skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chandler is on the cpp committee and personally said he was surprised by this cost when passing unique ptr as a parameter, as were many on the committee.

So the evidence against your claim is literally within the talk.
It's not that Walmart is the cheapest place, as you mention dollar chain stores are usually available, but Walmart offers a wide selection of goods, at reasonably cheap prices, at a level of quality which is typically not terrible.

So if the question is where do I go to get some random item where it won't break immediately and I won't overpay, Walmart seems like a reasonable choice.

Of course, Walmart is not alone in the category of wide selection, reasonably cheap, not terrible quality, Target comes to mind, and I think Kohls too, although I rarely go there so I might be wrong about that. Anyone know any others?

So I agree Walmart is not a monopoly, even if you are looking for apples-to-apples comparisons it is not unique.
Halfway into the article it started reminding me of the informant networks of the USSR. Officers peeping through windows, feeding data into the system about the target's friends and family while also fining them for any unrelated arbitrary misdemeanor. This is not what crime prevention looks like in a democracy.
I personally prefer https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale plugin. It is in vimscript and supports almost everything (including clangd) out there: https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale/blob/master/supported-...
> not care about managing DB connections, at least until they become critical for my use-case.

That's something the db driver usually does. E.g. when using Postgres, the pg library already comes with the connection pooling. Haven't looked into the implementation in Knex but i'd suspect they just use the Pool class of pg (https://node-postgres.com/features/pooling).

> Not care about sanitising inputs and protecting myself from SQL injections.

That's also not that much of a concern when just binding parameters.

> Have more readable and maintainable code in my repositories than SQL in plain strings as a default. Yes I have some raw queries but 98% of my queries are easy to follow knex chains.

Comes with the cognitive cost of maintaining another abstraction for SQL.

> Not care about creating and maintaining code for migrations.

That's actually the one feature which made me use Knex for years (just for the migration part of course :) ). I didn't use the schema builder functions mostly, just a bunch of `knex.raw` calls in the migration files.
But for the benefits you mentioned (transactions, bookkeeping) it is really useful.
Lets say you were 50/50 in a startup. You worked your youth away, sometimes 80 hour weeks. The other partner hung around and then did nothing but generate empty platitudes and empty promises for the next few years. Would you be ok if that partner sold their half of the company you built and then demanded indefinite royalties from you?

If that was the initial legal agreement? Yes. You went in knowing the terms of the agreement and you took the risk.

I was at fault for not leaving sooner, but I believed in their talent and wanted to help them succeed.

I made the same mistake, I was an idealistic 28 year old, tired of the dating game and she wasn’t the right person but came along at the right time. She didn’t do anything to help me too much. I filed for divorce four years later, I knew the longer we stayed married, the more risks I had of long term consequences - taking more of my net worth, child support (we didn’t have kids), etc.

My previous post was about my second marriage.

Ok fine. So when the marriage ends, how long do you think that support should continue for?

You act as if the law is one size fits all. It’s a “judgement” call. That’s why we have judges, lawyers, etc.

Of course no one is going to be married for a year and have to pay alimony for the rest of their life. I didn’t pay any alimony. Then again we were only married for four years and she couldn’t realistically argue that she helped me succeed.

But in general, pay alimony long enough for them to conceivably get on their feet. Four or five years maybe. But the longer you are married, the more it is going to cost you.
Tilix is an advanced GTK3 tiling terminal emulator
Emacs Won Out over Vim
I tried this. It is basically a slightly improved VSCode at this point.

Basically, most the slowness/bulkiness of IDEs does not come from the text editing portion.
I suspect this happens most with people using a full size keyboard and the numeric keypad - when numlock is off, they miss that the numbers didn't get entered and boom, there's your address instead.

I suspect you never see this with people whose number-after-name was 4 or 7, because they won't be entering a valid email address.
That's because a VAT is charged directly, like a sales tax. It's its own line item. It's technically the government charging a tariff on the purchase, rather than the merchant passing on a cost via price increase, though in-effect indistinguishable to your wallet.
Thankfully [0], it [1] already [2] exists. [3]

[0] https://github.com/gajus/slonik-sql-tag-raw

[1] https://github.com/felixfbecker/node-sql-template-strings

[2] https://github.com/blakeembrey/sql-template-tag

[3] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=sql%20template

Edit: When I first read your comment, I thought you were saying that you wanted a separate library just to have the SQL template functionality.

I agree with what you're saying though.
You mean monopolies are always passing taxes onto its customers.

If companies in given segment can just pass tax onto its customers , it means that the competition is effectively dead. And its a syndicate economy since those companies cooperate and not compete.
I didn't think setting up YCM was too bad. It also uses clangd as the completion engine for C++.
Antibacterial drugs may reduce the efficacy of hormonal contraceptives
I agree it’s state surveillance and would say systemic harassment and intimidation but I don’t see the oppression angle.
To put it into numbers: they have approximately 8 million accounts [0]. A license costs 4€ now, but it used to be cheaper (2€), so using the older number and subtracting fees and taxes, gives us 11 million € of revenue in the past half decade. That's not a giant number, but enough to support development of an app like this.

[0]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/445619/umfrag...
Full title: Analysis of reports of unintended pregnancies associated with the combined use of non-enzyme-inducing antibiotics and hormonal contraceptives
Agree, it's pretty simple writing them. The problem is deciding which ones to apply for a given version of your application, when, running them automatically on each of your developer's laptops, your testing environment, and automate and keep track of all the changes.

Or are we talking of just writing a "CREATE TABLE..." and hand it over the wall to the ops? I agree that's simpler. Not something I like to do these days.
Maybe these could be analyzed to let an AI write the ultimate NLP paper.

Quite the collection, thank you and those that helped answer the question for the effort. Will certainly watch this repo.
If the US didn’t freak out when they found out the 4th amendment was simply smoke and mirrors, they wouldn’t freak out if the CIA assassinated one of their own. They’re not freaking out while the CIA slowly tortures a journalist (Assange) to death in prison, in full view of the press and international media.

I think most Americans don’t know or care who Ed Snowden is. The Last Week Tonight segment with him was rather instructive.
The future of human health is shooting people in the head to cure a broken leg?
A few observations from person experience of working in small startups, and large companies. Being part of companies that were sold, and being both ends of attempted takeovers, all in comparison to what I've seen in US companies.

1. In terms of sensible investment, what I've seen is that success breeds success - one success creates wealthy individuals with experience that can lead or by part of the next round.

2. UK markets are quite conservative, cautious and by and large dominated by people who don't understand science and technology, compounding the problem. They tend to want to drip feed money rather than go for the big win.

3. Following on from 1 & 2. There is a culture of selling early, rather than building really big, and if you don't have anyone big in the UK to sell to then it goes abroad.

4. UK government appears to welcome, nay have pride in, the acquisition and destruction of some of the UK's biggest companies by opportunists.

5. UK business leaders typically lack global ambition, nay ego/hubris.

6. UK stock market is rather short term, preferring dividends to inward long term investment - the sort of investment typically required to grow.

So what you get is lots of interesting small to medium size companies - often started in concert with the strong UK academic sector, and/or diaspora from previous successes - and very few transitions to global players.

ARM was one of the few - that's why it's so disappointing to see it sold first to Softbank and now possibly NVidia.

The only silver lining is any change is likely to create a diaspora eager for new opportunities - so in the case of ARM - lots of experienced well off engineers ( more able to take a risk ) in one of the worlds best academic centers of excellence.
30 years ago (quite exact), we drove back after a 48 hour "party" in Berlin (Roger Waters playing "the wall" at the broken down wall). We got stopped at the border (Germany > Holland) and I drove. We where tired, still high and half drunk.

When the border patrol asked me (the driver) for papers, it took me a long time to produce them and one of my friends woke up, asked what was going on and pulled out his official "bridge operator" badge. Showed it (before I was even capable to find my driving licence and passport) to the trooper and just said "Hi partner": we where waved through.

When I asked what the actual F just had happened, he told me his job made him an "non commissioned officer" and that was all it took for us to be treated as part of the blue family, who go to great lengths to "help each other".

Different times, different continent, same rules.
Harks back to Shopify's Black Friday/Cyber Monday live globe tracker site no?

Also, Tron:Legacy.
I wrote a little fork+spinloop program w/100 subprocesses and deployed it with a low (100m) CPU request and no limit. It's certainly driving CPU usage to nearly all 8 of the 8 cores on the machine, but the other processes sharing the node are doing fine.

Prometheus scrapes of the kubelet have slowed down a bit, but are still under 400ms.

Prometheus scrape latency for the node kubelet has increased, but not it's still sub-500ms.

Note that this cluster (which is on EKS) does have system reserved resources.

[root@ip-10-1-100-143 /]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/system.slice/cpu.shares
1024
[root@ip-10-1-100-143 /]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/kubepods/cpu.shares
8099
[root@ip-10-1-100-143 /]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/user.slice/cpu.shares
1024
I used to work in highway paving, and I learned how to tell the temp of asphalt with polarized sunglasses. It's not the same as a truly novel color experience but its a neat party trick
More certain than ever actually:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266635462...

Regarding oxygen use during running, it is already something:
https://trainright.com/hyperoxic-training-little-know-traini...
Deepmind improves the accuracy of ETAs in Google Maps
Perhaps I wrote imprecisely. I did not claim the population did not suffer. I meant that the aim of the warfare was rarely annihilation of native population. You wanted to have native population, as having native population farm the land was the only way to extract revenue from the land.

The main question I wanted to answer was how could a stable culture survive in an area that went through so many wars. Not to make claims about "better way of living" or anything like that.

Another point which I wanted to stress that state powers in nations that lacked advanced bureaucracy (China, Ottomans) really did not have any way to extract wealth from the land efficiently.

Yes, if an army parked nearby they likely foraged the nearby areas. But an army is a very localized thing. There was no concept of "nation wide war economy". The extraction caused by the army was localized around the army.

So when we think about state induced horrors of the 20th century which were enabled by sophisticated bureaucracy and monoculture as anything else, those things did not really exist in medieval europe.

You really did not want a king to park his army in your backyard, that's for sure.
That's not true. If the cost to produce goods & services increases uniformly for every seller, then the price will increase, unless a merchant is able to absorb the increased cost to produce the goods & services while maintaining the same price. But if that's the case, then there was already a market inefficiency to begin with.
That assumes they are intentionally making less profit than possible at stage one. If even monopolies have limits, if the cheapest cellphone cost 2,000$ a month few people would have them thus lowering prices increases profits after a point.
Thanks for your comment!

As you say, one of the main arguments for query-builders is allowing the support of different RDBMS. But in my experience it not only never happens, but the abstraction is never perfect and makes any unsupported edge case impossible to solve without hacking around.

There is so much that can be done with SQL that would result in a mess of inefficient spaghetti code...
Tagged templates are a core feature of JS, not just of TS

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
While I prefer a simple editor, in the instances when I'm forced to use an IDE, I'm glad that VIM keybindings are almost always available. E.g., vsvim works quite well in Visual Studio. If I clinch my eyes it's almost like being at home.
Not specific to TS, just one of the modern JS features: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Scroll down to the part explaining how to use custom tags.
Taxes have a ROI. I pay taxes, I get better roads, better schools, better XYZ that is provided by the state.

Charity is filling up the gap of state blindness or inadequacy it leaves behind it. charity is the noblest of showing care, but please don't confuse it with taxes.

We pay taxes, the state uses that money to build a road, we use toe road to go from A to B faster, cheaper, etc, so it is an invesmtne for us. Charity is to help someone else in need without seeking a ROI (I wish that all children get well and I don't want them to make a road for me).
The CoC plugin mentioned (which uses node) isn't the only option - LanguageClient-neovim works great and is written in Rust (and works with vim or neovim despite the name), also the upcoming Neovim 5 will have built in support for language servers.

EDIT: Also, the actual language server (clangd, ccls, etc) which is compiling/reindexing your project behind the scenes is generally the most resource intensive part of the whole setup - so even CoC with node is not a bad choice.
IMHO radio host Larry Elder is not a valid source to back up your claim that systemic racism in the US doesn’t exist.

Let’s be clear. There is systemic racism within law enforcement and our system of justice in the US.

It’s easy to go online and find reputable, fact-based sources verifying this; the Wikipedia article I linked to linked to some.

It’s also easy to find reputable sources online which can help explain what systemic racism is and provide historical context, for those who may be unaware.

Put simply; you are wrong, sir.

“ Institutional racism (also known as systemic racism) is a form of racism that is embedded as normal practice within society or an organization. It can lead to such issues as discrimination in criminal justice, employment, housing, health care, political power, and education, among other issues.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism
Love the initiative. This is what bottom-up innovation looks like.
We tax businesses because businesses benefit from public infrastructure - health care, education, physical infrastructure - and they're expected to make a contribution just like everyone else.

In fact the UK is very bad at taxing corporations. It subsidises low wages with tax credits, which incentivise corporates to pay people poorly. London is also one of the capitals for money laundering (including crime proceeds) and offshore tax evasion - about to become even more so after Brexit.

So the world would be a better place if basic moral standards were applied to all business transactions. Sadly they aren't, and that causes huge social and political distortions, as well as inconveniencing smaller businesses at the expense of large multinationals.
Except this surveillance machine is even more stupid. The USSR was at least ostensibly protecting its power structure from internal opposition.

These floridian police are basically grooming kids to become criminals by giving them records and harassing their families until they fall unto hardship.
There might be such a place, although it’s more likely they’re trying to refer to the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC.
> My point is that everything you did is possible with a regular diet. You can lose weight, improve blood numbers, gain muscle/lose fat at same time, etc. with a regular diet.

True, but keto (or at least "low carb") makes it much, much easier to manage your hunger/appetite/satiety signals.

You'd really have to go to a lot of effort to overeat on meat and vegetables.
If you have two people subject to same circumstances and one experiences significantly more distress they are weaker in some sense.

Doesn't mean they're less virtuous in what they have done. But obviously everybody should strive to be the one that comes out unscathed.
Even if "police state" is an appropriate characterization, it's surely wrong for the title to say that all of Florida is subject to this one county's program.
Yes, although charity is problematic: it means priorities are set by those donating (and more by those donating more), rather than by need.

All private schools in the UK operate as charities, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College#Charitable_status...
Regarding 'why did Ada not manage to get a significant foothold outside of some small domains?' here are some factors that were relevant at that time (late 80s to early 90s):

* The internet was either practically non-existent, or in its infancy. At that time, getting compilers, documentation, and sample code was much more difficult and time consuming.

* I recall there being a fair bit of criticism about Ada being 'designed by committee' and having a reputation as such.

* C was still shining brightly and overall well-liked. C++ being an improved C, was seen as a very desirable new language for the software development community.
>I find that most of the production features you mentioned are actually more difficult using a fat ORM.

Prisma doesn't look like the traditional ORM to me. In fact, the library from the OP uses classes, which prisma and Knex do not use

> How many hours have i wasted figuring out how i can write and map some complex joins or aggregation query with <insert ORM name here>? Would have been a 3 minute task if all i had to write was just SQL

In my experience this is just a very, very small percent of the cases. Most of the time I find myself doing pretty simple CRUD operations, and the boilerplate for the simple cases goes out of hand quickly, specially when running joins.
100x this! I think it's our fault as Europeans that we don't value and invest in tech enough.

Why is it the US's fault that they consider tech to be valuable to their economy and national security and we don't? What's stopping us from doing the same?

As long as we'll keep treating tech as some cost center instead of a core business while we keep pumping money to keep afloat 19th century industries who's ships have sailed long ago, then we deserve what's coming to us.
Yes, but also, UB is a "feature" to work around the fact that C is a relatively un-expressive language with a simple type system. It's great that the compiler can optimize

for (i = 0; i < *len; i++)
array[i] = 0;

without having to check on each iteration whether len secretly points inside the array and got modified by the loop. It would be better if this were not a heuristic and there were clear compile-time information saying for sure that this optimization is safe.
Directly from the webpage:

> Pasco’s sheriff created a futuristic program to stop crime before it happens.

> It monitors and harasses families across the county.

I think the submitted title is an accurate condensation of the webpage’s header.
The issue here isn't the cost to run the service, it's the name.

An analogy would be a restaurant called "free lunch" that charged money for lunch because food supplies are expensive.
How nice of you to choose what what you think we are capable of discussing.
Thank you. Yes, a strawman and so frustrating since I literally have the metabolic and genetic proof that I found out what was causing my mood disorder. And as a result the doctors are providing better and different treatment. This what this "layman" discovered.
An Insider's Opinion on Why the Windows Kernel Is Slower Than Other OSes
It looks possible on EKS now. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/08/amazon-ek...
React List Helper
A React package that allows you to handle lists of anything like a pro
It is heartening that the FT funds - and stands behind - its excellent investigative team so well. Years of dogged pursuit of truth, in the face of well-resourced crooks deploying lawyers, spies and dirty-tricks merchants - and making complicit fools of regulators and auditors in the process - finally paid off.

From the piece:

> Overseeing the surveillance effort was a maverick Libyan, Rami El Obeidi. He was briefly the head of foreign intelligence in the transitional government installed after the country’s leader Colonel Gaddafi was killed in 2011. He liked to be addressed as “The Doctor” and always stayed at the Dorchester when in London, meeting there with officials from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority to press a case that I was crookedly conspiring with short-sellers to bring Wirecard down.

> It was “Dr Rami” who brought in an ex-special forces guy from Manchester called Greg Raynor to work the Wirecard case. He, in turn, reached out to an ex-MI5 counter-terrorism operative, Hayley Elvins, and together they assembled a collection of 28 private investigators to follow me, my colleagues and a baffling array of investors and hedge fund bosses, including Crispin Odey. ...

> Meanwhile, international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills jousted with the FT’s lawyers, and a daisy chain of investigations by Fieldfisher lawyers and consultants at Control Risks — based on information carefully provided by Wirecard — was used to reassure the audit team at EY about issues raised by the FT. By the time Wirecard collapsed, it was spending £120m a year on “advice”.

Well done Dan McCrum and the rest of his FT team. I wonder how much similar corporate crookedness goes unpunished because so few news outlets nowadays have the resources to afford such tenacity.

I cannot wait to read the book, or to see the film.

- edited to add ellipsis between 2nd and 3rd quoted paragraphs.
A mental model being complex to grasp is concrete. Complexity is one of the biggest challenges in software.

One of my favorite papers on it:
https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love/blob/master...
Another way of looking at this is that if the company thought they could charge higher prices, they'd have raised prices already. They don't need tax as an excuse.
The idea isn’t that they have long lives, it’s that they’re pushing the edge of possibilities for the human body and things are discovered there.