skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is time to ditch ReactJS or Angular and use better web standards like
You are correct that Proof of Postage only records the postcode, which can only be obtained at the the Post Office (for free), when handing over the letter/parcel at the counter. However, you can insist upon the address or the property number to be recorded ─ which requires a 'Certificate of Posting', which needs to be filled in and stamped. You can have one or the other, not both. This absolves RM of any negligence albeit they could clarify this distinction.

Since, this particular scam is originating from a very specific ecosystem; in this case, the responsibility ultimately lies with eBay and to a certain extent with PayPal ─ who are blasé about these scams and have zero intent on solving these issues, they are even happy to front-load the system, so it favours certain types of scammers.

https://business.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/...
It's actually not that simple, the freedoms are conditioned to satisfy them all, not just one. But even then Free Software philosophy is not ideologically pure. In particular gaining competitive advantage is fundamental to players in market economies and inherently requires not letting competitors have something you have. Applying that to free software means that using it for commercial purposes requires doing it in a such way that couples it with something that doesn't respect user freedom and doesn't let anyone to easily run something similar, rendering the whole free software point moot and turning it into mere exploitation. To respect user freedom you need a lot more conditions, at least let any user get all the software coupled with free software and easily run it on its own hardware, i.e. make licenses very viral, force open sourcing all the software coupled with free software or sharing any indirect data dependencies. But here's the thing, this actually removes commercial incentive, because you can never gain competitive advantage with such software, the only way to use it commercially is to pay for an alternative license. So in a way, having your cake and eating it is the only pure free software.
I can only remember the conman who claimed he could do broadband over dialup. https://web.archive.org/web/20170320224412/http://jacksonvil... but statistically they must have thrown money at someone who wasn't a crook, mustn't they?
In the Linux world. All of their problems (roughly you can call them poor integration with the Linux stack) are consequences of them refusing to upstream their kernel driver.

The fact that Nvidia blob fails you less is not a good indicator for you, unless you test with Mesa as well in each case. Mesa is a lot stricter about OpenGL spec compliance. So if you only test on Nvidia, you likely have bugs that you didn't notice.
how about joining the gym instead?
I see why friends who are busy with family would not have time to go out, but those in the middle of a divorce should be prime material for drowning a few beers together.
I’m in this exact situation. Looking for a new job now.
> Win7/8

Windows 8 was a major improvement saddled with an untested UI that someone was using to make their political mark. The internals of Windows 8 and Windows 10 are a major, major step forward from 7.
I think making friends is similar to wealth. Easier to make friends once you already have friends than if you have nobody. I think men specifically suffer from this dynamic because they're more closed in communication than women.
If you're an average single man the world hates you. The public considers you a liability that has to be written off in order to stay consistent and most people expect you to hurt them in some way.
Agreed that it's clickbaity. I already felt bad for the (smaller) proportion of women who would be turned off by this headline, and then when you read the actual article, it's 12% of women and "almost one in five which would be 20%) of men.

So, men's rate is not even double womens'.

Don't get me wrong, both numbers are serious, and I agree it's a lot harder for us men. It's just that, particularly in the case of such an isolating feeling, excluding people and minimizing them is truly damaging.
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I've made a few friends through OLD and hookups. It's simply not an option for most men.
I don't follow. How do you feel is OCaml javascriptified?
I already bought the Dell 27in without the usb-c connection, because I didn't think there was any real difference between that and an HDMI connection through an adapter. If I had known about the wireless interference issue before that, I would have gone for the usb-c version.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1457544-REG/dell_ultr...
Men have acquaintances.

Women have friends, with all the emotional baggage that entails.
The French state railway company SNCF has a low-cost service high speed TGV service called Ouigo that also uses stations on the periphery of some cities (while regular TGV goes into central stations), just like low-cost airlines.
Become an alcoholic... Join AA.. Boom!!! More friends than you can imagine :)

In all seriousness... I hear this all the time in the rooms... loneliness is a killer. What's crazy is I have a sponsee, who specifically wanted to get sober cause the loneliness was driving him insane. Any reason to get sober and stay is a good reason in my book.
I get that; I was just asking the parent to explain why check rules differ in this format. (It’s okay though, another comment put it in a way I understood.)
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I sometimes wonder if I’m broken when I see comments like yours, which seem heartfelt and correct and as it should be (the desire for friendships that is). Maybe it’s because my wife and kids fill the void, but I just have no interest in making or maintaining friendships. My wife has a really cool coworker that tries to get me out of the house but i just kinda flop on him. I live in a secluded spot that you can’t see from the road and work from home 95% of the time.

I see it in my youngest daughter as well, and I do worry for her and am applying gentle pressure to get her to socialize...but I’m pretty much good to go. Maybe things will change down the road but I’m in my mid 40’s sooo.
>Women who express feelings of loneliness tend to have more human connections than men expressing similar feelings. I wonder why though?

There's a difference between feeling lonely and actually being lonely.
A great many people in the USA work well beyond 40h a week, and have a few hours of daily commute time on top of that.

For them the weekends are for recovery; there is no physical or emotional energy for social engagement or self care.
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For Windows users coming to Linux with Nvidia, this usually simply involves one extra cycle of GPU upgrades. By the next one, it's AMD for them. So in the long run - still not an issue.
That's a naive statement that presumes the design used today is mostly similar to the 40 year old design.

Even if it was the exact same circuit design, that's only a small part of what makes a processor and negates all of the advancements in chemistry, lithography, engineering, and everything thing else that goes into manufacturing a chip.

It's like saying "why are we still using scissors|staplers|brushed electric motors|internal combustion engines?"
Dec 2016: "The Man Behind Football Leaks"

https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/football-leaks...
Can somebody please explain what the big deal about it is, if it's even true?
What is the point of posting articles that are behind paywalls? Why isn't it against HN rules? Is it a test of just how many people actually try to read the articles they're responding to?

Have fun conversing about a headline...
OP and ReMarkable users, what ebook stores do you use?
Focussing on men risks feeding the whole “men are victims of feminism” narrative.
>How much trouble does Julia’s JIT compiler latency cause with this? With a big complex website does every button introduce compiler latency the first time it’s hit by a user?

The first time a function is hit by any user until the server restarts. In practice that doesn't seem to be that bad from the Julia apps I've deployed, especially if you just make part of the setup sequence query a few common commands. This can of course be improved by making the version of Julia that you deploy have your app as part of the system image, in which case you'd have no JIT latency since it would essentially all be AOT compiled.
> I personally believe that great documentation was a big reason for PHP's success in the early days.

I agree. The culture of user-submitted comments with helpful examples and clarifications on each documentation page was a big part of that, too.
Again, if you’re being paid in “equity” your contract should give you the option to sell back the vested equity at the last valuation.

Otherwise being paid “equity” is the same as not being paid.
This is the number one reason I would not want to work for a startup. Even in the unlikely event that the company is successful, there's better than even odds that you won't be able to trade on that success for years to come. That means you're effectively locked in at the company until it suits the executives to let you out. No thanks. I'd rather have a higher salary and immediately tradable equity grants with a company that's already public.
I’ve been going to the gym at least 4 days a week for years. Unless you’re into a specific niche thing it’s hard to socialize. I’ve found it easier to talk to others after getting into powerlifting.

Most people at the gym have headphones in and are grinding out a workout as quickly as they can because they’re busy. At least that’s how it feels in SF.
The unsettling thing is how normal your comment makes divorce sound, and how much statistics back that up. As if it's just a thing that is an expected part of life.

People need to stop getting married, or at least not so early. Marriage is a very intensive (and rewarding) commitment that I think most modern people cannot make. Instead, foster relationships that matter for as long as they matter.

I was in a serious relationship from 19-25. These things end because people change a lot in those years. We both graduated and went in different directions. Which I think is perfectly fine. Relationships will change. You can absolutely start new ones. Join pretty much any club that meets in person. Commit time to those who enrich your life, cut loose those who harm it.
Hobbies might not be sufficient for a social life.

I used to train seriously in mixed-martial arts. While I had no issue with any of my training mates, I also had zero interest in hanging out with them. Likewise for other, strictly cerebral, activities.
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I don't see how that's relevant to this article, it's talking about friends, not wives.
I'm not a very tech savvy and know very little about databases. But I have read countless posts/comments over the years and everywhere everyone recommends postgres.

Again, I have no clue about other database systems, but postgres documentation is just awesome. I believe you can practically everything from its documentation.
Yes OP were right. Bitcoin could never scale to the point of being used for every transaction. Thats a different thing than realizing it would have a bubble with massive profit potential.
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IMHO, $500 is a stiff price for such device.

https://remarkable.com/store/reMarkable-and-marker
Sometimes work friends become real friends.
I have one (DPT-S1) for years after a kindle DX screen felt too small, and still use it for reading technical papers and books. Papers are a pleasure to read. The weight is light-feather. The price was extravaganza-level but haven't repented, I love this gadget. It synchronizes via web-dav with (for me) a box.com account, perhaps slowly. Is a superb reading device, battery lasts more than a week. Is not a tablet, web browising is enough for landing in a specific blog post or wikipedia article, but anything cpu consuming will be slow. After the years the stylus cilindrical holder came apart. The writing experience is functional, but lags to a point compared with pen and pencil (but is workable). Mine has SD-card with 32 gigs. Page flip on scanned books makes you wait. The software is minimalist but not buggy. No sound.
Climate change: Impacts 'accelerating' as leaders gather for UN talks
.. very clear memory of an overflowing, stuffed-crowded room of undergrad aged applicants at an AirBnB recruitment event a few years ago.. basically, the closer to age 22 you were, the better, it seemed. The saying "do not trust anyone over thirty" with a very, very different twist.
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In this context, I find this unlikely.
This article is from July...
> when I come to the USA I try and take trains when I can. Yesterday I took the Amtrak from LA to San Diego...

If you've mostly taken trains in the US on the coasts, or for long cross-country trips, you may have an overly rosy view of the situation here.

I live in a mid-sized US city, the capitol of its state, with a metropolitan area population of around one million (city A). To reach the nearest city of at least this size (city B) by car is only a two hour (<150 miles) straight drive along the interstate. Both these cities have train stations serviced by Amtrak.

The only itinerary Amtrak offers to get from A to B using their service passes through city C, which is more than 500 miles from city A or city B. It's a 30 hour trip.
Also I got pinged by like a dozen different HN bots, because each time any of them tweets a link, Twitter thinks it's a quote-tweet and sends a notification. Annoying.
The movie's finale (both) is not what happen in the book.

In the book Kelvin accepts that he's standing in front of a godlike creature that the human mind will never understand, he surrender, lands on the planet's surface hoping that "time of cruel miracles was not past".

The acceptance is not of the illusion itself, but of the fact that we would never understand the whys, the rational thinking and scientific positivism have become the real illusion, all is lost, Solaris won, there is only the hope that Solaris will keep making "cruel miracles".
I don't understand this article one bit. Why is the article speaking in the present tense? Why have dreams turned into disillusionment now, once the company has already announced they're going to IPO in 2020?

The article bellymoans about how employees can't cash out their shares yet - well yeah duh, that's kind of the whole risk/reward aspect of startups. Maybe they go public. Maybe they go under. Maybe they take a long time to go public. Why the article is about Airbnb, which has set a deadline for going public already, escapes me.
Okay, fair points. I can imagine it's a tough situation to be in.
Most of my coworkers are over 30 at airbnb.

Were you at a college recruiting event or something?
Totally agree but that hasn’t been a barrier in the past.
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Even without going through a divorce it's hard. Most of my friends over the years and I have mostly lost touch other than happy birthdays and the occasional 'hey what's going on? We should hang out some time when we're both not busy' But, understandably, people are tired or busy with things and it never really works out. My coworker's lives are all pretty different from mine. Either they're young, early 20's and I can't really relate to them and they're doing their thing or they're older and spend their time with their families. I've tried making friends online in different places, it sort of ends up being the same though, you talk for a while frequently, then you both get busy or whatever.
>The gap is a bit smaller for best friends too.

It's not: 32% for men, 24% for women. Also, this attitude is why "men are the disposable gender" is a thing. Real problems that are correlated with men are dismissed and ignored as not significant.
Yup I used bit sets to write a super duper fast Sudoku solver. For examples you can detect naked singles extremely fast by just and-ing the bitsets in a given row, column or house, taking the complement, and checking if a unique bit is set.
I disagree with the apparent premise (article's paywalled) that having no friends means you are lonely.

I have no friends that I'm not also in a romantic relationship with, and I wouldn't call myself lonely at all outside of a rare fleeting feeling here and there.
To echo a few other commenters here, a major point of consideration is your team's experience and broader technical network. Generally speaking, either Postgres or MySQL is likely fine for most applications. But you'll have a better time with whichever one you can most smoothly build on, operate, and hire for.

Separate from that, and with the disclaimer that my career has been heavily MySQL-oriented, although I try to provide a balanced perspective:

MySQL can be a good choice for OLTP-heavy workloads, such as a high volume of relatively straightforward queries. It also supports a very wide variety of replication options. In some aspects, MySQL is simpler to operate than pg. (This can be a point of contention, as MySQL is more idiosyncratic and this leads to some land-mines that are well-known to the community, but unclear from the manual alone.)

At this point there are also many hundreds (thousands?) of engineers and DBAs worldwide who have extensive experience working on massive-scale MySQL deployments. This may or may not be relevant to your project, depending what you're building and its eventual best-case size.

MySQL is admittedly less "batteries included". Although MySQL/InnoDB does support things like windowing functions, fulltext, geospatial, etc they're not necessarily a best-in-class implementation yet. In a MySQL shop, if you need OLAP, you're better off doing ETL into a separate column store or Hadoop cluster; if you need fulltext search, you're better off using a separate search index system like Solr; etc. Depending on your point-of-view, this approach is either "more UNIXy" or a major operational headache, or both :)

Meanwhile Postgres may be a better choice if you want to handle a bunch of things using a single piece of software: mixed OLTP + OLAP workloads, fulltext search, geospatial. It also has some interesting indexing features MySQL lacks, such as partial indexes, and ability to index an entire nested JSON structure in a single index.

Postgres gets major points for having a true open source development model, cleaner core code, better adherence to SQL standards, etc. Conceptually, it is very well-aligned with the textbook description of a relational database. Its adherents love it, sometimes fanatically so, which can be a mixed bag to outsiders. I sometimes feel parallels to the Mac user community in the late 90s/early 00s: it's probably a better choice for many use-cases, but personally I raise an eyebrow to suggestions that it's the universal best choice for all possible situations.
This can happen in the US, too. I sat on a grand jury that heard a case involving the same scam.
Amtrak earned $524 million from the Northeast corridor in 2018. The rest of the system lost $540 million dollars in 2018. The Northeast corridor is not the issue for Amtrak.
"two tranches of employee equity that are set to start expiring in November 2020 and in mid-2021; those shares will become worthless if the company is not trading publicly by then, they said."

I don't understand the above statement. How does not being publicly traded make the options worthless? Doesn't it just make them more risky because you have to put up a pile of money w/o knowing when and at what value you will be able to sell?
Well, if mycelium can conduct electrical signals, then it's similar to brain tissue, which seems like a more interesting analogy than saying it can perform digital computation, in my opinion. Because then it raises the question of what other qualities it has that might be similar to brain tissue, for example, maybe exhibiting some form of perception, learning, and even consciousness. The total amount of mycelial tissue is a lot more massive than just the mushroom, the mushroom is the fruiting body, it's a small part of the organism. Also, the mycelium interacts with tree roots, which can be viewed as (one of many?) sensory inputs.
I was expecting stories from his father, or about his father.

Instead, the author talks about IBM's "support" of Nazi Germany and ends with statistics on the low amount of African-Americans employed in the tech industry.

Yet the percentage of blacks and non-Asian minorities in high-tech professions consistently remains under 2%. For minority women, the numbers are even more dismal. Recent studies conclude this is not a “pipeline” problem — qualified candidates can be found.
Yes, but move to a country with an economy drastically less developed than your own, and your fortunes may change.
Could Wework Collapse by 2020?
My opinion, most of the united states communal infrastructure is a wasteland.
In Ghost in the shell it was striking to me that it began with the conflict about taking a programmer out of the country :)

https://imgur.com/yVL0ODF
I've been working from home for nearly five years now; it's been fantastically convenient while I raise my daughters.

While I have found that my adult social interactions are severely limited, I am no worse off than my old friends; one of whom remarked that after moving to Montreal he's seeing friends and family just as often as he did before.

Where I find adult interaction is in more traditional venues: I made an effort to get to know my neighbours, and am acquainted with some staff and patrons at the local pub.

The key was not to rely on scheduled events; too many adults will ghost or reject because they feel too busy or weary to attend. Impromptu social interaction works better; have a beer with your neigh bour.
Because it doesn't need to be better.

It's an embedded application - if the core does the job exactly what it is intended to be, why upgrade? What do you expect more from an eth chip when it already provide full 1gbps capabilities? In other words, there is no room to be better. It could be more power efficient but it is alway efficient enough. Also changing the core will cost a huge amount of money as it needs to change the production line.

Using more recent tech such as ARM isn't always cheaper or better.
Not in an HN comment, but there's a lot of material available on the internet. Search for "introduction to quantum computing."
>Starting in 2011, when the young company topped a $1 billion valuation, Airbnb prohibited workers from selling shares, while allowing its three founders — Chesky, Nathan Blecharczyk and Joe Gebbia — to cash out a total of $21 million.

This seems to be a common story with most startups. Founders making sure to get liquidity for themselves but not doing the same for employees.
You mean to say that in fact women are victims of feminism?
Wes Bos, Adam Wathan, Joel Hooks of Egghead, Quincy Larson of freeCodeCamp, Jeff Meyerson of Software Engineering Daily, Ben Halpern of DEV, Jessica Chan of Coder Coder, arguably Ben Tossell of Makerpad.
Yes, the article seems to not understand why people work at startups. The risk is high that your equity is worth nothing, the the reward at a liquidity event is large.
An even more dangerous bomb was the Violet Club [1], an airplane couldn't land with one on board.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Club
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Isn’t it like 3500 pages?
This very difficult to interpret, esp. as the article has over-simplified things for reporting purposes. How many of the respondents without friends wanted to be that way? Was family counted as friends? And what counts as a friend anyway?