skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That reminds me of a German joke about the German Democratic Republic ("East Germany"):

Ein Mann geht in ein Kaufhaus in der DDR. Er fragt den Verkäufer: "Gibt's hier keine Socken?" – "Nein, hier gibt's keine Hosen. Keine Socken gibt's in der zweiten Etage."

Translated (roughly): A man visits a department store in East Germany. He asks the shop assistant: "Do you have no socks here?" – "No, we have no trousers. No socks are on the second floor."

(The joke relies on the word order of German syntax; properly translated, the dialog would be:

"Don't you have any socks?" – "No, we don't have any trousers. No socks are on the second floor"

But then the joke doesn't really make sense anymore.)
So this isn't really about France in particular. Rather, the author is pointing out that France and Switzerland historically consumed more calories than the US with much lower obesity; and the fact that they probably got more exercise is irrelevant. The French began becoming obese around the 1990s but the Swiss never did. The article points to the difference in fat types: the US consumes a lot of polyunsaturated fats (PUFA) while the Swiss... don't.

Currently in the US, the party line is still that PUFAs are generally good, I think largely because the gov is still fighting to get rid of trans fats, which are definitely bad. PUFAs come from sources like soybean / corn / sunflower oil; but also fish, which is generally regarded as one of the healthiest foods.

Beyond that... this blog is hosted on some kind of ecommerce site. So it's interesting, but as a source, pretty questionable. On the other hand, the "official" sources (e.g. American Heart Association, USDA) have screwed up so frequently and thoroughly on nutrition that I doubt anyone should trust them for a few decades.

Anyone have a source / studies that may back up anything on this blog?
It's still sort of a gamble.
I think about this a lot when I occasionally go to the movies. I remember going as a kid and maybe you'd have a slideshow of low-budget local ads for a dentist's office or whatever until the movie started and then have some previews. Now it's just a non-stop barrage of ads. They will colonize every last waking moment of your attention. I think about my 4 year old niece who's never been to a movie theater and who will be completely defenseless against this kind of thing. It makes me sick to my stomach.
Oh really? So when the United States subsidizes our otherwise non competitive corn industry, it leads to economic collapse?

When we control oil prices by using reserves and trading agreements, does that cause people to fight for scraps?

How about when we subsidize silicon chip manufacturing? Did that collapse society?

You cannot, in a serious conversation, compare Soviet Union economic policies to modern socialist ideas. It's just silly.
it's not about covid or money - its about Ukraine becoming stronger, more independent than ever from russian influence as old corrupt politicians are getting off their political power so he no longer have a leverage over Ukrainian government the way he used to have

its about the choice Ukranian ppl made in 2014 and strong independent Ukraine is a direct threat to russian kleptocracy as russain ppl might have ideas they could make this push too
As somebody who's in this exact same position(well not really corporate), I feel the same way about this guide.

Thanks so much the author!
Why can't that be done on the phone?
OK, I understand that some/many Americans dislike paying taxes. I do not exactly like it either.

But, it seem like a particular US infliction to make paying taxes as hard as possible? Plus, they sanction you in extreme ways if you don't manage to jump through all the hoops?

I pay taxes in many jurisdictions. Here is my experience: Netherlands (my home country): the tax authorities send me a proposal about payable taxes. This includes income from my business, my partner's job, our common investments, and some investments/business interests that are exclusive to me. I correct whatever is required (with the deadline being April 1st), and I'll get my final settlement sometime in June/July.

Germany/France: I provide the tax authorities with my Dutch tax identification number, and they confirm they're fine with that in 3-4 months time. Rwanda, Nigeria and Zimbabwe: I also provide my native tax details (sometimes using my mobile number, sometimes using my NL 'SSN'), and they're fine with that, sometimes after billing me a small percentage over some income.

US: I honestly have non idea where I stand. The IRS refuses to talk to me, yet summons me to physical meetings in the past that I cannot legally attend. I have hired several attorneys, none of which seem to be able to help.

I probably owe several HUNDREDS of dollars in US tax. I've not visited the US since 2004, and have not done any business there since 2002.

Yet... I'm apparently a much-wanted tax fugitive in the US. Does that count on a FAANG-inbound resume?
No, at pain of pedantry, the grandparent said this:

> Western media portrayed Trump as "pro-Putin", but if you look at the actual decisions by administrations, he was the one who really pushed back against Putin, compared both to Obama and Biden.

The lack of distinction between Trump and the rest of his adminstration is exactly what Trump is now using to claim that he was "tough on Russia".
Nice this is pretty decent
I absolutely agree. I'm also self-hosting all sorts of stuff, including mail (opensmtpd, dovecot) and never really had a problem. At some point a mail to telekom.de was refused by the telekom because of my IP (I host on a kimsufi/OVH box). However, after contacting telekom about it they immediately removed me from the blacklist and it works fine ever since.
> "timescale ... are just reinventing the column store"

Not reinventing but reimplementing it for Postgres, which didn't have serious OLAP capabilities before. Lots of "newsql" systems are combining OLTP and OLAP by starting at one side and adding the other.

So far Timescale has column-oriented compressed storage and scale-out partitioning, and they're working on matching the compute part.
I've been running my own email since forever (and over UUCP before that) and always considered it easy too. However starting this year I'm paying for an SMTP relay so my outbound mails share transit with other relay users', making them less likely to be IP blocked by Microsoft.
The other people in this thread suggesting therapy are correct. In the meantime, I also strongly recommend the book 'Calming Your Anxious Mind' by Jeffrey Brantley; it's fantastic. My spouse suffered from terrible panic attacks and what helped her in the end was a combination of the two above things.
>Every comment attached to that post gets an anonymous number/tag (this already exists).

In GDPR parlance, that's called "de-identification", not anonymization. Basically, if there's a risk you could piece together someone's identity from abstract IDs, even by combining various abstract IDs and doing some deduction, it's "de-identification". Recent GDPR decisions basically treat de-identified data as a form of personal information and subject it to many/most of the same requirements, including the prohibition on transfers to the US.

(I'm not saying this approach is wise from a policy or technical perspective, but that's the way it is.)
Oh, hello twin brother! I did exactly that. But the first part was for a company. How times have changed eh? The bulletproof aura of qmail and the ugliness of squirrelmail. Memories...
A useful middle ground is to only read periodicals. These publications give journalists time to distill news into accurate, complete information with some analysis. The articles are information-dense and an efficient method to stay aware of current events without a significant investment of personal time.

I currently prefer The Atlantic and The Economist for this purpose, but there are many choices.
FTA: The root cause is that the unwinder grabs a global mutex to protect the unwinding tables from concurrent changes from shared libraries

Is it unavoidable that that hurts performance badly for the common case? I would think such concurrent changes are rare, so if there’s an asymmetric way to protect against that that’s faster in the happy path exists, that would be a big improvement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Readers–writer_lock mentions Read-preferring RW locks, but (from cursory reading) doesn’t say how much that can help.
I'm 48, been skiing since I was 3 and switched to mainly snowboard at 17 (and living less then 30min from a lot of ski resorts). I ski from time to time, mainly when with the kids and when the snow is hard. But as soon as there is powder, nothing is better than my snowboard. Just today, I'm back from a day of freeriding with friends and the kids. This will always remain an incredible feeling that I will never get on my skis. Modern carving skis are also fun, but different.
There is never a too old to ride. I know snowboarders in their 70s. Modern binding takes seconds to tie and nothing will beat softboots (especially in stairs), and the pain you can get with some ski boots. And at the end of the day I will always feel less tired when snowboarding than skiing.
One thing to be careful of when going multi-cloud is the network egress fees between the two.
I think the dilemma for C++ exceptions is that if the programmer actually thinks something should never happen, it is almost always better to just crash. But if the programmer thinks it might happen sometimes, then it is risky to predict it is will be super rare, as often this code will be called in different contexts in the future, so it is safer to use normal returns and flow control. As a result, throwing an exception is basically never the best thing to do.
> However, having an editor that will engage with your work and provide expert feedback will make your work better, as well as save overall time.

You mean something like peer review before submission, or you mean a formal editor? A formal editor will only add value to that document. You may communicate things better, but it won't improve what things you communicate.
That is why US helps TSMC to move factories to the US.
> Very interesting that exceptions have much less overhead on the happy path than Rust/Haskell style Either types

C++ genuinely traded “error” cases (made them even costlier) so that the happy path of exceptions would be cheaper. I don’t remember whether that’s the case in C++, but in some language/implementations (used to be a big issue in V8) just having a try/except would drastically deoptimise a function, even if the exception never happened.
>Your PM just got a taste of authoritarian despotism so it would make sense.

I'm going to show my left-wing bias but Bill Maher and Jimmy Dore both called Trudeau Hitler. They are objectively right, but what happened?

Canada had some ineffectual blockades, but at the time of the emergency being invoked. Those were gone. So the emergency was ONLY the protest in Ottawa.

The justification for the emergency is the military occupation and they used the givesendgo hacked data to analyze that around 50% of the raised money was from the USA. The allegation is that the USA is somehow doing this? This is absurd but why is Trudeau overreacting to all this? What did he fear?

I think I might know why he fears the USA.
That makes it sound almost like happiness is the causal parameter and being willing to say yes to random opportunities outside of your plan, is a consequence.
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It's complicated

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/nato-s-eastward-e...
The NSA acting like a creepy Big Brother-secret police organization is a separate issue.
Intel only at the moment is correct but Windows only? TFA says "no OS" as an option, so you're free to install what you like.
I run my own mail server. Friends & family, so outbound volume is super low, like 2-3 digits/day, not enough to get a rep. Deliverability was always hard to one of the major providers until I happened to make the right connection on HN to someone who worked there, and she graciously opened an internal ticket, asked some questions about the subnet my server was on, and it's been fine ever since.

Setting aside the fairness of how I got my deliverability problem solved, this now makes me really reluctant to move IPs. :-/

Any tips on IPs where people are seeing excellent deliverability? I'd like to avoid routing my outbound email through one of the email providers (Mailgun, SES, etc) if I can.
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I guess that depends on how you define right-wing.

But sure, the publication is in favour of capitalism. Is that really so controversial though? I thought it was pretty obvious that The Economist is neither Social Democrat, nor socialist or communist. On the other hand, a Social Democrat could probably agree with much that’s written there.
> But returning null is an obvious choice.

It's not because C++ is not an everything-is-a-reference language.

> Combined types which return the structure or an error are another. Has the advantage of returning error information, why failure.

Sum types are great, but changing constructors to return sum types would break all existing code. It would also lead to a whole slew of questions about how the construction of arrays of values would work. (Does an array of an objects now turn into an array of wrapper types? Byebye SIMD optimization!) It would also break the consistency of constructing POD vs non POD types, which would make writing templates that need to generalize over both a huge PITA.
Yes I totally agree with you. For clarity when I said "defending their team" I didn't necessarily mean act as a representative to argue their views to management. I've seen many times when what a team wanted would have been really bad for business, which in the end serves nobody.

In one case I actually saw a great engineer destroy his company by basically doing what he wanted to do rather than what management wanted. He was so irreplaceable that they had little choice but to allow it. In the end he turned the codebase into a nightmare of half-baked untested crap that not even he wanted to work on it. That has stuck in my mind for years as something I want to avoid.
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Ah, I interpreted the original statement as

> Some [people] by "regex" mean "globs"
I am a man. Yes, it is unfortunate that the differences in experience persist. :(
The only time I can think of when Ukraine as a polity expressed the desire to be aligned with Russia was the Pereyaslav Rada during the Hetmanate. And that one was really a choice between Russia and Poland, so the only question they answered is whether Ukraine is culturally closer to one or the other (no surprise there, given their religion). It did not preclude the subsequent hetmans from seeking foreign aid against Russia in further rebellions.
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My father is a Ukrainian immigrant in North America. He does not share your opinion. So you probably shouldn't speak for all of them.

As for Holodomor, it was caused by a bloody dictator who killed a lot more Russians than Ukrainians during the same period, so I'm not sure it proves anything about Russian/Ukrainian relationship. To him it would not make any difference if Ukraine was not part of Soviet Union (see how he treated Poland).
> Honestly I've found the USA very easy to deal with compared to the UK, France of South Africa where I've lived.

???

France as a foreigner:

You arrive in the country, your employer already declares all taxes for you. While you may not have a tax ID to log in to impots.gouv.fr yet, everything is already registered in your name (because you gave either your SSN, or your visa number, or anything else). You send a letter to ask for a username/password to use to log in on the website, which arrives about two weeks later.

Your taxes are collected monthly, and at the end of the year you pay the leftover/get paid what you overpaid. You can tell the state at any point how much you think you will earn, and it gets reevaluated. Your yearly tax filing is prefilled, and there's no need for any software.

As an employer, the URSSAF website is, while hell to navigate, very clear in how much you owe. Give out your SIRET/SIREN, your tax report, and your taxes are done.
Conversely, people can have kids for the most selfish reasons:

- Keep trying until they have a male (I have a friend with 5 girls so far).
- Trying to "strengthen" a troubled relationship.
- Planning to use them as a pension.
- Vicariously living the things they couldn't achieve themselves.
- and a long, long etc.

Even if almost anyone can reproduce, raising kids is not for everyone.
Major difference in Canada is the # of banks. The big five dominate[1] unlike in the US where there are 100+[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banks_and_credit_union...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_banks_in_the_U...
A fleet is simply more than one ship traveling together, so it seems to translate fine
I found the Missouri Department of Public Safety's list of State Law Enforcement Agencies [1] and it does seem like an awkward fit no matter where you would try to put this investigation. That said, I can imagine that in many states, the largest and best-developed law enforcement agency is by necessity the one that spans the entire state for the purposes of enforcing traffic laws.

[1] https://dps.mo.gov/leagencies.php
I'd overall suggest stepping away from the idea that growth is so one-dimensional that you can "win" at it. But even if it were, there's plenty of room within them to grow, and just getting in is far from "you've achieved it all"

If we stay with that idea for a second: FAANG companies have tens of thousands of engineers. Getting there isn't a "gold medal". You're barely in the stadium. If you made it to Principal Engineer, congrats, you've gotten through the qualifying rounds. Still plenty of room to strive.

There are plenty of valid reasons for why you choose or don't choose FAANG. But "Where would I go once I've achieved that" really shouldn't hold you back.
I just wish there was a similar Right leaning news source to offset their very Progressive filter.
So we are back at the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabucco_pipeline project,
which Russia killed a few years ago.
If we find a cheap new way to generate orders of magnitude more energy, we'll use orders of magnitude more energy.

And you're right. We're only a bit over two hundred years away at 2.3% annualized growth in energy use from noticeably raising Earth's surface temperatures just from a thermodynamic perspective. And that's completely ignoring the effects of greenhouse gases.
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In an abstract sense, sure. But once they start putting the nuts on the bolts, they are going to get cold feet. The USA is vastly different from Canada is many tangible ways. It's not the conservative utopia people think it is.

Plus, given the political issues involved with integration of the two countries, I suspect serious concessions would need to be made by Canada.
Yep, that doesn't bode well at all.
I really wonder how it feels for farmers in small places. They might be able to live with near no news.
True, you can get it from their web page. The facebook group thing can be good too. I think those tend to miss things like interviews with local leaders or politicians.
Everyone is already issued a social security number. I'm not sure how a more modern, cryptographic ally secure version would be any more concerning in this regard.
That's no way to gain the ear of people who are suspicious of your motives to begin with.

There is no way to gain the ear of people who are suspicious of your motives. At some point, you need to stop worrying about them and instead worry about how you're going to deal with it.

Ivermectin for COVID is an inherently political topic. It never made any sense as a remedy, and even its makers said not to use it. There was never any reason to accept that it might work. It was touted solely by people who wanted to avoid taking responsibility for their actions -- no masking, no vaccinations, no shutdowns, and would grasp at any straw for a miracle cure.

That "suspicion" long predates COVID, and applies to many other topics. That partisanship is a fact of life. The medicine here is long since settled -- no, de-wormer doesn't help unless you've got worms. Everything since then is waiting for people to stop insisting otherwise for purely ideological reasons.

I'd turn this around -- rather than telling me to find some way to be super-duper-nicer to them, how about them recognizing that they're Just Plain Wrong, again, and maybe stop automatically assuming every word out of my mouth is a socialist plot. Until that happens, nothing I say is going to help, no matter how I phrase it. Blaming my phrasing -- on the grounds that I'm the only one who might listen to you -- isn't going to help.
I have no doubts that Boston--like virtually everywhere else--doesn't have a "full stop" norm, but where are you from that you do have that norm?
The purpose for much authorship is to sell copies. Writing a novel is a bunch of work, if that work doesn’t sell, the unpaid bills tend to cause problems. Tuning to sell more absolutely makes sense.

Novelists frequently have editors and other people who comment on and refine drafts. I don’t know what the OP is really asking- of course authors get opinions and feedback on drafts. If they want it. But for a classic buy-the-novel-read-the-chapters, clicks won’t be clicks of engagement, or they won’t matter because you pay before you read, so A/B testing won’t help. I’ll pay based on a review, and if the version I read is not the one I heard was good, I’ll be disappointed in the author and whatever medium provided me info about the work.

Possibly the OP is thinking of a new literary form.
(Timescale co-founder / CEO)

I just want to say that we wouldn't be here without the support, feedback -- and yes, even the honest critiques -- from the HN community. So thank you everyone.

As we like to say, we've come a long way in the past 5 years, but we're just getting started :-)

And we're hiring globally for our remote-first team!

https://www.timescale.com/careers
Discord's media display stack seems to be broken (for lack of a better word) in some very naïve ways. For example, embedding files with the ".gifv" extension (used on several popular websites to denote gif-like animations which are encoded in a modern video codec) doesn't work, even though they're valid video files expressing a webm or mp4 mime type. It instead displays a static image, which means they're reading in the video, then generating a thumbnail and ignoring the fact it's a video.
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Makes little sense, even less with the following sentence.

Hopefully it doesn't catch on.