skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For other readers, the `UPDATE` step is an exact anlogue of the "compare-and-set" atomic instruction [0]. It's really cool to see how you've realized it in SQL!

As a capability, compare-and-swap has an infinite consensus number [1], meaning it's sufficient to implement wait-free consensus algorithms with an arbitrary number of participants. That makes it a perfect fit for managing a scalable pool of workers that need to coordinate on consuming from a queue!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compare-and-swap

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_(computer_science)#C...
A lot of white Europeans in the U.S have a horrible quality of life, Trump would probably not have been elected otherwise.
That in Thailand that would cost almost nothing. And personally, it is much nicer on probably almost everything besides the small issue that the country is completely owned by the military. But yes, you are right: rich is also better in NL. But it is not 1000x better: it is just better. Subjective of course; if you enjoy driving McLarens into trees then rich is a lot better.

I have the feeling, and again, I do not live there so I cannot be sure (and can you be even if you live there?) But from books, docus and US friends, the difference is not 1000x even. It is just another world. That is simply not true here.

I guess it is a matter of taste if you can stomach that inequality. I walked (yes, strange EU thing where one uses legs instead of wheels) through some part of Fort Lauderdale and it looked like a bloody war zone. I could not live in a country that permits that. Your have poor here but that is exclusively mentally challenged(or what is the current PC term?) People who get help but always fall back, and very few of them. I recognize the vagrants in my home city from decades ago: still the same people: they have a state provided house and get help but it does not help. You cannot fix that. But rows of addicts turned criminals lining the streets in tents and worse. In the richest country on earth. Rich people should be ashamed that happens on their doorstep. They can and should fix it today.
Maybe I can reformulate my position then, so that it’s clearer: people have demand for certain kind of security of their financial assets - security that guarantees any attacker would have to spend some amount of energy to perform a successful attack. Whether bitcoin exists or not - that demand will be fulfilled and that amount of energy will be spent.
Ivy League is the last intellectual bastion of the country.

If you break up Ivy League all you are left with is Silicon Valley cult of personality snake-oil salesmen and pump & dumpers posing as experts in every possible field when in reality their solely expertise is building social consensus around them.

How many nuclear fusion companies which are quietly shaping the roadmap for obtaining fusion in the next 20 years came out of MIT/Stanford/Harvard?

Facebook spun off Harvard, Microsoft spun off Harvard, Google spun off Stanford, Amazon spun off Princeton with a bit of D.E. Shaw thrown in the mix.

The author seems to me has watched too many videos from Lex Friedman and Eric Weinstein type where they endlessly talk about how broken those institutions are and never fail to mention Epstein for the extra views that it will generate.

As Bill Gates said the mainstream is always under attack and people of course will charge head down towards such Universites, forgetting how they (very much like the companies emerging from such Universities) are the envy of the world.
Do some reading about King Leopold and the Congo. I am not aware that anything the British Empire did was that horrific. And if we did, I think it would be very hard to cover up.
You can't make the Linux kernel isolation of processes as secure as Xen or Firecracker or SEL4 can. Yes, processes can be restricted to subset of syscalls and system resources but Linux is just too big and its attack surface is too big to put it on the same level of confidence as above hypervisors.
zile is great, it's only major problem being lack of Unicode support
I'm working on writing a paper along those lines. I do believe that the answer to "why there is something rather than nothing?" may be: actually nothing is the only thing that exist, but its instability creates our apparent reality trough a self-referential observer-observed reality loop. I would love to chat, use my research email.
One of my friends had a later NETMD and I remember that only taking seconds to convert and copy MP3s to disk. The software was horrible though.
They are produced in Europe (Bosch, STM, Infineon etc.. have way more factories in Europe then outside it) and pay taxes there.
On large monitors, browsers are still picking the image tagged as 1x, and not the 2x or 3x versions, because the DPI of the monitor is 1x, but since the screen dimensions are large, the 1x image becomes pixelated or just too small.
> the aforementioned corporations grew 500%-1000% in their profits and valuations since 2010. Meanwhile, the US productivity has grown by 4.7%. Had the SV tech been a clear net positive to the economy, the productivity growth would look different

This is not necessarily true. The American economy is huge. Sections can grow slowly, sections can grow fast, all adding value while the bulk grows moderately.

> When the tech/telecom was truly creating new value (1995-2005), the productivity growth was at 27% that decade

4.7% growth accumulates to close to 60% over ten years. (EDIT: I misread the original comment.)
Pfft. Where is this true outside of Japan??

And don’t messed this up themselves by not allowing you to do a digital copy from md devices, since they’d just bought a music studio.

Also, rather than use mp3 like everyone else, they created there own format.
I have learned SO MUCH about effective kitchen workflow and organization from those PoV videos. It's a completely different kettle of fish than the fancy videos where you just see conveniently pre-cut stuff falling into a pot.
FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26666142
My Sony tape deck needed some repair (the rubber parts dried up from age) and I took it to a Sony repair shop. They said it would be expensive to repair, and I could get a minidisc player cheaper and it would sound better.

They were right. That was the end of my reel-to-reel.

Recordable CDs terminated my interest in MD.

MP3 terminated my interest in CDs.

And so it goes.
Thank you for asking this question. I have learned a lot from this thread :)
Could you provide a link to evidence obtained using your own device? Or perhaps a description of the tests you performed to determine substantial equivalence to the predicate devices?
I guess that is what happens when you let a private corporation (The East India Company) run a sub-continent for profit with its own army. At least Google and Facebook don't have their own armies (yet)!
It's apples versus oranges with rabbits in the middle.
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The adenoviruses already attach to red blood cells and have the blood clotting issue with or without the extra genetic load they carry in the COVID-19 vaccine case. It's been known of over a decade and I wonder why no precautions are prescribed before and after the shots.
I can't really take a blog post seriously that claims to introduce responsive design, yet still uses pixel defined sizes like it's 2005. 1200px is nothing on a 4k monitor.

In my opinion your best bet is to forget about all this px-fuckery and drop the `<img>` all together. Use a `<div>` with a `background-image`, and use media queries to control how the `background-image` is cropped, zoomed, or whatevered.

In general, `<img>` is a huge pain in the ass. It seems to defy all known layout rules and models, and I pretty much never want it to take up the x*y pixels that the image source is. I want it to take 100% of the width, or contain and crop it in 100% of the height, but all of this is notoriously annoying with an `<img>` tag. Seriously, use a `div` with a `background-image`. The semantics of having an image in an `<img>` tag don't matter, no one cares about it and your users won't notice it.
Especially viewed through a market cap lens, this could be rephrased from "corporate" to "software/tech." Interesting how different the article and comments go, If rephrased this way.

The way these discussions go depends a lot on definitions, anchor points and framing. Framing around market cap, accounted value add, tax or number of employees yields a different article entirely... With totally different conclusions.

Even the "EU" as a definition, isn't perfectly parallel to China and the US. There's no national pride or coherency to the EU.

I'm Irish. Google, FB, Intel, dell, etc. employ almost everyone I know. We wouldn't see these as more "ours" if they were Dutch companies. They're just "MNCs." MNCs don't have homes, as it is seen here.

Even Irish founded MNCs like Ryanair aren't really seen as Irish companies, and no one cares emotionally about EU founded companies. Belarus fighters recently grounded a Ryanair flight to arrest and torture dissident. It barely made the news, and there was no sense that this was a national issue. We don't have an air force, and the EU doesn't do geopolitics... so there's really no way of making it one. An American Airlines flight would have had totally different politics.

I'm not sure which perspective is the operative one. Multinationals have employees, customers, regulators, and taxmen in arbitrary locations. Which do we care about?

Facebook and Twitter, for example, a showing that cultural Americanness means something in itself. The policies and controversies are being built around American politics and culture. They're not scrambling to find an appropriate (or inappropriate) place in the Burmese or Sudanese info-political context. Whatever happens elsewhere will be derivative of decisions tailored to an American context.

Not sure where I'm going with all this.
US upward social mobility is among the worst in the world. US workers are stuck in a rat race that simply doesn't exist to the same extent in Europe.
I take an "aggregator approach" and I have used multiple APIs like Plaid, Finicity, SaltEdge and TrueLayer at my startup. In my opinion: all are far from perfect, though Plaid is moving in the right direction. Finicity is currently my favourite, though they're not "modern" by Silicon Valley standards.

My gripes with Plaid:

- Support really sucks. They have boilerplate answers to common problems, and I have several issues in their backlog (missing transactions, duplicate transactions, failing API endpoints) that have been broken for months. Compared to Finicity, which usually resolves support issues within a week.

- System reliability issues. Completely broken with Capital One (despite continuing to offer it as an "option"), doesn't work with most banks that have 2FA enabled, and still has an adversarial relationship with most banks (though that is changing with the new OAuth connections).

However, Plaid is still by far the biggest, and I trust that these things will improve with time. If I was going to get married to a single provider and I wanted a "future-proof" solution I would bet my money on Plaid.

Global coverage in Europe is a different story. I would go with Nordigen.
Sony was really at its peak during early 2000s, MD was the crown of jewel, single battery supporting that kind of play back time with a spinning disc inside is really impressive.
However in terms of market share, it is still behind tape and CD even in Asia. New albums released directly in MD is super rare, most of the time you need to have a CD, buy the CD version then record it to an empty MD.
When I was a kid, only “rich kids” had a MD and a CD, majority were just using CD or even tape. Cheap MP3s started coming out around 2000 but never took off, then iPod and its mimics basically killed Tape, CD and MD all together.
So much inaccuracies, where to begin?

No, libel/slander/defamation has nothing to do with distributing factual information, including expunged records.

Judges can't order you not to publish factual information. If they do, it's against the constitution and your First Amendment rights.

While a person can claim the event never happened, it doesn't change the fact that it did, and doesn't take your constitutional rights from talking about it.

On the extortion note, see the techdirt link.
Israel had the same findings though.
There's a very long and intense discussion waiting to happen in feminist circles about "consent to sex is not consent to fatherhood".

It's been waiting since the early '70ies and it's still convinced that it's moment will come. Soon, very soon.

The poor thing.
This is actually a very interesting video. Reflection effects look very realistic.
> MiniDisc was a huge success for Sony, and was the winner of the tape-replacement format war in virtually every country - except the USA.

No, it wasn’t. Walkman, discman, ipod. _That’s_ how it went virtually everywhere
Having actual apps go a long way. Especially if it’s trying to be an AirDrop like app and these apps not being electron apps is such an added bonus.
Love the concept.
isnt this also the case for redis pubsub?
> Creating and deleting a lot of data on PG is a pain because of MVCC and vacuum. One useful trick is to partition data into tables and to truncate/drop entire tables, drop/truncate is instant and reclaims space immediately.

In this case, the requirement is that user data must only be kept for a certain time and not longer.

If that time is a property of the record create and we're allowed to keep the data with an error of a day, I guess it's easy: We partition the table on a daily basis, and delete any partition that is older than 28 days old. Sometimes, a record will be closer to 29 days old when it's deleted, but we accepted that, and it's easy enough to write queries so that it's unavailable to the application if it's more than exactly 28*24*60*60 seconds old if that's our constraint.

If the requirement is to keep it based on the last of a certain kind of use, we'd need to move it from one partition to another if we need to keep it. For instance, if we can keep data for 28 days after the user last longs in, we can't just drop the partition - unless we've moved the user each day they log in.

If we have that kind of a constraint, where data lifespan is based on properties that change over the lifetime of the data, is partitioning + drop actually a useful approach? The drop will still be instant, I guess, but it's the movement of data over its lifetime that concerns me here.
I don't really see an issue with this - and hope it is the case. I imagine hard-hitting journalism takes some thought, while clickbait lists take a different type of work and can be more relaxed and creative. The two probably compliment each other fairly well.
So far no "FDA certificates" are posted. Instead, you run a rush campaign asking people to buy it within two days to save $130. Why would anyone in their right mind buy this before having any proof this actually works?
I beg to differ. The fact is hard working immigrants in the US have a much higher chance of becoming successful than in Europe.

Pretty much all the US tech companies are now run by immigrants of minority backgrounds while, for example, Eastern European and Turkish immigrants in Germany are still regarded as cleaners and kebab salesmen, with the only notable exception they can name being the Turkish CEO of BionTech.
Another alternative is GoodJob:

https://island94.org/2020/07/introducing-goodjob-1-0

https://github.com/bensheldon/good_job
The point of departure is market cap vs other measures. US companies have gained a lot of value, relative to their GDP contributions... hence the discrepancy.
Europe _has_ monetized these thing, through open source companies like MySQL and QT. But even if it hadn't they're still a net positive for society.
> Are there circumstances when something should be banned, and how does that work on a blockchain?

My answer is No.

The "genuinely harmful content" is minimally harmful compared to the damage censorship can do.

The problem is always with people being dicks, not the information. E.g. a jilted lover posting porn videoes of an ex is only a problem because the lover will deliberately attempt to show them to the ex and the ex's social contacts (and even that is only harmful because some people are judgemental bastards. Yes, some people like scat, get over it), so target the lover with harassment charges rather than making the information distribution illegal.

I'm a bit of a freedom of information purist, I think a world with 0 censorship would be better than the current one, as the censors will always be tempted to censor more and more things to advance their interests. The maximum badness from zero censorship is much much lower than the maximum badness with censorship.
I’d love to know why you think quality of life is higher in the US.
I think one of the draws of redis was, back when it came out, how simple it was to set up and maintain in comparison to an RDBMS.
A lot of people certainly died through indifference, neglect and their resources being misappropriated (e.g. Bengal famine, Irish potato famine, Highland clearances etc). But I'm not aware that the British Empire ever did anything deliberately genocidal, in the way that, say, the Nazis or the Romans attempted to destroy whole peoples.
It takes a big company to do this at scale and the network effect makes useful social networks scarce.

Counterexample: email
Bitcoin falls 5.71% To $35,210
Thank goodness for this. A true cross platform alternative to AirDrop, Dukto and Dropcopy that actually works everywhere. Not a dreadful Electron app and also works on mobile devices as well and best of all is open source.

No walled gardens, no subscriptions and no deliberate limitations on number of devices.

Well done.
Breaking up Big Tech in focus as new U.S. antitrust bills introduced
Very useful! Tried the iPhone and Windows clients and they works!
If you need dynamic allocation, you can invent a Forth dialect for your specific needs. And implement it in Forth. A domain-specific language for your problem domain, embedded in Forth.

Consider control statements like conditionals or loops. They are implemented in Forth to express what is essential for imperative programming.

You can just as easily implement region handling much like what Cyclone [1] did. Invent region, dispose region, allocate within region, etc. You can augment semicolon word to not only check for control statements to be valid, but also check for region handling correctness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_(programming_language)

Of course, you have to be either well educated or highly inventive to do that. ;)

And at the time of Atari most of programming projects were expensive disasters, not only games written in Forth.
Devil's advocate here. They almost all have small populations: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands combined have less people than Spain which isn't that happy. On average I'd gamble the whole EU is about as happy as the U.S
Successful items are deleted from the queue before they expire. So an item with expired > current time needs to be retried because it failed processing. So, a cronjob resets these to expire 0 and the next worker can pick them up.
I don't think op is gonna admit to being a lunatic, even if they do engage in such behaviors like thinking that working 16h per day isn't insanity
Apple and Android didn't make Nokia irrelevant. Nokia made bad decisions and chose the losing player. After which said losing player gutted it.

Nokia had the might to a) build their own great OS, and b) continue to be a market leader. But when you have management making bad decisions, this is all you get. Whether you're in the EU or in the US, doesn't matter.
I think the lesson is rather: don't use text based protocols for data serialization if you care about precision. Such things should never happen with a binary protocol.
I think the ability to google things has provided immense, incalculable value, even if it's not value showing up in gdp figures.
>Why wouldn't an international tech co just be able to acquire domestic companies and/or launch products at a significant loss to gain market share in the US?

Because international companies wouldn't be exempt from US regulation if they operate in the US.
Europe gave us GSM[0]. At a time when everyone in Europe had a GSM phone penetration in the US was embarassingly low.

It's hard to remember now, but Nokia exploded in the consumer market at a time when mobile phones were still niche in the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
Giraffes: not really dangerous. They graze on the tops of trees. I don't know much about it, which leads me to think that "giraffe danger" isn't a thing that gets talked about because it's not much of a thing.

Ostrich: They're not bright - the bird's eyeball is bigger than its brain. Last ostriches that I saw were a whole herd that came up to the fence with open mouths in anticipation of snacks, which was kinda cute. I guess a large male could get aggressive and the kick would be very nasty?

Hipppo: Very dangerous. They may be herbivorous but they're aggressive and territorial. They will flatten you if they're in a bad mood, and they're almost always in a bad mood. A hippo is 2 tons of bastard; and don't bother running, they're faster than you, on land or in water. Best to avoid them entirely.

I'm not joking, google "most dangerous large animal in Africa", read about hippos and how they kill more humans than any other African animal larger than a mosquito.
In east Asia, it is true that it holds the high end Walkman market till at least 2003. People see MP3s as cheap plastic toys until iPod and iRiver took off.
Reproducible Data Processing Pipelines
The military industry does indeed have the objective of hurting people, and it’s an important part of the US economy.
Newspapers print news, sports, comics, and celebrity gossip. I guess we were wrong for ever looking at the news since they also publish fluff?

Same for news on television, honestly.

It is quite possible for a company to do more than one type of article and be decent-to-excellent at both.
Even just having your face recorded (after which, if it turned out you were a hacker, it could go on wanted posters or whatever) might be a significant deterrent.
Reminds me of this great youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNMkADpvO4w
It’s fun to include the hypothetical market value of ones stuff in ones net worth. It’s not particularly instructive.

It would also be interesting to know HMQE2’s liquid assets. It is all too common to be castle-rich and cash-poor.
The way we did it (in MYSQL) was "UPDATE tasks SET processid=<unique id for the queue consumer task> WHERE processid IS NULL ORDER BY taskid LIMIT 1" and then look for processid to find your task. I guess the LIMIT on UPDATE might be an mysql extension? Then if your task crashes or dies you can look for invalid processids and do cleanup
"Bitcoin dropped 5.71% to $35,210 at 0600 GMT on Saturday, losing $2,131.11 from its previous close."

What exactly is a Bitcoin 'close,' reuters?
You can check some objective data here - OECD Better Life Index: http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/
Intel, Nvidia, AMD and Apple M1 chips are (mostly) not made in the US but they generate more revenue for the US tech sector as they're high-margin products and their US based designers extract most of the value from their sales with Asian based manufacturers TSMC and Samsung being next in the food chain and quite recently announced building new cutting edge fabs in the US, instead of Europe. That should tell you something.

Europe making high volume low margin chips is not bad (especially in the current shortage) but is not the best position in the market you'd want to be in, especially long term with China hot on your heels. Just ask any business analyst.
It doesn’t matter if the total goes up. Also US population is not declining, so not “all”.