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> I held off on getting an official diagnosis in no small part because those CPAP machines give me anxiety

Thanks for this comment. I'm finally talking to a sleep doctor next week after years of putting it off for the very same reason. I'm hopeful it will be as life-changing as comments here suggest, but I'm still nervous about the remedies.
In the MS ecosystem they have the SSDT data tools and unit test projects. It uses the designer functionality of VS to allow you to write your arrange, act, and teardown in pure SQL, and gives some basic condition builders for result sets tor your assert, with an escape hatch if that's insufficient.
This is amazing. Until now I used https://colorbox.io which first originated at Lyft before becoming an independent project.
I'm quite surprised about the amount of comments here about 'fresh home made pasta = eggs'

You can make fresh and home made without eggs, see udon for example. I use this recipe for years and it's always perfect + you can freeze it for later use https://www.justonecookbook.com/udon-noodles/
I am generally in the same boat, but I'll admit that I love my Macbook which can charge over either USB-C or the Magsafe (with USB-C at the other end), because I basically never worry about breaking the power connector when I'm using the Magsafe, but can still charge over USB-C as well.
Making an explosive device or 3d printing a gun is similarly easy, but illegal
Depends on your definition of tourist. If you are there for legitimate business within that country that is obviously a big no-no.

If you are a tourist who works for a foreign company while visiting a country, well I don't know a single person who has been actually deported for this. I know it can happen, but most places seem to not care much, and mostly care you're spending your money in their country.

I am a digital nomad myself for about 1/2 every year so I do have my biases though.
I believe renting somewhere to live often does, so yes.
It really isn't though, especially with the currency exchange. Tokyo is comparable in cost to a second or third tier American city, not to NYC/LA/SF/London. See: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

I do agree that $68k as a salary requirement is fairly reasonable, though – but it's much higher than the "average" salary for a Japanese person.
> Last years inflation was 10% in my country

This is a conversation about America, not your country.
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Many people can get a mouthguard-type thing that has the same effect.
That article says that "after today’s revisions, employers added more than 3 million jobs in 2023. That makes it the best year for job growth since 1999."

In what world was 2023 the best year for job growth?
Although the linked article is missing its images (at least for me), the archived version from tor.com has them: https://web.archive.org/web/20160305081415/https://www.tor.c...
For one thing, they sounded like absolute shit even compared to digital landlines.
The ingredients to make an explosive are too, but we've made that illegal, I think we can figure out something
To everyone in this thread who is stuck on the refrain "technical solutions to social problems never work": broadly shared agreement among people of flesh and blood to use a certain technical solution is ultimately a social solution. The value of a fair technical solution is as a rallying point around which a social solution can be formed. Besides, by the same token any democratic voting system would be deemed a "technical solution to a social problem", yet clearly some of those were adopted and now work.
(A)GPL don't require publication, just giving code to your users, who may or may not elect to further distribute the code.
December job growth was just revised. Up. By almost 50%.
That’s funny, because I’m going to start using them to apply for jobs.
Why? If your from the USA our stance is exactly the opposite.
Once the dust from the YouTube Ad-pocalypse settled and advertisers started spending money again, I feel like Google lost interest in a lot of child safety stuff.
I think you missed my point there, but yes I agree with you on that.
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Part of the appeal for these privacy front-ends is the zero tracking, so you don't get the hyper-aware recommendations of normal YouTube. I'd say if that's a major selling point to you, you probably wouldn't enjoy Invidious.

Though, I'd recommend people try self curating a list of subscriptions and discover new videos a more organic way (friends making recommendations, or seeing videos on HN or Reddit). I personally have found my YouTube experience to be less distracting when I started using Invidious.
> Hollywood and copyrights to begin with? How many Russian oligarchs have Israeli citizenship, that's not a secret or conspiracy.

Huh?
I do have a Quest 3.

I also have two OLED TVs, and no way I'd watch the Quest 3 over that. But I also own a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, and I'd much rather watch movies or a TV show on that. I'd also much rather watch on my desktop monitor.

The 3D videos are a nice diversion, and I do them from time to time.

I almost entirely play video games and workout apps on my Quest 3.
> Dumb 155mm howitzer shells are ~$3k apiece.

In the West. In Russia (according to NYT piece), it's $600.
Requiring geometric contiguity allows almost-unchanged gerrymandering through the backdoor.

Here's the Stonewall algorithm to gerrymandering with contiguous Define-Combine:

1. Start by gerrymandering a map with N contiguous districts the usual way.

2. Pick one of the districts to be your "mortar", the others are your "bricks".

3. Shrink all bricks minimally to open gaps between them without changing the population or election outcome.

4. Fill in the gaps with your mortar, so that all bricks are completely enveloped.

6. Split all bricks and the mortar in half, ensuring that one of the mortar halves does not touch any bricks. This gives you your final map of 2N contiguous districts for the second mover to combine.

Then the mortar half that doesn't touch any bricks can only be combined with the other mortar half. And since all bricks are completely surrounded by mortar (which they can no longer be combined with) the second mover can only combine a brick half with the other half of the same brick.

This leads to a map with the same outcome as the original gerrymandered map.

Of course it would be blindingly obvious if anyone actually attempted to do that, but there might be subtler ways to use contiguity to create a forced-choice situation.
> I don't see why the executives should be liable as long as they didn't personally choose the foam or hid the complaints.

Because that's what your job is as a higher up. You direct stuff, which comes with the responsibility of the results of that directing. In exchange you have a lot of power and get paid handsomely.

It wasn't Dennis Muilenburg personally who coded the shitty unredudant software that made Boeing 737 Maxes crash themselves into the ground, but he was forced to resign nonetheless (even though he got a golden parachute so it was more of a reward than a punishment). It wasn't Vincent Van Quickenborne who personally didn't process the necessary paperwork that left a terrorist free in Belgium and allowed the later to murder people, but he took accountability and resigned.

There's a whole legal doctrine in international law when it comes to war crimes, called the command responsibility, where commanders are responsible for crimes committed by their subordinates (unless they're American, then they all get medals).
The propaganda industry is booming.
I agree that we shouldn't try to abolish them entirely... but we can remove various political protections that political parties enjoy today- such as in my state, election judges have to be either registered Democrats or Republicans- the law allows unaffiliated election judges after the polling place has 2 Democrats and 2 Republicans... but almost no election authority hires and pays a additional election judges once they meet the statutory minimum of two dems and two reps, because they don't have the money to do so.
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It would be simple to have a ‘whitelist’ for contacts that are free but low priority and get muted, put in a special folder, or auto deleted. It’s cold contacts from anonymous senders that are impossible to reliably auto screen.
Does your list qualify as 'data you absolutely need'?

Do you assume everything is a web app where you can't control what your 3rd party libraries spy on?
Authorities won't be running after you, or a digital nomad traveling by bike the country while working on his blog. But those are still violation of the tourist status, they're just too small to be cared about.

It would be another story if you published a movie shot in Japan while on a tourist visa.
Is there any democracy on the planet that does not have political parties?

We can't even prevent private corporations from unlimited funding of campaigns. How on earth would we be able to abolish political parties?
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There are definitely ways to cleanly make Postgres scale for analytics. We didn't discuss in this blog, but we will be writing about them in the future. For example, check out what the folks at ParadeDB are doing. https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb. Neon is doing an awesome job separating compute from storage. Supabase contributed foreign data wrappers make it super easy to read from S3 into Postgres. Lots of great work going out there :)
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Talented developer for sure, but has a knack for developing software that piggy backs of silicon valley giants that can turn off access at a moments notice.
For me, that's garbage. I identify that as "farming" and it immediately triggers my "drop game timer", if I don't start having fun within 30 minutes of being thrown into a "gather rocks and punch trees loop", I drop the game due to poor design and refund. I'm too old to play "padded" games,I want only good quality stuff.

Yes most mmos and survival games are terrible at this, I'll never forget one of the quests in world of warcraft as a high level death knight "go gather wolves poop": I just defeated an enormous beast and saved a town, now I gather poop?

Checkpoints and story, give me that.

Or even better, give me a well designed gameplay loop, then gathering resources won't feel like a chore.

Automated resource gathering doesn't count, I'm fine if I'm not actively gathering: dyson sphere program is a great game.

For what is woth, I consider most open game terrible. Exceptions have farming items as secondary, not primary (e.g. Elden ring)
FWIW, I would consider the problem solving in exceptionally constrained environments to be the gained skill. The language is just one of dozens you'll learn as a developer or engineer.
Well, it is clear that the understanding of Japan's government regarding working with a tourist visa is different than that and that it indeed didn't allow working even if remotely for an overseas company.

Otherwise, they wouldn't hassle themselves to introduce a new kind of Visa that is geared towards exactly this kind of situation.
Ah, then probably not a fit.
It's also an incredibly effective way of getting fascists elected - who can then use their platform to gain legitimacy and support. I look at Europe and see fascist parties gaining seats in every country - except the UK, because in the UK FPTP will ensure they never get one. Even UKIP, never won a seat, despite being hugely influential populists.
"I cut, you choose" is not a fair system if it's difficult to predict or control the cutting. Give the cutting task to your 4yo and then take the obviously big piece, or the one that has the larger, now-exposed, gooey center.
> As you may know, current background removal services only provide low-resolution preview images. If you want a high-definition output, you have to pay.

Adobe Express does it for free, DepositPhotos does it for free too.
> ... stop selling the machines in the U.S.

WTF? So they're knowingly going to keep selling them elsewhere!?
The term "Markov chain" is used only for sequences where the "current" state depends only on the previous state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_property
Yeah. Taking the CSAM charges at face value is frankly like believing that Epstein killed himself. I have strong doubts about the likelihood of someone knowingly getting themselves into such hot water, with the technical competency to understand their digital fingerprint and what’ll happen if / when the government catches on, let alone his literal insider’s perspective into the US surveillance state, behaving as alleged.

I’m not saying that it’s not possible. I’m not saying that someone behaves logically all the time just because they work with computers, but “oh, and CSAM!” is such an American government t ‘icing on the cake’ ploy that it feels a bit too good to be true.
Skimming the readme, this seem focuses on reusing Helm charts but offering a supposedly more intuitive interface?

Does it change the way developers would work with YAML and Go templates or is it the same as in Helm?
Easier said than done. They crop up naturally. If there is a way to stop them, it wasn't known when Washington said that.

The fundamental problem with parties appears to be that they're a way to exert undue influence on and ultimately break down democracy. So it seems like measures that increase democracy and reduce the power of any person or organization are what's required.

From a voting perspective, that means things like multiwinner districts and races (improves minority representation and blunts gerrymandering), compulsory voting, paid voting holidays, independent voting commissions that draw maps, ranked choice voting...

It also means either reducing the mechanisms by which capital can be converted into political power or reducing the amount of capital the entities at the top have, or both. So antitrust laws are not only good for the economy, but also for democracy.
It's kind of socialist because some of the socialists want to make that decision societally. That we as a society should make all companies have the same norms for when to fire staff.

Because it's a topic for them in a way that it isn't for other political groups, the term is sort of socialist. At least within politics. HR departments probably also talk about fairness ;)

So if you accept a job, you can trust that the next CEO won't change your relationship to your employer wrt. firing. But the next government might, after the election.

Semirelated anecdote: Where I live, one of the big employers is well known for its particular culture: No layoffs since 1961 and a certain solidarity. The recruiters mention that to prospective employees. Some other companies are said to pay better.
Thanks! I was starting to look at those too. The *70 Thinkpads seem to be the last ones with optical drives, but that's at least fairly recent compared to this MBP.
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Why pay your house off early? I stopped a while back and save the money instead. My wife and I both “pay” the full mortgage each but we save the other half for investments at the moment.

We could pay off 80% of our house this year but I feel like it should just invest all the cash.

Any thoughts beside being free from a mortgage? I would love to live rent free but I’d make more investing it.
Except in Tech. Firings not hirings in tech companies. Still after two years.
I'm not sure what you mean? Are you saying the numbers are wrong?

Anyways, you asked where the hiring was -- and I found an answer to that question.
Oh nice, that’s way better with the pics and the formatting is also nicer. Maybe @dang can update the URL in the OP.
Data warehouse use-cases in Postgres for me generally rely on calculating counts/stats over time, and estimates are sufficient. I really like HyperLogLog for this use-case—fast performance, low storage use, and there’s a great Postgres extension that’s widely supported.
Funding original content is not the same as revenue share.
I was so amped up when I realized Crichton wasn't going to get merged back together by the end of the episode. They took an old Star Trek trope and _didn't_ resolve it neatly by the end of the episode! They're just dealing with 2 now??

Far and away my favorite Sci-Fi TV show. I agree with another poster here, it's a character study of a normal-ish human losing his mind due to a continuous assault of The New. Poor guy can never catch a break.
Regarding the "alternative vote" referendum in the UK: the voting system (also called "ranked-choice voting" or "instant-runoff voting") is an improvement to first past the post, but it's worth noting that it is not proportional representation and would do little to dissuade gerrymandering.
"Whopping" is a bit strong given how this kind of monthly increase has been fairly common post-covid.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/PAYEMS#0
The issue is far more basic than you're making it out.

Switching from FPTP to IRV changes the balance of power in any state that is not dominated by one party. The party that stands to gain supports it, the party that stands to lose opposes it. That's it there is no other motivation. If the balance of power were flipped you would see the stances flipped.

You can see the happening right now where the Democrats who initially opposed those state laws meant to undermine the ACA now loudly support them because almost all of them banish government from healthcare extremely broadly where Republicans now want them gone because it inhibits their ability to restrict abortion access.
On the one hand -- I love this spirit, of trying to adapt the "I cut you choose" technique to something that might work for gerrymandering. We need as many ideas as we can get!

On the other -- unfortunately I don't see how it would actually help, because the first party which defines the half-districts is generally going to "win".

If party 1 is the Republican party which wants to maximize rural votes, they just split up every city like a pie, with each slice extending far into the countryside, halfway to the next city. Then it doesn't matter which slices party 2 (Democrats) combine, because they're always stuck with rural votes outweighing city votes.

While if party 1 is the Democratic party which wants to concentrate city votes, they do the opposite and surround the city with two halves of a ring that is half-urban half-rural, so the city can't be diluted. Party 2 (Republicans) can combine rural areas only with the ring, while the inside remains totally protected.

So one strategy is skinny pointed daggers to invade the cities, the other is about skinny ring shields to protect the cities. By controlling the initial shapes, you control nearly everything.

(Of course with real geography it becomes more complex, but the general principle of districts shaped as skinny daggers or shields is still going to be the primary strategy here -- you're not going to win all the districts, but it'll get you the extra 10% or 15% you need.)
I am not saying you have to do fresh pasta every day (nor should you eat pasta every day!). I like to do it, same as bread and other things, but I obviously don't always do everything.

But parts of the pleasure of many things comes from both the anticipation and the satisfaction of making something good and taking the time to cook is part of it. Which sometimes involves organizing your day so that you can do it.
There’s none, obviously. Offline mode excludes thin clients. You need a lot of UI, state and business logic cached locally.
Yes, I acknowledge that their are ways to address them, but I wouldn't call them minor.
It is a formality in class actions in some states. Headlines like this are clickbait. I'm potentially in a class for suing a car maker for a defective part. I suppose there will be someone like this guy the lawyers have to recruit. Nobody will care who it is unless there is a problem with eligibility or something.
> It’s hard to tell when many numbers are used to spin/promote an ideology or attract eyeballs with sensationalist viewpoint.

Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

It's hard to find data about how your peers are doing. Anecdotally, I know a lot of tech employees who are out of work right now and/or have been out of work for 6-12 months. I know more tech workers than I ever have before in my life, that's obviously going to come with 20 years of experience, but I've never seen such a large share of them struggling to find income -- to the point that a small number of them are moving out of the industry against their wishes.
I've done remote work from another country, with kids, but that was because my spouse's job placed her there for a multi-year assignment. So it was a longer placement and her work coordinated and paid for a private school.

For me it worked OK. I did remote contract work and was able to figure out work authorization. The cost of living was lower so double taxation wasn't a big deal. The timezone difference was the biggest hurdle, I burned out doing late zoom calls; had the difference been smaller I suspect it would have been even easier.

Changing schools and big moves is hard on kids. No way around that, certainly one of my regrets from that time. However their interest in other cultures and especially languages blossomed. For them it was mostly just an adventure we took. So different from life when I grew up.
I believe fair cake-cutting algorithms are up there in terms of runtime complexity. O(n^n^n) or so?

It would be computationally feasible for small numbers, but not if the algorithm requires a human to try strategise and act in its own interest for every single step.
While building Nudgeer(https://nudgeer.com/) and listening to customers, we found that many people don't know how to update or fix these headers within many of their frameworks and that security headers and everything to configure them are needed in SSR. The existing libraries only inject security headers, but it was hard to modify them and add new headers as they rewrite the existing headers.

This package will introduce you to security headers within your SSR frameworks. With just a click with our nudgeer.json file, you can define your routes and their headers.

While only nextjs is supported now; we plan to support more frameworks and servers with agnostic ways to make it easy, such as small files that instruct the client and more.
> if they can’t definitively prove who sent it,

They already can. There's an internal "billing" code for every call so carrier knows who to bill for having carried that call.

They don't want to "prove who sent it" because all those billing transactions for carrying those calls add up to significant profit, and they don't want to kill that profit if they don't have to.
You should start with an SPA if it makes sense for what you are building.