skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In its statement, RealPage said landlords are free to reject any rent recommendations made by the software.

“Hm this software we pay lots of money for says we could be charging more money? No no, let’s ignore this suggestion for the good of our tenants”
>What I don't understand is why regulators haven't smacked the snot out of the Apple app store, with finality.

I imagine that part of it is that Apple's stock backstops a lot of activity in the financial markets. No one wants to kill the golden goose to protect "a bunch of Millennial and Zoomer phone addicts"; you have to remember, we're the cows everyone else is happy to milk dry for their own needs.
> Those that survive often go to B school, get their MBAs and come back as associates

If you're already an analyst and not (completely) burned out by 70-90 hour weeks you are becoming an associate within 2-3 years.

You use the MBA to exit out of IB into VC, PE, PM, CorpDev, etc.

This is also why tech became so popular over the past decade - new grads are earning IB level compensation with significantly better WLB and less barrier to entry, and most analysts are now STEM or STEM Adjacent majors.
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I had actually built a bare minimum version of Supersaas a couple of months ago, dog fooded it with my clients products and I learned what it lacked. Rewrote it again from scratch and made several improvements, now its feature packed and I have literally a lot of time trying to make this as easy as possible to start new projects.

I talked to users on how to improve it and added lemonsqueezy support, made it nuxthub ready and I even went ahead and purchased a bunch of boilerplates to understand what they lacked, most of those templates tried too hard and made it too complex to understand, which kinda makes me proud of how simple I made mine

No trpc, just plain old rest apis with a solid foundation and architecture which I have learned working at multiple companies over the years.
That's just normal price-setting. RealPage crossed the line into fixing when it (a) required (or strongly pressured) landlords to adhere to their recommend pricing and (b) achieved high enough market share to use that as market-wide pricing power.
I was talking to a shuttle driver the other day. She can't stand working for the post office because she doesn't like being alone. I prefer it. We both agree that different people have different ways they prefer to work. Seems to me, having a variety is sensible, and ultimately, makes for a more resilient economy. This "leadership philosophy" framed around equality (that not everyone can be in remote jobs) seems bunk to me.

Also, there's is an increasing exposure for commercial real estate. Cities that have given corporations a tax break for having offices, are either leaving, or trying to mandate return-to-office for employees because they can't get out of those leases. People who don't come into the office are also not spending money on the various service businesses catering to office workers. A collapse of the commercial real estate in a city may well affect the residential markets as well.

I think the mayor of Philadelphia is trying to head off a collapse for Philly. She can't say to the public, "we are in deep trouble because no one is coming into the office anymore, so that is why you have to come back". It remains to be seen whether that will have the intended effect on protecting the city from a commercial real estate market collapse, and whether that is worth sacrificing the longer-term quality-of-life benefits that remote work brings for the people who prefers it.
If there was a physical "undo" button, I could get behind this philosophy; however I notice neither a compiler to point out small mistakes nor an undo to help out with big mistakes. Having transformed some small plumbing things from easy to fix to really expensive to fix, I'm happy to know I live in a society with some degree of specialization. The plumber mightn't know they need to have good error handling policies, but they use my company's products, and we all go home happy. (This is also why I'm not in ops, except the odd heroic fire-fighting exercise; when I'm bored I like to change things to increase my knowledge of how it all works; I need worried and steady co-workers to keep things running).
It would be much more useful to simplify the tax and social security systems so that people didn't need to write to the taxman so often.
Or a boggle-esque set of dice rather than a phone app.
Airflow owning the scheduling, retry, task branching/dependencies is fine. But a few issues: to take advantage of Airflow's core features (XCOMs, task mapping, etc) your biz logic/tasks must be in the same venv, which is not sustainable as teams grow. Once you have external tasks, you now have a more complex system to operate and test, and your Airflow installation is now very overkill (you need a pool of workers just to monitor external... workers?).
Why would Apple charge itself a platform fee? They are the platform.

Unless you are talking about CC fees, which are like 2% compared to the 30% that Apple is extorting you for.

Can you explain your comment?
True, residential emissions and personal transport might not make up the majority of emissions (though they make up a sizable amount). However, the effect of personal choices is not restricted to these two sectors. What things you buy and how often you buy new things an where they are built or grown, directly influences transportation and manufacturing of these goods. If we want to effectively combat climate change, we might need to consume less overall not only watch emissions at home or from personal transport.
No linux client and support in my country. They have better streaming quality than Spotify.
At least the Android app tells you that you cannot buy ebooks in it. :-)
Yes, but there are a dozen other country clubs within driving distance, so this was ok for the customers, it's capitalism at work.

However with Apple (and Microsoft), we're all serfs on their feudal fiefs, so they can do this and get away with it.
Hey Andrew! It's great to see you here. I agree with everything you said, 100%. I'm honestly torn because I was the first one to recommend `if_not_exists` to engineers, but now I'm reconsidering because this can lead to very strange issues in production, especially for ActiveRecord applications. Maintaining an "invalid index reaper job" doesn't sound like a good long-term solution.

I've suggested some proposals to Rails here and would love to propose a PR based on the solution that makes the most sense, too.

https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/52583
Kind of like how realtors make more money on a house transaction than the closing attorneys who draw up all the paperwork and execute it legally.
I wrote very hacky python to play chrome://dino/ using Tensorflow in college for a class project.

I didn't know anything about RL so I wracked my brains and came up with an approach using CNNs with the goal of creating a model that could play at least as well as I could. The project was three separate scripts: collect training data, train a model, and then run that model using Selenium. The model would be trained to predict an action (jump or don't) using images of the game (state), and the training data was generated by running a script while playing the game that recorded the screen and adding what keys I was pressing at the time. The CNN was simple: alternating 2D convolutional layers and 2D max pooling layers and two dense classification layers.

First, after a couple hours, I realized my poor GTX 1070 laptop GPU would struggle with even 640x480 captures. Read some docs, did some input processing, and after a week with a lot of Googling, got things running.

However, the accuracy was terrible. It took a while but I realized my data captured where I had lost the game. I started manually deleting the last ~1 second of images from each session and it worked! What a feeling!

Since the game speeds up over time the model hit a limit quickly. I used OpenCV to literally write in numbers on the saved images to provide some kind of info about the length of the game to the game state, and it worked again!

Then I ran into a new problem- the model made it to a part of the game where black and white are inverted (the palette shifts from "day" into "night") and consistently failed. I hadn't made it that far very often so there was too little "nighttime" data. So I learned about data augmentation without knowing the term for it; with a quick script, I copied all my training data with black/white reversed, and the model ended up besting my top score by a solid margin. Never realized I could have just swapped the image colors when running the model.

It was the most fun I'd ever had with programming to that point and kicked off my passion for ML and AI. Ugly manual steps, poorly written code, using the wrong kind of model - but it was true creative problem solving and I loved it.
I think Rusts terseness shows here - I think C#'s approach is the best. Also, if you don't use `.ToArray()`, you still have an IEnumerable which is very usable.
A related pro-tip I learned from catering, which I now use often for leftovers, potlucks, gifts, etc. If you have things in the fridge you need to take with you when you leave your current location, put your keys in the fridge with them!
Factor in properties purchased solely for short term rental.
This was years ago, but I experimented with running TensorflowJS on a raspi to determine whether or not to open the chicken coop door when a creature comes nearby. Essentially, take a pic of the scene, and determine "chicken or not chicken" and open the door if the former. So, I trained the model on lots of pictures of chickens for positive, and lots of common predators (snake, raccoon, fox, etc.) for negative. It worked pretty well, except for one major flaw: I couldn't do the hardware to save my life. I rage-quit when I couldn't get the motor to keep the door open.
Worldwide average fertility rate is 2.35, just barely above the replacement rate of 2.1, and it's projected to continue to fall well below 2.1.
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That, and Apple probably requires a shit load of third party utilities that do "naughty" things like read the file system or be "not sandboxed" in order to actually get any work done. They need the Mac to write APIs to charge people 30% on the App Store for the iPhone.
Or, I would argue, like if a realtor made more money off of the sale than the person selling the house made.
Churches are already 501(c)(3)s
Reminds me of somebody I knew who had a Black Hat SEO blog a long time ago.

One of the "rules of the street" is that there are certain subjects you're not supposed to post about and if you do you will get hacked.

He posted a PHP script that used a neural network to break CAPTCHAs, this brought on a denial of service attack. He called the FBI for help but with the sketchy people hanging out in his chatroom this turned out to be quite the misadventure.
TLDR: I think there should be a compromise between strict 9-5 schedule, and “WFH 100%, do whatever”

I don’t have any experience of being a parent but here’s my 2 cents on WFH in cases where you’re basically in front of a laptop for work:
I think it sucks that big offices are in these huge cities centrally where the only reason people live there is for the work, it becomes a bit of a loop at times, you could have the company a bit more on the edge of a large city.
I DO prefer when people are all in office. It’s much easier to have small work conversations without the hassle of calling them up.
I think there’s a happy medium where you have 1-2 hours flexibility in start/end times of when you work to allow parents to pick up kids etc. especially where there’s adequate work that you can do by yourself
If a team has say 2 days WFH policy, I think it’s best if it’s always the same days, otherwise you just have the same problems as before
I think software engineers are WAY WAY WAYYYY too picky and delicate about their work environment and how meetings are scheduled. For example, “if we have standup at 11am I won’t be able to have a block of uninterrupted work time”, as if software engineering required you to constantly be in an elevated state of consciousness and clarity that a 15 minute block of talking about work would destroy… so I think teams should just change regular meetings around when best suits people with the weird schedules.

Covid to me proved that people WFH does work, I would see a company that required 5 days in office for a software engineering job in a different light. I agree with the article that you can’t put toothpaste back in the bottle. We know that hybrid doesn’t tank productivity
If I have coworkers that are parents/have to look after relatives then I don’t mind if they work until 3, log off until 6, come back on for a few hours etc. I look at allowing that as a very positive thing in a company.
I’m going to be starting a job soon that’s remote, but I still plan on travelling (across EU) to the main office at some point because it definitely makes a difference if you’ve hung out with your co-workers in real life vs on slack and meetings where everyone’s camera is off.

This is my opinion. My preferences are my own and they’re not everyone’s cup of tea. Just my opinion in a comments section :)
I only recently started using Patreon (as in giving someone money).

I really never thought of the app and I just went to the website.

Is there some reason to use the app?
I don't see why driving in a car is a better place to talk than fixing the sink.
A side question, why switching from Kubuntu ? Because I'm thinking to install it.
I'm pretty sure it's just because it allows you to retry the index creation using REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY, which allows you to avoid the exclusive lock created by DROP INDEX, because you can't always DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-dropindex.html
Except they're stepping far over that line! You can use a Patreon subscription on all platforms, same as a Spotify or Netflix or Kobo... and yet they want a cut even when they have no part in the payment processing. Totally indefensible imo.
I'm unsure, but I'm pretty sure Spotify had this exact issue recently and decided to make payments via only their website.

But, IIRC, Apple makes it nearly impossible to offer off-app payments without breaking their TOS, including linking to them (don't quote me on that).
Just to +1 this as a non-Postgres-user who briefly skimmed the docs:

REINDEX INDEX CONCURRENTLY

^ it can be rebuilt.

I'm honestly not sure if this is saving anything except re-defining (i.e. the literal "create index" statement), but they seem definitely not 100% useless despite being invalid. Maybe 99% useless, but "drop it in the background" doesn't seem particularly better either - leaving intermediate state for an admin to tackle by hand seems reasonable.
70% worldwide. 30-40% in the US.

And "Android" is a bunch of companies, not one.
Remember your password.

I made a very simple PWA and every time after reboot I have to re-log in. Of course, the browser will auto-fill my password but same page as a PWA it won't.

I also did some testing with macroquad [1] and I was finding that occasionally as a PWA the GL stuff just didn't work. I suspect Apple was disabling the GL stuff in the PWA as an anti-fingerprinting technique; there's no way they do anti-fingerprinting for an app.

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PWAs just can't do the same things that native apps can. This is probably intentional otherwise who would give not only 30% of their revenue but allow them to be a middle man between them and their customers?

[1]: https://macroquad.rs/
I also read it as "software critics" but isn't it grammatically correct? Maybe our minds mess it up given the context and our backgrounds.
If SF just relaxed zoning laws people would actually be allowed to build more housing. That is the only way SF will ever be able to address the root problem of affordable housing. Things like this are a bandaid that will have minimal impact.
They can tend your garden with you.
That doesn't seem right to me.
vs. endless commuting by car?

Many people don't want to be in dense cities. Lack of open/green space, noise, crime, and the worst place to be during any sort of crisis.
> Another trick is to group related objects.

Once I started always putting my wallet and keys down together, no matter what, I basically never lost either of them again.
Replika CEO Eugenia Kuyda says it's okay if we end up marrying AI chatbots
No prior media, before the "smartphone", allowed continuous consumption.

You had to be in front of the TV, or even the computer for the internet, before the arm attached computer.

The effect is proportional to the percentage of waking hours spent in the activity.

And let's face it, as vacuous as broadcast TV was, there was never the ability of so many people to spread so much patently false info for self benefit as there is now, and people are "influenced" by this mis-information. Especially because it's fashionable to be so...
Even better, never fix anything, live in squalor, and be happy that you could have a better life if you worked harder.
Have you seen the documentary "7 second memory man" on BBC.

It is about an intelligent person who is confined to live with only 7 second memory. He keeps a diary recording his entries. As he reads past entries, he realises the predicament he is in and considers that his case would be interesting to doctors. Then forgets all about that. Rediscovering the whole thing again in the next 7 seconds for himself anew.

44:20 @ https://youtu.be/k_P7Y0-wgos
In case anyone wants to know why this is: it's because
1) I don't have to enter credit card information
2) Apple allows me to cancel subscriptions in a central location as soon as I sign up

If your service forces me to auto-renew my subscription, I'm probably not gonna buy it.
I'm under the impression that "post everything they make outside the paywall [simultaneously or prior to posting it inside the paywall]" is not the norm. I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule of course, but are they actually common?

A quick search doesn't suggest that the apache foundation uses patreon...
They will do literally anything but build housing.

I mean this might help a little bit but if demand exceeds supply it won't help much.
The Innumeracy of the Rulers
> or do you type the ö each time?

It’s easy on mobile and less so on my Mac, so I do it more on mobile. I grew up writing British English (and French), in which reorbit and cooperate are a thing, but they get systematically misread in American English, and re-orbit and co-operate look messy.

I’ve also noticed when I add a diaresis my iPhone has less of a tendency to fuck with the word after it’s been typed.
What if those holding pens are the rooms?
Knowing your competiotions pricing doesnt make ot a cartel. It is the agreement between compeotitors to regulate price that makes it a cartel. If I have a saas in industry X and I see that all my competitors price their saas between Y and Z usd/month. Then it isnt a cartel if I price my saas similar.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41133143

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41163936
If it is your family bathroom or car, if you have worked on it before, chances are that you can deal with a problem on the spot thanks to the skills you learned and the tools you got for the occasion. No need to wait for the handyman.
And if it is a problem you can't solve, you may also have better understanding, which makes explaining the situation to a professional easier.
Or even those who work in sewers spend much of their time covered in sewage, so it's fair that everyone else does too.
I doubt there will be a move to on-prem so much as places that already knew for their workload the cloud didn't make sense will be a little more careful and so not move. For many servers the cloud makes sense though, and so I think we will see places move more and more as they see the value of the cloud.

For a large company with accountants they can do the accounting math, and a rack or two of servers is expensive - it need real estate, trained employees, managers for those employees, HVAC, power, backup servers, backup power, .... This adds up faster than on-prem advocates think. Many of those costs are things that work better in data center sized warehouse than a smaller company and so cloud can often be the a lower price once you really add up the costs. This is particularly true if you can share cloud resources in some way.
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I don’t think that’s true. I have a boring office job but recently had to do a shift at a bar where one of my friends kid had a school party. Some guy got sick so I ended up doing it for 6 hours.

I was dead for two days and my respect for these people has risen tremendously. Most people were nice, but just a few were super nasty. It also took huge toll on my body, my pulse was up all the time.

So for me, it totally “worked” to see things from a different perspective.
> It's important to recognize any time that we're talking about the market that services charge what they can, not what is fair. The market does not have a concept of fairness, only competition. This is why there is no such thing as a benevolent monopoly that charges fair prices - because fairness does not exist in the market, only competition.

I agree with you that the reality of markets is quite different to the "common sense" model. Unfortunately I rarely find either in the press or just talking to people myself, that anyone gets beyond this kind of price=cost(1+a little incentive) thinking.
http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/

Coded everything from scratch, first in elixir, then rewritten some parts in C.
Immediately closed when you require me to connect to github to just run a query without the use of AI.
By definition, an immigrant is not a citizen of the country they are immigrating to. That's how it works. In the U.S., an immigrant must resident in the U.S. for at least 5 years before even applying for citizenship.

Keep your drivel on TruthSocial or X where it belongs.
Maybe what they were saying was that that 0.1 may actually be lower in developed countries with lower infant mortality? Maybe it's more like 2.05 in developed countries? (not sure what "human labor output" has to do with it, though)
Concurrent index creation or re-indexing is not all magic. It does scan the table multiple times and might lead to deadlocks if the table is heavily modified.

Furthermore, failed concurrent index or re-index will leave invalid cursors behind that are not usable but incur the update costs. Of course, they consume the disk space.

Use with caution.
Well, in a sense all babies are a result of human labor output ;)