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Reading this has destroyed my faith in technology and hope for the future as well. How can we, as sane and rational beings, try to stop this sort of dystopia from devouring the human race?
I read that too, and I got the impression being forced to work alone at the patent office was crucial for his 1905 Annus mirabilis papers. Lots of other great ideas (e.g. Mendel, Darwin) have come about from intellectual isolation.

I wonder how Graham would respond to that given he's so intertwined in Silicon Valley.
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Genuinely thought this was one of the worlds longest startup launches!
Killington (located pretty much dead center in VT) has been trying to seceede into New Hampshire recently[1] - so these sorts of border flipping movements aren't as rare as you might assume. It was doing this, of course, purely for tax reasons because the town is mostly composed of several large corporations.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killington,_Vermont_secession_...
This would have consequences for wealth inequality. Households with lower incomes spend much larger percentage of their money on goods with sales tax than more wealthy households. This plan would increase tax for low income families and majorly decrease it for families with where a lot ad money flows into investments or savings.
Just to be clear, this is just 30% --> 15% for subscriptions.

One-off purchases for large companies ($1m+) still attracts 30%.
> Everyone can now play an active part in the conversation with barely any barriers at all.

There are barriers. What people will actually see are mediated by algorithms that favor certain styles of presentation and types of content. It takes a fair amount of knowledge to not just make a point, but make it in a way that will gain traction rather than being shouted into a void. That knowledge comes from refinement and practice. It's why everyone on Twitter starts to sound the same once they get a big follower count. The likes and shares are actually training them to talk about certain things and certain ways through a reinforcement loop.
GeoNames (http://www.geonames.org/) offers a downloadable database of cities with more than 15k population and their time zones. They list aliases as well. That's what Zeitzono uses. Just use that.

(You don't have to use all the listed cities if it slows down the hTime web app, just pick some minimum population threshhold (eg. every city larger than 100k people) and use those.)
Humans care about innate qualities such as intelligence because they are looking for mates, and want the best genes for their children.

In this case, consider whether you would prefer to have children with a partner with a 150 IQ but who never develops a system to generate new ideas, or a partner with a 120 IQ who stumbles into a system / environment that allows them to generate new ideas.

Who would you prefer? Hard mode: justify your choice without invalidating the premises by saying something like, "Well, if the first person was really smarter, they would have developed such a system."

I speculate that most would prefer to have children with the first person, and then endeavor to teach their kids the second person's system.
Half the population still calls him President Trump.
Canada launches international proof-of-vaccination for Covid-19
Not everyone works in Silicon Valley. This donation could easily cover the yearly salaries of 3-4 developers in Europe.
Do you doubt the capability of wifi to serve fifty passengers, or the capability of the mobile uplink to the cell network? Neither of these strikes me as beyond the capability of readily available hardware.

Besides which, on the Greyhound buses I've ridden, most passengers were too busy sleeping, attempting to stay seated given the terrible buffeting of USA-standard interstate highways and bouncy Greyhound suspension, or being too poor to afford a device, to contribute much congestion to the WLAN.
Thanks! We’ve definitely improved a lot since then, I’d love to hear what you think today!
Prometheus-operator is great indeed.
If you like the video format, you might like this one from one of the Civo engineers, Alex: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=08O9eLJGQRM
My point is that you seem to be applying your argument selectively. This whole thread is about "Homo Economicus".
> People who give blanket rules such as never to use `goto` clearly do not understand where this idea comes from or why it should not be used.

The idea comes from Dijkstra and he sure as hell did consider it a blanket rule: "I became convinced that the go to statement should be abolished from all 'higher level' programming languages (i.e. everything except, perhaps, machine code)."
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What's notable is where you can see reality come crashing into people who treat policy like it's a simple team sport.

COVID doesn't care about your feelings, and the very real impact of higher infection rates and lower vaccination coverage is demonstrating who exactly has so dug-in on their position so far that they've become utterly disconnected from reality.
I have not read Brooks, so I don't know if his stated position is that he is in favour of plundering the poor for the sake of the rich. I'd imagine that it isn't.

He does mention that there are systemic issues with the status quo, so I'm sure if you asked him if he was happy with how things are running I'm sure he'd have quite a list of things that he thinks could make the world better for everyone -- even if you might disagree with some of his solutions.

In the interview he says that democracy is the political version of capitalism/a market economy and I think that's key to interpreting him charitably. In his worldview many of the good things about democracy are the good things about capitalism, but they also share many of the same flaws. In systems that emphasises individual agency and are incentive based, his view is that contempt locks us into a vicious cycle that de-incentivizes leaders from actually providing a realistic way forward. I tend to agree, and I can hardly fault someone for trying to argue for the best version of their vision for society.
> I don't see the point. Spotify's not willing to give up 10% of their Android revenue, they'll still use their own payment. Epic won't give up 15%.

Sounds like we've got a healthy competitive marketplace. Great.
There's more nuance here than is usually given credit. I think it's more that once we understand the principles and the system works, we realize it never really needed AI. Here's how the story goes:

Someone comes along and poses a problem. It seems like an automated solution will require building something like R2-D2. In other words solving it will need AI. Then someone else comes along and finds a way to solve it that looks nothing like R2-D2. Maybe they solve it with a massive dataset and a GLM. Turns out it never really needed AI.

As a field, we're prone to thinking R2-D2 is necessary and sufficient for a task, when it keeps turning out it's a sufficient condition but not a necessary one for so many tasks.
What's wrong with just allowing users to mute/ignore others?

Instead of banning anonymity (which is a ridiculous thing to do), platforms can provide better tools to allow users to curate content or join discussion rooms.

If you want some type of troll blocker to prevent spam accounts, you can use an anonymous crypto in junction with sign-up for a small fee that is inconsequential to a single user but painful at scale for users that generate many accounts.
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It looks like setuptools can handle Cython - https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/distribution.... .
> Credit card transactions take far less.

Depends on the payment processor/mechant bank/payment network/issuing bank and the fixed fees vs transaction amount. 3-5% is in range for a card not present transaction for a low dollar amount with not a lot of volume.

If Google or Apple gets a good deal on credit card processing because of volume and takes that plus a little extra to pay for their services, that's a lot more fair than 15-30%; high volume developers might want to shave that margin a bit more, but low and medium probably wouldn't bother.
Why give a starving man a sandwich, when you could plant some wheat and an avocado tree?
You are not paid only for physical labor in a company. You are expected to be part of the company culture, which, most of the times, is mental prostitution.
I believe the new pass manager isn’t due to be enabled by default until the next version (1.57)
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Still an improvement in USA. We are poorly served by passenger trains.
Well they have been doing substantially better than the competition on avoiding production stoppages because of a shortage of chips.
As a developer I want the option of App Stores taking their cut - them being the Merchant of Record takes out a monumental admin overhead from selling apps globally for a small developer.

I also work for a global tech company whereby that approach isn't needed as we have our own payment processing to handle that, but as a part-time indie, I want the option of deferring to the stores for payments.
(Remember that clickhouse is not reliable. It doesn’t pretend to be.

Clickhouse is great for lots of common query workloads, but if losing your data would be a big deal then it makes a lot of sense to have your data in a reliable and backed up place (eg timescale or just s3 files or whatever) too.

Of course lots of times people chuck stuff into clickhouse and it’s fine if they lose a bit sometimes. YMMV.)
No, i'm not saying the world is getting less empathetic. I am saying that in order for humanity to survive as more people interact with more people it is necessary for empathy to increase at a similar rate and scale.

Natural human empathy has very, very low limits. You can only really care about 7 or 8 people at any given time. The rest is social constructs that allow a sort of abstract empathy where in-groups are gradually expanded.

Human civilization simply doesn't work without this kind of social construct. We degrade to feces-slinging apes pretty quickly.
Since it's a German company, it might be one of the "fake" English words Germans like to come up with. Another examples: "Handy" for a smartphone or "Beamer" for a video projector. These are the most used names for these appliances.

Flixbus basically destroyed other competitors by driving the prices down to extreme levels. Once their competitors were gone, their raised the prices. Example: Postbus.
It is merely an exercise to place in context the scale of the contribution relative to Sentry's size as a company.

FWIW, Google has $136B cash in hand[1], and that figure has historically grown $10-20B year-over-year, so it does not have to raise capital to make OSS donations. The figure I cited – $290,000,000 – might sound like an insane number, but it is a rounding error on their balance sheet.

(Also, to be clear this was not a shot at Google, their history of OSS contribution, or anything like that – I just chose some random mega cap company.)

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-plenty-cash-with-n...
I mean, maybe? Bremen, Hamburg, and Berlin are Länder (the German equivalent of states). You could certainly make an argument for, say, NYC being its own state; it'd be bigger than Delaware. But a lot of these things are historical accidents: West Virginia only exists because of the Civil War, California would certainly not be one state if founded now, while DC isn't a state at all. And given that the boundaries of the states are entrenched by the constitution there's a heavy status quo bias as to what might happen in the future.
Yes this would be ideal
Tesla just seems to have simpler and better designed vehicles. There are fewer bottlenecks because there is just less stuff in the car.

Check out the teardown of the Mach-E Thermal System by Sandy Munro for example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1dQtlrI7uU

The ICE vehicle business model is to treat spare parts and servicing as a profit centre... vehicle designs reflect that.
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I tend to find that to be itself a code smell. But it happens. When it does, I like using local functions that just close over the same state.
And the other party doesn't want people having representation at all.

For the record, the popular vote percentages for the Democrats in the past 3 senate elections were: 53.0%, 58.2%, and 47.0%. That averages 52.7%, so gaining an extra two senate seats would still mean the Democrats were under-represented.

(I know that the purpose of the senate is not to represent each citizen equally, I just thought it was worth pointing out which parts of the country have the most grounds for complaint).
I can't help but think this sense is so prevalent on 'The Left' because they have established an image for themselves that is rational, empathetic, and humanist above all else. They actively frame their positions and actions in terms of "justice" and "fairness". They love to declare that "Reality has a well known liberal bias" and frame people who see the world different as rejecting reality itself. With motivations so unquestionably good, and so unquestionably rational, anyone who is in opposition to their proposals must have something wrong with them, no? How else could someone be opposed to such righteous actions? Well, the answer is that they have been deceived by Fox News, they are ignorant, they are voting against their best interest without realizing it, they are reactionaries, they have no empathy, or they are just plan bad people. Take your pick.
Western Maryland, like most states, is already gerrymandered and that is likely their key complaint. It wouldn’t make much of a difference if it wasn’t gerrymandered, but I am sure it feels like they lack a voice politically.

Fracking is likely the real motivator. There is rich natural gas reserves that were being fracked in Western Maryland before the state banned it.

Fracking was absolutely causing local environmental harm, but it was also bringing in jobs and tax revenue and people vote with their wallets.
Two quick responses:

- The code that TSBS uses was contributed by Altinity[1]. If there is a better setup, please feel free to submit a PR. As stated elsewhere, we did have a former CH engineer review and even updated ClickHouse to the newest version __yesterday__ based on his suggestion to ensure we had the best numbers. (and some queries did improve after upgrading, which are the numbers we presented)

- It seems like you read the article (great job - it was long!!), so I'm sure you understand that we were trying to answer performance and feature questions at a deeper level than almost any benchmark we've seen to date. Many just show a few graphs and walk away. We fully acknowledged that smaller batches are not recommended by CH, but something many (normally OLTP) users would probably have. It matters and nobody (that we know of) has shown those numbers before. And in our test, larger batch sizes do work well, but not to some great magnitude in this one server setup. Did 10k or 20k rows maybe go a little faster for CH? Sometimes yes, sometimes negligible. The illustration was that we literally spent months and hundreds of benchmark cycles trying to understand the nuances.

I think we're pretty clear in the post that CH is a great database for the intended cases, but it has shortcomings just like TimescaleDB does and we tried to faithfully explore each side.

[1]: https://github.com/timescale/tsbs/pull/26
Would you sacrifice hundreds of jobs (maybe even thousands if you account for second-order effects) for a chance (not a guarantee) that some other company will be able to use the technology in time to deal with the Coronavirus? Could you accept that there's a chance that new companies moving into this space will be much less cooperative if Moderna loses the fight after giving away their process?

There's a forest from the trees. Nobody here is saying that you're lying when you say "I would sacrifice my job to save millions of lives". The majority of us would probably do the same, but those aren't the stakes, and nothing is that simple. That's not what forcing Moderna to share their process is. This is a threat to an entity that has been fairly cooperative, and it is that way because of the chance group of people and attitudes that make that entity up. There is no guarantee that whatever comes next will want to play nice.
My OP talked exactly about claims (and there are many at least around me) of outperforming in terms of raw power.

I never argued with the fact that ARM allows to stick a couple of very low-power cores, while x86 doesn't.

In terms of "lightweight laptop with decent performance" MBP (the discussion is about new stuff after all) is less interesting, because it's heavier, more expensive, and probably doesn't provide much added value. M1 was revolution (mostly because someone took ARM and put in popular laptop and took the burden of software transition), those are much less so.

I can see myself getting MBA if I'll need something small and cheap and there won't be decent competition (maybe Google's Chromebooks? Or something from Samsung?), but not MBP (mostly because I dislike Apple's UX and I think competition is decent). I'd consider if it was say outperforming Intel by 50% in single core tasks.
Maryland has very aggressive gerrymandering
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> I think what the previous comment alluded to was that your mixing up efficacy with overall duration of protection. But re you're "Who knows", there are studies[0] that tracked the same group of people over a course of time after vaccination.

I'm not mixing anything up. We simply don't know precisely how many breakthroughs there are at any stage after vaccination. It does seem logical that many if not most breakthroughs are not being caught. The case I cited was only caught because the individual was a pilot and residing in a country with strict border that require regular testing.

It's not clear from the study you cited what the testing criteria was but it does not look like they were testing all the subjects (members of Kaiser Permanente Southern California) continuously. That's simply would not be feasible.

We do know that Pfizer's protection starts to decline after around 2 months, so it seems likely that the case I cited was probably not an extreme outlier and efficacy against infection is probably overestimated even in the first few months.

https://www.webmd.com/vaccines/covid-19-vaccine/news/2021100...

Of course, breakthrough cases shouldn't be a problem. The problem is that there are unrealistic expectations around sterilizing immunity.

> As a comparison: The influenza / flu vaccine is around 40-60% effective against infection.

But we're not shutting society down every year for flu, are we?
See, there's that contempt again.

You should know that this is what began to pry me away from being your basic leftist template. I said, "Wow, I better make sure I am not voting against my own interests. Wouldn't I feel like a fool if I supported people who had contempt for me."

After that, I would hear "Ugh, men are awful" in a curious new light. Or someone would say "White people ruin everything" and I would realize, hey, I'm white. This sort of thing began to add up and it became clear that "going left" meant supporting people who had contempt for me, purely on the basis of things like skin color and sex. Wow, I really have been going against my own interests, all this time. I am no better than those "fools" in Kansas.
Every sizable city that isn't already part of a state.
Your preferences to not hear about something aside, you can have civilized discussion about myriad controversial figures historical and contemporary—Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Putin, Manson, Bundy, Judas, and Kanye—why not Trump?

It doesn't need to devolve into contention. We don't flag COVID, Apple, or Rust articles because they tend to devolve into contention.
> "Reading is harder. Math is harder. Learning anything new is harder. Following complex conversations is harder. Picking out subtext, allusions, et c., in all media, is harder."

smarts can't be summed up into a single all-encompassing quality that you have or you don't. you can be socially savvy and not be good at math, or great at basketball and be socially awkward. this is a 'not smart' observation that undermines your whole humble-brag.
>> The point is, yes, the courts are, or can be, that stupid, especially when it comes to "hacking". Just ask Kevin Mitnick.

+1 for bringing up Mitnick. His book "The Art of Deception" is pretty good and covers what you mentioned. My belief is that the courts and the general public are not nearly so clueless any more. And to the extent that they might be, lawyers know that tech stuff is important and can now make the required arguments to convince any remaining uninformed people how dumb these claims are.
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I strongly believe we only really think that in retrospect because the borders changed long before any of us were born.

Additionally, while splitting off Maine was for a good cause - it was essentially just a hack to keep the senate balanced in the lead-up to the civil war.
There are a few things he didn’t mention that I suspect are important: a variety of life experiences, exposure to more than one modality of thinking, and an opportunity to engage in autonomous unstructured play as a child. It’s good at any age but is likely pivotal in childhood.
The article headline is "Why Wokeism Will Rule the World" but when I used "post to HN" bookmarklet, it replaced it with this title. Not sure how this happened.
Keeping it simple got the job done:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/21/drone-search-w...
A lot of people in those areas would agree with you.
Per transmute's docs @ https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/mem/fn.transmute.html:

> Because transmute is a by-value operation, alignment of the transmuted values themselves is not a concern. As with any other function, the compiler already ensures both T and U are properly aligned. However, when transmuting values that point elsewhere (such as pointers, references, boxes…), the caller has to ensure proper alignment of the pointed-to values.

The post you've linked transmutes a reference, and as the caller fails to explicitly ensure proper alignment, it explicitly risks invoking undefined behavior - I would consider the code buggy. The easiest way to prove it's broken would be to create an reference that's more likely to be unaligned (&array[1] instead of &array[0]?) and run the code on a less misalignment-tolerant platform (ARM?).

Here are some 100% sound alternatives using bytemuck (no unsafe required!) and core::ptr::{read,write}_unaligned (unsafe required):

https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
> By these arguments nearly every sizable city in the country should be its own state.

I think that's worth considering. It would get rid of a lot of the left/right gridlock at state levels. Cities would be mostly free to do as they wish without rural areas holding them back and rural areas would be free to do as they wish without cities holding them back. This would also greatly reduce the amount of BS that needs to get done at the federal level because a ton of that stuff is not interstate issues but an end run around the fact that the blue team and the red team can't do what they want at the state level so they try and get the feds to do it to the whole country.

And before anyone says "but money" I would like to remind them that freedom isn't free.