skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW: You don't have to follow any of the Relay spec to use Relay. Though you'll lose many of the benefits if you don't at least use globally unique 'id' fields on each major type. Connections are optional, the node interface is optional.
You can version your scripts & DB as they get pushed with a common tracking number. Personally I think it's best to establish a workflow where manual changes to the DB would be pointless and likely to result in them being overwritten.

Outside of commercial tools dedicated to the purpose: you can query the DB for the content of the procedures/tables and compare them to a given set of scripts, or the most recent expected version. Auto-generated ORM models can be used to validate table/view composition for a given DB/App version, as well. Having these capacities baked into the versioning and upgrade process can do a lot over time to correct deviating schemas and train developers away from meddling with DBs outside the normal update procedure :)
I already addressed this. Why are we okay with an entire industry having shitty work conditions, regardless of circumstances? Why should a game developer have to work 80-100 hour weeks for months on end just because he wants to make games? The issue of skills transference is just distracting from this issue.
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> when they released the first machine without a floppy I had already said good riddance to lame 1.5MB slower than christmas devices.

Yeah, but you're probably a nerd. I was working in a university computer lab at the time and people were always bringing in their (usually infected or damaged) floppies so they could print out an assignment or whatever. I was very happy about the decision but it freaked a lot of people out.
Restore of even huge offline backup should take no longer than 24 to 48 hours... Only situation that can take longer is a police seizure, since they will seize offline backups.

Worst case you buy a remote host for a temporary runtime and if needed contact your DNS or other host and CA face to face to reset or sign new keys. Given airplanes, this is relatively fast but tedious.

It is quite cheap... As long as you have the data backed up offline. They didn't.
> I'm sure they do not want this responsibility. They've just painted themselves into a corner with it.

Indeed, they needed to be more honest upfront and say that the demands from certain quarters aren't possible. That's a hard thing to be honest about, but at least you'd be setting realistic expectations.
+1 - at the moment the BCS doesn't have a purpose, other than pushing its superfluous certifications. Its focus has usually been on IT management rather than ordinary developers/testers/etc.

Former BCS member.
If you want to get into realpolitik there's plenty of shade to throw around for virtually any powerful country.
Besides the entire idea behind UBI is that it is needed because automation has taken / will take most of the jobs. So the headline confirms the need.
Honestly, get out now. Your story resonates strongly with me because it's basically my story word for word. Except I started as the only developer/operations guy and now I'm managing a small team.

At first it was great because there was (still is) so many greenfield projects and I had the autonomy to choose what I thought was best/would make the most gains for the company.

Now I'm early 40's, coming up on my second decade, and I've recently found out that the majority of the staff are paid more than me. I feel taken advantage of and undervalued, and I'm so fucking depressed that my complacency has walked me down this dead end street.

Trust me, if you're feeling like this now, leave. Nothing will change. Company culture is hard enough to alter, but it's impossible if you don't have the support of the CEO. I've fought against it for at least ten years and really have nothing to show for my efforts but a kick in the teeth.
Slack is Electron. Slack is installed on many laptops. Slack App just sucks and wastes real resources.
And the report I heard said they were happier and had better mental health, which has got to be worth something on its own.

Also, only giving basic income to unemployed people doesn't give good data on what a society-wide basic income would do.

My reading of the study is "bureaucratic and narrowly defined job search advice and systems depress people but have no positive impact in them getting a job" - as you say, the connotation is quite different!
> Do you believe this would be worth it?

Absolutely.

> Do you think our society does not have sufficiently advances technology to start a self sustaining colony in the desert?

I think the jury is very much out on that question.

> I think it would be absolutely trivial

I think you underestimate how much humans depend on their connections to civilization.

Even surviving in benign environments (i.e. ones where water is available for free) for long periods of time is non-trivial.
Yes, this sucks. It can be quite hard to see and understand, that these
thoughts are your own activity, you are enabling these thoughts.

You can't control if thoughts pop up, but you have control if you are
following these thoughts, if you continue them.

It might be very difficult to see the difference between the pop up of a
thought and its following, because if you always follow a thought you get
used to it, it just automatically happens.

It can be quite hard to get rid of this habit, it takes time and energy,
but the more you try to not automatically follow thoughts - but only if
you really want to - the less thoughts will randomly pop up.
Thanks, I'll be sure to watch it!
The wider reporting of this as "Basic Income didn't work" is worrying too.

All we can say is it didn't appear to affect the number of people that found employment, and that the supposed effect of letting people seek work without worrying that they might lose their benefits, didn't happen here.

It says nothing about the wider implications of BI in a society where there may be limited work in future.
> Since I can already see the litany of armchair-quarterback-desktop-app-authors

I'm so very sorry our 20 years of experience that causes us to reject the subpar monstrosities you like to call "dektop apps" rubs you the wrong way.
ride the train a half hour

For Fresno to SJ, that would mean averaging 300mph. There was no planned segment that would have made anything near that speed.
> A prolonged financial crisis in Venezuela, brought about through a combination of financial mismanagement and economic sanctions imposed by the United States.

This is such a sugar coated way of assigning blame. Venezuela is in the grip of a dictator, who despite the country having rich resources in comparison to its neigbours (oil) has been run into the ground by failed leftist idealism inherited from Chavez.

My heart really goes out to these people, and I sincerely hope the cancer that is Maduro will be removed soon.
It's even better than that! The title the authors of the study put on their press release is: "Preliminary results of the basic income experiment: self-perceived wellbeing improved, during the first year no effects on employment"[0]

So not only does Bloomberg frame it like the doomsday prediction that everyone would turn into idlers never happened, the significant increase in mental health is just quietly sidestepped.

[0]: https://www.kela.fi/web/en/news-archive/-/asset_publisher/lN...
this is very useful for figuring out what components your legacy projects are using. very nicely done. thanks for the hard work guys!
Well that's missing the point.

Basic income is not supposed to help them find jobs that can sustain them so they no longer need it, but make it optional. Stop make it mandatory to have a well paying job to be able to afford rent and food. Which, by the way, only applies to middle and lower classes anyway because people from higher classes can live off their investments and don't have to work.
> There's enough starry eyed people that love the idea of working on games enough that they are willing to put up with total abuse

Have we tried simpler solutions, like raising awareness about the widespread abuse? Unionisation is opposed for a reason - it's a very blunt tool which introduces all sorts of dysfunctional dynamics and this ends up screwing the ordinary folks even harder.
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Which is what makes it so funny when poor people support tax deductions for charity and would rather prefer a system of low taxes and high charity than higher taxes.

It’s really funny when they send your kid home selling candy to raise money for school or publicly humiliate the kids who don’t donate by giving stickers or allowing the others to wear something different.
> Don't you think it would be worth it to have some non-zero portion of the population and global budget working on ensuring our survival?

Yes, of course. I even think it's worth while putting some of that effort into looking into colonizing Mars (though I think there is a lot more low-lying fruit that is being neglected in terms of improving our overall odds of survival). All I'm saying is that we're nowhere near ready to talk about actually doing it yet.
Well people can invest in something else that has higher returns than 5% with the same risk and abandon services like ETFs so Vanguard has something to lose. You might be right though in the way that people got so used to invest in ETFs and will still invest with a 5% gain. Vanguard might be aware of that and might be trying to pull down the expectations to increase their margin. This is all unfounded speculation though.
Uh, the very first sentence states that people feel better on UBI, for no loss of employment rate. So basically all the mental suffering associated with unemployment is pointless suffering.
In the article they mention, that people from experimental group (w money) are feeling better from health perspective than people from control group (w/o money). I believe that's a strong point to justify the expenses.
Ironically Relay Classic only needed a babel plugin, whilst Modern has a separate compiler you need to use. That said, the main issue with Relay is that it still has poor documentation, so it can't really compete with Apollo in that regard.

But I'm not going back to a world without data-masking at the component level, so Relay is the only choice for me right now (though I wish it wasn't).
And when LaTeX is fronted by Lyx, it really is as easy as a dream.

I use Lyx for all my documentation or writing for which Markdown is insufficiently rich.
This. I've read some horror stories about patients that received infusions which for a time, gave them their life back, and suddenly for all intents and purposes it became ineffective. Some people described going back to feeling depressed after seeing the alternative to be even less bearable.

I'm eager to see it come to market, and for it to work, but I'm scared to work with my doctor to try it based on those stories.
That's essentially what a source-to-source AD does, just with support for the extra features that show up in programming languages. For example, handling variable bindings gets you the typical Wengert list, and handling function calls gets you the Pearlmutter and Siskind style backpropagator (I wrote a bit about the relationships at [0]).

The short answer is that CAS systems work with a "programming language" that doesn't have these features and is therefore a bit too limited for the kinds of models we're interested in.

[0] https://github.com/MikeInnes/diff-zoo
And the Royal College of Nurses for Nurses, my wife is a member. Both organisations are publicly perceived more as 'professional associations' though and have more cachet than trades unions usually do. Both have the Queen as their royal patron. they also both have a very active role in promoting best practice and professional development.

That's the sort of angle I'd go for. Organise coding camps and conferences, provide guidance on professional development, establish an online library, promote certifications. Make it a useful resource, not just a campaigning outfit. To get traction it needs to have a credible claim to provide value to employers as well as employees.

If an employer does respect their employees, values them and wants to attract valuable talent, they should see this organisation's activities as complementing their own goals more than they clash with them. That's the sweet spot to aim for. It is a tricky thing to pull off though.
Try it in developing countries. You can see vastly different outcomes, and generally the quality of life will increase in these places. It's an irony that the countries that need this the most don't have the funding, and the countries that do have the funding, report it isn't working.
blatant propaganda.. can't you see?
For C extensions, the most common layout I've seen is to put C code under lib/ (regardless of whether you are using a src/ layout).
- Consider working towards an early retirement. There are lot of resources on the internet and you can see if any of them "clicks" for you.

- If you find that for extended periods of time, you have a persistent feeling of "everything is meaningless" and you fail to find joy or meaning in any activity, please see if talking to a counsellor/therapist could help you.
The movie equivalent is VFX, which has no real unions.
Constant distraction happens only if you chose it. Chose it to not happen.
"The Nordic social welfare champion spent the last two years handing out 560 euros ($635) per month to a randomly selected group of 2,000 jobless people aged between 25 and 58."

They were selected from a group of people who received a form of unemployment benefit called "työmarkkinatuki". Without going into too much details, it meant that almost all of them had been unemployed for at least two years. And that means that huge chunk of them (I would guess that overwhelming majority) are basically unemployable because they have some limitations (physical of mental) or they do not have any education.
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zoom app on MacOS requires root permissions. No, thank you.
Can anyone explain to me, with basic income, why wouldn't I want to sit at home all day and play videogames?
I've looked into a few AWS service over the last week and coming from Azure I am very confused. It's not at all clear how AWS service are grouped together or why certain resources where created at all.

The resource group concept in Azure is, in my opinion, much easier to use and understand that VPCs in AWS.
ETL pipelines that hop between different kinds of storage/computing platforms to exploit local maxima, like you're pointing out with R and SQL working in concert, is pretty common in companies working their way up to BigData and academia.

From the Enterprise side I think too many developers have an unfounded expectations around data storage technology. There's this unchallenged belief that monolithic datastorage that will solve thier problems across the entire time/storage/complexity spectrum. By bringing multiple tools to bear, instead, you end up with more purpose built storage but far less domain impedence.

Slapping a denormalized NoSQL front-end for webscale onto a legacy RDBMS can be a cheap win/win to maximize the capabilities of both. SQL + R is oodles better than R or SQL in isolation.
Agreed

And it did help improve well-being! I'd say it's a success
> Not everyone on earth is a dev/gamer/video-editor. For regular people, electron is a cancer that needs to be nipped in the bud.

That's not how I expected that sentence to end. I don't think regular people are nearly as concerned with performance as the groups you listed are. Regular people are probably using Electron via Slack for work and if it's slow and bloated it's ultimately not their problem. Even a few seconds delay won't cost them anything when it's still a faster replacement for email.
> breaking crypto will require quantum computers with millions of qubits

I don’t think this is true. It is estimated that breaking 2048bits RSA only requires 4000 logical qubits (though the number of physical qubits would be much higher).

Ref: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/87345/how-many-...
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Santa Clara county voted it down.

San Mateo and Marin counties already weren't participating anyway, so that circumnavigation dream was DOA.
Reddit is already one of the most heavily censored websites on the internet
What does it take to create wealth?
A practical example I once had to solve:

I was writing the BIOS/flash-loader/debugger code for a Z80 clone[1] we made. The compiler send instruction packets over the RS-232 serial port at 115200 kBd (kbaud). Using 8N1, this is 12800 B/s which means we have a deadline to read the current byte out of the serial port register ever 78us or data will be lost as the new incoming byte on the serial port is written to the port's IO register.

This sounded like a lot of time, until I was informed some of the boards we sold ran at (iirc) 128kHz. After accounting for memory access time and the runtime of relevant instructions, it worked out that we had at most a budget of 60-70 instructions/byte, which wasn't anywhere close to enough to process the byte (including a simple checksum). Even using a normal ISR wasn't possible: the usual register push/pop would have a major portion of our instruction budget. I ended up dedicating a set of registers to receiving the bytes in realtime into as buffer, while processing the data non-realtime using the remaining registers.

Depending on how strict your deadlines are, "realtime" can mean accounting for every clock cycle the CPU is running. An OS (realtime or otherwise) is for people with softer deadlines and CPU time to spare.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_2000
> I'd be curious to know about HN's sorting algorithms

From HN FAQ: The basic algorithm divides points by a power of the time since a story was submitted.
If you want to continue mocking socialism you should learn the difference between private property and personal property. The commies aren't going to deprivatise your toothbrush.

EDIT: Since HN rate limits me again, I'll just reply here:

The difference between private and personal property isn't about the thing so much as the use and intent. If you own a toothbrush for personal use, that's different from owning a toothbrush factory for producing toothbrushes you sell for money.
THAT is exactly the problem:

OUR SYSTEM doesn't care how happy you are, as long as you're productive enough for some people to get rich.

No one cares if you have a job, if you are homeless or have to suffer poverty.

OUR SOCIETY values power and wealth (at least here in the west, I heard about other countries who don't do this so dedicated).
If you're poor, sick or have no job than there is even people who'd argue for mercy killing you as not being strong enough for our good society.

I think the report about this experiment shows how far away we moved from humanity.
Wow great video! I had ZERO idea this company existed and I’m on my 2nd EV...this is awesome
I used skype extensively in its pre-Microsoft era as pretty much all the academics i know. It was synonymous of exciting discussions with collaborators. It had something special which set it apart from usual calls. A kind of special space for discussions.

Last time i used it it took me a day to figure out what my username was. Had to search forums, ask on the internet, and finally navigate the awful microsoft website back and forth to finally find a childish live:xxxxq122 username (MS blocked my 10+ years account because it didnt like the date of birth i provided in a hurry. I was “too young” to use the service). I have no idea now what happened to basic things like a contact list. The new interface should be studied in design schools on all the things that shouldn’t be done.

I find myself using whatsapp or gtalk for meetings now. Having to call collaborators using the same device/service i use with my family. Thanks Microsoft.
But are there jobs available in Finland? 560 euros is not much in Finland; I don't expect people to willingly stay home and live off this amount.
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I'm trying to think back here, but I've been using GraphQL in production (at two different employers) for over 3 years, and I don't think there's any Apollo code in any of those systems.

Apollo Server is an improvement over baseline graphql-express, but for the most part it's nothing you can't easily add yourself. Having compatibility with Apollo Engine is useful if you end up wanting to use their monitoring tools. Pretty much everything else is just down to how much you want to buy into their ecosystem.
Very normal, lucid, and not extreme at all, only honest and having its philosophical money in its mouth. The page aesthetic said something totally different on first prejudgement, than the text ended up saying once actually heard. Feels encouraging to encounter this person. Very enheartening but so ordinary at the same time. Frank, common sense, not jaded, not touched by any inner resistance or even a twinge of confusion. Dude thinks this. Whew.

Thanks for the push, only other commenter ( at this moment ) who my Android app prevents me from responding to directly.
Can someone explain to me, with varying job wages, why I wouldn't just take a low effort shelf stacking or cleaning job?

Is it obvious yet?
Yep. It reads like one of those nutrition "studies" that conclude with "none of the participants in the Brocoloy juice diet group developed any signs of cancer".
Reading the comments here is like someone with years of experience with jQuery saying how jQuery is simple and powerful and nothing will replace it. SQL is to relational databases what jQuery is to the DOM, only shittier (maybe like mootools) and refuses to die, probably because all these SQL experts aren't really good programmers. Reading some compare SQL to 70s style procedural code tells me they haven't moved on from expert beginner territory.
Does it need to compete with MOBAs, though? I mean RTS are now a genre separated from MOBAs, less mainstream/more niche, but they can still make some money from RTSs
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You're right, that headline is awfully cynical! Who ever said that giving out free money helps people get a job? I think its proponents have a more utopian view and see it as a way to compensate for future trends in automation which could make many jobs obsolete.
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Agreed. Slack is also awesome in this respect. You file a ticket and a human answers it quickly and it doesn’t matter if you are the IT department asking the question or just a regular user in the enterprise. They even offer live chat. I have no idea how to file a bug / feature suggestion with google. Big missed opportunity.
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Yes, some people like you use their pickups for real work. For most American drivers, a pickup truck (or SUV) is just a fashion statement. They drive it around town with (an empty bed) instead of a Honda Civic.
I just bought one, largely for machine vision. What benchmark would you be interested in?
Well, if you do that, you might as well become a streamer and find employment that way. Or maybe write about it and become a reviewer.

Basically, most people want to do something meaningful with their time so they'll work with something they like. Most millionaires still work for example, even though they have means enough to stop at any time.
I am not, actually I am pointing out that the comment I replied to does.
Because those jobs are boring and require a lot of physical effort.