skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the UK, consumer and contract law mean that it is not possible, afaik, to have 'open-ended' contracts. I.e. a party to a contract must always be able to determine how much entering into the contract is going to cost them and/or they must be be able to leave with a capped and known worst-case. That's why there are always caps or capped increases.
30,000 computers across virtually every country in the world is "highly targeted"?
If the AZ drug were the only COVID vax available, I might agree with you. But there are already two others and a third on a the way, all of which are more effective than the AZ drug. And the USA has already negotiated to get more of the approved ones than the UK is getting on a per capita basis.

Allowing a drug you know doesn't work well is a great way to break the public trust, especially when there are plenty of alternatives.
"List" is usually a generic term for any data structure that can hold many items, and that has an API for adding or removing items. This can be implemented using an array, a linked-list, a hasthable, or a more advanced data structure.

Also, in languages with GCs, linked lists do not necessarily cause more cache misses than arrays, due to the way allocation works (this is especially true if you have a compacting GC, but bump-pointer allocation often makes it work even when you don't).
Have a look @ https://www.ascend.io -- addresses the issues you highlight:
1. SQL + Python + Java + Scala
2. state management fully automated
3. automatic incremental materialized views
It makes sense given the level of actual compliance with lockdown restrictions yes. It's the behaviour that matters not the rules. As I said previously and we seem to agree, rates of compliance in the US generally are relatively low and that varies even within the US. Demographics is an issue, for example California has several very large low income urban sprawls where lockdown compliance was minimal.

I'm making no moral judgement here, people are under severe hardship and we all have to make our decisions on our own circumstances, but it is what it is. What we do also has an impact on others.
Blitzscaling: Class Notes and Essays
360 view on surface.
Viewable in VR

https://youtu.be/wE-aQO9XD1g
Well, there’s the law (federal, state, etc), then the additional regulatory rulings (federal, state, etc), then the as-applied department policies. Not really a lack of “law” but a mess of constraints that need to be deciphered into functional requirements with footnotes, matrixed to testing and preserved/maintained for the next guy. Ugh.. I want to charge the gov. 2k hrs for just thinking about it today.
I mean "consented" as far as a human being ever consents. If you ask me to give you a "high five" every day, but then suddenly one day you coat your hand with JB Weld before the high five without telling me and we have to be surgically separated that wasn't consent in any meaningful sense.
There is no such thing as perfect software when requirements change with time. We need adaptable software instead.

Like all our governance mechanisms have a built-in system of constant change.
Civil law codes are often just as ambiguous as common law systems. The only difference is that in a civil law system, you can’t firmly rely on precedent, so a judge can interpret the law against you just because he doesn’t like you, even in the face of contrary precedent.

That’s in part why international business to business contracts almost always specify a common law jurisdiction as the required venue for any lawsuits.
A Story About Resilience and the Sunk Cost Fallacy
The value of the word tax is not limited to government obligations. Not colloquially anyway; a tax is a burden.

From a mathematical perspective alone, these companies have soaked up immense wealth.

There’s little to go around for infrastructure projects while it’s locked up in private vaults.

Many communities did not have much say in how decimated the local economy would become by the last few decades of neoliberalism. It’s placed a heavy burden on many lives.
Discussed at the time:

Unsuck It - translate business jargon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1600102 - Aug 2010 (23 comments)
Electric Bills Are a Gamble Too
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I think you're being downvoted for pushing a narrative (somehow C langs are better than Rust) without providing your opinion or evidence. It baits people into defending Rust without you doing any work to defend your position.
It depends what we're talking about. On paper our system isn't so different. Prisoners are people that have been found to transgress so many rights are forfeited, but not all of them. We send them to correction centers to get better. They leave and rights are restored.

The issue is that many of the people involved feel differently in their hearts, and see the rehabilitative side as a bunch of feel good nonsense. It's never gonna work, or isn't worth paying for. More to the point we're chronically unwilling to put any resources towards these goals. It's all about being seen ensuring public safety and making sure no one gets a handout.
I don't understand how people here fail to see that completely. Traffic accidents also happen, doesn't mean we should abolish vehicles or allow only slow moving armored vehicles on the road.
I switched to Deezer. Deezer has an audiobooks app and it's Web UI is much nicer. Spotify also annoys in how they promote podcasts, I don't want to listen podcasts. Deezer shows podcasts (or shows as they call them) in a separate section in the app.
> C++ is about as far from Go as you can imagine a language. Maybe only Prolog would be a worse comparison point.

https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

/headscratch

EDIT: I think you're misinterpreting syntax of the language with use case. e.g. low level vs high level programming language
Interesting, I didn't know that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish#Use_of_technology_by_dif...
> If you treat your savings from "good times" as extra cash to spend you're going to get burned to the ground by the bad times.

Exactly, though to give a lot of customers of these plans credit, they don't have the extra cash. Griddy's own marketing says that "96% of the time," the wholesale rate is well under the average retail per-kWh rate.

This is yet another one of those hidden costs of how being lower-income is very expensive, both in actual money, and in time. Vanishingly few people have the time to be as on the ball as they'd need to for plans like this to work. And you can automate it, but that costs money many of these customers don't have.

I have no problems with plans like this existing; my issue is we set people up to fail by danging the large-print number being a very small value, while not warning people of how catastrophically it can go--and has gone--very wrong.
> we'd have seen Scala thrown into the fray as well.

Scala has already found its niche in Big Data, streaming and distributed systems. Usually, the stack that you can find in my area, consist mostly of Java codebases, sprinkled with some Scala services that are purely data-oriented. There's a high probability that Discord is already using Scala.
> One of the things that I think will need to be sorted out...

One of the things that needs to get sorted out are the insufferable hall monitors of society.
I have been "fatigued" for 3+ years due to having children. Life goes on.
UV radiation is moving that the speed of light. So is infrared light, which is blocked by water rather well. What is dangerous are those things that are both fast and heavy, particles from radioactive decay.
> Continuing this going forward when the current research we have shows minimal risk from having students go to school is insane.

Minimal risk to child students, but risky to parents and very risky for grandma and grandpa if they live with the children too. I'm blessed that I can work from home, and realize not everyone can, so remote learning has not been that much of a bummer. That said, I am not sending my child back to in-person school unless 1. everyone in my household is vaccinated or 2. the government forces me.
Except software allows a scale and efficiency that is impossible with pencil and paper while also creating an ideal scapegoat. Software is being used to avoid accountability at a scale much greater than what was possible with manual process.
I had one more question... Can you tell me just a bit more about your use case as a marketer? We've received a lot of similar requests and I'm trying learn more about the use cases. Thank you in advance.
That may have been a legitimate choice in the early 2000s.
>Those that chose Griddy, chose higher risk, which comes with high potential rewards but also high potential losses

When I lived in the poor part of town, "energy deregulation" companies were always coming around, aggressively trying to get me to sign up on the spot.

They never talked about risk, they just told me I could sign here to save $100s on my power bill. I asked them about the details and they just lied through their teeth.

This was in MI, not TX. Maybe Griddy is different. I suspect they farm out signup to the same type of contractors.

I think the idea of consumers responding to energy prices is nice, but has some pretty glaring issues.

How many consumers are aware of hourly energy prices? How many on deregulated plans even understand that they pay more when usage is high?

Can they react fast enough to changing prices? Leaving a light on during vacation should cost you some money, but it shouldn't wipe out your 401k.

This article seems to suggest the answer is a fully automated smart home, with some kind of AI to intelligently manage your power usage. Sounds awesome, but I don't think that's ever going to be a reality outside the valley.

At the end of the day, it still comes down to losing power or losing 5 figures of cash that you probably don't have. Most people aren't in a position to be "homo economicus" when it comes to heating their home in a blizzard. It doesn't solve their problem to give them a choice between losing power, or going bankrupt. Many will choose to lose power, and die running their car in the garage just the same as if they had a blackout.

If price sensitivity causes someone to set the AC on 80 the hottest day of the year, that's great. But expecting consumers to handle tail risk is a silly idea.

I suspect you could get 99% of the effect by only passing a small price window to consumers, and managing the tail risk collectively.
I like the concept, but you can't pay the same proce for all developers.
The idea looks interesting, but a couple things of note that make me kinda wary:

- $0.75/min is $45/h and it's awfully cheap for what's ultimately consulting work

- 1 free minute in each call, call ends if no payment source is connected: what about people that would keep getting those one minutes? I know it's not much, but for some problem it might be enough if not to solve it, at least to get input that could lead to resolution.

I still like the idea because I feel strongly about stackoverflow pushing for solving everyone's issue instead of someone's, which often end up solving barely anyone problem as solutions provided are way too generic. The added effect is also that the community has devolved into a hot mess that will close so many questions as dupes even when they're not.
Altered Carbon also heavily featured this idea. Parallelised faster-than-realtime torture, fuzz torture in many ways I guess, with presets to make the subject more compliant to start with.
Have they shared the audio clip anywhere? I listened on the stream but don't see it on the press release. It was incredibly moving to hear wind on Mars!

EDIT: They have it on their Soundcloud account (!):

https://soundcloud.com/nasa/first-sounds-from-mars-filters-o...
Why not use Upwork? I’ve found very good devs on Upwork to help me for an hour or two. They make $200-$400 for basically just talking me through something on zoom call.
This is incredible quality. What's the file size of the video and what path did the data take?
Companies that do just in time in fact are careful to manage their supply chain for this. I know my company orders steel 3-6 months in advance, in part because this eventually reaches all the way back to the miners digging the ore. They now can plan their work to ensure they don't have to pay overtime to meet our orders (compare to when we figured out the best price of the year and ordered a 1 year supply for delivery next week) which keeps costs down.

Insurance is a major part of any market, and insurance is very good to managing unusual events or externalities that matter.
There's none in the standard library, but e.g. Seastar already has coroutine support implemented for its future<>s and it works really well - the code looks clearer and in many cases it reduces the number of allocations to 1 (for the whole coroutine frame).
Most of these best practices forget the hard parts of JSON/REST APIs:

- How to handle date and time incl. time zones - JSON has no data type for that
- Handling of numbers (JSON only has double, which does not fit most cases)
- Defined and parseable error responses (rfc 7807 plus extra fields for details)
- Localization - do you send translated texts or just error codes?
- How to handle updates? Overwrite every field? How to update only some fields for a resource? Optimistic locking?
- How to handle 1+n problems for reading?
...
two points: phones can be jailbroken, you don't have to go through the app store. Also, bashing dc just lowers the tone of the article. By doing so, the article automatically has to work harder to persuade me. I have not been successfully convinced that their proposals are a good idea.
Good luck!

DevOps is another area you could focus on. A lot of people think it's fun to learn programming, but very few want to learn devops (e.g. why does this work locally, but not on AWS?). People will def pay to solve devops problems quickly (source: I've done it many times).
It's a big leap from "the commission made bad mistakes around the AZ deliveries" (and is widely being called out for it) to "the commission is running misinformation campaigns telling people AZ is not good enough" (and somehow nobody notices or cares).
The only reason we're discussing this author's opinion is because they appear in a prestigious newspaper. The world is full of opinions, and we choose some to discuss based on heuristics.

The appearance of this article on HN is effectively an argument from authority -- the newspaper's, not the author's. Without that, we wouldn't even be talking about it. Undercutting their arguments is time consuming, but pointing out that they don't have the background to be making their claims -- and that they're appearing on an editorial page famous for putting politics over facts -- is sufficient for many people to say, "Let's stop considering this and go talk about something else."

Those who want to continue the argument may, of course. But meeting an argument from authority with the exact opposite argument (truthful, but ad hominem) is a convenient shortcut for those who don't want to get sucked into that.
Yes, absolutely that should be the "end" of it. Especially since we are already giving the vaccine to front line works who aren't old or in danger.

Anyone who wants to hole up until they get the vaccine should be able to.

But I'll take the low risk.
I was lucky enough to see them live at Sankeys Soap in 1997. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NVjNC2ZjA Was a great night ;)
> talking more about malware on macOS

That's also why it's important to make the distinction between the "naked-cheerleaders.jpg.exe" kind of malware, the "visited a website" or "opened a PDF" kind and finally the "had a machine online" kind. Because AFAIK the second kind of malware is very rare on macOS and the third kind is literally nonexistent. And some people rely on that (including me).
True. But my point was that, although they were wealthy enough to get an education, they were not wealthy enough to go off and spend their lives unconcerned with in the same way that many (not all!) of the scientists of the early industrial revolution were. They instead had to have a job doing whatever they were doing or to have a wealthy or powerful patron to support them.
This reminds me of the premium-rate 1-900 numbers back in the day. I specifically remember seeing one of them which offered tips and strategies if you were stuck in a video game.

I would definitely love to try this out at least once. I could see it being helpful.
The original implementation of this "service" was in Redis using lua scripts.

We hit the performance ceiling of redis, and rather than deciding to go with redis-cluster, and dealing with the headache of managing persistent redis, we went this way, so we could consolidate data storage to scylladb/cassandra (it was cassandra at the time of rewrite, scylla now since we've migrated our data stores over).
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They are using both https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...
Backend engineers still need to think through every use case to decide what fields to expose.
How effective are the mRNA vaccines against the new strains/mutations? Do we have hard data on that yet?
Discussed at the time:

Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22238335 - Feb 2020 (640 comments)

also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23874336 - July 2020 (7 comments)
Anti-Solar Panels May Generate Power at Night Soon
You don't need a fireable offense to fire an "at will" employee. I'm not even sure you need a reason for it. There are restrictions in terms of not being able to fire a person because of their gender, race, etc but beyond that anything goes.

https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/at-will-e...

"At-will means that an employer can terminate an employee at any time for any reason, except an illegal one, or for no reason without incurring legal liability. Likewise, an employee is free to leave a job at any time for any or no reason with no adverse legal consequences.

At-will also means that an employer can change the terms of the employment relationship with no notice and no consequences. For example, an employer can alter wages, terminate benefits, or reduce paid time off. In its unadulterated form, the U.S. at-will rule leaves employees vulnerable to arbitrary and sudden dismissal, a limited or on-call work schedule depending on the employer’s needs, and unannounced cuts in pay and benefits."

Welcome to the US :D
The real value is in evaluating your risk, which includes an analysis of the infection vector. A virus (or worm) can be more risky because it typically exploits a weakness in the system. And some trojans are more risky to some demographics than others, depending on which social engineering techniques they use to trick a user into installing them.
https://patch.com/washington/seattle/classifieds/for-sale/20...
I made this because I'm really interested in how similar words relate to one another. I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words and connections.

The most interesting thing has been finding Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "nose" to "anemone".
Locked behind a paywall, got another link?

Edit: got one https://archive.is/viwiS
From what I understand there is a lot of variation in providers. As I understand SDGE's Net Metering policy(https://www.sdge.com/residential/solar/getting-started-with-...), you sell back power at retail prices only for the current month's billing cycle. Excess energy created within a billing cycle is "true-upped" at wholesale prices which can be applied to other month's billing cycles.

I would also be curious in how the Texas case works. Especially if the grid is down, would it be able to accept the energy you are producing?
Big tech? How about big information, 6 companies control almost all media in the U.S.

The U.S. keeps consolidating, the "spin" is that it's all about lower costs to the consumer by allowing "scale", when it reality it's just about monopoly power and the ultra rich getting richer and more powerful.

A two party government.

It's all an illusion of choice.
No, actually - in pure economic terms, 'Tax' is actually a reasonable term to use.

Fees which can be perceived as arbitrary capture of a piece of economic activity (and monopoly pricing could be considered that in part) acts just like a tax.

You can actually demonstrated the 'economic loss' (deadweight) from a tax with the supply and demand curve. The loss is usually more than that, but at least the direct math is there. [1]

And this: "talk about the App Store is just the result of other middlemen lobbying for a part of the action." is just completely false. There are no 'middle men' to lobby.

[1] https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/microec...
Yes, software can be used as a cover for abuse like in this case, but that happens because some people in power let it happen. For other pieces of software that have consequences for people with more power than prisoners, the society will not allow failures to happen. I only need to mention the MCAS software of Boeing 737 Max for a counterexample.

Software does not have its own will. Software is only allowed to make decisions on our behalf because we let it do so.
Can someone point some examples of what `paredit` for other languages provide? I do various lisp programming occasionally but have not used `paredit` yet.
> even if it's by punting further up the call stack with more "?"

Yes, this is exactly what I meant.

> it is at least explicit in what functions can fail and which don't

So is Java with exceptions (at least as long as developers are even slightly disciplined).
Mine was instrumented up to report what it saw. fun times. it still drew the occasional creative attempt til I shut it down.
Perhaps, but health care is so heavily managed nobody can call it a market. Most communities have a limit on how many hospital beds that are allowed which means that there isn't even an opportunity to do much better.
I'm not saying it's their fault, I'm saying that their ability to participate fully may have led educators to think that their peers who cannot do so are deficient, rather than that the education process itself could be improved so everyone can fully participate in it.
I was in the shop the other day and I had a small ice block related interaction with a little kid. Then her mum turned to speak to me and it was one of the Orange is the New Black actors. Which surprised me quite a bit - even though I knew she was a regular at the shop. I wonder if she'd clocked that I recognised her. I think I hid it well though.
> * Big Tech monopolies controlling news and information: Twitter, Facebook, Google

If it's a traditional news article or op-ed, it's almost always a complaint about this iteration.
But also as you pointed out that doesn't really help in cases like last week because you're not being directly affected by this market shift.

In fact your plan was probably counterproductive since the cheapest power to you came when it was most expensive to the operator--over night.
This is just arguing semantics. Whether you call it a tax or a fee, or whatever else, the fact remains that it's a form rent-seeking, which is clearly the point of the piece.