skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Postgres as a base is battle-tested, extremely reliable, and well understood.

Most developers are already familiar with Postgres or at least SQL.

The tooling around Postgres is basically universal.

There's huge value in an option that is literally just "install this Postgres extension and everything works and gets out of your way".

We use TimescaleDB for a handful of products. In several cases we literally just updated a DSN to point a product at TimescaleDB instead of an existing database and the project Just Worked(TM) except hundreds of times faster.

And some of those that we developed on TimescaleDB natively, it was more or less the same thing... give a team TimescaleDB and they're basically productive immediately. There's no learning and integrating new libraries and query languages, no time from ops finding new and exciting problems to solve in hosting and scaling the DB, etc.

We get all this with all the functionality and strong guarantees that Postgres provides.
Netflix is in a good position to tell its production companies "You pay for the people who do work for you, or we don't pay you."

There are unions like SAG and SMA precisely because this kind of stuff happened all the time in Hollywood (along with a ton of other abuses). It happened because the workers banded together to say, "No, you won't get to work with any of us if you don't treat all of us fairly". If Netflix doesn't want to find itself in the same situation, it's precisely where they need to address their complaints.
So this is free speech that you have to pay for?

In contrast, the media is free speech that advertisers/oligarchs pay for.
Not defending his actions, quite the contrary actually, it's really easy to get it mixed up so I wouldn't recommend it unless you've done it a bunch of times and know yourself. Even then, that really seems like the worst time to do it.
this article is clickbait. Most cities and states are opening everything back up. I see the opposite occurring.
Maybe we notice it more because we're paying more attention to it... Or maybe because there actually is more of it, since it now can be transmitted more efficiently -- has become "contagious" in a way it wasn't before. Hard to tell which it is.
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How are they worth anything when this sets the standard that the work is worth $0? If anything this moves the needle down on what you can earn later.
I have been able to research multi-generations of my ancestry, and it's been amazing to say the least.

Emigration stories to America are really interesting. My Great-Great-Grandfather was tied to the ship's mast 2x for being a "bad" boy at 10 years old.

Another ancestor was one of the first martyrs of my church when a mob marched against them in Nauvoo. He deterred the mob at gunpoint 2x and was a marked man after that. He was later caught, beat and whipped to death.

I believe family history/geneology is very important, and we should be researching to see what was sacrificed on our behalf, and also documenting our own lives for our descendant's benefit.

Some resources:
ancestry.com
familysearch.org
Years of peaceful gatherings by Trump with more than ample evidence that Trump called for peaceful protests...

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-did-trump-say-peacefully...

The Ruling
Mostly true.

The president did say that the crowd was going to march peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol. After the attack, Trump said he does not condone violence.
The most successful approach I've experienced to moderation is similar. Give timeout liberally. Emphasize that it is temporary and not a big deal. Give forgiveness to those who are well behaved and make sure they know that forgiveness is possible (eg, after 2 years without timeouts, the timeout counter resets).
The parent's comment was uncalled for, but many regulations are made specifically to "dictate what consenting adults can agree to". That's why minimal wages exist after all.

The problem is that if the task doesn't require a highly skilled workforce you'll always find somebody desperate enough to undercut the competition. Then it's just a race to the bottom.
You may also be interested in `dict.setdefault`. It has the same behavior as above but also sets the value for the key if it was previously missing.

dict.setdefault(val, default_val)

[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#dict.setdefa...
This is why you generally do not pay via credit card at the whim of a vendor.

You pay via bank transfer after receiving a bill. A proper, written, paper, tax-legal bill. One that gets a few stamps and signatures by your accounting department, by the department that ordered said software and maybe internal IT. Only then is the transfer issued.

If a vendor cannot be bothered to send a bill properly, well, it isn't worth the hassle. Only hilarity will ensue, as can be seen from the OP.
> If Netflix won't pay you, who the fuck will?

Couples who want that photographer they saw on TV.
off-topic: went to comment on the article there, but replit comment section is already overtaken by spam :(

i guess that is a sign of success?
Can you elaborate how this is exploiting?

I am a SWE engineer with photography as a hobby.

If a tv show contacted me to do a wedding shoot, I'd be excited for the coverage and I wouldn't feel exploited since doing shoots is fun for me.

I could see how there are parallels to the "background actor" industry where, by law, you have to pay all of the talent on screen, even if its a nominal amount and the actor would of worked for free.

But that doesn't the case here?
I link to the test transaction at the bottom of the post!
Why is this downvoted? Please comment.
War of the Cow
In this perfect new world do bad decisions also haunt you forever? Like student loan debt, your ETH reputation will follow you through bankruptcy (but obviously crypto-vestors are all too financially savvy to worry about that).
Shouldn't the walrus operator solve this, or did they limit that to conditionals only for some reason?

(my_dict[val] := my_dict.get(val, [])).append('foo')
They aren't really subcontractors of Netflix. They're a separate company selling a product to Netflix (a complete TV show).

If Netflix buys a laptop from Apple and Apple does something wrong, you don't blame Netflix for it, you blame Apple.
I would design a "kill switch" in the car that makes it a "dumb" car as in 1990s. In the event of a detected compromise, flip the switch and enjoy the drive!
NFTY just changed the NFT game
I'm sure you're right and it is being added to a portfolio somewhere - it's also a valid point that for a state level actor, there are some inexpensive and effective ways to cause mass chaos that they've already got.

For instance. the Aquaducts that feed water to the city of LA go through some deserts north of there that are remote - and the giant pipes are exposed. There are no guards, nothing.

For a state level actor, a small explosive charge on one of those is probably trivial to do and would lock up LA in fear and panic for a long time - and essentially untraceable. Every major metropolis has some equivalent to this (contamination in a specific water supply, or damage to a specific bridge).

Being able to do similar things to vehicles of different types is also interesting, but the space is rapidly changing, and exploits would lose 'potency' rapidly compared to that small block of C4 and knowing someone who would place it for you. So more an R&D type interest than a practical operational capability one.

It's also easy for us to look at the trajectory, know the tech, and say 'this will change the world and we need to be prepared' - but most militaries and intelligence agencies tend to focus on what they already have experience with, or what happened last time. The old quote 'Generals always fight the last war' is very applicable. Part of the reason why is because until it has happened, you don't have any real data - just endless speculative paths, all of which are too divergent from each other to prepare for all at once, and too theoretical to justify funding because the projected costs of it happening are too divergent.

You saw it with COVID - we suspected something like this would happen soonish, we'd even had some scares recently like H1N1/swine flu - but even if you'd asked the most prepper types of us if they'd be willing to spend 100 billion to stop what happened - they'd go 'yeah right, that's not going to happen', or 'that would be a waste of money'

Now, I'm sure you'd get 75% or more of the popular vote on such a measure nation wide and everyone would consider it dirt cheap. Even if the odds of a repeat surprise event are quite low now.
Excel is extremely accessible, which is both a strength and a weakness. People who are complete noobs are quite happy to open up Excel and pull together some logic and data with very little regard for the constraints of the tool. Then they can save it and email it to you and you can work with it. It is the epitomy of 'move fast and break things'. Try getting them to pull together a quick JavaScript file to show you what they are thinking... Whichever way Excel develops, I hope that it doesn't put off the noobs from their penchant to have a go because as much as there is the possibility for the tool to go horribly wrong, elevating it out of reach of the layman would be worse.
I don't know anyone during my time as a student that took an unpaid internship.

Its a "great" way for employers to screen out less privileged folks and keep the job for someone from a "proper" family. Trust fund babies have no problem doing an unpaid internship.
unpaid intern are absolutely good. many i have known are starting this way, before they have plenty skills for to gain full pay internship. ban are stupid, stop your try to interfere with economy via government.
As someone who's done work in a field where "work for credits" was a common occurrence (freelance web design), I can give some perspective about why this is bad: maybe _you_ got the gig and are able to brag about how you're a "award winning photographer", but the problem is that not only you start to attract more people wanting free work in exchange for exposure, but also, these people will also try to push that agenda onto others entering the field as well, compounding the mentality like cancer. It is predatory because there's a lot of insecure upstarts who _will_ believe that free work is par for the course, if someone tells them so while hanging a carrot in front of them.

The inconvenient truth that exploiters want to misdirect from here is that your ability to negotiate all the things you mentioned is not negated by a clause to actually get paid _in addition_ to receiving exposure.

Another little dirty secret: bylines in your website don't mean shit. The money comes from networking.
Hawk eyes - thank you! Fixed.
In addition, there are multiple Family Search centers throughout the world that specialize in digitizing records, and assisting people with their geneology.
How well do you think a counteroffer for retaining all rights and a license for royalties for each use be received? Depending on how valuable exposure is for the photographer, the license can be exclusive or non-exclusive. I’m sure the brand for that show is important, so exclusivity is valuable. But minimum though is, if you are not paid for the work, then it should not be work-for-hire, and the photographer ends up with ownership of the copyright.

Back when I did independent contracting for software development, who owns the copyright and how it is licensed was usually negotiated. It kinda depends on how much leverage each side brings to the table, and how exploitative people at the table are.
Just as with Rust, you'd have to convert both maps to the same type before you could iterate them over together (or chain them, in Rust).
“One day I saw a newspaper headline reporting that the President suggested that if Americans had to buy their bomb shelters, rather than being provided with them by the government, they'd take better care of them, an idea which made me furious. Logically, each of us should own a submarine, a jet fighter, and so forth.”

— Philip K. Dick, describing his inspiration for the short story Foster, You're Dead!, written in 1955. Full text available: https://web.archive.org/web/20150419181303/http://american-b...
I agree with your view on economists, but CCAS is a clown show that politicians use to delay taking real action. Biological and geoengineering strategies have promise but it will take decades of research, and we need to act now.

As far as convincing people, the way Canada gives taxpayers a big carbon tax refund is a good way to sell it. People love getting a summer bonus, and it still pushes people towards better solutions.
Pitching Your Startup's Equity
Countries opposing waiving of patent protections for Covid19 vaccine
And to be even more precise (pedantic?)-

A treadmill design using large rollers would have a chosen motor and gearing combination to accomodate the large rollers, likewise for one with small rollers. They would likely be able to impart the same force at the roller (or at least which one would be stronger is unknown and a function of other design variables).
It's pretty common in humanities in particular. It's much rarer in scientific, engineering, or technological fields.

As a guideline, if the field has money to go around and companies have to compete for interns, they'll pay. If would-be interns have to compete for a few internships and the field famously struggles with budgets of two beans and a bit of string, they won't.
It seems as if you're trying to argue that science is mostly sorcery and sorcery is mostly science - but all you're really saying is that science and sorcery can coexist, and that one can be confused for the other. This is obviously true, but that doesn't make them the same.

"Sorcery" isn't a pejorative, any more than or "witchcraft" or "religious ritual." You could say that the ancient Assyrian magi from whom we get the word "magic" were doing a form of science when they kept track of the movements of the stars and the sun and moon, but when they used that knowledge to attempt to predict the future, they were doing sorcery.
Here’s a wild and crazy thought - give users tools to moderate the content themselves? Just let me block folks. It’s often a very small percentage of bad actors - if you can block them easily it usually raises the level of discourse for everyone.
Do you know what led Mozilla to stop this experiment (I'm assuming spam)? Will this not be an issue for your instances as well?
> is one of the most popular UNIX MTAs

Thanks to Debian and Ubuntu most probably? Default MTA and people don’t stray from defaults! Not sure the reason why it was chosen was appropriate. About 8-bit MIME clean-ness, no?

dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config to configure most common MTA use-cases and no Bat book to consume.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar hell. The GP contained a provocation but the thing to do with those is ignore them, not single them out and then blow on them until they flare into war.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
When you are designing a very high throughput system you do often end up needing to trim bits from a transaction in order to fit an integral number into a page/packet/buffer or even a cache line.

Other kinds of code may not have these kinds of requirements in which case I agree that these kinds of limitations can be short sighted.

But that kind of decision is what I was talking about with respect to engineering.
I'll offer some context that may help people here to discuss with each other more productively. I'm seeing at least four different "conversations":

1. One conversation is about what an individual should do. Is an unpaid gig worth it? Under what circumstances?

2. Another conversation is about what an employer should do. Does paying zero lead to good results? Why or why not?

3. Another conversation is about what kind of society we want. This may include collective action; i.e. what companies to support and what level of government involvement makes sense. This may include worker's rights and possible limitations on organizations not paying some minimum amount.

4. A final conversation is about related events. Is this kind of situation unusual? Why or why not?

There is place for all of these (and more).

I mention this because there is no need to "correct" someone who is having one of these conversations when you'd rather have another.
They could say that, but then the deals would go to the other studios who don't have that rule. Any rule that adds cost to a production needs to come from a union agreement that applies to everyone, otherwise the studio that implements the rule will lose all their deals. This is why unions are so important. To force changes that cost money and benefit workers, because no studio will do that on their own for fear of losing out deals to the studios that don't have that rule.
> I have quite a few female friends and I've been around them while they're swiping around and they are absolutely brutal in a way that's not at all malicious.

Depends on how you define "malicious", doesn't it?
Just a heads up - ballista has been donated to apache arrow, but they also broke the Rust arrow libraries into separate repos [0][1] in a break from the mono-repo model. Read more at the announcement[3] or the merge request[4].

[0] https://github.com/apache/arrow-datafusion

[1] https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs

[2] https://arrow.apache.org/blog/2021/05/04/rust-dev-workflow/

[3] https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10096
12 weeks in the US. In the realm of software you'll make anywhere from 20 to 50 an hour.
Yes, but I hear if you're attractive then the Commander in Chief will make it worthwhile.
Central banking caused the end of slavery? now that's a hot take
I actually don’t, with the caveat that perhaps this is standard business practice for photographers. For example Apple gets the stock of one of their suppliers are using inhuman labor conditions and I don’t see the big difference.

Clearly Netflix can say in the contract which business practices they are ok with.
The real issue is Paradox released an unfinished product.

Apparently people calling you out for delivering crap are “toxic” :p
Somebody has posted to YouTube a video where the Yes Men introduce Survivaball in a LexisNexis conference, pretending to be a from Halliburton.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3a3XBnMe5Q
Note even that article isn't saying the Pinto didn't have a defect; just that its American competitors were equally as compromised. The 70s were a real nadir for American auto manufacturing, as the Big 3 (Ford, Chrysler, GM) had been caught flat-footed by competition from Japanese imports. In much the same way as you still see today in any industry, they set aggressive goals to cargo-cult what they saw as their competitors' advantages (weight, fuel economy, price) without understanding the real consumer perception issues (quality, longevity, driving experience) that they faced.
I think it's AR. At a certain point, a switch will flip where the display and sensors allow actual useful functions... and 2 billion units will be sold in the next three years.
I have some direct experience with this kind of thing on the vendor side and here is how it happened:

1. Launch a SaaS app that people like, with self-service signup and monthly billing by credit card.

2. Continue to grow and become more successful.

3. New leadership comes in, and decides that the path to growth is hiring a bunch of sales people and selling to "enterprises" instead of self service people with credit cards.

4. The sales people start selling to enterprises and promising terms that not only can the billing system not support, but that engineering hasn't even been asked to look into yet.

5. Yell at engineering for not "supporting our sales team" and try to get them to fix it, without slipping other feature launches, and without hiring more engineers.

6. Look like an idiot to all of your enterprise customers because you're selling them a product that was never designed for their needs, and without appropriate engineering scale to change it.
Thank you for this link. This was a very worthwhile read.
One time someone asked me for a favor. I thought it was unreasonable so I declined. I didn't realize this sort of thing was "abusive and predatory." I feel so victimized now.
If they're not getting paid, it's not really part of the economy, is it?
You generally will get dibs (competing with other internships) on getting to hire them full time. That’s often cheap recruitment.
TL/DR: "It’s important to point out the difference between kindness and niceness. Kindness grows from self-esteem and earns respect in return. Niceness comes from a desire for approval, which can result in mistreatment or being taken advantage of.

It really doesn’t matter whether your coworkers like you. It matters that they respect you and that you have a good working relationship with them."
Apple discussed 'punitive measures' against Netflix for dropping IAP
The Go compiler is much much faster than C++ and Rust. I don’t think that’s seriously disputed by anyone, is it?

There’s no universally correct answer to the right balance of “smart compiler” vs “simple language”. Having worked with Go on a daily basis for five years now, I really like the simplicity of the language. Compared to the cognitive load imposed by the language when using C++ and Rust, I much prefer the naive straightforwardness of Go. There’s no devilry about it.
EU greenlights first insect food products made from yellow mealworm
Even in a flamewar thread on a flamewar topic, this comment stands out as particularly hellish. We ban accounts that do this on HN. No more of this, or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27046293, please.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful. Note this one: "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

All: HN's guidelines apply irrespective of whether other people are following them or not. When commenting here, please consider your own behavior first, and make sure it's in the intended spirit.
I don't see upvotes on StackExchange et al as being a value to the person getting upvoted, but rather as a signal to others that the person asking a question or offering an answer has provided something useful to the community. It's not a drawback-free signal—there's going to be a reinforcing effect of the "in" crowd on the community, but it's a valuable signal nevertheless.
Not all. Some provide a stipend and/or housing allowance. Depends on the program and the agency running it.

Congress now pays their interns too, though I don't know if this extends to campaign interns: https://cha.house.gov/member-services/house-paid-internship-...
> A broad carbon price that starts small but rises gradually

That would have been the plan 30 years ago.

Right now, we can either turn it up to 11 when the scheme starts, or face horrible consequences.
We did work carefully with IP counsel to make sure this type of thing is pretty buttoned-up and expressly permitted:

https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses#section-2-1-grant
The Super Bowl doesn't pay the halftime performer. How are they worth anything?
No-Code AI Based Project “Obviously” Raises $3.6m in Seed Round
Do you have an example of a specific scaling problem which applies to solar+hydrogen and probably can't easily be surmounted?

Or is your argument just "We're not doing it yet, therefore it can never be done"?
Promoting, not referencing. Whether I "like" it is irrelevant, it has a very specific political viewpoint. Your "explanation" is entirely misdirection.
Big companies that have reached sustainability require consensus. Startups are basically moon-shots based on hopefully achieving product/market fit. For that (as a VC managing a portfolio) you need a CEO who's willing to stay the course. More: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/
this is a weird take to make with zero evidence…