skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“It puts the lie to every claim that portability and reliability can't coexist with long-lasting, durable, upgradeable, sustainable hardware.”
Postgres supports backing up by just copying its files if you let it know using pg_start_backup/pg_stop_backup.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/backup-online.html

These database already have to make sure that they can recover from the system crashing. So it is probably only incrementally more work to add a feature to write out some extra metadata to enable these sorts of online backups.
I think the most interesting question is how you can tell if someone is actually good vs fluctuations due to luck. I'd think it takes a long time to get statistical significance. Or, during a bull run the optimistic traders all look great for a while, but this later proves illusory.
There are much better articles on the subject than this one. Many are linked from Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error
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With those facts, I'm surprised that we don't have larger quakes. I remember the Newcastle one, my parents' home had its roof damaged in it. I also recall a rather strong one in the Blue Mountains when I was a kid but can't remember exactly when it was (sometime in the early to mid 1960s if I recall correctly). I think is was on a Saturday in the AM, and I definitely do recall having difficulty walking across my bedroom whilst it was occurring.
In what way? The new phones are the same price as the equivalent phones last year, if that is what you are asking about. No price increase. If you mean the price of used phone, iPhones do tend to keep their resale value higher than for most other brands.
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It's funny because I am so far from the OOP world right now, I'm barely qualified to even comment on this topic given how little OOP I've done in the last 3 years.

I've literally never done this stuff, but the idea of "coupling causes problems" is hugely important in my domain.

I simply think it's important to understand the actual root cause of concepts, and put it into words.

Clearly defining your ideas in concrete terms like "coupling" and "K.I.S.S." is really critical to the big picture. Having them as "fuzzy ideas" in the back of your head isn't good enough.

Plus coupling as an issue is REALLY clear if you have a good mental model of "every single object is actually a line of hexadecimal going into the evaluator,"

In which case "a huge bunch of pointers between hexadecimal blocks is bad" makes perfect sense.

I guess the other high level concepts would be stuff like "naming things is hard," "pointers = bugs," "design by iterating on MVPs," "mock tests are never useless, write them every time because they *force* you into single responsibility functions."

But I'm still figuring out my bank of these ideas.
I share this curiosity. My gut says many positive and many negative things but those are mere speculation. The most negative one is that we have very little choice moving on to a different system. This is one of the few ideas that everyone understands (be it from different perspectives)
I lived under this system for 2 years and it was awesome. The lack of paperwork alone was...eye opening. The speed of service was astonishing. All you need is your insurance card (we used Die Teckniker) and you can see most doctors. And the doctors will just do the tests on you themselves, during the visit.

The American system generates a tremendous amount of administrative work, and reduces the quality of care. If you've ever been in a doctors office, or a hospital in the US, they are constantly looking at the paperwork, not at you. Totally different in Germany. (Which was weird because in virtually every other respect Germans seem to love paperwork!)

Like a fish that doesn't know what water feels like, it dawned on me how stressful all that paperwork is, and how much worse it makes you feel, when you are already feeling bad. And of course in the US any contact at all with the healthcare system is not just painful now, it could be painful for years.

The reason we don't change is because people don't know or believe it could be better. And that, in turn, is because some of that huge money flowing through the healthcare system pays the salaries of professional sophists and lawyers who are very good at playing on the intellectual weaknesses of an American audience. They have lots of tools, but the two most effective seem to be an appeal to "American exceptionalism" - if we didn't invent it then its not good - and the classic strawman attack that anything that isn't the current system is communism. A foolish claim that has no merit, not least of which because none of those same people would assert that Germany is communist.

It's a very sad state of affairs. The US is like a mean old grannie being robbed by a handsome and clever son-in-law who plays on her prejudices and ignorance. Even when other family members try to warn her, NO, she snaps, he tells me you are the monsters, and he is handsome and clever and better than you! There is a villain here, but it's hard to have much sympathy for the victim, either.
Agreed. This is a case where an unfree market has arrived at the most absurd and circuitous route to everyone getting a slice of the pie. It's crazy that a lot of Americans fight any reform of the insurance industry on the grounds that doing so would constitute socialism or an attack on the free market. What we have right now is the furthest thing from a free market. It's a set of local monopolies fixing prices, and another group (doctors) trying to get paid in a broken system.
Yes it can be difficult to do realistic automated load testing. But I suppose I see this as more evidence that if you're going to do load testing, do it right! In complex systems you often need real world usage data, or your metrics won't predict reality.

I've been running into this a lot writing software for collaborative editing. Randomly generated editing traces work fine for correctness testing. But doing performance testing with random traces is unrepresentative. The way people move their cursors around a text box while editing is idiosyncratic. Lots of optimizations make performance worse with random editing histories, but improve performance for real world data sets.
Okay then define a subset of java opcodes supported and then modify the open source hotspot.

Look I'm trying to implement a wasm backend into an existing language right now and it could be a lot easier by either making wasm into a real architecture (with registers) or using an existing stack based vm isa.
> Kindle software is software made by people who hate reading.

This sounds just about right. How many people read books these days? And of those that do, how many use a Kindle. And of those, how many are the kind to explore other devices and think about user experience? Of those, how many work at decision making roles at Amazon?

With the bad reputation that Amazon has, none of the good developers that I know who also read, want to work there. And even if they do want to, most devs would prefer the AWS team. In India at least, the Kindle team is supposed to be very toxic. I had a chance to interview with them 6 years ago and while the idea seemed super tempting, I'm glad I passed on the opportunity because I'd just joined another company and didn't want to leave the moment I'd joined.

Sadly, Amazon's latest UI change goes against everything that was great with the earliest Kindle designs as well. I'm never buying a Kindle again. I want to get the Boox Max 3 or the Remarkable 2, if I can somehow get these in India.
NSW Health moves to ServiceNow vaccine management system
.net is an open ieee standard with several implementations. Java is too at this point

Both are more advanced
Thinkpad TrapPoint :/
पुर्वराजा विरेन्द्रको नाम स्विस बियर कम्पनीले बेच्दै – Kantipath.com
Honestly I’m just impressed that the author managed to make this far without having any other vaccines at all, truly remarkable
Like many of us, I've had a rough couple of years. But unlike many other people who went through real external trauma during the pandemic (losing a job or even a loved one), I had nothing concrete to put my finger on. I was just... down.

What kept me afloat was my (almost) daily journaling habit. A brain dump where I could offload some of my worries or incoherent thoughts. And, a few months ago, it hit me. I had all this data about myself, a daily snapshot of my thoughts that kept growing over the years. So I decided to build a tool that could help me make sense of this written history, to show me patterns that I was too blind to see. I discovered things I hadn't been fully aware of before. How supportive my partner has been throughout this, how much getting our puppy helped, and how I've been underestimating the effect that my job has on my personal life. It helped me clear out the fog a little bit.

For now, it's useful only if your journal is in digital format (written in English), and the site is only optimized for desktop. I'd love to hear your feedback.
Your comment alone, with associated HTML, is 1159 characters. The Manyverse logo on their homepage is 46K characters. Scuttlebutt's "large-hermies-dancing.gif" is 118KB.

Not including IP and TCP overhead, the Scuttlebutt handshake is 340 bytes, each message in a box stream is 35 to 4130 bytes, and the box stream finishes with another 34 bytes. There are two box streams for every Scuttlebutt communication. There are also RPC messages sent in the box stream that are a minimum of 9 byte header and 9 byte goodbye.

Transmitting a single post containing the text "Second post!" takes 563 characters, not including the handshake, header, footer or encryption overhead.

The web and social networks are far more data intensive today than low bandwidth modalities can support, especially long distance, low power RF links that would be rapidly saturated.

Restricted length text a la Twitter might be manageable. Encrypted high fidelity blockchain social networks? Not a snowball's chance in hell unless so few people are using it that nobody is saturating the link.

Edit: In North America for LoRa there are 64 125kHz uplink channels, 8 500kHz uplink channels, and 8 500kHz downlink channels. This should give you an idea of how little capacity there really is.
> legislative sledgehammer that alters the potential earnings of millions of people who are now cogs in this system

Doing this all at once might not be palatable to a lot of people. In reality, boiling the frog slowly may be the better way to go here. Reduce their earnings a fraction each year, over say a 20 year timespan. Decreasing the eligibility age for Medicare each year by a year or so might partly accomplish this.
Cannot agree more. USB-C is a big mess. I've quite a few of them in different specs. Some can do 100w PD, some support DP-Alt mode, some are Thunderbolt 3, and some are USB 3.0 and can allow a maximum of 2A, some even only support USB 2, however can deliver 5A. Put all those mess aside, some started to fail just after being used a couple of times.
I assume OP meant headcount, not desks. Talking to recruiters, NYC always seemed like one of the toughest offices to get into - presumably due to much greater demand than available space to put devs.
And I didn't want to talk to mine about my gaming addiction.

Thankfully I did, after seven years, and it saved our marriage.

Help her understand that this really impacts you, and you'd like to work on a solution together. She may be spending so much for a reason you may not be aware of as well. A healthy relationship must be able to have this type of communication. Keep trying. Best of luck, friend.
Salary already isn't directly proportional to value added, so I'm not sure where that idea comes from.
It's certainly not frontrunning. Any time securities trading comes up on this site, there's at least one person trying to claim that X thing is frontrunning when it isn't even close to being able to be called that.
>I don’t care about my own privacy or about government surveillance of myself.

Please post your phone number, bank account name/PIN and home address.

I need them for... reasons.
Interesting. I want to try this on my old Kindle Touch.
Yes a copy paste solution might not work. My point was more about that everybody must be taken care of, nobody should be in constant fear of death or bancruptcy or having to choose because one, because of health issues. And that is is feasible, because fair public health insurance is applied in so many countries.

The U.S. has capable people. The best academics in the world. It's making me sad to hear stories about citizens in such situations and the seeing other consequences.

I thought about it a few times in my life. This is the number wrong reason to not move to the US. Despite all the chances you have there, you could die or go bancupt because of some fine print in a health insurance contract. Reason number two is I don't want to get shot by some (for other reasons) angry citizen for taking his parking lot accidently or similar...
Anything can become the opposite of sensible, so that's not saying much. I'm saying there are logical, sensible ideas behind things such as Kafka -- "you could have invented the distributed log" -- and that it's not snake oil. Of course it can be misused, not everything calls for it, and it comes with tradeoffs and pitfalls, but which tool doesn't?
I agree. I would have been more inclined to fly jet blue. If you fly all the time status is meaningful (you’re just treated badly, as opposed to being outright abused).
but the public option is socialism GASP!! & those death panels. Meanwhile, southern tea-party states have for-profit hospitals actually rationing care because of politically motivated dumb-ass-idness.

I do get your point in seeing regulations and other healthcare BS as racketeering stifling competition.

There isn't much choice right now. Make the wrong choice, e.g. which emergency room, you might have to wrestle with unimaginably huge mystery bills. Again perhaps that's the racketeering you bring up.

But to me, it seems like markets - if we have to concede that language - as huge as nationwide healthcare create way too big of $ barriers for upstarts to try and come in and compete even if we had very low bureaucracy. I personally think a nationalized system is the best solution and I think we can come up with some hybrid Americanizations that introduce more competition within the system.

If the proposed reconciliation passes it gets us closer. just keep expanding medicare/aide until everyone is covered. And they are trying to allow drug price negotiation e.g. competition - which is insane that's not legal right now. Baby steps. But IMHO adding to the albatross costs way more than doing the hard thing of a near complete new system.
"The first release of Power BI was based on the Microsoft Excel-based add-ins: Power Query, Power Pivot and Power View" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Power_BI)

Power Query is the only part of this that has seemed useful to me.

The Data Model and DAX in particular seemed to me like distractions that I wasted time on before discovering the M language.

Saying Power Query is mostly unrelated demonstrates that the confusion is not all mine.
I'm not sure I'd want my phone to even be capable of knowing that stuff about me. Especially when it's doing whatever Google or Apple tells it to and I'm not even allowed to see the instructions it follows.

Our phones have given the corporate world a massive bridge into our private lives, and every day they're working on how to insert themselves further for "our convenience".
Roughly 9 out of 10 hedge funds fail to beat the market or simple passive strategies indexed to it. I'm no fan of Pelosi personally, but observing her husbands performance isn't smoking gun evidence, it's just banal.

Also, consider that a lot of what hedge funds offer is bespoke risk profiles to high net wealth individuals that are overexposed to particular market sectors.
Instead of spending money on hardware and software that will be flakey, time-consuming, and error-prone, put the money to good use.

Call up the nearest college or university with a library science program. Ask them for the names of students specializing in curation and cataloging. Contacts the students and tell them how much money you have, how many books you want to catalog, and arrange for them to take care of it.
Veritasium recently did a good video on this topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AaZ_RSt0KP8
Here's an overview on the state of Linux support, and the community forums are also a great source if you want details on a specific distro. But basically Ubuntu 21.04 works out of the box, and I'm currently on 20.04 LTS, which required some minor work arounds.

https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop
Ah. Well, I'm a Canadian, so at the very least, far fewer of my tax dollars go to that specific expenditure.
Dental expanses are pretty much capped. Unlikely that you have to pay in your life as much as these dental insurances cost over time.
Maybe a different bank would have a better experience for international wires? My experience is that this takes less time than you have relayed.
Not needing to re-render the whole damn scene for any and all changes > Layering Canvas elements yourself
I can relate to this on a much milder level. Story time. I was once working at a startup that was doing very well (growing rapidly, getting investment) despite the founders being pretty incompetent. They didn't know what they were doing, and they wouldn't listen to me about how to do things better. I have no problem quitting a job if my bosses are incompetent or if I feel I'm not able to contribute, but in this case my girlfriend at the time was nervous about it when I brought it up, and I let that override my urge to quit. A couple of months later they fired me. I experienced a powerful wave of unfamiliar emotion when I read the "your fired" email and it took me a moment to analyze it and figure out that it was relief, a wave of relief.

It was one of the very few times in my life when I've let other people convince me to ignore my gut feelings. I'm not blaming my ex-girlfriend, it was my decision, but it was the wrong decision.

- - - -

For your amusement here are some details of the business: they had no QA department, the users were our QA. All of the business logic was in stored procedures in the DB which, as a result, was always on fire even as we continually upgraded the hardware. Our HTML was 25% white space because our PHP guy liked deep indentation. He was a terrible programmer but he was a co-founder and a friend of the DB/sysadmin co-founder so he couldn't/wouldn't be fired. I tried to explain to him once that arrays, linked lists, and hash tables were different things but he refused to believe me because the only experience he had was with PHP and JS. The DB/sysadmin guy was a total "Master-Blaster" (You know "Who run Bartertown!?" from Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), if the CEO asked him to do something he didn't want to do he would throw actual screaming fits or just lie to him and say "That's impossible." They built a skating half-pipe in the office even though none of them skated. It was madness. But the users loved us and the numbers went up and up, so investors were lining up to vie for the chance to give them money. Eventually they (the investors) sidelined the three co-founders and now the company is a Wall street darling and a household word. Go figure.
"Still, some politicians there continue to push back on vaccines."

Tragically, perhaps we're witnessing evolution at work here.
Just a dynamo of a human incubator of disease and pestilence. And with children too! How unique!
Thankfully nobody here said that Kafka is beyond reproach. I just said the idea behind Kafka, the distributed log, makes a lot of sense.
Wonderful comment. But trying to automate actions (write/modify underlying data or system) is often a hugely complex task compared to a visualization that allows you to form an insight. Have you found enough common/repeatable examples that you can automate or develop some type of actions template? What is your business domain?
In the general case, maybe. Not in his specific case.

There is probably a mortality study of filtered vs. unfiltered smoker preferences.
In truly bad situations where failure appears to be imminent, wouldn't it be safer to start rsync'ing whatever files you can to a reliable disk or another server?
I didn't ever say it was insurmountable, I said it was too expensive. Obviously poor unemployed people manage to have kids so it's possible, but the costs are too high for me.

I don't consider it a realistic prospect to find a new job in another part of the country and have my partner leave her career just to have a kid. If that's the choice, we're not having kids - they're not worth it.
It seems to be part of Excel since 2016, no? It appears to me that it's morphed over time and I'm not sure to what extent it remains a separate product.

I've used both DAX and M (Power Query) via recent versions of Excel. Obviously there are plenty of ways to interface with data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Pivot says both Power Query and Power Pivot are part of Excel.
43 here. I admire your courage. Hope to see your project here posted soon!
I mean the only place where full ECC is not common in consumer computers is DRAM.

Every CPU cache layer has ECC and the registers have checksums. SSDs use ECC. It's hard to say ECC has fallen out of fashion when the number of subsystems using it has increased.

DRAM's lack of commonplace ECC is a real problem. I think it draws enough attention that maybe things will start steering in the right way soon.
I'm a little surprised they didn't mention Wordpress. It's blog-oriented, but the sheer volume of plugins for it (plus the ease at which you can just make your own) make it remarkably versatile, and its pretty flexible with how its database can be used for whatever you want to store there.
This isn't true at all. It's about expectations.

If both spouses expect the exact same support, it's difficult / impossible. I see most successful marriages where each spouse does what the other is not as good at doing, where they complement each other and don't resent that they ~always~ do one thing while the spouse ~always~ does something else.
That's an obviously unjust law. Removing workers right to strike removes a major point of leverage they have in negotiating for better working conditions and compensation.
Only in America, you have no idea what healthcare would cost before entering a hospital. When you go for a car maintenance/repair, they give you an upfront estimate. Nothing when they work on your body. I blame employer coverage that distorts the market.

https://ashishb.net/all/why-not-abolish-employer-provided-he...
Write it in Malbolge?
Slightly less silly, modern C++ and modern Python are evergreen.
Did you read the article? Because it makes a ton of sense regardless of whether it's LinkedIn saying whatever. It reads more like a paper than an advertisement -- which is more than what can be said about many articles peddling "solutions".
The theoretical process of upgrading the CPU on the Framework is buying a new motherboard from them, so sockets (there aren't really socketed mobile CPUs anyway) and chipsets changing wouldn't be a problem.

How often they'll actually have new options, how much they'll cost, and how long they'll stick to the compatible form factor from these initial units are definite question marks that will only become clear over time.

For Framework themselves, assuming they survive long enough for it to be a problem, the balance between new customers and entirely new machines and upgrades (and what that looks like in terms of margins) will presumably be a potential challenge, also.
Patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware
Ubuntu 21.04 works out of the box, and the main issues with older distros are mostly due to missing drivers. See details below.

https://frame.work/blog/linux-on-the-framework-laptop