skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because culture also includes something like how we construct and decorate houses, and there's nothing fictional about that. Same with the types of food we eat or music we make.

Only some parts of culture are shared-fictions.
Very little, I'm guessing; cstore_fdw is not remotely competitive with mature analytics DBMS.

see here:
https://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
The other fascinating thing is light-fastness. PR83 (Alizarin Crimson) is a cool red (purple facing), and is recommended by many art teachers...

It's also objectively shit as a pigment. It is not light-fast at all, and fades after only a few months.

https://www.justpaint.org/alizarin-crimson-now-you-see-it/

Yet art teachers continue to recommend it. Nowadays most companies sell it as a 'Hue'. That is a mixture of more light-fast paints designed to emulate the original, but some companies sell 'Alizarin Crimson Genuine', which is still recommended by academics to this day.

Other fugitive colors include aureolin and chrome yellow. The later of which was used by Van Gogh and has caused his paintings to fade irreversibly.

https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i5/Van-Goghs-Fading-Colors-I...
If you set it up yourself. But DDG has literally thousands already set up.
I agree. Flow's communication with the community has been so mediocre that even Dan Abramov resorted to tweeting his frustrations.

At this point, the attempts to pacify Flow users like myself feels an awful lot like when Silverlight developers were begging folks not to abandon ship. People have to defend their livelihood, I guess.
I had my experience with this in 2006 or 2007. I was younger then and I was served a malicious ad on a video game website. This ad was only showing for 1 in every 1000 or so users, which made it quite difficult to detect back then. Ever since then I've run an adblocker and/or scriptblocker.

I'm constantly asked by websites to drop my ad blocker but why would I do that? If they want to serve ads than maybe there is a way they can do it themselves, as opposed to a third party serving them.
Ummmm, no. Unions are run by existing members of the industry.

There are example after example of unions trying to screw over new comers by putting over barriers to entry, to keep out competition.

Putting up barriers to entry, to keep wages up, is basically the entire purpose of many unions.
I don't know what's driving people to work in the gaming industry. If you worked on simulation software, for example, you could still do graphics programming, have a phenomenally better working environment, reasonable hours, and more pay.
>It's all too easy to reverse them and reinstate historical "barefoot and pregnant" style gender norms for women.

Not as long as women have the vote. I would snarkily suggest that changing demographics, the trend of religious conservatives to out reproduce coastal liberals, would undermine this short revolution...BUT we're slamming headfirst into the wall of technological change.

Maybe we'll be two different species (of sorts) where men and women have their needs attended to by robots. Men seem capable of living off of entertainment and sex dolls alone. Women just need something that can pass the Turing test and look handsome. Combine that with artificial wombs and the "war of the sexes" seems to end in a stalemate.

And for what do we truly fight this "war"?
I've just seen it after reading your comment. (long bus ride). Excellent episode and so much more enjoyable than the peugeot story of Harari. Thanks for the implicit recommendation.

As for the 'fictions' that Harari likes to talk about, it seems to me that it's more of a rebranding of the concept of social construct than anything new or more insightful than that.
Samsung Unveils 15.6-Inch Ultra-HD OLED Display for Laptops
Isn't this a problem of too much coupling between credentialing and education? People aren't seeking to sit in a room full of 400 people through a lecture given by a certain professor at a certain time. They could probably find the lecture video online and watch it whenever and however frequently. They are only seeking the stamp of approval from a well respected institution. Assessment is not the same problem as education. Even though online education is getting some traction, it seems as if employers (and parents!) can't give up obsessively indexing much on traditional multi-year lecture-driven university education.

It's ironic that university engineering (especially software) departments teach modularization, decoupling, distribution, reuse, etc. that makes possible to scale like Google, Amazon, etc, but fail to apply these learnings to themselves.
Kindof a lot, but I tell myself that servers are an efficient winter heat source.
I guarantee 100% that if there is a ever a union for IT workers. First ask would be,

Ban H1B
Yeah, I'm fine with it for contacts. It's just protectionism on glasses unless the prescribee has some degenerative condition.
You should check out RS Bakker or Peter Watts.
https://rsbakker.wordpress.com/
https://www.rifters.com/
> Problem is there's a thousand young devs out there trying to bang down the doors to get in.

The same could be said of acting and professional athletics, and actors and pro athletes have strong, effective unions. So this hurdle is not insurmountable.
Ah, you mean those same innocent schoolchildren that were caught harassing women before the actual incident even went down?

The situation is obviously far from black and white, but calling them innocent is such a disengenuous characterization of the situation that I question what is your intent actually is considering the rest of your post.
OP is referring to the habit of cloud providers to invest in open source platforms to build cloud services but not contribute back to the community.
If the creators of Postgres wanted all improvements to be upstreamed, they wouldn’t have released under a permissive license. The ability to use Postgres commercially without exposing your entire codebase to copyleft risk is one of the reasons it’s used commercially in the first place.
Inside Facebook’s fight against European regulation
> The only "solution" to climate change, if you can call it that, is through technology and adaptation...

I agree - Innovation. Clean energy has been around for ages but owned little of the market. Now that it's getting cheaper and competing with dirty methods on a cost bases it's an easy option - for rich countries, countries desperate to ascend from poverty and everyone in-between.

In a way, if you care about the environment, the best you may be to able to do is invest in green innovation and tech yourself.
What can the quantum world do for business?
I tried !ddg and !duck but it does not quite work.
This Google search engine feels a bit strange and lacking. I hope they will catch up in this competitive market some day. I want to like it because it has a few nice features and I've tried it a few times but I always return to my good old regular search engine.
I am not sure if you deliberately chose Agile as an example of something we all agree on or you are taking my example to the next level. Either way you get an upvote from me :-).
Unions would very likely increase game prices.
I will happily pay more for games in exchange for better conditions for game developers.
The soundtrack that was playing throughout the film was made with this piano. You can get this effect by "preparing" a regular piano, which is one of Nils Frahm's specialities but it's quite a special instrument in itself, an ethereal quality. Piano technology is really fascinating, if you go back to the first struck instruments from the 17th century through to the massive modern day iron-frame stage monsters that can compete with a full-size orchestra.

Nils also made a wonderful contribution to the music community with his instrument plug-in:

https://www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/keys...
Can you explain why do you think that?

I am aware only of actors getting protection from dangerous activities, exploitation, bad work condition.
When it's not redeemed in one state, it's cheap to obtain in that state. Folks would fill up Trucks or van, drive across a state and obtain hundreds of tax free dollars a day. This happened in Michigan, folks drove over from Ohio.
Just heard an interesting story[1] on NPR recently about scientists who were studying teeth in medieval skeletons and found Lapis Lazuli in a woman's teeth. This led them to the hypothesis that she was a scribe and that the residue in her teeth came from her putting a paint brush in her mouth.

The upshot of the article is about rethinking the traditional notion that all/most scribes in the middle ages were merry old monks. But they do describe what Lapis Lazuli is and what it was used for back then.

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/01/09/6832839...
> when there is not clear direction regarding the GUI framework.

Isn't it crazy for this not to be solved yet?! That's a long time - don't remember exactly, but I started with Pharo 1.4 IIRC, and it was bad back there already, then juz got worse.

Is there a blog post detailing a) all the kinds of GUI frameworks that are out there and how advanced their development; and b) what approaches were tried and abandoned, when, and why? I know it's much to ask, but, at this point, I feel the lack of progress in this area should become a much higher priority, and a blog post like would help in recruiting people for the effort.
They don't really need to convince grocers.

The way it works in Norway is that there is an excise tax on bottles and other drink containers. Every recyclable container you recycle gives you a credit against the excise tax. There is a national return scheme that retailers can opt into to handle the recycling, but in theory they could operate their own. The return scheme in effect costs less than the excise tax.

Shops can decide not to participate, but in that case they sell drinks at the same price as everyone else, but has higher costs per bottle sold. (EDIT: Shops could decide not to participate; apparently that's changed at some point in recent years; it's now compulsory)

That was enough to convinces pretty much every corner store, gas station and supermarket in the country to redeem bottles. Especially because they can do so for store credit, and so it helps drive footfall of people who will tend to spend the money immediately.

The hard sell is getting people to accept it as necessary to get the legal framework in place.
The cost of birth control is not expensive. Multiple different formulations of the pill are available for $10/month without insurance. Condoms are less than a buck each. Someone talking about birth control being expensive is either ignorant or intentionally misleading.
I've seen Hawking quoted as saying MWI is obviously right.

My statement was based on an IoP survey result I saw some years ago (I'm a theoretical physics graduate); I'll try and dig it up as my recollection could be wrong.
It is just that I have a job and a family to support. So I want to create something in whatever time I have. The prospect of engaging myself in myriad of courses sounds dull.

Maybe it's a folly but I am just intrigued by how they work and want to be able to develop them without committing to taking lot of courses.
A lot of people love the industry and the idea of making games. They hate the working conditions however which leave much to be desired... especially considering the working conditions are bad at many companies that make a significant profit on many of their projects.
That's because we (the people who instinctly know which keyword to use for a search -- or at least we think we do) are the super minority.

Most people are absolutely terrible at keywords based searching. Which is not very surprising since most people are terrible at spelling out what they search to begin with, and they're also terrible at turning a sentence into its important keywords, so doing those two things at once brings all the bad.

To this day, even with current Google helping them out a ton more, I'm still amazed at most people complete inability to type out what they search for in any meaningful way.

Pay attention to how people ask their question when looking for something and you quickly realize they don't ask their question in a logical way, or using the words you would expect. Pay attention to how many time when someone ask you something you feel like saying "What are you actually trying to find/do/achieve ? What is actually your issue, instead of the half-way mess you just said that made no sense ?". And people are also really bad at realizing that and taking a step back, and tech user are not exempt; something like half of stack overflow question are broken that way (totally made up stat).

Then add a layer of "this is a computer I need to computerize my query !" and you enter the land of weird.

PS: with that said, allowing a full verbatim mode AND an option to keep it activated at all time for my account would be totally awesome
Pubs have numbered street addresses though?
Social construct is closer to what he talks about. As for why he had to use a non standard formulation for this ... I believe it's marketing.
It's, uh, 20.
I might not able to find a new employer whenever I want. I might not have time to job search because I have children. I might have dependents or I myself need critical medical care that cannot be interrupted by job hopping. I might have a family emergency that has destroyed my savings to look for a new job. I might be in the point of my career in which leaving for a new job so soon would be a red flag to employers. I might have just made a large purchase (a home, for example) that means I cannot afford to find a new employer at the exact moment my current asks me to be on-call for the next 72 hours nonstop.

And if it's not me, it might be my co worker, who I know is a new parent and cannot afford to stop working to care for their child. It might by my mentor, who is dealing with ageism making it difficult to find work. It might be my mentee, who is being discriminated against because of their H1B status. It might be my new hire, who accepted a lowball offer because they have no knowledge of price transparency. It might be a software developer I just met at a data science meetup, who is being worked to the bone at a startup but doesn't have enough experience to be hired anywhere else.

Life is not so easy. We're all struggling. We should be working to back each other up so that individual people are not being exploited and then have to fight by themselves against an entire corporation.
Naive question: Is GraphQL meant to be used only by the frontend developers to consume backend data, etc? And not by the actual consumers of the API (ie customers, users)? If not, I don't see why consumers would ever want to use GraphQL.

Figuring out the syntax/language to do something as simple as retrieving the first X items requires more thought than calling a dead-simple REST endpoint.
If return rate hits 100% then it's a success IMO. Oregan has then successfully ensured that for every bottle used in their state that they also recycle one. Does it matter if it's a non-Oregan bottle?
Not if you want to actually have a career. This isn't day labor. To be successful in the industry you have to be part of good projects. Those often require at least a couple of years investment. And that is in addition to building a life outside of work.
> Well paid

Maybe. Ask all those immigrant workers.

> unlimited vacation(s).

lol. rhetorical b/s.
Thanks for that info. Colours and pigments interest me but it's something i've never actually had much experience with. I always thought art was something I just wasn't good at so.I never took any art classes in high school or anything. My biggest introduction to colour mixing has been at my job mixing pigmented resins in epoxy and matching it to different colours of stone for laminating.

This job actually started getting me into more visual arts in general I started with stone carving and i've been getting into learning to draw.

I find the two processes somewhat similar but opposite. Carving is subtractive taking something and removing material until you get your desired shape. Whereas drawing is additive. You start with nothing and use lines and values to create your shapes. The forms and the way you study them are very much the same though.

I haven't gotten into painting yet. But i've been doing some digital painting of my drawings and i've been playing with water colour pencils a bit.

One thing that seems to confuse me though. I've got a couple sets from a two different manufacturers. There's a couple of the same colours between the two sets but I notice they don't seem to match. This works well as it gives me more colour range but i'm just not sure if this would be because of different amounts of binder or different pigments used to produce the colour.

Either way the more i've learned the more I wish i'd taken the time to learn about this when I was younger.
Serverless Functions: Some Like It AOT
Do more with patterns in C# 8.0
I’m considering migrating an appveyor setup to devops. The main driver is to get a pipeline setup with more parallelism and a more complex graph with resumable steps without fiddling with environment parameters, or really jumping around in a clunky ui maintaining a hundred “projects”

Haven’t looked to deeply what devops has to offer yet, but things I’d be looking for before migrating.

- I want to be able to develop, run and debug most, or all, of the steps in the graph on my development machine without roundtripping through long chains of triggers and pushing to code repos and pull requests

- I want to run as much as possible in parallel, preferably agnostic of wether it’s on the same machine or several

- I need to build and assemble many components from same repository (monorepo setup)

- only impacted components should build

- Sub-components may depend on different build tools (service fabric services with both webpack and msbuild based packages)

- Some steps may depend on configurations and secrets with a different lifecycle than the code branch being built

I imagine something clever could be built on docker to support both running things locally as well as customize build nodes.

I don’t care to much for scripting in yaml. In fact I spent the day converting some yaml (and cake) scripting to Invoke-Build. Invoke-Build is quite nice actually, the only thing I miss is the option to orchestrate tasks in parallel onto several build nodes. That plus something like ncrunch build/test engine for csharp projects

(really the entire vs/msbuild things needs to be replace with something truly distributed, incremental and repeatable)
Elastic Load Balancing blog post about TLS Termination on Network Load Balancers! This includes the ability to preserve source IP to your targets while terminating / offloading TLS.

Checkout the demo https://network.exampleloadbalancer.com/nlbtls_demo.html
Wouldn't it be cool if "American" implied some standard of living worth being proud of?
Someone else did though, so the 10 cents is paid in full.
I replaced that with a Firefox quick shortcut to Wiktionary a while ago. Much better results than Google had.
I can negotiate my own salary, hours, and working conditions. I don't need someone to do it for me, and I certainly do not want to be forced into such an arrangement. Just because it's something you personally find advantageous doesn't mean others feel the same way, and no one should ever be forced into it.
I've heard a number of horror stories about the game dev industry that would be unheard of in the larger tech community. I've always thought this was because there was a less restricted labor supply among game developers. I knew a LOT of guys in University who got into CS because they "wanted to make games." That increases competition for the available positions, which creates unfavorable conditions for the labor pool and an easily exploitable market for employers who know there's always another eager kid lining up to "make games."
Lenovo also makes Thinkpads …?
Agreed, The Conversation is fantastic.

Interestingly, both star Gene Hackman as a main character.
I got into the AI class at my school (it was not overbooked) only to discover that I didn't have the necessary math background. Also, the class was going to be all math and wouldn't involve computers. It was not what I was expecting at all. Ended up dropping it after a week.
Apples to oranges. You can use TypeScript without ES* -> ES5/ES3 transpilation. The compilation process may not be as fast as not having one, but it will be similar in speed to running a few sed commands over your source code.

GCC startup time is going to be faster than Node.JS startup time, but that's irrelevant. We don't need to restart the compiler on each iteration. You can just use an auto reloader for that.

And since we're real developers writing real apps, hello world is not important to us. We want to organize our code into modules and bundle those to a single JS file that is minified in production. So we're going to process the source code one way or another.

C++ is a funny example to mention because it scales pretty poorly in the compilation time aspect, because it lacks modules. Compiler startup times are good... But it's not really that fun burning all 16 cores trying to compile Qt and still having it take forever. Compare to Go where compilation is so fast most people don't even talk about compilation speed.

All languages compile eventually anyways, even JS. It just compiles in the browser. If you really want a "zero compilation step" experience, you can just load the TypeScript compiler directly in the browser. It's been done in the past for demos.
> I am hard pressed to think of any policy enacted by the US government in the last 100 years which wasn't explicitly (and probably purposefully -people used to worry about over population) anti-natalist.

For US federal policies that are explicitly pro-natalist (and not merely not explicitly anti-natalist), consider the Child Tax Cred, Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, Family and Medical Leave Act, mandatory maternity coverage in the Affordable Care Act, among others.
Semiconductors combine forces in photocatalysis
Facebook Messenger’s UI Redesign Rolling Out: Say Hello to the New Messenger 4
In our provincial puddle of spectacular society, it's (almost) never acceptable. But of course we live under the spectre of being mammals with a harem-type arrangement, of chief/king figures and noble figures having many partners for recorded human history, and of the awe males are given for having massive amounts of sex partners.

In private society, we encourage our own particular vices and virtues as long as they don't lead to a critical point of instability and dissolution.
State of Digital Media
crap :(
Docker the company is a lame duck, and docker the software is being rapidly supplanted by podman and buildah. There would be no point.
Why not unionize? Unions don't represent me.

Unions represent... the union.

The labor movement is in a sorry state because unions live longer than their useful period.

There are spots where unions remain useful... but those are few and far between.
If OBRC collects a dime on 2.0 billion bottles per year ($200M deposit revenue), with an assumption that 20% of those will not end up being returned (resulting in $40M in slippage) and has overall annual budget costs of $34M, they are ever so slightly profitable.

Just a small amount of "excess" returns (bottles for which OBRC did not initially collect the dime, but pays out the dime) can push the overall program into the red. In the example above, only a 3% increase in return rate (from 80 to 83%) pushes the program into the red.