skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so, the more different the thing you want to try, the longer it takes, so the longer the feedback time?

i feel like we are conflating tight feedback loops with some other concept that needs to be teased out.

small bets can be divergent.
Cheap capital and the corresponding large market valuations don't come out of thin air. The corollary is very loose monetary policies and the financialisation of every aspect of the economy to drive capital to the market, in particular pensions. I'm quite sure that's a game most people here are unwilling to play.

The article has a point on the overly complex legislation, and while everybody would like things to be more straightforward in that respect, it'll be hard to convince people that trying to advance incrementally while disrupting as little of the existing legislation possible is the wrong way of doing things.

We don't want to move fast and break things. We already did and it was terrible.

One point that isn't addressed, and that I feel is quite relevant, is the concentration of business networks in particular social circles and particular areas. You have to be in London, Paris and so on to do business. But you can't get there because it's so expensive. I hope the new attitude towards remote working, as well as the wider deployment of fibre (which is now readily available in my cheap rural backwater) helps things out.
I see what you say. Although I'm not the author I will try to speculate on what they might mean by "instant and accurate feedback":

I heard the same sentiment from an architect friend. (The kind of architect who designs buildings) He said that in their business you put your best ideas on paper. Most plans then don't get built for reasons outside of your control. Projects fail, companies fold. Sometimes your designs can't pass review with the authorities because you misunderstood the regulations. Sometimes it can't pass review because the local government doesn't like your customer. Years down the road some of your plans are built. If there are problems with the design some problems might be obvious immediately, but most will only show up as the building ages. And if there are problems, are they there because you designed it wrong? Or the builders skimped on materials? Or is it maybe because the costumer meddled with your designs? You will never know. The feedback loop is both years long, and the execution is inaccurate.

On the other hand besides being an architect he was also dabbling in hobby programming projects. There if he made a syntax error the computer pointed it out to him within seconds. And even when he found a bug after compilation he could be certain it wasn't because the compiler saved money by using 10% less screws than specified or something. That is to say the feedback was both fast and accurate. If you had bugs, most probably it was because you made a mistake.
No, it's clearly not slavery because these are folks who could work anywhere.

The point is - many (not all) Europeans are happy with a 10 to 4 paper pushing role. Butt in seat, collect a paycheck. That's fine. But you can't have that plus innovation and global leadership in entrepreneurship.
Apple Pay didn’t come out until 2014, the rest of the world was paying with contactless on phones for years before that - Japan from 2004 onwards.

America’s strength is taking what other people do, slapping a flag on it for the lucrative US market, and marketing it globally.
Should be noted that a portion of this (valid) criticism applies specifically to the most prominent "container" implementation; Docker. Not containers as a whole.

For example resources isolation with the Solaris / Illumos container implementation (zones) works just as well as full blown virtualization. You are just as well equipped to handle noisy neighbors with zones as you are with hardware VM's.

> Much as you’d likely choose to live in a two-bedroom townhouse over a tent, if what you need is a lightweight operating system, containers aren’t your best option.

So I think this is true for Docker but doesn't really do justice to other container implementations such as FreeBSD jails and Solaris / Illumos zones. Because those containers are really just lightweight operating systems.

In the end Docker started out and was designed to be a deployment tool. Not necessarily an isolation tool in all aspects. And yeah, it shows.
Operational ease
You'd have to argue why suicide rates that are measured to be higher trumps scientific attempts at directly measuring happiness. The latter does indeed rank Southern Europe lower than both Northern Europe and the United States.

https://countryeconomy.com/demography/world-happiness-index
Yes, this is group psychology. Only individuals can really be rational. Once individuals form a psychological group, individuality is lost, rationality is lost with it and everything is controlled by the emotions of the group.

The group has no room for anything really but for the extreme emotional reactions of in-group/out-group psychology and you see this playing out in our society because of social media.

There is literally no room for nuanced discourse between individuals with the way our social media platforms are structured. Individuals will not drive engagement the way groups do.
> The fact that over 60% of people like to live in a country where birth defines a family's worth as higher than everyone else is mind boggling.

On a more uplifting note, polls indicate that this support has been slowly declining in recent years, particularly amongst the younger age groups:
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/0...

I'm British and not part of that 60%, and am fervently hoping this support declines more rapidly when the current monarch dies in the next few years or so. I think a lot of the respect for the monarchy here is driven by a personal respect for the Queen. The rest being our deep-seated cultural problem of class deference.

My personal opinion is that in addition to abolishing the monarchy, the state should seize all of their private assets, and every member of the royal family should be exiled. This is probably an even less popular opinion, but I think it's the only proper way to rid Britain of this parasitic family.

> Are any of the 60% around that could explain their thoughts?

If you ask a monarchist, they'll usually lean on one of two arguments: the financial and the traditional.

The former is the flawed belief that the monarchy is a money-maker for the UK and that it would be financially imprudent to abolish them. Usually this argument is based on the Crown Estate providing income for the Treasury, and the implied assumption that if the monarchy were abolished then that income would be gone, even though the lands are still there and there's no reason why the new republican government couldn't just seize the Estate as part of this abolishment. There's also the tourism income conjecture, but plenty of ex-monarchies have a strong tourism sector, and presumably there'd be a Royal Family Museum for tourists to visit in the new republic.

The latter is driven by cultural inertia and tends to be what monarchists lean on when the financial argument has been demolished. The talking points usually revolve around who would be the next head of state then, how could Britain possibly function without the monarchy, and so on.

Perhaps some monarchists would disagree with this characterisation of their beliefs, but having argued with many of them, these are my observations.
I think one of the biggest advantages of using Redis for job queing vs Postgres comes down to library support.

For example Python has Celery and Ruby has Sidekiq. As far as I know there's no libraries in either language that has something as battle hardened with comparable features for background tasks using Postgres as a backend.

There's a big difference between getting something to work in a demo (achievable by skimming PG's docs and rolling your own job queue) vs using something that has tens of thousands of hours of dev time and tons of real world usage.

I'm all for using PG for things like full text search when I can because it drastically reduces operation complexity if you can avoid needing to run Elasticsearch, but Redis on the other hand is a swiss army knife of awesome. It's often used for caching or as a session back-end so you probably have it as part of your stack already. It's also really easy to run, uses almost no resources and is in the same tier as nginx in terms of how crazy efficient it is and how reliable it is. I don't see not using Redis for a job queue as that big of a win.
The crown estate is actually one of the only good things about the monarchy.

I grew up in crown estate housing and it was well known to be the best social housing around. Much better than Peabody etc.

In fact when austerity came in and they had to sell it, there were massive campaigns to fight it being sold off.

I am a republican for the record.
Another article I read said that the whale deliberately surfaced, and that these whales typically get along with humans, so it's possible it was very aware of what was happening and was trying to save his life after it accidentally swallowed him.

So I suspect the conversation was more about "I almost killed a human! Oh noes!"
I guess it depends on what you consider cool. I work in drug discovery and no, I couldn't do that without some deep pocketed investors.
> Few European people oppose migration of educated workers.

That's a lie people tell you because they do not want to sound racist.

> Rather it's about asylum seekers who often arrive here illegally

... very few ...

> and typically lack sufficient education to do well in our job markets,

Uhm. And the ones that are educated, we don't recognize their diplomas. Nice.

And also, that's what the education system is for.

Finally, poor people in poor countries can't afford to flee to Europe. So those people are actually middle class people from poor countries with often quite some education.

> leading to very high unemployment rate and other social problems.

Nope, that's our own failed policies leading to that. Don't blame our mistakes on immigrants.

> Europe has a problem with aging workforce, but it can't be solved by importing people who can't find a job.

Than thank god we're not doing that.
Indeed, the opposite of all three assertions is true in practically every project I ever worked on. Not sure if the author is joking, or simply has no software dev experience.
I people freely move from one service or product to another, usually it's because the new service is cheaper or better than the old service or product. That's direct value to the end user right there.

Moving to AWS from running your own data centres is vastly more cost effective for most companies, you can build systems faster, you can scale them instantly, you can move resources between regions easily, you can focus on your company's core competencies. AWS creates massive value, that's why we use it.

I used to look up the phone numbers of restaurants in a phone book, but now I use Google. That doesn't mean they are equivalent to me and they provide the same value. Looking up a restaurant on Google Maps is quicker, I can do it from anywhere, I can look at reviews and I can see exactly where it is and get routing direction. The experience now is orders of magnitude more powerful and that creates huge value for customers and businesses.

Apple hardware is highly customised, and dramatically better than anything their customers have with better performance and advanced features like machine learning and secure authentication all implemented in custom hardware. That's been true on the phones for many years, and now with their in house designed desktop processors it's true for the Mac as well. Although the Mac has had unique custom hardware like the T1 and the 5K iMac video system for a while too. You cannot buy hardware like it anywhere else, at any price.
At work we use Google meet, which can handle multiple people screen sharing at once, and VSCode live share. It works pretty well. VSCode will forward ports for you so both people can access the running webapp, and you can allow them access to a terminal so it’s lets both of you to work in the code base as if they are developing solo locally.
What do you do between opening the file manager and opening the image/video itself that verifies it doesn’t have any RCE exploits that other people aren’t doing?
I am one European. You would have to talk to a lot of Europeans to make the claim you made.
Works fine in Firefox Focus too.
Well tell that to the Germans who are paying repetitions for a genocide of Namibian at the turn of the century.

Their government is still descended from a government which committed genocide.
Yeah the Trump government was really really diverse, and so are the boards of the large companies.
The first part was about quality of democracy. Europe has problems with the far-right too, and American democracy at least makes it possible that it's being interchangeably ruled by different parties with pretty distinct policies.

The second part is, well, like asking why should we sit in the lockdown and wear masks when not a lot of people are dying of covid right now. It's not something that may happen, it will happen if evething goes as it goes and no one makes anything about it
looks polished, how this is different from Syncthing? a true question, not an argument.
Back in 2000 everyone and his dog had a payg Nokia 3310 in the U.K.

The US was (as always) late to the party, arrived in force, drove everyone else away, then claimed it was their party all along.
Why anyone is surprised? Parents are the most powerful role models for children, especially at early age. Also they have good opportunity to teach they kids and what they will teach depends on what they know. This limits social mobility, but all proposals to fix this so far IMHO will do more harm (to high acheivers) than good (to under achievers). This is a difficult problem to tackle so I don't expect easy solutions to work here.
Wow ok, I did not know that. I thought I'd become tainted somehow because I liked a few articles I read.
Because you already have a Postgres DB running probably and you know how to back it up, you know how to upgrade it, all your services can already authenticate towards it, your developers can run it locally, you know how to mock it…
Direct involvement of the integrated stress response (ISR) in cognitive decline
yes, do you really need PDF convertors when you can have them as PostgreSQL extensions.

the point (ok, one point of many) of REDIS is that it is not the main DB so you can have a sense of security and decoupling in the architecture. Besides - there is no silver bullet for all things. While you can have your app do everything with PostgreSQL (and much more with Oracle, something people dislike it about), the fact itself does not mean is a good design decision or is a more stable decision.

Because when you have redis for sessions, kafka for event streams, postgre (or else) for data storage - you have components that can fail separately and thus the system degrades gracefully.
But as a fellow Brit I there's parts of this I really can't understand. How could anyone not see the royals as filling their own pockets, given their ludicrous wealth?

As for the sense of duty and noblesse oblige, well, I think Prince Andrew explodes a lot of those refined notions. As far as I know, the royal family hasn't sanctioned him in any serious way.
Company delivers packages faster than Amazon, but workers pay the price
Yes Arabia was once a jungle and lush, not a dry desert like today. Same for much of the Sahara. There was a dramatic climate shift over the last few thousand years.
> Well the topic of this thread was corporate and tech related so what do you expect?

I expected exactly this - that people that benefit from those giant companies fail to see the downsides.

> You can't always bring the lifestyle of minimum wage employees into every single discussion just as an joker card to argue that Europe is better than the US.

Why not, if it works? Are you not just confirming that the US works for a few lucky ones whereas Europe works for most?
To be fair to Americans and to ourselves, we have often different and conflicting notions of what quality of live entails. That results in quite a bit of cognitive dissonance. For example we don't value square footage nearly as much as you guys do
Anecdotally here in Pretoria South Africa I used to play on the frost before school as a child. Today we never see frost in the winter mornings here anymore.
Source?

Wrong for Germany, those immigrants from 2015 integrated well into the workforce.
And this has some pitfalls as well, ciphertext in general has about the same length as the plaintext, so compression rate can be used to infer some information about the plaintext. It's more of a problem with interactive protocols than with backups, but still worth keeping in mind.
Thats actually interesting, I'm young and decided to go for my first "work from anywhere" and it's been almost two years now and I'm living currently in forest, my internet is slow and not stable... previously was living on small island in a wooden garage next to the beach with unstable GSM connection and no AC and right before it in a fantastic apartament in big city centre with stuning view and best internet connection I ever had.

Based on my experience it doesn't really matter from where but how frequent you change the location as it demands re-organisation from scratch every time.

Big factor in productivity is how satisfied you are from your life in general. When you feel cool and happy then even spending less time will bring more "wise" results than just being "ok" in a own fantastic apartament while hiting a wall for entire day trying to attack a problem.

To add one more thing, I was most productive living in this garage, working maybe 4h per day while rest of my time spending on bicycle, hiking, diving or talking with locals.

At this time my team mates were miserable and while declaring as they working the 8h, effects were not satisfying.

This is because even when I was doing other non-technical activities my brain was de-stressing but slowely building solutions for problems which I was executing later on in code and generally speaking I was livng a dream life as a "traveler".
I can attest winters were definitely colder in the Moldavian part.

I remember two meters of snow, digging tunnels through it and such.

And I remember four distinct seasons. Now it's more like a long summer, a long autumn, and short spring and winter.
But in Postgres you could write functions in your schema to handle job queueing/dequeueing with the additional benefit of being able to use it in any language that can connect to Postgres and being able to reuse the same SQL/interface across all languages.
Great effort here. Agree with others re UX and the unsigned APK. I currently use Syncthing to fulfil my LAN file transfer needs. It's not quite the same but it does have a bunch of other use cases which I like, plus it's well-known, well-supported, also open, and I trust it.
> If you don't have any losers, you don't have any winners either: there is no way to have the cake and eat it too.

The economy is not this zero-sum, fortunately.
> OP meant productivity growth for the whole decade was 4.7%

Fair enough. Real U.S. total factor productivity growth from 2009 to 2019 was 5.8%; from 1995 to 2005 12% [1].

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RTFPNAUSA632NRUG
LanXchange: Uses Java, no iOS support and I see nothing around if there is any use of encryption.
From the website:

"We believe in the universal rights of data accessibility and data portability. We believe that users should be allowed to do what they want to with their data, to decide with whom they want to share it, and who can process it. They also should not be restricted in their ability to access their data, move it between different storage options, and interact with it with the tools of their choice. Vendor lock-ins, outside content moderation, and denial of service do not fit in with our view of an open, decentralized, user-controlled Internet.

This is why we are developing Wildland as a backend-agnostic, censorship-resistant, and open source protocol. Self-defined data containers that form the building blocks of Wildland can be stored anywhere you want. You can keep them on your hard drive, on your home NAS, or on one of the storage backends available through the Wildland marketplace. You can easily replicate your containers on several backends, each with distinct access policies defined, and move your data between different storage options without having to update their location in the file system. And with backend stacking employed you will be able to easily encrypt your data on the fly and turn any backend into end-to-end encrypted storage. In short, with Wildland, we are putting you in charge of your data."

https://wildland.io/2021/05/13/access-denied.html

There's also a long paper describing the rationale behind the project https://golem.foundation/resources/documents/wildland-w2h.pd...
This article did not address whether he ever took magic mushrooms. I was hoping to find out!
Nix exists as a service for guix. All my system declarations include the nix service. But as far as interop goes I’m not really sure of the value. I think it just sounds neat but hasn’t really been thought through in terms of exactly what that would look like.
> SELECT item_id WHERE expire = 0

I come across a lot of SQL databases that uses 0 instead of false.

Is there any good reason for this?
Yes, but there was nothing like it before.

The local climate is temperate.
Just repeating what others have said:

- Postgres is probably already running (it's pretty good for OLTP workloads)

- Operational ease and robustness

- Cloud support everywhere for Postgres

- People know how to backup and restore postgres

- Sometimes Postgres will beat or wholly subsume your specialized system and be a good choice

- Postgres has ACID compliance and a very good production-ready grasp on the research level problems involved in transactions. I've never met an etcd/zookeeper cluster I didn't wish was simply a postgres table. Image being able to actually change your cache and your data at the same time and ensure that both changes happen or none of them happen (this is a bit vaporware-y, because locks and access pattern discrepancies and stuff but bear with me). You're much more unlikely to see Postgres fail a Jepsen test[0]

[0]: https://jepsen.io
Indeed. Replace the House of Lords with something proportionally elected, for example.
A lot of the ownership is ambiguous between the Queen personally and the state.
is the passing badge hardcoded fo always green?

- https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop/blob/master/README.md
- https://github.com/LANDrop/LANDrop/workflows/Package/badge.s...
> Wrong for Germany, those immigrants from 2015 integrated well into the workforce

I have no horse in this race, but I'm curious about a source for this, mostly for how it's been measured.
I haven’t seen anyone discussing Rim/BlackBerry - who were Canadian, made great smart phones, but lost out because of the crucial mistake of concentrating on corporate IT as the customers, and by the time they pivoted to consumers with thins like BBM they were too late.
What’s wrong with the julia build system in guix?
Under the monarchy the UK has had peaceful transitions of power for 360 years. The system we have works and so most people here are happy with it.

Alternatives like the US presidential republic system (currently at 0 years of peaceful transitions of power) don't seem more attractive to most people here.
It’s in his cookbook “The Family Meal”.

It is a curious and useful book: the recipes are for the unfussy Spanish homestyle meals they served to the staff at el Bulli each night before opening. Each recipe is one that can scale way up, and the quantities are given to make each dish For 2, 6, 20, or 75 (!) people. It’s a good source of inspiration if you need to cook a dish for a crowd.

There are also detailed photo illustrations of the ingredients and of each step in the recipe.