skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn't use much devices so far (besides a vintage button-based cellphone), just tells other people what to do and they read to him. Nevertheless he has a very good idea about computer programming so he is really far from being completely alien to the tech world. I believe I have a chance of enriching his life if I suggest some ways to dive into using a PC directly. I am not sure he wants that but maybe I should mention this and be able to provide practical details if he chooses to ask. Don't worry, I can do my research myself. I just asked because there might be a chance you or someone else just knew a great place to start.
Unionization could drive up costs making the business unprofitable. It is absolutely allowable to shut down a business in response to your workforce unionizing.

The Wagner Act itself is terrible and forces businesses to negotiate collectively even if they don't want to. And it cuts both ways.
Well, spending 3 months proving that MySQL can reliably store data raised an eyebrow. I mean, we are talking about gamer profiles here. Worrying about whether or not the log is on the same volume as the table really seems like a bit much in that context. Even worrying about fsync is honestly questionable.
I looked at the screenshots of KDE Telepathy and I'm not convinced. This kind of multi-protocol IM client exists for every major desktop OS — this and Pidgin for Linux, Adium for macOS, Miranda for Windows, etc. The problem with all these apps is that they're not modern. They do great for text messages, but that's it. Anything beyond text is an afterthought if implemented at all. What I mean by "modern" is first-class support for all the IM features people now take for granted: media attachments, server-side history with search, replies, mentions, reactions, forwarding, bot features, channels, etc. None of these existing apps even try to do any of this. This is what I want to fix with my future project.
> The vast majority of people in Latin American countries (outside of Costa Rica & Chile) struggle with academic achievement (including literacy levels), adequate n utrition, enviornmental pollution.

Do they?

• Literacy rate:

The average for 2020 based on 7 countries was 93.91 percent.The highest value was in Colombia: 95.64 percent and the lowest value was in El Salvador: 89.98 percent.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/literacy_rate/Lati...

• Food security:

During 2019, 7.4% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean lived with hunger

In 2019, almost a third of the population, 191 million people, were affected by moderate or severe food insecurity. Of these, 57.7 million, approximately 10% of the region's population, was severely food insecure

https://www.fao.org/americas/publicaciones-audio-video/panor...

• Tertiary education:

Between 2000 and 2018, higher education gross enrollment rates in the region more than doubled (increasing from 21 percent to 52 percent), making LAC the region with the third-highest average higher education enrollment rate in the world after North America with 86 percent, and Europe and Central Asia with 70 percent.

https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/738931611934489480-0090...

• Environmental pollution

You're probably right about this one, but it's not worse than most of the rest of the world, including very rich countries such as the UK and Germany.

https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/738931611934489480-0090...

> they would put neo-marxist language changes

This is just nonsensical gibberish. I'll call it neo-misesist language.
Yep. Like software, car manufacturers want a car to be something you subscribe to rather than buy. Also lets them continue to receive income from secondhand sales or ownership changes.
> The Jews will hide behind the stones and the trees, and the stones and the trees will say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.

Eerie, isn't it?
> almost all independent contractors

Are they though? It seems like corporations found a loophole where they don't have to take on employees, pay proper taxes and abide by employment laws.

Just to pre-empt some comments - employees can have multiple employers at the same time and be "independent" the same way as "independent" "contractors".

Government really needs to clamp down on this.
Do you think this 'feature' (and all of its potential vulnerabilities) will only exist in vehicles that are leased? I can't imagine that would be the case.
> some states banned the practice early on too, but were eventually forced to unban it, partially because many southern states kept and fought for the practice

Georgia, a slave state, was the latest to ban tipping [1]. South Carolina, the original secessionist, was another, alongside Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee [2]. There appear to have been more former slave states to have banned the practice than free (Washington and Iowa).

> believe tipping originally came to the US from the continent

It originates in “criminal circles as a word meant to imply the unnecessary and gratuitous gifting of something somewhat taboo, like a joke, or a sure bet, or illicit money exchange,” being later popularised in Tudor England. It didn’t broadly take root in America until Prohibition, when “hotels and restaurants, who lost the revenue of selling alcoholic beverages,” welcomed tips “as a way of supplementing employee wages” [3].

The timeline for linking the end of slavery to tipping doesn’t seem to line up. It has roots in servility. But the racist-roots hypothesis appears to be modern and misplaced.

[1] https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping-american-restaurant...

[2] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/11/30/457125740/wh...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratuity
Navigating using the keyboard, drag/drop for reordering rows/columns (in a way that wasn't painful), conditional formatting on ranges of cells.

At the end of the day, we actually didn't want or need the rigid structure we thought we did .... or at least it wasn't worth giving up the polish of Sheets.
Can we agree that consciousness is outside the realm of mathematics? That, while there could be a formula that determines what our conscious experiences should be, the fact that we actually experience them, as opposed to them just existing in some abstract sense, is not mathematical?

So if the behaviour of our universe can be described entirely mathematically, isn't it weird that it physically contains this comment about how we know that we're in a universe that contains non-mathematical stuff? It's of course possible. But I find it strange.

> If it isn't the case it might well mean there are things that aren't caused by anything, which would be really weird as well.

Isn't this necessarily the case for anything to exist? Is it more strange for there to be exactly one thing without a cause (the initial conditions of the universe), or for things without causes to just be a regular part of the universe we live in?
>plenty of extremely profitable organizations masquerade (literally and figuratively) as non-profits.

Isn't Ikea technically a non-profit? through some weird structuring?
So a glider in game of life doesnt have agency

but you can build a computer in game of life that has memory and can base its actions on prcoessing and past input

https://www.nicolasloizeau.com/gol-computer
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Honestly, this was/is rarely a problem in forums that have no upvote/downvote feature. The important part is that they don’t have the UI of a chat and have affordances that make them convenient for asynchronous use.
Rows by any other name is still rows.
How do I read patents again to see if it's bogus or actually novel?
Apple didn't destroy our privacy.

The others, this law is trying to force interaction with, not just did, but actively and aggressively do.

To the point that Brian Acton of WhatsApp walked away from a billion dollars and donated $50M to Signal rather that watch it happen.
If you think your manager doesn't do anything he's probably one of the good ones. Possibly not one of the great ones. But still, often one of the best things those who manage can do is get out of the way and allow their reports to do their jobs properly.
> The games industry is weird: It simultaneously lags behind the rest of the tech industry by half-a-decade in some areas and yet it can be years ahead in others.

I'd love to see examples of "ahead" coz I literally never saw it. Game dev studios act like automated testing is a new thing...

> PostgresSQL performed much better and had the additional benefit of being able to cleanly split write-ahead logs (which are largely sequential) and data to separate RAID devices. Something that MySQL doesn’t really support and would have to be hacked in using Symlinks on every table create.

It's funny that you can guess that it this happened good few years ago purely because the solution to above wasn't just "slap a NVMe on it"

>I tested this and ordered the storage I would need to have a rolling 90 day window of backups (with older backups being taken off-site)..

>The hardware request was rejected.

> When I inquired as to why, I was told that Ubisoft has a standard backup solution which is replicated globally and sent to cold storage in a bank vault somewhere in Paris. I was told this is because we had lost some source code once upon a time and we could no longer build certain games because of that.

My first thought was "why not just ship pg backups + wal logs there" and just a full backup from time to time. No read-back needed.

The whole problem seems to be "the admin overengineered solution without knowing the constraint, then tried to headbutt the constraints instead of changing approach

> Our EMC DataDomain system was optimised primarily for ingesting huge volumes of traffic, but if we want incremental backups then perhaps we needed a something a little more dynamic.

Nope, your incremental approach sucked. Majority of software that I've seen used to do incremental backups could generate incrementals on its own, without any readback from server.

The minority *was software that wholly managed backups*, so it was prepared for that, and often it was just "read metadata from database" instead of actual data.

> I don’t know what else to take away from this.

That people use tapes for backups so ? To get your requirements before implementing solution ? To find better solution when requirements are known ? To not get stuck in initial idea.

Literally the basic, recommended way of doing PostgreSQL backups with no extra software would work.
Weird, I've never had an issue except with trying to open updates from the notifications dropdown.
Incredible, I could see myself using it pretty regularly.
Congratulations

Not sure if that would be a stretch but the epitome of this would be the ability to generate an on-demand conversation about any hackernews thread by link. Would make it very usable for people interested in other topics which might not trend or would like to have lay back and hear what people have to say in an discussion made 7 years ago.
I read the book because I saw this quote. This quote is at best tangential to the story in the book. The book is much better than this quote would let on.
can’t they just have it track the price on regulated american exchanges only?
Huh? The country is called "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", or the UK for short. Strictly speaking, if you talk about Great Britain, you're excluding Northern Ireland, but politically GB isn't a country...

Wikipedia says "Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean", although historically there was also the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Financing is a cancer upon many industries, and cars are no exception. If we really cared about poor people we would seriously reform the dealer system, outlaw predatory sales and lending tactics, and seriously curtail the parameters on auto loans. I think limiting the term on loans for new cars to 5 years would be a good start. It would eliminate a lot of foolish purchases and auto makers would be forced to offer more affordable vehicles.
The ratio is on the order of 10:1 subscription vs. licensing (self-hosted?) and "other," according to their most recent QE report [0]. But I'm curious how many subscribers they have on the Enterprise $99/user plan. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a fairly low number of organizations (under 100), especially since those organizations have the option to self-host GitLab at much lower cost.

[0] https://ir.gitlab.com/news-releases/news-release-details/git...
It's worth pointing out that this is not a real choice in any meaningful way, because of the pressures of reality.

If you could work less but earn the same amount then it actually becomes a real choice to work less.

But if you work less and there are financial tradeoffs involved, the hardship caused by those tradeoffs essentially means you are forced to choose to continue working the same amount. Not a real choice.

Very few people earn enough money to actually choose to work less.
HN is not a single person. It is a diverse group of people.
The author doesn't consider our parents and their parents didn't own a modern house walking distance from dinning and entertainment which is what most people aspire to today. They also married very young, had three kids before 25 and signed up for 30 year loans to pay their cookie cutter suburban homes. You could technically do the same today, it's just that living that type of life would be absolutely terrifying for many. On a separate note, I work with many Gen Zs and they don't fit the stereotype everyone talks about. In my experience they are hardworking, motivated and make amazing teammates. They aren't complaining about how stressful is to work 40hr/week from home.
you've constructed a definition where laminar flow doesn't have agency but turbulent flow does.
The human getting hurt or injured is a necessary evil against abuse and puts a limit on how unreasonable or petty the lender can be (as the risk of repos is ultimately baked into the commission charged by the goons, thus not making it profitable to repo for minor things).

Same reason why people are generally much more civil in real life than online - the risk of being punched in the face keeps everyone in check and assigns a real cost to assholic behavior.
Yup. I'm not a Python fan, and I have used C# in gamedev before, so I wasn't super thrilled about GDScript, but it is genuinely really good. And being custom made for Godot pays off in ways that I didn't think about fully when I was using c# in Unity or c++ for Unreal.
I have two small kids at home. I would electric shock mother Theresa for a few minutes in a quiet room.
As I see it, even if the only positive impact the ChatGPT ends up having on the world is in forcing researchers to double-check citations, then "mission fucking accomplished".
This comment is much like the article, lots of detail about how Medicare Advantage is a terrible deal and yet there must be _something_ enticing about it or at some point it would be common knowledge that MA is just Medicare with an insurance company sitting in front of it. So what’s the appeal of MA then?
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One other possible explanation is that phones are everywhere, regardless of most any other factor. Take any teenager, anywhere, in any walk of life, age, or social group, nation, etc. They very, very probably have a phone. Guess what’s also mostly everywhere, regardless of other factors?

None of these are perfect explanations, obviously, but I’ve seen what phones do to my kids (even in the limited amount of time they have) and others. It’s absurd to ignore it. Sure, I can’t prove that phones are the cause, but my son goes from the sweetest kid to an anxious, angry mess as soon as he has a phone in his hands (and before you ask, yes, sometimes it’s inevitable, I live in a capitalist society that expects me to both work my ass off and to take care of my kids at the same time. Also, I don’t have the illusion that I can stop him from ever using one, so I’d better be around and teach him how to deal with it the best way possible).
Mine is: engineering -> pHD dropout -> advertising -> market research -> analytics -> software dev + ML. Different industries all united by data.
The distopia grew closer each day...
This maps to something I've noticed.

There's a pattern where human beings are wired to enjoy things that are important for their survival and thriving, but that these instincts are easily hijacked for aimless gratification.

Eating junk food (vs stuff that gives you health and energy) or whacking off to porn (instead of healthy relationships and procreation) are examples of this.

Anyway "the need for cognition"...

I noticed that there's a class of people who are objectively "smart" in the sense that they can solve hard puzzles, crush it at trivia, etc. But at the same time these folks haven't been able to / bothered to get into lucrative professions that leverage these smarts and actually have a sort of not great lives (eg: unhealthy weight, no partner, etc.)

So they are sort of scratching their itch for cognition, but not in a way that makes their life better in an objective way (which is most likely the reason we have this drive)
I don't usually swear on HN but what the fuck.
JIT compilers at least do the work incrementally, profile the code to provide the best (or several) versions of native code, etc. That is, they adapt to the particular invocation, doing stuff an AOT compiler cannot do (especially for dynamic languages like JS).

I wonder if running the bundler on startup, and throwing away the (identical) result of a previous invocation of the bundler, makes much sense. It at least could persist it optionally, like Python does with .pyc files.
If you carry this attitude, you aren't a senior engineer.
Obfuscate the code, send to ChatGPT, then find replace the strange names in the summary with the normal ones ;)
The problem with non-linear career paths are that they're less predictable and work for people who have a higher career focus.

I think job (er, company) hopping is a perfectly good career strategy. It's just better suited for a different set of folks. Both options being available are great.
It gentrifies even the occupants! https://imgur.com/a/CduMyPo
In the US it's typically more like 0.25psi, I don't know about elsewhere.

But it's connected to what you might consider a tank of nearly infinite volume. It's flow rate limited, but it's fast enough to get an entire house to explosion concentration in much less than a day. Perhaps only an hour.

Point is that we humans manage to figure out how to harness things that might be dangerous when they're useful. And hydrocarbon refrigerants can be very useful so we might figure out how to deal with the relatively small danger they pose.
Sorry but it just looks like you picked wrong solution from start and stuck with it.

Vanilla pgsql backup + WAL shipping would just. work. with those constraints.

Backup solutions that take time to read data and only "ramp up" once you start restoring full backup are nothing new, literally in industry for decades, before in form of tape libraries, now in form of amazon glacier and similar. Hell, backup solution where you can mount whole backup in directory is on the fancier side, because generally priorities are elsewhere
Incorrect. Netflix purchased transit from Level 3 beginning in 2010 and subsequently with Cogent.[1][2]. They then went on to purchase additional transit from Telia, NTT and Tata in order to get routes into the eyeball networks that began making a stink. They eventually agreed to do paid peering with the last mile eyeball networks - AT&T Verizon, Time Warner Cable and Comcast. It seem as though you not understanding peering and transit. Had they been paying for peering there wouldn't have been an issue in the first place. Paid peering was the very thing the last mile networks wanted.[3].

Netflix prior to the roll out of their Open Connect CDN offering used Akamai, Limelight, and Level 3 as their CDN providers. When they rolled out Open Connect they offered ISPs the ability to peer directly with them at number of different peering exchanges.[4] This was a few years after the Level 3 Comcast spat. You seem to be confusing events.

[1] https://qz.com/256586/the-inside-story-of-how-netflix-came-t...

[2] https://archive.is/2AC6C#selection-735.154-735.169

[3] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/06/fcc-gets-comcast...

[4] https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/04/netflix-open-connect/
There is a potential for surplus in the food chain, but the logistics of transporting food from where it grows to where it is consumed leads to waste. The waste we have now may be considered low compared to a hundred years ago when we couldn't preserve food to last longer than a few days.

Rising urban density leads to less room for food growing and more people to feed...think about NYC and where all the food must come from to support 20 million people every day.
Why would you assume I'm talking about your emulator. I just said I liked Turbo Pascal.
You think I'm going to clone a multiple petabyte database just to run some tests?
I recommend NeoStore [1], which is an alternative frontend for F-droid. I can't say it never crashes, but I prefer it to the F-droid app.

[1] https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.machiav3lli.fdroid/
This is the biggest reason why I have zero interest in owning a new car.
do you work at google? most engineering roles ive been in engineers absolutely own their systems and take on call rotations.

I agree though, hasty response is the mark of a junior eng
Sounds like if you buy a used car in future, you'll have to worry about which of the previous owners can still tamper with it.

Edit: previous owners and script kiddies, since it probably stopped getting security updates 5 years ago.
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turbulence = complex system which isnt necessarily the same as processing. But perhaps you could build some sort of processor using turbulence.
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In my first semester as a freshman in an American university, I took a quiz in the Calculus class that had a question based on American football. Having never played the sports or even knowing the rules all that well, I aced the exam.

Yes, it is not that hard to keep the proprietary business logic separate from the system design.
but the moon milk cows are at the moment getting decimated by the moon cheese lovers in a mad rush to make more pizza; they're at war!

it's a risky time to do moon business, there's even a faction that would get rid of the moon cuz it's not something they have back home and they don't get it
Hopefully, Ford gets an exclusive on these "features" so I can just buy from another manufacturer.
If your work is getting done, things aren't falling apart, and he leaves you alone, then he's doing a great job, whatever he does. At the very least his presence will keep other managers from meddling.
I assume similar to luthier?
Keyword bids on rows + grid, equals monday just went crazy.
There's an inherent fundamental creepy grossness to punishing someone for misbehavior by pushing a button from afar.

If we had an all pervasive surveillance system that instantly reported any crime it would be bad for the same reason. A world where power is wielded opaquely by distant controllers in a unilateral and instantaneous manner is not a world we want to live in, and it cultivates an even worse world the longer it exists.

Rules and laws that might be fair and just when they were first written can become very unjust and dystopian when the ability to enforce them dramatically increases.

Your argument is the same one made for justifying credit systems, especially ones like the social credit system enforced by the CCP. "If you wanted to have access to the tram you should have just been a better person and earned it."
Python 3.11 is ~25% faster… Lambda is billed based on compute duration… if you are AWS PM Lead, it’s a challenging eng investment to justify.