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PostgREST doesn't expose PostgreSQL full SQL capabilities. The clients can't do at will JOINs, DISTINCT, GROUP BYs, CALL arbitrary functions, etc, through its REST interface. It only exposes fast/safe operations and a single isolated schema of your choosing.

In a way you could think of PostgREST as a sandbox on top of PostgreSQL. DDoS protection has been thought since PostgREST inception and it has influenced its design.

You can see more details of PostgREST design in this article: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/stop-calling-postgrest-magic...
These days, to find new music that's actually any good, you have to look really hard, and everything that isn't mainstream has really veered off into very different directions (meaning any given artist/subgenre probably won't appeal to you). It isn't like the "old days" when the mainstream music was actually good. There's a reason all those rockers from the 70s and 80s (and some 60s!) are still touring.
>I'm not sure how a web comic from New Zealand is supposed to form an effective refutation in response to quantative data on academics in the United States. In case it wasn't clear I'm most talking about America.

Let me clarify this part, then: the post is about nothing particular New Zealandish that's not also the case in the US. It has been reposted and recommended in American media so many times precisely because it is relevant in the US too.

Furthermore, this is more than clear in the comic itself, which is told in a universal manner, and doesn't refer to any particular trait/habit/circumstance/factor of New Zealand life.

If anything, it is more USA than New Zealand (which has much less inequality of the sort the comic criticizes).

>Oppressed minorities have gotten themselves out of poverty by emphasizing hard work and education. I've already listed Jewish Americans and Asian Americans.

Jewish and Asian Americans didn't have 400 years of being abducted from their countries and working to death as slaves in the USA. After the initial racism against them as newcomers subsided they were quickly tolerated.

Blacks on the other had, had the contempt and the prejudice of their ex-owners and their children and grandchildren. They had started from less than 0, as they had their culture stolen from them in 400 years of slavery (as opposed to newer Jewish and Asian immigrants arriving with their old world cultures -- from "bar mitzvahs" and "delis", to "tiger moms").

Asians and Jews had their persecution up around the 40s or so, but they didn't have segregated schools, hotels, restaurants up to the late 60s. They didn't have to put up with redlining when looking for places to live (up to now). They don't have discrimination against them in white collar jobs still. They're not routinely killed without questions asked by cops in percentages unheard of for any western country police force (even accounting those countries total population, not just the black population).
> One interesting theory I've seen: Manning's appeal to the First Amendment might imply she's under an NSL or other gag order?

It's a bizarre claim that this would even be relevant, but the whole claim of both constitutional and statutory privilege against immunized testimony before a federal grand jury (on matters where her own conduct would probably already be largely protected by double jeopardy, even without immunization) is pretty facially bizarre, so maybe. It's impossible to tell the basis of the claim without the (sealed) motion filed to quash the subpoena.

> I can sort of picture an argument where Manning has been barred from speaking publicly on some topic, and so being compelled to give secret testimony would turn a legal gag order into an illegal one.

I can't see a case where that would be the case (public gag orders for things that one still must discuss in closed proceedings aren't all that uncommon), but that doesn't stop her from arguing it even if it is wrong.
A lot of really-early-stage startup activity (eg. solo engineer working on a project, or 3 guys working out of an apartment) seems to be happening in Oakland and the East Bay generally. It's the last place rents are affordable, so it's naturally attractive to people who need to go without income for a while.

The commute over the bridges is terrible, so with the bulk of investment capital and experienced engineers living on the peninsula (and oftentimes more down by Palo Alto & Menlo Park than in SF), it remains difficult to scale East Bay companies. Unless you're someone like Elon Musk where you can just invest $100M of your own capital and need more semi-skilled manufacturing workers than skilled software engineers. Fremont/Milpitas is coming up as a bedroom community for mid-career engineers though (because if you work at Facebook it's just across the Dumbarton, while if you work at Google/Apple you can take 237 and avoid the bridges), so that may increase the engineering supply along the East Bay BART corridor.

The East Bay really hurts from BART & Caltrain being two separate systems; it's easily BART accessible, but much of the peninsula's population only has Caltrain access, so you need a very time-consuming transfer to get there without dealing with the bridge traffic.
... particularly since they were charged up to three or five thousand dollars more for Elon's "promise" that some day (apparently this year) it will be available...
Wouldn't it be more fitting to call it a godly amount of computational power then? :)

We're only looking at it from the inside perspective. Who knows, maybe our simulation overlords (ourselves?) already placed us in a far better place than they ever had!
I assume they’re testing the waters given that they’re doing interviews for the next class on the ground in NYC
Very cool. Are there any public repositories of puz files, or at least some sample puz file to test this out?
Maybe there is some innovation that would help. Firstly pools of cars with car seats. Perhaps car seats that can do all of 2-8 years and are easy to adapt. Can come preloaded with wet wipes etc. Maybe the car is cleaned by robots after each lease. Sports and music stuff probably needs to be stored in the house but I guess most of the time that is more desirable anyway
Absolutely no shame at all in ordering takeout for lunch every single day as long as you can afford it and it brings you joy. The goal of personal finance isn't to die with the highest score, its to organize your money to make you the most secure and the most happy, both now and in the future.
Most people are either inactive or extroverts who prefer to go out for their activities. As an active introvert, I’d rather bring a lot of my activities in-house / on-premises.

Personally I wouldn’t find utility in an actual mansion but I’d certainly prefer something more than a 1 bedroom.

With kids that means at least one extra bedroom if not multiple. The activities I do would mean I’d derive value from a garage (for projects), a home gym (for indoor activities), and a yard (for outdoor activities). Game room / home theater would be nice too. That isnt a particularly large house but it will be rather pricey in an expensive metro like the Bay Area.
And then it continues with saying that the problem is mainly for women and POC. I just learned to ignore all this noise and quietly hire just who I want which is mostly white or asian men so I don't have to deal with the bullshit. The spotlight is usually on the big companies like facebook, if you are a small or medium company nobody cares what you do, so I just decided to go all 50' madmen, diversity is overrated and women are overrated, you don't really need it to succeed.
Traction/stability control can only help with the situation you are already in. Being able to see the condition of the road -- the sparkle of ice forming, for example, or a sheen that suggests black ice, etc -- allows you to act instead of just react.
Learn a language in a couple of weeks? No way! A couple of weeks is plenty to understand the mechanics of the language, but the biggest aspect of a language is the library.

I do agree that testing for the ability to solve problem is hard and gets neglected.
Hey, I'm sorry but I truly don't understand what you're trying to say. I want to try and understand where we disagree, because to me that usually indicates we're having a communication failure. I think this is an empirical question and I feel like it's been settled at every level, and so I'd like to understand at what level we're disagreeing.

Things I believe:

- At the plant level, crop science has shown fertilizer and seed breeding are by far the dominant factor that control the first 75% of yield above wild types of maize/corn.

- One Acre Fund RCTs have shown that providing seed and fertilizer substantially improve yield outcomes.

- At the macro level, the development path of most countries that have transitioned out of agricultural economies have correlated extremely well with fertilizer usage. From the US to China, yield correlates really, really well with fertilizer usage and minimally with things like rule of law indexes of property ownership.

Which level or statement do we disagree at?
Oakland is starting to become more attractive to people in SF precisely because of its diversity.

"Really starting to enjoy Oakland—have you been to Drake's?" is the new climbing, hiking, etc.
That would require that the toleration parameter be a function of income, which doesn’t seem right.
Alright everyone, after your input I’m going to dive in and write up a simple agreement today. Is 3% interest too much?

Lol, just kidding thanks for the comments
I was referring to salary.

I'm looking at Levels.fyi and at Google you only start to break $200k salary at L6 (Staff Engineer).
Non engineering departments in tech will be white male majority.
> What are we missing?

We're missing the magic bit that can transform whatever the programmer needs to do into something the thousands of cores can calculate.

For example, the other day me and a colleague tried to optimize a query. This is something where thousands of cores could have tried all various variations of the problem, and we could have sit back and let them figure it out.

The issue is that I don't have any magic way to tell the horde of cores what to try and how to verify the result. Also there are so many variations to try, I'm not sure it would have been more cost effective without some clever sql-aware thing running the show.
I think it says something about our industry that I assumed they were about to discontinue something or make a change that negatively impacted people.
And Apple's 3-6 months reorg cycle is insane! That sounds like organizational panic. Makes it all the more impressive that Steve Jobs pulled them out of that nosedive.
> it's users have opted in even if very few realize their anonymized and aggregated position information is being broadcast to the world.

If users don't realize that, then they cannot have given real consent. Real consent requires that you know what you're consenting to.
Walmart isn't a platform (excluding Jet.com). They purchase goods (take on risk) prior to selling them.

Amazon is a marketplace meaning the seller takes on all of the risk and pays Amazon for the privilege. Amazon then uses the data that marketplace generates to undercut the sellers with their private labels.
Except this usually works out the exact opposite, where the big companies get discounts in exchange for (predictable) volume.
> Not in general bound to secrecy, but apparently this is some sort of "secret" grand jury that's secret in a way that grand juries are not usually secret.

I don't see any indication that that's the case; the media habitually applies “secret” as a modifier to “grand jury” when no more than routine grand jury secrecy applies because it bumps up the perceived intensity of a story.
Both of these match my experience. When I was living off the wages of a young intern, I was working or learning almost every waking hour, and sleeping on a sheet on the floor because I didn't own furniture. But, whenever he group would go out to lunch, I'd go, for the socialization -- it was very consciously the only thing other than rent&utilities that I spent money on. (Fortunately, we had some amazing strip mall restaurants nearby that weren't too expensive.) When the group didn't go to lunch, I'd usually get by with whatever food I could scavenge, because I was so busy, and felt like I had to always be in the office. I hadn't yet even tried to figure out how to make and bring a lunch.
Curious how the average user could try to mitigate this threat. Perhaps if you were using speakers connected to an HDMI monitor, rather than an audio jack? Presumably then you'd have to figure out how to exploit both the audio chip on the motherboard and the HDMI device, which I presume would not by default be willing to operate as an input device.
Also, for even more protection against expensive queries we recommend using this extension: https://github.com/pgexperts/pg_plan_filter

You can filter queries by their plan cost before they are executed.
I'm 43, and I'm far better at writing code than I was even 5 years ago (and I've always _thought_ I was good... including now :) ). This is an actual skill/craft, that you get better with with time. I'm not sure what to take from that put against the fact that old coders didn't seem to last as coders.
They do but it's just offices for partners and employees. Nowhere near large enough to hold dinners, office hours, etc.
Primacy-Based Todo List
The problem isn’t really learning the new technologies, but more finding the right projects to practice them with. As anyone knows (but especially experienced devs), simply learning something doesn’t convey much mastery, especially if you are used to more mastery than simply newbie levels.
The model for YC startups is that most need to raise outside capital after YC. Part of their value proposition is being able to create a market of follow-on investors so their startups don't get totally shafted in those deals. That requires being in areas where there are enough investors to create a liquid market in fundraising rounds after YC.

China is one such area, and places like NYC or Boston could also work (YC used to be in Boston before PG & JL had kids). Those don't help much with the cost-of-living issue, though.
Yep people forget the economic impact of monopsonies aswell as monopolies
This is what I do. I can cheap food every day for lunch for about $6 and longingly look at, but not purchase, nice food (like salmon) for $10-12. Or I can cook and bring my own nice food for $2-6. It's kind of a no-brainer.
re: my confusion between scene and emo/hipster, I think it was largely that scene was "just becoming a thing" as I was graduating highschool so while those who were "Down with the kids" knew the new patterns, I was 200% tuned out by then. The descriptions you give seem to contextually fit where I've heard it used since.

Re: subculture shifts and underground revivals, don't even get me started. I have a personal fascination in how what "goth" is has changed _so drastically_ over the last 30 years, (The Cure, david lynch/oingo boingo, then the explosion into cybergoth/punk, overlap with death metal, branches off into classical) Someday I'd love to read on someone who has made a study over how these shifts occur and propagate, largely with an eye for how technology has changed this in a post-internet age.
I'm not following; are you saying that it's easier to have a ONS now? Maybe I'm too old or not skilled at that or something, but in my age group (I'm dating 30-45yo women) I've had tons of 1st dates, but I've only come across maybe 1 or 2 women who I think I could talked my way into bed with for a ONS (and I wasn't interested). All the women who date me definitely seem like they're looking for a new husband. And they frequently seem to have ridiculously high standards there.
For me it was mostly price, but also work. If I'm going to pay that much for food, I don't want to have to work too hard to build the meal.
Reuter’s or any number of small newspapers that were independently owned from major corporations, and stayed neutral.
That sucks because every company that actually cares enough about its customer experience eventually vertically integrates, and it results in a better experience.

For instance, Apple makes hardware, software, services and they all fit together perfectly. Tesla distributes cars in addition to making them, leading to a better buying experience.

Everything Amazon does is in-line with this principle as well.

Is the end game laws similar to what we have for alcoholic beverages and cars? Where distribution and manufacturing are artificially separated?
I agree, except the part about not intending to remarry; that seems really sad to me.
I think you have something useful here. This is something I've seen a number of large companies build/deploy internally because they've been burned hard on content migrations. In the enterprise noone is going to set up a .htaccess redirect unless it's for the CEO's document repository. Whether it can sustain a company larger than 1-2 people is a larger question.

* Have pages listing available links go/hr could take you to the HR homepage, but go/hr/_list would link everything that exists under go/hr like go/hr/holidays or go/hr/stockawards.

* Give users a personal links page with personal and private links. Allow the company to display custom news/content on this in a tasteful way. Internal comms want to get their content to users.

* Let users bookmark links from the _list pages I mentioned.

* If a user links another link shortener, or a page that has a redirect, either - remove those intermediate redirects, or flag it to the admin.

* Add some sort of safe site checking to "protect IT from the risks of public link shortening services." Not sure if you can reuse an online database for this.

* Provide RSS feeds of top links etc to import into the company's portal.

* Resolve page titles correctly. If someone pastes the link into a tool that looks up the go link for a preview, ensure you return useful metadata. This is a common problem now because companies have some stuff on-prem (their documents and tools) but are using a cloud chat tool. If you can work out a way to know that particular tools are scraping your link then you might be able to give a better experience.
One of my companies had subsidized lunch (you could also buy dinner for cheap) with 5-6 options available. As most bulk food, options were generally greasy and unhealthy, with one unchanging exception: roast chicken. For over a year I ate roast chicken and salad both for lunch and dinner every workday.

I do love food and cooking, but the sheer convenience, speed and cost saving was impossible to ignore. I've never been leaner and healthier in my life, and I would still indulge myself cooking my favorite meals on the weekends.

10/10 would repeat.
Ask HN: What's the best decision you have made in your career/workplace?
Yet you have to resort to hacks like this [0] to find cheap business airfares. None of the flight search sites can find cheapest biz flights from continent to continent. Script below opens 40 tabs and with a bit of clicking I found 1900usd return flight aussie to europe...

There's also some weird bugs where economy class Malaysia Airlines leg would be inserted when searching for biz. Kiwi.com straight up renders 0 biz flights when using their continent-to-continent search.

https://pastebin.com/ejvaMLRi
I thought about it more. My definition of normal is very inclusive. There are socially awkward, social butterflies, more and less conventionally attractive, retired and middle aged, married / unmarried, all sorts of gender identity and sexual preferences at these events. There are events specifically geared towards LGBTQIA+ folks. Many events are hetero-normative and gender normative - I think that’s a function of where people feel safe and find community.
Yeah. And while this says a lot about Lyft, for me it really really says a lot about Uber too.

It has never been impossible to run a company by injecting money into it to cover the difference between how much customers 'value' the product versus what it costs to provide the product. But the dot com days showed that without a point in the business model where the value exceeds the cost by enough margin to keep the business going, such businesses don't survive.

What neither Lyft, nor Uber, has yet provided is a credible 'size' at which they would be a going concern (covering all their costs), nor a really good idea of how being larger scales revenues more than costs in sufficient measure to become profitable.

I would love to see a document that describes the 'per driver' costs that these companies incur on a location basis (so costs per driver in Los Angeles CA, and per driver in Minot ND) vs revenue expectations per driver vs total available livery miles (how many people would have to want to go somewhere to support those numbers). Then you could at least see if there were any islands of profitability in that solution space.

So far, I've yet to see anything where the answer is net positive. Worse, any positive solution will be very fragile by definition because the barrier to entry is zero and so a third party can unilaterally drain profits out of a ride share company by starting up an unprofitable competitor and funding it out of pocket until it has done the required amount of damage.
I do this. Every day for lunch I have two soft-boiled eggs in soy sauce and some higher-grade instant ramen. It's a great way to get a mix of salts, fats, carbs, and proteins in you at low cost (I spend about $2/day on lunch all in) and high speed (I can make and eat my lunch in 20min). It's enjoyable and lets me walk my dog or play a game for a few minutes instead of waiting impatiently at a restaurant.

Two other factors may contribute: I do tend to enjoy rewatching TV shows and movies (so it may be a broader personality trait) and I dislike having people serve me in restaurants, which I view as being beneath their dignity (so restaurants aren't as fun for me as they are for most).
Taking Control of Your Internet
This topic is strongly connected with decentralization technologies since they are the most viable way that we will be able to replace the large networks of the technopolies.
That's kind of disheartening. I want to be a software engineer. I love writing code.
At least Tesla has an actual product you can buy?

I have a self-driving automotive product you can buy. It doesn't work as advertised, either.

Calling a lamb's tail a leg doesn't make for a five-legged farm animal. This reminds me of the conversations about, say, phone authentication using facial identification. "Samsung had it before FaceID!" Yeah, I had one of those Samsung phones. It did not do what it said on the tin. So, yeah, Tesla has a product you can buy, but it is not a self-driving vehicle despite what they might tell you.
This tool would probably be useful in conjunction with other tools or in specific conditions:

* A tool that can clear the noise from the hard disk, allowing a glimpse at some parts of the conversation

* When the computer is turned-off (assuming the listening device can stay on)

* Some areas in an Airport

* Construction areas

It is not impossible to be useful for some actors, but it does require specific conditions.
What OP is detecting is not a flaw in GPT-2 but in how GPT-2 is used to generate samples: it chooses only from the top k most likely words, so you can easily detect GPT-2 simply by running it and noting that no sampled word appears from below, say, the top-40 candidates, while human text will occasionally have a top-41 or a top-99 or a top-1000 word.

If you fix that with a better sampling strategy like beam search or RL finetuning, unclear how well OP-like methods would work.
That's only one kid, though. If you have 3 or 4 kids, the difference isn't close anymore.
Thank you for clarifying. Yes. I meant Bachelor of Science.
It's strange to me that this is still considered controversial. Even long-duration emotional effects like depression is very obvious in pets after the loss of other/companion pets in a home.