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> and for that applications you should build something custom.

Given the spirit of the original post, I think avoiding "build something custom" is the point.

It should be a toggle in the database.

> you don't have a 1:1 mapping between the database schema and the API (and if you do, you shouldn't, since a change of the internal database representation will require a change of the API and will break clients)

I'd argue this is a huge problem. When DB and API get out of sync it creates so much complexity, especially when working in a relational model, and things become impossible to change, or make client caching really difficult.

> The application when updates the data can publish it to whatever subscription system it wants to notify clients.

This is so much complexity though, compared with the experience of Firebase. Good for keeping more devs employed though.
This article doesn't even remotely go where you think it would if you're going off the headline and your preconceptions.

Ends up as

> CEOs have long put themselves forward as the people able to upgrade America's physical infrastructure. Now it's time for them to use the trust they've built up to help rebuild our civic infrastructure.

Who's trusting most CEOs?

Being charitable, I guess people are trusting people who are actually able to put money into their hands and food on their table, rather than people who make promises or give abstract benefits or who take money from them?
Now ZFS is eating CPUs and causing a chip shortage
I do really like that video and the book Factfulness.

However, income inequality is definitely one of the things getting worse with time. And it’s scary for everyone, because if you don’t have money, your ability to survive is reduced, and if you do have money… look back to what happened only a handful of centuries ago or even less when the proletariat revolted.

Sure, we aren’t there currently, but the trajectory is not going in a direction which inspires confidence in our future.
Having not watched the video due to crappy mobile (but I've seen some of his videos before), is this a "things are getting better, stay the course" type video, a "many things are ok, but we have very serious problems here", something else?
As a US citizen, I've been wondering for almost 10 years now if we're edging towards a new civil war. In the past 5 or so, I've been worrying almost equally about the state of global affairs setting the stage for potential world war.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, we have been in a relatively stable world (9/11, Iraq, and Afghanistan notwithstanding -- none of them world war scale), but it now feels ever less so all the time.

If one has to have either a civil war or a world war (bizarre choice), a world war would actually serve to unite us, although our existing division is a weak starting place. A civil war destroys us from within, full stop.

My favorite conspiracy theory is that the CCP is sowing the division within us to drive us to civil war, whereby they win WWIII without ever firing a shot.
I want the opposite - tickets-as-code as part of the git repo. Something like SIT[1]. Fossil has it, but today's standard DVCS is git.

There are 2 trends here:

1. Everything-as-a-code stored in the git repo in a text format close to the actual source code. If you store documention-as-a-code, diagrams-as-a-code, IaaC, tests-as-a-code, loadtesting-as-a-code, etc. - then why not issues/tickets as a code also?

2. Reduce number of tools/services/mechanisms you use in order to eliminate impedance mismatch, simplify workflows, and remove barriers to collaboration. For example if you standardize on Github, then you can use Guthub Issues, Projects, Packages, Actions, Codespaces, etc. And most developers are already having Github a/c.

[1] https://github.com/sit-fyi/sit
If we look back further, the situation can be even more dire (like the French or Russian revolutions).
> Faith in society's central institutions, especially in government and the media, is the glue that holds society together.

Perhaps people are starting to think that having media as a “central institution” is not actually good for society.
Yeah, the world needs more tramp stamps and arse antlers
It's completely possible to have the knowledge/competence to do something but be thwarted by resource constraints / management / social/economic issues.
End to end encryption is a privacy feature by itself.
The example of using an email service to send a mass email to a dislist is irrelevant to the possibility that it would also be able to preserve privacy in other communications. You could send an email directly to the local police chief if you wanted but that does not preclude wanting privacy elsewhere.
I'm always baffled when seemingly smart people, mostly from the USA, go on the World Wide Web and make general/universal statements as if their people represented 100% instead of 4.25% of the world population.
Don't forget half of the world population lives with less than $5.50 per day.
if you swap the "left" and "right" labels you comment will be just as true (or false, depending on whom you ask).

NYU has very strong reputation in hard sciences but their social studies are hopelessly left-leaning and probably as far from neutral as Taliban studies on women's rights.
2005 Google was very far from a monopoly.
Can't bullshit your way around numbers.
Well presumably all restaurants would have similar issues hiring cooks so prices should rise everywhere. I would wager that demand for restaurant food as a category is less elastic than demand for any one particular Mexican restaurant's food.
At the bottom of this rundown there is a
"Bottom line: CEOs have long put themselves forward as the people able to upgrade America's physical infrastructure. Now it's time for them to use the trust they've built up to help rebuild our civic infrastructure."

It's just one line but they've spent the whole post talking about how media is not trusted and then end it with a clearly opinionated bottom line.

How does this help?
The ticketing system at work is complicated enough that I tend to avoid using it. Also I find that tickets get lost, sometimes for almost a year, before bubbling up in backlog grooming again.
Your generalizations are (AFAIK) largely accurate in the United States, but not in Canada. The immigration policies of the two countries differ substantially.

International students in Canada can get work permits without much difficulty, and have a relatively easy path towards permanent residency & naturalization once they graduate.

The reason so many international students enroll in graduate studies have nothing to do with how much they can get paid flipping burgers, and everything to do with why they are enrolling in a foreign program in the first place. A graduate degree significantly improves their career prospects at home, and opens a lot of immigration doors abroad.
Correct. Here is an ongoing example of left leaning (Rolling Stone) misinformation: https://twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1434591443855753220
That's just false though. If you're trying to hide from the CIA, then sure they are useless.

I just want to prevent my ISP from throttling my torrents.

You really can't talk about the "use" of any of these tools without a threat model.
Very possible.

I learned about the possibility a good decade ago when working on Oracle. For high performance use we used to have two areas:

- one small SSD-backed area where new inserts happened (Server class SSD was new and relatively expensive back then.)

- one (or more) areas for permanent storage, based on ordinary disks with good storage/price

Then we had processes that processed data from the SSD Pool and wrote them to long term storage asynchronously.

Edit: I should say I was very happy to find the same feature on Postgres, Oracle is a real hassle in more than one way.
We’re not talking about developing countries though. We’re talking about electrical infrastructure in a developed country. The developing world poor are still poor, and these discussions in particular are immaterial to them.
I feel it’s the opposite - everyone expects things to go on as they are. At least in stable countries. We are hard wired not to expect the world to end.
I think many people can see a kind of broken-ness to the world, and long for a world that isn't broken. I think that might be the basis for your observation - people kind of hope for an end, in the hope that what follows will be better.
Your impression of "news today" lacks nuance and does not give me confidence in your ability to "make a difference" in the journalism industry.
Anti competitive behavior isn't illegal in most circumstances (ie, unless you are a monopoly or conspiring to form a cartel).
> How it works: Media outlets can continue to report reliable facts, but that won't turn the trend around on its own. What's needed is for trusted institutions to visibly embrace the news media.

This is an extremely weird and disturbing conclusion. Orwellian even.

What’s needed is for news organizations to not only report facts, but stop telling stories in ways that only benefit their own ideological systems.

That’s unlikely to happen with existing brands that have effectively now chosen a side, because they have cultivated an audience that now expects them to keep delivering.

It might happen with something new.
I'm seeing a lot of comments along the lines of "there's nothing ProtonMail could have done in this case."

This is patently false. The first thing they could have done is not hosted their service in a jurisdiction susceptible to these kinds of logging requests, at least not openly. In other words, they could have concealed the location of their services.

Instead, ProtonMail is attempting to have their cake and eat it too: on the one hand, they repeatedly publicize the fact that they have 'Swiss privacy laws' as a selling point, but yet on the other hand when a privacy violation such as this occurs, they claim that their hands are tied because of....Swiss laws.

It's this two-faced behavior that is deplorable.
Webber Super Sleep (melatonin, 5-HTP, L-Theanine) changed my life for the much, much better
I used melatonin for about 7 years before i stopped it because it gave me vertigo. I am not 100% sure that melatonin was direct contributor to my vertigo, but my vertigo did get better after i stopped using melatonin.

Please research the side effects before you try this. It is not completly harmless because its 'natural'/ otc ect , i think its even regulated in some countries like the UK.
Seems pretty accurate to me. What part did you disagree with?
I had tried in the past to get information from a doctor and they say "don't know anything about charges or reimbursement, ask the billing department" and the billing department says "don't know anything about reimbursement or medical procedures, ask your insurance company" and the insurance company says "don't know because we can't possibly guess what billing codes are going to be used".

However, I googled the codes that seemed plausible for a root canal I was going to have and when I provided that to the insurance company, the rep did give me their reimbursement which wasn't that far off.

I had a very vague idea of keywords due to briefly working for a health insurer years ago so I was able to do it spontaneously during the call.

But the completely unhelpful attitude indicated to me that essentially no customers do this.

>MANY hospitals have not even bothered to post this information because the fines are trivial

The major hospital nearest me has not even bothered to abide by human trafficking laws (vis a vis contracts with Filipino nurses) for probably the same reason.
Exploiting psychology on a mass scale like this means that the only solution will be government regulation.
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I implemented something similar in ESLint. I also had it search for comments with "[Don't merge]", etc, so that I could quickly jot down in a code comment a change that needed to be made before the PR was complete. The pipeline would fail if this ESLint rule failed. It works well for me but I understand it may not work well for all.
That's not hard to fix. You need to use some kind of mechanical system to connect the shaft on the water wheel to the Alternator, which means you can use gears.

So put a huge gear on the shaft of the water wheel and a tiny gear on the shaft of the alternator.

What tons of people do to play around with the optimal setup is to use an old bicycle rear tire for the water wheel and the whole chain and gears setup to connect to the alternator. That way you can change gears while it's running and figure out the optimal gear ratio.
Do we need humans for that job? Automation booms after Covid
I feel like Rethink would have done a lot better if it were started closer to today. Funnily enough, in 2009 it was originally an SSD-optimized storage engine for MySQL.

The dev experience and API were great. It was the "relational mongodb".

Though no one feels daring enough to part from PSQL as a backend these days. With all the cloud deployment options and optimizations in PSQL, it's hard to justify writing your own db engine, but for a great real-time experience, that's what needs to happen.
When in doubt, it is better to ask someone who doesn't belong to your country, race, religion, gender what their views are. If they don't agree, it could be a false alarm.
It’s my hope they send it XOR’d with a one-time pad.
“ Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -Mike Tyson

I take the view that it doesn’t matter how financially literate you are when you have limited wealth to begin with and something in life happens that wipes most of it out. This isn’t to say being financially savvy isn’t useful, but having that literacy doesn’t necessarily insulate you from hardship.
> It let me buy a property which I wouldn't be able to without HTB

Possibly you're taking the wrong counterfactual here?

"If I hadn't HTB but everyone else did" vs
"If no-one had HTB".

It's possible you're quite right about the first, but it tells us little about the second. Possibly in the presence of HTB, prices just rise again until they reach their equilibrium of just-barely-affordable.
Is income inequality even good measure in the forst place? More and more people of this world are rising out of poverty, and getting education, why specifically does uphieval would occur?
But if someone just moves into your property why can’t police just kick them out? That’s an illegal action. If someone came into your house and started stealing your things and you call the cops on them you don’t go to court to prove those things are really yours.
Replace CCP with Russia, and it's not a conspiracy theory.
What threat model are you trying to protect from by using VPN, and why is HTTPS + DoH (DNS over HTTPS) not sufficient for that threat model ?
Demn after Docker Desktop announcment this podman gets posted almost daily on HackerNews.

I understand its a good moment do advertise, but good tools happen to advertise themselves.
At least in the US, GDP is at an all time high: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDP

Companies are making a lot and selling a lot, which is one of the drivers of stock market gains.
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I suspect the fact that I grew up before everyone had a telephone (the kind that was wired into a house) of their own, and before the internet might have something to do with it, but my social interactions post Covid feel no different.

To be fair, I had 55 years of social experience, and decades of interaction via BBSs and the internet before Covid hit.

My child, on the other hand, shares your anxieties.

Update: It could also be that I was the one who always went out and did most of the shopping, so there's always some interaction on tap.
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Melatonin is also the most powerful known antioxidant:

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/9/11/1088/pdf
I don't have an answer but these two YouTube channels look like what I hope the answer looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_42LVirfNI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXIxhF21qO4
If only they could have reduced their CO2 emissions ...
> That doesn't make this picture look any better for Google.

Even if you make the case this only anti-competitive there is nothing wrong with that behaviour by 2005 Google. It's not illegal or even significant in anyway.
> 1) the largest of the economies rising in Asia, being China, is funded in large part by state subsidies to this day. That won’t last forever.

The power of a sovereign to directly tax, and indirectly inflate its currency says otherwise.

You also need to quantify what it means for the economy to 'run off state subsidies'. There are particular sectors of the economy that are subsidized in China. The rest stand on their own. Smart subsidies reduce the overall cost to the economy, by building the foundation on which the rest could be built on.

100% of a state's economy obviously can't run off subsidies. But a smaller percentage can - and when invested smartly, grows the rest of the economy. Do you have any numbers for which fields of China's economy depend on these subsidies, and which percentage of those fields those subsidies represent?
Hasura discusses why they chose polling here (https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine/blob/master/archite...).

> WAL: Reliable stream, but LR slots are expensive which makes horizontal scaling hard, and are often not available on managed database vendors. Heavy write loads can pollute the WAL and will need throttling at the application layer.

Would like to hear Supabase's response to this.
And all the calls go through Infura which runs on AWS. Joe Lubin (former Goldman Sachs) owns ~50% of both Metamask and Infura.

Centralized much?
Correct.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-...
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> In particular, this highlights just how much I don't think I would want to use this. Especially for environmental changes like a ticket got closed in some 3p project, or a dependency got updated. Probably the main case is the (hopefully rare) times you have to put in a dirty hack, that you _know_ will stop working at a certain date.

There's nothing that prevents you from commenting out the todo_or_die call that references a GitHub issue and replacing it with a todo_or_die call for next week.
It is not Orwellian.

It is a net of trust.
I think is up to personal choices:

• Quit subscribing corporate media and subscribe to single reporters that are doing real reporting.

• Have zero tolerance for news that mislead you. ”Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.”

• Try to find reporters that are willing to give you the honest cotext even if it goes against what you expect and does not affirm your believes.

If enough people do this, those lying and misleading for profit will go out of business.
I just noticed the original post mentioned "middle TN", so sorry for my first comment.
Still, I have to be a little pedantic here, do you mean to imply that developing countries do not have electrical infrastructure? Or that somehow the issues that affect developed countries electrical infrastructure do not affect developing ones? I'm genuinely interested in your line of thinking.

Edit: Let me attempt to be clearer here. Lets assume the reddit post is true. Imagine someone living in Brazil or India, they currently do have electrical power. Imagine the electric grid(or parts of) goes down due to the lack of hardware. Now they don't have electricity nor money to invest in solar power. How is that discussion "immaterial" to them?
> This is patently false. The first thing they could have done is not hosted their service in a jurisdiction susceptible to these kinds of logging requests, at least not openly. In other words, they could have concealed the location of their services.

Where is that ? Which country doesn't have a law that allows authorities to request such information ? I'm not aware of any, at least not among any sufficiently developed countries with useful infrastructures.
> before it cuts someone off from what is becoming a vital service

Facebook is not a vital service. Popularity doesn't determine what is and is-not vital, nor does it remove the rights of a private business.
Agreed.

By the way, is there any sort of memoirs from ordinary people before WW2? Like did people at the time see it coming 1 years, 5 years etc. before?
The love of contrarian views can be quite nauseating on hacker news. Post a somewhat mainstream, but interesting article, and prepare to watch it get nit-picked to death before commenters conclude it was only published due to reviewer friendships and p hacking. Meanwhile a contrarian article is immediately accepted as fact and the only reason scientists haven’t agreed is that they’re too stubborn.
So their solution to the declining trust in government and media is to leverage the trust that employees still have in their CEOs. If they can convince CEOs to push their false narratives, then trust will evaporate there as well. How about instead: be more trustworthy.
I'm not criticizing his morality. Billionaires like Larry Ellison buy private Hawaiian Islands, but they mostly go there on vacation and don't just disappear there for months! I'm just asking why Larry? Why are you bugging out like it's the end of the world? Is there something you know that we don't? :/
> If your build system knows what time it is and that can affect whether or not it compiles, that's a reproducibility problem.

The very first example is of this:

// trigger a compile error if we're past a certain date
todo_or_die::after_date!(3000, 1, 1); // its the year 3000!

And the second and third examples (this is all of them) are explicitly relying on non-versioned, external state leaking in, too.

// or a GitHub issue has closed
todo_or_die::issue_closed!("rust-lang", "rust", 44265); // GATs are here!
// or the latest version of a crate matches some expression
todo_or_die::crates_io!("serde", ">1.0.9000"); // its over 9000!
Sure the west is in decline, but a decline or collapse doesn't mean going back to living in caves or so. No the west will most likely experience a soviet style collapse where it will need multiple decades to recover.

I do feel that Europe will probably find its own way after the collapse and the US will go from a global hegemon to a regional super power. A collapse of the west is still decades ahead of the average state of being in the global south.
No, $3K a year is nothing.

But, if you are poor, $3K is amazing to have if you'd otherwise have 0.

All I am saying is you're better off being smart with your money. I don't understand how this is controversial.
But single reporters seem even more aggressively partisan than corporate. They're often at least fairly explicit about this though - billing themselves as a journalist of the left or of the right or whatever spectrum you want - but there's still no balance.
You could also try to track down an old CRT serial terminal; they have very sharp monochrome displays and I find that the dark background with amber/green/white phosphor is very easy on the eyes.

It's also more difficult to get distracted while using a real terminal, because of its inherent limitations as a textual output device.
As vaccine-derived immunity continues to wane and the virus mutates farther and farther away from the original spike used in the first round of vaccinations, the vaccinated will also suffer from a great deal of rationing of care at any hospital that pushes through with mandates.
People have lost trust in the media. Let’s trick them by having completely out of touch CEOs talk it up.

Perfection.