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The SJW term, like everything else touching this issue, is not black and white. Both of your definitions exist, yes, but so does everything else in between. By making things black and white, you are perpetuating the exact same behavior you seem to be fighting against.
I think bright, talented engineers also want to get paid for their efforts. When FAANG pays 2-3x most other companies, it doesn't always make sense to go elsewhere.
I mean, "systemd enthusiast" doesn't sound rude, unless you give it some tone, are part of a special group where it is, or prefix it with "i don't mean to be rude".

For the difference of Docker and reinventing OSes, it depends on what you establish as reinventing OSes. Docker provides some form of separation/containerization, a function that is also implemented by some OS. But it's discussable of having the functionality in user or kernelspace or having a wrapper application with a consistent api across multiple operating systems isn't worth it.
Hi @catblast,

(I am the CTO of Yugabyte) Your points are all completely valid. Just wanted to add my 2 cents.

With YugabyteDB specifically, we are more than just PostgreSQL wire-compatible, we "reuse" the upper half of PostgreSQL to support almost all PG features (examples: stored procedures, triggers, partial functions, etc). So the aim is to build something that has "almost all PG features" while being able to "run cloud-native - with HA, scale and geo-distribution" - our hope is that this allows YugabyteDB to really become a viable option instead of PostgreSQL when apps are being built for the cloud. Here is a blog post on the benefits we realized reusing PostgreSQL: https://blog.yugabyte.com/why-we-built-yugabytedb-by-reusing...
I'm curious what their load balancing layer looks like. There's alot of interesting options. (Disclaimer: I've worked in the CDN and the storage space in the past)

If their load balancer is smart enough it can call the dispatcher, and make use of something like https://zaiste.net/nginx_x_accel_header/ to figure out where to forward the request. Unfortunately this still requires uploads be proxied through the dispatcher.

You could get crazy and involve a CDN (akamai or cloudflare or fastly) that could do some smart logic, especially if you can emit your dispatcher as a lookup table that's updated frequently. I don't know what bandwidth costs would be for that though. Probably high.

It's an interesting problem space and I'd love to talk to these folks about it.
I think the author of this piece has not fully understood the concept of proof-of-work. Hashing algorithms are used precisely because they do not rely on a private key - and thus everyone can verify work that has been claimed to be done.

Passports signing some data would provide a different output for every passport. You could verify that the person doing the hashing indeed is the person who owns the passport if you distributed the public key. But what is the point of this?

Additionally there are other issues on so many different levels with this idea: lack of anonymity, an artificially constrained hash rate (if there's an incentive to increase the hash rate, someone _will_ extract the private key from their passport and mine on dedicated hardware), wearing out the NFC chip through massive use, creative an incentive to steal passports...
An easy way to copy/paste would be good. Right now you need to save a file and type in a link, IIRC
Yeah... https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
I’ve been dreaming of a 32G 13” for years but now that it’s here I wish it were 64G. This for me sums up the problem with the 13” offering. Attractive form factor (for me), always 2-4 years behind on specs.

Apple apparently thinks that smaller form factor means the audience is “junior pro” or something. People who want smaller laptops are probably also running proportionally smaller workloads, thinks Apple. It makes zero sense to me.
You insult the people who work hard every day to find cures and preventative measures for malaria that not only work better than DDT, but also don't drive a major part of worldwide ecosystems to extinction.

I've had the privilege of working with some of those people. They deserve far better than this contemptible nonsense of yours.
Or the condescending "Trade in your computer" text. "First, tell us what brand: Apple? Other?"

If you select "Other", the immediate next text you see is "based on what you told us, your computer is ready for recycling".

Note: Apple is not forced to offer any trade in service, let alone for third party computers. But the above is insulting, if not outright misleading. Doesn't matter what your other computer is, "it's ready for the trash heap (recycling, but still), has no trade-in value".
UK Covid-19 contact tracing app data may be kept for 'research'
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The writing of his own hand made Columbus out to be a prick. I'm sure his journal, or excerpts of, can easily be found online.

But political correctness isn't about finding the whole truth.

Ah, blow it off as political correctness. But your version is the truth, I take it, and unsullied by the need for popularity? See? Discovery Magazine was right.

Regardless, Columbus still couldn't do the math taken for granted by 12 year olds.
Interestingly, esoterica replied and then deleted before I could respond, but since this is actually bothering me (I know it's the internet, it shouldn't), I'm going to post this reply with the quote anyway.

>> My parents treated the workers well, paid them fairly[1],

>>His salary was lower than my mom’s. Not lower than the workers.

> Let X be a fair wage, Y be your dad's wage and Z be your mom's wage.

> Then Z>Y>X, so Z+Y>2X. Any household that makes more than twice a "fair wage" is not lower middle class (many lower middle class people don't even make 1x a fair wage).

Like I said, I'd be happy to edit it (can't because of the time limit). However, you're nitpicking on a single part of the comment that honestly means very little. You're also doing that without even using any numbers or locations.

My question to you is, do you have anything constructive to say in response to the spirit and content of my comment with regards to the discussion thread?

Edit: Also, remember that the "fair wage" is based on what the union negotiated (including raises). We paid on the higher end compared to others in our industry. "Fair wage" does not automatically mean that the workers are middle or even lower middle class. So your calculation is already making a huge mistake there.
The main difference is that malaria, as bad as it is, is not contagious between people. So while the numbers are bad, there’s effectively a lid on them—they aren’t suddenly going to start growing exponentially.

With covid, the worst case scenario with no mitigation is quite literally that everyone in the world gets it in fairly short order, which could cause tens of millions of deaths even with low IFR estimates, plus all the social and economic destabilization that implies.
Are you in the same closed air-circulation? Is someone sick even without symptoms?

Well now someone else is sick. And they are going to get the next person sick.

Virus doesn't care what your office plan is, you are all in the same circulating air.
Animal Crossing fans say they’re getting trouble on Facebook over the word weeds
Until you remove the touchbar and let me run linux on it, I will NOT give you a penny.
What if we improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of Amazon employees but didn't completely solve the problem of working conditions across the nation?

Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good. You can push for legislation AND cancel your Amazon Prime. Both are valid strategies for letting your voice be heard.
I don't have a lot of experience with Oracle but I can tell you that Postgres optimizer is shit compared to Db2 zOS or Db2 LUW.

When I worked in a large bank we tried to migrate core system from Db2 zOS to Postgres and it went nowhere.
I was a in-house developer working with Postgres consultants and they were amazed by db2 performance in OLTP scenarios.

So if your organization is already spending cash on Oracle, Db2 or MSSQL, use them for superior performance. Migration off them is costly and risky process.

If your working at a startup there is absolutely no reason to choose anything but Postgres if you need relational.
so intentional release?
I was aiming for a feeling of dealing with real data (even though it's not). Changing the email domain names to fictitious ones will solve this, but I think would undermine the feeling of real-ness.
> Minimum wages should be raised and nonviable businesses should adapt or go under.

That's a recipe for significantly increased unemployment which would affect the most vulnerable workers the most.

For most people in a low-paying job, the alternative is no job. If they were able to get higher-paying jobs they would have already done so.
I don't know what the implications would be on finances / resource allocation for the school, but IMO everyone's education should be "paused" right now, including K-12. If you were going to graduate in six months, and the Coronavirus ends up closing campus for six months, you'll now graduate in 12 months, after you've had your due time on campus. And that additional six months of schooling comes at no additional cost.

If I had a reservation at a restaurant before the Coranvirus, and the restaurant is now closed, I'm not forced to buy a take-out order instead—I just don't pay. That really sucks for all the people who work at the restaurant, but I don't think forcing customers to pay for a service they didn't receive is the right solution.
Already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23070567
Can you get rid of the persistent `esc`? I haven't been able to figure out how.
I've been using TOTP with B2 for ages. I think SMS is just to set up the account.
Hey I've been wondering this but are the transaction costs also waived or is it just the bandwidth fees? I feel like if both are gone it'd be hard to make a profit...
This is great news... there are lots more good clients for S3 than B2, and implementing one is less than trivial because of some special considerations B2 had in the beginning (namely: uploading directly to a pod.)

I see this isn't available for old buckets, is there a straightforward way to duplicate a bucket to make it compatible or do you have to use something like rclone?
>I'm being angrily downvoted...

Your claim regarding others' emotional states sounds like speculation based on insufficient information.
I got the impression that the ground potential would change on such an event, that it's not only caused by induction on wires. Isn't it the case?

Differences in ground potential means that any cable that is grounded on more than one place now has a huge amount of current trying to run through it, on a large potential.
Since you're here, I'd just like to say that the font you're using (Bona Nova) is wonderful. I smiled ear to ear when I saw the capital-Q in the phrase "Quite possibly".
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/to-string-vs-to-owned-for-stri...

> I’m more fond of using .into(). It requires adding type hints in some cases, but for most cases it is shorter than the alternatives. Especially when passing a string literal to a function that requires String.

> Now that specialization for str::to_string() has landed, we can safely say that to_string() has the same performance as to_owned(), and thus to_string() should be used since it’s more clear

> I now strongly prefer to_owned() for string literals over either of to_string() or into().

yay language complexity
dbeaver and plugin_debugger. For distributed transactions, it all depends on why you need them in the first place but there are multiple solutions in postgres to handle them.
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As you point out, the risk is what people often forget.

My parent's have run a small business for over 20 years. Between 10 and 20 employees depending on the season and the economic situation.

When everything goes great, they can sometimes clear a few hundred thousand in the year. They are doing well and appear wealth.

But then a bad job comes around, and they can lose their shirts. 3-4 times over the last 20 years, a big job has gone south and they have actually personally lost money for the year. One year in particular, they had to remortgage their house to meet payroll because conditions out of their control lost them a big contract. All the employees still get paid, but my parents have to go into debt and deal with the repercussions.

The stress they deal with is immense. I've worked some high-stress corporate jobs, and it still has no compare to what I watched my parents deal with.
Yes... the NHS has some of the lowest per capita healthcare costs of any comparable health service. And so far all attempts to bring in private finance have lead to spiralling costs.

That's not to say the NHS has no efficiency issues. It's the 5th largest employer in the world. Of course it has efficiency issues. But there's little evidence that making it private would improve things.
My experience is it's generally either

- inefficient font-lock regexes, which are rarely benchmarked / optimized since most files don't have long lines and because font-lock behavior is quite complicated to begin with;

- inefficient thing-at-point implementations / use, e.g. an O(n*n) thing-at-point called at various points by an O(n) function;

- modes using font-lock regexps where they really just need "fixed" styled text, but other Emacs architecture makes it difficult, e.g. compilation-mode and derivatives.
Now that nvidia owns a full switch OS, I wonder if this means that Onix, which they inherited from their Mellanox acquisition, will eventually be phased out.

We’ve been running Onix just because it’s cheaper than Cumulus (read: no yearly contract).
Until you remove the touchbar and let me run Linux on it, I will NOT give you a penny.
The points he makes are great, but rather than self-aggrandizement (not to say all CV building is that,) I have become voracious about knowledge and the "right way to do things," like voting, public policy, guaranteed income, governance, philosophy, and I started a newsletter a few days ago [1] if anyone is interested.

I have used twitter in the past to post a contentious opinion and see what logical debates result. Most people shoot from the hip and are emotional, but some people are quite rational and are willing to look at the data and really understand things. So when looking for consensus, why not make an outlandish statement and be proven wrong? It's very helpful provided you don't take any hits personally.

I find that writing and blogging help me decouple my identity from my ideas, and evaluate them on their merits more objectively.

[1] https://satisologie.com
The "Tetris song" is Коробейники, a popular Russian folk tune. Here is the original version being sung:

https://youtu.be/qFsZbpc3xvg

Despite being in the public domain, The Tetris Company still asserts and defends IP rights to the song: specifically, the song is trademarked to The Tetris Company when used as video game music.
I have that maxim for...basically every language I use, though, despite never using Clojure.

There's a little wiggle room; I think it's largely dependent on what you define each by, but basically anything that forces me to write my app in a certain way, and limits how easily I can slip in things that are clearly libraries, become liabilities, and I would prefer to avoid.

Obviously that's hand-wavey; there are plenty of things that people will call frameworks that nevertheless dictate very little, if anything, about the structure of your code, and which are easy to get to play nicely with other libraries. But there are also plenty that...don't. But to play it safe, I look at things that described to me as frameworks with far more suspicion than I do things described as libraries.
I just set this up last week, and it works well:

https://fedoramagazine.org/automate-backups-with-restic-and-...

edit: one gotcha is that using "user" systemd units, they will only run when the user is logged in. So, for a personal device like a laptop, this is fine, but for a server, it might not do what you're thinking. For the server use case, you probably want to enable linger for that utility user, so that units will run even with no active logged in sessions:

# loginctl enable-linger username
Generally I do not like to play computer games. Still few for some reasons got me addicted for a while: snake on apple II, Packman, first Doom. All forgotten now, faded into oblivion. Tetris however is an absolute king. I still play it every once in a while.
Not really she has a number of major decisions to make (kill her sisters, decide to leave hive, regulate bonding)

https://www.perfectbee.com/learn-about-bees/the-life-of-bees...
Here's a food for thought: meanwhile 1,000,000,000 people starve and 1,000,000 starve emotionally (suicide) all in all 3 million children die every year from malnutrition.
We use B2 to store images on Vintage Aerial (https://vintageaerial.com), both high res scans and all kinds of thumbnail sizes.

It is... a little slower than I'd like but with Cloudfront in front it has been manageable. I love tips from Backblaze on how to increase performance there beyond caching to CF.
> an idiot who thought he was the first to cook up this "round Earth" theory

If this is an actual claim (as opposed to just an example of the erroneous things the internet can tell you), do you have a source? AFAIK Columbus never claimed he came up with the idea of a round Earth; the sphericity of the Earth was common knowledge at the time. Where he went greatly wrong was in underestimating the size of the Earth (and then got lucky by running into the Americas instead of his intended target of east Asia).
> Oracle RDBMS is not an inferior product to open source competitors, in most ways superior

It is also in a lots of extremely critical ways inferior. The huge complexity, the huge footprint, the humongous prices are enough to justify staying far away from it.
Oxford scientist says its vaccine is making headway, could show efficacy by June
What makes you think it's an aversion to testing? It seems to me more just general incompetence and slow response that caused the testing crisis in the US.
Don't worry about it. My comment seems to be up and down like a yoyo.
> This is only a minor inconvenience because it means you have to choose the right hardware. It becomes a major inconvenience if you choose the wrong hardware

So, year of linux on the desktop is not here yet..
The UK has never reduced NHS funding in real terms year on year.
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tl;dr: The Windows console uses UTF-16. You need to convert to/from UTF-16 if you want to use another encoding elsewhere in your program.
Wal-mart already pays well above the minimum wage. By your logic, they're actually saving the government billions of dollars in welfare that the government would have to pay to take care of their own citizens.
I fully agree with your comment. I see no reason why these workers shouldn't be unionized. In my comment, I am addressing the pay and benefits argument that is being brought up by many HNers, because your statement "The pay being high is good" is a very rare statement on this website in regards to Amazon. And I am also not wholly convinced that a lot of people aren't conflating the two (I see a lot of arguments that these workers need unionization because they are paid 'poorly').
Same. When I was in college, all my peers talked about FAANG's in glowing terms. Doesn't help that these companies often recruit heavily from Universities, so you have alum networks that talk about how great the companies are etc. Its quite an evil genius. When people finally do get a job, they often realize its not always the cool shit that they heard about; most often than not its some uncool shit that brings in a ton of money.

This isn't to discount the amazing engineering work that these orgs tend to do. But look at their workforce numbers and tell me with a straight face that all their engineers are working on solving tough engineering problems and not just a cog in the optimization machine.
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I don't see how quitting helps the workers he claims to care about. Many of them would probably love to have the amount of influence that a VP has. Seems disingenuous to claim that as a reason for quitting.
Why do URLs start with www?
Tensorflowjs Seminar by Jason Mayes from Google
you are really doing the good work of trying to find a compromise pov here and I respect it :D A+ discourse
Coronavirus: UK contact-tracing app is ready for Isle of Wight downloads
This question merits a detailed answer that I can't provide right now, but here are some pointers:

https://hypirion.com/musings/lockfiles-are-not-the-only-opti...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44521542/why-doesnt-grad...
> "Knowledge 'in a vacuum', separated from one's abilities to do anything useful, isn't what we normally mean by the word."

that's a different claim from before: "I don't think there's anything wrong with accepting that one can't learn something." my counterclaim was limited to the ability to learn, not perform or achieve accolades. besides, you can do something useful with just knowledge, for instance, teach others who can/will exceed your performative abilities.

> "I suspect most people lack the raw intelligence to become an MIT professor"

becoming an MIT professor is fraught with confounding variables like luck and politics, so that's not a great example of raw talent/intelligence trumping all.

> "Same goes for sports, where it's more about your physical limits than your intellectual ones."

actually the best athletes are also highly intelligent. it's part of the accidental gifts that give them another tiny edge in a winners-take-all arena. lebron is known for his "photographic basketball memory" (in reality more intelligence than memory).

also, there are plenty of coaches that are highly knowledgeable and better as coaches than they are as players. lakers coach frank vogel for instance.

people have limits but the inability to learn generally isn't, and shouldn't be, the limiting factor.
Online class is suitable for a range of courses, but not all. Specifically lab classes where equipment is required. You can't have a remote lab class, it's impossible. Students should absolutely be reimbursed for such cases.
This issue with the prev switches is reliability. They also rapidly lose their crispness.
The majority of US spy agencies think it escaped from the lab across the street from the Wuhan wet market.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/majority-of-us-spy-a...

The UK is no longer discounting this theory:

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/25214/20200406/uk-fear...

Similar to the Russian DNC hacking, I trust our intelligence agencies over the CPC state media in this case.
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