skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don’t you have the same issue with any query optimized product? If I’m using redshift and hit a bad execution plan that I can’t get around by tweaking the query I’m SOL, and redshift engineers aren’t going to tweak a configuration change to help me.

This is why products like DynamoDB were created - cost based optimizers are imperfect and unpredictable, and once you’ve stepped over some limit or threshold performance wildly changes. The reasons can be your query, or the data has changed, or there’s a noisy neighbor consuming a resource you depend on for your query. If you need highly predictable times you can reason about you won’t get it from any RDB solution.

Given that, what about snowflake feels different? That the details are obscured from you so you don’t understand why things are happening? Is the lack of ability to deeply introspect making you uncomfortable? My experience had been the ability to introspect rarely leads to any change in outcome but instead leads to me identify the query optimizer has done something stupid I can not do anything about, but at least I can point to the specific resource being exhausted by it.
When you visit a website it gets your IP address. It can look up a geolocation database to narrow down the IP to a city/region. You can use an anonymous VPN if you want to prevent this.
If I properly understand, I agree.

A all-in attempt to reframe life based on self-awareness and what’s not right/what’s really wanted can be a rewarding experience when it’s properly hedged. I think doing it consistently in small and large ways is a good way to continually develop as a person as middle and old age set in. The world is a big place and I think the point gets missed if the track you’re born into is the track you die in. Attempting these track changes and ideally pulling them off is a great way to understand the power of personal agency and where self-identity comes from.

Hedging the risks of this generally means clear plans for financial stability during the change, and generally accepting and planning for the consequences of the change. It’s hard to <learn to code, move abroad, w/e> when you can’t pay rent.

I think people who wade into attempting this likely fail due to not being able to cover their hedges and an bit of bad luck. Or, they are just born into the wrong zip code and the real-life risks of a change are too much to overcome or they have very narrow paths with tough trade offs (joining the military or w/e).

So, all that said, putting your life orientation and self-identity at risk once in a while and expanding the territory is a good thing I think.
You've described the way it ostensibly should be.

My guess is that the reality is almost perfectly in opposition to what you've described. Anything that introduces plausible deniability is going to be of a major benefit.
Does VScodium support WSL now ? I need windows unfortunately for office apps.
> these parents should be in jail for reckless child endangerment

Do you have children?
I can think of a few accounts that, with a single tweet, could move markets, inflame tensions, or kick off multiple cycles of misinformation. For many of these large, influential accounts, Twitter is effectively the same as an official press release.
The last time I checked the remote startups were not even willing to pay me half of what companies with brick-and-mortar offices were willing to pay me. Sorry, I can't see how remote startups will win the top talent with such less pay!
Fever dreams are easy to come by.
Musk needs twitter to have willfully misrepresented and concealed, not merely to have had estimates that they admitted were nothing more than estimates.
At my offgrid cabin I converted a $300 chest freezer to a fridge by using an external thermostat that toggles power off/on based on temp. I have it turn on at 37 degrees and turn off at 35. It uses such little power that it's not even a factor for my small solar setup.
It's not about efficiency, it's about avoiding getting caught for criminal acts. Since criminals don't pay taxes on their earnings and don't have to pay for all sorts of things others do, they're already more "efficient"
People can criticize. I never said they can't! I'm just saying the particular criticism in this case was quite lame and didn't make any sense.
In response to those commentators puzzling over the evidential status of computer simulations, you should know that this is currently an open question being debated in the field of Epistemology of Measurement, which aims to give a rigorous account of what it means to `measure' something.

It is not at all obvious that simulations should be excluded from the category of `evidence', especially when the simulation depends heavily on the input of observational data. Consider, for instance, using a simulation to interpolate the temperature in some location based on the actually observed temperatures in surrounding regions. Let's also not forget that modern precision measurement is highly dependent on making detailed computer models to predict how the measuring instruments function, blurring the line somewhat between simulation and measurement.

Some references:

[1] Nature: "Virtually a measurement", by Wendy Parker.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-01138-3

[2] Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on "Measurement in Science":
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/measurement-science/#EpiM...

[3] "The problem of observational grounding: how does measuring generate evidence?" by Eran Tal.
Video: https://vimeo.com/184697369
Article (open access):
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/772/1/0...
Just as showing ads to people willing to pay to not see ads is supposedly the most lucrative thing humans can envision (not sure how royally pissing off your users is profitable but hey, that's me) it seems that tracking people that don't want to be tracked reveals the most precious data imaginable.
Telemetry can be an invaluable source of information to improve products, everyone knows that; it's sorta like having 100% of the users continuously reporting bugs and information from which software vendors can infer most wanted features or modifications to improve usability. Which business wouldn't want that? If done right it could be great for everyone, including users.
Unfortunately there's no way to ensure that invaluable tool won't one day be used against users to sneak out data that wouldn't contribute in any way to products improvement, namely making profits from users profiling.

But the point isn't being good or evil; businesses have no sense of morals, they don't obey to common sense but rather take the path that leads to the higher profits, and these days profiling users unfortunately brings high profits. It's not a matter of which company is good or bad, or if telemetry can be done right or not, but rather how long until a software with built in telemetry will use it the wrong way, because soon or later everyone of them will be presented the scenario in which doing a bad thing brings them more profits; and this principle applies way beyond telemetry.
Windows in Parallels runs well except with every update IIS Express is broken so I have to uninstall and reinstall the version downloaded from Microsoft's website.
> It is certainly not true of this system because you cannot stay in the queue forever.

This is true, and people can drop out of the queue by dying. The death rate will increase until the queue is balanced.
I don't get it? Do you claim that one of the elections is rigged? I mean, we have multiple elections for a reason right? People choose to vote for different people on different elections, why would that be problematic and how that would be "fixed" if France left EU?
They push for censorship of pornographic material, which is less dangerous than misinformation about vaccines.
I think the lawsuit is probably referring to BlueKai which was a company Oracle bought in 2014. I’m not even sure if they are the biggest third party DMP out there
Yep, a real photo. Unfortunately, I participated in the making of that sign. It was made at a sign company in Oakland, CA that is owned and operated by Scientologists.

As a matter of fact, it was this sign that started my investigation into the goings on at said company and my discovery that the owner, sales manager, production manager and H.R. person were all full fledged Scientologists. Needless to say, I quit that job. But it wasn't over.. on my exit interview they grilled me on why I was quitting/what I thought of the company. Then they spent the next 2 years trying to serve me for stealing documents that I didn't steal.
I'm curious which population in Australia you are designating as "indigenous". Here in the UK, "indigenous" usually means white. But I think of indigenous Australians as the aboriginals.

So there's history in Australia of white immigrants trying to force aboriginals to "integrate" with whites. I suppose you could call that "targeted diversification". But you make it sound as if your social circle is white people, objecting to "diversity" in the sense of deviation from whiteness.

Would you mind clarifying?
This is a dichotomy that appears across sailing cultures and territories, certainly not unique to Belize or the modern era. The law/rule is made because a) it is often extremely risky to stop and help a stranded vessel for the same reason b) the stranded vessel has little recourse if no one stops to help. If no one helps, the vessel may be doomed. But if you help and the vessel turns out to be pirates (or just so desperate the sailors turn into pirates to save themselves), then you become the stranded one. The solution some governing organizations take is to remove the choice and mandate sailors subject to its jurisdiction stop and help. This is beneficial on a community scale even if potentially fatal in any individual instance. Of course the challenge remains of if we are all alone at sea, how will anyone know back home we didn't stop?
Yes, but the lawnmower was designed and is being pushed by a human (Ellison), no?

Then one could say it's an evil tool? It's really not that much of a stretch to anthropomorphize things when we view tools as extensions of ourselves.
Literally a brother from a different mother.
Pretty sure whoever is willing to pay a ton will win the war for Top Talent.
DEVONthink (macOS, https://www.devontechnologies.com/apps/devonthink) does this very well. It can search metadata and contents and offers many organizational options.
The article has a chart showing car paint color over time.
I'm relaying information from the article based on the 200-page document sent to government agencies. Everything else is speculation based on nothing.
Meanwhile the people who were interrupting you have now had their productivity hit.

The question is, do the two tradeoff as a net positive or a net negative for the company and how does that tradeoff work in more collaborative roles?
No-Code AI Vision and Docker at the Edge
>I never really understood why people say productivity and socializing is difficult remote.
Productivity, with the right mindset, tools, support, can probably be as good as in person.

Now, I rather go see my friends in person than setup a Zoom meeting and be all virtually together. I rather go see my father and talk to him over WhatsApp. I rather go to Paris than watching a video of paris from my room. I no doubt doubt that socializing is much, much better in person.
@marginalia, Can you talk more about how you prioritize the URL frontier?
Please provide at least a single piece of evidence when blaming. I don't know them, but if you're saying I should not trust them - please explain why (not just “they are wrong”).
Not entirely. Startups have a <4% success rate. I'd prefer a more stable opportunity. As a senior principal, I consider myself "top talent".
I think you've conflated two things.

People can be productive or slackers. And they can be social or antisocial. You personally noticed the social slackers. But I doubt you noticed the antisocial ones, because they're not visibly doing nothing; they're distracting themselves in quieter ways.

I know plenty of people who are both productive and social. Indeed, given that both software and business are mostly team sports, some of the most productive people I know are very social.
You're building a team. If someone doesn't have the communication skills (or exemption) necessary, then choose a better candidate.
In the book "A year without pants" by Scott Berkun where he spends a year with Wordpress and their then somewhat unique remote model, he emphasizes that it's still important for many to meet, it's just not necessary every day. I've worked remotely for almost 20 years and I believe quite strongly that remote companies often underestimate the importance of actually meeting occasionally, maybe every 3-6 months. Maybe importance is too strong, maybe it's just fun to meet up every now and then and share some adventures.
Article is a scan so can't be searched.

Any mention of symmetric crypto in there?

After all, permutation generation is what a sizable chunk symmetric crypto is about.

[edit]: and now that I've skimmed through the paper, I see it is not really about permutation generation but rather permutation enumeration, so symmetric crypto is out.
And possibly keep telemetry data (all of it) auditable by users, so that they know exactly what they are opting in to transmit.
* part of the problem is that education is not funded much federally but mostly by cash strapped states and localities, and there are many reasons why politicians and parents may not want local control or funding to be loosened.

* part of the problem is that there are huge segments of politicians who are not interested in or do not want equality, and to that end even actively try to destroy education
You're absolutely right about legal liability. They have every right to sue.

But as to the discussion of who's at fault in terms of preventing the accident, yes, it's the friend's sister's parents. The friend's sister was still too young (13) for that e-bike which the company rated for age 18 and up. I'm not speaking from the standpoint of how the law ought to work. I agree that companies ought to provide products fit for use and fit for purpose. I agree the parents should be able to sue if the product isn't.

The helmet being defective is a much worse problem, if that's true.

If we're talking about whose job it is to prevent children from getting involved in an accident of this sort in the first place, however; that's on parents.
I used "lol" twice in very close proximity, I am sorry.
Drones normally have wings, or quad (or more) rotors. Powered by batteries or gas, fly rather slowly, can loiter, can collect intelligence, and have a human in the loop for target selection.

Missiles typically have zero or minimal wings, powered by a rocket or at least a turbine, fly quickly (500 mph and up), can't loiter, can't collect intelligence, and generally don't have a human in the loop after being fired.

There's a little overlap, but not that much.
>Commodification incentivizes regression to some mean.

I'd frame it alternatively: optimization incentivizes uniformity. Inefficiencies are ruthlessly filtered out of the system. A wacky color scheme reduces might reduce profits by x%, so all fast food restaurants will tend towards the same boxy boring structure.

Another example of this for me is sports. Take baseball for example: in the past, you had so many different styles of players. Pitchers had unique and funky delivery types. It gave the game character. Now? If you're not optimizing your style of play to deliver the highest value according to the stats, you're costing yourself tens of millions of dollars. All the character of the game is slowly being wrung out.

This pattern is obviously being played across every domain in every part of life. It's pretty sad but entirely rational from every individual actor's point of view. And furthermore, it seems like an issue that's impossible to fix in a world of infinite information.
That's a pretty narrow viewpoint. I can tell you from personal experience that it is very difficult to graduate college almost straight into a (pandemic-induced) remote job in a new city while trying to make local connections and ramp up in my job during a global pandemic.
So I guess we’ve come full circle now? Java was the first to run in the browser (via applets).
Nothing stops you. But being together "forces" you to socialize. When I turn off the camera, you are gone.
I enjoy intense brainstorm jams on multi-wall whiteboards. In person. I guess I'm old.

However, it seems like most programmers here are just javascript pushers. So dinking with a front-end button click handler for hours on end is something that doesn't really require collaboration.
NFT’s are fungible in practice, is the root of the issue.
Google Maps shows food delivery options now.
Sacrifice Zone
I wonder if those personality differences get considered when they throw everyone into a single room with a few low cubicle walls.
I wonder if the market gives a shit about being fair to those who have personalities that thrive in said cubicles.
Thirdly, I wonder if those who thrive in remote give a shit about being fair after having dealt with cubicle farms for so many years.
Take Boring Pictures
That's exactly what I was interested in. Thanks for the hand-picked recommendations!
Parallels only product is Parallels, it's the entire company.

VMWare Fusion is an afterthought of a multi-billion dollar company.
Where in America Are People Living the Longest?
I work a sort of hybrid model.

We've seen issues and topics that we decide "Let's work this one out when we're in the office." We schedule it, and what might take several video conferences and endless chats ... suddenly takes one meeting and the solution solves a bunch of other things.

I agree everyone should find their best way, but for us sometimes there's more of a free flow of information, everyone is engaged on that one issue more in person than when remote. When it comes to some topics it's just much faster and the result is more complete in person.
It isn't, really.

Sure, there is some paperwork to set everything up. But once that's done (and you can pay someone to do it for you), it's pretty much smooth sailing.

The biggest "hassle" is closing the accounts for the year and sending them to the Administration, and those have to be signed off by an actual accountant. But this takes like 1 hour per year, it's not that bad.

Regarding health insurance, etc you can either get your own, private one or have it bought by the company. It's the same thing if you're a full-on employee: if you're not happy with the coverage the employer has, you can get your own on top of it. When you're your own boss, you can choose what you want straight away. All this may vary depending on the type of company you set up (there's no such thing as "freelance" as far as the law is concerned). This will also have an effect on pension – if you only pay yourself in dividends, there's no pension.

Sure, there are a few things to be taken care of, but if you invest a few days and do your research, it's a good tradeoff.

The other approach, as siblings said, is to use some kind of "shell company" that does this for you. But from what I've seen, their cut is ridiculous, so it's absolutely not worth it.

NB: this comes from France, but I expect the situation to be roughly similar in other countries.
> Have you made good friends amongst your colleagues in your remote company, during the remote-work era ?

Not the OP, but I certainly have. It takes some effort, but it's not particularly difficult if you know and understand how to communicate effectively over a remote medium. It requires an understanding of how communications attenuate over a screen--you need to project!, in-person-normal levels of reservation tends to seem unfriendly. It requires not just strong writing and reading comprehension skills, but reflexively strong capabilities in both of those areas; it needs to be inherent enough that you aren't "turning it on", you're just doing it. And I'm sure some people can't do that. But I've been making friends on the Internet, as well as in person, for about thirty years now, and I've now started two separate jobs since March 2020 and I've met people I'd consider good friends at both of them.
This is silly: all kinds of promises were made for Brexit, and if they weren't delivered then those expecting them are at least disappointed, and if there was no reasonable way they could have been delivered and no real effort to deliver them, then they absolutely were deceived.

How did the "£350m for the NHS" bus work out?

> actually just another valid opinion

Some opinions - sky is green, earth is flat - aren't valid.
> and the culprits are us and our parents.

That seems like a strawman, unless you own some oil derricks or personally moved some factory jobs to China.
Well, there's LineageOS/AOSP, it runs even under x86 PCs and you can use FDroid+Termux just fine.
> This is is actually a terrible trap, as product usage tells you next to nothing about which features are useful. I suspect it' a big part of why a lot of software has turned to shit last decade or so.

This seems exactly backwards to me. No one who has ever managed a deployed product with good failure telemetry would say that it tells you "next to nothing". Telemetry detects failures that mere testing simply never can and never will.

And no one who lived through earlier ages of consumer software would ever say that it's "turned to shit". Software is getting better. It's getting better steadily and inexorably, and it's been doing that for half a century. It may not be doing what you want, but it's doing it with higher quality than people in the 90's or 00's would have ever dreamed. When was the last time[1] you saw a major consumer application (the TikTok or Instagram client, or your web browser, or VSCode) crash hard and fail on you? This was a daily (or worse) event for most of software history!

And certainly robust telemetry practice is one of the big drivers of this quality revolution we've seen.

[1] Heh, cue the peanut gallery of everyone wanting to post crash reports. That's on me for poor framing, I guess. But seriously, everyone: Both anecdotally and via actual studies, consumer-visible software is getting much better.
The way the EU Commission handled whistleblower Roelie Post regarding child trafficking makes me think the safety of children is not the highest priority of the EU Commission. Even today she lives in fear and under a lot of pressure as can be seen on her Twitter account.

Basically the EU Commission punished her for being a whistleblower.

http://www.roeliepost.com/

https://www-vpro-nl.translate.goog/argos/lees/nieuws/2019/Ge...
Part of the allegation seems to be that the beneficiaries may be foreign state actors who have infiltrated the organization.

Not particularly shocking as they'd have to be incompetent to not try to infiltrate a major communications platform, and if the internal controls are as bad as alleged (and has exposed in some of the prior hacks, e.g. the control panel screenshots) they'd have to be incompetent to fail.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with people... we repeatedly polluted whole world with harmful substances like lead that killed god knows how many people and damaged in some way everybody else with this kind of logic, yet people have the balls to come up with "innocent until proven guilty by 100 peer reviews" mantra for... MONSANTO

I don't believe, unlike many, that they are comically evil guys. Just playing a god for profit with stuff they probably understand only in lower 90 percentile range, especially second, third etc. order effects. And probably too over-invested in direction company took decades ago, so nobody looking at bonuses as drive will change its direction dramatically.
Git-versioned folder with by-topic structure. I haven't found a way to generate metadata and file name based on content though - I still name them manullay.