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> So I did some research. It turns out that the mattress industry is a racket. The markups are ludicrous; almost every mattress on the market costs, at most, a few hundred dollars to make.

Isn't this just a result of economies of scale?

Everything becomes cheap, so if you try to buy something expensive you don't necessarily get higher quality. Most likely you'll get ripped off, OR buy something artisanal which means lower consistency (maybe also quality).

That said: the psychology of it is probably that you sleep better in an expensive bed -- even if the only difference is the cost :)
I don't think that's right. If I hold this LED right in front of my eye the retina will be exposed to the entire 850 Lumen. Sunlight with an illuminance of 120.000 Lux on the other hand yields around 12 Lumen on the retina, assuming a surface of 1 cm². It's the relative distance to the light source that makes this so dangerous.
My initial reaction to reading about Barr makes me want to agree with you. However, I really haven't looked into him too much - tbh I only really know about him from popping up in HN articles (where he is always cast in a negative light). Any chance you have some links relevant to his history of violating civil rights, etc? Would love to be able to read through them to form a stronger opinion myself.
Racket is not like other languages.

Racket is a language with first class support for building languages on top of it. And so no, Rhombus does not need to be a "successor" to Racket. It does not need to "replace" Racket. It will have all the current Racket goodness to begin with, because all of its semantics will come from Racket - they will be the same language. Nor will it steal valuable developer attention - a bug fixed in Rhombus is a bug fixed in Racket, anywhere except the syntax parser. They will share all core libraries. The whole point of Racket is that #langs are mutually compatible. And the stress test of using Racket in earnest for what it is actually designed for will make Racket better, not worse.

Consider PyonR [0]. This is a similar and yet much more ambitious goal than Rhombus - Python as a Racket #lang, with 100% compatibility with Racket and Python including external modules. And yet, it's a one-man project, written as a thesis and now pretty much abandoned. Writing Rhombus, a mere surface syntax for Racket, should be much easier. The hard part isn't writing it, it's deciding what it should be.

The Racket team are the only ones that I can see who are taking all the "write your own DSL" Lisp hype and actually trying to apply it in a structured way.

[0] https://github.com/pedropramos/PyonR
> Within a group, it might send the conversation off in a delightfully unanticipated direction.

Or a not so delightfully unanticipated direction. Too many times I've realized too late that I was in a "hostile" group, so I say something stupid thinking I'm among friends and it's like switching a button on the group mood.
Most (if not all) modern RDBMSs allow for reliable horizontal and vertical scaling. SQL Server (the db you mention) is no slouch when paired with additional CPUs (for vertical linear scaling) and allows for transactionally safe replication to distributed clusters of SQL Servers (for horizontal scaling) in geographically distributed servers. PostgreSQL has this and it's absolutely free.

Where is this meme that RDBMSs do not scale coming from? (I see lots of people saying this as though it is a given. Has there been any published data on this for me to read?).
Sorry it took so long to get back to this, while not a scientific piece it is the laymen summation of a lot of research specifically concentrated on the Great Barrier Reef:

https://www.marineconservation.org.au/pollution-great-barrie...

A good article on why wetlands are critical to reef systems:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2148247-plan-to-save-gr...

And finally to answer the question to my knowledge this is the most comprehensive study and recommendations on the GBR.

https://www.reefplan.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0029/...

The end result is they recommend reducing waste run off as the primary driver for saving the reefs. There is an ongoing study to reproduce the claims we have seen here in the Keys but it has not concluded.

The Keys and Australia (as well as Belize) are extremely similar in that all of them are barrier that exist with a fresh water outflow from wetlands. Where Florida and Australia are similar is that both use their wetlands to support industrial scale agriculture and are both in poor health.

If we want to get into specifics it is actually one form of agriculture that is causing the most damage (in both Florida and Australia) and that is sugarcane farming. In the past sugarcane farming was not a cost effective endeavor in the US or Australia, with the ethanol fuel additive mandates that all changed as it increased the already high demand for sugar. Sugarcane is grown on the banks of canal systems and low lying marshes. In Florida it is grown in the everglades from Lake Okeechobee down. Given it's close proximity to the wetlands there is no time for soil containment of the high levels of nutrients used to rapidly grow the sugarcane.

Specifically in Florida, historically citrus was traditionally the agricultural cash crop, citrus is grown in sandier soil with high concentrations of limestone. These is generally off of the wetlands by at least 600 yards and expands all the way inland until you get to the Florida prairies where the land is more valuable as cattle land, when only looking at it from an agricultural value standpoint.

Until the introduction of sugarcane farming directly into the wetlands, Florida did not see significant coral die-offs. I have watched the reefs of Mainland Florida die off thru the last few decades ending with all of them being dead in the early 90's. This was due to diversions of flow in the everglades, done for agricultural purposes, and it killed the mainland reefs. The restoration of flow was done to restore the Everglades to it's natural and historic outflow which was traditionally out of the bottom of Florida into the gulf basin, In that exact time I have witnessed the Florida Keys reefs start to experience the same fate.
I'm really a fan of the rising trend to attack billionaires just because they're billionares. There aren't plenty of points that each of the mentioned individuals can be legitimately criticised on. Their level of wealth or the decision to donate it to one cause or another is a valid point of criticism.
It's only not a valid point of criticism if you believe any level of wealth is justified as it must be proportional to that individual's contributions to society.
Firs thing this article takes a shot at is Bezos deploying $10b "like Gates before him."

Gates has, to my knowledge, been vastly more successful than any government program at reducing malaria and getting people vaccinated.

Which is an exact antithesis of the subheading of the article.
Then you've discovered something extremely valuable about that group
"I'll wreck you on twitter, you flatten me on Facebook; we both cash out" ;)
I think the operative word is We, because left to their own device drivers billionaires (and soon-to-be the first "Tyrell Corporation" trillionaire):

- narcissism, greed & hubris

- political, regulatory & media captures

become the dominating gradient vectors which tends to aggregate capital in the hands of those with the most power and extract it from those with the least. (Not a conspiracy theory, but a diffuse set of circumstances, patterns, attitudes and behaviors that snatch externalities and collapse from the jaws of success.)
I assume Mr Morris would have kept that gem to himself.
While your approach is valid, the problems arise when the billionaires are the politicians. That is how you get corrupt governments.
But many companies have debt that they just roll over. Not many companies aim to be debt free, because it is not necessarily a good goal. You need capital, and optimise its mix. At current rates, issuing debt is attractive.
I've always believed that as cloud stacks mature and get commoditised various VPS providers will provide a decent alternative to being locked into the AWS or Azure ecosystem. I think the main drivers for people actually migrating will be cost and flexibility, where flexibility will be provided by software stacks that will be deployed on top of simple compute instances.
Racket’s whole schtick is that it allows for language oriented programming. Sure it’s a scheme and it has parenthesis, but a lot of languages in it’s toolkit do not. Not only that when you design a new language the reader converts your new language code into s-expressions and the expander gets it all the way to Racket code. Which is how Rhombus will more than likely work as well. So knowing #lang racket is still a requirement when creating a new language on top of the Racket VM
Because there are still people who can look good on paper, and even talk their way through interviews, but can't actually code. You do not need the multiple-hour-whiteboard overkill that some places do, but you do need at least one coding gate to prove their resume is not a sham.
I'm really a fan of the rising trend to attack the poor just because they're poor.

See, I can do it too.
I remember that nightmare ... the software was recorded on tapes.
Interesting. Might you have any links or references to the memoirs you could share?
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It is worth mentioning that there are some data-process heavy work that can be done much faster and more efficiently in SQL.

Real life example for a regulatory batch job:

6 tomcat servers + 1 RDS. 30X lines of code + UTs in java. 30+ minutes time.

In SQL
No tomcat servers + 1 RDS instance. 1X lines of code(SQL) + UTs (in java). 3+ minutes

Here is a good book on it: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Relational-Database-Programming-Set...
If the government was competent, Tyrell and Wayland Yutani wouldn't be the interspacial leaders in space mining, would they?
If you have one group who wants $20 an hour and other group who would work for $1 a day you have an initiative to enlarge the second group.

As for Goverment setting the salaries - it becomes much more complicated through lobbying and etc. If you go high enough I believe companies and governments are no longer on different poles.
This kind of laws exist mostly to make people think UE is taking care of privacy and force foreign websites to comply to specific UE laws.

It is the same with IA and public surveillance. Despites UE says it's against facial recognition, countries as France for example are using this and are aiming a national level deployment.

UE just want you to think everything is fine with your datas, but has no plan on enforcing the law.
The goal is clearly not to focus on privacy. Creating GDPR experts roles that block foreign countries to push their websites in europe is much more valuable.

Anyway it's impossible to comply with this law. French law forces you to store customers datas for 10 years (invoices can't be destroyed) and ask you to delete EVERYTHING if the customer ask for it.
Even if you wanted to, you cannot comply to this law, which has anyway some huge flaws.

It's UE politic bullshit
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Benevolent dictators are the most effective may to govern, but it's really hard to prevent malicious dictators from rising in such a system.
Oh, but you don't need billionaires to get corrupt governments. You just need politicians. Who then become corrupt billionaires. But they were politicians first.
> What email server do you use that automatically end to end encrypts everything using pgp?

I wrote a program to do that, but there is also a package in Debian if I recall right that also do it. On the mail server it looks up keys in DNS and if it founds it, automatically encrypts outgoing email.

> talking about encryption at rest, in which case Gmail does that already

Emails at google is not encrypted. Good must have access to the plain text in order to do analytics and search. If google has a data breach it can include every single email gmail has in plain text, and that is a fundamental risk.

> more securely than whatever you're doing

That is kind of impolite to make assumption about my own setup. It is also wrong.
CRUD still fundamental operations in programming, how to do it in react
Also there’s GAAP depreciation and tax depreciation, and firms will try and use different depreciation schedules between the two in order to create deferred tax liabilities which boost cash flow early on.
This is very similar to what they did for foreign key support.

https://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_foreign_keys
Globalists want a plantation planet. This is why they fear guns and free speech. Arm up and speak up.
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Hey HN! After 4 years as an independent contractor, I'm finally spending some time sharing the knowledge I acquired on the job. Over the last couple months, I pushed measuring the impact of web performance at one of my clients and the results kind of blew me away (I mean, 300%+ more revenue when the site feels fast?)

I'll be watching these comments and answer any questions pretty happily.
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I meant purely raw materials.
I'm really a fan of the rising trend to not attack billionaires just because they're not billionares.
All the dictators I know were non-billionaire politicians first.
I see containers, at least when used this way, as a consolidation loan for technical debt. They let you consolidate your existing debt load embodied in all your messy uninstallable ball of crap software and then max out your credit again.

One of the issues here is the lost art of writing installable and well-organized software. It's quite normal these days to have services and apps that consist of multiple often redundant services and sub-applications wired haphazardly together with crap strewn all over systems.
Their balance sheet isn't the point, it's what they did and are doing to get there that is the point:

- taking away healthcare from the poor, killing people

- destroying/privatizing what was once free and part of the shared commonwealth

- privatizing what never should've been profit-motivated in the first place: hospitals, prisons, schools and so on.

- "deregulating" removing pollution and safety protections that were written in blood

- spending money to corrupt the political process in order to buy passage of laws

- underpaying workers so they have to live in their cars and cheating them out of the profits they helped create

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

(One could also call it the "Upton Sinclair-effect".)
One family car for shuttling the kids to/from school, one commuter car, and my pre-wife and kids car we keep around because we have family visit pretty often. We’re somewhat unusual in that we have an au pair to drive the kids around, but on the flip side, my wife can’t drive so we share a ride to work.
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That's a rising trend? Pretty sure culturally, that's been deeply embedded and attacking the poor hasn't improved quality of life for most working class americans.

Now, people are looking at other places that might be the problem (finally), such as systemic economic structural abuses by those with great wealth.
That could be a fault of complex physical data models that need simplification.
Based on that this AskHN exists, there may be implications.
Journalists tend to report on what they see, not editorialize. So no, they don't call people out... they just report the words that are said and rely on the reader to put in the critical thought, often giving them a lead in doing so with parentheticals like the one in this article. That is also why completely asinine quotes get shared frequently... not because the quote is good, but because it is not, and they want to give it to their readers at face value and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
You clearly cant leave it to governements.. whuch one is the worsr devil ?
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Might you or someone else say what this specific area of ML generative models/synthetic data is called? Are there any introductory references you could share. Thanks.
I guess it would depend whether you were accessing the URL in the second or third person.
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The fido2 protocol involves a counter that allows the server to detect cloning of a device :)
Dylan, just note that the problem as originally posed is not solvable. Your „solution“ is one that violates one of the constraints and then says „but it’s minimal“. Sure.
But that was exactly the point of the comment above: by the nature of things, any change you make leads to an undesirable consequence. Either people who need the benefits don’t get them, or the „marginal tax rate“ is very high, or you extend the benefits to more people (which is costly). You’re stuck on the horns of a trilemma, and that’s the solution the UK has chosen, and any „improvement“ you suggest will be worse on at least one of the dimensions.
> - its dynamic-ness makes it not suited to large projects IMO.

Clojure can be typed https://github.com/clojure/core.typed/

> - The currently-accepted attempt at a non-type-system-type-system 'spec' is not well thought out.

Spec is not a substitute for a type system. It is much more loose, since you are just dealing with implicit predicates but at the same time it is more powerful than what mainstream type systems give you in terms of validity and expressiveness.
Entering pedantic mode:

"But," in Paul's usage, isn't a preposition. And starting sentences with prepositions isn't considered "incorrect" by most grammarians[0]. Or even bad style.

If it's good enough for the Bible[1], it's probably good enough for you.

[0]https://wordcounter.net/blog/2016/10/26/102560_can-you-start...

[1]https://biblehub.com/nlt/genesis/31.htm
Life is adversarial. If you are angry about it, do something about it yourself, like putting up regulations or whatever. You cant attack someone for doing his job.
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Nuclear is safer than any other power source we have.
That’s pretty admirable and I understand now how an intact, debt-free house is a great gift.

It’s probably not possible to have a direct conversation with your nephew for whether he would prefer a house or more than 8 years with his uncle, but I think if you explore this concept you might be able to determine his preference and that could lead to extending your plan by a few years.

One of the things I really found helpful from family members, and I have an uncle like this, is the life advice I’ve received. I didn’t get financial help, but being able to run through scenarios and ask about business and life plans has been super helpful. Another person in my life died and left letters to be opened in case of certain events. Those letters are helpful, but very different from being able to learn from and interact.
That’s a good question. It’s ridiculously hard to avoid, but there are places that others mentioned here you can find deals.

Short of that you can find knock off versions on Amazon that might not last you as long but for a fraction of the price $100-200 iirc
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While I detest the enormous wealth inequality in our world today, governments aren’t shaping up to be an appealing alternative.

I can’t speak for other countries but US government seems to systematically undervalue making and executing decisions efficiently. To me, the biggest failure of US-style democracy - often touted as a strength in the form of checks and balances (admittedly, thankfully because Trump has been slowed down quite a bit) - is its inefficiency - so many social problems root from that alone.

(I’m of the camp that issues like immigration are less of a “dumb racist conservatives” problem as the American left puts it, and more of a “convenient scapegoats for hopelessly low opportunity” problem, I say as someone who leans liberal but feels repelled by the way the party acts)

I got tired of SF government being so thoroughly useless at improving day to day life for its citizens, that I moved out to Tokyo now. They’re not perfect by any means, but the feeling that systems actually seem to work well, is revolutionary for me in a time of intense political disillusionment.
You don’t need SRE. What you need is SRE
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They're not dumb, they're the common folk, the clay of the Earth.
Haven't heard the "lift" one yet but it feels like a bunch of high school students trying to create their own internal jargon which makes them appear more "hip" per se. Just replace a word with another, adding 0 value and excluding those who don't "get it" therefore creating an exclusivity around it's usage.

Also the "North Star" one, whew, shudder is correct. Let's bury that one forever.
Agree with this. Tested one of the most popular brands and it was at least 5 days before my wife didn’t smell the gas
I would slow down to a speed limit of 5, even if I was sure it was a defective display. It's effectively an unknown speed limit. Maybe not if I'm very familiar with the road, but not everyone is.

Yes, I'm sure the courts should throw out the ticket, but sometimes they mess up, and often you lose time and money to pursue your case.
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It's not the Eiffel Tower that is copyrighted, but the light installation that is turned on at night. Taking pictures during the day is free from such restrictions: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/business/use-image-of-eiffel...
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