skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Transactional consistency is nice. Maybe worth it for some low-volume jobs.

The downside that comes with it is using your primary DB as your queue is that the queues in an app tend to absorb all the exceptional conditions (queue grows to millions during worker outage, backfill which needs to process millions of items). Using your primary DB means all that disk usage, memory usage, and IO hit your primary DB in exceptional ways and impacts your app in more ways than just queue delays. It also scales much less linearly than other queue options.

A nice middle ground is to store all your data and state in your DB transactionally, and only queue tiny lightweight jobs with database primary keys (database: sentWelcomeMailDate=nil, queue: sentWelcomeMailForUser:1234).

This is another case for neither DJ or Sidekiq. A fully hosted option like SQS addresses the durability concerns of Sidekiq, and the scaling concerns of both. I’ve queued 1B+ jobs in SQS and watched the workers slowly burn through them over the course of a month.

DJ and Sidekiq can go quite far. I’ve used both and patched some perf issues on DJ. The lesson learned was queues at scale are hard distributed systems problems - you probably don’t want to have to know how they work, or host the distributed system yourself.
I use Firefox on iOS with 1password (to fill in passwords) just fine.
The Institute for Progress and speeding up U.S. growth
What am listening to? Long time musician here, just not familiar with untraditional scales. I assume 31edo but using Bach means you are ignoring 19 of 31 possible semitones- correct? Less? (I could imagine leading tones going in the opposite direction, or something)

To my ear it sounds like there are way more major thirds than there normally would be in a Bach piece like this... anything else I ought to be hearing?
I think that's the idea. It's showing that they don't need to tie the toy to an existing word they may have heard from a parent, babies acquire language quickly enough most of the time to assign a new word to a concept instantly.
The US will finally allow adaptive beam headlights on new cars
The problem with this line of thought is that it's basically ignores the historical exemplar that Japan used to justify their actions in the first place - the Sino-Ruso war. Russia was a juggernaut compared to Japan, but two catastrophic attacks - one surprised removed all support for the war from Japan, and the Czar gave in and ended the war.

Historians are arguing that in a industrialized conflict, where the United States was committed to war, Japan had no shot at winning. And to some degree that's true. But it depended on political factors that were no means set in stone.

But was America truly that dedicated to war with Japan? Turns out yes - but it's not hard to see a world where Japan wasn't quite a closely allied to Germany and/or Midway had gone the other way, or after millions where dead in the home island where that commitment would be tested.

Or conversely - as Hitler hoped - Japan would hold off America just long enough for the Russians to be finished off by the Germans in the East and Britain would finally come to the table. In a "Germany First" Strategy, America could not have taken the offensive in 1942 in that scenario.

But it's also reflective of the dehumanization that Japan's leadership as - the West was soft, just as the Russians were soft, and Japan's greater fighting spirit would carry the day.

Pearl Harbor didn't predetermine history.
It was a little more than that. There was some employer matching of funds, up to a point. And having it come off your paycheck saves a step come tax time.
> Everything no matter how niche is presented as an emergency

A phrase I heard recently for this is "Klaxon culture", and it seems to fit. Effectively, what used to be called information warfare, which was mainly practiced on enemy populations by military agents during war and near-war, has become a democratized, routine tool of domestic politics.

It destroys community, and atomizes populations, among other nasty consequences. I know for me, I have ended up ignoring "real" issues I would have had interest in trying to help with, because I was ignoring the bullshit-machine.

Welcome to the future.
Are you me? I got a degree in computer engineering, minor in CS and Math. I initially thought I hated programming and wanted nothing to do with it until I started making games in Unity. It turns out that what I really enjoy is learning and problem-solving. My CS coursework just didn't offer interesting problems to solve-- it was more about rote memorization of Data Structures and Algorithms. I think you should try and find a discipline of CS that interests you, and pull on that string. Do a little self-directed learning in your free time. For me that string was AI for games.
I didn't even know zig had a linker, just assumed it used libclang's driver to the system linker. So does it use lld, I suppose? If so, how different is this from using rust-lld?
I disagree. Israel is unique in terms of it's human capital. Tech companies have locations there for the same reasons they have locations in Oxford and Cambridge in the UK. There are 135 per 10,000 people employed as engineers there, compared to the next closest which is the US at 70 per 10k. That would already be a unique draw for Intel, if it weren't for the original reason they set up shop there; Dov Frohman. He was the first GM at Intel (also the inventor of EPROM), and wanted to relocate there to accept a Professorship. They didn't want to lose him, so they agreed to let him open an R&D lab there. This ended up being a huge success (they designed the 8087 there) and they continued to grow on that success, to the point where Intel is now the largest private employer in Israel.

I recommend Asianometry's video essay on Intel's success in Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEgJQgAw3g&t=894s

He also covers the rise of such silicon manufacturing in Taiwan - which I also disagree on it being geo-politically motivated, with it being successful long before it's national identity came under threat from mainland China.
It still works for me on Firefox, latest iOS.
Honestly, I strongly doubt a small startup is getting 10k applications a month. I advise a few startups & small businesses that are actively hiring multiple roles and I work at a startup that is actively hiring multiple roles. Yes, many people are active and applying, but it is not 10k applications a month even for multiple positions for a small startup.

One of the hardest tasks for a company, especially right now, to do is to create the resume funnel. So I know some startups try to hack it and create FOMO on their hiring funnel, which is what the claim you heard sounds like to me. Yes, certain brand names will get crazy number of applicants, but that isn't the case across the board.

General jobs/economy reality. The more positions open when there is low unemployment (relative to the position) the smaller number of applicants per position, and the pickier the applicants. The fewer jobs open with "high" unemployment the larger and less picky candidates become. After the dotcom bust, when I was hiring we would see 500-1000/month resumes per open position in some cases, just insane; yet, before the bust we would see < 100/month usually, even at highly known companies.
I clearly said it was 'stupid' and 'offensive'.

Right there. Just a few paras up, where everyone can see.

What's the word we use to describe when someone lies or misrepresents in front of others, whereupon their lies are easily debunked by anyone, immediately so that everyone is aware of those lies right in the moment?

(Donald Trump does that, BTW)

Almost nobody actually likes the truckers, that's besides the point.
What is the main reason that inhaled vaccines are not in use today for flu for example? Is there some new technological breakthrough for delivery that was needed?
AI makes animists of us all
Spam ads (e.g. a windshield repair shop on the radio playing all the time) are probably useful for discoverability. That is probably self-evident.

However, the big question is if they receive more profit from extra jobs than the ads cost.
Hum... Most standards allow that kind of special cases. For filenames, POSIX doesn't, but your viewer can render it on any way (and it already renders many dangerous characters - ASCII had them too - in non-obvious ways).
> The JS community has devolved into bunch of people who re-invent everything in 2-3 year cycles.

Devolved? I honestly thought it had always been this way, going all the way back to the jQuery / MooTools / YUI / Dojo days.
Can't I just use Auth0 for authorization?
Thanks Brad! We're big fans of both Auth0 and OPA.
It is possible within all humans with the spice melange....

However barring becoming a mentat I've noticed this variation within myself as well and I've noticed the times I am able to go and go and go is when I have a lot of momentum. It seems that doing things that require will naturally result in more will so it isn't that the task is easier but rather my ability to overcome is increased and it is a smaller % of my overall energy expenditure to do.

In accord with this I've noticed that for me taking a "break" is when I get far less done and it becomes much harder to do anything.

I've also seen that when I have things booked back to back to back no matter the density it seems I can keep going so long as I don't stop to think about how tired I am and just keep going. It's when I get breathing room that it seems like everything I've already been doing is impossible.

The other big help for me was Adderall, I have ADHD bad so if I am not working under pressure and a deadline sufficient to release adrenaline I can't do anything. That was until I got my medicine then I finally felt like I could be who I could be without being a nurveous burned out wreck all the time.

That's just my perspective with n=1.
I use iOS, Firefox and 1Password to fill out passwords regularly. I just logged out of HN and back in on my iPhone just to test. Is there certain versions that this affected?
AWS SES doesn't seem to have a problem, but you have to describe your usage and verify the domain from which you will be sending.

They usually act within 24h to enable sending if you have set up everything.
Yes, you are correct, Nazis and Japanese committed war crimes. And the US dropped not one, but two atomic bombs to majorly civilian population centers. Different scales, different philosophy, but mass murder of civilians just the same.
we were all waiting for you to
Thanks! It's much the same point, so that could be the ancestor of the snappy quote.
Entirely anecdotal, but a lot of professional endurance sports athletes / ultra distance athletes are also high performing PhD candidates/professors/academics. It's kind of weird - if you watch the documentary about the Barkley Marathons, the winners are usually some kind of math/engineering PhD candidate.

Another anecdote - As a kid I was "hyperactive" and struggled a lot in school until my freshman year. Coincidentally, my problems of hyperactivity and poor grades both stopped at almost the exact time I started doing "competitive" endurance sports. I was just now diagnosed with ADHD as an adult in my mid twenties. My diagnosis probably took so long because I've been "self medicating" with exercise for the last ~10-15 years.

I definitely believe the results of this study and I've found them true in my own life. I've consistently used exercise as a reset from studying / working, and often attributed consistent exercise as a key to my productivity.
I use both, but my experience is different.

I use Firefox, for my trusted sites, mail, banking, various stores, documentation etc.

I use chrome, fore throwaway lookups etc.

Firefox runs for weeks at the time (I am on always on desktops (work and home)) (I restart firefox when new update hits.), but chrome gets laggy after few days.

And i am the type of person that has 100s of tabs open, over few windows each.

I do use primarily Linux though, if that makes any difference.
The article fails to mention that at this phase of the war, when we were trying to convince the Japanese to surrender, we were warning target cities of pending raids by dropping leaflets a few days beforehand. These leaflets advised civilians to evacuate the cities. Unfortunately few did, since it was unfashionable if not dangerous to heed such a warning in a militaristic society like Japan was at the time. Still, we put our bomber crews in danger to reduce the number of civilian casualties while bringing the war to an end.
If they are running on Hyper-V on Azure, there is no underlying kernel doing anything.

It is a matter of who is offering what, not what unikernels are capable of.
Author here, thank you!
The reason I stated that Melody is unstable is that the project is very young (days) and so some of the syntax is still being considered and may change (although the general idea and direction will remain), and also not everything is implemented yet. I'm also considering changing the way the parsing works but that wouldn't affect end users in terms of expected results for valid code)
> It's at best uninformative, at worst nonsensical to try to reduce all of this to interaction found in sexual interaction / reproduction.

Understanding doesn't have to lead to disenchantment. Getting yourself into the frame of mind where you feel the wonder of things is worthwhile for topics like this, science and religion.

Disenchantment is a choice and it comes from saying "X is `just' Y." We don't have to minimize things when people point out their aspects.
Someone found my telco code.
I was trying to write a comment making the same point but honestly, I'm not familiar enough with effects to know what exactly you can do with them. Good to know that I wasn't far off!

I'm curious about one thing though: unless you're passing a parameter that introduces an additional effect F into the function, what's the point of making it generic over the effect set? In a language with typed effects, all effects that could be performed by a function would already be known, so letting a unit function `fn get_user<F>() ->{F} T` where i.e. `F: DiagnosticData -> ()` decide which instance of an effect that takes a DiagnosticData and yields unit, as opposed to `fn get_user<F>(g: () ->{F} ()) ->{F} User` where the effect is clearly introduced by `g`, seems a bit overkill to me.
I'd like to second this question, I'm very interested in any recovery story of CFS.
What features/usability/performance was lost with the switch to the Electron app?

If the answer is "nothing," then really the argument is purely about aesthetics.

I didn't even know it was an Electron app until months after I had installed it.
Interview for all the ones you're interested in regardless of title. The definitions of what constitutes one level versus another are wild (even internally at my company the differences can be crazy).

"lied about part-time remote"

I work for a company that has a reputation for doing the right thing. They lie often. My conclusion is that almost every company does, but it's just a matter of if it negatively affected you and you stuck around long enough (both necessary so you could observe it).
I don't see those ads. My filter bubble is completely different. Personally, I think it would be beneficial for society if all of us were exposed to information that falls outside of what our individual filter bubble normally shows us from time to time.

Another example that came up in my life yesterday relates to the trucker protest here in Ottawa. One of the news stories from last month about restrictions is being heavily promoted by people sympathetic to the cause. However, in the intervening 4 weeks since this particular story was published, those restrictions were lifted and are no longer being enforced. The people promoting the old article do so because it benefits their narrative, but they are effectively spreading misinformation now by failing to acknowledge that the content is no longer true. That's a problem, and that kind of behaviour is not easy to solve. Maybe someday our web browsers will have the ability to flag content that is obsolete, but that's a pipe dream at present.
depends on dialect of english
That could be true, but it doesn't matter until we find a real use case that transcends our regular systems.
A blur filter is very different from a distortion algorithm (like the swirl filter). For a distortion algorithm you just have to put the pixels back into their original position.
I guess rotating one key is easier though. Just update in 1psw and done.
It's a tempting sound bite, but it's wrong.

First, a real vaccine is designed to be much safer than the disease it protects against (compare extremely rare incidence of vaccine side effects with extremely common incidence of hospitalization for infection). What would be the point otherwise?

Second, in the case of COVID variants prior to Omicron, infection is 5x less effective than vaccination at protecting against future infection: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1029-Vaccination-Of...
>They were just there, breathing, eating and doing their lives, not shooting soldiers or invading countries.

Japan had factories, of course, but a lot of the ancillary things to war, like uniforms, etc., were made in people's homes, rice and so on was reserved for soldiers and the surplus was then distributed in the communities. The economy was massively focused on furthering the war effort --even moreso than the US.

I think you need to listen and watch Japanese programming from that era to get the picture of how involved the civilian population was in the war effort.
I mean, the "curse" part is only being forced to live amongst people naive to this reality: seeing monads for what they are should be a blessing.
Why do you need physical touch from relative strangers?
That actually has made me feel a lot more positive than I would have imagined.

I have sort of got stuck in this bubble of reddit and not much else and... the way people behave has really sapped my desire to contribute anything to the world. I'm looking around me at the opinions a lot of people are expressing and I think... no, these people don't deserve nice things. It seems sometimes like the whole world is full of venal, bitter and divisive people that do nothing but snap bitterly at the heels of anyone that makes something of themselves or strays too far from safe consensus.
I suspect - with zero evidence - that handshakes are a male way of greeting, and women got included in it, because what else would you do, but it doesn't work well for them.
Another testament to the power of routines: if you get disrupted for whatever reason (travel, vacation, extreme cold, bout of depression) the new routine of not exercising itself becomes second nature.
placate the need for change through low effort seemingly impactful convenience, you quall motivation for change
I don’t think it really matters all that much. Doing anything is better than doing nothing.

Just do any exercise that’s convenient and don’t overthink the details. Make it as easy as possible to get up and do. The more complicated you make it, the less you’ll actually do it.
The keyword there is "aerobic".

Weight lifting is not aerobic, it is anaerobic.

If you run/cycle/etc beyond your lactate threshold heartrate, you've now switched from aerobic to anaerobic.

Easy to google for more info if this seems interesting/important to you, just a "heads up" to the concept.
There are no first principles in music. The harmonic series is relevant, but you can't start from the harmonic series and find your way to Western classical music.

It just doesn't work like that. Music could have gone in various directions, and Western music happened to pick the various directions it developed in, more or less arbitrarily.

They happen to emphasise a combination of parallel blocks and horizontal lines, and various quite complex kinds of motivic and structural elaboration and development.

Post-classical music - especially electronica - is much more focused on rhythm and timbre. It has more complex sounds and sound combinations and less complex structures.

There isn't much in the way of rhythm-and-timbre theory yet, but it's on its way and will be a thing within a few decades.

All of it is a mess because music has always been about styles, experiments, and conventions, and those have changed over time.

And it's also written from the musician's POV. Not a mathematician's POV. Or a dabbler's POV. Or a nerdy POV.

For example - sooner or later people get to transposing instruments and the obvious question is "Why would anyone sane do that?" And the answer is because it's convenient for the players.

That's it. That's the rationale. For all of it.

So while it's awkward and not very elegant, it has a kind of consistency that's somewhat useful across multiple styles.

It's impossibly hard to invent a system that is so much better for this that it's worth throwing the old system away. People keep trying and failing, because you can't just rationalise part of it, you have to improve all of it. And it's such a huge thing that's not a practical project.

So it persists - partly as a relic, partly as a developing system.
I thought that the ideas behind that video are terrible. Google and Chrome are working tirelessly to do away with the URL for some nefarious reason. I bet it has something to do with ramming down AMP down everyone's throat. Do away with the URL and people can't tell they're on Google's cached copy instead of the original site.
They knew it before that as well:

> In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.

Isoruku Yamamoto, commander-in-chief of the Japanese Navy.
Why does every discussion of “how do you trust a website on first visit” get redirected to “here’s how to trust a website you’ve already visited?”

I understand it’s the larger security problem because there are far more return visits than first visits. But that doesn’t mean it is the only security problem online.

What is the web equivalent of walking into a store for the first time and feeling confident I won’t get assaulted or robbed?
Ad-supported business models are more prevalent and profitable now then at any other time in history. Why do you think publishing was left out?
You might be able to use something like VirtualHere or USBIP for sharing a remote USB device over network
Probably to challenge the country's dominance in dessert wine.
GPG already allows you to authenticate and your SSH key is protected by GPG.
It's hard to falsify the claim (and what's the point?), because for the decision to be rational we need to both know what the energy requirements are, what the price of gas and batteries are, how much we value the environment/diminished CO2 (and how much of it would be saved), etc.

Unless you mean the claim is "batteries can suffice", but without a price tag it's pretty uninteresting as a claim.
Infinite scroll prevents me from ever changing the options
https://bugcrowd.com/agilebits
<pedantic>

The code is never syntactically correct however the syntax error is not identified by the Perl interpreter on Fridays.

</pedantic>
A possible explanation is that when non-committed members are more susceptible to social influence, they are more likely to side with the majority. From the paper:

> However, as consensus becomes easier (increasing β), the social influence within groups tends to favour the name of the initial majority (B).
Does it prevent infection? If not, it's not a vaccine.
The joke, intentional or not, is that he has not farmed enough karma to downvote.