skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> most people are forced to consume practically all of their income to keep their family fed and to keep a roof over their heads

I'll take a guess that you be living in USistan.
Pretty much anywhere in the Midwest is builder and home-buyer friendly, with the caveat that the further you are from a city, the easier and cheaper it is. Anecdotal stories I've heard put IA, ND, SD, WI, MI, MN, IN, NE and KS at about the same level for suburban to rural housing (though this depends on the size and popularity of the closest city). It is typically cheaper (not including maintenance costs) to buy an old house than to build your own. You can buy an old 2000 sqft house for under $200k within commuting distance of the Twin Cities but building a similar house on an empty lot will likely cost more than twice that and have a 10-20 min longer commute.
There's no doubt that Jobs was a very polarizing figure, had many negative character traits and made a lot of mistakes throughout his life. For what it's worth, I read his biography and he came across as repentant and apologetic when confronted, especially near the end when he knew he was going to die. He was a brilliant but flawed person, and he was aware of it.

What really rubs me the wrong way is people who refuse to give him credit for his tremendous achievements, and belittle and ridicule him instead.
Not sure where you were looking, but Le Figaro and Le Monde had these figures.

I also heard them this morning in France Culture.
S3 is not cheap, it’s among the most expensive due to egress fees.
> How do I verify it when I don't have it and he doesn't provide it?

You didn't even bothered to look, did you?

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
Serverless should probably just be re-named to "pay-for-request/cpu time/whatever" or something like that. By and large most if not all "serverless" databases or data services (like kafka/pulsar) are just multi-tenant deployments and you're billed on the metrics your tenant generates. Unlike RDS where you provision an instance that you pay for as long as it's running.
> Make universally applied carbon taxes across all industries and let the market sort it out

Globally?
There are some interesting crypto and crypto-adjacent projects working on leveraging carbon markets:

https://twitter.com/ishaheen10/status/1437997024083808257?s=...
cough You may as well say “you” instead of “these guys” btw, perhaps a careless mistake but you were speaking to the lead developer of the Asahi effort and I would hazard a guess his views on the Linux kernel and vendor support are a tad more nuanced than “ridiculous”
The problem with this is that poor people will not be able to keep their fridge powered if energy became too expensive.
>> My job largely revolves around seeming important, not doing good work.

That happens in companies too. It's really strange. OTOH we also know that any objective measures will be gamed, which I guess is the same thing. Perceptions are more important than reality sometimes.
Thank you yourself for working on sixels and other things for image support in terminals. I've seen your work before and it's quite inspiring. :)
Vultr offers both BGP proxying and BGP peering services. You can route to a cheap ($5/month) VPS and then tunnel (GRE, GIF, IPSec, or Wireguard) to your residential gateway. With IPSec or Wireguard you wouldn't even need a static residential IP address.
I made another comment to this point, but I think you described it much more succinctly.
Agreed. Similar experience as an instructor with them.
You forgot constexpr
Honestly asking:

What is the specific harm involved here that is deserving to be taxed?

How would we measure this harm in order to know how much to tax a given company?

Should other causes of this harm be taxed/penalized as well? If not, why?

For instance, if the harm in question is some people feel varying degrees of worse after using a given product, is there any limit we as a society should set on penalizing the cause of the harm?

Should people or entities who say things that make people feel worse be fined/prosecuted by the law? If I feel worse (let's call this 'trauma' or 'anxiety' or 'depression' or 'literally shaking' or 'panic attack') after reading a book or reading a news site, should I have standing to sue the creators and medium which presents said content?
The buggy audit tool was probably made by a human too, though.
Might seem a bit pedantic, but is there a dark mode?

I cannot stare at a white spreadsheet all day unfortunately.
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Conterintuitive facts in mathematics, CS, and physics
In Ethereum's case, it's not green washing, they're already halfway to implementation. The proof of stake chain is live. The proof of work chain will be merged into the proof of stake chain in the next six months: https://ethmerge.com/

Clearly with hundreds of billions in economic activity on the POW chain they have to take this very carefully.
The story of the photo of the Pinto in front of the Mt. St. Helens eruption
[TimescaleDB DevRel here]

Citus has been a great product and tool for helping to push the scaling story in Postgres and certainly has it's uses.

That said, the three big differences that come to mind initially when talking about time-series data are:

1. Partitioning:

In TimescaleDB, hypertables manage chunks/partitions automatically and lots of other value is built on top of the chunk architecture. Regardless of whether you insert new, forward moving data, or load historical data from 10 years ago, you don't have to ensure the partitions are ready and waiting for you, TimescaleDB takes care of that.

In Citus, partition management is still a manual process (at some level). Version 10.2 does provide some new APIs[1] for creating the underlying partitions, but it's still a "manual" process (that can be automated with work).

2. Time-series specific features

Managing and querying time-series data is more than having partitions across multiple nodes/shards. Because we manage the chunk architecture, we also focus on automated policies that help you manage every aspect of how time-series data works. Continuous Aggregates[2] for intelligent aggregate query refreshes. Compression[3] that achieves 93%+ in many production cases. Data retention[4] that makes it easy to manage how much data you keep, both raw and aggregate data! Built-in user defined actions that doesn't require a separate extension like pg_cron.

All of these features can be automated with policies so that they run without you having to call specific APIs on your own (although you can do that too).

Citus has focused on scaling but can be used more generically for time-series data if you want to do more of the maintenance yourself (again, at this point).

3. Compression
I mentioned it above, but one thing TimescaleDB does different compression algorithms for different data types. It's not yet configurable, but it generally provides better performance than what Citus because they use ztsd for all column compression.

Everything else they've announced with columnar compression (hybrid columnar/row data store) has been a TimescaleDB feature since compression was introduced in version 1.5.

HTH!

[1]: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/09/17/citus-10-2-extensi...
[2]: https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...
[3]: https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...
[4]: https://docs.timescale.com/timescaledb/latest/how-to-guides/...
I was surprised recently to learn about the back/forward cache (bfcache) [1], a common browser optimization that sort of does what you're describing but stores a more complete snapshot of the page, including the JS heap. I'm not sure if it's used in this new FF feature (the article doesn't give details about the mechanism of unloading).

However the bfcache unsurprisingly causes edge cases in JS-heavy pages/SPAs, and a prevailing solution [2] is for the page to force a reload when it is restored from this cache rather than explicitly handling those edge cases, nullifying the optimization.

[1] https://web.dev/bfcache/

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/a/13123626/14665201
With only 10 years of existence and already to its palmares a genocide in Myanmar and making the worst pandemic since the plague much worse, I think the comparison is not so far fetched.
Are you a homeowner? I do get some legitimate mail, though always from companies that already sent me a digital bill I paid by auto-debit anyway, that just refuse to go paper-free even though I'm throwing away all the paper they send me. But the overwhelmingly majority of my mail is unsolicited refinance offers, just as the overwhelming majority of my SMS texts and phone calls are people claiming they heard I want to sell my house.

If communication wasn't worthless before, flooding money markets to drive interest rates to permanent zero finished killing it.

At least with email, most of it gets automatically filtered, though it is also quite annoying there when every company or contractor I have ever purchased anything from ever feels the need to send me every day updates on everything happening with their business.
Bitcoin is just a convenient scapegoat for people to hate on and feel like they have the moral high ground, all while they eat a high meat diet, drive single occupant cars daily, take regular domestic flights and occasional international flights, and live in McMansions with AC 6 months out of the year.

Our entire lifestyles in the developed world are horrifically carbon heavy. Beating up on things like bitcoin without addressing the actual problem of oil subsidies and the lack of carbon taxes is a waste of political capital that will set back actual effective climate action by years or decades.

We can't afford to waste that time.
Tab Containers are a nice feature, but aren't quite there yet. For example, history is currently not isolated per container:

https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/1...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283320

Multiple browser profiles also let me have one profile for work, another one for personal stuff, and yet another one only with stuff like vue/react/svelte dev tools and remote debugging enabled, and _then_ decide which one to open at any given time. This instead of opening every container at once, or something like selectively opening a bunch of bookmarks manually into a specific container (I use buku to manage and sync my bookmarks too, so no tab container support there).
Indeed, once you figure out someone's wallet address it becomes trivial to trace their transactions back to the beginning of Bitcoin.
UDP is almost always used with buffers, error correction codes, and other measures to deal with imperfection
When your VPN is a matter of life or death, don't rely on reviews
LOL, just because they're running the project, doesn't mean their opinions are sacrosanct or unquestionable.

The statement they made is ridiculous, and I stand by my decision to label it as such.

If you want to explain to me how I'm wrong instead of simply appealing to authority, you're obviously free to do so.
I used to be Keynesian and thought that inflation was a free tax that was also good for investment and growth.

Now I understand that it leads inexorably to ruin. It creates a situation where you have to invest in markets, which removes the link to value, e.g. "the market always goes up." Growth investing is an oxymoron and just a variation of a Ponzi Scheme.

We're at a watershed moment in modern history. In the coming months and years, countries will have to return to a gold standard and when they do, they will have to either limit gold sales, deeply penalize it, or just like in 1934, confiscate it. This has all happened before.
> Tobacco and alcohol cause measurable societal harm

And if I choose to smoke in the privacy of my own home (or yard)? What societal harm am I causing?

As for alcohol, the societal harm caused is a laundry list of already illegal behaviors that are illegal regardless of alcohol's involvement with the exception of sin tax avoidance.

Why not outlaw the societal harm instead?

> e.g. an alcohol excise tax going towards rehabilitation and/or highway safety programs

Both of those seem like good things regardless don't they? Why do we need a special tax on alcohol for things that are generally good? It's not like only people who consume alcohol are the only ones who need rehab or they're the only problem with highway safety.

Does the tobacco tax go toward lung cancer patients? It actually goes towards funding campaigns that overstate (ie, lie) about the dangers of smoking to the point that people vastly overestimate the dangers of smoking [1].

> Sin tax" is just a colloquial name for an excise tax, which a state has every right to enact.

Of course it's legal, it's just garbage policy. Sin taxes come from the pairing politicians wanting more money and pearl clutching interest groups pleading to think about the children.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
> 99.5% of respondents overestimated absolute risk, only about 0.3% estimated it correctly (by giving an answer of 30), and 0.2% underestimated it (by giving an answer less than 30).
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I guess when you focus on the physical act there is no difference between someone coming into your house and taking the fridge, or someone you hired coming into your house and taking the fridge. In both cases it is someone taking the fridge, so they must be the same right?

But when it comes to authority, the constitution requires issuing IOUs that come with the full faith and credit of the US goverment originate in an act of congress. This is because "full and faith and credit" is not something that the executive can do on its own.

The constitution also gives the executive the right to mint coinage, but only up to spending limits, except for a loophole for various collectible coins made out of platinum. These were not intended to circulate, or be deposited at the Federal Reserve in exchange for reserves, which is why I am skeptical about the legality of using this coin. It would also be a huge political embarrassment. But if they cannot deposit it for reserves, then no one is going to get their bill paid with the trillion dollar coin.

In the past, congress had to pass a bill for each debt issuance, which was too much work as debt issuance ramped up. Then congress went to a debt ceiling authorizing the issuing of debt up to a certain amount. This was intended to give the administration flexibility. For the same reason, many spending programs authorize payments "up to" some amount in order to support flexibility. Should the executive do this, you can be sure this flexibility would disappear and things would get much more painful for the executive.

Now if you don't see anything wrong with bypassing congressional authorization because conceptually writing an IOU on metal and paper is the same, then we fundamentally disagree. It's not about the act, but the authorization behind it.
I agree. Unfortunately over my career (going on 30 years) the ratio of my thinking to other people's thinking in the systems I have to develop is shrinking and shrinking. Modern software runs on systems layered onto systems layered on systems of systems. "Debuggers" are more sorely needed than ever but the traditional concept of a debugger is decades out of date and sorely needs to be reinvented for heterogenous, distributed, and parallel interactions.
Doesn't AWS Aurora Serverless kinda cover all the main 4 points (easy, scalable, familiar, flexible)?
I would generally agree, and have brought up my concerns in regards to accountability before. (not in the context of crypto)

And while this is true in theory, the reality as far as I can tell is that we already have a system of no accountability - for a certain privileged sub-group of society. All crypto does is to level the field, and that's a big net win in my book.

Now if panama and paradise papers had lead to anything other than journalists getting killed, trillion dollar corporations didn't keep buying up and stifling competition, insider trading by CEOs and politicians wasn't rampant, politics as a whole was not a money game and celebrities and high ranking officials didn't get off scoff free for crimes that would put lesser fortunate or connected individuals behind bars for years if not decades, maybe, maybe then accountability would be a valid point.

Until then I will celebrate the fact that the odds are a little more evened out now than they were before.
Right, OP wasn't suggesting he shouldn't have been free to do what he did. The fact that he changed his mind when it was too late suggested even he knew he'd made a mistake.
Does Kubegres works with any TCP proxy, and if does - is there any recommendations which one?
Running ingress via Load Balancer is quite costly option in cloud context. At the moment is seems that nodeport is only realistic alternative.
You're doubling down on your whataboutism and deflection. The key difference between Facebook's "news" feed any mainstream television and print news is visibility.

If I record every minute of cable news and subscribe to a bunch of newspapers I can tell you the exact contents of each. If any of them wants to espouse a narrative it's pretty easy to see just by looking at what they've aired/printed.

That's not possible to do with Facebook, unless you are Facebook. Every users' "news" feed is slightly different based on their behavior/relationships tracked on Facebook and through their massive advertising network (off Facebook).

I put "news" in quotes because Facebook tunes the contents of their feeds for monitization rather than any semblance of truth or accuracy. Facebook is awash in literal fake news, as in completely made up "news" articles, because they peak in some engagement metric.

An actual news program on cable or non-opinion news article in a paper can't get away with outright lies. They also would be liable for outright defamation.

For all the ills and failings of cable news and newspapers they are nowhere near as toxic or fundamentally broken as Facebook's "news" feeds. They're not even in the same ballpark which makes your whataboutism really puzzling. Do you honestly not see the difference?
Right click the back button and choose the site before all the redirects?
13 years ago I wrote a nice reference implementation for BGP "client" use - I just treated it as an API onto Cisco routers: https://github.com/BytemarkHosting/bgpfeeder is 1300 lines of Ruby, one file, no dependencies, and quite verbose.

At the time I was running a hosting company & wanted to feed updates to our IP lists from a web-based database into our routers (e.g. a customer wants a new IP to their servers, or moves their VPS images between physical hosts). But I couldn't understand how to get tight control of quagga, or the Ciscos and wondered how how to speak it directly?

It took about a week poring over the RFCs and the Net::BGP Perl module, but I can go back to it now for some useful revision. It brought a lot of disparate BGP knowledge together in one place, and re-expressed it in a language I still know. So if you know Ruby and are curious about BGP it might help you see what you can do with it.

Though if you want to use BGP to control your network devices today, you'd use https://github.com/Exa-Networks/exabgp instead. It can pull every trick you could possibly want with BGP - e.g. DDoS mitigation, anycast, and generally letting you mess with BGP via JSON. There are lots of extensions to BGP, and I only cared about the ones to send v4 & v6 routes around. Also I only wanted to write one file :)

PS, there is one horror in BGP implementation and that is TCP-MD5. i.e. to authenticate to a peer, you sign every packet of your TCP connection with a little extra extension that contains an MD5 sum derived from a shared secret. It's so weird, but probably preferable to IPSEC or whatever would have been "standard" in 1998: https://blog.habets.se/2019/11/TCP-MD5.html
it's clearly talking about the decline of Western civilization, so it's quite bold to take credit for the successes of the alternatives the West is hellbent on destroying
One thing I noticed in one of the article's examples is that the log contained an example user's PII:

INFO | User registered for newsletter. [user="Thomas", email="thomas@tuhrig.de"]

Ruh-roh! You now have a potential privacy incident ready to occur, if an inadvertent log leak ever happens. I think, at least these days, one vital component of any logging API is the ability to flag particular bits of information as PII so that it can get handled differently upon output, storage, or ingestion by other tools. For example, if the users's actual E-mail address is not specifically useful for debugging, do you need to display it in the default visualization of the log?

I think in 2020, with companies' privacy practices getting more and more scrutiny, any logging best practices doc should at least mention treatment of PII.
My point is that moral outrage is a dangerous policy vehicle. And in this particular situation I am concerned that we might be looking at the wrong fire - to stay in your picture.
> This event left a lot of scar tissue across all of Technical Infrastructure, and the next few months were not a fun time (e.g. a mandatory training where leadership read out emails from customers telling us how we let them down and lost their trust).

Bullshit.

I'd believe this if it was not completely impossible for 99.999999% of google "customers" to contact anyone at the company. Or for the decade and a half of personal and professional observations of people getting fucked over by google and having absolutely nobody they could contact to try and resolve the situation.

You googlers can't even disdain yourselves to talk to other workers at the company who are in a caste lower than you.

The fundamental problem googlers have is that they all think they're so smart/good at what they do, it just doesn't seem to occur that they could have possibly screwed something up, or something could go wrong or break, or someone might need help in a way your help page authors didn't anticipate...and people might need to get ahold of an actual human to say "shit's broke, yo." Or worse, none of you give a shit. The company certainly doesn't. When you've got near monopoly and have your fingers in every single aspect of the internet, you don't need to care about fucking your customers over.

I cannot legitimately name a single google product that I, or anyone I know, likes or wants to use. We just don't have a choice because of your market dominance.
> And while this is true in theory, the reality as far as I can tell is that we already have a system of no accountability - for a certain privileged sub-group of society. All crypto does is to level the field, and that's a big net win in my book.

This isn't true at all.

What you describe isn't really relevant to cryptocurrency. You might as well advocate for the abolition of taxation to "even the playing field." The resulting societal disaster be darned.
lol, would love a 1-click button but love the information density and specificity relative to a podcast.
> state requiring compensation

So, advertising company hurts me and the state gets compensated?
> whose power cannot be really removed

Yes. It may not be too worrisome right now, but what if the cryptocurrency phenomena became several orders of magnitude bigger? Couple that with climate wars, failed states, and malignant corporations. I can imagine some very grim outcomes indeed.
Reagan was a former governor whose net worth paled in comparison to Trump's. He was not an oligarch.