skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had some pretty good experiences with using the following random UID scheme.

32 bit millisecond timestamp that just rolls over, i.e. truncate(current_time_ms()), concatenated with 96 bytes of crypto grade entropy.

You get both nice properties, database index locality + proper entropy that you can sleep well and not worry about collisions (since the entire timestamp space will get more densely populated with every overflow (roughly every 50 days)).

It's also what PostgreSQL uses for it's index friendly UID format. :D
Surprised there are no questions regarding attrition or why people have quit.

I also ask of the current managers (in the immediate department), how many were promoted and how many were hired. What is the shortest/longest someone in the company has gone with/without a promotion.

If unlimited PTO, what is the average/mean of days taken off. We do not have data is an immediate "I'll pass, thank you".
> It should be self-evidently a bad thing that a small number of people benefit from artificially low prices

1. Nothing artificial about it.

2. Just expand the fraction of rent control and more people will enjoy it.

3. If X% of renters are in rent-control apartments, they don't contend with us on non-rent-controlled properties. That's not a huge effect but it's _an_ effect.

4. "My landlord also loses money" - ok, I call BS. Either you're not a renter or you have some other kind of ulterior motive. Your landlord makes money off of you, and is not renting out as a form of charity; plus, they're already rich, owning (most likely) their own accommodation and the apartment they rent out to you.
> GitHub’s current choice of syntax goes against the Markdown grain.

I don't see that at all. It's pretty common. Far more common IME than all other choices combined. The problems are caused by parsing the markdown first, then slapping on math support to what's left, and of course that doesn't work.

This really is an easy problem to solve (and has been for ages). Handle the math sections first and make math support opt-in. The Gitlab syntax is great unless you want to do something other than have Gitlab render your markdown files. That's not much of a solution.
"When will the product I'll be working on be canceled?" is the question then...
The "business case" idea is the best advice, I believe.

Estimate how many hours of productivity you lose per day. Even a half hour is a lot. If it's reasonably more, then your case is even better.

For instance, measure how long it takes to compile your projects /start up/whatever. Have things you can objectively point to. Compare that to your target machine.

Multiply the lost hours per day by your hourly rate (the bookkeeping rate, which will be higher than your actual salary, or use your salary+benefits if you cannot find it. Ask your producer, PM or boss). This will give the daily loss in dollars (or euros, pounds, rupees, whatever) per day. Divide this amount into the cost of a new box. That will be the number of days it will take for them to recoup the costs of a new machine over keeping the old machine.

Show those numbers to whomever does procurement. Understanding the business case is the way to move anything in a corporation.

e.g. if you're losing $20 a day and a new box is $2000, it will take 100 work days for them to see a return on it versus not doing it. That half a working year is probably worth it, since you'll probably be there at least another year.

Also, point out that productivity gains are exponential, i.e. productivity builds on previous success, and slow initial productivity leads to lower rate of productive gains later on.

Also, say something like "I am afraid that my reputation with my colleagues might be suffering, because the machine crawls so badly". This will directly address any grumbling about your productivity so far.

Under no circumstances get your own machine.

As for your for working from home, I'm not sure if you received documented permission to work on your own machine. If you did, you can tell them you have been working from home because your home box is more efficient. If you did not, then do not bring it up.
This sucks because it also means no one is making add-ons for mobile, it's more of an accident that we even have ublock. There's use cases that the Firefox team will not work on for decades that could be filled by add-ons if they just told people to go wild, absolute top of the list being text reflow to prevent having to scroll sideways to read long text. Opera is still the only browser that does it for some reason years on, but it gets worse every update.
Twitter officially rolls out its long-form content ‘Notes’ feature
Where are you getting these numbers from?

The average return per user per year for FB is easily searchable. Its about $10 a year. Why post this without just quickly checking the real number?

The misinfo on Meta and it's business practices is insane.
Do you know about Ultraschall?

It is geared towards podcasting, based on Reaper. Works very well, though I have no experience in using other tools in the space.

https://github.com/stonerl/REAPER
If you replace "company" with "individual", then the entire thing makes sense - individuals (and therefore companies) should be assumed to have changed until further evidence proves otherwise (innocent until proven guilty and all that). That's why the concept of "repeat offenders" exists, and they do tend to be punished more harshly, at least in the case of individuals. So, time for an extension of that concept to corporations, as well?
To me, this perspective seems to be indicative of thinking too much of yourself. What business is it of yours how another person manages their inbox? You have no right to their attention.
Google did a large study. If your page load is 5s then adding 100ms does not matter. I got the raw data from them and it mattered in the curve closing in on the whole page taking 200ms or so. It’s level, and then around 2.5s, each 100ms made more and more of a difference.
One thing that makes it worse from inside the car is going from bright sunshine into quite dark shade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJdQ5wtWqZU is doing a show run, but you get some idea of how little you can see from inside the car. I know the eyes are better than the camera, but even so it's quite a ride.
>>she was worried that it would not be insulated from legal challenges.

and she was right.
Yeah, when they did the big performance rewrite(quantum?) and killed pentadactyl (vim mode), I was really upset. I remember using Firefox 52-esr for as long as I could to keep my workflow the same.

In my mind, that was peak Firefox. Yes performance wasn't great, but I didn't care. It was good enough and I mostly browsed with JavaScript disabled.

The new vim mode plugins can't compete with the old plugins because they are much more restricted in what they can do.
> If the solution can't be differentiated from its competitors, beware.

This is critical and not straightforward to evaluate. Complexity is a (if somewhat bad) proxy for differentiation, in the sense that if you can build it in a weekend, so does your competitor - and maybe he's got the mythical 10x engineer who'll ship it faster.
Nothing new under the sun. This is just the latest in the pendulum swinging back to the same server-side strategy that Php/Django do. There's a reason we moved away that! Client-side apps are an elegant architecture that takes advantage of computing power on edge devices.
He has written a big book on evolution of Earth and theories around it. [1]

It includes a whole chapter on plate tectonics, the preceding theories, and how plate tectonics itself was gradually accepted. In the book, there's also a large review on other scientific problems, like where the Sun gets energy from, why the Earth has magnetic field, where does internal the heat of the Earth come from, etc. Lots of "how do we know that..." questions. A great review, highly recommend.

So he's 100% aware what status plate tectonics had in Tolkien's time. I think he also mentions that as a linguist he wasn't a geologist, and could draw the land whichever way he imagined.

[1] Kirill Yeskov. History of Earth and Life On It. (in Russian)
https://readli.net/istoriya-zemli-i-zhizni-na-ney/
Can't speak to most of this, but:

> The term fiat derives from the Latin word fiat, meaning "let it be done" used in the sense of an order, decree or resolution.[0]

I know it's annoyingly pedantic, but I had to look it up because I had never heard the assertion that the word fiat comes directly from Genesis.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_money
I wonder if you realize that you come off as an extremist?
Thanks. Any platform that you would recommend?
Python equivalent: https://docs.python.org/3/library/struct.html
An engineer is a profession that deals with things that (probably) don't have souls.

A priest is a profession that deals with souls (allegedly, depending on your religious convictions).

Lemoine is essentially claiming the neural network has a soul. Being a priest is a proper credential for that, even if you don't believe in priestly stuffs. IMHO, I wouldn't trust any engineer to lecture me about whether some AI has a soul. Not that I'd trust a random self-proclaimed priest, but that's another matter.
If you want just a high quality audio recorder to use with a separate microphone the Zoom F6, or F8n would be a good choice. No need to set levels because they capture the entire dynamic range, and dual SD cards. Kind of big though. Sound Devices makes similar boxes, of similar or better quality but much higher price.
This may be worth a look - I've been using minidlna for probably 10 years and nothing has been as simple as that!
Hopefully never. I've seen a few "Planet of the Apes" movies.
I moved away from Glassfish years ago and have been running Payara since. There were always little bugs in Glassfish that no one ever fixed (but Payara fixed), and Payara's more frequent releases are welcome.
Now do Netflix!
> The Shire is truly an anomaly

Probably has a magical bubble around it. Seems like Gandalf’s little terrarium tbh.
Destroying evidence you say?
Users spend on average 20 hrs/m on FB. Both that and DAU have gone up on average across the past 4 years.
Deno is a TS runtime. Deno Deploy is a place on which to deploy a Deno project. Fresh is a framework with which to write web apps on Deno, which then can be deployed to Deno Deploy.

Your question seemingly conflates these three things and adds unrelated elements.

To answer what you might be asking: TS is a nice language and Deno offers excellent tooling, Deno Deploy is easier to use than AWS and Fresh makes it easy to write web apps in a React-ish manner.
I have somewhat mixed feelings. On the one hand, plays are mostly meant to be seen performed. On the other hand, watching even a relatively accessible play like As You It cold as a high school student is probably a bit toss in the pool's deep end. It's sort of easy to tune out the unfamiliar language at that point.

One option is to use some commentary on a play rather than the whole thing--e.g. Garber's book.
This is her:

“Roe v. Wade, in contrast, invited no dialogue with legislators. Instead, it seemed entirely to remove the ball from the legislators’ court. In 1973, when Roe issued, abortion law was in a state of change across the nation. As the Supreme Court itself noted, there was a marked trend in state legislatures “toward liberalization of abortion statutes.” That movement for legislative change ran parallel to another law revision effort then underway-the change from fault to no-fault divorce regimes, a reform that swept through the state legislatures and captured all of them by the mid-1980s.
No measured motion, the Roe decision left virtually no state with laws fully conforming to the Court’s delineation of abortion regulation still permissible. Around that extraordinary decision, a well-organized and vocal right-to-life movement rallied and succeeded, for a considerable time, in turning the legislative tide in the opposite direction.”

This is exactly the point I made.
A link to the decision: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

(Everything I'm writing about is under Held)

Morality plays in some way. Basically, Roe tried to rewrite and ignore some history, according to the court, in order to establish an implicit privacy principle in the constitution. Where the morality comes in is that the court clearly fears things like hooking and drug use (which they mention explicitly in the ruling) and they tie this to Roe and Casey's arguments about privacy and autonomy while also demonstrating that Casey tried to eschew many of Roes arguments. They kept referring to this as "ordered liberty" which I took for morality.

Therein lies the rub though, as Alito said. Without a right to privacy - or explicitly stated "liberty" the court then has to review what the people want. Half the country is on a spectrum within a spectrum about morality, and the other half is on a different spectrum within a spectrum. He also called out a third group, which wants abortion under certain circumstances. Thus, the court then reverts to history, which abortion has been historically highly illegal.

So, some technical, some historical, some moral.

Would an actual privacy amendment really provide a pathway for abortion is my broader question.
Well if anyone wanted proof of evolution just let emerging viruses run unchecked through billions of people.
> Back when the Constitution was written, the militia was "all able bodies males" who could be called to service

You are focussing on what the militia is (and erroneously pretend that it has changed over time; it still essentially the same thing, see, e.g., the codification in Title 10 of the US Code.)

But my point is about what the second amendment says the militia is necessary for, not what the militia is. Because that's the part that is relevant to the claim that the 2nd Amendment provides a right of the type that should be applied by the 14th Amendment to be protected against the states or rather than that explicitly has a role for the benefit of the states and to which the incorporation logic of the 14th Amendment does not apply.

Incorporation of rights protected against federal encroachment by the Bill of Rights against the states isn't universal (the requirement of indictment from the 5th Amendment is not incorporated, for instance), even for rights that are expressly individual rights. Incorporation is a separate question.
Certainly, but imagine the reams of red tape you'll be making your agent team wade through. The FBI has a lot of resources but I suspect they are not setup to counterfeit US currency. Sooo many meetings and approvals, Judicial oversight, just to get a special run of bills from the Treasury Department. Would they be required to destroy the original evidence since they are duplicating US currency? The years of the missed soccer games and birthdays of their loved ones just to take a peek at some pepe memes that have no meaning.

Don't forget to put some sealed US currency envelopes in your suitcases while flying kiddos, the TSA needs to have fun too.
You should reach out to any local recruiting firms you have any contact with first and tell them precisely that you're looking for projects that are short term, that way you can get paid reasonable wages, and you save your money so you can go weeks or months without pay. Especially if you're skilled, do not undersell yourself!
I don’t know whether it is fair to call it a mess. It is a very decent browser, but so are the others. Why would someone choose Firefox over Chrome on their androids, when the latter has system level integration/sync even for completely tech illiterate people? Similar story applies to ios, where you don’t even get a true non-safari browser.
Aphoristic Noodling
It's funny because to me it says pretty much the opposite: because sqlite has no server it works entirely in-process, whereas the client will be talking to postgres over a unix socket, or possibly a full-blown network socket.

Plus it seems to be a readonly workload, something for which posgres is not ultra relevant (not that it doesn't work, but...).
Owners buy the tools. Independent contractors bring their own tools. If you're not an owner and not an independent contractor, then no, you don't supply the machine.

If they're unhappy about the speed at which you get work done, well, they made the bottleneck by giving you a junk machine. That's on them, not on you. (Yes, it's frustrating for you...)
What’s even more worrying is the numerous accidents hiding in a $700k a month bill which is our problem.
It depends on how efficient the dev is.

For comparison, I've been running a paid Slack app (a few $K per year) that manages to run entirely within the free tier on Google Cloud Platform.
Not necessarily. A cloud provider could retroactively cap charges at the hard limits, but only cut access to resources asynchronously. That's effective what happens when you complain now with AWS.
You might get some mileage out of posting on /r/cobol on Reddit. There's a small but somewhat active community of COBOL folks on there.
Don't worry, he's speaking for the majority of long term firefox users. You're the exception. I started using Firefox when it was Gecko/Phoenix in 2002, then Firebird, then Firefox. I started using it because it was so customizable. I stopped using it at version 37 in 2015 because that was when Mozilla destroyed the browser by removing user freedoms to install their own add-ons without Mozilla's approval. And no, using Nightly (alpha renamed aurora renamed nightly) is not an option because it is extremely crashy on non-standard OS/Distros.

Since 2015 Firefox has become rapidly less capable and rapidly more 'secure' for non-technical users. It's just not what I or the original userbase want. But like with all things Mozilla (including the original employees and CEO) we've been replaced. There's plenty of users who just want Chrome that's not labeled Chrome and Firefox modern gives it to them.
For dev system, I can't see why no hard limits.
Video Podcasts Are on the Rise
They not benchmarking the blog, they are benchmarking an analytics application aggregating statistics about the blogs.
Searching for the dankest iPod knockoffs of the mid-2000s
> You seem to be confused or at least "cloudy" about some things. The U.S. has the concept of separating religion from government (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state).

As someone who wishes this was codified in our constitution, I'm afraid the 'concept' is held relatively weakly.

Clarence Thomas has stated, regarding the Establishment Clause: 'The text and history of this Clause suggest that it should not be incorporated against the States.'

I wouldn't be surprised if there is concurrence among the conservative justices sans Roberts.
Let's start doing irresponsible things because we assume "the bad guys" will be doing them anyway?
I have a fully working SaaS with 30+ companies paying, with 20 employees each on average. I wrote it as a self taught programmer via YouTube and stackoverflow. It is hosted on a $2 a month namecheap sharedhosting. Php back, jQuery front. I use cpanel to set things up.

It runs faster than 90% of webapps on the internet.
I was actually sincerely wondering if there is information indicating that low-carbing works for everyone. I apologize for coming off like I was looking for a straw man.
So are you saying it doesn’t matter if innocent people are tortured by a law, as long as it’s “rare”?

Like… your opinion is that corner cases don’t matter in law?
You seem to have a very specific view that pacing = faster.

Pacing is not faster.

GOT is not fast at all. In fact it takes several seasons for GOT to reach a payoff and everyone watched it in ANTICIPATION for that payoff. Literally they sat through the equivalent of 30 blade runners back to back to get to what was imo not that great of a payoff. But what made them do it was the masterful pacing.

>But, as with all things art, I think there's no way to enjoy or feel about it. I feel a lot differently but that doesn't mean I'm right.

No I disagree. There is such a thing as a general perspective held by a statistically significant portion of the population. And that general perspective is often what what should be counted as correct.

For example if someone thinks something as horrible as rape is morally right does it make it right? Or should we go with what the general population thinks.

You can be the guy who holds a different opinion. But I would say something is wrong with you if you can't even begin to empathize with why a general audience thinks the way they do. Don't be snobbish. Your art quote actually has a bit of an odor hinting at this.
I feel this. As someone who has ADHD I really need to come up with some kind of enterprise where I can just build something and sell it, without the meetings and time estimates and deadlines which are always tripping me up. Something where I can work at my own pace and my own schedule. Otherwise the sword of Damocles is always over my head- forget one meeting, give a bad estimate- and I have no income. Maybe software, maybe I'll just make furniture.
I think he was the one that developed the original concept for F1 racing in the '70s with Brabham, the BT46B car, I think? Supposedly to counter Lotus's lead in ground effect research on their car.
Anyone know a good FLOSS basic / lightweight solution for an underpowered machine to serve streaming audio and video to local LAN browser clients with no (or optional) frills such as no db, no running off to download album covers, and so on?
Plan B is not an abortifacient. It prevents fertilization from ever taking place. Anyone against Plan B is entirely making an argument about casual sex.
IC is anybody that isn't management. Programmer means anybody that creates programs.

This article did indeed confuse the two (probably because the author manages programmers but does not program herself), but they are independent concepts. All combinations of IC/not IC and programmer/not programmer exist.
Thanks. I created an account and will try it out. Have you tried it yourself? I'm searching for contracts that are few weeks long.
I use iceraven to get around some of these limitations. Addons that I needed(privacy redirect) work great: https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser.

From the github link : The ability to attempt to install a much longer list of add-ons than Mozilla's Fenix version of Firefox accepts. Currently the browser queries this AMO collection Most of them will not work, because they depend on code that Mozilla is still working on writing in android-components, but you may attempt to install them. If you don't see an add-on you want, you can request it.
Both could be true. A contract can say anything, but it's going to be bound by the legal framework it operates in, and in this case I don't think there's much of a distinction between the digital and real world, except for physical resources not changing hands.

Hypothetically, the contract could say Jeff Bezos will come to your house and personally kill you, but there's no consentual murder in most places
I've come to the conclusion that people can't be happy unless they are building something/building toward something. Doing nothing is not really an option, psychologically speaking. That's imo why adults don't make friends easily because their lives only meaningfully intersect when they have a shared goal.
SparkNotes has a "translated" version of each play [0] that is more accessible for the modern reader. Yes, purists will tell you that you're missing out on Shakespeare's flowery and playful use of language but you also spend a much smaller fraction of the time parsing through the text than you otherwise would. Also, the original text is right next to the translated version so you can just look over if you want to compare.

[0] https://www.sparknotes.com/nofear/shakespeare/romeojuliet/ac...