skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>And how many men die in childbirth?

100% of the males who get naturally pregnant. Ask a silly question, get a silly answer. It's almost like there are biological differences between men and women, and that these organisms are largely optimized for distinct roles in the human system.

>>>Men have a choice to take dangerous jobs.

If men flat-out refused to do dangerous work....our entire industrialized economy would collapse, because at the end of the day all of it is built on top of natural resource extraction. Are you suggesting that all those men digging rare earth metals out of the ground should just #learntocode?

>>>Women don’t have a choice to have medical complications during labour.

But they DO have choice to not get pregnant at all, right? If men are accountable for their choice of profession and the inherent risks, are women not accountable for their reproductive choices and inherent risks? If reducing (obviously gender-skewed) labor complications is a valid societal concern, than shouldn't reducing (also gender-skewed) workplace fatalities also be a valid societal concern? I'm not really sure what you are arguing here with the pregnancy angle.
Haskell and the Nix language are both pure and lazy extensions of lambda calculus, but that's an enormous language space, and Nix's lack of static types makes them pretty distant.

For many Haskellers, I believe the interest stems from how Haskell's "cabal-install" (its closest equivalent to pip, cargo etc) used to be pretty broken. There wasn't universal interest in fixing this, with some insisting that installing dependencies is the job of your distro's package manager, not your language's ecosystem.

Gentoo did an okay job at having coverage of Haskell dependencies, but Nix was the clear leader ever since they could auto-import the hackage database. It's for this sole reason that I moved from Gentoo to Nix.

This pipeline I came through doesn't really exist now, because the Haskell community has endorsed Stackage, and cabal has fixed its core problems by copying the nix solution.
Isn't it nice that a large part of the European economy consists of stuff helping people (the "state activities" you mention) vs. the large part of the US economy that consists of hurting people?
Which PostreSQL scaling pain point would you be referring to? Citus?
This comment gets it. I would say there is a European identity in the sense that we all kind of know our ancestors have been here for a long time and have dominated world history in most regards. Our fellow Europeans neighbors have the same identity, since they did the same thing in general. They also created successful nations. We created humanism in the process. But that’s about where it stops. We mostly killed each other in the whole process after all.

There is no such thing as a European work ethic. Maybe a Spanish or a German, but even those places are diverse.
He means "indigenous" words that evolved along with the rest of the language rather than being adopted from another language.
I think they probably mean if you move countries, for example it took a few months for me to get setup with Iceland’s health service when I moved here.

But there’s easy schemes to retain cover like EHIC.
https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=559
Ok. So lets look at the US on a state level - some got terribly rich, some suffer terribly?
> True. However, since cache is usually transient, adding this key-value store/cache is as easy as "docker run redis". No need to provision block storage, and it's really lightweight in comparison.

If you're using postgres for caching only, as you do Redis, then you also do not need to provision block storage.

If you happen to already have Postgres running for other uses, you also do not need to provision block storage.

Finally, I would add that Redis clients such as Redisson are resource hogs that cause performance problems on apps, while pg clients are barely noticeable.
Why? Redis has persistent data stores, and doesn't necessarily need to be memory only.
Is there a proven role of genetics here or is this pseudoscientific determinism?
Convolutional reverb has the advantage of being able to easily replicate real, recorded rooms. But all of its other properties are worse than an algorithmic reverb when both are implemented correctly.
I did find the PWM quite noticeable on my X when I first got it, but have totally got used to it. I can still sort of detect it at low brightness though. Didn’t consider that it might have a physical impact for some people but it makes sense, as it did make me feel a bit “weird” to look at.
I agree with this and on top of it, the GDP per capita of the EU grew at the same pace as that of the US over the last 20 years only because poorer Eastern European countries are catching up to Western Europe. The GDP growth rates in France, Germany, UK etc have been anemic during the same period.

The EU did a great job at distributing wealth eastward, the GDP per capita of Slovakia for example doubled in the last 20 years, far outpacing the growth in the US.
Also, don't Americans complain all the f**ing time how bad their broadband internet is?
I'm not familiar with the Nix language, but GP said:

> What might throw people off is that it is functional

None of the languages you list are functional, so that could still explain it.
Couldn't read it.
Most whales esophagus are only the size of their prey and they all eat really small stuff largest esophagus of a whale size of a grapefruit. Jonah was supposably swallowed by a big fish that's what it says "fish"
The work mentality is more like "we're the slaves to the coproration, our lives belong to it".

It has nothing to do with “lets do something cool”, “lets solve that problem”, “why can’t we be the best?”.

That's easy to see, if one considers that it's not just the much fewer employees working on things they consider cool that try to solve interesting problems and be the best that willingly don't go for vacations.

The hundreds of millions of US employees in BS companies, with BS products, who don't like their jobs, and don't think they're building something cool, and so on, also don't get to enjoy any significant vacation time.

Heck, papers pushers, burger flipers, and corporate cubicle drones don't get to enjoy vacations. And it's not because the McDonalds employee "wants to build something cool" while burger-flipping...

It's a distortion to make it about "lets do something cool” US mentality vs "I don't care for my job" European mentality. It's purely the puritan work ethic culture, as established by the religious minded people that dominated early America, plus the rampant release of corporate rule and cut-throat neoliberalism post-80s.
I was going to say... the standard approach is to simply partition the data by time, at which point it gets really easy to manage.
Sure, there are different design patterns for different data sizes. This also adds querying complexity, so just depends on what’s needed.

Also, most applications have peak and low periods of load that are predictable (e.g. users concentrated in a given set of time zones) which make for good times to run otherwise disrupting functions, etc.
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> Europe did a better job in distributing wealth more equally

This assumes ex ante a similar quantity of wealth. Europe’s GDP per capita is lower than America’s. Where it’s higher, the growth is slower. The more-even distribution comes at the expense of quality of life or economic power. (Though not for Europe’s well-entrenched multi-generational and often legally-entitled wealthy.)

To be clear, I don’t believe in moralising this spectrum of tolerance of scale and creative destruction versus social stability and economic equality. There are multiple equilibria, and Europe and America’s are mutually compatible. The relationship does, however, require Europe take a backseat to the U.S. and China in certain matters. The Economist is protesting that arrangement. (I, as an American, am not.)
> People often pay electricians even for tasks that are just "flip a switch and turn some screws," after all.

My Grandfather used to tell a story about an old aeroplane that wouldn't start. They found a retired engineer who agreed to come out and look. Did so, had a listen when they tried, And nodded to himself.

From his toolbox he removed a hammer and smacked the engine once sharply. Suddenly it started right up. Magic

He presented them with a bill for £205. "That's absurd, all you did was hit it with a hammer!".

"Ah yes", the engineer replied. "It is £5 to hit the engine, the other £200 is for knowing where to strike"

(This would typically be as part of a discussion of the meaning of "knowledge is power")
Not all use cases require reliable data storage and it is ok lose few seconds of data. Think simple discussion forums, internal chat applications. There are some scenarios where ease of use and a single server scalability pays off in the faster development and devops cost.
That's precisely the joke. "Kernel" here means the minimal feature set that let you compile a kernel. The sentence is tautological, except perhaps for the definition of "minimal", because there are various flavors of "minimal" (e.g. absolute minimum, practical minimum, ergonomic minimum...).
Thanks for the very informative answer!

Regarding point 2), with high enough frequency it does stop for even people very sensitive to this, doesn’t it?
Your standard checking account will (almost) always come with a girocard, which is a national debit card scheme. It can be used to pay in stores, but not online. These cards are typically co-branded with either Maestro or V-Pay, so they can be used on the MC/Visa networks if you're outside of Germany. However, the latter functionality is also restricted to card present transactions. You just cannot use these cards to pay online.
> What drove us off the gold standard was rash actions by a federal government backed into a corner.

What drove us off the gold standard was that the gold standard backed the government into a corner, yes. What drove essentially all macroeconomists to conclude that this was the correct one was new theory about why this had happened, the economic possibilities of this new theory, the new theory turning out to allowing finer control over price stability than the Gold Standard had ever done and the woeful quality of the analysis of the few economists still defending the gold standard.

> For example, if you're in an airplane and you recklessly burn all your fuel because you were having fun going fast and have to eject and abandon your plane to crash, the solution is not "bring more fuel next time" nor "don't use planes anymore".

"Bring more fuel" sounds like a much better solution to fuel-shortage induced aircraft accidents than slowing down to me, and I'm confident that aircraft investigators agree with me.

Assuming that the real problem with running out of fuel isn't the quantity of fuel but that jets aren't limited to early 1900s speeds and engine technologies sounds like a pretty apt analogy for calls to return to a Gold Standard, actually...

> What caused the Long Depression was stupidly removing silver from the monetary supply very suddenly. That was an enormous shock to the economy that happened without enough warning. It was a monetary cliff, and cliffs are bad. Engineering transitions like that to be smooth and slow is the way to avoid that.

I think we can agree on that (though the reason it was removed is because the bimetallic standards with dollars redeemed in fixed quantities for commodities whose actual value ratio fluctuated were absurd). For related reasons, we decided monetary cliffs generated by metallic standards were worse than having an elastic monetary supply. The Great Depression was caused because the Fed could not print enough money to act as the lender of last resort. Again, a situation we seek to avoid by having the actual quantity of money determined by the amount of credit supplied and demanded by the market, rather than simply hoping gold reserves would automagically align with it.
> you're saying Europe should start another World War to make sure their companies stay competitive?

No. You asked how Europe got certain economies of scale. I answered. Through the engines of past wars. Future wars don't guarantee similar results.

If Europe wants globally-relevant big businesses, it will likely require social upheaval on the scale of war. (I’m not betting on it.)
Again, I don't advocate for removing them, but that in order to protect your positive freedoms, the state will have to violate someone else's freedoms, negative or positive.

At the moment, the US has no protection against a political party removing your freedoms from the constitution. If someone were to attempt it, they would be let off scotts-free, so to speak. There is no punishment for saying "poor people shouldn't have the right to vote or freedom of speech", which some of your politicians are already saying in a roundabout way.

And once you lost them, you won't get them back as easily and that will be more dangerous that violating someone's freedoms to protect everyone elses.
Yeah isn't that kind of the idea how innovation in working markets with healthy innovation (i.e. no monopolies preventing innovation by smaller companies) should work? Funny how that is forgotten when it comes to comparing penis sizes.
Or lugged around great big CD players or that monstrous Creative Nomad contraption.
Having grown up in Romania, I remember the seasons and general climate being quite different just ~30 years ago, with much colder winters (and lots of snow) and much milder summer where the ~40C heat waves would last just a couple of days in the summer, not weeks on end.
The British Empire did good things and bad things. From the point of the people colonized, I'm confident it was a lot more bad than good. If you don't believe me, read up on the horrors of the Amritsar massacre, the botched partition of India or the treatment of Kenyan people during the Mau Mau rebellion. So I'm sure there is a lot to cover up. The faintest praise I can offer is - we weren't as bad as the Belgians.
The lack of VC funding is a real problem.

On the other hand, I've seen many EU start-ups with lots of potential, developing things way ahead of the wave. Having ideas and skills is not a problem. Keeping afloat long enough to make them reality is hard.

There is also an important but unspoken cultural factor that really hurts EU initiatives: more-or-less subtle cultural imperialism. No, really, I mean it. As with many things, to succeed in the world of start-ups, you need to be validated by Silicon Valley pundits, to adopt the language of the Silicon Valley, the cultural codes of the Silicon Valley, and ultimately Silicon Valley money etc. That's really hard when you come from a culture that has different definitions of things as basic as "yes", "no" and "please", different definitions of what a good pitch is, different definitions of ethics, of the employer/employee relationship, etc. not to mention the need to live in a foreign language and, to a large extent, in a foreign timezone.

In many cases, the EU start-up bashing I've seen feels like (a reduced form of) poor-bashing, attempting to explain to people who started with fewer chances that everything is their fault.

Now, this doesn't mean that nothing should be done to improve the situation. But I've started to take EU start-up criticism with a pinch of salt.
No expense spared! Still a classic.
I understand how it ends up like this as I myself run a startup with a small tech team. Typically the issue is that we are always looking to add new features versus trying to fix issues from past. But I still believe that with good principles from the beginning, we will be able to build better software without costing us time
Sure, but the license, which open source license?
Intel debates buyout of SiFive to bolster chip technology against Arm
You could very easily create a database view that applies the where query, and even prevent your db user from selecting from the underlying table.

You could also use a library like PG boss to handle the cleanup task.
GP was asking why redis is not a reliable storage solution/database. Redis is great as an unreliable (not source-of-truth) storage.
Couldn't agree more. I loved minidisc but this is what killed it for me
I just hope it stays that way. I fear that all the cynics blaming everything that's bad on politicians and the EU (instead of the voters putting those politicians in power) will eventually degrade trust in that in itself nicely working system ... and then, what's the point defending that system against the populists and fascists wanting to take over? They can't be that much worse ... :-(( [same with media that does a good job in Europe]
I thought this was an interesting quote form that article,

The initial Starfish launch attempt on June 20 was aborted in flight due to failure of the Thor launch vehicle. The Thor missile flew a normal trajectory for 59 seconds; then the rocket engine stopped, and the missile began to break apart. The range safety officer ordered the destruction of the missile and warhead. The missile was between 30,000 and 35,000 feet (9,100 and 10,700 m) in altitude when it was destroyed. Parts of the missile and some radioactive contamination fell upon Johnston Atoll and nearby Sand Island and the surrounding ocean.

The article goes on to describe the flash and what happened in the sky afterwards. It sounds spectacular. I would have loved to have been there to see it. ;p ;) xx
Edit: I believe you are referring to "Is There Anything Good About Men?": http://www.denisdutton.com/baumeister.htm. It was discussed multiple times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Is+There+Anything+Good+About+Men%3...
> Only idiots think [x]... I'm not calling people names to be mean here; I'm trying to save your lives.

If you don't mean to call people names, my advice is to not call them names.

For instance, in this particular case, a perfectly intelligent person whose expertise is in another area of software development might have been misinformed. In this case, you're going to achieve your goal (saving "lives") for more effectively if you state (a) what you mean by "a DB" and (b) why it is always a worse decision to use Redis as a DB than to use some other tool for that end.
I don't see that Nix would be more widespread if it used (say) JavaScript instead of Nix-lang for its expressions.

When you face problems, I'm sure it's more likely that you won't know how to do it with NixOS/Nixpkgs, rather than you'll know exactly what needs to be done but don't know how to express it in Nix-lang.
Looks like a few were: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/155951-games-written-in-fo...

These were written by third parties and published by Atari. Atari did not have any game programmers on the payroll at that point (all the software folks were working on the ST and related things). There might have been some contracting going on, but the days of an Atari employee coming up with a new game idea and shipping a new cartridge were gone.
Right, but Greek fits that description. Three languages in Europe have a native word for elephant.
Just wanted to mention that!
In Serbian (and most other south Slavic languages) we use a word слон (slon) for elephant. I was always wondering why is that, how can we have native word for the animal we could hardly had chance to see.
However, there’s some evidence that (south) Slavic people lived somewhere near India. And India is mentioned a lot in some of the tradional folk poems. There’s even a town in Serbia called Inđija.
Really interesting stuff, but not sure how credible that theory is.
It is actually possible :) (with some assumption on the distribution of the simulations)
Complex sims are less likely, so the likelihood of increasing optional complexity of our sim should be slim, for instance interstellar travel. It's still unsolved how much unlikely, but if you have a large enough increase in complexity (say interstellar travel over billions of light years) you will hit sims which are unlikely enough.

(https://osf.io/ca8se, I'm the author)
Ethiopia and the Internet Society sign new pact to advance the digital economy
… languages, markets, histories, governments etc etc
I think the article is assuming you already have Postgres for data storage and arguing against the addition of redis when that is the case, for the given common requirements that typically calls for the addition of redis into the mix.
What a weird thing to say since you don't know what code I wrote, but anyway my larger point is all of us programmers and IT workers should be proud of what we have accomplished. We all together made those companies possible. Now the fact that I live here and we're part of a community is just a cherry on top for me, but that part seems to annoy people so I'll never mention it again and keep it as my private enjoyment.
For pub/sub, I would recommend against using PostgreSQL if you're doing it at any kind of scale because LISTEN ties up one connection completely and Postgres connections are very expensive compared to a redis connection.
Has anyone tested how listen/notify in pg (for in-memory databases) compares to pub/sub in Redis?
What happened to RabbitMQ? Is that not used as a queue any more?
So if they can't handle my tax money that I worked really really hard for why would I trust them to count votes in an election?
in London, UK, which is a different beast than the continent.
> The more-even distribution thus comes at the expense of quality of life.

What are you talking about? We have fairer elections, better infrastructure, more social security, everyone's got health insurance, we're not getting shot in school, and also we're not on the way to be ruled by a fascist so ... how exactly are you measuring the quality of life?
If you genuinely hold these views, I strongly suggest leaving London for a week, heading to an industrial town in the North and asking them how privileged they feel to be a white British male.
No, the FDA doesn't deny people who are dying the ability to choose their treatment. What nonsense is this? There used to be requirements to document the treatment, but even that went away.

Or do you mean in the cases where there are already treatments? Because, yes, then take medicine not Dr. Mike's Magic Tonic.
I feel like the Democratic party has constantly pushed back and fought against any type of new identification forms. No identification to get benefits no identification to vote
Having moved to the EU from the US nearly a decade ago I really have to agree - everything happens at a _glacial_ pace. Not just business - everything. Buying a house takes months, getting anything built takes months, medical appointments take months, paperwork for immigration takes _years_, the "grants" from the government for innovation are maybe a few months' pay in the US, and notice periods you have to give your employer are customarily _shockingly_ long. Why the hell should I have to work for 3 months after giving notice?!?!!

The EU gets a lot of things right but starting a company here would be playing on hard mode, to say the least.
The Nix language is functionally a Lisp. It just has curly braces for sets/records, and like five keywords (e.g. with, inherit). If you learn a Lisp you'll basically know how to use Nix after reading about the syntactic differences. You can learn it in a day or two if you put in the effort, it's really not complex.

I think what people actually mean is that Nixpkgs is confusing, because that has a ton of weird utility/helper functions that you just need to know, esp. when it comes to what argument they take (which being dynamic doesn't help with at all) and Nixpkgs functions have historically had bad documentation.
Work is just a paycheque. If they stopped paying me, I'd stop showing up. I really doubt I'll greet the reaper with the regret of not spending more time at the office.

I did cool stuff at work, but without work, I could do much cooler things.