all the years since, combined.

It also killed many healthy people possibly due to auto immune. Verse typical influenza which only weakens body so other normally non-lethal factors are enough to kill.
No, wrong. The MAX did not behave like its predecessors.
I linked this the last time LD_PRELOAD/stderred came up on HN, but be careful with your shell configuration/user changes when using it:

https://github.com/sickill/stderred/issues/63
> If you travel a lot for work and pleasure, it isn’t difficult to fall below the residency thresholds. You’re still paying tax for the time spent in e.g. New York or California. But the other income can be shifted to a lower-tax jurisdiction.

It's freeloading. Their lifestyles are possible because of high paying jobs in cities that invest to create conditions where such jobs can exist at all. (Same for the vaunted high paid remote workers.) They benefit from those investments but do not wish to contribute. This kind of defect cycle eventually leads to killing the goose that's laying the golden eggs.
> Anybody who's overweight or obese can't be credible if they act concerned about climate change and won't do something as simple (and without cost) as eating less food.

For one, I don't think it's "as simple", and for two, the pattern "if you don't do X, you're not serious/credible/honest/worthy" is unhelpful.
> As you quoted, people in this discussion are saying that writing a dummy program that has its own sqlite and does nothing but pass messages to it that it receives from all other processes on the system that need to talk to that sqlite file results in much better performance than accessing that file "directly" from the separate processes.

And use what protocol for inter-process communication with the daemon managing SQLite? At the end of the day you just created the equivalent of a server anyway...
Do you avoid the cheesy biscuits?
"long lived mutable structures tend to drift into unexpected states"

Why are those "tend to drift" ? As an example I wrote sort of like game server for one of my applications. Internally it has those exact forever lived mutable structures. I've never observed it to drift into any unpredictable state. Works like a charm and running for many month. I only reboot it when I need to update it to a new version.

The only catch here is that all data fit into RAM. With the amount of RAM modern computers can be stuffed with I do not really see if my server would ever run out of it.

Of course it backed up by database but it merely serves as a persistence layer for this particular application.
The phrase "free at the point of service" is sometimes used to describe this
Kinda, but with less hassle. You don't need to output ocaml files as both the native build tool (dune) and the js compiler (Bucklescript) support it out of the box.
The point is "Amazon" is just a word used by South Americans to name things in their culture, in the same way that Bezos names his company "Amazon".

The fact that they sold the TLD to the the company is a little sketchy, but the idea that South America has an inherent trademark on anything "Amazon" is ridiculous.
These things kinda happen everywhere though:

https://www.techradar.com/how-to/macos-1014-mojave-problems-...
An accessible explanation of how genes "work". Came across this when looking up stuff after having read about the novel Corona virus.
Looks pretty bare bones (not a bad thing but is there any focus on a single thing here?).

I think it's just me but I find the difference between h1 and others too stark which could be a good thing for some use cases but without knowing what those are or what the focus is, that limits its usage.

Value proposition of your project might improve by focusing on problems others aren't. Not everything needs to be generalized (this area is too competitive). :D

Nice work!
Same here, also a 32" BenQ with 2560x1440, and I am really happy with it. Better than the 27 Thunderbolt Display at the same resolution I use at work. Much better than 1080 for me.
"We"? Not everyone here is a Democrat; to whom are you referring? You want people to move strategically to outweigh the existing inhabitants? How is that any more okay than gerrymandering? You're trying to suppress some people's votes simply because you disagree for the policies for which they vote; that's no better.
If you need concurrent/parallel writes, SQLite is not the right tool for you. You may as well lament that hammers are no good for driving screws.
I don’t think Nissan Leaf is particularly good at neck-breaking acceleration, and it probably outnumbers the drag-racing Teslas. Even then, a Tesla isn’t particularly speedy in traffic.
I don't see mmap(3) or open(3) on FreeBSD, macOS and Linux. Section 2 man pages describe the libc wrappers themselves. See intro(2).
I have never had a Mac. Can someone please let me know how is it possible for Mac and its app ecosystem not to support higher resolutions well, when iMac has 5k resolution?
Yes, there are few sigils and they were reluctant to add more (like ooollld Rust).

However, Ive made my case as to which option I think was better and less ambiguous. We'll just have to disagree that this was inevitable.
That's low, but I'm curious as to how much was paid in total to the record company. Also, I wonder what artists think is fair to pay for a stream of a song?
What discredited the GP comment for me was the prediction that it’s going to kill Instagram. I use neither platform but I get the impression that Instagram remains strong as hell with the fashionable hip kids demographic, especially amongst girls and older women, and that’s going nowhere unless something significant - not a slightly different short vid platform like Tik Tok - comes in to play.
…And the invaders were bolstered by support via rail through Sweden.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_German_troops_throu...
Just moved from CA to CO. 7.25 to 4.6 ... Not a massive change mind you but I'll take it.

The main problem with CA are the "hidden" taxes WRT quality of life. Real estate prices being insane. Serious homeless problems in SF. Smoke from all the fires. PG&E being evil, etc.
Not even Adobe released Flash in OSS despite they don't have any comparable product (where they get money from) to offer, do they?
Unless, of course, their experience in California changes their voting.
Golden Corral has moved up to the midwest.
Why does it muddies it up?
What does NC have to do with it? In any case, income tax is just one part of the total state tax burden, often overshadowed by property tax.

> Over the last decade New York has lost more of its population to other states (7.2%) than any other save Alaska (8%), followed by Illinois (6.8%), Connecticut (5.6%) and New Jersey (5.5%).
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Agreed. This absolutely kills me when people say “just read the documentation” or “the documentation is very good” as a reason why they don’t produce examples or templates or starter kits. Not all of us are CS majors or programmers in large teams or with decades of experience to fall back on. Just reading the documentation isn’t enough to get me into a new framework or language. I need to see practical examples.

For mobile development, this is why Expo was so crucial for me to understand how React Native works.
There is empirical evidence that people only come up with this "average" on periods when the market is at the top. If you did your calculations around 2008 you would see a very different picture.

It is easy to be bullish on the market when everything seems to be doing well; a wise person needs to look at different periods, and see that the stock market also has produced a lot of disasters. People who lack this perspective are bound to be engulfed by such disasters. Heck, I hear that even professional investors, who are paid to buy stocks, are starting to take their money out of the market fearing of what might come next.
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> Must there always be an issue when the data doesn't suit a worldview? Why compromise a survey 's integrity with your own bias?

Hello. Might I remind you of the Global North's historic and continued plundering of the Global South (developing countries)?

Or should we forget about all of that?

> It costs virtually $0 these days to start a SaaS company

Yes, if you have a big cultural inheritance (which was itself plundered and stolen and appropriated from other countries). Oh yes, and you need a big trust fund and upper class parents, or at the least a pedagogical mentor who stimulates you, nourishes your curiosity.

By saying this you are showing me the holy ground you are standing on. There are many hands who touch your life every day: feeding you, making your clothes, your electronics, etc. Check out the True Cost (2015): https://youtu.be/OaGp5_Sfbss?t=32, or 'Steve Jobs: The Man In The Machine': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhWKxtsYrJE

Two key areas one can focus on: 1) imperial intellectual property machine - the work of Ruth Okediji is revealing with this: http://www.commonlii.org/sg/journals/SGJlIntCompLaw/2003/14....

and 2) Corporatist/institutionalized plundering since the colonial era: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/britain-stole-45-t...

Please would you consider these and try to understand their implications on today's reality?
You could make it persist if you have it uploaded somewhere. But then I guess thats not serverless.
Any protocol. People are saying this is a common solution.

So is there a standard dummy tool like that?
I think the problem is that many Millennials want to own a home in the city/trendy areas, which will always be expensive.

I bought my home a couple of years ago in the suburbs, but still close enough to the city and my mortgage is almost the same as I used to pay for an apartment (and I own it!).
There are key differences between startup investing and that model. You just have to get sufficient amount of investors to recognize the diamond in the rough. Not a majority or anything near that. With enough money you don't have to convince anyone else.
The penalties were fairly stiff too -- if anyone is unsure if harsher sentencing cuts crime, Medieval times are a pretty strong argument against:

Hanging was the penalty for dozens of crimes, not just murder. Hanging was public and a slow hang unless you bribed the hangman.

Serious crimes would see you hanged, drawn and quartered -- dragged through the town, hanged almost to unconsciousness, emasculated and gutted (while conscious if the hangman did his job right), then beheaded and chopped into 4 bits. The head and parts usually went on prominent display like at the gates of the city.

Then there's the religious offences, which get ugly. Theft from the church would see you flayed alive (skinned). The skin was sometimes nailed to the church door. Apostasy (rejecting your required religion) might see you slow burned alive -- publicly of course. and so it goes on. Medieval Christians seem like a vengeful lot.

Forgot one: Boiling alive -- the penalty for coin counterfeiting.
There's an age breakout here:

https://news.gallup.com/poll/284009/library-visits-outpaced-...

I'm still surprised at the results. I'm in the 30-49 bracket, as is everyone I interact with, and I'd be shocked if someone I knew has been to the library in the past year. They would most likely use the internet for information.
I'm so confused. Why is it immoral to have tax cuts to provide shelter for the middle class, but not immoral to have tax cuts so the rich can have 3 megayachts instead of 2?
>That's hilarious. I've never noticed philosophers agreeing about anything.

Reminds me of a quote by Leon Battista Alberti:
"All disunited and of various opinions, philosophers are nevertheless in agreement in that each of them holds all the other mortals for demented and imbeciles."
>I believe that we artificially act better than we are,

Most of the time when I see unproductive conversations go back-and-forth here, it's often clear (or I'm quick to give the benefit of doubt) that at least one of them is a newbie trying to meaningfully contribute to a conversation where they don't know how much they don't know. But there's a sizable number of posts where I'm convinced the poster is a passive aggressive asshole that knows exactly the game they're playing. As long as they can hold a conversation with the surface level appearance of someone acting reasonable and polite, they get to be wildly disingenuous and/or cut people down nastier than the kind of comments that would be immediately moderated away.
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Yeah, it looks like I've misremembered. I'll remove the misleading manual sections.
A more accurate title would be 'MSL: A Lisp-like stream-based data format for history of text based on a hierarchical key-value store'.

The idea behind the format is that analysis can be done on it to uncover useful insights about the text.
The MID was already quite well touched, groped actually, with the last tax cuts. Much less people use it because the standard deduction was raised so significantly that very few itemize anymore.
Who are "they"? Southamerican != Spanish speaking. There are English speaking and Portuguese speaking countries there.
The piece makes the argument that state income taxes are causing people to leave. It used NC as an example of a state that’s growing. Yet NC has a state income tax higher than some of the states that are shrinking.

Yes there are other taxes, but the piece focuses entirely on income tax. My point is that there are many factors in where people choose to live, of which cost of living is only a single factor, but this piece lazily focuses solely on a single component of cost of living. It’s thus easy to invalidate its argument that income taxes are what’s causing people to leave.
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So it's not AMZN that wants to own the word, it's South American countries that want to do so, even though they have no more right to it than the company.
They have begun interbreeding with wolves and dogs, sometimes creating larger and smarter breeds of canids than coyotes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coywolf
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> So is there a standard dummy tool like that?

My point is that by that time SQlite doesn't fit "Serveless" as defined by the linked article anymore.
We should also remember that there is nothing about the Wuhan coronavirus that is anything like H1N1 influenza virus.

Wuhan is causing respiratory infection that leads to pneumonia. H1N1 caused inflammatory immune reactions (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/).

So far this virus seems closer to a bad seasonal influenza. 2% mortality rate concentrated in populations over 65 years old. The 2019 Li paper in Lancet had similar numbers in China for the flu. Similar reproduction rate.

I'm not an expert, but some people are are panicking and buying surgical masks (borderline useless) and food supplies. Mass panic reactions are deadly and avoidable.
32" 3840x2160 monitor with 1.5x scaling enabled is equal to a 32" 2560x1440 monitor.

32" 2560x1440 displays have the same PPI as 24" 1920x1080 displays (92 PPI).

MacOS has flawless scaling since the first retina Macbook Pro. What you are describing makes no sense to me...
What about [ENS](https://docs.ens.domains/)?
You can change the assumptions under top menu Simulation->Assumptions. Some of them determine how quickly can a technology come to market, how much it makes future improvements cheaper etc. Also here are more detailed explanations and examples of how the model works: https://docs.climateinteractive.org/projects/en-roads/en/lat...
> Even higher-end buffets, like the $98 brunch at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego, employ these tactics: “They hide the truffles, the foie gras, and the oysters,” says Britt. “You literally can’t find them.”

I honeymooned are The Del, and they kindly comped our brunch for our entire stay. This was for the downstairs brunch, which doesn’t have as much meat but is still amazing. It’s about $40/person these days, and considering all that it includes (made to order eggs, bacon, waffles, pancakes, pastries, fruit, desserts, and fresh squeezed juice), and the level of service, it’s a pretty good value.
Can you please point me to where did I say anything about SQLite being right tool for concurrent write? My point was that true concurrent writes to a generic database table with indexes are are physically impossible in a general case disregarding what database it is.
What do you mean the type system is primitive? Compared to what?
Raccoons are doing well, as are crows.
If they attend a Swedish school they will most likely come out knowing the traditional children's songs.
I'm sure people will give you the orthodox answer, so let me give you mine: when other things become more important than performance, ease of development, and code clarity.

Many years ago I happened to meet the creator of Prevayler, an open-source persistence framework that provided ACID guarantees and was thousands of times faster than a database as long as your data fit in RAM. I tried it out for a project and we loved it. Our hundreds and hundreds of unit tests ran in a few seconds. Our pages rendered in ~5 milliseconds. It was structured around a log of actions, so if you wanted to know how the data ended up like it did, every change was logged.

What people who haven't worked this way often miss is that a database doesn't make things simpler, it just makes certain things easier. Once you add a traditional database to your project, you're importing a million lines of mysterious code into your project, and demanding to pay a serialization/deserialization penalty any time your code wants to look at data. When it works, it can be swell, but when you have a problem, suddenly things can get hairy. Database performance optimization is a murky art in a way that just isn't true if all your data is right there in RAM.

Prevayler of course didn't catch on. It was just too weird for most people, who had grown up on databases and for whom data structures were something that they hadn't really thought about since their last CS exam. But I sometimes dream of the world where it did catch on. At the time, fitting in RAM was a big limitation. But now I can get an off-the-shelf desktop with 768 GB of RAM, and Amazon's servers go up to 24 TB of RAM. If you're going past working sets at those levels, traditional databases have anyhow fallen out of favor of big data tools. But it would have been a much better fit for today's world of microservices and distributed systems.
There were more visits to libraries than movie theaters.
That sounds incredible! I wish we had something like that here.