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I can't speak to the physics but I've done cold water dives, and if you prime your wetsuit with a thermos of hot water, that envelope of hot water stays in your suit for a surprising amount of time

I wrote a Ruby gem to address this problem of hiding sequential primary keys that uses a Feistel network to effectively shuffle int64 IDs: https://github.com/abevoelker/gfc64

So instead of

    /customers/1
    
    /customers/2

You'll get something like

    /customers/4552956331295818987
    
    /customers/3833777695217202560

Kinda similar idea to this library but you're encoding from an integer to another integer (i.e. it's format-preserving encryption). I like keeping the IDs as integers without having to reach for e.g. UUIDs

It's really an indictment of how far HN has fallen to Redditification* that you see this kind of low-brow ignorance so prevalently and so often.

Yes, the greedy doctors who are lucky to get a couple hours of medical coding training when they start practicing and get needled constantly by their billing department for underbilling actually have "years of learning" in how to screw over their patients.

Maybe they mean the man-years of time wasted arguing with insurance companies, shuffling around medications and care plans to please them, evenings and weekends spent in the EHR finishing up patient notes (because there's no time to get them done during the working day with 20 minute visits) and correcting and signing off on patient care for the PAs and NPs (cold-heartedly taking 100% of the malpractice risk burden for the nurses who actually care about "healing").

I'd encourage people this far gone on the deep end of visualizing physicians as hand-rubbing greed machines to spend a day actually shadowing one. Because you are very ignorant about how they spend their time and the amount of effort they put into caring for patients in spite of continual soul-crushing roadblocks put in their path.

* Yeah I know it's against site rules to say but I don't care it's true

No they'll instead ruin your life for posting a Trump wrestling GIF on Reddit

Not all companies. Only corporations are required to have boards. LLCs are not - their structure is dictated entirely by articles of organization.

There is no board of directors. Twitter isn't a publicly-traded company any more; it's private and it's owned by Musk.

Another one was Murfie (now defunct): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murfie

The common ancestor from which all of today's Homo sapiens can trace a shared lineage to (i.e. the oldest branch point) is thought to be only 5,000 to 15,000 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identical_ancestors_point#Of_H...

He seems to do an annual "update" video from wherever he's at, about minutiae of whatever he's working on at the time. It used to be QuakeCon keynotes[1] when he was at id.

[1]: https://archive.org/details/john-carmack-quakecon-keynotes

Take heart, even if you weren't shadowbanned, with a young, low karma account your first comments on most subreddits would get automatically modded as spam by Reddit's dumpy spam filter anyway.

As a primarily Ruby dev I'd prefer the AI/ML ecosystem not be split-brained between two languages that are semantically 90% the same thing. Just learn Python and integrate the models into your Rails (or whatever) apps.

Just using the file system is inadequate for some reasons that TFA mentions. For instance, returning gzip or Brotli compressed versions of resources, or returning HTTP 301/302 redirects for certain requests.

Also if you use CloudFront be aware you'll be paying for bandwidth, so if one of your pieces goes viral (or you're just a popular writer) the cost can be surprisingly high (over $50/mo).

It's far more real than the so-called "Steele dossier" that the media made hay with for years, unsuppressed by the professional-managerial class.

If you're in favor of suppressing your political opponents' speech rights that's fine I guess, just don't lecture me about "our democracy."

It's specifically very wrong. It links to this study for that claim:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa6cd5

Which only looks at greenhouse gas emissions (and only then compares grass feeding to grain feeding), and does NOT consider the effects to local groundwater, surface water, or air quality from CAFOs.

Here's a CDC resource that goes into depth about the swathe of negative effects on local resources CAFOs create: https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/docs/understanding_cafos_nalboh...

Besides things like frequent manure spills that pollute surface and groundwater, children living near these CAFOs have elevated rates of asthma.

The piece is very focused on greenhouse gases and the benefits of "economies of scale" but doesn't say a peep about the meltdown of our consolidated food supply when the pandemic subjected it to supply shocks.

> And in the United States, we don't

We don't? Didn't Zuckerberg just admit on Joe Rogan that during the last election all the major media companies were briefed by feds that were was a big "misinformation" news piece incoming, so that when the Hunter Biden laptop story finally dropped, they all censored it, sight unseen? Therefore it seems all the big social media tech companies have no problem with rubberstamping gov't requests for censorship.

They almost made it glaringly obvious when they tried to roll out their Disinformation Governance Board, which fell flat.

This shortcoming becomes immediately apparent when you try to use certain VMs, like from Vultr, which are IPv6-only with no CG-NAT. You can't clone anything or fetch any release binaries at all.

> What about America is so fundamentally different than Europe that would make the same policies that work there not work here?

The amount of violent criminality? Look at any major light rail network in America and they are nowhere near as safe as the European equivalents.

You don’t even have to get that niche. SQLite can’t do ALTER COLUMN and triggers are very simple (e.g. you can’t assign to NEW in a BEFORE INSERT)

I'm assuming it relates to operations management but I imagine this type of person not accidentally taking a little shine from the name collision with spec ops soldiers and Matrix movie characters

This was in the Seattle and Portland areas, and they were just regular hotels, not resorts.

> they advertise one price but actually have tons of mandated fees when you show up to purchase

I had a similar experience booking a hotel room recently. Despite advertising a rate of $x, when I'd click through to complete the booking, towards the end of the process every single one would tack on a mandatory "service fee" of somewhere between $40-80. It seems to me to be a way to keep their room rates artificially lower to stay competitive on the price comparison websites.

(Maybe this has been a thing for a while - I haven't booked a hotel in years)

Is the company actually a non-profit? When I click the donate button Stripe says I'm giving to "Markups, LLC" and the IRS exempt organization search doesn't return results for orgs containing "Markups".

My fault for commenting before reading TFA. Vultr's cheapest VM unfortunately doesn't work so nicely so I'm glad you've handled that.

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That speaks more to socialism's enduring PR successes than reality. Lenin's Red Army didn't roll into Poland in 1918 to spread worldwide revolutionary socialism with just flowers and poetry. That happened basically immediately proceeding from the success of the October Revolution.

I agree with all the asspats for dang on the day-to-day moderation level. If anything I'd like to see more of a heavy hand from him. I've modded some moderately-sized Reddit subs and it was hell.

However, in strategic terms, I think HN has failed to maintain a good comment signal-to-noise ratio over the past several years. For instance it used to be that "funny" or entertaining type of low-effort comments would be strongly discouraged with downvotes; at some point in the past few years it has become very common and... REminiscent of another social site that I'm not supposed to draw comparisons to due to HN guidelines.* Now it's common to see jokes and puns do quite well.

Fundamentally, to maintain a board's culture you need to encourage people to "lurk more" to get acclimated to the board's culture before participating. In other words you need to throttle/retard new users' participation somewhat.

I do recall at one point a push to increase commenting by removing comment average karma in user profiles. (Some) people used to withhold commenting unless they felt they had a real banger because it would throw off their ratio. It also used to be new user signups were only open occasionally rather than always available.

My hypothesis on where it went wrong is cost-free upvotes. Downvotes have always been gated behind a karma threshold, but any new account can upvote whatever it wants. Floods of new accounts thoughtlessly upvoting the types of comments they upvote on other sites will easily outpace the old timers' downvotes on that same content. Over time, this small change in karma dynamics shifts the board culture.

* Like the guideline wording, dang frequently brushes away this critique out of hand, but as someone who goes long periods between visiting HN regularly, it's very obvious to me. I think you could quantify it if you took random samples of HN comments from various time slices and noted the quantity of low-effort comments.

It's 10 years too early for you to lecture me about what I can or can't comment about, or HN guidelines. I've already commented about how that particular guideline is wrong and has harmed HN community quality so I will continue to ignore it.

A better analogy for your comment would be in a Twitter conversation, you replying to an OP with a quote tweet of a similar comment you made in the past. Yes, I do find those annoying.

I'm really not concerned whether the severe drop in SNR comes primarily from entryists from Reddit, Twitter, or some obscure web forum (likely it's diffuse). But on its face, the rise of jokes, puns, and other low-effort comments - having to collapse threads to find the comments with something useful to add to the convo - is very reminiscent of Reddit threads, where entertainment and cheap memetics are valued equally or greater than logos. HN used to distinguish itself by obliterating that type of cruft, with a "lurk moar" sting, but it no longer does thanks to lazy gatekeeping.

Now I'm not going to change any of this by pointing it out - the horse bolted years ago and closing the stable door won't change anything now - but you should know the "signals" you're intent on following are worthless as they're from a Reddit-lite entity, not HN classic.

You really appreciated a comment that effectively said "hey look I said the same thing two days ago" ...? Yikes dude. Reddit infiltration has totally ruined this place.