skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is experience that nobody is told when they buy a house for the first time. Not to mention being tied down. Plus like you mentioned with your career and hobbies. They're just a shackle if your not committed to the lifestyle. Hopefully things worked out in the end.

For myself, I actually worked in the mortgage industry for a few years and nothing jaded me about homeownership more. It's a monumental scam unless you're a DINK family and maybe live in a condo. That's a bit smarter but the most expensive option out of all types of living usually.
> My feeling is that the absolute vast majority of tech startups in the US are of the second kind.

Let's take a look at YC companies, which is representative to the kind of startups we're talking about here. Do you think the majority of them get the funding to burn and subsidize the 10%?
operations aside, the big problem in my experience dealing with these systems is you are extremely limited (on purpose) and cant do much sorting/filtering/aggregation/querying. that's what really makes true db's powerful. I love redis for what it does, i just dont think it replaces a DB well in many cases where its non-transient data
From the official doc link i shared already:

UNLOGGED

If specified, the table is created as an unlogged table. Data written to unlogged tables is not written to the write-ahead log (see Chapter 29), which makes them considerably faster than ordinary tables. However, they are not crash-safe: an unlogged table is automatically truncated after a crash or unclean shutdown. The contents of an unlogged table are also not replicated to standby servers. Any indexes created on an unlogged table are automatically unlogged as well.
Sabermetrics has absolutely ruined baseball.
Chess no longer allows draws, and the rules have been updated earlier this year.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/breaking-official-rules-of-c...
Is that because of the existence of the Fed, which only started up in the 1910s?
If a native html feature isn't accessible, that sounds like something the browser makers need to correct, no?

(Although, you could argue the end-result for users who need accessibility features is the same, regardless of who is at fault.)
As someone who browses with js off by default (uMatrix rule) and has implemented a fancy drop-down using css rather than js[1], my current opinion is that it's better to display all menus expanded by default and then hide them if/when your js loads. It's less effort to write and, more importantly, browsing with js disabled means I want interactivity off. If I want the "full experience as intended", I'll enable js. I frequently do. But I browse without it by default because frequently that experience is a downgrade from just the raw (well, styled) content. Leaving the fancy stuff to js suits everyone best.

[1] please note the content on the page is outdated, this is just a prototype -- the drop-down below "PayPal": https://sdproto.gitlab.io/donate/
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This sounds like something a reinforcement learning agent would do to maximize income.
I am not a European but I have spent some time there. I agree with you totally. I always find it bizarre that Americans complain about European work ethic as if people there are just slacking off. I look back at my experience there and I can say I have only respect for my ex-colleagues’ work ethics. There are slackers everywhere and the US is no different. It’s just that for many people in the US answering your emails on the weekends and staying late in the office equate to stronger work ethics. Btw, this same culture exists at many companies in Singapore too. But I don’t recall Singaporeans calling Europeans lazy because of that.
What exactly do you think is happening when you get SARS-CoV-2? Do you think your cells are not taking viral mRNA and using it to make proteins? That is exactly what a virus does – it hijacks certain parts of your body that don't know any better to do its bidding. That protein is going to be produced by your body whether you get the virus or you get the vaccine. The difference is that with the vaccine the spike protein is all your body is producing (and a limited amount at that), while with the real virus your body is contending with 29 proteins that can work together in concert.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stoichiometric_compound
Yes, absolutely. This isn’t news to businesses that have built websites that rely on JavaScript. They know not everyone has JavaScript.

When movies started coming out on Blu-ray and not VHS, you could put a graphic like this out to rebut the assumption ‘everyone has Blu-ray’ - and the studios would nod and agree and say ‘yes. We know. We want everyone to buy Blu-ray players and we don’t care about serving people who only have VHS machines’

Websites know some people don’t have JS. And they want those people to use browsers with full JS support, and if they choose not to, who cares?

I mean, there’s a whole stack of people who were excluded before this JavaScript flowchart even got started: do they have a computing device? Is it connected to the internet? Is it charged or plugged in to power? Have they heard of your site? Do they speak a language your site is offered in?
For Elixir, Oban is a great library that allows the same, in case anyone was looking for one.

https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
Since when is writing JavaScript easier than HTML? what amount of extra complexity and special tooling is required to make it easier to "ship" HTML?

I by no means am I ann all JavaScript is bad zealot, but I do browse with it disabled by default so I don't have to trust that every single third-party developer is good enough to prevent some malicious douche nozzle from injecting some rogue script that either turns my web browser into a botnet, starts mining crypto for somebody, or exploits the newest silicone defect and is now uploading my in-memory keys to some cloud provider. and while I would agree it's unreasonable to expect complete functionality from your site with the scripting disabled, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect your page to at least partially load. I get it JavaScript developers for the most part don't give a shit about security* but some of us do and it would be nice if it wasn't a constant battle between the two of us.

*to you the random JavaScript developer who actually does care you notice I didn't say all but you have to admit your colleagues are often guilty.
We use pingdom that hits a page that gives it the health of various systems. Queue included.

> All to save 2 to 3 hr of Googling for the best queue for your use case and finding s library for your language.

The cost of using a new piece of tech in production is not just 2 or 3 hours.
Same in Canada. ...and then I moved to the US, and the school was a full YEAR behind, and only covered the basics.

...and I feel like it's getting worse.
There is a lot of space between Postres and RabbitMQ. If performance is a factor it takes alot of work to make a Postgres table fast enough. These days, and for the past at least 5 years, you're better off using a service like SQS, or setup Redis yourself.
Infinity actually pops up in the context of stream processing, since often times real computers need to process arbitrary amounts of data with finite memory resources. Sometimes the data is too big to fit into memory all at once, or maybe the data moves too slowly to all be available immediately. Because there is no upper bound to how long a stream may be, streaming algorithms tend to be designed to be able to handle infinite amounts of data which is a property that comes in handy surprisingly often.
Left + Right /2 = Strait = Miss.

Small errors count. A few degrees off and your missile doesn't get to the target. Any averaging will probably result in a miss. In such cases a single sensor would be better, or two different sensors on two different missiles.

This comes up in all manner of flight systems. Take altitude. If one sensor says you are at 1000feet and another says 10,000, the one thing everyone should agree is that you aren't at 5500. One of the sensors is wrong and needs to be ignored, but how do you pick between the two?
Doing so four years early would be kinda silly, though, since people would presumably have forgotten what they read four years ago. I can't recall anything specific I read four years ago. And no such drug meeting that description has come out.
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Well I wasn't expecting that.

For anyone interested, there's a video of them here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm1KJmwjdzo

And an article on the previous "Atlantis" community of Primal Screamers, here:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/the-screamers-th...
Right - the standard provides tools you can use as a site to discover that scripting is unavailable and gracefully degrade - if you so choose.

It also provides marquee and blink elements but you’re not obliged to use them.
Maybe, but you also know what your commute time/costs are going to be up front so you can calculate it into your wage/salary so you can make an informed decision.

Also, I think you'd be surprised at some of the costs being shoved onto the employee.

Let's take ATT wfh customer service for example. They require you to:

-Have an office closed off by a door and must have complete silence

-Have your own laptop with a webcam that must match X specs, be less than Y years old, and have Z operating system. Must be a laptopfor the Walkthrough.

-Have an ATT approved internet provider with min/max up/download speeds (but if they charge you for installation don't worry! They will refund you up to 100 for the installation. They do also say they will give an undisclosed amount once a month to offset some of the internet costs, and since it's a month behind it's reimbursement.

-must have landline installed and mention no help with installation or monthly bill, and seriously who has a landline any more?

-they require a Walkthrough of your whole living space and workspace and it has to be approved.

-availability is all over the place, they expect you to be able to take any shift at any time, because hey, you're at home, why not?

So let's recap. They want you to go out of pocket to start with them, they require faster internet than their clogged call centers could ever hope to reach (felt like dial-up when you needed to search records, look up resources, etc). You can't have kids around, nor family/roommates. They can access your webcam to spy on you at any given moment. Any shift, any time, weekends and holiday availability are a must.

And this is one of the better wfh companies. The shit I've seen pulled since the pandemic has been mind blowing.

Indeed has become a cesspool of fake jobs, or sales masquerading as customer service, the other day I saw a customer service position that paid salary, yet the actual job paid by commission only, and at the bottom changed it to 'customer success representative,because it was gasp Sales!

I've seen all this helping family/friends try to find real WFH solutions. A few months ago it was possible, now it feels untenable.

If I never one more' customer service' job posting that says 'self-starter/motivated'ot won't be soon enough.

I can't imagine how shitty it is right now for the people that have no choice but to wade through the cesspool that has become WFH

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your link brings up an interesting statistic that I wasn't aware of. However, you can tell by the language that the author of the article is very clearly biased and I wonder what the actual reality of the situation is. Some questions that might help with revealing the full picture:

1. What would be the ratio of male vs. female degrees if everyone had the access to higher education? Maybe by their own volition men would choose to get a higher education less often than woman? The writer seems to think 50/50 is "fair" but I don't think he would agree that equality of outcome is a metric we should strive for.

2. How much of the shift in the ratio has been due to Woman's Centers? There are a huge number of relevant societal/economic/logistical factors that have changed in the last 40 years that would have an impact on woman having the means/desire/permission to attend college.

3. How many woman are there that previously did not go to college (for the reasons above) that are now making that choice? Could these woman's centers still be relevant for assisting woman in "making up for lost time"?

I don't claim to have the answers to these questions but I think anyone who isn't considering them is probably missing something from the larger picture - this is a complex issue after all.
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Don't educate people. Let them remain ignorant.
And I bought a Mac with 2x the ergonomy and 2x the battery life at the same price as a maxed out Dell ;)
Ignore that. I misread your title. Apologies. :)
Not sure what country you are from but in most air forces, front-line infantry aren't flying fighter jets.
It likely wasn’t considered and now changing it would break many things.
There remains a "possibility" that dinosaurs aren't extinct and they're hiding somewhere. Just because civilian astronomers haven't found such payloads doesn't mean those payloads actually exist. And hypothetically even if those payloads do exist it doesn't mean other nations haven't tracked them.

Wikipedia isn't a reliable source for this stuff. Look at the basic physics involved.
Man, that's a wild story. On the one hand, I'm desperately curious to know what the truth about St. Bride's is; on the other hand, I'm sort of glad that there are still (or recently were) weird and unapologetic places like this that don't feel the need to explain themselves.
I think we can agree that the author is genuinely interested in the problem. Personally, it’s exhausting to hear what I believe are the same people ask web developers to build with competing constraints at the same time. A good website must be…

- Renderable to both modern and older browsers

- Designed for mobile and desktop screens

- Accessible to those with disabilities

- Supporting some level of offline web app use, ideally avoiding a platform specific App Store

There’s all of that and more, but it’s not is impossible. In fact, requirements like accessibility are often mandated by law. But if I was building a new product, I’d honestly prefer a smaller set of JS friendly customers that I can serve a great experience to, and go from there. Progressive enhancement usually runs opposite to this issue. It’s very time consuming and adds an additional platform complexity to your existing technical product problems.
I had forgotten about the beer/wine, as the one I've been going to doesn't have that section. With the alcohol oligopoly it makes sense they can't make house brands so easily.
If your site only loads scripts from local you and I are good. I've Even globally whitelisted a few like jQuery and the rest.

but more often than not I have to scroll past more than a few untrustworthy data mining domains just to find the CDN that's distributing your magic JavaScript. Those are the ones that piss me off.
Demographics of the US Military
Not exactly the same, but regarding a slightly similar setting in browsers. I had problems getting some 3rd party widget working in a webpage.

I had enabled 'Do Not Track' in the browser, which broke the widget.

I'm sure the 3rd party provider regrets listening to the privacy nerd who insisted on supporting this header.
My sarcastic internal monologue while loading the article: "If multiple players use systems thinking, which one wins every time?"
Yeah. I’ve been slowly digging into this stuff as a mostly intellectual hobby the past 3-4 years and some of the nuances of mold making and process quality I’ve never seen spoken or written about anywhere. Maybe there’s a good quality textbook about this stuff but I’ve never seen one referenced.
based on experience arriving very last minute to flight, nobody has problem with letting two people book the same seat.
I think this being a good answer hinges on the resulting user experience. If one person spends several minutes going through the process of putting in their payment and other info only to be told you don't have a ticket, they're going to be pissed. So you need a good answer on how to avoid that experience, however you implement the locking.

Saying this as someone who has been on both sides of that interview question, and also evaluated performance in it as a hiring manager.
Which doesn't really change the meaning in any way.
It's a very unique universe that quite a bit different that ours - It would require an infinite amount of energy to communicate that call leading to infinite entropy. Given that the moves happen instantaneously, the first guest to arrive would instantly cause the heat-death of this universe.
I’ve attempted this discussion all over the internet. It does not go well would be a tame statement. There seems to be a pervasive belief that men do have this option equally available to them.

Only half? My exp is more like 80% shack up with a breadwinner. Even with half of women that means max 25% of men get this option.
The laws of physics get chucked out the window the moment you say "infinitely many rooms".
Many "rules-light" RPGs are either free (like Risus), or are available for relatively little money. Often the idea with them is to provide some structure to a collaborative narrative, and the best systems not only handle conflict resolution, but also conflict creation, and typically provide mechanical incentives (often in the form of dice pools or other resources) for initiating dramatic plot beats.
It used to indeed be the case that in Belgium to fire someone the notice period could be quite literally years. However, Belgium changed its laws in 2014. For firing someone it's now 1 week the first 3 months, and then it goes up more slowly. For example, for someone who's been there 4 years it is a 3 month notice period.

As for free movement of labor inside the EU, it is mostly irrelevant how easy it is because of cultural barriers. People don't want to work in a region where they don't speak the language. See for example how workers in Belgium mostly do not cross the language boundary between north and south, despite having an identical legal regime. Europe's polyglot nature makes it quite literally impossible to match the U.S. or China wrt the movement of labor.
All day can say is I never had any problems finding a woman to talk to. It wasn't hard. There are lots of fish in that sea. All I had to do was be thoughtful, polite, and interesting.

I'm told it's different in other places but I suspect that has more to do with the men than the women.
That's not how modern sensor fusion algorithms work. It's never a simple average calculation. The inputs from various sensors are weighted based on confidence levels. In extreme cases sensors reporting bad or inconsistent data are ignored.
I appreciate your comments.

I've had a long string of failures after starting dating (Post covid vaccine) and just felt so incapable of being next to another person.

It's like all this time quarantined as put my dating skills back to zero (not that they were ever good). I feel so broken, like shards of glass that cuts anyone who tries to touch me.

But you have inspired to to once again glue all my broken shards together and try and try again.

Thank you.
On chrome/android; I tap and some letters appear. I seem to be missing the magic!
Did they remove Schmidt's information?
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> DnD 5E is like the Risk of tabletop RPGs. Just sort of long and meandering without much going on.

That's...highly table dependent, even assuming the same set of rules options are in place. And I’m not just saying that whether it feels that way is a matter of subjective taste (which is also true), but that the objective qualities of play depend very much on the particular group at the table. That's true of TRPGs in general, but its true of some TRPGs more tha others, and D&D5E is relatively unopinionated (though not so much as, say, GURPS) while some more focussed games zero-in on a more-specific playstyle.
I think it depends on the end service.

For instance, some critical services would do best to be available without those technical constraints.

So for a chat system for video games? Who cares. For my online banking when they no longer staff tellers? It should probably be more of a consideration, or at least offer a parallel, stripped-down portal. Not everyone who needs to access that kind of service has the means for a fast enough computer to run some of the websites out there.
Hi Jorge, interesting to see you are using both Agora and Daily! Any reason you went for them instead of Twilio?

EDIT: And if you care to elaborate, what is your custom WebSocket backend for?
Why on earth would you make a queue table with a non-serial primary key? What benefit do you gain from a UUID here?
More than the Bible; the cedars of Lebanon were perhaps the single-most famous natural land feature in the ancient near east. You'll find references to them in virtually every ancient text of the area that has any length, including the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Not sure what you’re saying here — most PCs have the hardware but they don’t use it?
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Layering between Nix, Nixpkgs, NixOS. And within Nix more emphasis on layering too (store vs nix language0.
I’m confused.

The article mentions the “bonds” of this substance, but doesn’t use any description more specific than “material” to describe it.

Is this an alloy, or a molecule, or something different?
Imagine what you may, in earth and under heaven -
there's nothing in the way of being really *that* unreal,
/* poetlint-ignore-next-line no-inflected-rhyme */
but only what we do and say, imagination-leaven'd.
/* poetlint-ignore-next-line no-rain-pain-style-rhyme */
The world constrains us all no less, for all we so reveal.

// TODO "but are we so constrained", et cetera, et ceter
// TODO "when worlds we make at will," and so on in same meter
Can you elaborate, what do you think a union would provide that's missing?

Also, are you in management there (and thus more pro-union than the rank-and-file which is quite remarkable)?
1. No, I knew this XKCD.

2. Not knowing something that's on the level of 2+2=4 shouldn't be handwaved away with this, especially on a forum populated by people from the high end of the IQ spectrum.