skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A lot of it comes down to lifestyle choices and discretionary spending, essentially they are either bad at budgeting or sticking to it.

I also know some people who are very bad with money and even some who are certainly living an unsustainable lifestyle in order to project the appearance of genuine wealth, but that is by far the exception in my experience.

Saying that it's lifestyle choices and spending habits doesn't sit right with me. I'm not saying that you are doing this, but there are some people who essentially repeat what you've said when what they really mean is something closer to "The dirty poors are living above their station and need to learn to stay in their place!".
It's a kind of mindset where you get ridiculous statements about how poor people could pull themselves up by their bootstraps if only they didn't buy iphones or avocado toast. It ignores so many other much larger factors like increased costs, wages that haven't kept up, the effects and impacts of poverty, and the fact that economic mobility in the US is dismal and has been for a long time.

I mean, it's certainly true that pretty much everyone could benefit from more education in managing personal finances. It isn't something most people are taught in school and much has changed over just a couple generations. Not to date myself too badly here, but my parents told me it was wise to put money in a savings account because it would earn interest and at that time, while still not the best advice, it was a whole lot more reasonable than it is today.

Millennials were the first generation of Americans where the majority ended up worse off than their parents and I think going back at least as far as Gen-X that trend has caused an increase in debit as people struggle just to maintain the lifestyle they grew up in.

I've also seen people more recently who don't believe that there is anything they can do to improve their situation, that home ownership is and will always be an impossibility for them, that retirement is a thing of the past etc. and that kind of hopelessness does seem to lead to reckless spending. Smart hardworking kids working 2-3 jobs, none of which give them any benefits, with little to no savings who spend a lot more than they should on convinces and momentary pleasures because they have zero faith in their future being any better than it is today.

There's a lot more going on than people yoloing their money away, especially when it comes to the very poor who in my experience are usually carefully watching where every last dime goes.
I'd be more interested in why you think DX in Angular is great (especially with Nx).
Most arts have a portfolio, not an audition. Auditions are specific to the performing arts which programming is definitely not. Musically I'd equate programming more to composition, not performance as there is no audience.
Yeah again sorry about my rant! Id say that me being a muslim from the MENA region is probably why I care as much, just like europeans care more about ukraine. The issue is when that (geographic?) biais is not acknowledged, so we get tons of downplaying or people arguing that it's actually just not as bad. Again, that's more of a observation on the thread in general ,not aimed at your comment in particular!

Though I'd dispute your last point, Biden hasn't done anything against the KSA and the status quo just means a (+-) continuation of trump's policy. We will probably even see the Biden administration placating the saudis to keep gas prices in check, and hurt the russians. Which to me is absurd/Self defeating and would just signal that again, some lives are worth more than others.
I'll be blunt: your hiring process sounds very similar to what this article is trying to ridicule.

If I was handed someone else's machine preinstalled with a load of tools that you assume I know how to use, I'd probably excuse myself from your interview. What if I use a different keyboard layout? What if I don't use a Mac/Windows? What if I've never used Swagger?
I have found most software developers cannot write software…at all. Most interviewers seem to find people that can actually write software grossly incompatible.

Knowing this I try to cut through all the bullshit and immaturity by focusing on leadership and measures. Software is exceedingly immature and biased, but it doesn’t have to be that way.

I interviewed at a FAANG this year and it was one of the worst: leet code nonsense and false assumptions about performance that don’t survive reality. They might pay well, but the interview made it feel like a dead end hourly job flipping burgers.
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Yeah I suppose my follow up question is how does it work for you w/ async comms for companies with HQ in Pacific Standard Time?

Or are you just working with a completely separate CET team, and there is no Pacific time interaction?
I like to play games. But I've never been tempted to buy one of these subscription. When I have a new AAA game, it'll take me, maybe, three of four months to complete it. Then I sell the disc second hand and buy a new one.

The fear is that soon enough, you'll be required to have a subscription even for normal play. That can't be far off. Why give out all of this free playstation use, when you could charge for it?
And you can't discount the possibility that it's not housing that's depressing fertility but the economic situation of young couples. Scandinavia is comparatively rich and has great social benefits. Italy, Greece, Spain are all countries that suffered under the last financial crisis and unemployment is high, esp. for younger adults.

So, maybe we just see wealth as a the root cause at play
Franchise: A Notebook SQL Client
Is something like Stackblitz not usable?
I always used a prepaid SIM. For me, the knowledge of not getting into debt accidentally is worth the hassle of charging it myself every 3 months or so.
No, it's based on a combination of production cost and willingness to pay. Supply and demand.
Enrich themselves, as private citizens/company is not a crime nor a bad thing per se, doing so as civil servant AGAINST their country, people interest is. A criminal state against it's own citizens it's not a Democracy and the alternative to Democracy is named dictatorship...

What's wrong in this consideration?

I agree that the nazi-alike treatments of migrants is not per se domestic oppression, they came from other countries so formally it's not an act against domestic citizens, BUT for instance privatization of the energy sector who push price up to the starts and made a mess we can barely have an operational service now is a crime against their own citizens. Imposing sanctions, formally, against a third party with the result of damaging domestic economy, for instance keeping buying Russian oil but instead of doing so directly a X price per barrel doing the same with the India intermediation or from the USA a X+50% per barrel is a crime and the list is long.

Doing their best to circumvent Constitutional protection of Democracy is a coup and so on.

They are oppressive like China? Not FOR NOW, simply because for now they can't, but they dream and want so and they working toward this direction.
Anecdotally, as a straight male in his 30s living abroad in a foreign country, I can say that the breakup and isolation during Covid lockdowns, plus the departure of a few close friends, has depressed me to destruction, that even therapy didn't help much, and I seem to get worse by the month.

And I thought I was an introvert who loved to spend time alone. Which I do, but turns out I also need social interactions to survive, and since I always had it at my disposal, I only noticed the deficiency once I lost it and couldn't get it back.

While I do take part in a couple of local regular sports group activities after work, making strong friendships or relationships from those has proven tough to nearly impossible. Seems like nearly everyone in their 30s with a full time job, already has kids or a romantic relationship or has a long term friend group from their youth that occupies their free time so they can't suddenly accommodate an extra +1.

I can't see it getting better. I feel like a meatbag drone grinding away on shitty codebases in front of a screen 8h/day, just to pay rent and taxes for the next 40 years and die alone after, and compensate for the loneliness by traveling and sports. Only comfort is I don't suffer any grave physical illness so at least I got that going for me.

Maybe I should switch careers to something lower paying that has more human interaction and a better female/male ratio than SW development.
I suppose GP was being ironic ;)
I suppose it's not intended to be a laptop, but rather a "communicator" device as they used to call it a decade, and something ago. Small physical keyboard is worse than a full-size, but better than small on-screen one. At least, as far as me experience go. I did a lot of emailing with Nokia N900 (3.5" screen size, phys kbd), I would not do it on any modern smartphone in spite if them being wider, and longer
Netflix cuts 300 more jobs after subscriptions fall
Hah my city did this recently. Took away two lanes of traffic on two major roads to add bike lanes. I’ve never seen the bike lanes used ever.
Constant climate change may have given Homo sapiens their flexibility (2013)
Healthy food subscription with delivery. Even if we have to cook, it's fine, as long as recipes are provided.
.... it has the exact same slot and SoM selection as the laptop.
Free idea: Same but for making short video clips, and then eventually producing entire movies.
>> was seriously considered as a major plot at some point

So the very out-of-universe answer is: Because Tolkien decided against it. So the better question, and also the one we can use some source material to answer, would be why Tolkien decided against it and wrote a classic fantasy story.
While many door locks can indeed be bypassed, it's straightforward for an occupant to keep an inward-opening door closed, by using a $25 door reinforcer, e.g. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Prime-Line-Door-Reinforcement-Lo.... Bypassing that will involve time and noise.

Enterprises hire professionals to provide physical and digital security. In time, they will extend those protections to harden the perimeter of their WFH employees, when needed to protect valuable corporate IP and privileged access. This includes tamper-detection on shipments of corporate equipment to WFH employees.
You're not wrong, but the rhetoric OP references goes much further than that - it specifically claims that .223, the caliber in which semi-autos like AR-15 are chambered is somehow more deadly than "normal" hunting calibers, and that is supposedly a big part of what makes it a "weapon of war" etc.

The actual story here is that regular hunting calibers tend to be significantly more powerful to maximize the probability of a humane (one-shot; ideally, instant) kill. In fact, many states don't allow hunting deer with .223 on the basis that it's not lethal enough. For similar reasons, most jurisdictions require hunters to use some kind of expanding bullet, whereas ARs are far more typically used with cheap military-style FMJ ammo.
I'm the electronics engineer working in a project involving ROS. And for what I see is quite powerful. My main gripe is that there is not a cheap way to get into the programming side if you are a engineer at home.

The cheapest robot out of the box is 600 euros, which is not cheap. Then you could try to build one yourself which is doable but requires time and could be a project in itself.

And I cannot find a standard DIY robot platform with a well explained tutorial. Maybe there is market for one of those kits?
Zone was also where people played Heroes of Might & Magic III PvP, in early 00s, way before HoMM3 HD Lobby appeared.
The problem is that leetcode in itself is not a calibrated test. So, given any particular leetcode score, assuming the person is there, tells you literally nothing about skills involved.

Big corporations do not use it, and they would be most likely to have actual also likely untranslatable employment data.

Then there are specifics of any job - knowledge of particular system or rapid learning and experimentation skills tend to trump optimization and algorithmic knowledge. Leetcode does not really test any of that.

It is also particularly bad at weeding out cheaters. :)
> “This is possible and used on eReaders, so texts, images, and UI elements could use different update modes, but not with the current available Eink monitor + software stack. Our controller supports per-pixel update mode settings, but this would need support from the software side.”

That “per-pixel update mode settings” sounds very useful for things like interactive books, where the static text could be anti-aliased with grayscale, and moving pictures (physics animation, mathematical graphs, etc.) would be 1-bit monochrome and react smoothly to adjustments.

They show something in this direction in their second video, embedded further down in the linked page, where letters being typed are first rendered immediately in 1-bit mode, then after a delay smoothed out.
Batteries are still really expensive.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation#Financial... for the development of revenue/expenses over time.
Although I agree with you, this form of taxation is entirely optional, and chosen by the churches. It’s a service provided by the state.
The expectation that people cannot criticize MSFT after doing this is exactly why people are suspicious of donations like this so if anything you are validating the "punishment" that you are complaining about.
The images are obviously going to be copyrighted, I suspect the product information is also likely sourced from third party, and thus you would be infringing database rights by scraping.

I find it very unlikely that the price of the products is provided by thirdparty data provider, and think the actual price is not covered by them despite them suggesting it might be.
Disagreed on the performance of the GPD Win Max: at least on my (2020) model, it's much more powerful than an older laptop. But I have to agree on the other things: the tradeoffs are a bit hard to swallow. I have been able to make it my main laptop, but had to do some keyboard adaptations (in software).
Berlin as a yardstick is very problematic. The western part used to be an economic backwater and for a long time after reunification, the city hardly attracted people to live there. It's only in the last 15y that Berlin has been growing like crazy.

In general, capital cities in Europe are extremely expensive, no matter whether we are talking about well-regulated Berlin or less-regulated Rome.
I'm not sure I get you. We were talking about possible internal conflict within the Orcs. Not sure Sauron gets their automatic allegiance, and if he does not, that's all the reason we need. As for humans, I don't have a good explanation there at all.
Tolkien's work is a solution in search of a problem though. It's unsurprising to conclude that English has so few stories if he discards all its Germanic and Skandinavian heritage!
The church asked for it. Other churches don’t. It’s a taxation-as-a-service scheme. Atheists and many religious denominations are unaffected.
I don't like the quote either, but if you expand the reasoning it makes sense.

Spending time on philosophy is valuable because it can prevent you from wasting time on things that don't matter. It is like an investment, spend 2 days on philosophy now and save yourself 10 days of pointless activity. Like an investment, it can result in negative returns if not managed well.

Everyone uses some form of reasoning to guide their decisions, even in the absence of philosophy. Most people take whatever philosophical / religious system they are given at birth (which is likely to be suboptimal) or invent their own from scratch and figure out the downsides the hard way. The point made in the article is essentially: "Why reinvent the wheel when you can read wisdom of people who spent their whole lives thinking about this stuff"

E.g. people who try base their life on Hedonism (sex, drugs and rock'n'roll) often overindulge and eventually find it to be 'empty' in some way. If they had read some of the Stoics or Epicureans they may have discovered the reason for this emptiness and avoided the downsides of overindulgence.
SQL injections will always be a thing, regardless of SQL vs Not-SQL, if you’re building strings to represent programs. Parameterization is precisely how you properly differentiate between code and data, and it’d be the same strategy no matter the language/system.
The google collab link works if you replace the computed path to flax_model.msgpack on line 10 in load_params.py with ‘/content/pretrained/vqgan/flax_model.msgpack’

Edit: actually it's easier to open a terminal and move /content/pretrained/vqgan to /content/min-dalle/pretrained/vqgan
I remember Cix, though I never had it. We had Demon giving me access to this incredible Internet thing, on the super fast 14.4kbps modem!
Pretty easy. RDBMs have a shit API (SQL is terrible) and the largest (PostgreSQL) have a shit HA story. IMO you should think why you are using an RDBMs.

I have used both and have never regretted NOT using an RDBMs. Maybe its a taste thing but I'd rather use a simple K/V database than a relational database any day.
The Briefcase was a godsend back when removable storage was used to move files between computers and there was no other way to keep things synced. It's a shame they removed it.
Any other forums you’d recommend?
>I've gotten plenty of training that makes it extremely clear that discrimination based on protected classes is unacceptable in all contexts

There are plenty of cases where discrimination against unprotected classes still happens. Cases where studies cannot find a correlation between selected candidates and things like retention rate, performance etc. These include cases where one would be skipped over despite having personality attributes the team is sorely lacking.

>You're hiring humans to work with other humans.

It's because we work together as humans, most of the things you said don't really matter. Most humans can work together despite their differences. That's one huge problem with hiring as a whole, trying to find carbon copies of each other while espousing they value diversity.

That's not to mention all this "one of us" hoo-ha just stimulates chameleon behavior. Which benefits the person opposite of you, but it doesn't do you much favor in the long run.
I very much doubt the price of the product is coming from this company, everything else sure, trolley.co.uk should explicitly ask them if they data aggregator provides the price to the website.

It doesn't matter if they also store that information, (might be scraping that themselves), if they don't provide that to the website, its not infringing their database rights, it is infringing the supermarkets.
Infant murderer pills? What a load of horseshit. Abortion pills and emergency contraceptive pills are different.

Medical abortions (abortion pills) are typically performed by administering a two-drug combination: mifepristone followed by misoprostol.

Medical abortion is both safe and effective throughout a range of gestational ages, including the second and third trimester. Medical abortion can be administered safely by the patient at home, without assistance, in the first trimester. Starting with the second trimester, it is recommended to take the second drug in a clinic or provider's office.

Medical abortion should not be confused with emergency contraception, which typically involves drugs (such as such as Levonorgestrel or "Plan B") taken soon after intercourse to prevent a pregnancy from beginning.

Stop spreading misinformation.

Abortion pills:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_abortion

Emergency contraception, Plan B etc:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_contraception
Not sure why this is downvoted: seems like the inevitable endpoint of AI vision/image generation research and it warrants consideration and discussion.
You can't have read the specs of the product in question, or the laptop product you've found.

https://shop.mntmn.com/products/mnt-reform
I didn’t mean to make a joke here, what was the funny part? Reading it again,
maybe the tie:arm/leg sounded too much of a BDSM stuff?

Not my initial idea though: I was just looking at short words that might hold the analogy need, from "relationship" you easily come to "tie", and then "arm/leg" for "anterior/posterior" seems pretty straight forward and analogous to "antecedent/(consequent|postcedent|succedent)".
That's not really relevant for the UK, where indeed there is such a thing as database copyright.
Yeah editor chat isn’t a bad sign, I enjoy it, but I also don’t put a whole lot of stock in it. It’s a plus if someone can explain their editor choice through original arguments delivered with passion and conviction, but that applies to any number of technical topics.
It is doubtful whether there's any point in me replying as little of what you've said has anything to do with anything I said. It appears you read my post and entirely misunderstood it. I will nonetheless offer a response to what you have written.

Your first misunderstanding is this assumption that competition and user choice hinges on the axis of "browsers and app stores". This isn't an objective fact, it's an opinion. A different and (at minimum) equally valid opinion is that user choice can hinge on the axis of phone ecosystems. Yet another axis could hinge on apps themselves — perhaps none of us are "free" until Facebook, Instagram, etc are all required by the EU to allow anyone to write fully featured native front-ends. Perhaps the freest of all is a marketplace with a diversity of axes, which is precisely what laws tend to demolish.

Your second misunderstanding is your continued smuggling in of the concept of "user choice" in a marketplace where users do not and cannot have anything remotely resembling real freedom of choice, no matter how many browser engines or app stores are available. Open source ecosystems aside, >99% of "choices" are made by the software developer exclusively. Choosing to acquire the same corporate-capitalist closed source spyware from vendor A or vendor B is an illusion of choice.

Your third misunderstanding is this absurd and self-evidently false claim that people who like the status quo will be able to simply ignore the new alternative app stores and browsers. If loading alternative app stores really does become seamless, companies like Facebook and Google will have absolutely no incentive to list their apps in Apple's store. In fact given that Apple's pro-privacy policies (like App Tracking Transparency) are causing these companies to lose enormous amounts of revenue, they have a MASSIVE commercial incentive to abandon the Apple App Store.

You say these laws are about to be passed. I haven't seen how any of these EU laws get around the reality of Apple's ownership of its own intellectual property. I can't imagine how the EU could force Apple to supply its intellectual property to app developers under different terms. So even if the EU does force open iOS to alternative stores, I'm really not sure how developers are going to legally build apps to put in those stores.

As for your continued barbs implying that I oppose user choice, I'm wearing a "mask", that I hate markets, that I hate opinions, that I'm taking away freedoms, that I am offering "fake arguments" which I "don't believe" and will be "crying" about EU laws. All I can say is that rejecting the possibility that someone can sincerely hold a different opinion to you is disappointing — and represents a barrier to intellectual curiosity.
Construction should never stop; build, modify, tear, repeat.
This might interest you: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...

It's about how to perform realtime dithering of a 3D scene such that the amount of annoyance you describe is minimized