skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Take this with a grain of salt, as I have not used PG Task Queues. I think the answer is there is no right answer here, and that it depends on your personnel and your data integrity/uptime guarantees. If anything, I suspect the only real "mistake" is using something like Kafka unless you really need it, but it's probably not that costly if you do.

Presumably, one easily could deploy a second PG to scale Task Queues independently of the DB layer as needed. So in that respect, there is no real issue, and it might be easier to start off with a single instance and split it up as needed for scale.

The real difference is if you find yourself dealing with subpar decisions from clueless management. Not giving them (or letting them know about) the option to put the queue and DB on the same instance can save your platform from total outages (especially if the queue load is much more variable than the DB load).
I remember playing Half Life on 2K, and it had Direct-X support.

I don't think 2K could do DOS games, as they usually talked to the hardware.
"This important research, which study leaders say could save many lives in the future, was made possible by the family of a 57-year-old male who elected to donate his body after a brain death declaration and a circumstance in which his organs or tissues were not suitable for transplant."
In case anyone missed towards the bottom of the article:

> These design considerations drove the team to develop this experimental processor, which TSMC builds using its 7nm FinFET process (in case you didn't know, Intel fabs a lot of non-CPU products at TSMC and has for years) and which features eight cores each with 66 threads.
Ask HN: What should you do next when you feel depressed?
When you in a situation that your heart doesn't have any love from others, including your most dearing people? yeah, I am an adult,which shows me to be independent to do anything.but,my heart is not dead,which is still full of energy to do something that make a living.maybe,I have still a little naive,and eagering to seek love.though I feel hopeless, in reality I have to face anything by myself,nobody can help me out of the trouble that I am experiencing.
That and sandboxing effects with perhaps improperly accessed bookmark data

I'm building a macos app now, and only because I wasn't catching fs access error did I realize I needed to handle folder access carefully when using bookmarks in core data.
Yeah if anything we could have stopped caring when the South African variant came out. That was really the turning point and many countries kept ignoring the evidence of how mild it was.
The whole point of a DB is to remember the data after power cycle.

You are thinking of a file system.
This is a curious project I found out randomly (well I was looking at plantUML JS demo and wondered how they managed to get Java code to run in browser).

Note that this is a proprietary software, that can be used for non-commercial purposes for free.

They also have a Chrome extension that change java applets on any page to wasm+js.
Normally workers unionize to improve their poor conditions vs an abusive employer, and when they have little to no ability to find another job for similar/better terms. Is that the situation for software devs where you’re at?
We had an Empty Hills festival in Russia like this one. Was it 2009?

A combination of heavy rain, bad soil and bridges being floated away, splitting the event into two.

It resulted in a song how the helpless white collar proletariat lost its self esteem to dirt. Otherwise, was fun.

You had to walk for a mile heels deep through dirt field which featured a stranded UAZ 4x4 van in the middle.

Next year, they built these massive arched wooden bridges and urged people to stay clear of bridge and keep walking, which gave plot for another song.
The tax code is excessively complex to provide loopholes for the wealthy to use to lower their tax burden.
No they're not, otherwise we'd use those other platforms.
Again, you're welcome to contact Rheinmetall and other defense corporations with your extensive knowledge of air defense radar, ground to air cannon and other weaponry, and drone capabilities to explain all these things that you believe they forgot to account for. Perhaps you're right and none of them have ever considered how to reliably distinguish between a flying bird and a, to use your numbers, 200mph drone or the cost of ammunition. I'm sure they will be delighted to have a person with such broad and deep expertise advising them.
My friends from States for years encouraging me to move to the US. I am not doing it because something is really fucked there.

I am currently is a tax resident of Serbia, which is really a third world country, and I mean it though I love the country very much. No offense. I don't have to file my taxes here, my primary income is automatically reported to the local tax authority. All I have to do is declare any extra income and file tax return form, if I am eligible,via government web service. The most painful process was obtaining a physical electronic key/certificate to access said website. Which is impressive by itself: it is literally government issued Yubikey alternative, accessible by any country's resident.
It's a shame this is flagged. It's an interesting challenge for the US to reduce road deaths. Perhaps ome state could lead the way there, or even one city, and show what can be achieved and at what cost to redesign roads.
True for motorways, but even on busy dual carriageways sometimes the planners just say "the footpath crosses the dual carriageway on the flat", ignoring that this comes pretty near to being an effective closure of the right of way; there are some on the A14 near me like that.

This forum thread lists some other examples: https://www.sabre-roads.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=41259
Mad props for OS9 on an 8-bit microprocessor.

The Motorola 6809 was a nice architecture for UNIX-like systems... if we accept the 16-bit memory address space.
I'm the frontend lead in a company of about 200 people (mostly devs) these days, and the idea of being a force multiplier is spot on. I'm not there to be the best dev or the most knowledgable; I'm there to lead the conversation and amplify people who are saying good things. Having a pretty deep understanding of the tech is useful so I can tell what those good things are. I am absolutely not in the company to show off or take credit for what my teams do.

Where I disagree is with the idea of fighting with product owners. If there's a disagreement around approach or tech choices that's a sign we don't have enough information. Fighting or refining won't solve that. It's a signal that we need to do more discovery work and understand the problem better.
I imagine it won't stay only for emergencies.

Competing offerings gewoon Qualcomm and Motorola/Bullitt offer also regular text comms.
The Boys Who Surf Subways
Some firms simply hire nothing but Seniors. You trained up a Junior-Mid-Senior? Cool, well offer him 20k more and call it a day.
We all know Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". Quantitive measure done't work well and especially not for something as complex as software development. They might tell you were to look more closely at best. Qualitative assessments work much better, but those require trust. As soon as going gets tough for a company or department, trust weakens, doubt increases and higher management, especially if they don't understand software dev well, will require quantitive metrics. It's bad, but we'll never get rid of the mess because of organizational dynamics.
Do you happen to recall the title of that book? Or what it was about?
> The man is not going to burn

I promise you, the man will burn if the burners are at all dedicated to the cause. Dried wood only soaks a few millimeters of rain unless it's completely submerged for a very long time. Use an accelerant to get it started, and nature will do the rest.
Using throw-away as this sounds dismal, BUT: who makes money from this and who loses money? That will tell you whether this can happen or not.

Dialysis is big business. Technicians. Consumables. Doctors. Repeated Vi$it$. Real estate (often owned by the Nephrologist $.)

More saliently, Nephrologist also control the standard of care. Do they stand to gain more from artificial kidney surgery/maintenance, or do they stand more to lose from dialysis going away?
The claim was that the IRS had all this information for most Americans without the content of the 1040’s they have to file today.
I'm guessing from Valve's point of view the reluctance to allow this has to do with potential rights issues surrounding chat gpt and related technologies. It's bad that their communication is so opaque and I don't like their near monopoly status but adding this feature, even if it was semi hidden away, was not a good idea. Hopefully the op on reddit is able to remove it and resubmit it.
In France, media told us underground water reserves were overflowing after hyping drought for 6 months (tip: if you don’t cherry-pick the stats, there is no more drought than every year). So they argued that drought causes the overflowing of phreatic reserves. Later during the summer we had heavy rains. Now everyone jokes that we have heavy rains due to drought.

Seriously I hope the media will stop preaching in one direction. Today they try to demonstrate GW, but miserably fail at it, since they’re commenting weather and not climate. They’re doing more damage than they solve.
http://web.archive.org/web/20230902133611/https://www.nytime...

https://archive.ph/4CFkK
Databases don’t have to use a file-system - look at old Big Iron systems where the database is the file-system.

In the context of Linux/Unix/etc, the file-system is just another API for the OS - consider /dev/null or /proc - those are certainly in the file-system but they aren’t tied to persistent storage.
Yeah I'm kinda hoping that Garmin will lower the tariffs a bit.

Qualcomm's upcoming sat comms will be cheaper, offer the same features and also uses Iridium.

They'll not be able to compete once every smartphone comes with this feature out of the box.
It’s funny you mention it as a charisma roll, because it’s not really a roll, is it? High charisma is high when it’s with your interviewer, when it’s with your peers, when it’s with your business stakeholders. High charisma is useful in getting a job, in arguing for addressing tech debt, in pushing back on unreasonable timelines. Why would you not consider charisma in a job interview?
Absolutely! But after a while he knew why there was no kind of reward whether in the form of a financial compensation, a promotion or even additional days of vacation. Simply because the law of work does not have a section for exceptional performance/achievement.
> Surely the environment hasn’t been that stable on evolutionary time scales?

We're about at the maximum temperature that has ever been seen over the past few million years. The ice age cycles normally don't exceed about where we're at, normally it was colder. We're also changing the temperature exceedingly quickly.
How am I supposed to safely disable this warning on ARM GCC?
I'm yet embarking on my first coffee of the day, so this may all be me, but I read the title and could make no other association than between "fed" and the past tense of the verb "feed". And I kid you not, I was expecting maybe a non-profit against that's working against hunger in disadvantaged regions of the world...
The Coming Student-Loan-Repayment Fiasco
Hyperbole is "speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc. than they are".
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hyperbol...

IRS can lien assets, sieze assets, and imprison people. IRS is hiring armed employees.
https://www.jobs.irs.gov/resources/job-descriptions/irs-crim...
In a similar vein, this was news to me recently:

> here’s a chart comparing the throughputs of typical memory, I/O and networking technologies used in servers in 2020 against those technologies in 2023

> Everything got faster, but the relative ratios also completely flipped

> memory located remotely across a network link can now be accessed with no penalty in throughput

The graphs demonstrate it very clearly: https://blog.enfabrica.net/the-next-step-in-high-performance...
> stressful for kids and disengage from the subject

In my limited experience, stress and disengagement are almost always the main culprit. Once someone decides, "I'm not good at math", it becomes a lost battle that they'll pretty much never revisit or seek to relitigate.

In my family growing up, we were all taught Algebra as early as 4th grade by our mom because the Philadelphia Catholic School system taught some absurd system where everything a simple education in Algebra can solve is replaced with a massive blackboard-covering table of rules to memorize that I wish I had a picture of because nobody believes me. Anyway, knowing Algebra helped all of my siblings get far enough ahead of the class that most everyone else disengaged while we excelled and younger siblings were frequently helped to advance even better because they had a house packed with people that liked math.
I don't think code reviews are the _best_ way to teach. Because for a start, you're usually working with a complete task. Someone can have a perfectly fine pull request that implements the feature or solves the bug, but it might not be the best way of going about it.

Now, as a reviewer your spidey sense tingles and you get the feeling there's a better way. But now it's significantly more effort to pull that change apart or start from scratch and experiment with a new approach, then write this all up on the pull request with the caveat "but what you've written works, so in the interest of time we can merge this".

Pair programming would get you on the right track from the start. You are able to assist an inexperienced dev and guide them through the process step by step. Imbuing your knowledge, raising questions, suggesting fixes. This is exactly what the blog post describes. The developer was seen as unproductive because their time was spend pair programming rather than directly doing the work themselves.

I don't see how my post comes across as "I'm smarter than everyone". I know things that less experienced developers don't know, and that's a fact I know from talking to them and reviewing their code. But the culture just isn't there to be able to spend significant portions of my day effectively being their teacher (which I would love to do!). Instead it's often "the blind leading the blind" while the more senior members of the team are off delivering important projects and not having the capacity to imbue their knowledge onto the less experienced members of the team.

It's a culture thing and I wouldn't say it's a good environment for nurturing new staff. Spending 2 hours in a Teams call or at someone's desk is uncomfortable for both parties in a company that doesn't encourage this sort of collaboration. And so there's a sense to not "waste someone's time". The person you're helping sees themselves as a burden rather than seeing themselves as a student. And as a teacher, you're conscious of the other work you're supposed to deliver because it's not expected for you to be spending significant parts of your day pair programming.
It's like an RTS, but you only have 4 units, and you've got fairly close moment-by-moment control over their actions.

It's continuous, not grid- or turn-based like X-COM.

A lot of the maps feature police, antagonistic to all syndicates, and civilians, whose death or injury can attract the police. This aspect can require some management. I don't recall this kind of mechanic from any of the RTSs I played around that time.

Also worth noting: it ran in 16-colour 640x480 VGA (or maybe it was 640x400...), so it looked nice and intricate. Sure, you take a slight colour count hit compared to 320x200 - but UK games artists in the early 90s were well practised at dealing with that, after years of doing ST and Amiga games. (The Amiga had a 32 colour mode, but it came with a performance penalty.)
Again, look at the EITC eligibility. It includes information like which partner is supplying more than 50% of the support in a household. Primary residence qualification has a similar requirement. The IRS does not track anyone’s primary residence from year-to-year without the taxpayer telling them, and doesn’t assume they know. This is a good thing.
No one can claim ignorance of the tax filing industry, mostly Intuit and HR Block, paying to block any such notion of easy IRS filings since the Internet and ecommerce took off. If IRS standardized e-filing for citizens, it'd remove what, 70% of Intuit's market value overnight, crippling net worth for how many employees and investors of such a fragile industry on the edge of collapse should this happen? Now it is, finally happening.

Finally some common sense took hold to let someone in government see beyond themselves the lobbying cash and veritable bribery that single-handedly kept Intuit their ilk as behemoths in the industry with nothing more than our politicians willfully overlooking the industry extortion of every common US citizen.

Sadly Intuit and like won't die overnight as sadly most silly accountants only know Quickbooks, same as people only know Microsoft Office or Windows itself, but it'll be fun to see them decimated soon once their services are no longer necessary to buy by de facto simply to pay taxes.

Hell, I'm sure if I tell ChatGPT they're a really good accountant, they'd gladly do it for me soon enough too.
The same company seems to offer “cheerpx for flash”, that runs flash in browser by running entire x86 virtual machine in wasm, and on that machine runs full official Flash runtime licensed from Harman.

I’m surprised that even works.
(in response this article flagged)

I posted this because it is a different approach to strike, which impacts technology businesses increasingly. I read, nay, I seek out all kinds of material, across spectra and axes. How else would I learn and improve myself?

The only two choices in intellect is either to stagnate or grow.
Cyc is built to be locally consistent but global KB consistency is an impossible task. Lenat stressed that in his videos over and over.
Jeffrey E.F. Friedl - Mastering Regular Expressions

Good one if you asked me.
I think installing Calibre is a good use case for installing Nix (https://www.nixos.org).

Unfortunately, you might also need https://github.com/guibou/nixGL to run graphical apps under Nix. It's a shell script to use the correct OpenGL library.
In this case, I could have, but I felt my time was better spent thinking about why things were complex and hard to understand and made notes on that, mostly for my future self. Whenever I found the opportunity, I would include some of the reasoning and explanation, in written form, in my feedback. I didn't get much out of that gig, but I did end up with several thousand words of ideas and observations. I wouldn't be surprised if some future programmer on that project ran across something I left behind and found it useful, or at least comforting.

Edit to add: in 1:1s with the manager I was more direct. About the best I can say about that is "at least I tried".
Ha! Are any of these songs on YouTube?
Happened to me. It was at night, listening to a podcast while I was doing some chores. An ad for a horror movie popped up while I was walking through the corridor with the lights off. You can imagine the heart attack...

I solved it by manually updating all the filters.
That's not my point. The issue is that when the blocking happens, with coroutines control is yielded to the scheduler which will now schedule other tasks. Those tasks may again request and block on resources. This is where the leak is coming from. A resource pool is one way to get around this, however this stops working if you have several kinds of resources.

On the other hand, with threads the IO block is a "proper" block. No new task will be scheduled, the thread will only continue when the IO operation finishes, providing a very natural backpressure mechanism that prevents overallocation/contention.
While it sucks for the dev everyone buying games is better off having these rejected.
That is because of historical circumstances, but it continues to this day because it's encoded in the law; we don't have codetermination or sectoral bargaining.
Let me guess, you think forcing children to have an education is also slavery.
> Bonus: restart on hang

This is not good for battery life. I'm not sure how to heuristically detect hangs in a power-friendly way.
This article is about the relationship between the state and scientific authority during the pandemic, but a notable omission is that it's purely about the relationship between the state and scientific authority during the pandemic in the United States. As far as I know, in developed countries, scientific authority functioned as usual, and pretty effectively. That seems like an important contrast to consider.
Cloudflare DNS does not work for archive.ph and its other domains.
My calculus teacher was a business major who went back to college to get a math PhD and be talked shit about the business major math classes all the time.

I think complaining about business majors is a math professor tradition.
Why should you have to spend your time on being charismatic with your own management if your job duties require doing it with everyone but them?
Dual-socket Genoa would be 24 channels at DDR5-4800 (38.4 GB/s) for a total of ~921.6 GB/s. Typical PCIe configurations are 64 or 80 lanes per socket for dual-socket, so 128 or 160 lanes total, at PCIe 5.0 speed that's ~504 GB/s for 128 lanes total or ~630 GB/s for 160 lane configurations.

Single-socket Genoa would be 12 channels of DRAM (~460.8 GB/s) and 128 lanes of PCIe 5.0 (~504 GB/s), but none of the previous comments were specifically about single-socket Genoa and I wasn't going to silently switch from considering dual-socket in one sentence to single-socket in the next sentence.
As half of the pair programming team, why not just give him half of the story points?
It is related to gaming, but we handle large amounts of money to keep our servers running, as well as providing revenue to Discord in the form of "boosts". It should be relevant to people running startups here.
On Android you have NewPipe for video and ViMusic/Blackhole for audio only.

You have to install the .apk manually or from f-droid, but they work like a charm.
It's easy to say that until it affects your paycheck.
If the data set isn't growing, how big of a priority is vacuuming? You're at homeostasis if you aren't creating or updating records.

If memory serves the GC implementation was freeing/defragging 10 chunks of memory for each one it allocated. In a real time system if you're allocating a bunch of memory, you're already on notice, so having it cost a few thousand instructions instead of a few hundred isn't that big of an inconvenience.

And with SQL the network time is going to dominate.
Wow, OK, I'm surprised by those numbers.