skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the core API, but a simple custom timezone can be used to implement TAI. I worked on a POC for it, but you can totally test this with the polyfill right now.

https://github.com/ryzokuken/temporal-tai
I love ISO-8601, but some of their design choices areTaTbitTstrange.
The legislature and the executive derive their powers from the constitution, not legislation. This is demonstrated by the abundance of unconstitutional legislation.
This is a great idea. Congrats Adam & team on launching.
> It is actually bad for their business you would think.

No, this is a way to establish a reputation so that people don't even try to screw you. It's good old terror, not very subtle but effective.

When you deal with 'bad' guys and have no legal recourse for anything it is rational to use violence as a way to make others 'play straight', and being very harsh actually minimises the instances where violence is needed at all.
What if you're a libffmpeg or libsdl developer?
Assertion 1: deleting his blog is a meaningful way of hiding his surname, by way of adding an extra step to anyone who wants to search for it.

Assertion 2: deleting his blog is NOT a meaningful way of hiding gross and reactionary discussion happening on his blog, by way of adding an extra step to anyone who wants to search for it.

These seem contradictory to me. He is absolutely trying to hide or obfuscate something, we're just debating what it is.
The EncroChat bust has proven so profitable for police it makes you wonder if it wasn't a setup the entire time.

Some agency creates a service marketed specifically for criminals, waits a bit for users to sign up and start using it, then "oops we had a design flaw" and all of the criminals who bought the service are scooped up in the aftermath.
Honestly, if the police are going to out themselves as having cracked the encryption of a major crime tool (thus making it worthless in the future), stopping the usage of custom-built torture chambers is a pretty good reason to do it.
Almost in perfect correlation as one by one pre-existing condition limits were legislatively banned over the years. And ACA eliminated almost all remaining pre-existing conditions, so of course it drove insurance costs and pricing sky high.
Latte's in 1994? In North Carolina?

We drank lattes in Louisiana in the 80's. Time to upgrade your stereotypes.
> why can't freedom of religion be used to legalize drugs

This is exactly the sort of thing that the Satanic Temple (not to be confused with the Church of Satan, etc.) investigates and does activism about. Well worth donating to IMO!
> when measured objectively (as has been done)

Citation needed.

I have seen this claim about the left at least as much as about the right. I would definitely appreciate someone who could bring facts to the discussion.

And a one sided list of things that party X did is just emotion.

(Also, a good rule in honest debate is to never argue unless you have at least two advantages to the opposing position. Such that I hate Windows, but I wish Linux had their GUI... This helps bridge the "us" and "them", and gets to a much more accurate result)
GraphQL isn’t particularly “graphy” nor does it have much to do (necessarily) with graph databases. Its name is, for the reason that it continually generates that sort of confusion, pretty bad.
Temporal.now.absolute().getEpochNanoseconds()
Congress isn't the same Congress that passed the bills.
Agreed.

For example, a kilo of cocaine in Los Angeles is around $17K. It's around double that in many other cities. Call it $25K as an average "street" price in major US cities (higher in those further from major trafficing routes). That gives a value around half of the amount quoted.

To me, it seems like the police break everything up into half-gram prices and then add all those up. This would be like investigating the theft of 1000 gallons of water from a tap and then adding up how much the cost of that water would be if it was all converted to 250ml Evian bottles at retail.
CEOs are paid what they're paid due to prevailing financial incentive structures and scarcity of talent, not because they feel entitled (though I'm sure many of them do).

From my own personal experiences- which you can take with a grain of salt- given the option between 100 talented devs with an excellent business model and an elite CEO with a ham sandwich, I'm taking the ham sandwich.
Woah that's perfect, thank you!
There’s a clear difference between police and other public sector jobs, namely that we allow them to use force in our name. I think everyone agrees that having army unions is a bad thing too, even those who support teachers unions
You're begging the question here; you need to explain your reasoning as to how and why your beliefs are true, rather than simply asserting them.
When I read the parent comment I did not detect any suggestion that the squid communicates with the bacteria. It seems like you read this into the comment.
I'm not sure why the title was revised. The story makes a strong case that the reason why the arrest API was removed was because the Chicago Reporter used said API to prove that they were lying about their original claims. Now they refuse to comment on why it was removed and are ignoring any FOIA requests to actually get the data.

In attempt to make the title more neutral it seems like it made it more biased in favor of what seems like a corrupt police department.
The problem there was although they were stated to be priorities, neither Trump nor the Republican caucuses in Congress or the Senate actually thought either things were a good idea. Those weren’t ideologically motivated objectives, they were publicity motivated positions.
because Temporal is not currently used anywhere (as far as we noticed) and it won't break anything while still being descriptive.
This excludes any value from prizes, which is the bulk of the value of Yotta. 0.2% is what you get if you never win a prize, ever.
Torture chambers are nothing new, unfortunately. While still completely disturbing, if anything I’d say this setup was relatively mild compared to what you might’ve seen in medieval times or the Inquisition.
I know that's a rhetorical question, but I would personally choose being ripped apart by horses than spirited away to a torture chamber and tortured to death.
From the post you link to:

"Why not assassinate prominent racist and sexist politicians and intellectuals?"

I would definitely qualify these kind of straw-men as a "certain pattern" of language designed to incite rather than for insight.
There's also Gemstone, a proprietary Smalltalk object database (https://gemtalksystems.com/). You do all your coding within the database, so it really blurs the distinction between data and code.

Magma is a rather nice open source Smalltalk database (https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665), available for Squeak and Pharo.
A bunch of passive-voice examples here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/14/...

> The deputy’s gun fired one shot, missing the dog and hitting the child.

Or here:

https://reason.com/2020/01/28/passive-voice-deployed-in-myst...

> The suspect was struck several times by the officer's duty weapon.
It is reasonable to carve out spaces where particular norms apply, especially when those places have idiosyncratic goals, like HN's goal of "gratifying intellectual curiosity".

It is not reasonable to export those norms outside of those spaces to other spaces that don't share those idiosyncracies.

Some calls to terminate people are, in my judgement, bad. David Shor is a good example. I will use my freedom of expression to say that the people who called for his ouster made a grave and self-defeating error and should be ashamed of themselves.

Some calls to terminate people are not, in my judgement, bad.

HN might, along with the authors of this Letter, hope for a blanket norm against calling for anyone's ouster. They can ask for it; that's their right. But it's not a reasonable expectation, and they can't honestly pretend the norm already exists or that others are obligated to adhere to it because they want it.
I am surprised that the New Yorker decided to publish this. While I admire SSC and Scott Alexander, I did not read SSC regularly or subscribe to even a significant majority of his views, this article is circling the wagons around the Times and the media establishment.

The writer conveniently buries that he used to work at the NYT Magazine somewhere down in the article:

"Until recently, I was a writer for the Times Magazine, and the idea that anyone on the organization’s masthead would direct a reporter to take down a niche blogger because he didn’t like paywalls, or he promoted a petition about a professor, or, really, for any other reason, is ludicrous; stories emerge from casual interactions between curious reporters and their overtaxed editors. Perhaps Metz was casting about for something on Silicon Valley’s good sense on the coronavirus, found Alexander’s post, and thought he’d look into it."
I do know about Miranda, I was tempted to mention him but I didn't want to end up implying this sort of sentence is always about bad guys - "often" was already a bit too strong for my taste.
Tutorial, with applications to data science: https://towardsdatascience.com/understanding-singular-value-...
If we just give everyone automatically generated names from base64 or whatever, we can end racism and discrimination once and for all.

Nice to meet you guys, I'm "VszCwCF0hpPKufZecJelBA=="
My understanding has always been that creating a database is essentially a series of file copy operations from the template.
What your saying is a falsehood, and a persistent rumor started by a bad paper and easily disproved. The individual disk capacity has nothing to do with the drive failure rate.

First, while RAID isn't a "safeguard", the idea that there is a high probability of raid failure during a rebuild has been repeatedly proven to be false as long as proper data hygiene is maintained. For the most part the chance of a second disk falling out during the rebuild is exactly the same as any other day regardless of capacity.

Put another way, if your scrubbing (or just accessing the data) frequently enough to avoid having silent bad sectors the idea that there is a high probability of a drive loss during the day or two it takes to rebuild an array would also result in drive losses on a nearly daily basis.

So unless your constructing a single RAID5 array out of ten thousand plus disks, if the MTBF numbers are anywhere close to realistic, drives in a single array aren't going to be failing at a rate high enough that the chance of a double fault not caused by something symptomatic across the entire line of drives (say a firmware that wipes the drive after X power on hours, in which case no level of redundancy will save you) is a real worry.

So, the rumor is based on the idea that your increasing the RAID rebuild time from a couple hours to days/weeks on end due to the larger capacity. But this is also false, because as density increases so has the sequential throughput of the drives. AKA comparing a ~ten year old 4TB drive doing ~100MB/sec vs a modern 8TB drive doing 200MB/sec. There are some non-linearities due to the number of platters and the rate of TPI vs BPI increases but generally platter count is somewhat constant and TPI and BPI are both increasing. Now if your hitting internal RAID limits because your running modern drives on old controllers which cannot rebuild at the drives peak throughput that is a different problem.

Bottom line, your doing it wrong if RAID5/6 isn't increasing both actual as well as theoretical availability. The MTBF numbers are published to give a baseline on what the expected failure rates are.
The scary stuff about the current development is, that we get flooded with arguments about hardcore criminals, but if you look at the actual changes to the laws, such restrictions are not made, instead these extreme measures are allowed for petty reasons and some politicians will still keep pushing for even more totalitarianism. These siloviki want mass surveillance comparable to what Chinas Ministry of State Security or USAs National Security Agency have. It does not matter if Germany is not ruled by an autocratic regime at the moment, once such systems are in place, it will be.
> Unit tests, as evident by the name, revolve around the concept of a “unit”, which denotes a very small isolated part of a larger system. There is no formal definition of what a unit is or how small it should be, but it’s mostly accepted that it corresponds to an individual function of a module (or method of an object).

Heh I feel like this is the crux of the issue. Because there's no standardized definition of what a unit is, people sometimes tend to choose the wrong unit to test.

I personally believe it is usually wrong to test a single function or method in a class. I tend to test the behavior of a whole class at the same time. Testing each individual method is too white-box, and makes your testing code too coupled to the implementation. Basically, don't test internal details (unless the internals are very complicated), just test the externally visible behavior, which is usually presented as a whole class.

I also don't agree with always mocking out dependencies. If your "dependency" is just an instance of a different class, then just use the real deal. Sure, now your definition of a unit now encompasses not just your code, but your dependency's code, but if your dependency's code affects the externally visible behavior of your code, it remains your responsibility if your dependency changes things and breaks your code. That's what abstraction means: you present an interface, your client doesn't need to care about how it's implemented, and what dependency your code needs.
Well, it's street value so that's retail, though obviously if you are the owner of 2000 kg of cocaine you won't expect to make that much on it. Regardless, the amount here and it's value is so large that you can bet people would be more than happy to kill for it, it is no coincidence that this torture setup was discovered near Rotterdam. Even if the 'markup' is a factor of two. And that particular bust only stands out because of its immense size, 1200 and 1500 kg busts are relatively commonplace.

The big question is how much of it gets through.
Doesn't matter, at all.

1. You can always take it all and leave. The CEO can take more.
2. The CEO is more insulated from the world - he/she can afford health care for themselves and their family. They drive newer cars which are safer. They live in areas with less crime and more building codes, etc. The point is that there is noticeable comfort/safety increase for these expenses.
These "valuations" are important because they put a number on the whole "chain of value". Of course nobody would paid 100 million for that shipment, just like they didn't paid 80 million for the drugs.

But you sure can bet if those drugs were bought and consumed, around 100 million would change hands ( total ), 10 million more 10 million less.. it's an estimation.
No, that’s the reason for government to provide necessary medical care to those who can’t afford it.

Insurance is pooling of risks so participants in the pool are insured against medical costs they can’t afford.
Define primary? Are you claiming every tweet lives in MySQL?
Ahh I see. So, your original comment "definitely see this in my scene. the most attractive guys have many partners while the lesser ones don't have that many. more attractive guys are fought over and rifts are created because of it. It's really funny because a lot of them consider themselves anarchists politically...yet the few attractive men seem to dominate." was specifically referring to poly communities. I thought you meant this was your experience in general, regardless of monogamy or polyamory.

We were talking past each other because my comments were basically saying "It isn't like this in general" but you never intended to communicate that claim. You were only talking about specific situations.
The Temporal API is immutable, so you won't have to deal with it anymore.
If you're going to put together an inflammatory article the least you could do is dive a little deeper and answer the 'Why' question. Why did black-owned businesses receive less than 2% of PPP Loans?
On Crashing the Barrier of Meaning in Artificial Intelligence
Public sector unions exist because you have two groups of people with opposing needs/desires. The state wants to minimize budget while still providing services, and public workers want to make an appropriate wage for the work they do. The government is organized, so (IMO) there should be an organization on the other side of the table bargaining for the workers.
Police especially don't have many excuses for hiding their actions since they are meant to enforce the law. It used to surprise me just how many pointless secrets are kept by government departments in open democracies.

But who watches the watchers?

I think police departments and government can do better. Removing data implies a lack of transparency. Transparency and being seen to be improving at "doing the right thing" should be core targets right now.

This isn’t just about police either. I should be able to look up a lot more. Open democracies, informed voters, right? Regular, yearly/monthly data dumps should be commonplace.

How else are modern democracies meant to function? Lobby groups? How 20th century!
(Preface: I'm sure your app filters for stuff like this)

I got kinda burned when I tried to order direct from a restaurant. The last time we ate there they included a little "order online" card with a link to their website. So the next time, in the spirit of supporting businesses directly, I went to their site and ordered. They did use a third-party handler (ChowNow I think?), but I figured it was a kind of order management third-party. In fact, after placing the order, I got an additional email from that third-party handler congratulating me on ordering directly from restaurants, and that they explicitly don't charge restaurants a fee. Neat, right? Well, Lo and behold, behind the scenes they just used DoorDash to handle delivery...

That sucked because A) it was more hassle for me to sign up for Yet Another Account, and B) I have DashPass (free delivery and discounted service charge) but didn't get to use it, so it ended up costing me more even with the coupon the restaurant threw in.

Hell, there are even pizza places around me that use DoorDash for delivery. Pizza places, for goodness sake!

It's a weird world I suppose.
It's absolutely possible, and has been implemented by companies like holosonics.com. The basic idea is that you do phase cancellation of ultrasonic frequencies to produce audio in the hearable range.
I think use of regulated drugs is legal during a religious service https://www.pewforum.org/2006/02/21/supreme-court-rules-that...

And, again I think, reservations are exempt from state laws/taxes and to certain extent able to make/enforce their own laws/taxes but they still need to follow federal laws.
Yeah I don't care what the solution is.... if everyone just does it, that would be great.

Then I'll care / complain about the solution ;)
The original Emacs was written for Multics at a time when people outside of Bell Labs were largely unaware of the existence of Unix[1]. It also doesn't follow the Unix philosophy of making small CLI utilities composed with pipes. As I understand it (though I haven't used it), Acme is extended with external programs which communicate through pipes just like the traditional Unix utilities.

[1]: https://www.jwz.org/doc/emacs-timeline.html
That site is a mobile ad nightmare.

Also should the thread title mention that only 14% of PPP application respondents provided info on race?
Linux Developers May Discuss Allowing Rust Code Within the Kernel
Most experts have expertise on only one or two different OS's or bits of software.

The found issues will strongly depend who happens to be on the Google Project Zero team at the moment.
You don't have to pay for it. The original license was completely Free As In Speech and even today it costs only for the distributed version. There is even a fork of it preserving the original license.

It attaches to existing redis hash keys and allows you to add an index to your already existing data for example.

Disclaimer - I'm the original author of RediSearch (started in 2016), before the switch to a non FOSS license. I'm not affiliated with it anymore and haven't followed its development for the past couple of years. But I can tell you that our first users were people who couldn't get ES working for their workloads, or had good redis infrastructure in place already and were able to utilize it for this as well.
> I do think there will eventually be abloody falling out between our classes. Times have changed however, and I doubt workers will be able to 'win' anymore.

It's a shame, but I have to agree. I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I wouldn't be surprised if there was actually some sort of concerted effort by some elites to keep normal people at odds with one another, simply because if they weren't fighting amoungst themselves they would begin to wonder what to do about the fact that so much wealth and power has concentrate into the hands of such a small group of people. We might could find a political solution to address this if there majority were united, but I think once police and military work are largely automated that will be the ball game. There will thenceforth no longer be any fear of extralegal repercussions (e.g. riots, revolution, etc.) for abusing society at large for personal gain in legal ways.
__builtin_unreachable() is your friend.

Better yet, omit that default case, so that in the future when you do add a new value to the enum, the compiler will warn you and force you to add a new case.

But I agree with your general thesis that it's just not worth getting to 100% coverage.
According to the US Census Bureau, 9.4% of businesses were black-owned, as of 2012. According to the same report, 78% of businesses were white-owned in 2012.

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-209...
TLDR: Explanatory footnotes (or links to Wikipedia) are awesome.

In print also consider insisting on indices, glossaries, tables of contents, clarity of page numbering, standard numeric preface page numbering, explaining all foreign language, and always including a map.
Python adds a nice twist on making time parsing confusing. It has two strptime implementations. There is time.strptime and datetime.strptime. The former has much more limited timezone handling than the later.

It took me quite a while staring at Stack Overflow answers and my code, wondering why the SO answers supposedly worked and my code did not, before I realized I had time.strptime and they were using datetime.strptime.
Maybe there are fewer black-owned businesses than white-owned ones.
Lessons in Software Evolution Learned by Listening to Smalltalk (2010) [pdf]
How about rats?
When figuring out build vs buy decisions, it helps anyone to put dollar amounts on their time.

“Should I buy a lawn mower or pay someone to cut my lawn?” You factor in the cost of equipment, maintenance, and your time for both options, then figure out which works for your budget.

If your budget is zero, that also helps make the decisions easier.