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SQL was designed somewhat before PostgreSQL decided to support arrays. It is a terrible, terrible language for dealing with non-normal data.

If you are doing string parsing in SQL, mistakes were made.
This is currently in the "court" of public opinion, so how can you so definitively say it has no bearing on it whatsoever?
From what I gather, most of this document is aspirational I think, and more a codified "style guide" for future code and ethos of the project. The part about naming things itself is a fairly big style change from only a few years ago.

I think most Urbit devs hate the C codebase just as much as everyone else does, and there's a fair few "legacy" Hoon files that are a nightmare to read compared to more recent Hoon. Loobeans are generally considered a mistake, and not worth alienating everyone else for errno semantics.
I had 3 duplicate environments - dev, staging and production. Backups were an automated process between data stores, and integrated into the environments normal operation. The entire setup was automated to the degree it only required casual glances at resource limits about once a week, with minor devOps maintenance occasionally. We're all smart engineers, producing wonderful tech - automating a server stack is intern work.
Wait, what? Alcohol is a carcinogen? I didn't know this.

Here's link to the CDC's website, referenced in that article:

https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/moderate-drinking.ht...

This part from the CDC's website is also interesting:

Although past studies have indicated that moderate alcohol consumption has protective health benefits (e.g., reducing risk of heart disease), recent studies show this may not be true.

I didn't know that either. I always thought a glass of wine was healthy.
OK, I have to ask this time : could someone ELI5 what Urbit is / could be useful for?
Ask HN: Famous code comments found in popular open source software packages?
I came across John Carmack's 0x5f3759df Kung Fu the other day, and thoroughly enjoyed his use of expletives in that one comment.

Here is a brief overview of the code (Warning: Foul language.):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root#Overview_of_the_code

I was wondering what other famous(/notorious) comments existed in our favourite open source software packages?

(This is my first time posting a question, sorry if I got the etiquette wrong.)
I've personally found, when people ask why I'm not drinking, that "Well, did you realize Alcohol is right above Arsenic on the carcinogen list?" is by far – compared to "Oh, I just don't drink" or the other reasons I've given in the past – the fastest way to move onto other topics.
Yea, once you're that size even if you're struggling you're around for decades.
It's amazing that alcohol gets such a free pass. Weed, cigarettes, heck even vaping somehow have a worse rap than alcohol in many people's eyes.

Thankfully, I'm a very light drinker only occasionally indulging and then in small quantities.
Well Kathryn is a she. The fact that she is trans is entirely irrelevant to the story. It is not misleading to refer to her as "she," as that is her gender.
Three classes of problems found by mutation testing
Narcotics Anonymous was founded largely due to Alcoholics Anonymous treating alcohol as different from other drugs. That cultural delineation exists to this day. I'd ask... what percentage of patients and workers in addiction recovery agree with the assertion that alcohol is a drug?
It's all about the dose. Drink too much water and you will die. Most people will under report the amount of alcohol they drink. With 50ml per day, alcohol has a great hormetic effect. Wine, for example, is not just alcohol. Just like natural beer - it's full of nutrients.
A better way to think of it in my eyes is, employer pays you to write an app that shows cats.
You start and you're like, yeah, no fuck that, and you write an app that shows dogs instead.
Employer comes back to you and says "we pay you to show cats, since you don't wanna do it we'll find someone else".

Sucks but seems logical to me.

That's unrelated to the claims of spying and illegal procedures of course, that the new article claims. Very curious to see what they did that was illegal / what kind of spying they would have done. But right now its just claims.
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What a coincidence. I drink maybe twice a year, because my father died of alcoholism, but I just poured myself a glass of wine I received as a gift before reading this article.
"It wasn’t just that the pace of juggling achievement seemed to be accelerating. The patterns of the objects themselves were also changing. In the ’80s, a few jugglers with academic backgrounds had developed something called “siteswap” — a mathematical notation for objects in motion. Siteswap is to juggling what a musical score is to a piano player. A juggler conversant in siteswap can look at a string of numbers — say, 7 5 3 1 — and know that the numbers are telling him to juggle four objects so that their arcs peak at four different heights. (The numbers refer to relative altitude.) Gatto never took to siteswap, but others did; the notation helped them imagine and execute wild new patterns, and through the ’90s and 2000s the aesthetic of high-end technical juggling started to change. You can see it in the work of a modern juggler like Thomas Dietz, a lanky German who uses a lot of siteswap patterns. Watching Dietz is like walking through a gallery of Sol LeWitt paintings; you know that the patterns come from math, but you also know a human is painting them."

(from https://grantland.com/features/anthony-gatto-juggling-cirque..., which is the best read you're likely to find on juggling and juggling culture)
The folks who do Fastmail built Topicbox (https://topicbox.com) a few years ago and I don't yet see how Front differs from that product. Basically, it brings the concept of conversation channels to inbox, while providing a permanent record of the chats that your newer employees can read to catch up on what happened before they arrived, or for compliance. I think their implementation is pretty slick.
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Everyone I know who drinks considers one or two a day to be healthy.
Because the court of public opinion has no bearing on the legal courts. Again, if it did: bad.

Sorry, not gonna engage further. Still haven't seen how this is relevant. Have fun trolling.
"That's the same combination I have on my luggage!" [0]

0: https://youtu.be/a6iW-8xPw3k
Every acquired company always says that, practically verbatim. It's meaningless, the CEO doesn't have a say anymore. Salesforce's designs are the relevant direction now, and they're not telling. Facebook (Telegram, Oculus, Instagram) and IBM (dozens of companies) come to mind as specific examples of acquisitions in which the former CEO insisted that business would continue as usual, only for the management teams to be gutted and the company culture eradicated.
Do we need to care about your strawman?

No.
I am conflicted about this one. It is possible to think of situations where reporting two opposing opinions as equally valid is not neutral but instead legitimizes an extremist opinion. Overall it is easier for the journalism medium, since it does not annoy any advertisers; and it has this objective air. I am not sure if there is a better solution.
It's worth noting, but effect size is also an important bit. The Wikipedia page links to a study suggesting that around 4% of cancers are attributable to alcohol consumption [1]. In some sense, that's a lot, but in another sense, it isn't really? It's also not clear to me how much of that burden is borne by heavy drinkers vs. moderate drinkers.

The studies I saw seemed to suggest a very clear causal association between alcohol consumption and cancer, and with no threshold (i.e. any consumption increases your risk). However, although the evidence was strong, the effect sizes were mild, especially at mild levels of consumption. I would love to be better informed on this, but my current stance is that alcohol is super fun, and the number of life-years you lose on average from consuming it aren't too numerous. You have to die of something.

[1]: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ijc.21903
Even if these "noticeable" sequences make up only a tiny fraction of all possible sequences, the probability that they show up at least once in a while among all of the world lotteries is actually high.

In general the probability that some unlikely events occur is high.
It always seemed to me that the claimed benefits of wine also exist in grape juice.
"addictive" is not exactly the same as "effectively ruins lives". cigarettes are highly addictive, but they don't really ruin people's lives in the same way as alcohol/heroin.
Yeah this is more of "why can't mommy protect us from the world?"
Lottery should be illegal. It is a luck-based system to concentrate and redistribute wealth from individuals (often lower class) to a single member of the society; propelling one person from the lower echelons of the society to the top at the expense of others. We want to align some kind of a productive output and reasonable incentives for a person to justify amassing so much wealth.
Don't fool yourself, it is not hard.
I don't have any experience with them but I went to the pricing section on their website[0] and was greeted with very large all-caps text:

PRICING: WHY PAY FOR WHAT YOU DON’T USE?

PAY FOR THE COMPUTE AND STORAGE YOU ACTUALLY USE.

I found that pretty funny given the problem you're running in to.

[0] https://www.snowflake.com/pricing/
I wrote a Python package that uses graphviz to draw NN architectures of PyTorch neural nets[1]. Visualizing a neural net is a fun problem by itself; neural nets are essentially DAGs, but somehow recording the flow of data has lots of quirks (especially when dealing with RNNs or skip connections). There's a top-level view where you're just discussing about the layers as they are connected, and a low-level view where the output of each op matters.

[1] https://pytorchrec.readthedocs.io
You had no idea there was anything unhealthy about consuming a neurotoxin until you heard "cancer"? : p
"Bro" I sure as hell did and even watched the video. There's enough in there to read between the lines that they've got a DR solution.

And to be honest the amount of nit-picking by AWS/Cloud fanbois is verging on comical.
I thought everything is known to cause cancer in the state of California.

Jokes aside, things that "cause cancer" do this to a varying degree, there are substances where minimal doses cause cancer within your lifetime with certainty. Like plutonium. And there are substances, where a lifetime of heavy consumption increases your risk by just a measurable amount, like red meat. And then there is stuff that is known to cause cancer in mice, if you inject enough mice with multiples of their own bodyweight so they only just don't explode and maybe one of your 10k mice will test positive for a cancer marker.

Reporting should find a way to distinguish those properly and understandably, for experts as well as laymen.
Does he work in SEO too?
I think that was the idea. If the warnings were effective, then business processes are affected. If consumers can be trained to ignore them, then the state looks like it's doing something for people without changing anything materially.
Companies had to allow communication tools to be used for collective action when she was fired for this. The NLRB overturned that 5 year precedent a day or two after she went public about being fired.

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/career-workplace/2019/...
> Lisp and Python: Which one you prefer to use to write quick and dirty hacks?

There is a Lisp dialect for the "C-and-Unix crowd": TXR Lisp.

Similarly to traditional tools like Awk, TXR Lisp has no external dependencies and builds into a single native executable (plus a collection of satellite files that go into /usr/share). It is documented by a single giant man page ("man txr"), which also exists in the form of a hyper-linked HTML document with a collapsible, two-way navigable table of contents.

Though fine for larger applications, it scales down to throwaway scripting, including one-liners on the command line.

It includes a whole-document scraping language called the TXR Pattern Language that is good for extraction tasks. Especially for "messy" text that consists of multiple ad hoc structures slapped together.
I assumed everything is a carcinogen, as you can tell if you travel to CA and look at the warnings on everything
> "A public health analysis published last year estimated that the cancer risk posed by drinking one bottle of wine a week was comparable to smoking five cigarettes for men and 10 for women in the same time span."

I'd like to have better statistics than this, but they did try to communicate something about the risk.

The problem with comparing the cancer risk to cigarettes is that tobacco does a lot of other bad stuff besides just the cancer - tar, nicotine affect your heart and lungs pretty strongly.
I was curious, so I googled:

https://oehha.ca.gov/proposition-65/general-info/proposition...

> By law, a warning must be given for listed chemicals unless exposure is low enough to pose no significant risk of cancer

> the "no significant risk level” is defined as the level of exposure that would result in not more than one excess case of cancer in 100,000 individuals exposed to the chemical over a 70-year lifetime

That feels very strict.
Installing Urbit
I'm just stating a fact that is true about Spiers. It's up to the people who read the story to decide if it's relevant or not, why should you be the judge of that?
Ah, so this was before they amended the rule allowing communication to be restricted.

I wonder what the restrictions were before. It specifically says emails were allowed. But I wonder if a person maintaining an intranet site could post a banner on it with the same message. I'm guessing not since it isn't designed for that type of communication. I'm not sure where the plugin would fall. Seems like the message didn't fit the intended plugin scope.
> Frankly speaking, your comment comes off a bit dickish to me, especially this part:

Appreciate the feedback. I'm not trying to be a dick. I should have replaced "you" with "I" in my response.

For those who've found themselves stuck in the rat race, including myself, I think it's important to answer the question: Why is wealth and social status a poor value system?

My answer is: because wealth and social status are largely outside of my control.

Put another way, values are only bad insofar as they are hard to achieve.

Ok, then, the question is: What are better values than wealth and social status?

In my search for an answer to this question, I read Carol Dweck's book "Growth Mindset" where she argues that self-growth, in of itself, is a worthwhile value.

At first, I was convinced. Aha, I just need to value growth. Then, I will have motivation to engage in all these challenging activities AND I have a value that is entirely within my control (which makes it a good value). After all, I can grow as a person without fail.

Alas, after further reflection and trying to adopt this mindset, I realized that valuing self-growth, for me, was just a way of hiding from my true values: wealth and social status. That is, no matter how hard I tried to focus on growth as an end in of itself, I was always secretly still chasing after wealth and social status. Self-growth, for me, was just a way to disguise rat-race values. Put another way, Dweck's school of psychology tries to train you to focus on the means instead of the ends.

In order to escape the rat race, I believe you have to truly replace your old values with intrinsic values that are 1) ends in of themselves and 2) within your control.
That's an interesting distinction. Many people drink in moderation quite successfully without ever being addicted and without ruining their life. How many people successfully maintain a moderate heroin habit?
That’s how roll over works. If you sign up for a cellphone and expect them to keep your line active when you cancel because you have roll over credits, you would also be out of luck
Reminds me of Audible's bullshit premium. If you cancel the premium, you lose the credits almost immediately.
It is unlikely that a glass of wine is healthy. Studies that show a correlation between moderate alcohol consumption and health are likely measuring the fact that unhealthy people are often unable to drink.

This is a "wet sidewalks cause rain" or "hospital beds are dangerous" type of conclusion.
Your complaint is that they require you to purchase a new annual contract after your first one ends? This really shouldn't come as a surprise.

And they'll let you roll over $9000 worth of unused credits by purchasing just $1000 new ones? This actually sounds like a pretty good deal.

I think your problem is that you purchased more than you needed via a contract you didn't understand.
Hahaha, thank you for this awesome post! Great tips wrapped in a funny tone.
What odd times we live in: debugging with rubber ducks, reviewing code with doggo. What comes next? :))
GCC would not have taken it anyway, they tried to prevent parts of GCC getting used independently or as a library to keep the lock-in to GNU, while the architecture of LLVM is of embeddable reusable libraries.
Not about addictiveness, but about overall social harm: alcohol beats out heroin.

> MCDA modelling showed that heroin, crack cocaine, and metamfetamine were the most harmful drugs to individuals (part scores 34, 37, and 32, respectively), whereas alcohol, heroin, and crack cocaine were the most harmful to others (46, 21, and 17, respectively). Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72), with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Of the myriad drugs I've taken, alcohol is the least deserving of ready availability IMO. I suspect that if it were invented post 1950, and not so ancient and ingrained in our culture, there's no way we would let people buy the stuff.
I'll take a stab at the research if you link the bowl? I'm curious now. I appreciate California's proactive stance, and I guess I fall into the minority because I do pay attention to those labels.
>San Franisco

:)
It wasn't the alcohol in the wine that was conveying the benefits. Iirc, people were pointing to https://www.drugs.com/resveratrol.html
not a generous interpretation
Not sure if you intended to reply to me as my comment was about H1N1 (which I think had an age bias in the other direction)
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Source for all the folks asking specifically about risks: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/a...

> an estimated 3.5% of cancer deaths in the United States (about 19,500 deaths) were alcohol related

> Moderate drinkers have 1.8-fold higher risks of oral cavity (excluding the lips) and pharynx (throat) cancers and 1.4-fold higher risks of larynx (voice box) cancers than non-drinkers, and heavy drinkers have 5-fold higher risks of oral cavity and pharynx cancers and 2.6-fold higher risks of larynx cancers

> esophageal cancer ... range from 1.3-fold higher for light drinking to nearly 5-fold higher for heavy drinking

> Heavy alcohol consumption is associated with approximately 2-fold increased risks of two types of liver cancer

> light drinkers have a slightly increased (1.04-fold higher) risk of breast cancer, compared with nondrinkers. The risk increase is greater in moderate drinkers (1.23-fold higher) and heavy drinkers (1.6-fold higher)

> Moderate to heavy alcohol consumption is associated with 1.2- to 1.5-fold increased risks of cancers of the colon and rectum
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I'm not sure on the accuracy of that XKCD graph. Last Christmas by Wham! is noticeably missing (released in 1984). Also All I Want for Christmas is You, released in 1994.
There are some indications on there:

> A public health analysis published last year estimated that the cancer risk posed by drinking one bottle of wine a week was comparable to smoking five cigarettes for men and 10 for women in the same time span.
Would you feel the same way if she added a banner that suggested her fellow employees exercise their 2nd amendment rights?
> Is it "workplace surveillance" when you can view the calendar appointments of your coworkers

This doesn't have to be so black and white. I can "view" the calendar of my coworkers. That means - I see if the time slots are taken or not. I don't have to see what the actual meetings are.
from the national cancer institute:

>"Pooled data from 118 individual studies indicates that light drinkers have a slightly increased (1.04-fold higher) risk of breast cancer, compared with nondrinkers. The risk increase is greater in moderate drinkers (1.23-fold higher) and heavy drinkers (1.6-fold higher"

Heavy and moderate drinking at the very least seems to be quite significant. Esophageal cancer is one that also came to my mind because I know of quite a few heavy drinkers who suffered from it, Christopher Hitchens for example.
Not sure where you get your facts, but Litecoin all-time-high was around $360. The founder, Charlie Lee, stayed and is still a visible and active advocate for litecoin to this day.
"Ethanol is not carcinogenic, but is metabolised to acetaldehyde, which is carcinogenic."

The WHO specifies that it is ethanol in alcoholic beverages that is carcinogenic, i.e. what most people would call alcohol.
Airbnb already charge VAT (in the UK at least) on the host service fees, i.e. the 15% of the transaction they keep for themselves.

So Airbnb already charge for their service, and they're taxed on it.

What's new is taking GST (or VAT) on the accommodation too, which is normally paid over to hosts direct, and who have to remit VAT only if they were over the "small trader" threshold (in the UK that is not many).
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This is true for its well-known other health risks.

Cancer risk doesn't care if you spread your seven drinks out over a week or over a night. Moderation might even be a riskier strategy from a cancer risk standpoint, if the imbibed amounts are otherwise the same.
Not to condone their approach but in the SaaS subscription business, any renewal that yields less revenue than the previous term is treated as churn (for the difference in value).

With churn being of the metrics that affects investors dynamic and thus valuation the most, I understand their desire to eliminate these situations.

Enter negotiations and at the end of the day, vote with your dollars.
This is a false statement. Intel macs have the T2 boot security chip, which requires online activation to be able to access the internal disk after a full system wipe. The M1, even in reduced security mode, also requires online activation after a full system wipe. I've tested this this week; if you know of something I'm missing please tell me the exact steps to take to wipe and reinstall a T2/M1 mac offline, as I am confident now that it is not possible to do so.

I would love to be wrong about this.

This is the case even if you have a full offline boot/restore USB.

I have a post coming out today about just this, and how it renders all current macs unsuitable for long term offline/airgap applications.