skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether or not it was Nixon and friends acting like racists is secondary. Tons of individuals and institutions piled on because there was power and money in it for them.
That's what I have been waiting for. Gonna test it on Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS till the end of the week and report if I encounter any issues.
Best regards!
For someone who hasn't followed closely, what exactly is meant by "War on Drugs" in the article? Is it a specific policy they are referring to or do they mean combatting illegal drugs in general?

I think we can all agree that illicit drugs can cause damage to societies. Even the article mentions it in regards to the opioid crisis, which continues to decimate Americans across the nation. Maybe it would be wiser to call out the failure of the strategy and execution by the US government and not the original premise.
Well, not time-interrupted but there absolutely is a way to schedule n steps of each core, isn’t there? Similarly to how the universal Turing machine is constructed, or how the nondeterministic TM is made deterministic.
> My new tech lead is talking about switching from MongoDB to one of those.

File under, "not sure if a very good joke, or serious".

I'm leaning toward the former. "New tech lead" is the give-away (or is it?).
Thanks for your detailed thoughts on this, I am definitely not involved at all and just onlooking from the sidelines. The name does initially seem quite esoteric but I can understand why it was picked. Thinking about it more 'io' rather than 'syscall' does make sense, and Windows also does use IO in IOCP.
>if no one shows up to fix them after years

>volunteers to work on them

This discussion happens literally every week on reddit and other places. Same arguments and same conclusions from both "sides", not worth having it, nothing is gained.

>GNOME's wayland implementation won't affect users of other desktops.

Affects developers, and GTK itself when used. Or not if you don't think they are issues of course.
‘Something’s going on’: UFOs threaten national security, US politicians warn
That's exactly the trade off, isn't it? Either you do the work to store the relationships and save on the compute and memory cost later, or you pay as you go to build it in real time with a relational database. It's horses for courses.
I really enjoyed using OneNote on Windows or Mac but no native Linux client turned out to be a deal breaker for me. Web app is sluggish and limited, then using it through Wine was pretty buggy. I finally gave up and switched to a platform agnostic solution.
Counterpoint: The war on drugs has been progressively ramped down since the late 90s. NYTimes wrote a long story about how during the feds quit using tactics such as convicted drug dealers to flip on their bosses, etc. We aren't putting as many drug dealers in jail and we aren't putting many drug users in jail. What you get is an epic rise in opioid deaths over the past 30 years and chaos on the streets of our cities.

Given what LA/SF/Portland streets look like with this eased-back war on drugs, it is possible the war was doing a lot.
There is also a manga titled Homunculus about a man who gains a sixth sense after trepanation.
If you're not vetting the candidates, it seems like that's bad both of candidates and companies.
Where I live that's not really a worry and you still don't see children outside all that much by themselves, not like when I was a kid. You see a couple every now and then, when I was little outside belonged to the kids after school let out.
That title makes no sense whatsoever. In what way did it "rain marijuana"?
The simple slogan of "defund the police" in fact leads to vociferous disagreement among individual activists and organizations about what that means, i.e. whether simply refusing the police military hardware and funding levels, or ending the existence of police outright and replacing them with an unarmed, locally organized neighborhood patrol.

"The war on drugs has been a failure and should end" seems like a similar can of worms. Should the state take the approach of decriminalizing drugs but still aiming to reduce their use by allowing addicts only recourse to medical treatment in special centers? Or should things take a libertarian path and allow citizens to put whatever they want into their own bodies whenever they want?
Many are missing the point, this is a story about transgender rights, not about psychologist knowledge.

The original article, linked in the post, starts with:

“I’ve made this argument before and gotten a reply something like this:

Transgender is a psychiatric disorder. When people have psychiatric disorders, certainly it’s right to sympathize and feel sorry for them and want to help them. But the way we try to help them is by treating their disorder, not by indulging them in their delusion.”

And then goes to explain the "Hair Dryer Incident" as a counter point.
Don’t quote me on this, pretty sure I’m wrong. The Fed bought assets (with the agreement to give it back for even higher rates of return). I heard one interpretation of this being that the moneys worth less than the assets and the fed is looking for ways to incentivize financial institutions to take money.
Redis also supports ‘Redis on Flash’ (use SSDs to augment RAM), but it is part of their Enterprise product.
Legal and purity regulated heroin would have by far the biggest impact, because of the scourge of fentanyl deaths.

If I had to choose between legal cannabis and legal heroin, I’d choose the latter on utilitarian grounds. (Although obviously I support both wholeheartedly.)
If Apple doesn't want to be in the business of keeping Python up to date, I can't possibly imagine them wanting to be in the business of keeping one thousand Pythons up to date.
epoll is based on a "readiness" model (i.e. it tells when when you can start I/O). io_uring is based on a "completion" model (i.e. it tells you when I/O is finished). The latter is like Windows IOCP, where the C stands for Completion. Readiness models are rather useless for a local disk because, unlike with a socket, the disk is more or less always ready to receive a command.
I also imagine the same people pronounce the other word "cee oh cee kay".

I myself pronounce it so it rhymes with and sounds identically to "cock", for several reasons.
I'd say unless you also started calling Retiro -which holds one of the oldest actual slums, Villa 31-, Flores, Floresta, Colegiales, Paternal, San Justo and Avellaneda slums, hosting a couple sketchy places does not a slum make.

I grew up in there and up to a couple years ago when I emigrated I visited regularly. Yes, it is a dock workers neighborhood packed with immigrants, not a cool location with 5 usd empanada-in-a-jar type restaurants but it's not a slum unless everything is.
Some font-families might want these letters to look different for some reason. Even if they look the same perhaps the boldfaced or italics should behave differently, perhaps the spacing should be different etc.

I’m not a font designer but I can imagine that the micro sign often appears around Latin letters whereas the Greek letter mu doesn’t, so that font designers might space them differently for that reason.

For fun I compared 10µm (upper; using the micro sign) with 10μm (lower; using the greek letter mu) in the comic sans font face. https://imgur.com/qwnnAqD
"I forgot that in python getting list elements by index is O(1) instead of O(n) which is what I'm personally used to with lists."

Have you considered that maybe this is a sign you're too deep into using impractical programming languages?

Cleanness for immutable data structures aside, linked list are a very poor way to store data given the way computer architectures are designed.
> It's helping law enforcement maintain high budgets.

And not just in the obvious, direct ways of pointing out drug crime and asking for funding. E.g., I recall studies of DARE’s impacts showing that it had no measurable impacts on drug use, drug abuse, or drug-related crime among students directly participating or communities, but did have a measurable positive impact on participating students attitudes toward law enforcement.
> Why would they deliberately put duplicates in unicode though?

IIRC, to enable adoption. Many of the codepoints were adopted from other encoding systems, and it was often useful to support 2-way conversions without loss while Unicode was being adopted.

What's a "duplicate" is also sometimes in the eye of the beholder.
Creating a Self-Hosted Git Server (With a Simple Front-End)
Joke aside, you really do not care about the environment if consider crypto mining on AWS.
I heard/read a similar mental "hack" about folks who fear leaving things "on" when travelling. Take pictures with your phone of all the things just before you leave. They'd be easily available, verifiable evidence that the stove is off, all the doors are closed/locked, furnace set, water shut off, and so on.
This seems like deeply wise advice in a forum which is mostly too rational. Thank you.

I feel like this is the sort of insight that I could use to understand why any of my friends or people I respect have been able to "settle" for a life which in the end is deeply fulfilling (vs my own approach which may always be seeking something more exciting but shallow.)

I feel like you're touching on a critical point by mentioning that by committing to something which may be not be the interesting life, you hit upon something which could be far more fulfilling. This is experiencing life on another level. This is something you aren't even aware of as you're hesitating to commit.

"and the rest is actually made up by your own faith and hard work in deepening the relationship"

And this is something I must have heard from everyone who has made a significant contribution to my cultural development (parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, community leaders.)

Maybe you should be the one to be teaching the course. Thank you! I would love to talk to you more if you read this comment.
What makes it best at note taking in your eyes?
In corporate finance something like a ROI is seen as telling the future. I can’t tell you how common it is to revisit something on an “let’s understand why the ROI is off” basis. And them not understand when I point out not a single assumption held true. More often than not aggressive assumptions were used to validate the strategy and gain approvals and it was always going to fall short. In my role, CYA is a huge deal.
Should not be a surprise if you are using Aurora hopefully.
Papers on the topic are very clear on how they scale the storage.
Different strokes, I guess; I can't count the number of people that openly gush about _why's Ruby book with the cats or whatever, but to me it just read like the ravings of a highly functional something-opath. But reasonable people can disagree, and I'm sure I'll get downvoted for disagreeing with the hivemind.
Ruby, the language, is almost as flexible and dynamic as Smalltalk. It's just that it didn't come with an integrated graphical environment like Smalltalk.

For a glimpse of "what is possible", take a look at TkInspect (1), a set of gems that I'm working on that provide some of the goodies of that GUI, like an interactive, graphical console, a live inspector, a class browser or turtle graphics.

At the moment it's not more than a toy, but it does definitely show what can be done.

(1) https://github.com/josepegea/tk_inspect
I'm salty towards the platform because they rejected me a few years ago, and my ego has barred me from using them again despite their outreach. I was also very unhappy when I heard about the public profiles. I don't want people to see that I interviewed poorly, or to have any kind of public record of that. I'm a decent engineer, I swear!

I had some bad luck. My nodejs build broke after a recent update on my machine, which I didn't realize until right before the interview. During a test with a different language, I tried to define a constant with the same name as a built-in function and ran into a vague compiler error (something about missing parentheses, ugh). This language has case-insensitive function names to compound the confusion. I unfortunately looked up how to define a constant in the docs. Their conclusion was that "I was uncomfortable in the language," despite having used it for 10 years. There was some other feedback which I felt was inaccurate, I think I just had a bad day, and obviously didn't convey my knowledge and experience well. I could see why a recruiter would hard pass on me for some of the stumbles, since their main goal is to forward candidates who interview well. It hurt to get rejected.
Crypto Sci-Hub and the Decentralization of Science
Except for developers starting out, it's 15% to Apple or Google if you're making under 1 million.

I'm very confused why Amazon changed their cut and are still above the big players (unless you value AWS credits 1:1 with dollars).
By my own logic we need no new regulation, we have what we need. If something is fraud prosecute it as fraud, which is already illegal.
You can say it’s secondary, but it’s a good answer to the question raised by the parent: “it would be very interesting to know the reasoning to start it.”
I completely agree.

Modern architecture has been such a mistake.

And this has nothing to do with my political views.

In fact it makes me sad that poor folks more commonly have to deal with living in these bland monoliths.
Decriminalization and legalization are different things.
You could use something like Wireshark to do it with binary protocols. Also lots of binary protocols/formats support a text format to make them readable, e.g. Wasm and Capnp
It's pretty hard to get info on the industry as well.

Jpay, for example, is a subsidiary of a private company, and does the "fund a prisoners commissary account" as well as "send a prisoner a email" type services.

Here's their fees for money transfers for the Texas Prisoners:

$ 0.00 - 9.99 $2.45

$ 10.00 - 19.99 $3.45

$ 20.00 - 49.99 $6.45

$ 50.00 - 99.99 $8.45

$ 100.00 - 199.99 $10.45

$ 200.00 - 300.00 $12.45

They also charge it as a cash advance, which
can result in additional charges from your bank.

Ouch.
Tether is also non-collateralised, they just pretend the money is in ‘corporate paper’. All of these stable coins are a fraud.
It feels disingenuous to say that the OP was implying a drone would have the same LO/stealth capabilities as a B-1 of F-22.

By their nature, a drone could be harder to detect than another threat. A small drone will have a small radar return, and battery powered electric motors will generate less of a thermal signature than a rocket motor.

I'm not at all saying that a CIWS or CRAM would be totally ineffective against a drone or a swarm of drones, but that they may not be the impenetrable shield, either. There are limitations to sensors, target classification, rules of engagement (will the CRAM automatically light up a drone with 50 rounds if the backstop is an office building or residential block?), and ammunition capacity.

Let's take CRAM, AFAIK they are mostly installed to protect against indirect fires, so that may imply that they're tuned/configured against certain incoming projectile trajectory, speed profiles, and radar returns. Bird like radar signatures may be filtered out, or level flight trajectories that do not indicate an impact within the protected area. Nothing that can't be changed, of course, but such change might come after a few bloody engagements.

In a true future war scenario it wouldn't be one hobbyist drone with a jury rigged mortar round against a CRAM installation either, I would expect there to be drones flying around blasting out wide-band EM hash, dropping lines of chaff, and using other measures to clutter the battlespace and confuse and overload defending sensors to allow offensive devices to get through and damage or destroy their targets.
A large portion, in my opinion. You can disagree.
I think maybe I was (am?) reading too much into it because when I initially read that paragraph it just left me more confused! I guess I don’t really understand how the accounting of it works because they called it a “revenue share” which made me think one sale would result in:

$80 in developer revenue

$20 in Amazon revenue

But it also said the AWS credits will be based off of the developer’s revenue and judging by the “equivalent of 90%” it would seem that Amazon sees the transaction as more like:

$100 in developer revenue

($20) in developer expenses to list on the app store resulting in

$20 in Amazon revenue

But I wouldn’t consider that revenue sharing?
>Given what LA/SF/Portland streets look like with this eased-back war on drugs, it is possible the war was doing a lot.

You don't need to run a war on drugs to enforce existing laws about petty property crime and laws that criminalize the most abrasive of homeless behavior.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27536564
This is mentioned in the article, but one thing I'd call out that can't be understated is reviewing patches and testing. This has been for years and continues to be an area that more help is always very welcome. It's a great way to get your feet wet, and try to chip in to the overall quality of Postgres. Even now looking at the commitfest app[1] there is quite a few patches that anyone could jump in and try to help review.

[1] https://commitfest.postgresql.org/33/
Pivoting your server or software stack is like changing a floor in a building.

Changing your network stack is like changing the foundations of the building.

Sure you can do it, but the bigger your building, the harder and more expensive it's going to be.

There's a lot of value in learning a lot of these basic mistakes first on someone else's dime.

Sure, you don't need to be a trained chef to start a restaurant, but if you dont know that undercooking pork is going to make your customers sick, you probably should be hiring someone else to do the cooking.
Maybe it's just you, maybe not. It would be beneficial for you to provide some substance to your claim. Then we would have something to discuss.
Massive Data Processing in Adobe Experience Platform Using DeltaLake
Companies have track records. Simple question, what happened to the company's previous consultant? or to put it another way, what is the least flattering answer to why did they call you instead of someone else?

Decide if this client is worth associating with in terms of future work. Are they worth going to war with against Google?

You already have a suspicion that a perma-ban could be in the cards.

If their account is flagged, you can't help them. If Google isn't going to help, you can't help them. You can't help them if their problem can't be fixed.

It might be time to call your lawyer and figure out how to walk away...there's a Kenny Rogers song about it. Good luck.
From a Tweet:

"How to start a new city

- Build a community in the cloud
- Organize economy around remote work
- Enforce laws with smart contracts
- Practice in-person norms of civility
- Simulate architecture in VR
- Eventually, crowdfund territory
- And materialize city into the real world"

This is excessively naive, almost infantile dystopianism - it's science fiction.

Have adults lost the ability to tell the difference?

I think we are confusing dreams and ideology with reality in a lot of very applied things.
From the quoted paragraph I get:

You sell for $100. Amazon was taking $30. Now Amazon takes $20 and gives you a "promotional credit" of 10% of the $80, or $8.

So if you use all of the "promotional credit" then you make $88 which is not quite the equivalent of 90% but pretty close.

Assuming "promotional credit" means just regular credit you can use for anything on AWS, I wonder how much of this credit either gets left on the table (don't need AWS, credit expires) or stimulates further spending for Amazon (let's use AWS, it's "free").

It might be interesting to have that extra 8% not booked as revenue, but IANAn Accountant.
This was a good and simple explanation on why this might be happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0fSPO7AW7k.

tl;dw: too much money in the system, big banks don't want the liability, push it to money market funds which use short term treasury while treasury is trying to increase their long term debt and reduce the short term ones. essentially, not as scary as it sounds.
They could just simply be telling companies that they have the engineers, and other job boards do not.
> Have you considered that maybe this is a sign you're too deep into using impractical programming languages?

“Languages that use ‘list’ for linked lists and have different names for other integer-indexable ordered collections” aren’t necessarily “impractical”.
It's funny because the oversight in a startup is usually much bigger than in a big organization (the 5% mentioned is usually much, much bigger).

Their success depends so much on community that if fails to deliver, it dies. Thus it usually listens much more carefully. While other big organizations don't have that issue (in fact, they can go on much bigger losses just to capture markets).

What I wanted to showcase is that at the end, power (which usually means a stronger monetary input, which translates to how many people can work and experiment on new stuff) is what leads most of the changes, even if those changes are masked as organizations pushes or what not.

And to reinforce, its great to see Fastly pushing forward and doubling down on WebAssembly. Same as is great seeing Google pushing forward on the W3C standards. The advancements doesn't make it good or bad per se just because it's lead by one organization or another. It's what is delivered what matters.
you might google Fentanyl
New super-resolution microscopy method approaches the atomic scale
Turing's machine includes an "infinite" tape. The number of states, the state transitions, and the number of symbols are finite, but an unbounded number of symbols can be written, one to a cell, on the tape.
I feel like Ehrlichman admitting the war on drugs was just a pretext for marginalizing Blacks and progressives should have been the end of it. But no, and that's already 25 years ago:

In a 1994 interview published in Harper's Magazine, Nixon adviser John Ehrlichman suggested racial animus was among the motives shaping the drug war.

"We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the [Vietnam] War or Black," Ehrlichman said. "But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities."
> It was started by the Nixon administration to reduce the amount of left and left-leaning voters, particularly black Americans.

That is interesting information, thank you for commenting.

It shows that there was not a misinterpretation, as the article suggests, at least, not the initiators of the "War", but more of a well-calculated hidden agenda that had nothing to do with "drugs".
In the fifties and sixties every school child in Detroit got musical instruction. They loaned me a violin and my sister learned the flute. There was a music company downtown that would sell your parents used instruments on a payment plan.

Out of all that came Motown, a strong rock scene (Alice Cooper, Bob Seger, Ted Nugent and more) and the birth of electronic music. Not to mention scores of excellent session musicians as well as a vibrant club scene.

By the seventies the music program was cut due to budget concerns and that downtown music store went out of business.

Could it happens again? Detroit just announced a program to give every teenager a remanufactured laptop and subsidized Internet. There would be more if the schools restarted music instruction but poor kids can be pretty resourceful;<).

https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2020/04/23/detroi...
It will be another 5 years out if even true -- and my MBP has had useless USB-C ports since what - 2016? So many dongles...I hate it. So that's 5 years + 5 more years. Yuck! And for what? Other manufacturers include both...because that's what customers WANT.