skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not everyone can get a photo ID, especially when the state doesn't want them to

That's such an asinine and patronizing comment. People need to stop treating us minorities as some stupid and incapable people. Every single adult is capable of getting a photo ID - if they can be bothered to vote, they can be bothered to spend a few minutes getting a photo ID.

The real reason people oppose voter ID is because democrats won't be able to cheat. Voting is enshrined in the constitution as a fundamental right but cheating is not enshrined.

Also interesting how all 3 sources you linked are from radical left to left leaning sources.
Crypto would work but may require a large amount of user education.
Western Union Xfers to a Costa Rican clearing house works well too.
The biggest problem you might run into is finding somewhere to lay off the bets people make, it's not too often that you will have the exact amount bet on both sides of a game. So unless you have deep pockets and want to gamble, you will need to cover these bets through a third party whilst still getting a piece of the vig.

Good luck.
So why don’t we laminate or whatever our glass so it does what car glass does? Saving money?
Explain your point.
In any particular glass of water, supposedly almost all of it was drunk by a dinosaur.

https://youtu.be/KK64DqpIy0s
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So many experts seem to believe they are experts in everything instead of just their subject areas.
The takeaway for me is that while it might seem convenient to imagine that events can have a definite description (x) that could be plugged into some decision-making process... this is not really the case.
Exactly my question. If improving on SQL also means that I have to throw out all the maturity of Postgres, it's very unlikely to happen.

But if you can define a new query language that can be implemented by existing relational DBs, you might actually have a shot at displacing SQL.
Starting with Common Lisp in 2020
(not OP) Another clarification: before you said "non-earth life". Panspermia[1] implies Ceres and Earth life are related, so that native Ceres life is hard to distinguish from Earth's (and arguably is the same as Earth life).

1. Backtrapolating exponential evolution finds an origin older than Earth. https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.3381
You are using the his language.

The language is that many developers take ownership of a project while they are working for an employer. The fact that people make these comparisons between children and source is the problem and what you are doing is framing it the way Stallman wants to frame it. This leads you to his conclusions. If you actually take some time to look as some of his assertions you can see they are far more nuanced that he would like you to think. It is disingenuous of him to frame it like that in the first place, he isn't stupid and therefore I cannot accept it is an oversight.

I would rather Software development was more seen akin to be a plumber or a carpenter and that is exactly how I try to work. People have to get over the fact that programming is a profession, it has a market and things need to be paid for.

The whole activism for free software is completely missing the point as it focuses on source code and not specifications. If there is an open spec then anyone can make a opensource or proprietary implementation of that spec. The "freedom" of that software is irrelevant because it adheres to the specification.

The current model for monetising free and open software software has lead to making money via support contracts, which leads to things like SaaS where you are perpetually renting something rather than actually owning a license. When you are perpetually renting from a large company you are then tied into what they want to do and you are probably in a worse situation than using a proprietary product especially if your data is held up in that service (that why Microsoft and Amazon want you to use their proprietary NoSQL infrastructure and price it so cheaply compared to something like Postgres of SQL Server).

This is such a difficult thing to get across I end up rambling on tangents because there any many many things wrong as the presuppositions are just incorrect or aren't as concrete as many assert.
Wouldn't it be better to have a word that describes the person as 'other than majority' rather than a really long acronym? Similarly as we use the word foreigner instead of listing every possible nationality.
This kind of thinking on behalf of Googlers is why every professional on earth thinks Google's customer support is shamefully terrible.
Any particular reason safari isn't supported as it does seem to support WebRTC?
You can just do this yourself. Google breaks it's systems intentionally for a week every year, it's called DiRT week. DiRT takes weeks of planning before people even start debugging.

Doing this constantly for a all products in a single region would be absolutely exhausting for SRE teams

(Discliamer: I work for ^GOOG and my opinions are my own)
I am a big fan of a relational model. SQL itself is OK but far from great. So, I wish you a lot of success!

I was part of a similar attempt - building a better "SQL" and relational DB. This was roughly 8 years a go. You can have a look at our GitHub Projects or look at some further links and may be you get inspired :)

* http://bandilab.github.io/ - introduction to the bandicoot project

* https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Bandicoot/ - presentation of the Bandicoot language on

* https://github.com/ostap/comp - another interesting attempt, a query language based on a list comprehension
I'm tempted to say "with a ouija board."

More seriously, this article makes a strong argument in the affirmative for the second footnote in:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24070333

namely, that Silicon Valley allows talent from all over the world "to join, to belong, really to be equal, not just legally equal, and, above everything, to share, to struggle, and to work under conditions of heroism for a common goal."
The “Full Stack Professor” Who Left Academia for the Internet
https://github.com/escaya/escaya/tree/master/src/ast
I Built the One Browser Extension to Rule Them All
MediaWiki has various useful maintenance reports. Pywikibot can help automate maintenance tasks via the MediaWiki API.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SpecialPages
Seconds before the final explosion, you can see some flashes in the base of the smoke, like firecrackers going off. Anyone knows what these are?
You're talking about the cutting edge of experimental building techniques, not the common building techniques used in the US and UK.
Thank you for the information!
I will improve the website to make it more distinguishable.
I often think that a great way to displace SQL would be to create a language that compiles to SQL similar to how TypeScript compiles to Javascript.
Sigh - try contacting Facebook because they've let some bozo sign up using your email address ....
I had the exact same problem, wow. I'm very happy to see this on hnews.
If you are interested in how the world is doing -over the long term-, check out 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress' by Steven Pinker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_Now
"It argues that the Enlightenment values of reason, science, and humanism have brought progress; shows our progress with data that health, prosperity, safety, peace, and happiness have tended to rise worldwide; and explains the cognitive science of why this progress should be appreciated." It has its detractors, so apply your own grain of salt where needed.
$1.1 mil for a 2 bedroom house in Potrero is a steal.
It's pretty arrogant to complain about the syntax being inconsistent across versions and databases and then present your own weird offshoot, as if every other version wasn't introduced for the exact same reason with the exact same lofty delusions of grandeur...

SQL is messy because describing the underlying data relationships are messy. The orthogonality example is a great illustration of this. What exactly should the result be if there are multiple dept heads? Should the result rows be duplicated? It's not clear how edgeQl would handle either (their edgQl orthogonality examples were constructed to only have result per sub query), but it seems like they would be kept together as sets. In that case, the result set is no longer a table, it's a dataframe, which is a useful data structure but is also not what relational databases do.
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How do you even do Select col from table group by grp in EdgeQL?
How could they automatically issue a passport?

1. Passports requires a picture which the government does not have.

2. The government requires an up to date address to send the passport to which the government does not have.

3. The government needs an up to date list of eligible voters which it does not have.

I'm sure there are more issues but it wouldn't work and would be quite painful.
Ask HN: Resources for Google Ad Tracking Pixel?
Are there any good blogs that explain how the Google Ad Tracking Pixel works, how to set it up and what can we track using the pixel? It would be great if the blogs could also explain how Ad bidding works
yeah the edgeql syntax just looks messy and the doc doesn't even explain how to do a group by
> This branch of comments goes back to a commenter who made the accurate point that the US is closer to a liberal democracy than China.

No. The comment said the US is a liberal democracy. Not "closer", IS.

It's like "hey, this number is 100!" - "no, that number is 13" - "but 13 is closer to 100 than 2".
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Alternatively you can make a compiler from sql to your alternative, which would make it relatively easy to get the "I just want a familiar thing that works" people on board.
fyi in the "land of the free", people being mean to government agents are cited for sedition

https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/public-safety/sdpd-is...
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Woz's Twitter is full of locations, occasionally exotic but often mundane, like a local dog park or restaurant.

I have always wondered if he posts in hope that people will meet him there, and talk to him. Has anyone done so, have some stories to share?
∃ ∈ ∀. quite natural to me as a pure math grad

there exists, in, for all
I’m not necessarily disagreeing with your characterisation of different outcomes based on size / density and sophistication of pre-colonial populations, but you are factually wrong on commonwealth membership:

Africa

Botswana
Cameroon
Gambia, The
Ghana
Kenya
Kingdom of eSwatini
Lesotho
Malawi
Mauritius
Mozambique
Namibia
Nigeria
Rwanda
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Uganda
United Republic of Tanzania
Zambia

Asia

Bangladesh
Brunei Darussalam
India
Malaysia
Maldives
Pakistan
Singapore
Sri Lanka

Caribbean and Americas

Antigua and Barbuda
Bahamas, The
Barbados
Belize
Canada
Dominica
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Saint Lucia
St Kitts and Nevis
St Vincent and The Grenadines
Trinidad and Tobago

Europe

Cyprus
Malta
United Kingdom

Pacific

Australia
Fiji
Kiribati
Nauru
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tonga
Tuvalu
Vanuatu
> Sounds like one of the people at a former employer of mine had a time machine to come forward in time to read this article and take it by heart. He deleted more than 800 articles I had written on the company wiki, which were never recovered, and then when he eventually left the company it was realized that those articles were important reference points which were never replaced in the transition. It turns out deleting 800 articles is easier than writing 800 articles when the original author with the domain knowledge had moved on into another role.

What did the company do after realizing it?
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I don't know why you tell me that, I'm not arguing anything, I'm just pointing out that Bloomberg is a bad source because they are making false claims and do not correct them.

> Thus, all major Chinese corporations are a extension of the CCP.

I believe that to be true. I also believe that to be true for all corporations in all nations. They're independent from the state until it matters.
XKCD’s comic on competing standards feels appropriate here:

https://xkcd.com/927/
> As someone who works on MQTT server technology, this opinion surprised me

Why? It's practically tautological. The technology is irrelevant--it's all about the users.

The set of people using MQTT is:

1) The clueless (those who don't know better or the buzzword-driven)

2) The clueful with no power or cost constraints (to first, second and third approximation--a null set) because if you add constraints to someone with clue, they will dump everything above UDP or TCP/IP.

Thus, MQTT == DOOM.

(If I'm being less uncharitable, an MQTT broker is a service I don't control and have no visibility into. It only takes being on the receiving end of one bitchfest because an MQTT message didn't get delivered because "reasons" before you pull the plug on it and do it yourself. Given that I can predict with 100% certainty that this will happen, why even start with MQTT?)
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Yep they just replied. 2 month backlog on support requests for paid accounts, ouch.
Too bad its a resource hog though. Startup time is really bad, using it via Testcontainers takes patience.
Bloom filters confused me at first, but they're really cool. I like to think of bloom filters with a (oversimplified) physics analogy. When you collide two particles together, other smaller particles come flying out of the explosion. You measure their tracks with a film. If you keep smashing particles together, eventually the film will be saturated and you will basically lose the ability to ascertain with confidence whether or not two specific particles were smashed together.
> I want to be better at SQL but so many problems I hit up against and think “well that’s a 2 minute job in js/swift/php”

The thing about SQL is that it's the fastest way to read&write data in a relational database. Maybe writing the code is faster in js/swift/php, but the code will run faster in SQL. If you need to do something to 100M pieces of data you can do a lot worse than SQL.
To be more precise: what I meant is life on Ceres that hasn't come accidentally from any of our own probes since eg the start of the 20th century.

I'd be happy to pay up in case of pre-historic panspermia.
I've come to love SQL databases, and even writing raw SQL.

All the modern SQL databases are unbelievably powerful.
I grew up in a house built out of 'wattle and daub', with a thatch roof. I wouldn't have called it a mud hut, but it was definitely a mud cottage. That is also the typical house of rural people in England in the colonial era.

Seems to me that the typical comparison between european architecture and 'mud huts' is based on a lack of knowledge about european building processes.
https://github.com/mist64/cbmbasic Basic V2 as a scripting language
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> But ultimately there's always a software engineer involved in the creation of software - and that's not true of any of the other roles you mentioned. Since software engineers are necessary and sufficient to produce software, they should always be held responsible, and any oath should fall on engineers.

Nah, it's not the same at all. The fundamental difference between creating a program and medicine is creating a program only has to be done once, or at least a only by a few.

Medicine on the other hand: it has to be redone with each new patient. If the Hippocratic Oath works to prevent 99.9% doctors from doing a harmful procedure then you've hit a home run. Sure, you will never completely stop some bad egg removing a perfectly good limb because a patient suffering from Xenomelia offered enough money. But who wouldn't call a thousand fold reduction a huge win.

We demonstrably have the 0.1% of programmers who are willing to break any oath. They make malware, and willingly take out Sony as mercenaries because Kim Jong-Un got pissed off at a movie. All that 0.1% has to do is write the program once. Thereafter you are not trying to discourage hoards of high skilled professional from doing it again, you are trying to stop a legion of dark net operators copying the thing and selling it to anyone. An oath is a waste of time under those circumstances.
I agree that tech has projects and ideas you could do yourself @home.

Now my question is ... why local structural engineers or other professionals rarely write a blog or an essay sharing their knowledge and experience or just normal expressive posts like you would see on mainstream social media?
Ask HN: Why is windows 10 atrociously slow?
I have been wrestling with windows for decades, but recently windows 10 has become unbearably slow.

On a periodic basis, it becomes slow, after which I restart then wait for 10+min for windows to become responsive. Meanwhile during this period, everything I use email, firefox, Chrome, vscode all crawl to near useless.

While I am using HDD, instead of SSD, I consider such a performance problem an issue at windows side. Am I the only who suffers from it? Are there any registry hacks which can alleviate these problems?
I think what he's getting at is: How would you be able to verify its authenticity? A mass-produced clothing item wouldn't have telltale markers...
While certain aspects of his life are tragic, Jobs certainly did exactly what he wanted and what he could best.
Technically, local C ABI may be callee-cleanup, and then main() must be special in that it's neither variadic nor fixed-prototype. But in a major compatible reality it's always cdecl, thus not much different from foo(void) being called with foo(int, ptr, ptr) via a prototype mismatch which a compiler is surely unable to detect (that's UB for that exact non-existent ABI reason, as it is for almost half of C). It is only special for a return statement really.
What about knative?
Apple Refuses to Publish Rivals’ Gaming Apps on iOS
Any other addictive puzzles like this one?
I shall name it...NoSQL.
ReasonML works like that
Oh man, that was perfect :)
I've used memcached a lot but there's also benefits to caching a JavaScript file for an hour at a CDN and removing all load from that request.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/834383864/

Here you go guys, you're welcome.
I'm not sure that this makes an economic difference - ultimately Uber's algorithm will set the price where supply intersects demand. Or equivalently, drivers can raise their own prices/restrict supply by only working during surge hours.
The draft versions of the spec (functionally equivalent to the published versions) are freely available. I believe that the opensource compilers explicitly target those draft versions; but even if not, there's nothing in the release version that's not in the draft. You can even get fancy html formatted versions that somebody made - https://port70.net/~nsz/c/
Am I the only full stack dev that likes SQL?

SQL is an incredibly expressive and flexible way to read, store, and update data. It's ubiquitous, so the SQL skills I learned six jobs and three industries ago are still relevant and useful to me today. Relational Databases and SQL are heavy lifters that I often relay upon to build projects and get things done.
> The driver doesn't have the ability to turn up a dial and say "I'm going to charge more now".

A licenced taxi driver cannot do that, either.
Uber has been rolling out a feature to allow drivers in California to set their own prices, and today rolled it out to the entire state. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/uber-calif...
Uber and Lyft are exploiting a system never intended for low paid workers.
Over 80k mail-in ballots disqualified in NYC primary mess
Well then if you found a place with bacteria but nothing advanced you would put in your captain's log that "the fundamental requirements for agency to arise were found, but as yet agency had not been achieved" or some such phrasing.
SiO2's "toxicity" is more mechanical than chemical (it's coarse and rough, etc)

But it's pretty much inert chemically (for human levels of chemical reactions)
(1) I don't think the other building was an office they kept full-time; it could even have been a hotel.

(2) Think about hiring twice as much senior programmes, just in case. Good day traders are even more expensive.
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>There's an easter egg in this print I never noticed, which is that Mount Fuji is nestled in the trough of the wave.

It's literally part of the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series, so I don't really know if it can be regarded as an easter egg.
Very nice read. I knew bloom filters but the detailed explanation and the rust code (almost Greek to me) were very nicely explained. I also read through the linked page of Kiran.
It's actually two "bangs" for a plane. Tum-dum. Source: grew up about 100km away from a military air base in Russia at which at least a couple planes went supersonic almost every day for years.

You can hear several sonic booms in this video, although they're from low-flying planes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmhU7SEo4gg. The higher the plane, the more distinct and "bassy" the "booms". Here's another example, a bit higher, a bit more distinct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_KbZON5sW0
68k programmer at the time: blissfully unaware of all this.
That's easy in this particular case - the U.S. Marshalls are selling it, and presumably they're not lying about it. Maybe the U.S. police is that corrupt, but I think somebody would find out sooner or later (they would need to make them somewhere, a large order of custom Fyre-branded hats by the U.S. Marshalls is not an everyday thing), and that would be an obvious case of fraud then.

On the other hand yeah, members of the U.S. services tried to steal the Silk road bitcoin too, so who knows.
Would you believe someone who in 1970 said, "We landed a man on the moon. In 50 years we'll surely have flying cars!"

I'm sure a lot of people believed that in 1970 but look where we are now. Technology accelerates at a much faster pace but often times in ways that you don't expect. The people in 1970 probably didn't imagine smartphones with a global 4G network but instead of flying cars we got this.
Why do you assume that companies will decide remote work is suboptimal and will go back to in-office work?
As stated, all three conditions must be met for a worker to be considered a contractor.
As other commenters have mentioned, all the company has to do is disclose risks in their public filings and it's up to investors to do their due diligence. It's safe to say that unless they lied to investors, the majority of capital coming in is from people who know what they're doing and are comfortable with the risks.
Safari works amazingly at the moment, the issue is slack in frameworks/libraries to support the latest changes.
That's a neat site. Does that mean there are no public/surviving original comments of the C64 BASIC and kernal?
Google's ex-CEO Eric Schmidt says the internet will split in two by 2028 (2018)
Wouldn’t a nuke work?
35 years means they must be using 286s to run that stuff. On the plus side, nothing requires fans, the motherboards are extremely simple (albeit a mess of logic chips), and your biggest worry is probably the power supply. Right?

I dunno. I could easily see taking decently made hardware to the 20 year mark.
Any evidence of the enforcement of that law?
I don’t think he believed himself to be a master of everything but I get the clear impression he was leaning into an eastern/Indian spiritual tradition and likely even believed himself to be spiritually enlightened or on the cusp of enlightenment. So he thought he could heal himself, and possibly didn’t mind dying. After all, his last words were “Oh wow! Oh wow! Oh wow!”