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When Trump got elected, I remember hearing lots of stories about how it took him forever to fill his cabinet seats.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/23/politics/trump-cabinet-vacanc...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/11/politics/temps-and-vacancies/...

https://time.com/4703304/why-president-trump-struggling-to-s...

The machine runs itself. I wonder how much ability any elected official has to move the machine in one direction or the other. Probably not much, at least in any meaningful way.
Not paying is not the same thing as canceling service. Many services will not let you continue using them if payment fails, but others will, and you will still be on the hook for the charges from a collection agency.

The only time virtual cards are particularly useful is if you're giving your CC# to some very shady merchant, probably one without any recourse if you decline payment. But, perhaps, just don't give those people your cc# in the first place.
Exactly. Tell them about Stoicism instead!
Consider reading [1] (also linked in OP) for a detailed article about a very talented lower caste person who gets hired at IIT Kanpur, only to be met with overt caste-based discrimination and harassment. You'd find it hard to claim caste-based discrimination doesn't exist after reading it. On a perhaps unrelated note, the author is Manindra Agarwal, who you may know as the A in the AKS primality test.

[1]: https://kafila.online/2019/04/10/the-saderla-story-courage-i...
There is an explicit exemption for mandatory charges.

If Comcast decides to change it's rate because of those fees it can explain that.
It's not that easy to analyze a binary logic predicate to extract a set of possible values (especially given the three-value logic that SQL uses, where `a=x or a≠x` is not true). It's easy in the easy cases of course, but doing the analysis for a more complex expression quickly gets ugly. And I'm not sure it's easy to tell ahead of time if an expression will be easy or hard to analyze. They could hard-code a few simple patterns, but at that point it may get very unpredictable whether the optimization will be applied or not, defeating the purpose.
Here's a thread where your admin openly speculates about how to bypass financial restrictions via shell companies because banks won't do business with him and it's harming his business model of taking donations to support harassment campaigns for entertainment.

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/plan-in-motion-banking-and-fedn...

You already know about this activity, but you support it.
Tesla has actually implemented it in locations where their chargers did not have onboard payment terminals (since Teslas charging at Tesla chargers negotiate this automatically) but were required to add local payment options.

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-adds-standalone-scree...
Good thing my name is John Smith then.
Why would you be worried about that? What has the kernel community ever said to even indicate that they'd want to move in that direction?
Congressmen haven't been any of the following in many decades:

* Drafters of legislation

* Debaters of policy

* Thought leaders for the nation at large, or for any subset of it, including rather perversely, Congress

* Experts of any sort on issues that matter at a national level

So basically, there is no reason Alzheimer's medication is incompatible with their job duties.
How about getting some Senators that actually do pay attention to what they are voting on? The first step is making it public that some of them are losing their capabilities (although that should be obvious by watching McConnell or Pelosi).
for my projected lifespan, i don't think this thing is taking into account my blue zone diet, exercise or my intermittent fasting.
I worked in federal law enforcement on these same kinds of cases. The approvals needed to authorize a plan like this are very heavily scrutinized. Any aside added in to leave a lasting effect directed toward monitored lawful activity would have blown this all up immediately.
Ajay Bisht/Yogi Adityanath is Thakur/Pahari Rajput
How do you deal with incompetent Scrum Master
Especially when their useless questions are draining your time
Assuming a team of all at least proficient developers, one who's living a peaceful life outside of work is going to be put into the first category, and people with more chaos in their lives (not by their choice) will fall into the latter category. As their life situation changes they have a bigger chance to lose context, forget who's who or miss out on word of mouth; or conversely, become a sponge for company culture and leave the office with energy for fulfilling projects outside of work and get involved with, for example, open source where they gain insight that they take into work later, for example perspectives on business specific knowledge or some analogues.
Well, it's a rich tapestry of viewpoints you've got there, isn't it? On one hand, we've got the "bad science is everywhere" narrative, which, sure, science has had its misses. But you're conflating isolated missteps with a comprehensive understanding developed over decades. Saying they're the same is like comparing apples to an apple pie that one time had a bad slice.

As for the critique on peer-reviewed literature, you're essentially saying we can't trust the vetting system that underpins all of scientific discovery because it's run by - shock horror - scientists? That's like saying we can't trust medical diagnoses because they're made by doctors.

And ah, Zeke Hausfather - a "known climate change denier" who's not actually denying climate change but arguing against extreme doomism - the belief that catastrophic outcomes related to issues like climate change are not only inevitable but also imminent, to the point where mitigation efforts are considered futile.

Finally, the credentials you're listing - Nobel Prize winners, Greenpeace co-founders, and the like - are impressive, sure. But they aren't a substitute for a wide body of evidence. Anomalies don't negate the rule; they make us scrutinize it. Which, last I checked, is what good science is all about.
> get in this van and my guy will take you to where you need to go

That could have been their pickup from the airport.
Done way better than a lot of modern "natural lighting" movies and shows, where the picture is so dark that you can't tell what's going on.
"The US is only against them due to a perceived threat to global US hegemony. For instance, you forgot to list Saudi Arabia there, and they are one of our allies."

-- The US eventually wants democracy globally. Support of countries like SA etc are just stepping stones and temporary accepting.

"The US govt has been the largest exporter of misery and destruction the last 80 years. So yeah, you can lump them altogether. And yes, the US would happily use AI to exterminate 500k communists, 1 million Iraqis, or 1 million Vietnamese again."

-- This trite talking point is overused and mostly wrong. Since the US took partial hegemony in 1950s and complete hegemony in 1990s... things have improved greatly for the world as a whole. Despite many mistakes by the US, it is still pretty good. Do you think the alternatives of Nzi Germany (self-explanatory), USSR (millions killed by Stalin), or the CCP (millions dead, famines etc) would be better?

When has the US gov specifically targeted non-combatants for extermination? I do not believe that ever happened. Collateral damage due to military operations is terrible, but it's not willingly done.

So basically your answer is complete hyperbole, as well as mostly wrong.
Tbh I'm not seeing anything in the delivery here to quality it for being sneered at, or compared to Musk.

Perhaps it's easier for some to mock a reminder like this, than to reflect on it. This is one of those truths that's worth remembering, and deeper than it might seem.

"All conditioned things are impermanent — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering." - Some 14yo I guess, idk
The low mass of the frame means the restraint system puts more force on you during a collision.

Motorcycles don’t have that problem. Neither did cars back before seatbelts; a bit of shattered pre-safety glass old school windshield never hurt anyone.
> But it's still really annoying that I have a 5-10 charging apps on my phone. why?

Because you installed them I guess? The only app I have on my phone is Plugshare and I use CCS chargers every now and then, every time its been either plug and charge or credit card chip read.
go to the room next door and spend 30 min playing with them. no one can stop you but you. and you probably won't regret it.
Sure, but what I'd like to get more people to do (I do this, I teach IT for a living) is to think of it perhaps a little like ecology/ the environment? None of us can individually solve climate change, but that doesn't mean "do nothing."

First steps are to talk about it. We've handled shitty companies before, with regulation and other means, we could do it here. Or at least try, which is worth it.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37324024
Reminds me of trying to read Gullivers Travels
Amazing that one crisis that nearly gave away the operation is nobody had experience backing up a trailer.
> Subscriptions are a fixed ongoing expense, and fixed ongoing expenses is the most common way people go broke.

I'll assume that the latter claim is true. But, does anyone actually "go broke" because of Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc, etc subscriptions? I'm skeptical. Obviously, the article asserts that people often forget to cancel subscriptions, and it has certainly happened to me, but I doubt many people get to a point where they're considering bankruptcy or downsizing their home before they realize they have a subscription they should've canceled.

It seems obvious to me that the "fixed ongoing expenses" that cause people to go broke are things like housing and debt payments (car, student loans, credit card, medical bills), and probably not optional monthly subscription fees--however high they may get.
Yes, of course, we (particularly the EFF) must take Selam G.'s claims seriously, even when there isn't an ounce of evidence to back them up.

See, it's fine to dislike RMS (for whatever reason). But the question was whether the EFF -- an organization that claims to support free speech on the Internet -- should've joined the dogpile on RMS based on ludicrous claims written by an outrage addict.
Marking symbols as GPL is not shady.
"practically no useful attributes of files are stored in their database."

Probably because you work on the field, you miss what the layman wants to see. The most useful attrivute for me is the data. The other use case you cited are legitimate, it's just that I, as a layperson, don't think about them when we talk about files.
It enables the US to weaken other countries by draining away their intellectual capacity. Think of it as 'Cognitive Imperialism' and then it fits in well with the historical patterns of how the US treats the world.
See what exactly? We already see drones.
A charitable reading of the text would be that the argument isn't to exclusively do these things. Just that one should make more time for them. If that call does not apply to you it does not apply to you. It's not a particularly deep or novel thought any way.
across heterogeneous data stores?
> I have several Indian friends I've made during my stay here, and not a single time has the issue of caste has come up to be discussed.

I'm guessing it's not discussed at great length and not discussed with non-Indian people at all unless you brimg it up.
Amen. This is the government intervention we need. Way too many services are tacking on large hidden costs as a run around to prevent price comparison. If there is no way to opt out, it is the price, not a fee.
IIRC, housing, child-care (especially if you include after-school activities), and health-care (If you are un- or under-insured with your job) dominate the increased expenses. Housing is a strange one because a lot of parents will try to move to a better school district, so parents may end up paying more for otherwise similar housing than non-parents.

FWIW, the things you give as examples are rounding-errors in our budget (though only two of our kids have cell phones so far); we don't have cable, pay $22/mo for streaming services, buy used video games, and pay an average of $60/mo for our phone bill. We spend over $300/mo on groceries for comparison.
NHTS is asking Tesla to dutifully report all cases when illegal function was enabled, or FSD failed, or if car systems misbehaving could contribute to a crash. But can they trust Tesla to provide accurate data? Same with accident investigation - Tesla likely has much more data about events leading to an accident than investigators, bit would they provide all that data if it would suggest Tesla's responsibility for the accident? Looks like we have no choice but to trust Tesla, but should they be trusted in such matters?
This is how I learned of the existence of the `EXPLAIN` keyword.

Somehow I managed to miss its existence all this time, and it immediately sews up my biggest frustration using relational DBs: the method by which they evaluate a request is completely opaque and more-or-less disjoint from the SQL language (i.e. the solution they use is completely open-ended), so it's nearly impossible to just guess whether a given query will be super expensive.

Very good to know.
I'm not worried about battlefields in the "stabby the robot" scenario. I'm worried about unprepared civilians being exsanguinated en masse by a fleet of drones.

The scary scenario as far as I'm concerned, is mass genocide based on some characteristic. 10k drones wiping out 100k civilians who are identifiable based on location, skin color, clothing or some other measure. It's a scenario that has seemed vaguely plausible to me for several years now.

I refer to it as "stabby the robot" because drones wielding blades or other means of exsanguination do not run out of ammo and have little limitations on how much they can achieve their goals(other than powering themselves).
They sell it to companies as part of Google Workspace. That comes with guarantees.
Yup. The flipside being that, at least until recently, "the market" didn't know that Linux was an alternative here. It's starting to. Of course, half the people here in HN love that, and the other half actively and/or passively work against it.
You're right on target there. The term is basically meaningless now, after the reactionary right in the US started using "woke" as a scare word for "anything anyone vaguely liberal does that we can pretend is an extremist conspiracy", after attempts to use "cultural Marxism" fell flat.
This essay is unreadable. Such incredibly torturous phrasing. I hope DeLillo’s works hang together better.
This is very insightful. Time is short and maybe we should all follow the advice at the bottom of the page and “connect with him on LinkedIn”
Problems I've had with the chickenguard (I still use it, and probably won't stop, it's good enough with modifications)

The tracks will get warped over time if exposed to moisture. I don't live in a particularly wet place, and it's partially covered, but the wooden tracks warped, and the door would get jammed.

The string will get tangled and quickly finish off the batteries if the door is jammed or the batteries get low.

Modifications made:

I routed a painted solid wood doorway to provide a wider track to prevent the track from warping, and to improve tolerance to dirt, leaves and twigs, which has eliminated door jams.

Battery replacements every 6 months are now on my calendar.
It seems a lot of people make a product but don’t use it themselves enough to tell how to make it better so it always feels like v1.

Or they do but they’re not very observant idk?
It seems more like they want to concentrate their effort on the C# Dev Kit for VS Code. Whether that proves to be the correct choice remains to be seen, but it seems promising even though it's still early.

Since it understands Visual Studio solutions instead of just working at the project level, and has extra things like the test explorer, VSCode essentially _is_ an IDE. I'm sure people will complain, but people _always_ complain about change. I think this one has a good chance of working out for the better, even if the C# isn't as good yet. Regardless, it's probably a better investment for MS than continuing to pile features atop the tired old bones of MonoDevelop in the form of VS for Mac.
Systemd-nspawn is definitely an underrated option for spinning up quick test/Dev environments.
I'm a type 1 insulin dependent. The three low tech "hacks" I've been happy with are the following. First I take a sublingual Melatonin most nights, Melatonin upregulates the insulin receptors and lowers my insulin requirements about 40% by my guess. The second one is dietary I add olive oil to my lunch and dinner, I feel this provides my body a reserve of non glucose energy. Finally I use a very small dose of cannabis most days, I like to get a puff or two and night, THC protects nerve cells from Hypoxia so I feel this keeps my brain cells going when my blood sugar gets low. I feel these three things, give me a leg up on my long term blood sugar control. I am thankful there are hackers and diy opensource initiatives. The CGM readers here in America Dexcom, and Libre both have crazy bad user interfaces. Libre will only let you pair to a single device, I had their device fail leaving a functional sensor in my arm, a quick idea I searched for opensource libre reader app and found two. One worked and started reading the sensor. Dexcom has the issue of being a 10 day use cycle so you run out on varying days of the week. Both take the FDA mandate to have low blood sugar alarms as a blank check to overide any controls about sound or do not disturb to bother about countdown to a new sensor. I liked that external libre2 reader as it was the only device or official app that can be silenced, but their rigid only pair with one device still angers me, what if my loved one want's to be able to scan my sensor? Low blood sugars are challenging as they affect my brain and I can answer an amazing amount of questions about my blood sugar wrong if I get too low, my brain trying to preserve energy can be dangerous at times. This was an issue more before CGM. Dexcom decides that it is OK to have a completely automatic warning at any hour of the night "your sensor will expire in six hours!!!", that warning has little to do with my care as it is too late to influence refill compliance and seems to have been ordered by the executives to some how improve their pRofItiBiLiTY. I am so much happier on a third party app with the silent reader as an extra. Sorry if this was long winded, being insulin dependent has bee a challenge over 40 years. The first 10 years they hadn't figured out that insulin reactions are much more subtle on human insulin than the older pig and cow derived ones were.
You seem to be misunderstanding how these devices work.

Bihormonal pumps do not mean continuous infusions of both insulin and glucagon. The pumps pulse insulin when you're high and glucagon when you're low. They're not both administered at the same time or continuously infused in a "balanced state".

The context in this thread:

> However, if your brakes (glucagon) can sometimes fail completely

A bihormonal system would not result in more insulin being administered than an insulin-only system for a given blood sugar, if the glucagon pump fails we would have an insulin-only system where we have plenty of safety data. There is no mechanism by which a bihormonal system has higher risk of hypoglycemia than existing closed loop insulin system.
The results seem kind of obvious. The OR operator has the lowest precedence in SQL, requires a full statement after as well as continually widens the “view” that the query will ultimately see as a result of the union between all matching result sets. It does not imply the same things as an equivalent OR operator in a procedural language. The IN operator takes a single field and internally matched to all rows that match the given list of values.

Granted, SQL is different from typical procedural/OO/functional languages in the implication that the engine will create the “correct” internal representation of the query. I’m sure DBMSes can heuristically identify the case where somewhere just chains ORs whos only statement is comparing equal a literal value to the same field more than once, and collapse it to an IN. But why? If IN exists, why should the engine care about optimizing OR chains?
Money does buy time? With money you don't have to sell your labour at exploitative rates.
Have you checked how much faster this makes your typing? I can imagine it speeds it up quite a bit
I agree, from memory windows will prefer a 60hz rate at the highest resolution until the user (or “monitor .inf file) overrides it.

I kind of feel MacaOS does the same - indeed a quick test shows my monitor at 60hz even though there is a free sync range from 40-90 in the refresh rate. But of course this is a weird situation since it’s a free sync thing too, so I couldn’t apply it to everything.

So on that note, I go back to my original theory that it’s the graphics driver (or xrand or one of those x-things) screwing the timings up.
Not just low ages.

Insane work hours. Long stretches of unpaid overtime sometimes without weekends. No autonomy. No freedom. No say. Oh and shift work.

TSMC not being able to find workers has nothing in the US has nothing to do with a shortage of workers. They're just terrible to their people.

So they'll get H1B workers who are then basically trapped and can be mistreated.

The current system is terrible for everyone. Bad for the economy by keeping smart hard working people out. Bad for the workers who make it here who need to put up with TSMC. And bad for local Americans because H1B wage lower bounds aren't high enough.
Command line autocompletion YC startup, Fig acquired by Amazon
Even you fully pay online, you have to put down a deposit for a room and bring your id.
That was a reckless generalization on my part, I meant both. It was my cynical take on the atmosphere in Hungary, Slovakia and Poland as well as (anecdotally) in Russia. Clearly Baltics have made a much bigger progress.
Saw it after getting hooked on Silicon Valley and I’m glad I did. Both come from Mike Judge just as Idiocracy does which is simply brilliant. Had I known that he’s also behind Beavis & Butthead, I would have given it all a hard pass. Now I’m thinking, maybe I just misunderstood Beavis & Butthead.
Believing in reincarnation does not make it true.
Linux contains lots of code to work around a myriad of EDID quirks (and loads of other HW quirks), too:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/gpu/dr...

There certainly isn't any big philosophical point to make here, Linux doesn't take a hard stance of expecting correct HW.

Ultimately this is a symptom of (1) bugs happen (here, at LG) and (2) Linux has a lower market share and therefore sees less testing. It's certainly fine to say "then I will use Windows to run into statistically fewer problems", so long as you're aware the same argument applies to any entrenched incumbent. As mentioned earlier, it'd have applied to MSIE in 2005 as well.
I mean, Buddha was a spoiled princelet who had an overreaction to discovering that not everyone shared his privilege. In many ways he’s the archetype of I’m 14 and this is deep.
Yes, and Postgres remains staunchly opposed to planner hints because the planner knows better! It always computes the optimal query plan!

The "optimal query plan" changes at the drop of a hat, as you can see in this case. Absolutely trivial syntax changes result in a completely different query, sometimes turning a sequential scan into an index-only scan or vice versa. So, 100x difference in query time, it doesn't just do that for small tables.
I don't think NGOs can currently sponsor H1Bs... But maybe I'm wrong...