skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Memorizing if something happened at Nov. 20th or Nov. 21st is not usually that important. We don't have exact dates for ancient history and we can still understand the sequence of events.

Understanding that A happened, which led to B happening later on is what matters. Having a ballpark is good for most things. Or do you still remember the exact dates you memorized on your history classes?
This is not entirely accurate. The GSA had been preventing the transition team working in full, by refusing to recognize Biden as president elect.
The software industry messed me up big time. Often, I wish I had chosen a simpler career. It must feel amazing to spend most of your time thinking only about real, simple tangible things.

I imagine that having a simple practical mind as an adult must feel like childhood but I will never know.
I've been waiting for a long time and I'm so happy with the results! For a client I had to implement uploads and the solution I ended up with took a bunch of time and ended up somewhat clunky. Can't wait to replace it with this!
> This is true, but some portion of road maintenance costs is independent from vehicle-caused wear-and-tear on the actual road surface.

Possible formula to account for all the variables:

annual tax = F * (A + [BC{D^E} ] )

A = constant for non-loading based degradation (frost heave, slope maintenance). Base tax

B = constant to scale the following terms

C = distance driven in km

D = axial weight

E = exponent to account for non-linear relationship of axial weight to road degradation

F = adjustment for usage (could adjust for anything - user type, income class, vehicle class, etc etc)
If the allegation are true, it would explain the primary win of Clinton over Sanders in California back in the previous election when they used the same system.
What about EV trucks?
Honestly folks choose elasticsearch only in part for Trie over B+tree. It provides a fair amount of magic wrt to appropriate defaults for dealing with large datasets in a distributed store.

I think a lot of folks would be better off with RMDB, but if you barely know SQL and spend most of your time making UIs, you’re lucky to have the breadth of know-how to configure Postgres the right way (no offense intended to frontend developers).

Of course, Elasticsearch’s magic defaults expectations may come back to bite you later on when you’re using it OOTB this way, but it’s hard to argue with throwing a ton of data in it and then -POOF- you have highly performant replicated queries, with views that are written in your “home” programming language, without even really necessarily understanding what your schema was to start with (yikes, but also, I get it).
Hi,

Where can I find this book? Is it this one (coming out next month)? https://reedsy.com/discovery/book/mind-painter-tom-b-night/u...

Thanks.
I tried to think of a fun car that goes fast and a thicc hatchback that can carry stuff, because the Tesla is kinda both :D
He can back up the assertion based on technicalities. It's all relative to earlier elections.

Anyways, it's not possible to respond to Trump without being dragged down into the mud.
There are duplicate PKGBUILD files in the repository, so depending on the PKGBUILD and where it is, there might be 3 results for every 1 patch. In many cases there are two hits pr 1 patch.
Yes, I learned to argue by reading the myth of Sisyphus.
No it isn't.

That's to commit the directory change, which updates directory entries pointing to the file inode. File creation, renaming and deletion are directory changes, and are unconnected with the file size.

As the article says: "open and fsync() the containing directory in or to ensure that the file will still be there following reboot from a power loss".

Without the fsync() on the directory, after reboot a newly created file name may not exist at all in the target directory. That's separate from whether the inode size is updated. If you just create the file at its target location, fsync() and then abruptly reboot, it may not be found, yet fsck may find it and put it into /lost+found with the data and size intact, because data and size were committed by the file fsync() while the directory entry was not.

Another way to show this is by creating the file elsewhere and using link() or rename(). Then you can see the committed file data at the old name, while the target of link() or rename() may be missing after abrupt reboot. This is why some atomic+durable file write patterns: Open a file under a temporary alternate name in the same directory, write(), fsync() on the file to commit data and metadata to the inode, then rename() to atomically replace the target filename, then fsync() on the directory after rename() to commit the directory change. (Some particularly careful programs go further than that because rename() is not atomic on some network filesystems.)

(In the article, there are what appear to be typos where it says fdatasync() on the containing directory in some places and fsync() in others. It should always be fsync() on a directory.)
“if you’re not on-call for your code, who is?”

Someone whose job it is?

The people who designed your car don’t have to change the oil in it.

The more I think about it, the more I realise it’s just motivated reasoning because people like doing it. The logical conclusion to this line of thinking is that the CEO just does everything themselves. Otherwise, how do they really know if they’re effective or not?
But you are a MA in history, which is not true for 99% of the population. For everyone else, knowing the order of the events, and why A led to B, is more than enough.

"Evidence" that memorizing dates don't work: no one remembers crap from their history classes.

Edit:
> If you think he conquered Gaul after becoming dictator your entire narrative changes.

That's the whole point. You only need to know the order of the events. Do you know the exact date and time when he became officially a dictator?
You know that's already happening right? For example, SunPass in FL will bill you by your license plate as you go through automatic readers, and mail you a bill to California if that is where your car is registered.
For a much more credible analysis about a potential coup in the US, please visit: https://choosedemocracy.us/

This article, however, is one of the worst Medium articles I've read. It starts fine, but then devolves to cursing and unsubstantiated opinions. I stopped reading the article and flagged it.
> His attorneys are the ones that are collecting evidence and will present them to the courts.

Well, I mean, they haven’t in the couple dozen cases that have already been dismissed, and most of them have quit, and the remaining ones have often had to make humiliating admissions that they had no evidence of grandiose claims made in opening statements in those cases and the others that haven't yet finished petering out. But, sure, keep believing that eventually Rudy Giuliani is going to pull evidence of something out of some orifice.
See my previous comments.

tl;dr pip silently breaks my environments, mostly connected to upgrading numpy and other scientific/data science libraries.
If that happens, then even being relatively rich won’t help you.

Let’s say I have 2 million dollars, but my three kids are born with genetic heart defects requiring 1.5 million in surgery each. Well, since I have the money, I will eventually be forced to spend it as insurance is limited, and government assistance prioritizes those with less resources.

Being rich won’t save you from disaster leading to poverty, it only makes things easier in normal life.
Well, it can happen. Mine has a slight (barely noticeable) burn-in from the time when Windows desktop was by some mistake left without turning the display off for two days in a row. Still works fine, everything is impressive. If you avoid such mistakes, I think it can work flawlessly for many years.
Do we have any source better than Yahoo? This sounds very interesting but also very fishy...
But regardless of whether you charge your EV at home or at a supercharger, you will almost certainly be using it on public roads.
I meant my comment to point out how people would argue against public roads and against public libraries if we didn't have them.

But let's assume I was making a direct argument.

There are different levels of road use.

There are people who can't afford a car. They might use the road to bicycle or walk. (Though those roads may be cyclist and pedestrian un-friendly and even antagonistic.) They certainly don't need the same level of built-up road that an SUV or truck owner needs. But they pay the same taxes for it as rich people do, and are far more likely to be arrested for the discriminatory crime of "jaywalking".

Even setting that aside, poor neighborhoods subsidize the roads and other city services rich people use. - https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/10/poor-neighborh...

How's that not making the working class subsidize the roads of the elite? And if that's a problem, what should change?
I love this idea but had to come to terms with the fact that I don't understand SQL enough to use it.

This is what it takes to implement user auth.

https://postgrest.org/en/v3.2/examples_users.html
1. Ford Ranger
2. Toyota Hilux
3. Toyota Rav4
4. Hyundai i30
5. Mazda CX5
6. Toyota Land Cruiser

13.1L/100km seems pretty good in context.
When they are doxxed and their families are threatened (I saw the videos making the rounds and the tweets afterwards), it doesn't make it okay.

" refused to certify black communities after they already certified white communities with worse discrepancies"

Everything isn't attributed to race. You are trying to tell us the intent of these individuals without knowing what they are actually thinking or why they chose to make this decision. I suppose this is the definition of bias.

"Also one of them was found with racist memes and Qanon conspiracy theories on their Facebook"

Many Democrat officials still believe the Russian collusion conspiracy theory. Should we discount everything they say as well?
I really gotta get a personal domain registration off of GoDaddy, but everytime I consider figuring out how to do that, I get exhausted. As is the intent.
Thought this would be about alcohol
How is the rendering performance with large worlds?
I should add that there is one other way to make that twenty-year-old comfortable: have them be a sociopath. But our problem of distinguishing between sociopathy and confident leadership is a much, much longer conversation.
of course it is. how else are they going to increase their margins. Apple TV is a multi billion dollar dumpster fire that keeps losing money. as long as they find suckers to manipulate they will keep lobbying.
https://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/
If you increase their income by giving them jobs where they can be more productive, poverty decreases even if the rich also get richer. Consider building factories in a poor country. People can both contribute and earn a lot more in factory jobs versus back on the farm.
When did technical superiority ever matter when it came to an OS?

Your living in a world where OS/2 kills windows 3.11 for workgroups. Where Sega's master system outsold Super Nintendo.
That's a completely separate issue from what I brought up. The fact is that EV owners don't pay maintenance taxes that are captured through gas taxes, and are complaining when they have to pay additional fees at other times such as registration.
I'd love to see a SwiftUI's API implementation for AVFoundation in their next iteration. Building camera based SwiftUI apps would get much easier.
You explained it, its Facebook's only choice.

Facebook didn't make a compelling argument, only that they felt obligated to attempt to use all available remedies to retain their advertisers and show their shareholders that they tried. It is a ridiculous use of public resources, but the FTC didn't give any indication that is was a valid complaint. Facebook didn't make an argument, only an observation that the feature would hurt their revenue. Kind of like "by the way it would be nice if you found some impropriety in how they rolled this out, we aren't aware of one, but would be adversely affected whether its all above board or not, okay thats all we got moving on".
It needs to allow secret votes though:

Because of the importance of the right to a secret ballot, some E2E voting schemes also attempt to meet a third requirement, usually referred to as receipt freeness:

No voter can demonstrate how he or she voted to any third party.

Also, the more IT systems involved, the less people will be able to ascertain the process. Complex systems may have unknown and invisible weaknesses.
Do you remember the old days, when desktop apps (many written in Delphi) connected directly to the SGDB, relying on views and stored procedures? This kind of "server-client" software is still very common inside corporate LANs. Since the browser speaks a very limited set of protocols, projects like postgREST are just a bridge between frontend and storage, thus moving all needed business logic inside into the SGDB. This kind of model is hell. It's history repeating itself all over again.
Is this the same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24026445?
>but I will never know.

Nature, solitude, psilocybin mushrooms, & you'll know.
Agreed. I allude to that in my last sentence of the original comment.
There are some reasonably good metrics available at Repology:

Pretty picture: https://repology.org/repositories/graphs

Numbers for the X axis: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/total

Numbers for the Y axis: https://repology.org/repositories/statistics/newest

Summary for people who like neither pictures nor tables:

* Debian Unstable (31k) has way more packages than Arch (9k without AUR), but the AUR (57k) has way more packages than Debian.

* The total number of packages that are at the latest upstream version are about equal for Debian (17k) and AUR (15k). Arch (without AUR) has way less total updated packages (7k).

* Arch has about the highest percentage of fully updated packages (85%), Debian is lower (72%), and the AUR is even lower (69%).

* NixOS rivals the AUR in number of total packages (53k), has a big margin in total latest upstream versions over everything else (24k, thus 30% more than Debian or Arch), but does not have as high as an update percentage (79%) as as Arch.

The numbers are not perfect because of split-packages and alternative packages (e.g. the AUR often has addtional `-git` variants), but they give a rough idea.

Hope this helps!
Blows my mind that people running these trading platforms would trust GoDaddy with the security of their domain name.
It looks very cool! What's the GPU & CPU written in out of interest, I think I saw on your twitter you've written something to translate to verilog, is that used for this?
I'm not sure why the parent got flagged for removal but for years voting irregularities have been reported on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckzzjlU39kc&feature=emb_logo

"In Georgia, primary election chaos highlights a voting system deeply flawed" - PBS
Backblaze Eyes $1B IPO
I've been working full time on an app in SwiftUI for the past 8 months or so. I'll sum it up this way: I frequently oscillate between thinking "This is amazing, it truly is a joy to work with SwiftUI" and "Holy FUCK this is the most infuriating thing I've ever experienced in my life".

I can't comment on the documentation, because there isn't any. The closest thing you get is the WWDC videos from the past few years where most things are outdated anyway. There's also lots of third party tutorials and what not that open with "Apple doesn't say anything about how this works, but I think I might have figured it out". And a lot of those third party sources are pretty good, but still. It's hardly ideal.

There are also a lot of inscrutable little edge cases where something just doesn't work, and there's hardly any path to figuring out why. Scrolling performance will tank, for example, after some trivial change. The framework "works like magic", until it doesn't. And you're stuck tweaking random things hoping something makes a difference.

BUT, at the same time, it's awesome. Code reuse is like, a real thing this time, not just something that works on paper but not in practice. You can compose things very quickly and succinctly, and you no longer have the unreadable, un-mergeable, unsearchable, existential nightmare that was storyboards. When it works, it really is fantastic. Don't count on the "live preview" though. That thing never works for anything other than the most trivial of examples.

If I could go back to 8 months ago, I probably would have chosen differently. But it is clear that SwiftUI is the future, and within a year or two it will be unequivocally better than UIKit. So if you're starting now... maybe. Just be prepared for some pain.
I can't think of a single job/interview/offer where the expectations or the compensation for on call were discussed formally, let alone agreed.

The best I get in job interviews is usually a mention that there is a rota every X period. Then have to poke interviewers trying to guess what is it like without coming up as too negative, "when is the last time you worked on a week end?" "when is the last time you were awaken in the middle of the night?"
> In East Germany, the Soviets did that, albeit violently often, which is why there is a higher rate of Neo-Nazism in the east (apart from the usual issues such as poverty and unemployment).

Sorry, that's wrong. Eastern (Communist) Germany painted itself as an "anti-fascist state by definition", but in reality there were awful lots of Neo-Nazis active in the GDR - and after the Mauerfall Western cadres only had to move in to find faithful people. It's estimated that there were 15.000 (!) Neo-Nazis at the time. See https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/die-ddr-und-ihre-neonazis-rea... or https://www.zeit.de/2012/08/DDR-Nazis for more details.

This "the DDR was antifascist and there were no Nazis there" nonsense is a huge part of why the neo-Nazi problem in the former GDR was overlooked until 2015ff with PEGIDA and other violent far right movements appearing (for many uninitiated) "out of thin air".
> A hypothesis that is getting more traction is that narrow equatorial rift seas (like the Red Sea) would have prevented inflow of the sea glaciers enough for thin-ice refuges to exist.

Wow, that makes imagining conditions on the Snowball Earth all the more fascinating, thank you.
Worried about a coup in the US? Visit choosedemocracy.us/
Musk is a brilliant guy in many things, but psychotic weirdo in many others. Glad we have him, but no way he should be a model role to young folks who often can't cherry-pick the good aspects of character from flawed and dangerous ones, and rather think in absolutes.
That sounds more like the anger phase. Or maybe bargaining, ha!
I was considering doing that for a while. Done now. :) Thanks!
Is this a problem big enough to be worth solving?

There are places in the US where people live in no-income-tax states but shop across the border on no-sales-tax states. This is obviously an abuse, but it's never been enough of a problem to really crack down on.

If we can reduce our problems to known problems that aren't a big deal, that's good enough! Ship it!
> Trump can run his mouth off

It's frankly quite embarassing that the holder of that office, an office used to be held by people you'd expect to show leadership and some sort of level-headedness, is basically getting a pass that he behaves like a clown, a very entitled kindergartner, and... what else can I compare him to?

> but it doesn't mean there isn't voter fraud.

If I had to bet money, I wouldn't bet that all the votes cast were legal and good, there is probably at least 1 vote which was "bad", but come on, Biden's lead in each of the states being challenged are around a few thousand, and fraud that large is very hard to hide. So far Team Total Landscaping has failed 30+ legal challenges because they could only bring trivial bullshit before the judges, and the judges have mostly thrown their cases out.

> His attorneys are the ones that are collecting evidence and will present them to the courts.

See above. Giuliani is apparently charging the campaign $20,000 a day [0] (ok he's since issued a denial[1]) and he's the one whispering to Trump that there was fraud. Well done Rudy you scumbag, you're scamming the scammer. But I doubt you'll ever see the money, but maybe you'll be able to go to some nice dinners and pay with IOUs saying "Yeah the Trump 2020 campaign owes me a million dollars, when they pay me, I'll pay you, we good here?".

For $20,000 a day, I'd go on stage and scream quotes from My Cousin Vinny as well, aren't we all just prostitutes.

[0] https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-is-asking-for-do...
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/giuliani-denies-aski...
Right mean (!!!!!), but not the right standard deviation.
For USians, that's 18 mpg. Low, but not horrible for some trucks and large SUVs.
> Seriously HN, why is this on the front-page?

It was flagged rapidly, so it's not. But in general my experience is that there are a lot of reactionary conservatives on HN who really, really want to discuss political content. Flagging seems to be the immune response to keep the unsavory stuff from getting an audience. But it can get a little scary in the cases where that doesn't happen.

As far as whether the coup works: you're right, it's not going to work. But they're absolutely trying it, and you're actually behind on the strategy. The current thinking and pressure is aimed at getting republican election administrators and legislatures to "reject" the results of the election and select Trump electors directly. And while it's not working (yet) they've absolutely had some success with persuading a few. If they get more, then it's a coup.

The Wayne county election commissioners didn't "summarily dismiss" the conspiracy theory, they're on board (though after "accidentally" certifying the result, I guess). The Michigan GOP leaders didn't "summarily dismiss" the idea of selecting electors, they literally flew to Washington yesterday to meet directly with Trump (though afterwards they issued a statement saying that they "saw no need" to take that action).

That's not a coup being summarily dismissed. It's a bunch of republicans dancing on the edge to make sure they don't end up on the wrong side. If the whole party buys in, then democracy dies. And we need to be screaming about it, not whining about whether it belongs on the front page.
The scary part is that it's accelerating in on a timescale that's relevant to our needs as a species.
"You are talking to someone who believes Trump when he says that he will release his tax returns."

I'm an individual, not a group. You have no idea what I believe about Trump's tax returns.

I expected to have intelligent conversations/discussions here on HN, but all the half-hearted, biased responses I'm seeing, and the downvoting, tells me that it's probably not going to happen.
Robinhood co-founder steps down as co-CEO
Exactly. It's too compact to have a complete offering.
I'm not sure who you are responding to here - I said nothing like that.
I think there are good reasons to avoid GoDaddy, but do HN-ers feel like there are registrars whose employees would never fall for social engineering techniques, or whose systems and/or processes make such a scenario far less likely?
Fudging do numbers illicitly is already a huge no-no in the US.
It's not as hard as it sounds.
Conspiracy culture is a huge problem in modern society that I fear we won't be able to solve