skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, the domain is irrelevant now. Technically, I can keep my email going to my own domain. But this is the least of my concerns. The only "way out" is to completely de-Google-ify. But short of that I pretty much have to pay them.

The entire Google account will be suspended unless there's payment. I'd have to audit everything my Google accounts are used for, find alternatives, train users on the N new services, and deal with all the migrations. Which frankly is impractical. Some stuff is not easily migrate-able (YouTube subs/history, Android purchases, ...), and unless I don't need a Google account again ever, I'll probably end up migrating to an @gmail one at least partially.

But at least I keep the domain?? Which I'd then be paying a mail provider about the same amount for. Plus probably more for any other paid services.

To say nothing of convincing and migrating my family/other users.

If I could only keep the Google account going with my own mail/services that'd be something. They say I "may" retain access to YouTube and Photos, for now. And the account will be in a 'suspended' state that requires payment to get out of.

It's not exactly a surprise, and I know "that's what I get" for using Google services. But it's still scummy.
I don't think very many people can build or operate a siege engine so the real question for our modern times is: is anyone?
What is elliot wave?
Exactly. I've called it the "grief economy" Whomever can suffer the most grief wins. For example when trying to cancel a service the person on the other end is making at least minimum wage to waste your time for free. They can easily suffer more grief than you and so they have little to no reason to try and solve your issue quickly or at all.

I've seen so many of these games since coming to the US. It's setup for whomever can suffer the most will get a good price, the customer service, or other kinds of "privileges" considered just normal decency in other countries.

The only solution I've found is to interact and depend as little as possible on others. They're pretty unlikely to come through for you if needed.
Material That Never Melts
When a show has 10 long seasons, it's going to have more watch time than each of 10 single/mini series.
We do, but it's a separate product: https://www.topicbox.com/
you can use a tool called imap-sync ( at least thats what i remember it was called)
How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards?

I don't care about People and Recruitment teams. I care about People and Recruitment teams for a very, very specific subset of electrical engineers.

My thesis is that HR and Recruiting for the sorts of roles I care about isn't very effective to begin with. The lack of specificity in existing platforms is a contributing factor to the problem I'm trying to solve. Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and whatever other generic job boards are just that - generic job boards. They have no reason to care about this niche any more than the other thousands of job categories out there. LinkedIn is becoming Facebook for wackjobs in work influencer clothing. Even StackOverflow Jobs tends to equate this type of work to general software engineering, when it requires very specific, critical knowledge you typically don't get until you're pretty deep into an EE curriculum.

Add value to the Users - the job seekers - and you start to build trust and aggregate supply. The savvy recruiters follow that. Our clickthru metrics already reflect this.

A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

That the crux of my point. I don't care about non-specialists. I care about recruiters who need to find people to write Verilog or VHDL. If I can become one of their "one or two more platforms" besides LinkedIn, I've made it.
You could asked for six figures to get it fixed if it's really making such an impact.
SunVox 2.0 Beta
Thanks for checking it out :)

I've heard good things about Carver's work but I haven't read them myself. However, I got started reading similar books by Ernest Chan
They already have the authority (if they get a warrant) to bug your home, too. Wouldn't it be so much easier if all homes came with bugs pre-installed (and illegal to remove), and the warrant would just allow the police to remotely activate them?

In fact, they have the authority to arrest you, too. But that can involve a dangerous chase, the subject can resist, etc.. wouldn't it make sense to obviate the need for such hazardous measures if everyone had to wear a shock collar? Then instead of a dangerous physical confrontation, non-compliant subjects can be subdued with a safe, remotely-triggered shock.

Forcibly resisting authority is never legitimate (that's what democracy and the legal system are for), and certainly never legal, so such measures wouldn't infringe on any rights. After all, they only enable already legal police actions, and the only civilian activity that they hamper is illegal.
But the blockchain is all about immutability and you can't change the fundamentals!
Awesome! I suspect if we had started by making a point to make sure everyone has IDs instead of starting with "let's require IDs knowing full well that some people don't have them" this would've been a minor issue and we could be done already.
You can transfer a phone number from that sort of account to a Gmail account. I just tried it and it seems to work. Go into settings then transfer. It takes you to the legacy page to do the transfer, oddly.
Oh, I'll never program in a dynamically typed language again. I'm sold on that. What I'm speaking to is the notion that types are the best model for solving most/all problems in software engineering.
Taxing land is kind of different because the owner didn't create it and it's not possible for anyone to cause more to exist. See discussion of Georgism etc.

Taxing buildings is a bad idea for the same kinds of reasons as a wealth tax is a bad idea, but an actual wealth tax doesn't have exceptions. Or if it does, that makes it even worse, because whatever the exceptions are will create a powerful arbitrage opportunity. Which, in the case of property tax, is one of the reasons we under-invest in housing construction and have high housing costs. (Restrictive zoning is an even larger factor, but might not be if property tax mill rates were higher.)
That's a PhD (in engineering).

Non-phd doctorates I'm aware of would be MD, Psy. D, JD.
BRIN indexes don't affect the storage layer, so you need to make sure your table is appropriately sorted on disk through other means. CLUSTER can do this as a one-off job (pg_repack if you need to keep the table available for writes), but won't sort new data as it's written.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-cluster.html

https://reorg.github.io/pg_repack/
It’s not a career ending thing if somebody saw my commit history. It’s just mildly embarrassing. It’s not a waste of time either… time spent crafting a final commit from the whole change, writing a descriptive commit message, and documenting everything well helps people review it, and that’s time well spent.
I always first try to teach the intuition that an index is a different sorting of the data (with the full table scan being insertion order/sort by rowid). Everything that's faster with data sorted in this manner is faster in the database. That's for 2nd semester students who should have heard of sorted-list merging and binary search.

That overlooks hash indexes or index-only queries, of course.

Love the article but I'm not sure that the indirection of the index being an additional data structure really helps understanding it better.

I think you basically only need to understand that once we have some degenerated indexes with bad selectivity where a full table scan would be better. Here the additional index access is neck breaking.

Of course, this sorting-intuition doesn't help in understanding the different kind of indexes. Is that a topic for newbies though?
Myth about the Place
I once worked at a job that was a 1 hour car commute or a 2 hour bike ride. I typically did the bike ride. Eventually work demands were intense and I felt like I needed the extra two hours. When leaving, I was given some of the best advice I had ever received. I was told that as soon as I started sacrificing those very long hours on bike, that my balance clearly went askew. That was the middle of a bad burn out. The advice was that work and life balance are connected, they are both gauges. Work always is a drag down, and your life being out of balance will drag both life and work down. The only way to increase both is to raise the life part of the equation. So while work will knock you down to 80%, having a life raises that back up to 90% so it can then go back down to 80% and repeat. Working better, harder, better projects (unless you are a founder or something special like that), never increases these gauges. So it's not a work/life balance per say, it's living life that allows you the capacity to do work at 100%.

Second, I've taken several extended breaks and they have helped. That was before pandemic. I found you need to take long enough where you start wanting to do work again. That is the sign burn out is over. How long that takes can really vary. Sometimes it's been 3 weeks, once it took 3 months, and another time it almost 6 months before I was ready to work again.

Some responses to your questions:

> If I continue working, is there something in my working environment I should try to change? Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.

Sometimes the key is to stop trying to change the things you cannot. Work is work, divorce yourself from some aspects of it and you will be freeing yourself from unnecessary stress of things you will not be able to change.

> Should I take time off? How much?

I'd say take a long weekend. See how much recovery that gives you. Maybe it'll give you a gauge of how long you will really need. My gut says at least 2 weeks.

> Is there anything specific to working in tech and burning out that I should know about? I feel like this isn't exactly rare.

This is a golden question. WTH do we all burn out so much?
It depends. Based on your description, it sounds like the company in question wouldn't actually be subject to the GDPR. Simply attracting European visitors isn't sufficient; you have to be clearly intending to offer goods or services to those visitors. What that constitutes isn't black and white, but stuff like providing EU contact details on your website or specifically advertising to EU subjects might count.
I have a GTX 1060 6GB before, and 1080p performance was barely enough, especially for games like PUBG, I have to set everything to Low graphics settings to get a decent 60fps. Strangely enough for Fortnite it can run Ultra for 100fps most of the time (90% of the time outside battle). Maybe at the end of the day, it depends on optimizarion I guess?
Web3 Debate
The parenthetical is evaluated separately from the sentence. It would equally read this way:

He's definitely a weirdo at times but he's a good guy, (I mean that in a positive way, for instance he likes old movies and watches them constantly, but when he says a movie is good he has never been wrong)

as the way I originally wrote it:

He's definitely a weirdo at times, (I mean that in a positive way, for instance he likes old movies and watches them constantly, but when he says a movie is good he has never been wrong) but he's a good guy

The "but he's a good guy" never syntactically follows the information about the movies, it is always tied to my opinion that calling my friend a "movie fanatic" isn't a strong enough descriptor and he teeters on the verge of being weird about it.
Not sure if anyone has seen this but if I login as <user><domain>@gmail.com with my <user>@<domain> password it logs me into my Domain account. I wonder if they are preparing to roll out a tool where you can convert your Domain account over to a gmail account.
That was me, I'm sure some of it would apply but you still have to build a web app, test it, test the transfer stuff, implement anything that wasn't already implemented for EDU, etc...
Even with language modularisation you lose the ability to provision modules independently if they are bundled together in a single service.

Microservices and monoliths are opposing extremes on a scale. There is a range somewhere in the middle which is entirely sensible.

I feel like I've found my greatest success with my service abstractions by separating things out based on resource and availability needs of the functionality.
> This seems pretty condescending and disrespectful...I don't know the exact details of the NYC law, but I don't have to, because I'm across the continent.

I'm suggesting that you be properly informed about things that are influencing your voting. If you're irritated about the NYC law, it seems prudent to get the basic facts right about it before drawing a conclusion.

> I'll give you a suggestion too - if you want to win independent votes, then stop insulting independents.

I don't want to win anything; and I'm not part of any political campaign. I elect representatives who I generally agree with, and leave things in their hands.

If you generally want to vote to take the country in a good direction, I suggest you vote based on a complete understanding that's not influenced by loud-voiced commentators. Alternately, you can choose to be a low-information voter whose vote is easily "won" by some random person posting lies on the Internet, in which case elections turn into more of a shouting match about how much you can smear the other candidate and less about pertinent issues.

If you are wrong about one of your assumptions, it's possible you're wrong about others as well. I'm trying not to say what those are; because that just leads to more nitpicking and arguments – things that we already have way too much of on the Internet.

In summary: "Do your research before voting" is my nonpartisan and hopefully reasonable suggestion. I'm sorry it's coming across as disrespectful.
The Office is one of a few shows constantly pumped/advertised on the Reddit home page. People watch to understand meme references.
Latest SunVox[0] 2.0-beta3[1] rolled out for testing on Jan 10, 2022.

NOTE: Beta test versions actually compiled for Windows, Linux, macOS and WinCE. The final version with support for all systems will be released soon.[2]

[0] https://warmplace.ru/soft/sunvox/

[1] https://warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21097#p21097

[2] https://warmplace.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20949#p20949
Congrats I guess? It's been incredibly disappointing as an end user who has been on a local vault for something like ten years to be told I have to use the cloud offering if I want a version of the 1Password app on Windows that is actually equivalent to the Mac version.

It's just about as annoying as being required to ( pay for the upgrade ) to v7 in the first place because they couldn't ( or wouldn't? ) fix the code signing issue on v6 that broke browser integration a few years ago.

I really like 1Password, honestly, but I wish there was a long term support standalone-license version that just gives me the basics and local/dropbox vault storage. I explicitly do not care to rely on another cloud service, especially so for my vault of private information.
No it's an EngD. Maybe it's a Commonwealth thing.
yeah i also did not receive the email. first i was thinking, maybee because i pay for extra storage with those legacy accounts (100 gb extra) they maybee would not disable if for me. but it looks i just did not get the email yet.
> However, on the other edge of the sword, a system with zero moderation leads to rampant spam, illicit content, “copyminting” (plagiarism), phishing, impersonation, and other problems. Open markets like Hic et Nunc and OpenSea are often forced to de-index and remove content that goes against their code of conduct. This would be like Google removing your website from its search results—your site is still present and functioning, but not easily discoverable. Moderation and indexing on these platforms is a massive challenge, essentially a game of whack-a-mole, leading many users to favour curated or established collections.

The only way I cannot register an NFT from others artists work is if a judge backs them up. NFTs do not grant copyright ownership of the art unless a separate contract exists that specifies that.

So, what does the NFT solves if you still need all the legal assurances to make things work?

Cryptography as a counter example works. Even if a judge determines that I have the right to read a message, I still cannot read it unless I have the keys for the message. Encryption fixes a problem by itself, how do I protect a secret?
> They want money to sync my passwords between my Windows desktop and my iPhone. Seems reasonable to me.

Money for service is fine, but this is a long term thing, and I'm not going to pay $180 per 5 years to keep 100KB in sync. And the software doesn't justify that price either.
"There is still no turnkey solution for UX"

What would that even look like? Do they expect a unified UX language from the Gov
t?
This is exactly my problem. No one should be required to hand over their personal data to a private company in order to access government benefits. If the government wants to verify my ID fine, but that data should never go to anyone else or be used for profit.
I appreciate the focus on abstractions. I'm unenthusiastic about giving up on (b), because when you've got a discipline where anybody can reach for any old terrible abstraction and stand some unholy monstrosity up that actually seems to work okay, I have a difficult time wanting to call it engineering.

And I am fully in favor of financial engineering not being engineering. :-)
Because noone in the real world know or cares about him. In the land of clowns...
You find it suspicious that most of the stories that become popular are appealing as stories and are the sort of stories people tend to tell? Is it also suspicious that they are all in English?

I'm sure some of them are fake, but so what? Let people have their plausible mundane lies. Sometimes my girlfriend lies about her name to the Starbucks barista and she hasn't been called out for it yet.
For what it's worth, I think the current wave of modern pop is much more interesting-sounding than 80's hair metal or the pop from the earlier 2000's that was autotuned ad nauseum.

For example, look at the current top of the Billboard Hot 100.

1.) Easy On Me - Adele. Adele's music is always far from empty. She is a true artist.

2.) Stay - Kid Laroi. This may not be your type of music and there are certainly a lot vocal effect here, but there's a lot going on here rhythmically and melodically. The chord structure is also pretty unusual.

3.) We Don't Talk About Bruno - Lin-Manuel Miranda. LMM is a genius, but it's a Disney song, so let's skip this one.

4.) Glass Animals - A rare indie hit to make it to make it to the top, this one is arguable the "simplest" song on this list. It still feels like it has character and that the artist has put their stamp on it.

5.) Shivers - Ed Sheeran. If Sheeran's music feels tedious now, it might just be because his music has been at the top of the charts virtually non-stop for more than a decade. Still it's hard to deny his talent or argue that his songs are simple musical drivel.

It's fair to say that MOST of what is produced is derivative drivel, but I would say that's probably true of pretty much any era. There were tedious grunge artists, tedious metal artists, tedius disco artists, tedious arena rock artists, etc.
Inflation has been bad lately, but wow.
Anyone up for guessing how much the AWS bill would be for this specific application? I'm guessing it's less than $100/month.
Can’t believe I got upvotes despite a typo that makes things confusing. I meant as American Indians.
As a YIMBY, I'm very cognizant of the benefits of multifamily housing. But apparently their system has some problems with it. Would it be better to wait until the system is perfect for all addresses or go with what is functioning now and get tests to people?
Are you also upset that stores sell products you don't want, forcing you to pay rent for them?

It doesn't matter what you don't watch, garbage or not.
Because conventional capabilities don't matter if they're indistinguishable from nuclear capabilities till they impact.

Or put it another way: China launching a hypersonic kill vehicle at a US carrier is pretty much indistinguishable to China launching a tactical nuke at one. Their launch and flight profiles are identical, and while fallout is an issue, the use of a battlefield nuclear weapon wouldn't actually warrant a strategic nuclear response. From a US perspective, the issue is they lost a carrier because the nuke is going off in Chinese waters in your scenario.

But the problem is that launch is a ballistic missile. The only actual defense is that launching 1 doesn't look like a strategic nuclear strike. But let's pretend for a moment you're somehow using these in air defense: you'd be launching hundreds and there's no way to know while you have eyes that they're not a strategic strike.

The PRC won't launch - or hopefully doesn't launch - in a conventional war because the counterstrike would definitely kill them. Same reason the US doesn't. You can de-escalate a conventional war, but you can't de-escalate strategic missile launches at cities.

You can quite happily today roll out onto the battlefield and start slinging artillery fired nukes and it would be a big deal but not warrant strategic nuclear response because everyone is only in danger of losing their deployed forces, not their entire industrial base, population and environment.
Pay to earn and Game NFTs are blowing up, but why now? An explainer
Not an expert, but have played with BRIN indices on a much older version of Postgres. Some of my experience may be misremembered or out of date.

You are correct that they can be used for analytical workloads (but not exclusively, you still have other index types available and transactions, etc). They have very little performance overhead for the write path and small memory footprint compared to B-tree indexes.

However, they are only effective for improving read performance when filtering a table with a selective predicate, and even then- only if there’s some temporal relationship between the indexed column values and the time that the rows are inserted. Auto incrementing id and created_at columns work great at this.

So to your second point, no- I don’t believe there’s any specific storage layer awareness of them. However, Postgres inserts are typically at the “tail” of the table as a consequence of the MVCC implementation (although, tables with frequent deletes and updates can be confounding to the effectiveness of BRINs).

Remember though that the correlation needn’t be perfect to be very effective. If you can limit what would otherwise be a full table scan + filter evaluation to a scan + filter of a handful of pages that “might” contain matching rows, that can be a huge performance boost with a tiny cost of maintaining the index.
I'm pretty sure you're trying to relabel property tax as a "wealth tax". Which it is in fact a tax on a subset of wealth. But it's not what all the rest of us are referring to when we say "wealth tax" in this thread. Your post therefore looks like a deliberate attempt at distraction.

To the best of my knowledge, Texas does not have a wealth tax in the sense that is under discussion.
It's a bad metric anyway. A persons rating should not be depending on the work performance. It should be depending on the happiness factor of the person. The performance of that person is the responsibility of his/her manager.
So whenever a person performance bad, the manager must either fix it or leave. This principle is having so much more success than your example.
You'd think that, but that isn't the case. Look at the top option.

https://emailus.usps.com/s/the-postal-store-inquiry

https://www.cnet.com/health/usps-offers-solution-for-people-...