skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was going to say the same. HN should make quick work of that, and even if it leads nowhere, the investigation is fascinating!
The layer was a bit redundant. :)
I checked all posts up to No 890. They are all with John Oliver.
Some of the Windows choices are horrendous. Alt-tab to switch apps actually switches between browser tabs in Edge. It's really confusing. There's a litany of other problems too like virtual desktops move all screens instead of just the screen with the cursor, so it's unusable. There's also a case where certain actions with the mouse cause all the windows to vanish. I mean, what was that. Then there's that window history thing which is baffling to use.

macOS has its demons but Windows just plain is confusing.
I am not saying the premise is BS, but like all engineering and science you create a hypothesis for a phenomenon, in this case the pole shift, to address it, and you create the formulas and parameters to be included and used. As others have pointed out, there are potentially a lot of other variables to be considered that they possibly did not include. To further test the hypothesis, they need to sharpen their pencils for round two or three. Some off the top of my head: if there are higher drought areas or more wetter areas due to climate change, did they consider that shift? Location, position, and magnitude of snow-melt basins, glacial melt and polar cap changes, earth moving human activities on scale by all nations (China making artificial islands, etc.), earth moving due to climate change - floods, drought, large volcanic eruptions, underwater tectonic activity - all an ongoing process), etc...

The father/scientist of the article should not put his pencil down just yet. Very interesting hypothesis so far.
> You've decided your definition, as many have.

I really didn't. One of the definitive books on the DevOps ideology, _The Phoenix Project_, spends basically its entire plot driving home the point that DevOps is about dev and ops working together instead of ticket-passing.

To your point, doing this requires going back in time a bit where sysadmins used to do a little bit of software and devs had to be a little bit of a sysadmin.

(I blame Windows and the dot-com boom for the silos having been erected in the first place.)
> which costs CPU

Which costs very little CPU in 2023.

> deserialised on the application server

This is true regardless. The low-level libraries are still parsing the stream into meaningful in-memory structures. With JSON, the low-level library only has to parse a variable length string, then JSON decode. I'm unfamiliar with any language in 2023 that doesn't have incredibly fast and efficient JSON parsers.

> bandwidth is actually larger as you've got all those extra

This is true, but generally negligible. I run into very few scenarios where network saturation is more of a problem than CPU or memory issues. If you have network-constrained problems, obviously optimize accordingly.
I don’t understand your argument. “People Can Be Convinced They Committed a Crime That Never Happened” The test subject were people, they got convinced.

They are not claiming that everyone under every circumstance can be convinced they commited any crime.

Even if it can only happen sometimes to some people under some circumstances that would be of great importance to the process of justice.
There aren't. Feel free to try to come up with something. 'SQL' is pretty feature light (without specific extensions). Qsql is really great, it's a shame it's locked behind a proprietary language.
select array_agg(e) from jsonb_array_elements_text('["a","b"]'::jsonb) e;

?
I got a Btrfs RAID1 corrupted 3 times, so I was loosing faith in Btrfs, then I ran memtest and found out I had a bad memory stick causing real data corruption, not a Btrfs bug.
> Being survived by my spouse is one of my greatest fears

Interesting, one of my greatest fears is my wife dying before me
Performance Tips for Using Pgvector and Postgres
Just post on r/cambridge and/or r/cambridge_uni reddit & ask if a current or ex-student or faculty member would be willing to request it from the stacks & make a copy.

There’s bound to be someone who’ll drop in a request on their behalf.
After London City Airport comes "King George V"
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Finding a Cambridge student or faculty willing to help doesn't seem like it'd be super hard, the university has 6000 academic staff and 25000 students.

Even more so if alumni still have those accesses.
Then you've chosen someone elses definition but it's not the origin I'm afraid.

That book (I've read it twice, I think it's the only book I read twice honestly) is about the Toyota method and Agile and now that I think about it: warns against having "super stars" who do everything; which seems to be some other folks definition of devops xD
Steve Huffman fantasizes about becoming a dictator after society's collapse. So in a future, Mad Max-style dystopian hellscape, what would be the most suitable role for a blond, blue-eyed, narcissistic plutocrat with a background in competitive ballroom dancing?

https://shorturl.at/fuxN7
Most of the improvements in the article, including unrestricted aliases, were added in ClickHouse and subsequently influenced DuckDB. They still have to implement many usability and language improvements from ClickHouse.
So many cache misses and the context switching? It takes hours!
Excellent question. PropBox is not a real estate company. It is a technically advanced media/advertising company that is specializing in advertising homes. The seller purchases an ad for a dedicated web page that benefits the seller and the buyer. They are in control, they make all the decisions, and they do all the work. A buyer can pay a buyer agent, a seller can choose to go a different route. We are not listing homes. We believe many home buyers and sellers are looking for an alternative to the the two choices that were available until we launched yesterday. Now there is a third choice, PropBox. A platform that provides both parties the same information and allows them to work directly together. We believe some customers will like the ease of use, the ability to speak with the seller who knows more about the house than any agent, and much more. Both parties will like the ability to better control and easily communicate with each other within the platform. PropBox is not avoiding the 3%, the customer is avoiding the 3%. I hope this answers your question. Thank you for asking.
The real solution is to give it to your sworn enemies, who will show up to your widow's door and give her the package with an expression on their face that says "I could have used this against your deceased husband but I didn't because I was always better than him".
Windows also struggles with moving windows between a 4K laptop and a 1080p display. The window chugs to reshape into the display resolution but the most bizarre is moving a window to 1080p then clicking maximize but it just to the 4K display in max resolution. I mean WTF is that? How the heck do you easily move the window between different resolutions with it doing the "right" thing, not the stupid thing?
Wow this reads so fresh, it's written beautifully. Even if you just skim it you get the point, and subjectively, it's very funny. I love the self-deprecating humor.
Prank with Co-Founder of Heritage Capital Management Fund William Browder
Assuming that they talking to the former president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, one of speakers William Browder noted that he could "influence" the fate of the reserves of the Central Bank of Russia: "it is simply necessary to move away from the idea that the reserves of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation are somehow protected by law."
I’m not seeing the “more” and “less” moral potential as clearly as you do. That’s probably because I’m somewhat of a peasant myself. The peasant in my eyes has the same conundrum but worse: why be moral if your life sucks? And quite possibly because of it? (You’d possibly be better off plundering)

Every situation calls upon your character, no matter what position.

It seems there is a lot of focus on external results. Like any of that changes the calculus. What I’m taking about is true no matter what the results, even if you are alone in the universe. You (and only you) know what agreements you entered in and what constitutes proper and honorable work. No amount of mental gymnastic will pacify your soul (permanently).
“Until I pass out”
The one in text files. Data is already extremely cheap and there are many horders and archivists. I would bet that if advanced civilisation still exists in 10,000 years, they'll have an archived version of Wikipedia from around this century.

(And probably quite a few weirdos will still keep replicating the bible)
Looked really cool but the search in the map for buying homes doesn't work
This honestly feels like a great advertisement for fancy-ql. Writing queries that take the form of the dataset you want back is awesome.
Don't know why you're flagged, that's hilarious. The PDF literally lists "Asian" as a category of babe alongside "Undead" and separately from "human".
My mistake - to be fair, it is 5am here
Talk to people in your network.

Everybody you have worked beside, over, and under.

Ask each of them about other people you might contact.

Ask those other people about other people you might contact.

And cold call.

And ask the cold called about other people you might contact.

And keep in touch with everyone you talked to (write everything down).

Finding work is more important than doing the work.

It's also most of the work.

And the hardest work because most of what you will hear is "no."

Success is the number of times you heard "no" today.

Good luck.
For those who haven't played the game, it should be noted that the game is nothing like what the pitch implies.

PS:T is a well written and introspective RPG and in this capacity it is rivaled by only a handful of contenders.
Where to draw the line? Precision and recall
Ultimately reality will select classes of optimally adapted organizational patterns for a species that dominates and is constrained on a finite planet.

This unavoidable constraint sets global boundary conditions that will disallow much of the theoriticking (and politicking) that happened in past centuries, including the shape, size, legal structure and function of corporate entities.

The tangible evidence of that "weeding-out" process is the emergence of accountability frameworks for environmental and social impacts. One quickly realizes that the autonomous corporate unit ceases to be a useful abstraction, suddenly the "supply chain" and propagation of responsibility between nominally independent entities becomes central.

It doesn't mean that decentralization is doomed. From a systems perspective it is both more resilient when facing unknown-unknowns and it also happens to cater to our antediluvian historical experience of open horizons and unlimited possibility. But we can only split hairs about how much decentralization is viable when we have gotten on top of the known-unknowns.

In a simplifying analogy using a sphere/globe metaphor, centralization is a vibration along fundamental modes in which everybody participates (whether they like it or not), a bit like the tidal cycle, whereas decentralization is a localized excitation, a bit like wind induced surface waves.
It's the same application layer just running in a different tech and social stack.

It's clear why the current gatekeepers don't like permissionless alternatives, but why do you agree with them?
To lighten the mood a bit, any bets on you outliving Google Inactivity Manager?
Why is Pascal an odd choice considering this is not a relatively new game engine?

It goes back to 2007. Pascal was taught in schools as the main programming language in the 80s like python and java are today.
Sexuality is so culturally determined though. I mean it seems rather obvious you will get more experimentation in sexuality without rigid taboos and religious dogma against experimentation.

We pretend like people don't get turned on by their own hand.
This is a cool service, and I would certainly use it as a buyer, but to get me as a seller it would need to have an option to get an MLS listing as well. Is there any reason that wouldn't be possible eventually as a feature?

It's just that the majority of potential buyers will be looking for homes through MLS, so you are drastically reducing the pool of potential buyers. Number of interested buyers is going to be a huge factor in selling price, especially if you get a bidding war going.
Research demonstrates time and again that tipping has no correspondence with value provided. My own experience as a bartender anecdotally backs this up: someone visits the bar and asks for a single ($5) beer and tips $10 for my amazing value-adding service of opening the refrigerator and popping the top off a bottle for them. For another person I make four long islands (long islands have four alcohols and some mixers - not difficult to make but tedious, and the patrons witness the entire process) and they tip me a dollar on their $40 bill. These are all cases that happened in the last month. But that last sentence of yours sounds more insightful than it is: customers always pay employee wages. It’s not a subsidy, customers are the source of the base income as well as any bonuses, commissions, tips, etc. That’s how business works. Revenue covers liabilities, if successful.

I’ve thought about it time and time again and the only justification I can identify for tipping is as a proxy for surge pricing. Maybe we just need to figure out how to price products based on business traffic. Do you price the empty hours higher because of the added value of privacy and exclusivity, or the busy ones to keep traffic manageable? The practice of “gratuity included for tables of 8 or more” seems to suggest the latter is a more natural business move, but there might be a place for the former as well…
> That only fixes trivial selects

Absolutely true. But a huge amount of queries are in fact trivial selects. And this change alone would make autocompleting them easy for various editors/IDEs.

Perfect is the enemy of the good, etc.
Microsoft supplies software and services to organizations that run torture centers and concentration camps.

There is little wiggle room debate here.
The digital drivers license app LA Wallet that can be used to satisfy this has an ownership interest by/connections with the senator who passed that law
> there's a reason why they don't name the database or link to it

That's a very commonly known technique where you purposefully take only the overly simplified points that you want to counter so that's easy to build arguments or say things like "What can your language offer besides being created in the 2020s?". This is not to say the author or majority of the readers would find what EdgeQL offers, other than being created in the 2020s, valuable but at least you wouldn't be fighting a straw man.
> Please, EU: bring a law that forces manufacturers to release their drivers / firmware whenever they stop updating a digital device.

I want to believe that something so good could happen.
According to the article, the flap was to protect the USB port. The other internals were protected by an internal gasket on the removable back cover.
I bet there is a difference in revenue, too. Customers are not rational.

Lower advertised numbers (even if the out of pocket cost is the same) will likely result in more customers and sales.
The world is a smoker’s ashtray.
Sure, that is also a function of a prison. But unless we are speaking of the relatively rare deranged offender that you lock away for life, most people who land in prisons will be back in a few years.

The goal of prisons is to make the rest of society safer and a better environment so it is in our interest that they don't reoffend or don't learn how to be better criminals in prison. Ultimately that is also a food investment, because prisons cost money and people in prison are not contributing to society in good way. Everybody that does not return is money safed and improves the social climate. So investing at least a bit in order to make them better people is a no brainer.

But sadly there are many who still share the delusion that "tougher punishment will show them" and that "they will think twice if the punishment is harder". This is irrational and there is the data to show it.

I'd rather have the rare hardcore criminal treated to lightly than many troubled people that could be rehabilitated becoming more hardened criminals. Not because I am a good samatarian, but purely out of self interest.
They say: before you embark on a mission of revenge, better dig two graves. They haven’t seen my list. They’d want to dig twelve, maybe nineteen.
Vivaldi masquerades as Microsoft Edge when visiting Bing
How do you know of Oracle and SUSE but not Red Hat?
AI project translates 5k-year-old cuneiform at push of a button
Cambridge alum here (for my BA in 2009) but I'm in CA now. Would be willing to try putting in the request. Not sure how to contact Jonathan Chan... I'm not on any of the social media he lists in his site footer... Anyone see an email for him? Edit: nevermind, found it. Emailing him
Nice, how’s the performance? The cheapest digitalocean x86 single core cpu is a lot faster than a quad core pi or tinkerbord. I know it’s not the same as an arm server cpu but how much difference is there?
There won't be. Those who are skittish about their health are a prime target for advertising, anyone who gathers data on those people will inevitably sell it on when money gets scarce.

You want privacy, use paper.
I think you did a great job of explaining why someone might want each of these products, starting from first principles of "a company borrows some money from its bank". To still ask GP's question is either to not have understood the book, or to not understand any scenario where one might want to lend or borrow money.
Starring one of my favorite actors, AI Pacino
I’m not sure if you are aware, but Bayesian neural networks can be actually be well approximated by appropriate ensembles of standard neural networks [0]. The strength of Bayesian nets (including the approximating ensembles) is that they are able to estimate the uncertainty in their own predictions (by generating a probability distribution of possible predictions), at the cost of more computation needed for training and inference. I don’t think it’s ever going to be a matter of Bayesian nets outright outcompeting standard nets though, it’s just another tool in the toolbox if you want a model which “knows it doesn’t know something” and don’t mind the extra compute needed.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.05546
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Productivity-wise, Stage Manager is a step in the right direction in my opinion. I don't think that the macOS desktop environment needs a snapping/tiling window manager. Conceptually however, the best third-party window manager is spoonfish. But Rectangle suffices for certain tasks.

https://github.com/jcs/spoonfish
No, you can't use 'negigibly' worse as a defence.

It's either better, or not. Your comment does not make it better, it's still worse. So it won't improve performance, but degrade it, even if it's negilible.

So there's no reason to do it.

Plus you've made a crazy SQL select instead of a normal one, which is harder to maintain.

So it's worse performance and worse maintenance.

i.e. don't do this, it's dumb, especially for the reasons claimed which are factually incorrect as it will not improve throughout but make it worse
> GROUP BY aliases

We're migrating from Sybase SQLAnywhere to MSSQL, and not being able to use aliases in WHERE, GROUP BY and ORDER BY is such a pain in the behind.

Almost all our non-trivial queries have to be nested multiple levels due to this, which doesn't exactly help readability.
As metabagel said you seem to be basing this on every hour in a persons working week being equal which is obviously not how things really work out.

Do you not find yourself more mentally and physically fatigued at ~35 hours compared to ~25 into the work week?

When do you do your best work? At the start of the work week? Middle? End? Do you feel you do better work after you've had more down time to let your brain "decompress" or whatever you want to call it?

As far as I can tell we stumbled into the ~40 hour work week a long time ago due to physical exhaustion and that exhaustion led to more mistakes and productivity impact due to assembly lines being held up to correct those mistakes, etc.

This makes sense to me and seems like a pretty understandable and reasonable upper limit when it comes to physical jobs such as assembly lines and such.

Why do we just assume that ~40 hours transfers over to knowledge worker jobs? We all know how mentally fatiguing it is after several hours of debugging a tricky issue or trying to design a modern scalable architecture.

Whereas a mistake on an assembly line from a fatigued worker at 40+ hours into the week may put the assembly line out of action for a few hours it that is usually it for the negative impact.

Mistakes in a platform design or a silly bug can easily lead to constant productivity impact and huge costs down the road if that mistake makes it into production. We see it all the time with technical debt.

In your opinion how many hours per working week strikes your balance? How did you get to this number and do you think it is specific to you or more of a general figure that should be the standard?
It's not really about cost, it's about convincing investors CEO dude is in control and can make reddit profitable for their planned IPO. "We spent a shitton of money migrating to C++ and hiring expensive and harder to replace C++ talent to optimize shit" is not a good selling point.
I've totally been there too. Here's a few ideas:

• Discipline is more useful than motivation. Motivation isn't under your control, so it's not worth relying upon. I've found that pushing my body through discomfort via exercise, stillness, etc. can increase discipline over time.

• I view boredom as "giving up". When I'm bored with a challenge, my mind is telling me that I'm not smart/skilled enough to finish. Yeah, sometimes work is not fun. Conquering boredom to deliver value is an underrated skill.

• Being "just-another employee who is going through the same motions" is the point of being an employee. If you want more variety, maybe you need to work with a studio, become a freelancer, or start your own thing.

• Life became much much easier for me after I started taking antidepressants and ADHD meds. You may want to check in with a therapist/psychiatrist to see if you have any troublesome patterns worth looking into.
I guess this is for the US, but I can't tell, why not put that in About.
>I can't stand the non-extension-method Linq syntax: the _only_ place where it offers a readability improvement over ext-methods is using `join`

Hah! I tell the juniors this all the time :D. This seems to be basically the consensus among the C# community these days as far as I can tell as well.
"sexy pictures" and "of John Oliver".

The joke is that's a Venn diagram where the circles don't overlap.
I know this, but I can't. Muscle Memory, even though I don't use SQL that much.
I don't need convincing. When something bad happens, I always feel responsible.
Now they went from squatting to vandalizing

According to web archive the creators of the subreddit were users 'renatosil' and
'Resilience'. None of them are mods today. Why do the current moderators act as if they own the channel?