skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well yeah, you can pay people pennies on the dollar here while they're convinced it's "cool" to live in bum-f*ck middle america. If you're lucky they might even buy a house, adding another barrier to leaving and moving to a real tech-hub once covid is no longer an issue.
>I don't see any instance of emergency laws being abused in a way that was impossible or inconvenient beforehand.

A quick search will bring up many examples. Perhaps you're only considering the US?

"Authoritarian governments are using coronavirus as an excuse to crush freedom of expression" [1]

"Would-be autocrats are using covid-19 as an excuse to grab more power" [2]

"How Authoritarians Are Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis to Grab Power" [3]

"Cambodia is using coronavirus as an excuse for human rights abuse" [4]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/coronavirus-free-speech...

[2] https://www.economist.com/international/2020/04/23/would-be-...

[3] https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/04/03/how-authoritarians-are-e...

[4] https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/cambodia-is-using-coronavi...
This is a case report to professionals, and people are discussing it here as such. Invoking 'the media' to refute participants in this discussion is fallacious, because this discussion isn't based on a mainstream media report to begin with.
Not to mention Houston, for instance, is one of the most diverse cities in the entire country -- more diverse than much of CA. It's also one of the largest and most iconic cities of the South.
>There is none, that I'm aware of.

One of the most prominent utilitarians (and ethicists of modern times), Peter Singer, argues for moral consideration of animals on utilitarian grounds. There are Kantians who do the same. The point of more significant controversy is the strength of that moral consideration, as put by SEP:

"That non-human animals can make moral claims on us does not in itself indicate how such claims are to be assessed and conflicting claims adjudicated. Being morally considerable is like showing up on a moral radar screen—how strong the signal is or where it is located on the screen are separate questions."

>Utilitarianism does not bridge the "is-ought gap," for instance.

That's not utilitarianism's job, that's the job of a realist moral epistemology. It is perfectly possible, for instance, to believe in moral reletavism or moral objectivism while being a utilitarian. And although I think I side more with the Humean side of the is-ought debate with regard to moral realism, I can also see that moral realists have some good arguments that natural science is not the measure of everything.

>Personally, I'm quite convinced that it's impossible to create a rationally justified moral theory that grants rights to animals.

We're not talking about rights, we're talking about moral consideration. What we do with that consideration and how it figures into our priorities is only an orthogonal matter. Singer, for instance, in proposing that animals have moral consideration, would not say they have rights, in this case it would be permissible to kill an animal to save the life of a human, whereas it may never be permissible to kill a human to save the life of another human.
That is very cultural as well. I'm of Eastern European origin (white) and feel quite at home in large cities with varied population and racial variety and would feel quite uncomfortable to live permanently in the rural south just because of cultural differences.
I wonder if this isn’t the differentiation though. No other company is willing to sink anywhere near as much into paying engineering salaries as Tesla.

I remember choosing majors and realizing that as a computer science major I could do political science, but it would be a lot harder to go in the other direction. Maybe there’s something similar going on here: it’s a lot easier for a company that’s great at engineering to learn manufacturing than for a company that’s great at manufacturing to learn engineering.
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> This outlines his expectations, and his biases

No, it does not. What it does is explain why they are admittedly "not too experienced with MySQL" and didn't straight remember that obviously the range of MySQL's TIME type is '-838:59:59' to '838:59:59' so 960 would be out of range.

Also please don't staple dicks onto people, the author's gender is irrelevant to the article and it's very disturbing.

> Also see: the title of the article.

The title of the article, and the introduction you're quoting, follow from the article itself. Unless you're calling the author a liar and think they made up the entire thing just to bash mysql.

That the author ultimately considers the behaviour of MySQL's TIME type and its bounds "a WTF"… is entirely defensible.
Gradient Boosted Decision Trees
Even between Austin and NYC I've noticed these differences. I'd still take the latent bible thumping in Austin over the insane political cliques of NYC though.
If there were a less harmful version....

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/coronavirus-aggressive-l-t...
> Fertilizers, pesticides, weed killers... All that comes from fossil fuels.

Totally, but all of that also allows us not to have 30-50% of the population working in farming. If you have enough money and enough time, you can absolutely live with a smaller foot print by producing your own food, but it's not something that scales well. And I'd argue that you probably have skills that would serve humanity better if you applied them to larger problems than plucking weeds, that is: you could have a much larger impact on saving humanity/the planet/the universe/your soul by not producing the food yourself and spending the time you save on other things.
You might get this impression if your main source of news is HN, but Facebook's monthly traffic among North American users has been steadily climbing quarter after quarter, year after year. Globally, it's up 8% YoY.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/247614/number-of-monthly....
I think by NPC the parent meant a total lack of agency/mobility, perhaps comparable to feudal serfdom. Sure, you have a means of sustaining yourself, but if any job you can take or business you can create all involve a kickback to a monopolistic tech company, then your existence tends to serve their interests more than yours.
Put another way, it's easier to write a throwaway program that works once but how do you make it continue to work and serve needs over some period of time? I think part of it is knowledge of principles like you said, but I also don't think there's a substitute for experience because the real world is messy and principles sometimes need to be intentionally broken.
> salary spirals meant that only big players could afford to play.

The collision was between big players, who were already outbidding smaller players except Facebook with had absolutely massive funding. Smaller players weren't helped by this. (Pixar was smallish but in context it's best seen as part of Apple/Jobs)

> laissez-faire market

Calling anti-collision regulation "laissez-faire market" is strange.
You are right. https://medium.com/@aidungeon/ai-dungeon-dragon-model-upgrad...
Memo: There's a gradient from liberal urban islands to the surrounding regressive rural areas. With some exceptions.

Surprised?
Not tarring, maybe he was just pointing out the unconscious bias of the statement not being more elusive.
The Little Things Apple Misses from Steve Jobs
Netlify Analytics $9/month per site [1], no way to download logs [2]. That said it is easy to deploy, free HTTPS [3] and they support MIME definitions in _headers [4].

I host on Google Cloud Storage, it is not that easy but not that hard either [5], GoAccess for web analytics, no HTTPS. I would be interesting to have a matrix of supported features on different platforms. And how deployment compares to Nginx, letsencrypt, git.

[1] https://www.netlify.com/products/analytics/

[2] https://community.netlify.com/t/download-raw-server-access-l...

[3] https://docs.netlify.com/domains-https/https-ssl/

[4] https://docs.netlify.com/routing/headers/#syntax-for-the-hea...

[5] http://sergeykish.com/google-cloud-storage-static-hosting
The midwest has the following top 20 CS schools: Illinois (tied for #1), Michigan, Wisconsin, Purdue, maybe Carnegie Mellon (also tied for #1).

In addition, the midwest also has the following universities which are top institutions in some fields: Northwestern, University of Chicago, Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State, Minnesota. I'm probably leaving out at least one Chicagoland school. Indiana is also quite good for CS, but is just not big enough to show up at the top of the rankings.

The problem is not a lack of top-tier universities. The problem, especially in Computer Science, is that everyone leaves after university. E.g., here's a map from CMU (page 4): https://www.cmu.edu/career/documents/2017_one_pagers/scs/BS_...

From CMU, only 2% go to the midwest while 67% go to the west coast and 17% go to the northeast. Similarly, from UW-Madison, only about half stay in the midwest: https://dataviz.wisc.edu/views/FirstDestinationSurvey_0/Empl...

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US News 20 CS schools by state/region (note that UIUC is now in the tie for top):

1. Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, regionally ambiguous)

1. MIT (New England/Northeast)

1. Stanford (California/West Coast)

1. Berkeley (California/West Coast)

1. UIUC (Great Plains or maybe Upper Midwest/Midwest)

5. Cornell (New England/Northeast)

6. UW (PNW/West Coast)

6. Georgia Institute of Technology (South)

8. Princeton (New England/Northeast)

8. UT-Austin (Texas/South)

10. California Institute of Technology (California/West Cost)

11. University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Upper Midwest/Midwest)

13. UCLA (California/West Coast)

13. Wisconsin (Upper Midwest/Midwest)

13. Harvard (Northeast)

16. UCSD (California/West Coast)

16. University of Maryland--College Park (Mid-Atlantic/Northeast)

16. University of Pennsylvania (Mid-Atlantic/Northeast)

19. Purdue (Midwest)

20. Rice University (Texas/South)

20. USC (California/West)

20. Yale (New England/Northeast)

20. Amherst (New England/Northeast)
Bingo. The plural of anecdotes isn’t data.

Until there is a good study that controls for biases as well as expected side effects of severe disease like pneumonia, we can conclude nothing about the population
I like the differentiation that engineering is programming integrated over time. [1]

To be a programmer you need the direct hard skills of coding literacy, analytical and logical thinking, combined with enough grit and creativity to see a problem through to completion. If you have that, you'll be a decent programmer, but you may not be a good engineer.

Engineering requires the maturity of thought to consider your actions and your solution over time. It requires more wholistic thinking and not just from the tech architecture point of view. Human soft skills tend to be more important over these time scales: communication, empathy, humility, courage. It's these skills that sustain success.

[1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/software-engineering-at...
Arranging test drives for influencers seems more like marketing to me, and Tesla certainly has not dissolved their marketing department.
It's like combatting black mold with bleach-filled paintballs. The impact of cleaning one spot is that the infection spreads to a wider range. As the diaspora grows exponentially, it will quickly return to the spot you just cleaned.
" simply don't exist in large quantities outside major job markets."

Job's that pay that much don't exist in large quantities period. If you think otherwise, you live in a walled garden.
I completely lose smell and taste every time I get a reasonable respiratory infection. This happens at least once a year.
> Tech jobs that pay more than $300,000 -- maybe $350,000 -- simply don't exist in large quantities outside major job markets

They don't exist in major quantities in major job markets either.
Yes, there was a huge shift in leadership in 2018. Check out the linkedins of the founders and original employees. You'll see that they either left, or shifted from executives to board members.
That’s my point. What if it isn’t long term Covid for most people but rather anxiety and depression
It's a lot easier to be interested in a surprise failure mode when you're not under the gun to deliver on a deadline.

I find failures interesting too, but I'm not feeling happy when I expect the reason will be because the tooling I'm using hides information behind insufficient logging or the answer I seek is probably on a system I don't have permission to access.
You have to like it. Or you'll never be worth anything at it.
> just spent a ton of time working out a complicated arrangement

A few emails and phone calls isn't a complicated arrangement.

Anyway, just because the defendant said something doesn't mean the plaintiffs believed it.
Nice

These three points has made me raving mad from working with mysql:

- The default 'latin1' character set is in fact cp1252, not ISO-8859-1, meaning it contains the extra characters in the Windows codepage. 'latin2', however, is ISO-8859-2.
- The 'utf8' character set is limited to unicode characters that encode to 1-3 bytes in UTF-8. 'utf8mb4' was added in MySQL 5.5.3 and supports up to 4-byte encoded characters. UTF-8 has been defined to encode characters to up to 4 bytes since 2003.
- Neither the 'utf8' nor 'utf8mb4' character sets have any case sensitive collation other than 'utf8_bin' and 'utf8mb4_bin', which sort characters by their numeric codepoint.

utf8 being effectively alias of utf8mb3 has cost us so much work its not even funny.
I've been experimenting on a personal project with https://www.pulumi.com/ where you can do the configuration and deployment in Python or JavasScript and I think I can recommend it.
C++ (Scylla) in Battle Royale Against Java’s ZGC/Shenandoah/G1 (Cassandra)
You can view it as a personal decision or a community decision.

Do we restrict the community for the individual or the individual for the community?

Your feelings on this aren't universal and neither are mine.
We also have Dylan. Just sayin'.
I guess what I don't understand then is what big advantage "enterprise ECC" has left over this DDR5 "non-enterprise ECC". (Seriously, why is ECC "enterprise"? Everybody wins with memory error correction.) If regular DDR5 can correct single bitflips, it is on par in correction capabilities with "enterprise ECC" DDR4.

Maybe this won't allow for the detection of multiple flips, and maybe won't even report single bit flips to the OS (it'll just fix them silently). I suppose there's no big need to support detection and reporting for the vast majority of use cases. Ryan Smith at Anandtech in the link above says as much: "Between the number of bits per chip getting quite high, and newer nodes getting successively harder to develop, the odds of a single-bit error is getting uncomfortably high. So on-die ECC is meant to counter that, by transparently dealing with single-bit errors."

But for my purposes, if just the correction capabilities are on par with DDR4 ECC I'd be absolutely fine with that. And I guess that goes for many people. Even while using ECC memory now at home, I'm not monitoring the correction statistics and I'm guessing few people do in general. It might as well be silent today if you ask me.
I agree with what you’ve said. I’ll even join you in praising plausible, well done!

However I still wonder about the TCO of self hosting.

For big companies TCO is a number on a spreadsheet. For a technical person it includes total amount of minutes per year net above a hosted solution. The concerns I have about this are:

1). I think it’s extremely easy to underestimate this metric. It’s not just the download or set up or configuration (although if those parts go wrong it could turn from minutes into hours)

It’s also the fact that it’s going to have more downtime that you have to fix. You’re going to have to stay current on updates and relevant security issues. You’re going to have to run it somewhere which although light weight takes up some resource. That doesn’t mean the software is not as good. It just means a hosted service has people (supposedly) managing all that crap.

2). Say the TCO is not deceptively low and it really isn’t very much time extra per year. Now let’s decide how much of your time is worth giving up that could be spent on critical path or uniquely value add functionality to your own product or service that could make you more successful? Seriously, what’s the amount of time you’re willing to give up per year on that?

I don’t know the exact right answer to number two. All of this is a trade-off right? Not just the TCO but also the control someone else has over you, and the openness and utility of open source.

But it’s a concern. If for no other reason than it’s not obvious when a new product comes along.

Every minute we have is opportunity cost. The only thing we get to choose is which bucket to put it in.
> I'm a big fan of Postgres too for a number of reasons, but this issue is pretty clearly documented

Of course it is, the documentation is where TFAA got the information in the 4th paragraph of the story, out of 15 or so.

The range itself is what nerd-sniped the author and led them to try and find out why mysql had such an odd yet specific range.
Limits of Current US Prediction Markets (PredictIt Case Study)
I had a similar experience doing translations. It made me a lot more aware to the fine detail of the text and sensible to the author's specificities.
As someone not really aware of this things : how would you then protect innovation/research if not with a patent?
You realize that much of Asia in modern times has only enjoyed first world lifestyles in the past 30 years?

That’s not to say that there aren’t genetic differences, but every “evidence” I’ve seen brought up has jumped the gun.
I can say I felt more like a zombie or emotionally dampened when I was taking Concerta (which is similar to Ritalin just with a longer duration and smoother effect curve).
Anandtech also handled this question:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16143/insights-into-ddr5-subt...
They did not suggest anything re: detention centers.

You are conflating two separate events.

We are talking about the direct effects on US democracy, in which case Facebook has already demonstrated harm.

The fact that Russia was involved is only significant in terms of the resources available to "attack facebook" as it were. Many other countries and even private businesses have comparable resources -- this is the problem. American society is still vulnerable due to the business model of Facebook.

The idea that we can just trust other countries/corporations to not engage in the same bad acts as Russia is absurd.
>I'm confused as to why the US government would break up large tech now. Surely tech has reached the status of being a national interest, especially in relation to information and communication?

Harry Truman said in 1945 about the atomic bomb, "We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies". I feel the same way about FAANG and Silicon Valley as a whole (and Wall Street, and Hollywood, and SpaceX/Tesla, and the Ivy League), that they are in the United States.

That doesn't mean I approve of everything they do. That doesn't mean I can't or won't decry their putting thumbs on scales toward a certain type of bien-pensant ideology. That does mean that, overall, I am very, very glad that they are American instead of Russian, Chinese, or even British, French, or German.

>I feel that the only reason the current Trump administration would want to break up tech giants

This report is from the House of Representatives, which is Democratic-controlled.
> or take my arms out from under the blanket on cold nights

I keep thinking of assembling about the same thing, but missed the warm-blanket factor. Now I definitely must do it.
Google “long covid” , there are also various Facebook groups dedicated to this phenomenon.

Best wishes!
New lease gives only two hours notice to show house to buyers
I used to drive a Chevy (Sonic) and the electronic ignition module packed up twice (both times replaced under warranty) I never had the roof or wheels come off.
>I worked with two developers in Boston who were DINK (Double Income No Kids) and they sold their Boston condo, moved to the Midwest (Minneapolis) and bought a six bedroom house on a lake and two jet-skis for the same price as their condo. Their cost of living went down tremendously. By their own standards they lost nothing compared to Boston (food/services/entertainment actually got better) except that they had to deal with people on the Coast saying how boring it must be.

Not understanding that other people might not want to live exactly the way you do is probably the most stereotypical Massachusetts thing ever.
Aren't there any natural north american predators that could eat swine? Wolves, maybe? Or are the sounders too intimidating to predators?
Very interesting that this feature is often demanded in tones of righteous outrage on posts about autoscaling cloud services, yet when actually implemented, nobody has actually set it up.
The IRS Is Being Investigated for Using Location Data Without a Warrant
I’m Done Being Mistaken for Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Scott