skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough. I guess my contention was that if you wanted your thought experiment to be successful, it seems wiser to:

1. Choose a state that is more appealing to people in general so they don't just leave immediately for a job elsewhere (ie, states that already have a trend of large population growth are growing because they are generally desirable. TX, NC and VA all are growing very rapidly, WY is not).

2. Don't aim for the least populated. You just need to be able to make up the difference to be able to swing it. Due to demographic trends, TX, NC, and VA are already on track to swinging eventually - but a bump of 150k voters could accelerate the timeline by a few years. Bumping the timeline for one of those states also translates into significant electoral college advantage.

3. Recognize that from a culture and infrastructure perspective, current residents of Wyoming would probably not take kindly to their population being suddenly outnumbered by coastal elites and would make this plan difficult for you. TX, NC and VA already are used to having tons of transplants from the north, so Californians would not be anything new or special.
Trading facilitates more efficient allocation of resources at both a geographical and temporal scale. HFT market makers facilitate more efficient trading. If anyone tried pitching automated trading to you as some form of altruistic endeavor then obviously that’s bullshit. These people are out here to make a buck. Those milliseconds to nanoseconds moves are just competition between MMs happening in realtime. Is it done for the sake of a better world? No. But it just so happens to benefit society as a byproduct (on average) in the form of tighter spreads and liquidity. It’s up to you to decide if that’s good enough for you.

If we’re going to paint anyone as “real” villains in the world of trading then I’d argue it’s the informed big block traders. ie hedge funds, banks trading exotics with a high barrier of entry, etc. At least MMs are largely market neutral.
No? Then what was it?

Quote from said wiki: "The reactor explosion killed two of the reactor operating staff."

Yeah, I guess it wasn't an explosion </sarcasm>

And North Korea underground explosions that were detected and consequently destroyed some of their underground facilities were too nuclear explosions. You know, there is such big explosion and smaller explosions.
In 20 years of using Java I only had one project where fine-tuning knobs was actually relevant.

Most of the time defaults just work.
I think the landing page would be more effective/descriptive if it emphasised it's role as a TODO/extensible structured document.

I use it as a personal planner for career and life stuff. Nothing too fancy, just TODOs with tags.
Note this is for operations/privileged access in high risk environments vs. standard issue desktops. Saw a little bit of this up close a few years ago, seemed quite solid and well thought out.
A Note on Branching Within a Shader
Come on, Texas. Roll out the gibs. I was going to move anyway, the least you can do is cover my moving expenses. It's either that or FL, and on paper I like TX more.
Great post, not just about text layout/rendering but also the state of development for it, as pointed in the post for DirectWrite, Flutter (libtxt), Android, etc.

The outward links of resources in the post are also really invaluable.
Mandate it, just like the US does currently for child immunizations.
This is incredibly unsurprising. The NY markets have been stuck in a tug-of-war between stubborn sellers and recalcitrant buyers for decades - a situation exacerbated by parties on both sides sunk-costing their heels in and refusing to budge. Something had to give, maybe this is it.

It's not helped any by the fact that NY is the only place in the country with it's own bespoke listings cartel.

source: was an agent for Brown Harris.
I also use the same setup. I made a script using python transmissionrpc which watch the torrent pieces being downloaded and send them with sftp as soon as they are available.

Then on the receiving side it just creates a sparse file and fill in the pieces using dd (so no dependencies on receiving side).

The sending speed was not very good. It could probably be improved by doing multiple transfers in parallel and using a less hacky way to transfers the data.
You’re right it is very rare that it doesn’t arrive. But I’ve lost friendships or at least severely disrupted them the few times sms didn’t work. It’s not just that it didn’t arrive. In one case it was days late (yes, days). In that case, the delay turned the original message from a casual one into an insult.
Ist es nicht der Fall, dass fast alle moderne sachen irgend einen ursprung in Deutsche technik haben?
Those are not use cases, those are features.

"This device can cook an apple into a perfect plasma." (feature)! Yeah but who needs it (use case)? Beings from the 5th dimension who eat plasma for breakfast.

But even then you would still owe to show the relevance of the use case.
> stockpiled semiautomatic weapons

I have a "stockpile" of "semiautomatic weapons" in a safe not 5 meters from where I sit right now. Three rifles, a shotgun, and half a dozen pistols in various calibers, plus several thousand rounds of ammo. In the US "stockpiling" doesn't count for anything.
The US, as a union or the states individually, generally does not mandate child immunizations.

Many states make them (usually with fairly broad exemptions, often including belief-based) requirements for public schools, though.
Complete replacement of GC algorithms for start, with G1, ZGC and Shenodah.

Regarding OpenJDK, other JVM vendors have improvements of their own.
You’re using an example of an underdog suddenly topping a hegemon in the field to make a point that no other company can do that again?
The Charismatic Superstar
Story of a Movie Superstar.
Old Chinese building ‘walks’ to new location to make way for commercial centre
RSS is great but it's one-way broadcasting. Internet should really be two-way where reader should be able to communicate back to the author inside the same medium.
It's frustrating but completely understandable that the author chose to do this in VScode. The value of having a highly-customizable editor that is extensible in a well-known language is great.

I really hope a true VSCode competitor will emerge in the future that is truly open source and not controlled by a company that does not have its users best interests in mind; all this Linux-friendly stuff Microsoft is doing lately is to basically get people into their ecosystem and then slowly push out Linux and other alternatives (e.g. who's using sublime / atom anymore?). There is some pithy name for this strategy that escapes me, but effectively it is the equivalent of dumping in commerce: use one's cash reserves to sell a product at a loss in order to squeeze out competitors, then capitalize on the cornered market (i.e. "All Hail Microsoft!" after trying to squeeze out others).

I really wish the Xi [0] editor gained more traction, though as an Emacs user I'm hoping the speedup with v28 and the GccEmacs [1] go a long way there. I would certainly like more parallelism though, e.g. `dired` mode not pausing the entire editor when moving a large file, and I've never really become fluent in elisp.

[0] https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
[1] https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GccEmacs
> I do not understand why people aren't clamouring against postgres's connection model.

There are people wanting to change that - including me, the author of the blog post. I explained in an earlier blog post ([1]) why I chose to work on making snapshots more scalable at this time:

> Lastly, there is the aspect of wanting to handle many tens of thousands of connections, likely by entirely switching the connection model. As outlined, that is a huge project / fundamental paradigm shift. That doesn’t mean it should not be tackled, obviously.

> Addressing the snapshot scalability issue first thus seems worthwhile, promising significant benefits on its own.

> But there’s also a more fundamental reason for tackling snapshot scalability first: While e.g. addressing some memory usage issues at the same time, as switching the connection model would not at all address the snapshot issue. We would obviously still need to provide isolation between the connections, even if a connection wouldn’t have a dedicated process anymore.

> However this means that even if your server can theoretically handle 5000 concurrent reads you will never get there because opening 5000 connections isn't practical. You'll likely hit a memory limit.

It's quite possible to have 5000 connections, even leaving poolers aside. When using huge_pages=on, a connection has an overhead of < 2MiB ([2]). Obviously 10GiB isn't peanuts, but it's also not a crazy amount.

> Why is this generally accepted as ok?

Postgres is an open source project. It's useful in a lot of cases. It's not in some others - partially due to non-fundamental limitations. There's a fairly limited set of developers - we can only work on so many things at a time...

> Decoupling concurrency from connections seems possible via pipelining commands over a single connection.

Could you expand on what you mean here?

> Is it just too late for a project as mature as Postgres?

No. It's entirely doable to decouple processes and connections. It however definitely is a large project, with some non-trivial prerequisites.

[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-po...

[2] https://blog.anarazel.de/2020/10/07/measuring-the-memory-ove...

EDIT: formatting woes
You’re correct. I see now that I was looking at the wrong year, probably because I was visually scanning the document but didn’t notice that the column headings changed.
Hey all,

I've methodically used many of the available notetaking apps in the past year- Dynalist, Roam, Remnote, Obsidian, and Siyuan, on top of several years of using Onenote, Evernote, Trilium, and Joplin. The three criteria that I've found to best sum up the notetaking experience are 1) Friction in capturing a new thought 2) Friction in finding a previous thought and 3) How memorable the note structure is. I've found Dendron to have subtle but well throught-out features that gives it a strong balance in these uses, standing out from the rest.

Dendron solves the problem of visually organizing notes

Ive always had an issue with too many notes with all different titles, creating giant dropdown menus in the sidebars of note apps. My Google Docs documents list needs its own table of contents. It's not an issue anymore because Dendron's organization brings in an X-axis to the formerly single direction binary tree organization, and I've been using that to keep my nav sidebar clean.

Dendron's "schema" syntax looks just like the .JSON or .OPML outputted by a mind mapping app. Dendron creates a graph/mindmap not of the individual notes, but of the organization of the notes. So it represents the ontologies and "phylogenies" of knowledge as a map, just like how my mind does. There's something more memorable about navigating to your notes from a map, than from a table of contents or by ctrl-F.

Dendron allows you to create new notes that "branches" off the namespace of an existing note. I use this to seperate source material and my own annotations on subjects. It supports my dream of having my own frictionless intranet to take notes on. I use the Markdown Clipper browser extension copy entire webpages into Dendron. When I look up something up on UptoDate.com, a pretty dense medical database, I just copy the whole article into Dendron.
Next time I look up the same topic, I head for my Dendron note, and use link to make my own mental wikipedia out of what I understood out of the information. Then when I want to review a topic, give a presentation, or make a review outline, can reference in my own notes plus the original context where I read the information in the first place.

Also, Dendron integrates well with the VSCode to Anki extension.
Yeah, right! A journalist would so much appreciate the communication from thousands of readers that would have no life left for anything else.

I like one way communications.
Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist - It's a term for someone who is a feminist, but doesn't want Trans people benefiting from their activism, or identifying as anything other than what they were assigned at birth.

Depending on who you ask, it's either a ridiculous leftist flailing or a legitimate painting of a behavior as a kind of uncle-tom-ism. I tend towards the latter, myself.
Edit : If there are not other ways to pass it by.

Too late to edit now
To me that experience sums up pretty well, apparently you were learning on how to use cmake.

As for the headers, C++20 modules, or just use an IDE like Visual Studio and the respective wizards.
Quote: "Why does using opening my RSS inbox feel so much better than typing in gmail.com or tapping the iMessages icon or, heavens forbid, opening up Twitter?"

Exactly because you're using gmail, iMessage and Twitter. How about using Protonmail only? And ditch the rest in oblivion? Try that then tell me how much better you'll feel.
I don’t understand why it has to be bought up. Biological women shouldn’t need attention to be brought to their menstruation.

Post menopausal women do not menstruate. They are women. Not ex-menstruators.
Try to open() a socket.
Sweden is not back to normal. Mass gatherings are still banned and people are self isolating en masse.
Hello :wave: I'm polm on Github, I opened the issue about the link to Fake Artist being dead. Your reply their told me about Rocket Crab; thanks for linking to it. My group typically plays a few rounds of DrawPhone as part of our game nights every week.
Pretty big crossover between tech minded people and VR users though. Maybe that's just wishful thinking though.

It blows my mind tech people maintain FB accounts
I am not calling her that. I pointed out ..facetiously..that she(like me) would likely qualify for that label.
Siyuan is what you're looking for.

[https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/blob/master/README_en_...]

The app itself is in English. It's got a WYSWYG editor with a nice table feature.
Tips to Be Professional at Work [Crucial]
Life expectancy among the homeowning demographic (~top 3 income quintiles) averages about 85:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4866586/

Barring things like a mass COVID die-off (certainly possible), I still think it'll be 10-15 years before we see a large transfer of homes away from boomers.
For many people the car free lifestyle is the main appeal of urban centres. More not being specific enough than moving goal posts imo.
Yeah, this makes sense, thanks.
> What if censorship itself causes hate speech?

Hate speech existed before Twitter and will likely persist after it. Other social networks that allegedly do not practice content moderation also have identifiable hate speech content in them.
Indeed. As someone who lives in Seattle I believe that being able to be out walking and biking year round is one of the best reasons for being here. The weather west of the Cascades is quite temperate - so with some basic gear from Costco or Goodwill (or REI or Patagonia if you want, but it's not necessary) you can go to town pretty much any day (or night) of the year except for rare snow storms and the like.
And during Covid, that getting out and about has really helped maintain a positive outlook in this crazy time. Highly recommend it to other NWesterners.
> It was not a nuclear explosion.

The claim upthread was not “nuclear reactors don't have nuclear explosions” (which would also be overgeneralized), but “nuclear reactors don't explode”. The reactor at Chernobyl did explode. The fact that it was a steam explosion induced by energy from a nuclear chain reaction and followed by a reactor core fire does not change the fact that it was a nuclear reactor, and it did explode.

> If it were a nuclear explosion there wouldn't be anything left of the building and other reactors around it and capping it with a concrete and steel structure would be rather pointless.

You seem to be confusing “nuclear explosion” with “nuclear explosion whose yield is maximized via explosive containment, in the manner typical of deliberately engineered nuclear weapons”.
It's okay, we can just get cheap Chinese labor to manually pollinate all the fruit.

https://www.wired.com/2014/05/will-we-still-have-fruit-if-be...

Wonder how the economics are now!
>Some drivers only drive Thursday-Sunday. Some only drive Monday-Friday.

I lived in NYC prior to Uber and when Uber was first making inroads (for 9 years until 2016, so this totally could have changed since). Often, I'd chat with the driver to pass time/reduce awkwardness. A common complaint was drivers being required to lease a cab for a full-week for 12 hours each day.

>As a general rule, fleet cabs operate two twelve hour shifts, with the day shift generally being less lucrative than the night shift.

Taxi shifts are scheduled and designed so each shift is equally attractive, so that each shift gets a rush hour [1].

As an aside, as someone who works on the software side of the options trading business, I found the article to be quite interesting.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/nyregion/12taxi.html
When you're up voting a beheading, it definitely should.

I'm dismayed I need to spell this out.
Wouldn't it be nice if you could access all that CCTV infrastructure that the public paid for, to investigate for yourself...
What is ‘Uncle Tom’ism.

ETA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom_syndrome

Is this what you meant?
“Embrace, extend, and extinguish”
The postgres protocol does support pipelining of queries - and it can be a huge boon in latency sensitive workloads. They'll get processed in-order on the server side, with results being sent back while the next query is being processed.

The biggest weakness around pipelining is that a fair number of drivers don't support it yet, including the C client interface that is part of postgres (there's a patch being reviewed right now adding it there). The common jdbc driver, .net, and a few other popular ones do support it though.
> From a lay outsider's perspective, it seems like there is no real "balance of power" that's oft-touted when Americans discuss their politics.

Congress has taken the path of contacting the agency's IG and asking them to investigate and follow up. In a situation where the the IG is a trusted actor, which is usually true, this is a normal and reasonable preliminary step for Congress to take in an investigation.

Congress have the option to get increasingly adversarial in their oversight if it doesn't work out, but the nice thing about working with the IG is, there are no constitutional separation of powers issues with an investigation run by a cabinet-level agency's IG. When the system is functioning halfway normally, bureaucrats and political appointees in the agency must cooperate with the IG, and woe to them if they don't. Contrast that with a Congressional investigation that might be contested legally in a number of ways based on separation of powers concerns. Constitutionally and practically, it's the difference between the executive branch being investigated by the legislative branch and the executive branch being investigated by their own superiors in the executive branch.

The trick is that the system assumes IGs strive to be independent and empowers them accordingly, but the Trump administration has fired [1] multiple IGs that he felt were not friendly to his cause. With the investigation, if the IGs are not working in good faith, the Attorney General thwarts the investigation, the President is a crook, or whatever, the whole system melts down. And in this instance - where Congress is aware that the IG and others might not be working with their normal independence - Congress taking a lighter approach might be deference to the executive branch's authority, but practically, it's recognition of the fact that there's a decent chance there will be new cabinet officials, a new Attorney General, and a new President a few months from now. It's an inappropriate time for them to go nuclear.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_dismissal_of_inspectors_g...
D. H. Lawrence, Arch-Heretic
Incredibly well put. I do truly wish that education taught debate these days.

One of the things required in debate classes is to argue for the other sides position.

I have found that most people I meet these days have never learned this ability to see things with the shoes on the other feet.
There's a great deal of satisfaction in a blue-collar career. Some months I live on the edge of one, and just building physical things and using simple tech to solve real problems is fulfilling in a way that some neat code running on a server in relative isolation has never been for me.
Yes, that was my take too. "OnOff’s eccentric orbit had at least passed through those unseen depths." -- but the irony of the end of the book is that they're going to be going entirely the wrong way. The ellipse that describes its orbit is eccentric -- that means it can touch both points near the center of the galaxy and points outside the Slow Zone.
Love the UI. Do consider adding product walkthrough for guest account. I couldn't make much sense of the purpose of the product or navigation. May be anki users will get it better though.

btw, are you using antd? or any specific ui library?
Separately from the admissions testing debate: what is your view on the "gatekeepers of white supremacy" and the assorted "I am a racist" declarations?
How Does Ukrainian R&D Staff Augmentation Work?
Staff augmentation is an attractive option for companies wishing to expand the size of their team without the fully-loaded costs associated with in-house employees. Here we examine in some detail the costs associated with staff augmentation in opening an R&D center in Ukraine
Org mode seems to be like Markdown in spirit - sometimes you are just writing stuff and realize that you need to do something slightly more complicated with a table than HTML and pure ASCII-art allow. Doing it in spreadsheet software entails either a workflow break or having to do over the rest of the document in a text processor.
What's GTA?
Nah, just when people push their fanboyism against Java, .NET or C++, without actually knowing those ecosystems.
> Most famous Indian IT companies are mostly Human Resource Management company optimised for cost arbitrage between the salary in India vs US (and other developed places).

I think you're ignoring the changing tech landscape in India - the same cost arbitrage that allowed IT outsourcing is now being used to build capital efficient tech startups who get much longer runway on the dollar compared to startups in the US or Europe. Of course, finding a Western market for most Indian startups is still very challenging, but I expect this model to become more successful over time.
They do, otherwise they wouldn't exist.
I grew up on the west coast and married somebody from new England, who described "us" as straight exactly once. Awkward. They were hyper possessive about touch. It was so weird to me. People with hangups about sex seem to sexualize everything.
> who cares about the customers?

Well the customers do. Most people are customers are something.

And most people would say that the opinion of customers matter.

If your opinion is "I don't care about the opinion of people who buy things", I guess you can feel this way. But most of society and our legal system regarding businesses is targeted toward consumer welfare.
I love the fact New York Post are leaving their account locked.

It is a better advertisement for the story, and worse for Twitter.

The irony of a giant company like Twitter falling for the Streisand effect is rich.
I hear you. I bought some ranch land in WY and then got rid of it. It’s a tough place. Rain falls sideways. Brutal..nature wise. Having said that, there is a beauty in that harshness. And the people were super nice!!