skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are typically fixed. There are exceptions like TIPS, Series I, and FRNs which are more complicated.

See Treasury direct for more details:
https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/products.htm

But even for the fixed bills, notes and bonds, they are typically rolled over into new ones when they mature. So the government is still exposed to changing market conditions. But it's not something that happens for all of the debt at once.
No guaranteed order, but very typically a predictable order depending on the query plan chosen. If you’re relying on an ordering, you need to specify it in the query.

However, the scan order is predictable for a given engine depending on the query plan. If it’s doing an index scan, you’ll get results in index order and if it’s doing a table scan you’ll get it in table storage order (assuming a transactional, single node [edit: also single threaded] OLTP database- this goes out the window when outputs are aggregated across multi node (edit: or multi threaded) scans without an ORDER BY)
with verbose userbase.
My address is in their database. USPS has no issue doing their job every day. I filled out the form.
You mixed up the two I guess?
I never got this e-mail. Does that mean I'm not subject to this?
Most guns aren't self aiming and self firing.
could the thief be the laid of police officer :)
Seem likely to me
For all of its greatness and (mostly well deserved) praises, the lack of a reasonable cluster index capability (as in data order at storage layer) is Postgres' biggest limit IMHO.

Unfortunately, The CLUSTER command not only "blocks" the table for WRITE ops, but more importantly, it also blocks READ operations [0]. pg_repack helps, but is not always available when using a managed PG offering.

Not being able to control data ordering on disk is a potential deal breaker once the data reaches a certain size.

[0]: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-cluster.html
906 Million in foreign aid to Pakistan by the US. Giving taxpayer money to an oppressive regime that believes it is okay to order a woman to her death for a cartoon seems inappropriate.

Congress values your feedback and would love to here your thoughts on this topic:

https://www.congress.gov/contact-us

Don't forget to look up their voting records before calling so you can ask why.

Aneeqa Ateeq shouldn't be murdered over a cartoon.
This is cool. I'm looking to level up my Obsidian usage and I really like the author's thoughtfulness and optimism in their daily notes.

My favorite thing so far has been using Daily Notes to track a morning score and an evening score in the markdown's frontmatter. The score is just a "how I'm feeling" and can encompass really any aspect of my wellbeing. I'm working on a project to parse the data out of my daily notes so I can try to visualize trends. Eventually I want to mash in more data (listening history, Strava activity level, steps from Garmin, etc.) to see what kinds of things have, or seem to have, effects on my well-being.

screenshot of last april: https://share.getcloudapp.com/8Lupb7LX
Yes, There Is a Genetic Component to Intelligence
Minority Report certainly had an influence on future designs of interfaces, for sure.
Cobra Kai was a terrible flop, which Youtube dropped after the second season did not change its status. Sony, which distributes it, believed in it and shopped it around to other streaming sites. Netflix picked it up and only then did it become a bonafide hit, warranting a third and now fourth season.
in the spirit of never touching a google product again, I'm planning to use mysudo instead of voice. Might be worth a look? It allows you to create up to 8 identities with different numbers.

https://mysudo.com
https://archive.ph/FOHBb
> The Union Pacific Police department has jurisdiction over the 32,000 miles of track Union Pacific owns. Many of these “special agents” used to patrol this now infamous stretch of track. According to the source, the number of patrolling officers has been cut from 50 to 60 agents to eight[...]
Cool, thank you! I appreciate the explanation.
Lots of the usual hacker news comments by people who have not bothered to check the authors bona fides, sigh

It is extremely unlikely that anyone reading here knows as much about this stuff as Ted Gioia. He's an award winning music historian, journalist, author, and performer. I personally have five of his excellent books. He knows of what he speaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia
Those Reddit posts are two years old.
They require proof to buy alcohol. They do not to vote. the consequences are not the only part of "requirements".
Try getting off VPN if you're on one.
You can definitely interpret that both ways
McDie: A node-based visual tool for developing models of dice probabilities
I advocate for type systems specifically because of how much I've worked with dynamic languages in big corps.
There used to be a similar site for compiler jobs. I think the niche exists. If you can prove you can attract that audience with high-quality postings, I think it can work.
Thank you for your heartwarming tale, it made my day
WhatsApp is end-to-end encrypted, which doesn't help when one of the ends forwards the messages to the police.
For me it's a judgement call based on how easy to integrate the hosted solution is, how much lock-in there is, how much flexibility I think we'll need, and how fast we need to ship.

One definite disadvantage is testability (which drives stability and ease of refactoring). I can write an automated end-to-end test that will enter some text into a CMS on my site, hit submit, then verify that a post was published. If the CMS is google sheets, I'm going to violate some terms of service and possibly get a blacklisted IP if I do that. Instead I'm going to mock out a response according to the API contract sheets gives me. If they change the API in a subtle way, it may break.

An advantage is that google sheets is probably more robust than my CMS and I'll never be able to look at (or have to fix) their code.

Flexibility cuts both ways: I can't add features to sheets. So if there's a field I really need to validate on the client, I'm out of luck. But also nobody is going to ask for that feature because I obviously can't add it, so that may be good assuming there's a workaround.
It was downvoted because you originally posted it to the wrong thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29981188, instead of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29985871). I've moved it to the right thread now.

Can you please review the site guidelines and stick to them in the future? You broke more than one of them badly here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My sympathies.

My wife of 11 years left me this year (I still don't know why). I think about the same thing... I still (probably) have time to find out what it's like to be married 30 years, but I (probably) no longer have the time to experience a 60-year marriage. And that was, honestly, the only serious goal I had for my life, so that sucks.

But, you know, once upon a time a girlfriend of 7 years left me, and I was sad that I'd have to start again. But my mom told me, and she was right, that when the next go-round happened, it's not really like starting again in many ways. Much of the maturation that happens in a relationship is actually carried within to the next relationship. So, although I still envy those who get to stay married, and those who are still married and so might yet stay married, maybe I don't need to believe that my dream is completely dead. If it's not too pretentious, maybe I can hope that I can make kintsugi of myself.

I started this message hoping to commiserate and perhaps encourage, but actually I guess I'm just wallowing. Dealing with grief is still tough, what a surprise.
Agreed. The latest remaster of Let It Be ALMOST sounds like it could have been recorded today. Conversely, I think a lot Adele's ALMOST sounds like it could be from the 70's
I’ve heard it said that burnout is: exhaustion, inefficacy and depersonalization. It sounds like you’ve spent a lot of time on the second cause and maybe the third one. If you’re exhausted too on top of that, some time off before working back up efficacy is very helpful.
I found out cobra Kai was on Netflix from an advert on YouTube. Haha.
They both work at Microsoft, apparently: https://github.com/OlafenwaMoses, https://github.com/johnolafenwa.
If anybody is in this boat, I can highly recommend Zoho Mail. I pay $1/mo/user and the product is really great. They do have a "forever free" tier as well but I'm not certain what all that includes. The $1/mo/user is a great price, and they have IMAP/POP3 and a pretty great API as well. You can also create as many groups as you want so if you have a company of 3 people where a mix of you need to handle support@, admin@, marketing@, etc you can easily do that.

I have no affiliation with Zoho other than being a happy customer.
This article incorrectly states that Zig has "colored" `async` functions. In reality, [Zig async functions do not suffer from function coloring](https://kristoff.it/blog/zig-colorblind-async-await/).

> Yes, you can write virtually any software in Zig, but should you? My experience in maintaining high-level code in Rust and C99 says NO.

Maybe gain some experience with Zig in order to draw this conclusion about Zig?
You’ve inflated biglaw bonuses for >= 8th year associates by 10x. They’re high, but they’re not that high.
The physical metronomes are using phase, not frequency, to synchronize. On top of that, they all start off at approximately the same frequency.

So just having a global average frequency is not the same thing.

Specifically: They tick in one direction faster than the other, which causes them to slowly shift phase.
Yea, but my point is that even disregarding accreditation a "degree in engineering" is more often BS/ MS and focusing on titles doesn't reliably work.

Every degree in my school's college of engineering was BS/MS. And I think something like 25 of 27 were "degrees in engineering".

If you want to go full circle, they are "degrees in engineering" because they're accredited by ABET, and satisfy the first requirement towards licensure and a PE.

There is no simple definition, which is the whole point of accreditation and licensing boards.

ETA: But if the programs in your hypothetical have an identical curriculum (and both are accredited), then yes, they would equally be "degrees in engineering".
It is blocked on OpenDNS as well.
> Should I take time off?

And go where, do what, in the middle of this fucking pandemic paranoia?

Work is your best bet, if you have it.
I don't have objections to that, similar to how I don't have objections to a search engine showing me ads solely based on what I've typed in to the search engine.

Indeed, I really feel that Google and Facebook turned "evil" (whatever that means) when the huge amount of customer data available to them from their own sites was no longer enough, but they demanded on vacuuming up your actions on every single corner of the Internet to add to their already gargantuan piles of dough.
I’m no potato covered in gravy, bro.
Djokovic has 80% stake in biotech firm developing Covid drug
This is a wonderful one. I'm doing something similar by blogging every day, and the discipline and accountability from it have been really powerful so far.

How long have you been writing a tweet a day for?
It wasnt the best sound card because it wasnt seriously compatible with anything before it. No adlib, WSS, or COVOX, software SB compatibility was a joke and almost never worked. If you intended to play games this card was useless.

It wasnt even the best music card. That would be Roland MT-32 and later anything General MIDI.

I often wonder why no one came out with Ensoniq 5503 sound card in 1986-87. Its a 32 track digital sampler used in Apple 2GS and many standalone synths. Designed by Bob Yannes, creator of C64 SID. This chip is somewhat comparable to Capcom CPS-1 OKI6295 (minus ADPCM compression) and SNES SPC700 (minus BRR compression, modulation and echo). We could of had native tracker music on DOS platform since 1987 :(
SolveSpace 3D CAD Showcase: Binder Clip (2021) [video]
outsourcing the actual work for scale
the test deliveries, there’s a known issue with some apartment numbers and people that live in the same building as businesses
> Wait, is he saying that because he doesn't have the private keys, he wants the whole Bitcoin SV network modified to give him access to funds in a specific address? lol. okay.

Not just Bitcoin SV-- SV is pretty much only included because almost no one cares about it and he essentially controls it (the software for it has a proprietary license that gives him substantial control, at least when you factor in that he's threatened in public to sue anyone who makes a cleanroom version that doesn't accept his changes). He's also demanding the _bitcoin_ which is worth a lot more.

> I feel like he could just rent some hashpower to force a confidence breaking change on the network but I guess he wants court approval.

Hashpower wouldn't help him: he and his sponsor already control essentially 100% of the BSV hashpower and have for a long time.

He doesn't want to change the order of transactions-- the coins in question haven't moved since 2011 (and weren't ever owned by him in any case, weren't previously owned by him even if you believe his story). What he wants is to bypass the authentication to let coins get spent without the required signatures. No amount of hashpower can do that.

So what he wants is for everyone to adopt an alternative version of the Bitcoin protocol that contains a backdoor to allow bypassing that authentication. As to why he's suing the particular people he's suing, his arguments aren't coherent. --- but he's been going on about ruining them for years, long before the supposed theft happens, so it doesn't seem that hard to figure out. :)
Your authority may have lost it's science blanket: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e1.htm?s_cid=mm...
If GP isn't too angry at Google, you can get mail forwarding via Google Domains as well.
Anecdote: I would have paid the Google tax. I actually tried to just out of convenience. But one small bit of nonsense stopped me.

Google required me to send them my passport and photo ID for the priveldge of paying them for additional storage. I gave up on them at that point.

... breaking the camels back ...

I'm currently migrating away from my last Google piece: Gmail.

Who remembers when Google were exciting? The good old days ...
If you design and analyze algorithms intended to solve practical problems then you are an engineer. It is similar to the physicist vs engineer separation, they often do the same kind of calculations but physicists do it to create generic formulas while engineers do it to get formulas for the specific scenarios they are working on now.

So if you design a sort function intended to be optimal for your given workload, then you are an engineer and not a computer scientist.
My students are also partly unacceptable precisely because they are my students. I am academic persona non grata, because of my unacceptable philosophical positions. And this isn’t just some inconvenience. These facts rendered my job morally untenable

Just one of his reasons. How is that not driven out?
There is approximately 0% chance that this is using Akamai NetStorage. No one uses this. The Akamai portion is probably just hosted on S3.
(I think this is a true story, but it was somewhat before my time.)

Control Data decided to lay off 10% of its employees, and to do so across the board. Seymour Cray had a group of only 20 engineers in his lean development group in Chippewa Falls, so they told him to fire two. So he and Les Davis, his right-hand man, quit and started Cray Research.
I would definitely say anyone who cleverly solves technical problems is an engineer.
Use the index, Luke is always a great resource.

[0] https://use-the-index-luke.com/
Your email is probably sitting in a job queue. I would start looking at other options now.
I start most days with 1 hour of manual labor required for my side business which doesn't require mental effort. Because I am not behind schedule, maximizing productivity is not the goal so I simultaneously listen to an educational podcast.

Is there anyone that would argue that one would benefit, perhaps mentally, from not listening to a podcast when doing routine manual labor ? Maybe trying to work 2x speed first and then listening to the podcast 2x after ? Note I do not consider sweeping/cleaning mentioned in someone else example as routine labor since there is something unique about every cleaning operation.
You should have ensured that they had possession of a reliable backup/recovery method -- or, at least, clarified such a need via your exit interview.
You're complaining that a service you use all the time for a decade for free now might cost the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month?

I'm all about Google being evil and all that, but spending valuable aggression on this seems a bit excessive..

The Google Takeout system gives you all of your email in a format you might be able to import into another system?
many reasons to use them:

- family is sleeping so you keep volume low

- hard to understand accents or lingo

- bad audio mixing or bad audio systems that muffle words and rest of the sound
That's how most of those tools work from what I've seen. Some let you use an MS365 admin account with impersonation rights, but that's even worse than giving up the credentials for all the normal user accounts.

The biggest problem with every migration tool I've ever tried is they all do a very poor job of reconciliation. I've even used a few that incorrectly report success for partial (aka broken) migrations.

The MS365 IMAP migrations are a good example of poor reconciliation, but at least they give you total message counts if you're paying attention. What I'd really like is a tree view of the old mailbox vs the new mailbox with read/unread message counts for every folder.
Hi HN!

Customers kept emailing me asking whether my self-hosted analytics platform is GDPR-friendly as I don't mention GDPR anywhere on the landing page as a benefit. I wrote a short blog post describing why even self-hosted or "privacy-friendly" platforms can be GDPR-hostile.

My main concern is that people seem to think that a platform is either ok or not ok, but the truth is that it depends on you and what data you decide to track and who do you share it with.

I noticed a strong polarization lately where customers or even analytics providers clearly define something as good or bad (eg. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994183 ).

I think that marketing an analytics platform as GDPR-friendly just hides the complexity of the problem and could make the webmasters more careless about their data. Or am I wrong?
Dick Sweet was living in Ashland, OR last I checked. Jerry Morrison and I actually went to his fabulous house in the 00's. (Jerry is the coauthor of the "Let's DO allow hindsight" page on [1]).

As many HN'ers know, I wrote a book about this; it's a novel mainly so I could have characters and dialog; no one remembers what they said 45 years ago, if they're even still alive! If they did remember things, their memories would be colored by hindsight, and I didn't want that. The underlying facts are rigorously accurate.

I don't know where Bill is, either, or if he's alive. He was down in El Segundo, not up in Palo Alto, and joined Star from the old XDS (Xerox Data Systems).

Funny about the Mesa language: I just got an audiobook made of this, and I had to tell the narrator how to pronounce the language! Also that it's re-flect-OM-eter, not re-FLECT-o-meter, and Terry Winograd's name is WIN-oh-grad, not WHY-no-grad.

AMA.

[1] https://www.albertcory.io
I wonder if what they meant was "it's impossible to have a turnkey solution for UX"?

There are all sorts of turnkey solutions for frontend and backend infrastructure, but none guarantee good user experiences - only a team that knows their users' needs and is empowered to meet them can do that.
I completely agree.

I'm running through my head thinking of all the things in my domain account. Email archive/filters/rules, contacts, calendar, docs (mine and things shared with me), Drive, photos, Play purchases, Google One subscription for extra space, Android, Google Cloud.

Then I have stuff on a plain @gmail account that didn't work with my domain account - family library, links. That was already annoying. Don't want to mess that up either.

Should I merge the accounts or create a new @gmail account to hold everything?

My estimate is that it will take days of migration/backup/testing to move over, then extra time to ironing out issues that crop up. Hopefully I don't lose any content or purchases...

Even with email forwarding I believe I'll lose cosmetic things like using your domain as the owner of calendar invites, photo sharing, etc.

This is for 1 email account/domain only. I think I'll probably pay up.
True but if anyone could even casually be aware of and use terms like b2c and b2b it’s people on this forum right.
I would never want AI generated dialogue in place of subtitles. That sounds like a massacre.
Scientists do research, engineers apply research.
Curious who you use for printing. I've got an idea I'm working on with poster-sized output that I'd like to tie into a printing/shipping API if possible.
"What part of microservices says things must be separated by way of an arbitrary wire protocol?"

That's not a requirement, cf. Erlang/OTP.

But to qualify as a microservice, you need it decoupled enough that you can independently deploy and/or restart individual services. Pretty sure that's a minimum to call yourself microservice-based, and hard to do by just using classes in C++ or something.

Arguably you should also have quite a bit of control over dependencies and their versions. If your service isn't ready for python3, it can keep using python2, or whatever. Taking this to the extreme would generally mean a black box that serializes everything over a network, so that any service can be implemented on any stack. I'm not sure that's fundamental to the idea of microservices, though.
John the Baptist lost his head.
Oh you think it’s a this party vs that party problem? It’s delightful to find such a lack of cynicism.
SolveSpace[0] is a fully free open-source solid 2D/3D parametric CAD & CAE app.

Grab latest SolveSpace 3.x 'nightly' builds for Linux, macOS & Windows.[1]

Here is mind map (diagram) showing resusage of `libslvs`, SolveSpace geometry constraints solver, for FreeCAD, Blender and other projects.[2]

[0] https://solvespace.com

[1] https://git.io/SolveSpace3x

[2] https://twitter.com/SolveSpace/status/1483212423591084037
That's a trademark, not a font or a copyright. Trademark IP law is distinct.
Groundswell: Corporate Giving Reimagined
The first video took me quite a while. I watched it on NewPipe with subtitles on at 3x.

TL;DW:

1. As soon as you wake up each morning, expose yourself to 5-10 minutes of the sun, or the brightest light you can find (ideally above 10000 lux, going outside is much more effective than a lamp or window).

2. At the end of the day, reduce light, especially blue light. Ideally, also go out during sunset, to give your body a cue that the day is ending.

3. Mindfully time when to eat and exercise (details did not fit in the 1.3h video). In evenings, disconnect or meditate to relax.

4. Consider the drugs you take and their effects on the circadian rhythm. Magnesium threonate 300mg makes you sleepy.
This is a great advice! I've been using a similar healing strategy for my last burn out. Essentially the desire to do something is the brain's expected reward for doing such thing. Burn out happens when the expected reward has become negative due to recent cycles of the feedback loop (i.e. constantly failing on a project). What you want to do is something that is guaranteed to succeed. After some cycle of work => success feedbacks (how long this takes various) you'll feel better about work and be as productive as before.