skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If it was a chair, a desk, electricity, air conditioning, etc. in an office building somewhere, it would be a business expense for my employer that they have to take into account for budgeting and taxes.

Why does this expense change categories to "eh, whatever" when it's coming out of my pocket instead of the business's?
A key insight I've arrived at over past few months is GraphQL is most useful for multiple teams to have "one" API endpoint and they can then work on front end features without blocking each other, as well as write different clients (and therefore many different possible "queries") without having to constantly re-write the back-end API. In other words, ultimate flexibility on the front end when you don't know what queries you need and you need to divide work across teams/developers.

This comes at the cost of complexity of implementing a performant GraphQL server. Perhaps another instance of a thing that gets really popular because it's good for large corporations rather than being ideal for solo devs or small projects. Like NoSQL and other scalability optimizations vs sql etc. Hasura seems the best I've come across so far at making this easy/quick.

But in many situations, at least for my use-case and likely many others, simply writing well thought out SQL queries are both simple, easily iterated upon, require fewer layers, infrastructure, code etc. In the Hasura scenerio, custom SQL queries inevitably are needed anyways, Hasura mostly gets you the "crud" operations quickly.

If you construct your "screens" or "pages" of a Next.js web-app, for example, as collection of RPC's defined in SQL either requested through "/api" routes integrated with the framework, or even better (when possible) directly accessing your database calls [using raw sql of course] within component "getServerSideProps" and "getStaticProps" calls[0], there isn't really anything simpler in my view. No ORM, no Graphql.

By RPC, I simply mean a stored sql function, or view. Executing this is as simple as:

// some api endpoint, which then queries database:

await db('select pay_balance($1)', [leaseId]);
return res.status(200).send("ok");

The stored function is written in SQL, not javascript http requests, and has full access to all the data in the database to implement transformations on this data.

Reading "The Art of Postgresql"[1] currently and a constant refrain is to push as much business logic into the database as possible. When you do this, you avoid so much complexity vs having this spread around in application code or cloud functions or microservices, etc. ACID, transactions, etc. all come with it.

[0] https://twitter.com/adamwathan/status/1246144545361997829 this uses a query builder, I wouldn't even do that. Just raw sql everywhere.

[1] https://theartofpostgresql.com/

The tagline: "Turn thousands of lines of code into simple queries" couldn't be more impactful in my thinking of late, and it's been extremely beneficial for making me more productive with simpler, less error prone code.
Ok. Where's the defamation? That's what I was asking about.
I don't think the astronauts make extensive manual corrections during takeoff. And if you watch the livestream, the UI elements are much larger on the screen than would be possible with physical buttons. So if you are worried about precision, the touch screens would actually be safer.
I fly the 220 regularly on routes within Europe and it is rapidly becoming my favorite plane for short hops (< 2500 km). It doesn't seem to be as easily perturbed as older planes, nice cabin, very quick turnarounds so rarely issues with delayed flights due to slow turnaround. This matters a lot because once you miss your departure slot on many airports in Europe it tends to get a lot worse right away, not just a few minutes.
"a bit sci-fi"? What does that mean? We allow AI systems to decide who goes to jail in some places - I'd say that's a clear enough sign that the field needs people thinking all the way through their work.

There's some good entry level books on the topic, like "Weapons of Math Destruction" that you might enjoy.
Shanghai doesn't (and never will, at the rate things are going) have things that international companies care about like the rule of law.
Thanks for the context. That intro does look slick!
This is just posturing. Pompeo is a notorious war hawk who wants to incite wars with so-called enemies of the United States. Luckily our President is peace minded, and such tricks don’t work very well on him. At least for now.

Additionally, I don’t understand why the US is trying to antagonize China. It’s important to be tough on trade, but we should keep our geopolitical rivals very close. All this move does is punish HK and (possibly) anger China. Truthfully they probably don’t care, it’s a blip on the radar.
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When I read something like this, I come away feeling sad. It's a well-intentioned essay, written by someone who understands why websites are slow. It pleads with readers to not make their websites slow and preserve their sovereignty on their own domains.

I'm not sad about any of that. I'm sad because the author skips right past a key point: how we got here. Why are websites slow, when there are good reasons to want to be fast? In my opinion, this isn't some kind of cosmic accident. It's not because most people building websites don't care or are incompetent.

Slow websites are, to my mind, a symptom. The disease is that there are economic incentives to do the things that make websites slow. Well-intentioned software engineers and web developers who like fast, light, clean websites are often not positioned to win the political battles required to cut unnecessary elements, third-party scripts, and so on.

Openness and respect for user privacy are wonderful, incredibly appealing things. I don't think I've ever been able to lean on then to convince other parts of a company to forego revenue, reach, or measurability. This could easily be an effect of my limited skills of persuasion.

I hope others have had different experiences.
you are going to dislocate your shoulder if you bump the door. you should use your foot and you apply more pressure without breaking anything
Here: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/how-to-break-down-a-...
Does anyone here use their zigbee or z-wave switches? I was considering getting them, but if they're leaving the lighting business then I might not.
The only expenses that could have gone down are commuting costs, and I suppose new 'work' clothing.

As someone who lives within walking distance of my office and rarely buys new clothing, I'm in the negative just without free coffee alone, let alone other amenities and increased costs at home.
That seems like an unlikely failure scenario. But I imagine if that happened during launch they would pull the abort lever since that would be indicative of a significant failure. Later they and the engineers on the ground would work to control the vehicle either remotely or to fix the displays... or both. And probably abort to the ground as quickly as is reasonably possible.
I believe Five Eyes is an agreement rather than an organization. No one works for Five Eyes itself. Consequently, there is no janitor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
Someone could make some good money by explaining how this squares with the conventional wisdom that optimizing for profit also optimizes for the good of mankind.
Same--going to a market feels like a very human experience.
Another one of those weird "mistakes" that always, always flows towards Google and against everyone else.
It's it essentially composting? How is that waste?
The definition of free speech that stormfront likes is also the one that the supreme court has upheld and that is necessary for a thriving marketplace of ideas.

Bad, ignorant, hateful ideas are bad because they are wrong; if they were true, you would not call facts "bad". That being the case, the correct response is to defeat them with truth-- not censorship, whether state or privately enacted. Censorship is just admitting that you dislike the ideas but cannot argue them down with reason and are resorting to the cudgel.
When they first rolled out the throttling they were still charging $79 for a battery replacement. They cut the price significantly specifically as a response to the backlash.
The founding fathers of the US did not write the US constitution with practical freedom in mind. They wrote it with the principles of freedom as sacred. The battles they fought weren't for being able to buy groceries or walk the streets. They fought the battles over things like the right to not being taxed, to not be under the bank of England's monetary regulations, to have their own voice in the political system and legal system. These things don't affect the majority of the population, but they are extremely, extremely important. Why?

This is because systematically, over the course of hundreds of years, those in power abused those without power, over and over and over and over again, based on their own personal gain. ESPECIALLY if you don't care about the people you're in power over. This is basically why the American Revolution happened, England ran out of money fighting wars and tried to squeeze America for it. America said, no way, you don't give 2 pence about us.

Yes, your practical freedoms may not be affected in the micro timescale of the days and weeks, but over the course of centuries, countless people lose their lives and livelihoods, not their freedom, because of any number of reasons, none of them being that they did a crime to deserve it.

If history has taught us anything, you could lose your life for being:

1) A religious minority

2) A racial minority

3) A friend of someone who the person in power wants to get rid of

4) Too rich / powerful and a threat to governance

5) Well educated or with radical ideas

and much more.

You could also lose your livelihood or future by any number of means:

1) being taxed unfairly so that you make next to nothing

2) being forced to do things in a way that would benefit your mother country, at the expense of yourself

3) needing to follow laws that you have no control over that inconvenience or ruin your trade or businesses

4) needing to report to the government suspicious persons or activities

And just to be clear, I'm talking about themes from the American Revolution and escaping from the tyranny of European influence, not current affairs.

This situation is not in the same ballpark of possible outcomes as "Facebook exposing your private data to advertisers", of which only minor inconvenience is at stake. It's a lot more than that.
there is no such thing as truth as such; instead there are only theories and their predictive power (you could be in the matrix). so the best thing we have is the scientific method -- as individuals, we can all apply scientific thinking.
It's new, as per NASA's requirements. They will attempt a landing on a drone ship to recover it.
Technically it doesn't. Unless developers add a bunch of logic to run in JS after the page loads (e.g. React's useEffect), everything it needs to render should work just fine without JS enabled.
Responsibility proper is subjective.

>Dictators are responsible for the death of millions.

The Dictators very well may believe that their action is the proper responsibility (According to him).

My point is you can't simply ask them to stop by telling them they have responsibility. Both side may view responsibility differently.
Eye-catching advances in some AI fields are not real
Decisions have to be made—including doing nothing. Someone is always "ruling". Diffusing responsibility does not change that fact (though it can have other significant benefits).

I'm sympathetic to your POV, by the way, because uncritically listening to experts has literally killed millions of people in the past century. But the key word is "uncritically". Pushback is healthy, discussion is super-healthy; my position, though, is that in any argument, experts should get more weight unless the people arguing back have strong, on-the-ground evidence.
Didn't they mandate learning Mandarin in schools, and remove English as the second language (some time ago?)

Here is another example: Mandatory Mandarin proficiency exams at university: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/education/article/213041...

I have lived in HK and know many people there, and their day to day doesn't seem impacted, but culturally I suspect a massive gradual change is inevitable.

It would be like asking: does living in China differ tremendously from living in the US, for you and I? Not that much really, on a day-by-day basis!
> worked for a major travel industry company

Unfortunately, that is probably the reasoning; despite the 'tech' part.
You've turned your "grumpy objection" into suggesting that SpaceX is willing to reduce the usability safety of their systems for style. That's a huge jump that I felt should be called out.

Maybe conspiracy theory was too harsh, but I stand by heavily calling you out for hatching this idea with minimal evidence beyond "grumpy objections" to a sci-fi vibe.
Yes there is a reason, users often don't expect to pay for services that show ads, and users who pay for services often don't expect to see ads. That's why most popular online services don't mix the two, eg. Facebook, Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, Crunchyroll, Google, etc.

"mental short circuit" better describes your argument that jumps from "it's possible to both show ads and charge user fees" to "they always will".
It's interesting that there are such diverse experiences of DDG vs Google. I'm also in the camp of finding DDG to be better at finding what I'm looking for.

I wonder if the difference has to do with variations in search strategy or interests, or a combination of both. In any case, DDG does seem to have been improving, and I don't see any reason to believe that the trend won't continue. Particularly since Google seems hell-bent on making their search useless.
It costs more, it’s inconvenient, I often can’t get the items I want and won’t know about it until it’s too late, and the in store shoppers aren’t great at their jobs.

I’m fine buying things off Amazon because if I order something I know I’ll almost certainly get what I ordered.
Makes sense in economics 101. The reality is, the Instacart guy doesn't give a shit and will provide bruising as part of the service of schlepping your crap for you. The in-store shoppers don't really care either.

The explanation that you're providing is really a rationalization for paying more to procure an inferior product. You're always going to have wastage of perishable items. It's much cheaper and sensical to avoid moldy strawberries, close to date meat and dairy, etc by shopping yourself, or hiring your own casual labor without some intermediary subtracting value.

All of these services are hiding costs through VC largesse and exploitation. You can literally get more for less by just hiring a housekeeper and having them pick up stuff for you, but nobody does that because the costs are "above the line", and it feels less nouveau riche and more clean to have some service exploit the poor sap picking your banannas rather than talk to a human.
> How does anyone think this is a good idea?

A while back on one of the AMP discussions here, someone from Google weighed in. They said the data was clear: users not only accept it, they love AMP.

I asked how they knew that, because if it was, say, just tracking how many people tried the 2-3 tap process to get to the original URL compared to how many people just engaged whatever you showed them, then the data might be showing you something else (and in fact, I wasn't clear how you'd get from accept to love in any other way than a focus group or survey).

No response. Not clear if that's because revealing data would run afoul of internal confidential disclosure, or because this basically hadn't been thought through.

> Apple for refusing to change the URL bar like Google does on Android.

Apple has its own problems with the URL bar -- they keep the domain but drop the rest of the URL. Not as bad as replacing the domain, but not great.
What has only lasted one month?

My late acting town has been "safer at home" since late march. Bay area was earlier, and the things were not normal for many weeks before government orders came out.
I would estimate 2005.
Not having to worry about being abducted and reeducated by a government that has shown a depraved indifference to human life?
Couldn't you just have bot accounts that search for YT comments and key phrases and flag those? Simply enough flags results in auto removal regardless of YT's decision's on the acceptability of these words/phrases. This wouldn't be very hard to setup either.
This is a brand new one, and I don't think there have been enough launches of similar (current version/block) new and used first stages to find a statistically significant difference.
Cantonese and Mandarin are mutually unintelligible. China likes to call them different dialects for political reasons, but for all practical purposes they are different languages.
Bruised fruit goes bad much faster than none bruised fruit.
That was my read as well.

That said, you could spin it another way: the UK had enough good will and political capital to lean on its European neighbors for a bare-minimum amount of help. "We can tell you how it works, but it's on you to figure the rest out".

Naughty kid not paying attention is also relevant -- you've only got so many hours in the day and so many hours to map out threats. This was still the Cold War and nuclear holocaust was a bigger priority than distant Latin American dictatorship.
I'm just curious about this - but what kind of industry, job, and what kind of total compensation range are you starting at?

I'm wondering if all these mentions of pay cuts are going to be something I should worry about. It seems farfetched for my current company (we're still hiring and growing) but I worry they would try to follow industry trends... So, I wonder if we're in the same industry.

It feels like if the employer is even considering working remotely then they're more interested in cutting salaries too. Seems like if your employer has no interest in remote work and sees it as a purely temporary situation then there will likely be no salary cuts. Or am I wrong? (Presuming revenue is still okay)
I don't disagree, but what matters for HK's fate is what the CCP believes is possible and, presently, particularly what Xi Jinping believes.
>Free speech is not just an American constitutional right; many countries throughout the world consider free speech to be a human right.

Although virtually none do so in unrestricted fashion. Hate speech, racism, genocide denial and so on aren't protected by free-speech in the overwhelming amount of legislations even in countries with a liberal tradition, and just like any other right free speech is subject to limitations.
"Fake science" implies intent to mislead. The reproducibility crisis is usually attributed to selection bias due to only positive results getting published.
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Their ad business is more or less their only business. Everything else is paid for by that.
For the purposes we're discussing here, Raoult et al. are front-line clinicians working to save lives under extreme uncertainty, with every decision scrutinized with the benefit of hindsight. You shouldn't hold them to the same standard as pure research scientists.

Research scientists have all the time in the world, clinicians don't. Once again, it's a peacetime army of bureaucrats vs. an unknown enemy that doesn't have the decency to wait for understanding to catch up with reality. Decisions have to be made with an imperfect understanding, in a reality that changes every day.

The truth will seem obvious afterwards, but right now it doesn't. Those not on the front lines should keep to their very important job of improving prospects for the future, and keep the judgement out of it.
Those appositive Oxford commas, though:

> The exception to the rule is when referring to the Manned Spaceflight Center (also known as the Manned Spacecraft Center), the predecessor of Johnson Space Center in Houston, or to any other historical program name or official title that included “manned”
Somehow China manages to control directly or indirectly companies, individuals, and sometimes politicians, in the US on a far bigger scale than the Soviet Union did. Oddly enough on a scale even higher than under Obama.
What kind of fixtures are you using?

LEDs - or compact fluorescent before that - in a torchière? Last forever. Recessed lighting, enclosed or narrow lamps? Maybe a couple times as long as an incandescent.
If you watch the livestream, the UI elements are much larger on the touch screens than would be possible if there was a dedicated physical button for every possible function. If precision is a concern, then these screens are safer.
You also have a 10-15 year head start on creating realtionships/roots and don't have to leave all your friends behind.
It actually happened.
Love this mission statement. I hope to never wrestle with VPN ever again. Good luck!
You can also go backwards, The problem with social media is that anyone can comment on it. and that's not a desirable trait for complex discussions. I can't tell how many times I've seen a news article and the top post in a forum like here or reddit be some expert explaining the article and indicate the failures of it. This is solvable, a social media for experts, every single link given a rating on its truthfulness. by actual non-anonymous experts. or hell, you can scrape for the link on twitter, have a database of professionals who have commented on twitter on the article and indicate what they said about it. Anyway, I'm just spitballing now so I'll stop.
The WFH and the need to reduce costs both stem from the pandemic. The question is why cutting of wages, as a particular mechanism to reduce costs, seems to be more common this time than in previous economic downturns.

The theory presented is that WFH reduced the downsides of cutting wages (by reducing the room for griping about it amongst co-workers), and that companies are following those incentives.

I am not convinced, but your dismissal doesn't seem to address the actual article.
Pompeo says Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China
boeing is having really hard times. Even if it were not for a pandemic that directly effects them, the max issues were going to hurt. I dont know if they had to lay off those workers, but I am not surprised at all.
It is literally a symbol of having more money than you care about. The cost IS the feature. This is just ad copy.
Amazon does this sort of direct fulfillment under the Prime Now name. They don't do a great job of keeping a consistent set of things in stock, though.

Kroger brands also do this. But you can still get inventory problems - something the system thinks is in stock on Monday at noon when you place the order can be gone by Tuesday at 6 when they're packing your order for you.

Both of those have been way better in my experience than Instacart, though.
Capitalism is the single largest cause of depression. Pass it on.
Even in the case of DNS, you can still use a local hosts file to use a human-readable name.
> Blame management.

By "blame accountants" the OP was referring to management being accountants. Nobody sincerely believes that accountants have the power to do layoffs, but managements that were previously accountants won't see the long term destruction in value, only the short term profits.
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