skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the author may be referencing programming moreso than the full software development process.
Plenty of webapps already do this. You'll usually get asked to re-login or to provide a 2fa code to proceed. Very annoying when you hop between networks often.
I'm torn on my opinion of the British Empire. As a subject of Her Majesty, I was taught that in the past we explored most of the world, and where we found native populations we did one of two things: a) educate them into being good British citizens, or b) kill them all if they wouldn't comply with 'a' because they were 'wild'.

Granted, I was at primary school in the 1970s, and it was a much less enlightened time, so there was little or no balance in the retelling of the history of the Empire. We we told that the Empire did good, and those that opposed it at the time were just wrong. Even the US revolution got boiled down (pun intended) to those pesky colonialists just not liking our tea.

As an adult, I can easily see both sides of it. Yes the Empire did a lot of good things, and if it had not existed a lot of technical, mechanical, dietary and cultural breakthroughs may not have happened which ultimately benefited more than just the UK. On the flip side, it treated most of it's foreign subjects as little more than slaves, and the rest literally as slaves (Although it must be pointed out here, that all western Nations with remote colonies had their own slave trades, and not only with just black slaves). I'm sure that most of the colonised regions would have been perfectly happy not being made British subjects (and then later also being forced into Christianity).

It is a hard one, it's part of my cultural DNA and I'm proud of how my home country was once one of strongest and forward-thinking nations on the planet, but I can definitely see it's faults. Should I apologise for it? My personal view is 'No'. I'm not directly responsible for it, in the same way that modern Germans are not responsible for the Nazis; We don't make them apologise for World War II, so nor should modern British people apologise for the old British Empire.

It boils down to this: Any group of people who wield absolute power will eventually become blind to their own faults as there's no-one to keep them in check. In this instance it was the British, but history is replete with other strong nations exploiting weaker nations wherever they could.

We should learn from history and try not to repeat the mistakes. We should not use it as a tool for blaming others.
If 75% of the profits go to the government (and arguably, as long as the monarchy continues to exist, the other 25% covers expenses that the government would end up funding anyway), then doesn't that make the Crown Estate actually a small Sovereign Wealth Fund more than anything else?

Lots of the media coverage around the Crown Estate seems to focus on the wealth of the Royal Family - if I were their PR team I'd be trying to push the (quasi-)SWF angle pretty hard.
The fact that you can't name any just proves my point. Thank you.
It’s explicit in Japanese that the days of the week are named after planets. 火曜日 means “Mars day” not “Fire day”.
> EU did a great job at distributing wealth eastward

That's uncharitable. The EU did a great job of growing Eastern Europe by promoting good institutions. There was wealth redistribution. But it alone is insufficient to explain the growth.
I haven't claimed it is, but see: if we make taxes high enough, especially progressive taxes, we avoid poverty, but we also prevent accumulation of wealth.

If we have employment laws that make it difficult to fire people, we have job security, but we also don't have any startups (how do you hire people there if it can go bust and you can't easily fire them, and why would anyone go to work somewhere where job isn't secure while elsewhere it is?).

There are many ways in which it works, and bottom line is: you either have crowds of bums, piss and shit and needles in the street but also ways to get rich from nothing if you work hard, as in the US, or you have neither, as in Europe. It's about choices. Letting people win big means making many more people lose.

Cynical approach is to do business and invest money in the US, and live in Europe. Which is actually what i recommend and what i do myself. With full understanding that i am living in a dead end place which is about to become sort of a living museum already in my lifetime, a human zoo.
Looks like it still exists https://cs241.cs.illinois.edu/
and I can imagine this was a difficult course, you have challenging assignments on a weekly basis judging from the descriptions.
Giving two written warnings two weeks apart for one of the five objective reasons that are grounds for firing, then firing with a three month notice period is by definition harder than saying "you're fired, please leave the building immediately".
Vaccinated people are far less contagious for a far shorter time. As a result they represent a far lower risk of bringing the virus in or of helping community transmission once there.

At the time vaccine rollout began we weren’t sure of this effect, but the evidence from places like Israel is showing it pretty well.
It is literally a Sovereign Wealth Fund, in that it's the wealth of the sovereign. It's just (like a lot of things in the UK) not very democratically accountable.
Fun fact, Korea started to invest in its cultural industries after the president was told that Jurassic Park grossed more money at the box office than the revenue of the entire Korean car industry.

So you have dinosaurs to thank for K-POP.
But that's the part people don't often realise. They talk about the richest countries in EU while ingoring the poor, reality is EU has way more inequality and variability between countries. And it's not just poor countries that have problem with overloaded public healthcare, it's a gradient.
I wouldn't seek "ridiculous levels of pay" if I could maintain a decent quality of life. Fact is, my rent at a one bedroom flat is more expensive than my parents mortgage for a full house. Of course people are looking for ways to get ahead.
I'll admit I could have been more informative and less pithy, but the idea of white privilege being a foreign concept in economically underprivileged communities is more complex than "white people can experience poverty too".

I've lived in working class neighbourhoods for the majority of my adult life, and there are so many observations that fly in the face of white privilege as a theory.

Most of the poorest people I would encounter were white. The people most likely to be long-term unemployed were white. The people whose children were least likely to get an education and escape poverty were white. Almost all of the junkies were white. Every single homeless person was white, no exceptions.

Whether or not HR staff hiring for a white collar job prefer white names is irrelevant when you and the people you are competing against didn't complete high school.

What the Daily Mail think about Meghan Markle or Islam is less important that what the Vietnamese fruit shop owner thinks of you because you share phenotypal characteristics with the homeless ice addict that sleeps three doors down and scares away customers.

This doesn't even start to cover ethnic tensions (Serb vs. Croat, Indian vs. Pakistani atc.) which exist with no regard for the typical sociological black/white/asian racial boundaries and can cause real violence and discrimination.

I will admit that there are racial groups that have it rough simply because of their skin (black people in America, Aboriginals in Australia, Gypsies in Europe), but the idea that being white grants you privileges over and above all other racial groups ignores the lives and experiences of an enormous segment of the population.

(Just to clarify, I do accept that John Smith has an unfair advantage over Rajesh Kumar when applying for a software job at a FAANG. I also admit that this has worked out well for me. This doesn't extrapolate to the whole population, though; many white people will experience little to no privilege because of their race.)
What about the breadwinners half the women are saddling up to?

We have never had symmetry as humans in this area. Low status males don't get to fuck as much. That has always been the case for all human history. This is nothing new.
The table is not about work ethic, but about how much money is made. The latter is probably correlated with the former, but only partially.
How is Guix pronounced? Gicks or g-u-i-x or gooey-x?
A tight OODA loop is good though

https://searchcio.techtarget.com/definition/OODA-loop
Although often confused, the term Chromecast refers[0] to the product brand. The protocol is called[0] Google Cast. This is an open-source alternative to the software and the protocol (as it isn't a Cast implementation) rather the hardware.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/cast/glossary#c
Oh certainly. Their experience is that there’s a huge racial factor in how many matches they get (e.g. having an Indian name seems to be a death sentence) — I was just reporting their experience and didn’t mean to imply anything else!
Sure - but it's a bit like seeing a desert in Maine or Quebec. Until Middle Ages, most of Europe used to be one huge forest.
I'm as big a fan of the European businesses that succeed as anyone, but the car industry would still have been dragging its feet if Tesla hadn't provided a credible threat to eat most of their market share.
Yes but have you built a tool for the job or a Rube Goldberg machine?

Complexity comes at a huge cost. Only add it when the benefits out weigh the costs.

You could start out building a product that could scale to millions of uses overnight. But if you do that you've spent months building something with no users. You could have been in the market already, building revenue already. Your requirements will change as you find your market fit and you'll need to change things. The less you have built the easier it is to change. Why not leave the million user capabilities until you actually need it?
I can not agree more. It is the saddest thing the appalling implementation of Docker, and the whole lack of security around the ecosystem, made people think Containers equal to Docker. Docker is what happens when you put your security
implementation in the hands of your Developer team and not
in the hands of your DevSecOps people.
There is also ee/aee/xee which is by default installed on FreeBSD as a alternative to vi which does not have mode switching.
We Already Know How to Stop SolarWinds-Like Hacks
The monarchy is an old institution, a bit like an old historic city, cathedral or museum. The British are very distrustful of knocking down old things to replace them with new because once they're gone they cannot be brought back instead we just generally tweak/evolve them to suit the modern age without completely replacing them.

Would getting rid of the monarchy actually really change anything other than being change for the sake of change? Not really, so what would be the point?
Text2App: Android App from Text Description
Sorry didn't understand candidate part. Anyway - yeah I have no doubt private systems can get overloaded too, here if you have the money you have access to really good private system and low wait times, going public is guaranteed waiting list.
Alma discovers earliest gigantic black hole storm
Dude, all you’ve done is pepper this post with empty rhetoric and unsubstantiated claims. If you’re interested in an actual debate based on facts, great, otherwise you’re just adding noise.
> Sometimes taking a walk in the park to think through a problem is a dev task.

This 100%!
That's about the distribution of economic activity between large and small businesses. It's got nothing to do with wealth distribution between individuals.

All that the Economist is pointing out is that there are some businesses in which you have to have massive scale to be competitive. In those specific businesses, you either scale up or you can't compete at all. Europe is giving up competing in those areas.
Joe gang! I also started using it about 20 years ago because, for whatever reason, that was the editor that was there and the editor I heard about, and then I never stopped.
> US upward social mobility is among the worst in the world

This is incorrect. American social mobility is low. But not widely so, and certainly not consistently lowest among rich countries. (It is consistently among the lowest.)

If one takes "the extent to which son’s [sic] earnings levels reflect those of their fathers," Britain and Italy are worse than America while France is quite close [1]. Similarly, "after adjusting for the country-specific distribution of socio-economic status, the United States, France and Belgium are countries where parental background has the greatest influence on student achievement."

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.411... Figure 2, page 9
If it’s my megaphone I’ll do what I like with it, particularly if what you want to do with it is likely to incite violence or spread (for example) dangerous health misinformation during a pandemic.

You seem to be repeating the current right wing grievances. If you’re not on the right then... ok.
Only in databases that have no Boolean type.

Sometimes it's an artifact of the orm mapping.
I really wish they'd stop changing 15 year old shortcut keys.
Lower dosage paracetamol is OTC in pharmacies here in Germany (I think the limit is 10g per pack).
I also use fastmail and I copied your config, with the only difference I'm saving in a local folder.

I'm getting this error for each email:
IMAP error: unable to parse INTERNALDATE format

Do you also get that? Is this a problem?

I use this Docker image:
https://github.com/JakeWharton/docker-mbsync
As a dual citizen of the US and an EU country, I have first hand experience with both systems. In the US if you want to start a new company you can basically start selling or offering your service and then sort out legal, accounting and registration later. In most countries in the EU you start by hiring a lawyer and accountant and then wait for months for various permits and registration before you can get anything meaningful done. This is the fundamental difference IMO, the barrier to getting started in the EU is way too high and the red tape is a full time job even for small businesses. Some EU countries do better at this than others of course, but it's a general trend amongst most.
The solution I use now is to have the queue in the dB and then have a single process pushing to another queue better suited to dealing with workers.

I drank from the “keep your queue out of the dB” koolaid once, but then you end up worrying about transaction boundaries and atomic writes to the queue and the dB. It totally depends on your workload, but in my case, I’ve found the halfway solution of the queue in the dB so you get to write to it within your transactions, with a dedicated queue for the workers to be a much better solution.
Then use streams.
> peaceful transitions of power for 360 years

This is a myth we like to tell ourselves, like the destroyed colonial records.

360 years ago is 1661. Shouldn't you count from at least 1688 "Glorious Revolution", when the current monarchy of Dutch ancestry invaded?

Or, if you mean the UK, count from the Act of Union 1707, before which the UK did not exist as such?

Or, counting "peaceful", from the end of the suppression of the Stuart monarchy in 1746?

Or, counting "UK" again, the distinctly non-peaceful transition of power of part of the UK to Dublin in 1922? The consequent violence of which only ended in 1998?

(especially if you're going to try to count the US Jan 6 incident as "not peaceful transition of power"! You have to overlook a lot of UK electoral violence if that's your threshold)

The monarchy have largely managed to steer clear of this in the 20th century, although there was a near miss when Edward married a fascist spy and had to be forced out. Undoubtedly the influence of Prince Philip whose family were indeed exiled from Greece at gunpoint made a difference. The Queen has been very cautious.
Dissenting opinion: my first reaction was, "Wow, that's strange and pretty ugly," but after using it for an hour I stopped noticing. It's still Firefox. The UI changes were mildly annoying at worst and the people I see losing their minds over it are overreacting.
I think you did a little too much LDS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgHxFNFWlZc&ab_channel=mathy...
Doesn't CSS pixel scale based on your monitor scale setting? 1200px on a 4k monitor with 2x scaling ought to be roughly the same size as 1200px on FHD monitor with 1x scaling. Unless you are talking about source image, then it's intrinsics size.

And as other have said, use object-fit.
> those giant companies fail to see the downsides

So in your book big companies have only downsides? What about VW, Mercedes, BMW, SAP, Bayer, Siemens, etc?

Why are big US companies evil for you and not the rest?
So that you don't need a separate column for an associated datum?
WhatsApp Removed Separation Lines Between Chats in Latest Android Beta
`FOR UPDATE` is also a good idea.
Slovenia :)

https://www.uni-lj.si/univerza_v_stevilkah_2018/studij/stevi...

This is the "nicest" image I could find (our statistics bureau has a shitty page, where you cannot directly link to a graph/table, but only to a full dataset where you have to choose 'filters'). The ratio is 60%-40% (which sounds "nicer" than 150% women, but yeah... 15.072 men, 22.802 women (for university of ljubljana, our largest university).
I'm from slovenia, but guess what was on the radio when i was creating my username :)
Reminds me of Vanilla Sky
Norway's public healthcare isn't terrible at all. There are some painful cases where a well-insured US individual would get better treatment, and there are frequently waiting lines of a few months, but for the vast majority it works quite well.

There are private-sector providers for taking up the slack if you can pay and the public sector drags its feet. The cost generally matches what the treatment costs to produce.

I recently had the choice between paying $3000 to get a novel treatment procedure done in Belgium on short notice, or pay $400 for two private consultations, leading to a referral to the public system with 6 months of waiting to get it done through the public system here. Went for the latter.
I'm totally with you in this regard and I'd like to see that too but the reality of the situation is a job queue is more than slapping together a few SQL queries.

A good job queue will have all or most of these features:

Prioritize jobs (queues, weighs to certain jobs, etc.)
Scheduled jobs (running them once but X time in the future)
Periodic jobs (running them every 2nd Tuesday at 3:33am)
Static and dynamic configuration (CRUD'ing jobs at runtime, like adding new scheduled tasks)
Re-try jobs (customizable strategy, such as exponential back off)
Rate limit jobs
Expire jobs
Cancel jobs
Unique jobs
Batch executing
Handling graceful shutdown (integration with your app server)
Get metrics (status, health, progress, etc.)
Browse job history
Web UI (nice to have)

And I'm sure I'm missing things too. These are only off the top of my head based on features I tend to use in most applications. In other words, this isn't a laundry list of "nice to haves in theory", most of these are core or essential features IMO. I use them in nearly every web app.

Rolling all of these things on your own would be a massive undertaking. Tools like Celery and Sidekiq have been actively developed for ~10 years now and have likely processed hundreds of billions of jobs through them to iron out the kinks.

Even if you managed to do all of that and created it as a Postgres extension (which I think is doable on paper), that's only half the story. Now you'd have to write language specific clients to interface with that so you can create jobs in your application using a nice API. This would be a very welcome project but I think we're talking a year+ of full time development time to release something useful that supports a few languages, assuming you're already an expert with writing pg extensions, have extension knowledge about job queues and know a few popular programming languages to release the initial clients.
I think there is a difference. As I understand the caste system, it’s inherited durably. If I’m X, not only will I always be X, but my kids and grandkids will also be X, so there’s no point in trying to become “not X”.

Not so for socioeconomic class. My grandfathers milled steel and mined coal. They made sure their kids became the first generation in the family to attend college. My parents became teachers and made sure their kids focused on education and we all attended “good colleges” and have built careers. My generation is saving for college while the kids are still in diapers.

That’s still systemic advantages from the family, but it’s marked change in economic class in just two generations, which is IMO dramatically different from the Indian caste system. It still matters who your parents are, but in a significantly different (and I think more fair) way.
The benefit of having the queue in the same engine as the main business functionality is that you can do stuff in a single transaction.

Having the queue on its own means you have to handle exceptions like "job is done but queue didn't get updated" or get into distributed transaction which is very different challenge.

Also, operationally having one inherently stateful component (db) versus two (db, queue) makes things a lot simpler to manage, deploy, update, etc.

Not claiming this is a perfect solution, just that the tradeoff isn't obvious.
Yeah, took a few hours of work and 1 week for correspondence to clear. Your point?
I take personal offense. That's freak blaming!
One practical thing is that consistent backups can become very difficult if you distribute your state to multiple places.
false would be "expired", this is called "expire" because it is a timestamp, it's the epoch time when the item expires. The worker presumably finishes before that time and if it does then the item is deleted. So, if any item has a nonzero expires in the past then it needs to be reset to 0 so it can be retried.
It was the reason with https://zeesql.com formerly know as https://RediSQL.com was written.

My clients seems rather happy with the project.
Also prestige whoring wasn't always as pervasive as it is now. Even as recently as the 90's when I was applying to college, the ivy league proudly proclaimed their lack of merit or athletic scholarships... so I didn't even consider applying there. I think the location of schools was a bigger factor to most of my fellow students than the reputation. New England winters were scary. And my high school actually advised against the nearby elite university because of their recent student suicides. The solid state flagship school was where normal people aspired to go.

It's bizarre to compare the world back then to now. My parents' number one concern was they wanted me out of the house and able to support myself.
I don't need a network protocol to use one drive for 100 VMs, PV drivers in Xen or VirtIO in KVM work well.
How fighter jets lock on, and how the targets know (2014)
Sushi: Ruby script which generates a stub for a 1-file C project

https://gitlab.com/jjg/sushi
Wonderful to academics? Yes, academics study what is, but at any given moment there are prescriptive rules and norms for what should be, Elements of Style if you will:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription

Or even if you won’t:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/50-years-of-stupid-grammar...

Such take downs are often lamenting a lack of rule following in the style guides!

“What’s wrong is that the grammatical advice proffered in Elements is so misplaced and inaccurate that counterexamples often show up in the authors’ own prose on the very same page.”
Pre covid U.K. was part of EU, very little has changed yet - same regulations and taxes as in 2019

Claiming “ahh U.K. is different” you might as well say “ahh Bay Area is different”.
not op but me, politics and worldnews, also other anti-capitalistic subs