skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to agree, but the problem I have this particular case is that it seems that it's only being taken seriously only because the affected party is a massive US corporation. The US is going after someone from another country because he ripped off a bunch of rich people, but still, no one responsible for the 2008 financial crisis has been punished.
I am sorry to say that you are most likely right. My father is[0] a psychiatrist in big psychiatric hospital in France (1500 beds, only psychiatry, nothing else) and he told me again and again that he was against the legalisation of marijuana because of this. The problem is that once you trigger schizophrenia you need to live with it, all your life...

Note that he told me so, even if his work during the last 15 years was mainly with the very poor people or refugees without health insurance, the ones suffering a lot from the drug dealers and all the associated black market, prostitution and abuse against minorities, women and kids.

We had lively discussion because I consider that legalizing drugs would reduce violence, gangs, etc. but it is hard to argue against somebody having clear first hand experience with both sides of the problem.

[0]: was in fact, he retired 2 weeks ago.
I think it was BBC that changed the headline, not the poster (Twitter grabbed "will" here https://twitter.com/Bill_Gardner/status/1418265769775968258).
i've seen one - my workplace briefly experimented with a chatbot for taking vacation time. you would say something like "i'm on vacation from tuesday to friday" and it would parse it, extract or convert the input to a date range, and submit a vacation request through the official tool. it would then ask if you also wanted to display your vacation status on your calendar and set up an email autoresponder, and do them for you if you answered 'yes'. i was sad when they removed the bot - i think they did it because they streamlined the website, but even with the new improved web workflow i still preferred the experience of doing it via chatbot.
If you've been in tech for a while, this is one of those things that makes you sigh and shake your fist at "move fast and break stuff" as a strategy.
About 15% of that Openreach rollout is Fibre to the Premises. Overall about a quarter of UK homes can get FTTP/FTTH either from Openreach or another provider. A lot more in Northern Ireland, somewhat less in Scotland.

However actual usage is quite different. If your Internet seems fine, why would you buy a more expensive service that claims to be "faster"? In my city Toob are trying to aggressively acquire customers for FTTP with a price they're presumably losing money on, but I don't expect that to last.

The technology for a setup like your parents is either VDSL or G.fast. Near to their old (perhaps slightly battered) green BT cabinet is a newer one, the newer one has fibre to it, and a DSLAM, the DSLAM ties to the old cabinet with copper, and so only that "maybe half a mile away" distance is covered by the DSL technology, from there it's fibre.
>Have you ever envisioned the daily C preprocessor as a tool for some decent metaprogramming?

Never had such a nightmare.

For metaprogramming C you should use real macros like Lisp. We have been doing that for a long time.

Using the C preprocesor is a terrible idea. With the preprocessor you could create code, but a professional environment requires things like being able to go backwards, not just from Macro source code to executable but from the executable to source code.

What do I mean with that?

In a professional environment, when something happens, for example your program goes too slow for a customer you need to understand what is happening as fast as possible. C MACROS and preprocessor are evil for that.

The c preprocessor replaces something by something else and the process is completely opaque. If you have multiple layers of macros, codes becomes impossible to follow, isolate and understand with a debugger or a profiler.

All our code has C MACROS of any type forbidden, only permitted in external libraries. Our build process detects C Macros and stops compilation if it finds them.

Usually the way things work someone creates a easy C macro to automate some small thing, then a month later someone else creates another macro that uses the macro in a two layer system, then someone else creates another macro over the macros and leaves the old macros there.

That makes code extremely hard to understand, isolate, modularize, trace or debug. C programmers could have the temptation not to learn different tools for metaprogramming. We don't let you do that, if you want to do metaprogramming you are forced to learn the proper tools for the job.

That has made our codebase extremely robust. We use real metaprogramming with our own tools, not hacks, and that gives us a tremendous competitive advantage because problems takes 1/10th or 1/100th the time for being solved.
There is cutting back on their services while still using them. If your sales on the site halve as you complain, that also sends a message.
The example in the wiki is "psyche," used in the iliad. Its later translated to mean soul. Jaynes's calls this metaphor, and argues that originally it was understood in more concrete terms... blood, breath.

Harari's "fictions" don't have to be mutually agreed. He just focuses on ones that are. I think souls would qualify.

Obviously there are big differences. Harari's talking about a much earlier cognitive revolution. However, both place a lot of emphasis on the ability to think in abstract concepts & language as the route to consciousness.^

^JJs' definition of consciousness. Harari doesn't go into it in Sapiens, but he defines consciousness totally differently and attributes it also to animals.
> TL;DR: "if I have nothing to hide I have nothing to fear" is absolutely a correct observation

False. You’ll fear losing privacy and freedom to speak freely even if you have nothing to hide. We have seen this effect in real-time as governments began “secretly” monitoring communication in 2006 and even more so as tech companies started banning speech. You will self-censor even when you have nothing to hide.

Privacy is like the bathroom door. We close it even though everyone knows what we are doing. It’s not a secret.

It’s like the freedom to speak even if you have nothing to say.

You wouldn’t use a public bathroom stall that didn’t have a door. You would be plenty angry and confused if I started arbitrarily dictating what you could and couldn’t say.

You have plenty to fear even when you have nothing to hide.

Privacy should not be confused with secrecy. These two are often conflated by those who wish to compromise your privacy.
Of course it is.

Big successes do not erase equally big failures. And the failure here, not on Amazon alone, is far too many Americans not earning enough from their labor the fund continuing to exist reasonably and show up to work.
"In fact, i often struggle to find words to express ideas that I can perfectly think about."

Same. I'm curious about what's happening here - sometimes visual thinking, sometimes kinesthetic, maybe a mix?
Jim Allchin to Gates: I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft
I’ll try it! Thanks a million!
It seems that their calculations use metformin. At what age should we start using it for health-span extension? I'm already using it to avoid glucose spikes, even though I'm not even prediabetic, but I'm curious if it's known how powerful is the health-span effect is younger humans.
What baffles me is this: what's the endgame here? If you're a spy, and you assassinate someone, that has clear benefits. Same with bribery, blackmail, etc. What does making someone briefly ill and possibly giving them minor brain damage accomplish? Are they hoping to scare diplomats away from these regions? That seems unlikely to work.
Did I miss something? The person in question is a British national in the UK being asked to be extradited to the US.

What does Germany have to do with any of this?
"It is something of a lovely surprise that the irregular conjugation of our most nondescript verb is thus a record of a time when man had no independent word for ‘existence’ and could only say that something ‘grows’ or that it “breathes.”"

"when man had no independent word for ‘existence’"??? I take it the author has provided evidence for why he thinks proto-Indo-European was the first human language, and that it did not have a word for "existence"?

Somewhere, a linguist is crying.
Thank you for the correction. I'm disappointed :( is it just Pumas, Bloomberg and Miletus?
wikibob was probably looking more for public documentation about the why and how rather than confirmation that the statement is true.
It’s certainly not a breakthrough when another qubit is added. It’s currently typically a breakthrough when another 9 to the fidelity is added, or a 0 to the qubit lifetime is added.
> thus a record of a time when man had no independent word for ‘existence’

This also seems a bit strange to me. Sanskrit has words for 'existence', in fact more than one, that has nothing to do with 'bhu' (the growth bit).
Thanks for the update! I found more details there: https://opensource.google/projects/vitess

> How Google uses Vitess

> Vitess was serving all YouTube database traffic from 2011 to 2019.
The scary part about this is that if this random Catholic lay group can get access to this information, that it's overwhelmingly likely that foreign intelligence agencies and other groups know everyone who uses Grindr and can use this for blackmail.
I am not sure if this is a helpful comment, or possible, you might want to try attaching the dish to the top of tallest tree if you can though. I have had to do this with satellite dishes in the past while working in remote locations. When I say remote, I am talking surrounded by mountains, deep inside the boreal forests of British Columbia.
were doobies passed around in that class? j/k
@geerlingguy: Consider checking out some global latency comparisons between StarLink and cable. I believe their long-term plan is to have the satellites route traffic between themselves using space lasers rather than hit a ground station and traverse undersea cables and the like.

Not sure if they have that fully implemented yet, but might be interesting looking at the path and latency traffic to .au or Asia or Africa takes on Starlink vs cable. A couple factors may come into play: "as the crow flies" and light speed in vacuum vs glass.

I know Evi Nemeth (RIP) talking on the CAIDA project showed some nice graphs of the "speed of light cone" re: latencies vs. geography. See about halfway down on this: https://web.archive.org/web/20160103034640/http://www.isoc.o...
You're right, sign up and waiting list pages can't be tried out. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
To be frank, it all counts. Avoiding their services is one way, educating the public is another, speaking out is yet another, it all matters.
> The logical statement is that more the good guys have guns, the lesser chance the bad guys have to inflict damage.

That's some crazy logic. A "good guy" doesn't mean a person capable of making the right decisions in front of a bad guy. Would they be able to deescalate? Would they shoot an innocent bystander? Would they shoot another good guy mistaking them for a bad guy?

The correct path forward is to educate and reduce the amount of guns, not give more out on the off chance a good guy happens to be there where something bad happens, while simultaneously increasing the risk a heated exchange/rage fit/whatever escalates to a gunfight.
I’m at the point of not caring anymore. If you don’t want to get vaccinated, fine by me. When you’re dying in a hospital somewhere, complain to someone who cares, because it won’t be me.

If you won’t get vaccinated, you’re a write-off.
yeah treating every schema change as a db migration might be our industry's worst anti-pattern. transactional ddl allows you to do stuff like:

begin tran
..refactor data, drop/create tables..
..create backwards-compatible views..
commit

..against a live database without risking consistency
Why Can’t We Be Friends
I'd be wary of .io too:

https://fortune.com/2020/08/31/crypto-fraud-io-domain-chagos...

I launched a service on .io in 2012 and moved away to a less-good .com in 2016 - apart from the political issues, its registry services feel & look very ancient. I almost lost the original domain through a forgotten password!
Off-central-topic, but regarding where this was found, if you find yourself discussing this offline, "Loughborough" is pronounced "LUFF-burro" or "LUFF-burrah".

Ref. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNzqgU7na4 for entertaining additions.
The TL;DR is for people who didn't read it.

I thought the premise was obvious. He didn't go into great detail explaining how selfish, rude, and immature thinking cripples every part of society today from the drive-thru to the emergency room. I thought everyone could see that. Perhaps because I'm old, the change is more obvious, but I can tell you there's been a change.
> Why downvote?

Unfortunately on HN, some won't give a reason, explanation or any evidence of the details you are asking for.

Claims are left without any substance and are left to you or someone else to refute them. Leaving everyone confused.

What a shame to a discussion.
I carried out a (quite ill-advised in retrospect) migration from MySQL to Postgres on a mature codebase with absolutely no automated test coverage and it went pretty smoothly. We had some bumpy performance directly after the production migration but we were able to reach parity after about two months of observing and adding targeted indices.

I absolutely adore Postgres's tweaks to the SQL language, that dialect is amazing and has served us extremely well. And, since we passed pg10 a while back, the performance tuning you can do on it is pretty amazing.
No reason to be wary of recreational use. No more so than you might of caffeine.

Not everything is for everyone and that’s 100% ok.
I actually think analysis paralysis is more relevant most of the time. It’s not thinking you’re not good enough - more that there are so many options it’s hard to figure out one to focus on.

I agree wholeheartedly with your comment.
Maybe mounting the dish to tree would save your
trees?
https://asadotzler.com/2021/03/11/starlinks-view-of-the-sky/

https://asadotzler.com/2021/03/13/starlink-tree-mount/
The Science industry is built on using buzzwords to get research $$$. Probably the same with most industries that reach a certain institutional scale. Institutional involvement leads to politics which leads to buzzwords & right-speak.

Another case of "for the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil".
I'm under a couple strict NDAs, unfortunately, and I didn't work on the trading engine, just software around piping giant amounts of data around to a ton of consumers. But the stuff I worked on heavily utilized AWS wherever possible and the emphasis was on prioritization. No matter what it did to the code, if high priority data came in the swarm of computers had to switch to it as soon as possible.
ENSO as a climate conductor for global crop yields
The Wikipedia page says it is a popular science book.
He should see what they’ve done to Manhattan Island.
Is it?

I've been rate limited. Its taken me 60min of hitting reply to you to get this comment in How come that only happens when I have a down voted comment so I just assumed.

Error message: You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks.
I kind of like somthing along the same lines as the idea intended in Altered Carbon - everyone gets 100 years of generally healthy life, but then everyone dies at 100. Not realistic at all, but seems highly equitable.

OK. Do you want to die? I don't want to die.

Life is already inequitable as it is. The rich live a little bit longer. The pleb dies short and miserable life.

At the very least, everyone should be able to live as long as they like.

Any artificial constraints will be evaded or manipulated at some point, even in the name of what's best for humanity (ie what if Davinci or Einstien were still alive; eventually the people in power would say I'm president, so presidents should live forever too, etc).

There's also no absolute law of politics that dictators rule forever or indefinitely if they also happen to be immortal.

Regardless, the bigger issue would be overpopulation.

No, the problem is ecological disaster.

There's so much energy coming from the sun that humanity can't even begin to harvest a fraction of it, but we cannot scale to the sun because doing so will poison the Earth.
I think DSP programming is a good analogy. There will be a handful of codecs/waveforms/algorithms that you treat as a black box that you load into the QC, and then the other 99.9% of your system will be classical.
It seems that "move fast and break things" is not for billion dollar companies.

My impression too. Very meticulous work, just the facts.
Facebook is heavily sharded, which keeps the size of each physical table at reasonable levels.

Similar story at nearly every large tech company using MySQL, aside from some more recent ones that go for the painful "shove everything in a huge singular AWS Aurora instance" approach :)
Awesome stuff. A couple years ago I built my own bespoke service (which I won't plug here) to do exactly this, but in a generic way. In retrospect, it would've been far more useful to build around this idea of following online creators, rather than letting people figure out the use cases on their own.

Have you thought about expanding this beyond just the people here? There are more casual use cases like following specific creators across Twitter/YT/Patreon are also be valuable imo.
When you think about it, it's bizzarre to expect weed to be benign in the long-term, when it's not benign in the short-term (as in, perceptibly alters many biological and psychological processes).
lol good eye! but it shows me how real tech works, nothing is 100% guranteed
I really don't understand why people have such a hard time weening themselves off Amazon products.

It's not even like a physical constraint like having to drive a little further to a different store. Just visit a different website it's the bare minimum of effort needed.
USA is not a monolith. I didn't want that. However, my government took many steps that caused that event.

ISIS only existed in the first place because USA invaded neighboring Iraq under false pretense and deposed Iraq's government. ISIS was strengthened in Syria by USA's attacks (both through sanctions [0] and through other violent means) on Syria's government. ISIS was armed by USA parachuting thousands of weapons into the conflict zone. [1] Perhaps the people making these decisions are morons who can't predict the obvious results of their own actions. I suspect they are not that sort of morons.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/16/is-syrias-sanctions...

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/defense/364917-study-shows-us-wea...
So much this. Keeping feature by feature parity is the tricky part.
Again, the volumes there mean nothing for all the reasons I said - it's not about trusted or untrusted. Binance has 17,000,000,000 USDT. [1] It is in their interests to support the peg, even if they have to go to Kraken to do it. And arbitrage bots participate, too.

Remember, the most trusted crypto exchange, Coinbase, wash traded 99% of all global Litecoin volume for a few months in 2016/2017. [2] And again, "exchanging" means nothing, because it's not a redemption. And the volume likely means nothing because it's probably just arb trades and wash trades.

95% of all crypto trading volume is fake. [3]

Nothing here is regulated. Take everything you see in crypto with a giant lump of salt.

Tether is a criminal enterprise [4], the fact that USDT is trading at 1:1 is an indication the market is completely untrustworthy, irrational or both - not that Tether is trustworthy. Be careful out there!

[1] https://wallet.tether.to/richlist

[2] https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21

[3] https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/03/26/1206/nearly-all-...

[4] https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
I was figuring that if the metal value of nickels got high enough then coin dealers or metal recyclers would be set up to take them and possibly even advertise this service. Similar to what happened when silver coins became more valuable than face value. I don't think it was illegal to melt down silver coins and thought nickels would be the same.
> Large firms are better at enforcing coordination than "society at-large" or other groupings.

The "large firms" that I'm familiar with are cesspools of political infighting, gamesmanship, and backstabbing. People in positions of power at these firms use their influence to achieve their own goals, often at the expense of the firm and its employees.

The counterexamples to this are so singularly rare that they are the exception that proves the rule.
Exactly. And the usage of something like "asti" (for "existence" or "being") is at least as old as the Rig Vedas.
Just because competition and the "market" don't think much of your preference doesn't mean it doesn't exist lol. What a self centered view! Also it seems to me when there are no variations in the options that's when it gets the most competitive. Commodity markets are the most competitive in the world. Jesus.
didn't the new basecamp "Hey" email product choose to use MySQL?
I don’t think it’s overstating it.

You explain it well enough yourself. The was a wide gap of difference hash in Europe in the 90’s vs your average weed in the US. All too often the stuff in the US would barely get you high whereas a few tokes of hash would be pretty intense.

Sure, you always had special strains, but they were the exception. Now the strains and derived products is competitive with hash and you have to be careful.
I had a similar experience, but my prof put the defense industry in there as well.
Google just announced they plan to have a million qubits in less than 10 years. They’ve not yet demonstrated the ability to go past 100.
I don't believe coinage (in America) is protected. It's supposed to have intrinsic value. It's currency that's protected, and that means folding money.
Oof... thanks for the advice.
Either I have been very, very lucky or you are basing yourself in outdated reports. In Berlin (one of lowest cost-of-living German cities) you will have trouble to find even junior developers working for 50k€/year.
Wow... Mindblowing stuff. Long but woth reading.
As Geerling points out, he has substantial obstructions. I have no obstructions, and see a few seconds of downtime per day. My wife and I regularly have multi-hour zoom calls with no problems.

Obstructions are a problem, but users with no alternative are much more motivated to locate the dish appropriately.

Starlink is not for people who have gigabit wired connections. For those of us who were lucky to get a hotspot to work long enough to use our 15Gb cap, it is a godsend.
I'm no fan of oracle's audit approach but it sounds like you were expecting special leniency to not pay for their stuff - for decades - because you are a govt agency/ live in a low income place. Not how business works. If you're playing by the rules, no one can force you into any long term contracts you don't need.
Sounds very practical. Maybe I’m a bit early for the all electric self-sustainable home revolution :)
I am very much an example of one of those previously MySQL devs that now uses Postgres for new projects, though I've never done a migration between the two.
The position of a cleric is different than, say, a celebrity or a professor. Adherence to religious dogma (in both thoughts and actions) is a strict requirement.