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People calling attention to inherited power aren't opposed to democracy, they want to try it for a change.
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Any thought about supporting SQL databases for the user backend with configurable queries? Would be awesome to be able to take an existing SQL database of users and use that to serve LDAP authentication queries.
> the Second Amendment doesn’t preclude regulation that is consistent with being able to raise an armed militia from among citizens, like the Swiss have.

You might be very disappointed to know that Swiss gun control is very very liberal. Permits for must guns are "shall issue", and with a little bit more work (e.g. a safe and a slight longer 2 page application) you can buy whatever you want, including new fully automatic weapons.

The implementation of Swiss-style gun laws would never work in the US, because they depend on the government not intentionally making things harder than they need to be (something the US is exceptional at, especially with gun control in states like NY)
I wonder what a Uber charges in 2022, now that they raised prices to try to balance the books.
It's a question I ask myself often when I see the disrespect Americans have for people in jobs they also consider essential. I have other questions for myself like, "how would I truthfully explain this to my mother?". If the answers make you feel shame, then that probably tells you something.
> The problem is, how do you determine who can be trusted and who not

I mean the people as a whole. As a society, we are clearly losing the ability to self govern relative to prior generations.
I hope people do not by two car once short range electric car gets cheaper. Electric for short commute and conventional for longer one.
I'm surprised this got flagged, and at the nature of some of the comments in this thread. The advice in the article is good with several high quality recommendations of specific places to begin getting up to speed with a grasp of current Western thought. I'd add a recommendation to read "What Does It All Mean?" By Thomas Nagel, and then first "The Problems of Philosophy" and then if you find yourself wanting to dig deeper "The History of Western Philosophy" both by Bertrand Russell.

Being an intellectual isn't all navel-gazing, it's the necessary foundation to being able to properly communicate and wrestle with your own ideas. It's something that provides the underlying structure and skillset necessary to be a good thinker and good communicator, both of which will serve you well in your career and your relationships. It is not, as some other commenter put it, "to make yourself feel smart".

I am frankly a bit shocked to find anti-intellectualism to abound on Hacker News of all places. The core of intellectualism is curiosity, the same driving force behind the hacker spirit, and intellectualism at its base is closely aligned to the hacker ethos.
Do they strictly increase vote on only the hues shown? Having a weighted multiplier of the vote on nearby hues that decreases the further away you go would reach a conclusion quicker.
Better to channel your displeasure into advocating for a future SQL standard to include this feature. Other DBs that support this do so via proprietary syntax extensions.
no harder, but slower! stake in a business is obviously slower yet. The ultimate scam is to just manufacture equity and do a pump and dump. any resemblance to an actual business is unintentional.
The MSX, MSX 2, Amstrad CPC and Enterprise all had better hardware and ROM software but they came out later than the C64 (fall 1982), which by then already had lots of games and dominated the market sales-wise. As today, we buy computers and choose operating systems based on the software we want to run. Which would you buy? The system with the most software and the most software currently being made, or a system with somewhat better hardware but little software available?

When the C64 came out, it had the best graphics and sound, but not the best ROM software. I wouldn't even say it had an operating system. It was really just a small, simple KERNAL with some system calls. It didn't have a very good BASIC either, and couldn't auto boot. It was essentially a video game console with a keyboard and a slow floppy drive so parents would think it was a computer. It didn't even have a proper backward compatible upgrade path. The C128 and C65 aren't backward compatible with it, they have a C64 mode.

I had a VIC-20 and then a C64 in the 80's but looking back now, I'd rather have had an Atari 800/XL/XE. The graphics and sound were almost as good but it had a real OS, custom DOSes, and lots of interesting programming languages available for it. But I, as many others in software and IT today who got started with Commodore computers, couldn't afford the Atari or Apple systems so I am grateful Jack Tramiel made computers for the masses, not the classes.
This is pretty much it, GR does not generally conserve energy due to lack of time symmetry. Energy is conserved in specific space time geometries (which happen to be common).
I guess everyone has a pump station at home right? This is a false argument given that electric chargers are so much easier to install and convenient to use. I don't think anyone takes it seriously
"Almost never" -> "more often than you would want"
The risk of ignoring sanctions probably comes with a big premium. Indeed it's all fine until they get caught! The perfect fit for short term inflation of evaluation.
last time i saw this the ocr component of it was tesseract (originally hp's c++ ocr engine, later acquired and open sourced by google, even later rewritten to use neural networks) compiled into webassembly.
The long term prospects for companies which bust US sanctions are unlikely to be good.
If 90% of the nodes are controlled by Google, then I think the answer is clear that you do NOT in fact have a distributed system. If this occurs, then the system was not designed well and should be abandoned for a new one.

Agreed, you want the nodes to be controlled by many different entities globally, but that should be a function of the technical implementation of the distributed system rather than having to identify a responsible party that is accountable for this objective. Privacy is crucial to ensure a distributed system continues to function; otherwise, orgs or individuals running nodes could be censored in mass by authorities or participants may stop using the system due to security concerns.
Look, the most aggressive folks have reasoned positions they feel comfortable taking to judges and counterparties. If your position is "I'm illegal and I don't care, see if you can fashion a remedy that makes me regret it", judges and counterparties will oblige.
At my office, people are free to remain 100% remote if they choose to, so some rarely set foot in the office. Those that do choose to meet on the same day, usually meet within the boundaries of their small team - so no more than 16 concurrent desks at one time.

Hybrid work has many possible variants with different trade-offs, that can be tailored the needs and wants of each specific team. It's a branching tree of options that can be sliced every which way, not just a binary choice. Unless it's thought of as a binary choice by the management.
The series was fantastic and much better than the movie IMHO. It's a pity it was cancelled after one season.
That sounds like a Texas underinvesting in the grid problem
The problem is: NULL is a valid datatype in many situations. There are non-boolean fields that can just be empty; My goto example:

-- Table definition for employee
name, surname, date_entry , date_exit

Everyone has names, and if hes an employee, he probably has an entry date...but until he leaves, what's the exit date?

Other than soothsaying, my choices here are: NULL, some magic value, or an additional field telling me whether the application should evaluate the field.

The latter just makes the code more complicated.

Magic values may not be portable, and lead to a whole range of other problems if applications forget to check for them; I count myself lucky if the result is something as harmless as an auto-email congratulating an employee to his 7000s-something birthday.

That leaves me with NULL. Yes, it causes problems. Many problems. But at least it causes predictable problems like apps crashing when some python code tries to shove a NULL into datetime.datetime.
I'm not an AZ resident but this seems the exact opposite of sustainable. It sounds like mining: yes, technically the metal or whatever is still somewhere out there in the world, but no longer usable or accessible to humans after it has been used the first time.
honouring the decentralised ethos of crypto, free from political control!
"X.500 is too complex to support on desktops and over the Internet, so LDAP was created to provide this service 'for the rest of us'" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.500 (aka. DAP)
Yes, however people don't come up with philosophies about hijacking your whole thought process so the only thing left is listening to music

If someone is selling a fundamental truth about the universe, it better damn well work in every situation
Yeah, no, I don’t mean crashed altogether, just off for routine maintenance on a rotating basis. But anyway, no sense in prolonging this. Anyway, agree that 1% seems high.
Doesn’t feel natural in Postgres. I’d check an auxiliary table nodes_nodes (integer, integer) having an index of all ancestor-descendants.
World police USA is a very popular point of view on HN, sadly.
Engineering manager here.

A significant fraction of the people we've been interviewing has asked for hybrid. All 15 engineers in our office prefer it, as well as the 60-odd sales, marketing etc. Working purely remote can be effective for focus time and some personality types, but on the whole I've seen that it's lonely, alienating, worse for developing a group culture and only works for a privileged few who have a separate working space, aircon etc. Worse, it dehumanizes and turns some employees in some companies into basically faceless mechanical turks who are measured only on their output.

I will never go back to 100% remote.
This highlights what bothers me most about today's [mobile] culture. There are reams of other things to say about the damage being done (I'd recommend Johann Hari's book Stolen Focus [0] for a great, if severely worrying, overview) - but to me the ability to spend time doing nothing, being with oneself, being alone, living with one's thoughts - this is a hugely important thing.

Other people on the thread point out that "not much happens" when they spend time alone - to which I'd say: that's the point. Your brain needs time to process, to chew through, to formulate, to make sense of... all the things it has been spending time doing. So yeh, sometimes ideas happen in these spaces (ideas certainly don't happen where there's no space!), but sometimes nothing at all "happens". And...that's important.

As well as that, the constant-always-filled-always-on culture created by mobile devices takes you away from the present moment. It's like the least mindful thing you can be doing, and given the quantities of evidence around happiness, flow, focus, etc - just being in the world is a critically important thing.

The other angle is about the ego in all of this. One of the strange things that comes out of a meditation practice is that (and bear with me here, it sounds weird) - when you spend more time with yourself, focusing on what your inner voice is saying, without constant distraction, you actually become very much better at being empathetic in the world. Because you understand more about who you are (and, ultimately, who your "self" isn't...), you get to understand more about other people and who they are. I wouldn't be at all surprised if being good at being alone also boosted this sense of empathy for others. It sounds counter-intuitive, but I suspect it's true.

[0] https://stolenfocusbook.com/
> This is adjacent to the notion of a "Flâneur", someone who idly wanders a city with nothing in particular to do, but who engages with it intellectually and socially.

I've recently started watching Seinfeld again. Kramer seems like exactly this kind of character.
Voting on all 16 million is a cool concept, but given that this is probably going to be popular for only a day or so, probably not achievable. From your own ranks, only 0.27% of colours have been voted on at all, and most likely the majority of those voted on have a single vote.
If there's any company you absolutely trust, you're doing it wrong.
Yea I imagine it’s not difficult to have a system where the charging station at your house gets the real-time cost of electricity and honors and system where you pay the lowest if you charge cooperatively. Don’t need to fill the battery every day? Skip today, get a better price tomorrow. Absolutely need to charge full throttle right now? The price just went up.
No, binance has a separate platform (that is quite different than their original platform in terms of services/products offered) for US users that is very much not independent from US influence. e.g. binance trades XMR (monero) while binance-US does not allow that coin.
And must add that after returning to the "back to office" strategy, all the employees were super super sick, vaccinated and non-vaccinated, maybe the vaccinated ones 3-4 times longer and sicker.
like there were some kind of zombie belief that office work must now start...no matter what..
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What a strange thought. Why on earth not? Many families have two cars, and having any electric car, over 2 gas cars, seems preferable, yes?
>So Americans are supposed to not trust the imminently qualified head of the CDC

Unfortunately, yes, name and status does not mean anything. Papers and replicable findings matter. Press conferences held by media figures don't. Arguments from authority require the authority figure to be talking in a non-laymen context. Video press conferences are for people that don't know science and, frankly, they're very dumbed down.
I started about 10 years after, and I think that was almost the best of both worlds. Agile was starting to become a thing, but wasn’t perverted to sell expensive courses and credentials yet, and tooling began to be developed that was a serious improvement on what we had.
>Why bother with docker for a home server other than for the fun of it?

Because it legitimately makes things easier. Your source of truth for how an app was set up is the compose file, and as a result you only need to care about the storage each app uses for its state. This makes upgrades and back ups almost entirely painless and drama free.

Deploying the average app the old way feels downright medieval.
I think we have a disconnect on probability and booleans. Elon musk can act logically or impulsively. Each historical act of impulsiveness increases the probability of future impulsive acts
> My commute to the office was a 35 minute walk each way through a park and a historic city centre. Of course YMMV, but it rubs me the wrong way when people who decided to take on long commutes for better pay talk about how it's being taken away from them and everyone should feel the same way, when lots of people make the compromise of living in a city to not have those problems.

And for that in a hybrid setup you still have the option to walk to work. You can't expect every soul in an office to be able to afford a central place where you can walk to the office, it's simply not feasible. YMMV a lot, not sure why your anecdote should be taken as an argument, very few people have the privilege to afford a central location to live in, many more have to commute.
If it's ugly AF and it takes 10K cars off the roads, then it's not that ugly. Much like "if it's stupid but it works, then it's not stupid".

"EU architecture" already juxtaposes ornate pre-1900 buildings with brutalist concrete blocks and glass spires, so no change there.
That seems like a fairly big assumption on how I'm modelling the data though. Particularly in the LEFT JOIN example, I'm not sure if I agree with the idea of "a row not being present means that it's unknown whether it exists in the real world" depending on the underlying content being modelled.

For a string column, you do have blanks vs. NULLs, so it's fairly easy to distinguish between "John definitely doesn't have a middle name" vs "It's unknown whether John has a middle name", but that doesn't hold true with most other datatypes.
Here's the fun fact: they don't need you. Someone else will seize the opportunities you miss while being unavailable.

Also, we created a scenario where they literally cannot get in touch with you even if they need you.. are you expecting an emergency carrier pigeon?
They were the beginning of the end but 8-bit systems were still available until the early 90's and purchased by those who couldn't afford the 16-bit systems.
You dont have to wonder, I just checked and it's 67€ right now while the taxi is still 120€.
Yes. A few hours driving East, and the only power outage I had in Louisiana were related to weather even.

I think the comparison the other poster make is useful.
If Louisiana small town can handle AC usage, they should be able to handle charging EV.
I have been working in the software industry since 1990. In 1990, I joined a company that made innovative coupling between AutoCad and relational databases (Oracle). However, I wrote my first program in 1978 in Algol 60. I also used Fortran, LISP, (Turbo) Pascal, BASIC, and 6502 Assembly before (in 1990) starting to develop software in C.
Nobody has built to that scale, and you would need a global energy grid which all countries share. Sounds like a pipe dream.
Zoom fatigue is real. If I still had to attend days full of 3+ hours worth of meetings on the regular, I'd just shut off the camera in self-defense no matter what people say.
Could it be that books are the technology that made being alone possible? Apart from monks, have people been alone before the invention of books? Without books, would people learn to stay by themselves and make it a habit?
> So % of parents with college degree increased by 3.5x (from 4% to 14%) and % of students coming from parents with college degree increased 3.3x (from 1/5 to 2/3). That more than explains it, doesn't it?

Just wait until percentage of parent with a degree reaches 25%. Then you'll see 120% of students having a parent with a degree. Hope that your explanation that "everything is normal" will still hold then.
I am pretty sure openldap is easier to configure than Authelia.

By the way if anybody is interested, authentik comes with an embedded ldap server implementation. It's not perfect but it satisfies the same need. Authorization & authentication.
To prove humans need social connection, all you have to do is look at the heartbreaking (and thankfully rare) cases of children that grew up completely neglected and sequestered. As in, locked in a room with no attention for the first decade of their life. When they're discovered, they're not what you think of as human. They never developed language. They never developed the ability to form relationships. They know nothing about the world and have virtually never interacted with anyone. There is no amount of therapy that will ever turn these young people into functional humans and in the case I remember most vividly, they will never develop any real language or ability to communicate either.
To a large extent this is what happened at Mozilla pre-pandemic. It was always a remote-heavy group because of its open-source roots, and over time office attendance just eroded away in many locations. I expect this to happen at a wide range of companies as they try to do this "hybrid work" thing.
You've got a bunch of people here saying "I love Calibre", that should be enough proof that it's doing a good job, however well you understand that job to be defined.
But that example is unlike what we were discussing. If I were making the claim that some completely unknown and unknowable thing exists then your objection would be on point, but that is not what I am doing. What I am doing is challenging your claim that things like matter and brains exist independently of consciousness, because the evidence you have for that claim is tainted by the fact that the evidence itself is known only via conscious experience.

In many ways materialism is more like your example about unknowable fairies than anything I have said because ultimately it postulates that there is something called matter that exists independently of consciousness and yet is knowable only through consciousness. That concept of "bare matter" as a thing in itself looks a lot like your unknowable fairies.
Correct. I was going to implement LDAP myself, like lldap does, but after realizing that the "L" in LDAP is a lie, I went with a battle-tested implementation instead.
In what way would this paper affect social issues?

Edit: Someone asked "does this paper aim to influence policy" and you replied "of course." I'm asking how.
Not the GP but yes.

Not everyone lives in a luxury house.
Woudn't vestiges of every unexplained culture that predates Stonehenge seem mysterious and cult-like by now?
Allow me to quote from my one on one two weeks ago:

“The company just isn’t in a position to do more than 1 day a week of work from home right now.”

Literally every other team does 4 days a week of work from home…
> Why should it be not true

Anyone taking anything coming out of Russia at face value hasn't been paying attention or is painfully naïve.
Coming from an MS SQL Server background, this behavior surprised me.

While SQL Server generally does treat null values as not equal in query predicates, for the purpose of unique constraints/indexes it’ll treat them as the same value. I guess this does go against the spec? But it makes sense as a human when looking at a tuple and deciding if it is “unique” or not.

On that note, now I wonder what SQL Server does with nulls in a DISTINCT or GROUP BY. I suspect that it’ll treat all nulls as the same.
Xcel energy has that. They'll pay you to only charge on off peak hours and it's completely automatic
you'll need to explain why
It is a fun one to show new or inexperienced riders. "Now that we are coasting, what do you think a slight push forward of your left hand will do to the bike?"
You mean a kill switch which encrypts all of the data instead of deleting it or making it inaccessible?

Yes.

Why is that even a question?
i remember the last time i saw his name was on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14894653 (which i guess lost against tensorflow.js?) in around 2017 or so.
I wouldn't worry about that. My reasoning is as follows. Electric cars are usually very nice to drive, so people with an ICE and an EV soon discover that they barely use the ICE. And since cars deprecate, I expect they'll feel a definite incentive to drop the ICE.

Of course this is just my personal reasoning. Not supported by data.