skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone who wants a managed database + to run Docker contains on VMs without having to do much ops work or deal with the complexities of the big clouds.

At what cost though? Why not run a VM that runs Postgres? It might take a week to set up in terms of automated backups, cluster, failover, etc. (ok, maybe a few more weeks) but hosted DB costing 5x the underlying VPS is insane?
It's disappointed me as well over the past 5-10 years. The switch from save->export seemed arbitrary and pointless. And the last time I tried putting text into an image with their text editing tool, the widget was so buggy I gave up - and that was in a release that shipped in debian stable at the time.

But it's just a bummer, not a source of anger/furor/vitriol for the project. I don't get why so many folks are talking shit like they didn't get their refund.
Workaround : rm /usr/bin/ping
Does anyone have experience with going to a "school within a school" for "gifted and talented" kids? I was trying to figure out why I don't remember any bullying from my middle school or high school, when it dawned on me that I might have been insulated from it by taking classes exclusively with gifted and talented kids —i.e., kids from stable/whole/educated households. I went to a high school where kids came from a mix of blue collar and lower-earning white collar families; does bullying still happen at public high schools in wealthy areas?

There's a lot of discussion here about how private school kids are insulated from bullying. Does anyone have first-hand experience or hard evidence of this? Based on books and movies about boarding school, it's hard to believe this.
I recently made the move to Affinity Photo. The latest version gives me all I need. Muscle memory is still with Potatoshop, but I’m slowly transferring.
>But what if bullying is just fun for some people?

We have a word for those people: "sociopath"
>It also allows me to mine the literature or reuse things I've worked out in the past, for example exploiting monoidal structure for optimizing computation by leveraging associativity, for example.

This is an algebraic concept and it is possible to learn this idea directly in a software engineering context than a mathematical one.
They're cousins. Joan's father, his uncle, was also a physicist.
I have identified the limits of human incompetence.

Please someone hire me so I don't have to live through this nightmare any longer.
Excessive cynicism in the face of actual positive change is bad, however when you have no power to change something, you resort to cynicism. If your employees feel no power to express themselves over your bad decisions, you've built a truly toxic system.
100% agree. Still primarily working in .NET (now core! oh wait, now just .NET again, lol) some 11 years on. Thanks Eric!
I'd start by reading the disclaimer at the very top of every page.
I think the 24hr/"end of the day" thing is for the natural termination - i.e. you knew when your TN term ended, and were expected to leave when it's done and have made plans for it. Even then though I've never heard of people getting sticky for reasonable travel time also, just that you clearly had the plan and intent to leave the country after your work permission expired. But who knows, the whole system is rife with inequal results due to reliance on individual border staff decisions.

If you get fired/company folds/etc. then I think the 60 days things holds.
All countries discriminate based on things you can never change like birth place. All countries. If they didn't they do not exist anymore. That's a poor strategy for western nation or any nation. Even the poorest countries don't allow that.
It's curious how many people are unhappy that someone choses to pay for an early-access product that's in beta.
What's the over under on it bring a scam vs one employee embezzlement
What parent means is that you won't have any bound checks on array access, just a len(arr) loop.
this is cool

> my sister's name is lisa

It's nice to hear that you have a sister named Lisa. Do you and Lisa get along well? Is there anything you'd like to tell me about her?

> my nephew's name is John

It sounds like you have a nephew named John. Do you and John have a close relationship? Is there anything you'd like to tell me about him? It's always nice to have a close relationship with family members, especially younger ones like nephews.

> who is John's uncle?

If John is your nephew, then you are John's uncle. An uncle is the brother of a person's parent. So, if your sister is John's mother, then you are John's uncle. In many cultures, uncles play an important role in their nephews' lives, providing guidance, support, and a sense of family connection.
This is not ADHD
Not really.

The bank has money, it lends it to you, and then shortly after it bundles that loan up into an MBS and sells it to the Fed (for a profit).

Repeat step 1.

The Fed - for the last 15 years - usually "expanded its balance sheet" to buy MBSes.
No one is stopping you from buying a Linux based phone?

I'm an avid Linux user and an avid Apple user, and I think both systems have their merits.

If I had to have only one it would be Linux.
It’s an example of what could occur within “do more stuff”. The mentioned 2*x is another example.
Symptoms of Broken Authentication and How to Prevent It?
There's a bunch of our own engineering going into this. But: the good news about this whole situation is, if you have a clustering solution you like better: you can just use it. We "automate" Fly Postgres, but we don't "manage" it. Fly Postgres is using features of Fly.io that are available to anybody's application, not just ours.
The community and their own time dealing with said community would both be fragmented. I have a feeling what they most want to do in maintaining the project is to spend time maintaining the project, not the infrastructure for distributing and supporting it.
Yes. I mean, if you want to, you can also have a simulated empty cinema around the screen.

I've never felt sick while using it, but I've also only played very few games on it, and those weren't action packed with lots of moving about, but more simple and relaxed.
Maybe. I always take these stories with a grain of salt. The author demonstrates a lot of emotion in his post, so it's hard to know the truth with only one side of the story.
Yeah, [edit: I doubt this]. I have a degree in math and cs. It sounds like parent comment doesn't really know analysis. The exercises in Rudin 1 are way harder than memorizing some rules to evaluate integrals. [Edit: at least for me; and I've never heard someone say the opposite before.]

At least for American university-level calculus vs. American university-level analysis/topology over metric spaces.

> self-taught

Ah, makes more sense. I am also mostly self taught for most math. From my experience, I find it hard to believe after you did the exercises in PoMA, that calculus was harder.
The vast majority of the money supply created by central banks is digitally created. I am entirely at a loss as to why this supposed introduction to how money works consistently implies money created by the state approximately equals cash, and that cash is particularly special. That's not how it works. And because that's not how it works, a cashless society is nothing like as radical change as the article implies. Cash is already of only limited importance.
Running in the browser is a no-go for lots of organizations, and Gimp runs in portable mode for those that can't install anything on their workstation.

Yeah, it's not amazing, but Gimp is light years from Paint. Just removing background on stuff, crap like that, 80% of the graphics stuff people ask me for at work. It's not PS, it's not even Blender-levels of OSS, but it works alright.

Now, compositing and actual challenging graphical stuff, different story.
> Stay away from HP printers including laser

Do you think that applies to the Neverstop models? They have an internal toner tank that refills with syringes, so this kind of nonsense isn't really possible.
Thanks! I'm working on adding a manual override, but the upstream data source has not been fixed yet: https://github.com/estiens/world_cup_json/issues/226.

EDIT: I have applied a basic fix for it on my end, but there may be instances where it still shows 1-1.
Considering it's a malware vendor, I'd put my money on they ship it with the internal build tools by accident, mistakes like that are pretty typical in that space.
Yeah, any time I'm engaged in deep thought, including coding, I just... look angry. I've had to explain to people at work that that's just how my face is when I'm working.
"This guy couldn't find the scale tool in GIMP... charge him $9.99 each month until he learns his lesson."
I think calling Mastodon and friends "federation" is too generous, "fiefdoms" fits much better, each with king/admin (not actual users) deciding what's allowed and what is banned.
Regarding "Thus, there must be absolutely 0 residents already capable of performing the job.", I think on paper it's true but the burden on the employer to prove that there are absolutely 0 residents already capable of performing the job is really low: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/20/656.17

(e)(1)(i) Mandatory steps. Two of the steps, a job order and two print advertisements, are mandatory for all applications involving professional occupations, except applications for college or university teachers selected in a competitive selection and recruitment process as provided in § 656.18. The mandatory recruitment steps must be conducted at least 30 days, but no more than 180 days, before the filing of the application.

(A) Job order. [...]
(B) Advertisements in newspaper or professional journals. [...]

(e)(1)(ii) Additional recruitment steps. The employer must select three additional recruitment steps from the alternatives listed in paragraphs (e)(1)(ii)(A)-(J) of this section. Only one of the additional steps may consist solely of activity that took place within 30 days of the filing of the application. None of the steps may have taken place more than 180 days prior to filing the application.

(A) Job fairs. [...]
(B) Employer's Web site. [...]
(C) Job search Web site other than the employer's. [...]
(D) On-campus recruiting. [...]
(E) Trade or professional organizations. [...]
(F) Private employment firms. [...]
(G) Employee referral program with incentives. [...]
(H) Campus placement offices. [...]
(I) Local and ethnic newspapers. [...]
(J) Radio and television advertisements. [...]
> I don’t understand this recurring retort. Does it mean that to use a tool you must be capable of building it?

No, it means it's not a priority for those who are building it.
> You still have 3 different tools for moving, resizing, and rotating

There is one capable of doing the three now: "Unified Transform Tool" (Shift+T)

The grouping is welcome for me, but the grey icons are less easy to read indeed.
It was a suggestion, another suggestion is to fund gimp development. Another one is to move to a different tool. But to question on what is talking their time for my feature x to get complete is really not a polite way of discord on Open Source software.

The tool is free, so you are free to use it, and you are free not to. That is up to you. If you want a feature, please support the development woth either you cash or skill. Its that simple.
It means check ones entitlement at the door and put up or shut up. People writing free software without compensation owe nothing to anyone.
The science on it is unsetttled and ideologically biased because I don't like the policies people justify on its basis.
We created a spatial query system where the user can ask for objects in a specific region, inside a specified path, or in a general direction (e.g. “to the right of…")

Neat!
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtx/pr/eastern-district-texas-...
Myth-Busting Silicon Valley
Congrats Gimp! I imagine your devs come over here to read sometimes.

You've provided a solid picture editor for in-a-pinch and free-out-of-the-box usage; and, while I've since moved on to usually use paid tools like ProCreate and Affinity's software, you have facilitated by artistic work for decades!

Thanks for your amazing work!
They're not all the same either. A fibrous apple won't cause nearly the same glucose spike as a bowl of sugary-sweet grapes.
So? Nearly all countries at one point allowed slavery, refused to let women vote, and a ton of countries were ruled by an authoritarian monarchy, that doesn't mean it was a good idea.
GIMP was the birth place of GTK, which was later renamed to GTK+ after it was rewritten to be object oriented. GNOME desktop environment still uses GTK+
Just as a clarification, the poster is talking about PERM for EB-2 and EB-3 visas which do kind of have those requirements, not H-1B.
I'm currently using a pi-hole, but run OpenWrt on my router. I see that both adblock and AdGuardHome are available in its repos. Did you have any particular reason to go with adblock?
>and anyway character development is the purview of parents not schools. public education should teach specific academic material and nothing more.

Public education needs tools. This is a tool. The article literally calls it "a teacher's aid".
I felt this way about the entire United States when I moved here from Europe. The standard stance in the UK is cynical, dry, and too-cool-for-school. Try-hards are despised. The US was different and very refreshing. Enthusiasm and optimism can be expressed without embarrassment, and having a too-frequently-cynical stance is looked down on.

I felt a step change again moving from academia to industry, but perhaps it goes a step too far. Sometimes I feel like thoughtful analysis is suppressed in favor of active thrash, because the former smells like bad-valence skepticism and the latter approved optimism.
Would you recommend it over BeautifulSoup?
I have been contemplating this move as well and nearly bought the whole Serif package on sale but I am Adobe's bitch and getting too old not to just pay for the problem to go away.
By all means, if you have a database stack you're comfortable managing yourself, use it! We did Fly Postgres because we more or less had to, not because we want to own the storage stack on Fly.io. We want, in fact, the exact opposite thing. If you've got a database stack you enjoy managing, and extra time on your hands, spin it up for other Fly.io customers as a product! We'll love you for it.
If you are arguing that there are an unsustainable number of employment based green cards being handed out, you could not be more wrong.

USA hands out a million green cards every year. But only 150k are employment based. These are capped at 7% for each country. Only 10k out of a million green cards are assigned per year for Indian immigrants based on their employments.

For all the talk of meritocracy, looking beyond skin color, and valuing high skilled immigrants, USA definitely has policies that discriminate on national origin and actively encourage low skilled immigration (2 million unauthorized border crossings, policies allowing rampant "abuse" in h1b/eb1c visas whenever high skilled immigrants are concerned, constant opposition to making it easier for PhDs to get a green card or say putting wage rules on h1b/eb1,2,3).
This is sad for the employees but great for customers. It’s clear that these firms hired way too fast. As someone who’s had to fire a lot of friends, the key is taking care of customers and making sure they end up in a good place.
They are moving there because of the latitude.
Sounds like you have wise and kind neighbors. I'm very sorry for your loss but I'm happy they were able to help keep you connected to life.
Absolutely! I hope my reply didn't imply that I thought there was no value in doing things more efficiently. There clearly is, and as consumers we love marginal gains in product quality, efficiency, and price.

I'll nitpick a bit to ask, though, how many times has a new entrant to a market gotten a process/business/tool/etc from 120% operating to 90% through marginal gains? I'd wager almost never. Process improvement can be marginal or stepwise/punctuated. I think most unicorns create punctuated change in ossified industries, but, I don't think any big companies are likely to hire a data scientist and through years of grinding through the margins achieve that 30% improvement.

put differently, the decision to focus on revenue vs profit is a decision that typically does not include the NPV of R&D investments. those are uncertain and have some probabilistic value, but not so much in accounting terms.
>and it's light years ahead of Gimp.

Photopea makes millions. Maybe if people donated to support Gimp's development it wouldn't be that behind.
> I am saying I doubt there's a long lasting impact beyond a few thousand years.

Sorry, what? If we make our environment uninhabitable for us, even "temporarily", it'll take FAR less than a few thousand years to wipe out our species, or even just most of it. It'll also take at least a multiple of that time for that environment to recover, if it's even possible to recover in any way useful to us without our direct intervention. We've only been at the industrialized stage for a bit over 100 years and we're already at a point where we're facing unimaginable upheaval and suffering for hundreds of millions of people. I don't understand how you or anybody else can make arguments like this in good faith.
They've had their fair share of pains with it, but they still seem pretty happy with it https://fly.io/blog/a-foolish-consistency/
What else would you include in the nutech stack? HashiCorp products in general?
Alternatively, if you want a circle and not a disk, after filling the circular selection, shrink it by whatever thickness, and then delete.

But I have felt no need for drawing circles. Those should be done in Inkscape. I am not sure they should be in a photo processing app.
That is how WWI started. It wasn't a US politician, politicians are targeted at times.
SBF Addresses Fraud Accusations: ‘I did not ever try to commit fraud on anyone.’
> Are you suggesting we moderate and apply a little restraint to someone's speech because of the consequences of radicalizing someone?

Yes. Why not try to engage them in a discussion to try to convince them? If you truly believe in your viewpoint and want it to prevail, don't you think engaging with them and convincing them of your viewpoint would be better for whatever you believe in in the long run than simply muting the opposing viewpoint?
Through in my experience no one but old people is actually on facebook. (EDIT: In the country where I live.)

A lot of middle aged people might still have an account because old people and aged contacts but don't really want to use it.

And this scenario still requires most people to have a VR headset which doesn't make them sick and is comfortable and easy to use, which is not just technically still a bit off AFIK but also has tricky problems. Like a lot of people have glasses, including many "non trivial" ones and just the act of needing to replace glasses with contact lenses makes it "annoying" and that is iff you can have contact lenses.

Then it needs to be lightweight, but also fast and to be charged but can't have a large battery and a cable is also annoying and needs high enough frequency/resolution but also cheap and must not get too war either. Also while it needs to be cheap it also must fit all kinds of head sizes and form very well so you kinda both need and must not have a one size fits all solution.

And even if you add all of that up it still holds that for a lot of tasks text/images is still best. I thats why most websites and apps are still "2d" today it's just more practical.

So it's a bit like video calls, but needing a specialized device instead of just your phone/laptop/AIO PC.

So for it to work IMHO you would need to do something like replacing phones with hybrid VR/AR glasses which are technological a jump comparable to the last 10(or more) years. And have hand tracking in the glasses as an camera. And convince most people to run around with glasses all the time (good luck). And convince people that using a facbook controlled device with camera and mic in nearly every part of their live both offline and online.

So it's possible, but especially for Facebook it's hard and I think they went all-in ~5-10 years to early. IMHO Apple has much better chances to take over that space, and if they do it right not limited to Apple users.
Souffle Datalog is used for defining program analyses in such projects like Doop [1] for Java and cclyzer++ [2] for LLVM.

GitHub's CodeQL [3] is another Datalog dialect used for detecting bugs and vulnerabilities.

Datomic [4] is a database that uses Datalog as the query language.

[1] https://bitbucket.org/yanniss/doop/src/master/

[2] https://github.com/GaloisInc/cclyzerpp

[3] https://codeql.github.com/

[4] https://www.datomic.com/
I meant that what you did was "refactor" - rethinking the whole mess

So it wasn't purely cloud/renting racks issue
>for me it's refreshing.

blink twice if you need help?
They used to sell Gimp on CDs back in the days to sponsor development. I think I still have one from the late 90s laying around somewhere.
You could theoretically use Datalog anywhere you're currently using a SELECT SQL statement - it's a declarative way to produce a set of tuples given some existing sets of tuples.

But, Datalog is much better at deductive reasoning compared to SQL. There's a great interactive tutorial here: https://percival.ink/. To see how Datalog and SQL can be equivalent, I have a build of percival.ink that transforms simpler queries to SQLite: https://percival.jake.tl/

You can also see how Souffle itself can be useful in this blog post: https://ianthehenry.com/posts/drinking-with-datalog/

That post describes building a recipe engine that can tell you, given a bunch of recipes + the current contents of your bar cart, what drinks you can make, as well as giving you top ingredients you could buy that would allow you to make new drinks. It's quite a readable walkthrough of a very practical application of Datalog/Souffle in a place where SQL would certainly struggle.
>... it's a diversion of resources.

How do you know that resources were diverted? Are you suggesting that the same people responsible for Azure's capacity issues are the same people working on this? Because these are two wholly different things that require different subsets of skills.

>why not just let the autism research guys or
whatever develop this stuff?

Why not just let the plumber fly the plane? Why not just let the cook captain the ship?

Autism researchers partner with people who can develop these tools. That's what's happening here.
How did you actually answer?
Do you think that if bullies were stopped when young, they might be able to turn into adults that don't bully?

Regardless, as others have said here, I have way more avenues for dealing with bullies as an adult, including but not limited to getting my own lawyers.
Yeah. Sure.
The benchmarking harness that the post uses is based on criterion
Adverse psychosocial factors in childhood associated with worse midlife learning
we the normal people
As I understand, implicit joins are another selling point
I Was Wrong About Mastodon
Do you really think that the designers and frontend engineers working on this would have been put to better use working on capacity issues?

If this makes more money than it cost, then what does it matter?
It seems that he has about $200 Billion left, so I wouldn't worry too much about loans.

https://www.forbes.com/profile/elon-musk/?sh=1b1e26227999
So what is coevaluation and why is it useful? Please don't just point at the paper again.