skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't agree at all that the EU has handled the pandemic well. See https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... for a comparison of the US, EU, and East Asia (a region that could reasonably be characterized as handling the pandemic well) by linear per capita confirmed COVID-19 deaths.
There's no risk of the USD not remaining the world reserve currency as long as oil is being purchased.

The US spends more than 144 countries combined[1] on their military. The US protects the middle-east oil supply, the middle-east agrees to only sell oil in US dollars. Therefore, demand of USD remains consistent and strong.

Ask Iran and Venezuela how it's working out for them trying to skirt that arrangement.

[1] - https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2019/07/18/us-spends...
Would love to get thoughts on what else we can do to drop our bounce rate.
much like how there is a feature for linking to duplicates, there should be an official feature to link to a section in the official docs.

It should even be in your face when answering a question. A culture of posting sources/references.
I received a notification before 68.11.0 landed today warning me that an upgrade was coming and things would change. But it was only for 68.11.0 (current stable channel release on Google play store) and not 79.
Hmm, not sure about "latest", as almost always, the master/primary/whatever branch is not actually the latest code, but the latest "production ready" code.
Love this idea, are you looking for open source help?
> Swiss privacy shield which is basically a more strict version of GDPR

That's not true. I'm talking about consumer rights. In fact, last I checked (about 1 or 2 months ago), Data Portability Right doesn't even exist in Swiss laws, but it does exist in GDPR and the California Privacy Act.

Protonmail is all built around the Swiss bank image of "your data is as secure than your money". Protonmail doesn't even offer IMAP for free.

If you agree with their methods, no one will stop you to use their services. But again : they do NOT comply with basic consumer rights common to other providers, and I wouldn't recommend them to anyone I know
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> Each site was more or less a fork of the codebase, and required a separate DB instance.

I don't believe this is true. At least as of 2016, the various sites were on a shared codebase [0], and there were two SQL Server clusters total [1], for all the various sites, chat, devops, other systems, etc.

[0]: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...

[1]: https://nickcraver.com/blog/2016/02/17/stack-overflow-the-ar...
Can you define successful? Only one single company from YC has gone public. To me, having "successful" illiquid stock is the definition of "not successful" from the employee's perspective.
The dollar has no risk, the demand for dollars is massive.

As is the supply of dollars. To say it has no risk is absurd; the dollar is created out of thin air by trading its future value.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2
I think more-stuff-lower-quality is kind of inevitable, but I am happy with that general direction. I have run into a lot of annoying things like and including your example. This roadmap would be better if it had a simple way to submit and vote for feature requests like other public roadmaps.
If this is the case, it could be a blessing in disguise. After the world wars we were artificially powerful due to circumstance. A return to a more balanced politics empowers those that were underrepresented. Potentially, with a little wisdom, this facilitates a more balanced prosperity and greater overall well-being. I admit this is probably optimistic, if also possible.
"accurately" is debatable: https://www.wired.com/story/walmart-shoplifting-artificial-i...

It certainly won't stop them from selling on that feature.

You are right about the lengths product marketing companies will go to. There is a lot of money on the table and the grocery business is all-in on this stuff.
"bug fixes and enhancements"
Note that when you use grep, awk, sed, libc regexec(), RE2 [1], or rust/regex, this isn't how your regexes are executed.

They use automata-based engines whereas this is a backtracking engine, which can blow up on small inputs. (Although I will say the C code here is cool, because it gives you a fork() bomb, so it might exhaust your operating system and not just your CPU!)

Canonical reference: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast
(but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, ...)

https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html

Archive since it's down at the moment due to some App Engine stuff (!): https://web.archive.org/web/20200624195819/https://swtch.com...

My blog post and sample code that verifies that GNU grep, awk, sed, and libc don't backtrack:

Comments on Eggex and Regular Languages http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2020/07/eggex-theory.html

https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/tree/master/regular-la...

[1] https://github.com/google/re2

----

Also, the production quality way of compiling regular expressions to C code looks like this [2], which is completely different than what's shown in the article:

https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.pre8/source-code.wwz/_d...

The regex is converted to an NFA, then a DFA, then a bunch of switch/goto statements in C that implement the DFA.

This example is huge, but the switch/goto and lack of any notion of "threading" is the important point.

Essentially, the instruction pointer is used as the DFA state. It's a very natural use of "goto" (where you don't write or debug them yourself)

[2] via http://re2c.org/ (not related to RE2)
The fear right now is for deflation rather. The fed printing money will just weaken the dollar relative to other currencies as you point out. Which might end up being convenient for the US economy, but it comes at the risk of the world going away from the Dollar as a reserve currency as Goldman warns.
https://archive.is/YJrsc
> most of the additional countries aren't really umm... worth traveling to

> not sure what the downvotes are about. maybe hn thinks that all countries are equal, and thinking otherwise is racist?

You dismiss these countries as not worth traveling to, and seriously can't comprehend why you were downvoted? Wow some people just completely lack awareness.

Rudeness of such a statement aside, I've been to Vietnam and Turkey and they are fantastic countries. I would absolutely love to visit Myanmar and Iran as I've heard fantastic things. I've heard good things about Pakistan as well. Venezuela of course is unfortunately dangerous to travel to right now, but it is a beautiful country.

In any case, dismissing a country you know nothing about as "not worth traveling to" is rude and uncultured at best.
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What would be a good free NNTP server or NNTP archive?
You might be able to build a custom Google report, of search queries by bounce, and seeing if any queries have higher bounces than the others.
I mean, as a gun owner, if you told me you lived in a NYC apartment and owned a gun for in-home, self defense I'd ask "why?". You're putting the lives of a lot of people around you in jeopardy if you miss (which you almost certainly will at least once). I think if I lived in NYC, in an a place where I was concerned about that, I'd reinforce entryways so I could shelter in place somewhere.
Absolutely, when you are a big enterprise customer, you get access to the roadmap of most of your partners.
"But this website also deemphasizes search results in favor of curated answers, just like Google."

That is not correct. On desktop, organic search results take up the middle 60% of the screen with nothing above them. The curated results are in the sidebar.
Who are "they", and why would they care about someone's demands? Don't get me wrong, I got bitten by some of these issues occasionally, too, but Linux is not an actual product I pay for. It's a bunch of free code. I can choose to contribute or not, but I can't expect that anyone is obliged to care about my demands.
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It's crazy how conservative most high-reliablity high-volume stuff is on the technical side. And yet, especially the porn industry, is quite on the fore front of other tech, like VR, DVD, VCR,...
What makes you think it "corresponds neatly to income" in the US?

There's economic class, social class, and socio-economic class. These are three different things, and that's also true in the US.
I had a similar experience learning the piano when I was a kid. Understandably, my parents started me out with a cheap $100 electric keyboard, which was good enough for the first year or so of practice. As I improved, though, it became a big hindrance to my progress, as 1) the keys were unweighted, 2) the speakers couldn't accurately produce high/low notes, and 3) the keys were slightly smaller than the standard size. Practicing at home was too different from the real piano I used a lessons, so I started to feel really discouraged.

I was too young to understand quite what the problem was, or to save up enough money on my own to upgrade, so I ended up quitting lessons altogether.
> Covid-19 hardly mutates and people who were exposed to SARS 17 years ago have immunity to covid today.

Citation, please. Any credible sources that I could find say that protection correlation with SARS is not clearly established and antibody levels to SARS fall off between 2-3 years after infection.

> there won’t be a second wave of any significance

There will or will not be but certainly not for the reasons you mention. Unlike flu and older coronaviruses, SARS-Cov-2 R_t seems to be driven exclusively by containment measures, not by seasonality, at least not at the present.

> once you've got sufficient exposure in the community a second wave won't happen regardless

We are nowhere near the "sufficient exposure" and it is already the most impactful pandemic in the last 100 years.
I'll do ya 1 better: I had the displeasure of actually buying a new Harley (I was young and stupid). The street 500/750 are the worst of the worst from HD. The Iron 883 is the smallest "real" harley. And it's a completely different feel from the streets.

However, it was a trashcan of a bike. I was always fixing weird issues, the HD dealership absolutely sucked in every facet from timeliness of service, to prices, to the guy at the service desk just not being a cunt. I upgraded many parts just to get the damn thing to perform at a reasonable level.

Thankfully, I was hit by a car and my bike was totalled. This freed me to purchase a KTM 790 duke which is 160lbs lighter, with double the horsepower, 20% more torque, 80% longer service intervals, all for significantly less than the Iron 883.

Harley-Davidson is literally hemmorhaging cash. Their main demo is aging out of the market and they haven't been able to sell to millenials because millenials aren't stupid and go buy a Yamaha MT-09 or Suzuki, etc for waaay less. And I'm hearing whispers that H-D willl be axing their new forays into ADV, standard, and E-bikes.
Why, I greatly appreciate sites about foreign languages study, for instance.

Of course, something like politics.stackexchange.com would be a suicide.
They impact me _way_ more regularly than loud cars - so it is likely a regional thing. Every fucking day I go to work they're there destroying a pleasant walk with my own music.

My point was that regulating noise is hard, because people have very different views on what is and isn't reasonable
For americans at least: "The world's need for dollars has allowed the United States government as well as Americans to borrow at lower costs, giving the United States an advantage in excess of $100 billion per year" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency
Oh sure when Alan Kay says it he gets a lab but when I say it I'm an edgelord.
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I agree with this, but, I’ve become very comfortable with TransferWise, which is kinda like Libra without the blockchain bullshit. I can move between currencies effortlessly and inexpensively (and I don’t want an index currency that trades a basket of currencies beneath it, an unnecessary abstraction in my opinion). I provide charity to a friend down on their luck in CAD. I buy SaaS services in USD and EUR. I pay an Australian mortgage for a vacation home and investment property in Tasmania in AUD. From an iOS app!

As FinTech velocity accelerates, the value of network effects will diminish. It’ll all be IP between fintech providers (mostly like SWIFT, but not quite).
There technically is a “Windows package manager” https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli, though it doesn't manage installed packages yet (that seems to be planned for v1.0 sometime next year https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/blob/master/doc/wind...).
South Africa is reporting ~10,000 cases/day.Chile is reporting thousands of cases a day.

The cross-society systematic uncertainties are the major challenge, as every country and culture is attacking this thing differently (and NZ is crushing it). If there is a strong seasonal effect, it should be apparent throughout global datasets, both from a latitude-dependent dynamic in the northern hemisphere and variation with opposite sign for locations with equal and opposite latitude.

It is my continued guess that meaningful bounds on any seasonal effect are not inaccessable.

From US data alone, it is clear that R_0 is not impacted by a factor of ~2-5 by summertime climate. We're still losing.
It's escalation. Not even unreasonable imho.

The protesters were attacked. They did not escalate before this. After being attacked, their options are to continue being attacked with no recourse, or counterattack.

I personally have 0 issue with burning the courthouse. As with the previous violent protests, my issue comes with damage to civilian property.
Some medium articles are 'medium exclusive' (I don't remember the exact term). In theory, only people paying for a medium membership can view them, but in return they get a little more juice in medium's internal advertising. Many people inadvertently choose this setting because of some dark patterns around the publishing interface. Everyone gets a couple views of the members-only articles a month free, functionally infinite if you use incognito mode. I think there's also a random pop-up to harass you into using the app/an-account which is orthogonal.
There are quite a few humans at Google, both in HN and at twitter. Sadly all of them that I talked with seemed like people that I would not want to interact with again.
> while the reality is the business in its current form was going to fail and take everyone's job with it, and it was necessary to cut jobs in order to save the business

As a rate, how many business are actually "saved" by PE firms?

> (and thus save the jobs that remain)

Wouldn't that be simpler with a general bankruptcy? What is gained when a third party, often encumbered with leverage, gets involved?

> but it's just unhelpful to label the whole industry based on those

It's equally unhelpful to expect the minority players in an industry to define that industry.

> the whole tech industry is very much evil because it exploits cheap labor (Uber, DoorDash, etc.).

To engage the hyperbole, the current iteration of it may well be. I expected flying cars and trips to the moon, not face recognition surveillance, deep fakes and manipulative social networks.

Realistically... PE on it's own, and tech on it's own may be neutral concepts, but our current lack of regulation of their specific markets really shows.
This is also wrong. Everyone from Aristotle to Newton and onward to Einstein were doing thought experiments in physics the entire time.
I'm sorry to hear it. I'm sure it's been a frustrating experience, but one that would be interesting to tell and useful for people to know to understand the consequences of bad decisions. A well-written version of the article would have included one or two interviews from people like you.
They're secretly waiting for GPT-4 to be finished, which will be trained on the whole SO question/answer corpus and can then be sold to big corporations desperate to scale up their teams of monkeys copy-pasting code from SO...sorry, I meant to say "engineers writing enterprise grade software".
I do, and I cringe at the weasel-worded disinformation that usually ends up being put there. "We've fixed some defects and improved performance". Yeah, right. Running the updated app provides ample evidence to the contrary.

And then the vendors (and the security people) claim that automatic updates are fundamental, because otherwise people wouldn't install them. But maybe, just maybe, people don't want to install updates because they're being force-fed them, with no information about what to expect, and half of the time the update makes the experience worse.

The road to a better user/vendor interaction starts with providing meaningful changelogs and dropping the paternalistic attitude about updates.
Because you have a lot more flexibility with a house payment that you can easily make each month, versus one you can barely make if you pinch some pennies and your spouse doesn't lose his job. Had we purchased a house we looked at about ten years ago, my wife would probably still be working a job she wasn't fond of at the time, 'cuz gotta a mortgage payment to make.
(far) Northern New England. And you would be right, that's an important consideration if there isn't an appropriate backstop.

The topography up here has granted plenty of appropriate natural backstops, however. (And some not so natural, the various old gravel pits and quarries are popular for that purpose as well).
Are you preserving internal meeting recordings?
I'm mulling around this idea that after COVID we all got 10x more video meetings - everything that used to be "shoulder tap" in the office now goes through Zoom. It's an immense amount of useful information and I'm curious what people do to preserve it. Do you record your internal meetings? Transcribe? Publish in some searchable way?
53% Use Linux:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

>Linux and Windows are the most common platforms that our respondents say they have done development work for this year. We asked about container technologies like Docker for the first time this year, and Docker was the third most broadly used platform.

But:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...
I do think this is a bit unfair. When the average person says "AR-15", they mean "rifle with a big ol' external mag", and it's a pretty new phenomenon for the average gun owner to have those. Until the assault weapons ban expired in 2004, even gun enthusiasts really did tend to think that a "normal" rifle was one with a wood stock and a fixed internal magazine.
I think you are mistaken on two counts. The data is certainly not so self-evident that you can simply assert the parent is wrong.

Deaths are rising in counties that hadn't had significant exposure to covid19 before, and already the trend is heading down across the board. Deaths will be climbing in a couple of hotspots for the next 2 weeks, but total deaths in the entirety of the USA shouldn't exceed 280k.

I agree the virus hasn't become less potent, but hospitals have gotten much, much better at treatment. Remdesivir in particular makes a big difference. Spread in long term care facilities are now tracked nationwide, with terrific results. So the CFR is down by a lot, even though the virus hasn't changed.

Nobody in the US is being denied care because the ICUs are full. Yes, some hospitals are strained but this is not at all unusual. You'll find similar articles about maxed out ICUs from 2018, 2016, etc. First hit on google from jan 2018: "Hospitals Overwhelmed by Flu Patients Are Treating Them in Tents" (https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...). Moving patients to hospitals with spare capacity isn't that big of a deal. Bear in mind that Hospitals are for profit and ICU beds are extremely expensive. As a consequence hospitals target 85%+ ICU utilization throughout the year, otherwise they're losing money.

Didn't the Texas Tribune just misreport the data? https://twitter.com/VanceGinn/status/1287940050752286721
I don't see how following the HN guidelines would create any safety concerns.
That's a really good point, but I assume there have been other YC Companies that have exited (acquired, etc.)
Wait, Google feels any obligations at all? I thought they only made decisions based on what's most likely to maximize their growth?
I believe you are referring to Rome? In the west, they debased their currency in order to pay for wars, which wreaked havoc on the economy and Supply chain. I’m not aware of it being a factor in Alexander’s empire, the Russians in 1918, Napoleon, the Japanese after wwii, or the decline of the British empire. Most came from exhaustion or defeat from to war. Debasing the currency is not something that only falling empires do. Look at Venezuela or Zimbabwe
Back-in-the-days MySQL had the view of GPL that if your application strictly required MySQL database, the GPL license would extend to it. Even if the app would only connected to the database over network.

”A license is required if [...] You have a commercial application that ONLY works with MySQL and ships the application with the MySQL server. This is because we view this as linking even if it is done over the network.”[1]

Not sure if they ever actually enforced this rule.

I wrote this just to point out that different companies can view these licenses differently. If company chooses AGPL, they clearly want to block certain use cases. I would be cautious when trying to dance around the limitations.

[1] http://ww2.cs.lamar.edu/doc/mysql/manual_Licensing_and_Suppo...
There will be two different flavors of replication:

- TCP-based replication for WAN
- UDP-based replication for LAN and high traffic environments

We are currently building foundation elements of this replication, such as column-first and parallel writes. These will go into
and always be part of QuestDB. TCP-replication will go on top of this foundation and also part of QuestDB. UDP-based replication will be
a part of a different product we are building that will be named Pulsar.
Because none of the alternatives are large enough. If you are a central bank, and you need to deposit $100bn...you realise that you can't walk into your local branch of Chase and ask if they will take a cheque.

If you give it to a bank, you are now an equity investor (as Middle East central banks found out in the 80s). If you invest in a non-USD currency, you are exposed to that currency in size and you probably can't sell (as Commonwealth central banks found out in the 60/70s).

USTs are the only market where you can trade tens of billions easily. That is it. There are no alternatives. China and Russia have both tried to exit, and all they have managed to do is buy a few billion of gold. The ECB is trying to create an alternative but EU financial markets are microscopic because their banking system is so large/insolvent.

There are also economic reasons, the US is the largest economy in the world, almost all trade is priced in USD so exporters/importers will earn/sell in USD which will usually be key to other areas of central bank policy.

But yes, the main issue is quite fundamental: no other currency is large enough.
Eh?
Even if a person would not end up with enough funds to secure re-election if they chose to vote against a measure, does not mean that they don’t have the freedom to vote against it.

They are still responsible for their actions even if the alternative actions would be highly against their self-interest.

Even a person who is threatened with death if they don’t take an action, is still free to either take or not take the action. They might be justified in taking the action on the basis of said threat, even if the action would ordinarily be forbidden, but they are still making a choice.