skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do I want to separate the business entity "job" that maintains a status and updates and such from the "thing that dispatches jobs to workers"? And when a worker Has the job it just updates the business entity in the database?

If you ever really need to that's one way to do it but consider I'm imagining 50-100k state updates per second as being reasonable depending on how the data and queries are laid out. You can always use NOTIFY as discussed to cut down on the amount of worker queries for new work before having to completely push signaling to a separate system(which would likely still require occasional polling and/or a background process to re-signal work that hasn't been picked up).

It's interesting to consider that AWS Step Functions charges(or did charge) by the state transition.
Why is the one only example of the font available in the README in an agressive diagonal?

Just let me read the damn thing! This seems a bit ridiculous to me.
I think I've just seen too many ridiculous conspiracy theories gain widespread popularity to believe that a large chunk of the population is not easily mislead.
I am actually not often bothered by the scroll of a wheel or touchpad on any OS, but I do often need to crank things up on all of them, especially on Windows. I need sensitivity.

I am also the author of https://kinto.sh so if you want some good mac style keybinds it'll have you covered.
Could your mouse have had built-in scroll acceleration?
Are they talking about the Borel sigma-algebra generated by the open sets of a topological space? What topology is in their mind?
Are tempered distributions functions? How does one compose two tempered distributions? (Hint: you can't, and they never actually use tempered distributions.)
This is just mathematical masturbation.
Everything is finite when implemented on a computer so there is no need for such dainty mathematical niceties unless you are trying lend credence to pedestrian observations about Chebyshev's inequality.
Haha. Everything's changing drastically so "The World's Northernmost Town" is the only thing in this title intellectually interesting. That's an interesting take. A great way to satisfy the diffs guideline would be to add a fascinating hint about how the northernmost town is changing. Leaving out some words isn't it.

Arguing against including the whole title in this case makes me much more curious about how you make decisions and why than anything else.
If only the article included the shift from religious to environmental extremism.
I understand now. Yes, this is true and should be taken into consideration during upgrades.

Most of our queries are fast, and the longer ones hit a read-only secondary instance. Cleanup jobs, though, can take hours to complete.
Just because I bathe myself in sheep's blood every time the Federal Reserve changes interest rates doesn't mean I think they are a god.
> Honestly, if I were to make a platform and someone else were to come by and somehow force my hand regarding what should be allowed on it

It's not just "a platform" Apple's Market cap is 10% of the US GDP. What they do has real consequences for the world.
I try to spend the first 10 minutes of my day reviewing my calendar for the day and write out my priorities for the day. I may have 1 priority or I may have 3 or 4. I've definitely noticed myself getting more things done when I've done this vs the days where I've skipped it.

I also keep a document with future ideas or improvements that I can pick from if it's a slow period at work.
A graph placement methodology for fast chip design
The Best Founders Develop a Fighter Mentality
I just downloaded Spectacle a few days ago. Should I be using Rectangle?
I dont think they are in competition, clearly Twitch is a Feeder Platform for onlyfans.

Amazon should just buy OF

Ironically I have been seeing a lot of ads for OF where it looks like they are trying to portray them selves SFW platform...
Is it still a religious belief if you can conclusive tell that the god exists?

Otherwise, example gods and religions include sitting on chairs

I'd agree that things like the stock market, cryptocurrency, JavaScript, hating "cancel culture", having rugs on your floors, basic arithmetic, fossil fuels, laughing at jokes, having an Instagram, having teeth, not having teeth, and so on are all religions, but religion stops being a useful definition
Holy shit, I think you’re right.

In my defense I haven’t really been involved with any of this in a decade and it’s entirely possible I mixed up cocaine and meth and their respective likelihoods of pyrolyzation in this case.

For some reason I remember a DEA Microgram bulletin showing crystalline dextromethamphetamine base in brick form, but it’s not available anymore and I can’t find it at the moment. I have had very few conversations with meth chemists over the years but I do distinctly remember the mention of the oily liquid in the latter stages when talking to them.

That being said, snorting meth (even HCl) is incredibly excruciating compared to other drugs and as a result most users that I’ve been around prefer to use it in a different manner.

Thank you!
in the hospitals that i have been for visits usually the whole intensive care area and other sensitive areas were access controlled. so while the door to the actual surgery room might have been open, you are often not even allowed anywhere near.
Interesting Freud's sister went by "Rosa".
Pink Freud.
By making a subsequent product that was incredibly relevant to the times and which everyone wanted?
Where and how to download macOS Monterey beta version?
When I finally sat down and read the entire Bible, one thing that jumped out at me again and again is how often it warns against idolatry.

When you start to see the level of obsession people have over certain topics, it’s hard to call it anything else.
You’re correct that there are no PCBs in Teflon. I was using the term for brevity, but I’m really referring to as a class all of the Persistent Organic Pollutants or “forever chemicals”, several of which are specifically used in the production of Teflon, primarily PFOA and PFOS. Which also aren’t technically /in/ Teflon, but are used during manufacturing and can be released under some conditions afterwards.
With the exception of being based on analysis and generally welcoming genuine inquiry.
I refer you to:

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

"Telos [refers] to the full potential or inherent purpose or objective of a person or thing,[2] similar to the notion of an 'end goal' or 'raison d'être'. Telos is the root of the modern term teleology, the study of purposiveness or of objects with a view to their aims, purposes, or intentions."

Puddles don't have aims, purposes, or intentions.
He calls himself a troll on his FB profile. Honestly, it’s not surprising that someone who works at FB has a misaligned moral compass.
The concept of conquest is clear to me. One country/civilization/tribe occupying land previously owned by another through violent means.

The concept of conquest does not imply "crime" as it occurs at the intersection of two societies with different laws, and in most cases neither would consider a conquest benefiting them to be a criminal/negative activity.

I have never read a definition of "land theft". If it is supposed to mean the same as "conquest", it goes about it in a confusing way, by including the word "theft" which is a crime, whereas as we saw, "conquest" cannot be a crime in the traditional sense. It's also unclear to me why use "theft" rather than "robbery" which seems more appropriate given the violent nature of conquest.

I guess the point of using "land theft" instead of "conquest" is to imply that in an ideal world there would have been a supranational law enforced on all human groups that forbids violent displacement of one group of humans by another (i.e. conquest), which I guess most people would agree would be a good thing.

So, assuming conquest and land theft are synonymous, with the latter being used to express disapproval, and going back to your first comment: "To say that it was anything but utterly disgusting is an understatement". I suppose this is true, but the reply from refurb seems appropriate: humans have engaged in warfare long before we have written record. Our cousins, the chimpanzees do abominable things to each other in war, and so did our ancestors, of every race and every culture, including the native people that were the victims of the British empire.

"What hypothetical American indigenous tribes may or may not have done is not the subject of this thread" is a silly reply, as far as I can tell. American indigenous tribes engaged in warfare and conquest [1] like every other human group in history.

The British Empire did not, as far as we can tell, come up with new and particularly hideous ways to inflict harm upon other humans, that we had not considered in the hundreds of thousands of years we've been harming each other.

They have the distinction of being the first ones to do it globally. The true harm of the British empire is the delta between the harm they caused to humans in the places they occupied and the harms other humans (the ones conquered, others in the region) would have caused in the same area over the same period of time. Unfortunately, I don't have a way to estimate what that delta is. But I am sure the answer is not "all the harm the British empire caused minus 0 because everyone they conquered was a peaceful post-warfare civilization, disturbed only by the British savages".

[1] https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/service...
The lowercase 'l' as done in Ubuntu Mono (but it's not the only font doing that) is IMHO the best way to do lowercase 'l'. I'm not using Ubuntu Mono: I use a font I modified myself (sort of a mix between "Terminus" and "Monaco") and I do the lowercase 'l' as in Ubuntu Mono. I don't know which font did this type of lowercase 'l' first.

I'm not surprised that a font doing a good job having unmistakable character picked that for 'l'.

EDIT: funnily enough reading my post all the lowercase 'L' do look like an uppercase 'I'. Yup. Precisely what we want to avoid ; ) (that or looking like a '1' or like a pipe character).
It's just a video hosting site
Thanks for elaborating, I wasn't aware of the different cultures ( which sounds reasonable from what you describe)
Social media are turbocharging the export of America’s political culture
I was just wondering the same thing. Like, I get that ed isn't exactly a household name when it comes to software generally, but in the very specific world of terminal emulators it's practically royalty.
As long as you try to starve your neighbor, get him sick, then take his land, you'll be properly Canadian
We have countries today that treat women as second class citizens and still practice slavery and they can be considered "thriving" societies which are completely different from the Western world which can also be considered to be made up of "thriving" societies.

So if the requirement for a moral system to be "true" is for it to result in a thriving society we have a problem because we still have competing moral systems.

And even if we somehow whittled down to one global system, just because people believe in it doesn't make it true (do you need me to provide examples of nearly universal beliefs that were proven untrue later?)
Wikipedia claims otherwise.
You don’t want a lot of fly by night foreign vendors just dumping unsafe goods. It’s a good idea to just eliminate them by making it too expensive to deal with liability claims for anyone that resells that crap.
People have good and bad sides. I don't want to defend Zuckerberg, but it's not a particularly bad stunt for horny college dudes and you won't find anyone who is perfect in every way and has never done something bad. Plus, to lead a company to global success probably requires character traits that would otherwise not be considered fortunate.
I don’t think England would ever leave the UK, as English people view England as the main UK country. Also, the EU has been blamed for decades as a scapegoat, whereas the UK definitely hasn’t.
I've done this a few times and never had a problem.

I put my time off front and centre. I learned Spanish, worked on side projects, taught myself self-reliance and the ability to overcome obstacles, etc. etc.
We are all tribal by nature and need a sense of belonging and gravity. Something to hold on to. As the author suggests, religion was this anchor until recent times.
No, not at all. Just look at some documentary about Facebook early years.
I am talking about religion in general in the West (since that is what the article is about). People frequently stop being Christian for example.
Ok, since we're getting complaints that some people can't read the Quora URL, I've switched back to the Gizmodo one. There's an archive link at the top of this thread for those who want some ad relief.
That's very unfortunate for the indigenous folks, being left out if the country's definition
Disclaimer: I am ridiculously excited about Astro and working on my first major contribution (a SolidJS renderer).

> Astro embraces (and even claims to have “perfected”) the Islands architecture.

I may have missed this claim but there’s still some way to go here! I’ve been regularly chatting with one of Astro’s core devs—who also built Microsite[1], which I currently use for my own site—about a variety of partial hydration techniques that could improve on the current approach.

Notably:

- Currently Astro mounts components at hydration points in a vacuum, meaning you can’t share context across static boundaries the way you would do with a fully hydrated tree. There are opportunities here to use APIs like Portal and Suspense (where provided by the component library) to remove that limitation. The Portal approach is already in use by The Guardian, the Suspense approach is the foundation of React Server Components.

- Astro currently mounts to a parent astro-fragment custom element wrapper which breaks some sibling selector techniques commonly used for progressive enhancement. There are a couple ways to address this that I’ve found, including DOM Range and a proposed PersistentFragment allowing references to live ranges of DOM children as a Node-like parent without requiring it to be an actual parent Element.

1: https://github.com/natemoo-re/microsite
our elevator allows undoing pressed buttons. if no buttons are pressed, then the elevator will stop. now you could play a game where you try to get the elevator to stop at a particular floor without pressing that floors button.
the only downside is that our elevator does not open the doors if no button is pressed, so any off-limit floors would remain inaccessible
Chinese Fountain Pens of 2021
What gap did you feel that church filled in your own childhood?

I went to church as a kid too, but the only positive thing I remember about it has a secular alternatives (youth choir).

Otherwise I just remember: Wearing uncomfortable clothes and trying to sit still while bored out of mind for an hour, trying to intentionally make us late so we wouldn't have to go, my dad getting angry at me for intentionally making us late, spending forever sitting in traffic and finding a parking spot.
No statements like that are down-voted because it challenges the generally accepted narrative of criminal justice, never under estimate the normalcy and confirmation bias

People HAVE TO believe that the prison system is a deterrent because if not then the unethical actions, and inhumane treatment of criminals, specifically in the US Prison system, can no longer be justified in their minds.

Thus they simply can not allow themselves to believe anything other than the propaganda they have been feed all of their lives that we need to put humans in a small cage "for the greater good" even if all they did was grow a plant unapproved by the government
Does anyone know what writing style this article is using, if indeed it is a defined one?

Specifically I'm referring to how quotations are done with colons and single quotes:

So and so, said: 'The thing they said.'
Idk https://time.com/6047442/covid-19-spreads-despite-vaccines-s...
Umm he was hired to build an idea for the winklevoss twins and stole it. We celebrate such entrepreneurs ..semi smh
Your recognition of explicit vs. implicit ideology is addressed by Slavoj Zizek in some of his work. He generalizes ideology to be mostly a set of assumed or unstated beliefs and ideas which are so internalized they are not even consciously recognized. Could be good further reading for those further interested in the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek_bibliog...

One of the main points of Zizek regarding ideology, relevant to what you said, is that as religious ideology has waned in importance, other ideologies have taken their place, yet because they do not come from religions we do not recognize them as ideologies, though they are. But ideology has always existed in this form, in the background. It is just without religion taking a forefront in life that the importance of other ideologies has grown.

Anyway, I bring it up because I do not think it is possible for us to explicitly address all ideology. Ideology is part of the human condition, not in a metaphysical sense, but because we have only limited abilities to perceive and understand the world - finite lifetimes, limited senses, limited cognitive abilities. We must make assumptions and generalizations, take things for granted, and trust people and ideas so that we can spend our time thinking about other things.

Why? Because it's exhausting to explicitly address all ideology. I'll give you some examples: Country, Culture, Government, Justice, Love, Fairness, Ownership, Work. In discourse we take on only limited slices of what these concepts mean, yet we take their existence and high level concepts for granted (though one person's concept of fairness may not match another's). These are heavy, complicated topics in themselves.

> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

Depends on how you define religion. In my opinion what separates religion from philosophy or just ideology, is claims regarding the supernatural and divine. You can absolutely appreciate religions for their wonderful philosophy and theology while rejecting what I would consider very core parts of what makes one a believer in a religion, like belief in supernatural events or divine beings.
It's a little more insidious than that. The great majority of people will never personally replicate a finding. They will depend entirely on the honesty of/faith in the entire chain between scientist and messanger. it just turns out it mostly works.
How much do you think the offer was to use "Another Brick in the Wall - Part II" in an Instagram add?
You can see the touchscreen ("a glimpse of an electronic tomorrow") in this video: https://youtu.be/Lkaazk68iGE?t=311
Yeah but 4 billion is nothing when talking about a measly 256bit space, much less a 3 million base DNA strand.
In my ML class some students did a project on using reinforcement learning to optimize elevators. They told me that after 100 years of operation the algorithm would have enough data to start working really well.
Sounds like an untestable non-falsifiable theory. Similar to nuclear deterrence in that regard; it reminds me of the doctrine that one should cultivate a persona that appears more irrational than you really are when nuclear weapons are involved.

In short, it's closer to outright sophistry than science to introduce the quasi-religion which is a sort of a put down that has no basis in fact.
Pretty nasty still it seems.
We needed queues. We used Redis. That fits the domain.

Problem was there wasn't a good answer to "How much redis does your team need to know to put it in production".

We thought we knew it well enough, we thought we knew what we were getting into, and we thought so many others are using it for this, we should be good. That is makes a difference, clearly.
I was thinking about NERO Burning ROM. But I was completely wrong.
somewhere that you claim is hunters/gatherers*

Just because the farming and ranching looks different, doesn't make it not farming or ranching
Αγγλια vs. Κροατια, πρεμιέρα με το δεξί
Το ταξίδι του Euro 2020 ξεκινά την Κυριακή για την Αγγλία, καθώς στην πρεμιέρα της θα αντιμετωπίσει την Κροατία στο Στάδιο Γουέμπλεϊ, τρία χρόνια μετά το Παγκόσμιο κύπελλο. Η ομάδα του Γκάρεθ Σάουθγκεϊτ θέλει να γράψει ιστορία και να προχωρήσει στο τουρνουά μέχρι το τέλος, αλλά η επίσκεψη της Κροατίας αντιπροσωπεύει ένα αυστηρό τεστ μπροστά σε 22.500 αισιόδοξους υποστηρικτές της. Μην χάσουμε άλλο χρόνο, πάμε στα σημερινά Αγγλια – Κροατια προγνωστικα στοιχημα Euro
The land is still being settled today; eg. Trump allowing previously unsettled land to be destroyed for oil and gas extraction
Ah. You're not wanting to change to multiple Harvards, you're wanting to change to zero Harvards. And I kind of sympathize with that position. Education is helpful for society as a whole. Letting "elites" network so that they can position themselves to have outsized impact? Maybe not so much.
moores law hasn't been accurate in decades, and it was widely regarded as a boondoggle of a throwaway statement for the press well before that, too.
> Zuckerberg

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/technology/twitter-f...

This is the guy who screwed up so bad that Congress started going after silicon valley.

Our lawmakers have to clean up after this guy. He's the picture of ethical compromise, not engineering innovation!
elevator.goToFloor(1);
elevator.goToFloor(2);
elevator.goToFloor(0);
As religious faith has declined, computers have also gotten a lot faster, and there are far fewer three-camera sitcoms being shot. Also, the religiously faithful have become a lot more ideologically intense. I guess the Civil War and the Cold War were a relative time of peace compared to now, when pundits get yelled at on twitter.

Liberals (social and economic) continue to fall for the moderation fallacy and to cite the law of averages. I guess it's just six of one and half a dozen of the other, it'll all come out in the wash, and the more things change, the more things stay the same.
We changed the url from https://www.facebook.com/dan.colascione/posts/10107358290728..., which is behind a login wall and points to this.

Keep in mind that many of the complaints in this thread were posted in the context of that original URL.
> If you believe you are not religious, it just means that you don’t have the cognitive tools to recognize the secular ideology that you have adopted.

How would that statement apply to your god? And would they be religious?
Libraries to visualize the execution of your Python code in real-time
That (or a slight variation) works for the first couple of levels. Then it gets harder.
The internet before FB was just an unorganized collection of diverse opinions posted without regard for those that take offense.
Interesting, I thought I had invented this function myself (even giving it this name), but apparently it dates back to plan9 even (as seprint, rather than seprintf -- https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man3/print.html).

Be careful of the handling of the negative snprintf() return case. At least historically, some snprintf implementations returned negative numbers in the case the output was truncated! This appears to not be permitted by C99 but I swear I saw it in a Windows

Oh my, windows _snprintf also _doesn't NUL-terminate in this situation!_ -- use C99 compatible snprintf. Ugh! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/refer...
That's something I actually wouldn't fault Zuckerberg for. Too often someone with a vague idea and some money get more than they really paid for as the people doing the actual work discover what the real challenges are and solve them.