jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
SPA adds few advantages and possibility. For instance, the new bloomberg.com has infinite scroll of articles. And, new articles appear seamlessly at the bottom. This would be very clunky to do with non SPA approach. With SPA they can combine static htmls with dynamic content.
People are not "fleeing" other cities to come to SF because it's undense. They come to SF because SF has jobs and it's nice to live here. I'm somewhat unconvinced that more density in SF would make it less nice for all the people coming here.

High prices is not beneficial to the wealthy, it's only beneficial to homeowners. A vast majority of tech workers in SF are renters, who can afford high rents but would nonetheless prefer them cheaper.
The author is not precise here, but I agree that in the crypto-bro, get-rich-quick world, the meaning of "decentralized" and "blockchain" certainly can be stretched in all kinds of ways. And I think this relates to the problem around cryptocurrencies: its communities are an unhealthy mix of a lot of people who want to make a quick bug, and a few people who are seriously working on the foundations of the technology in a meaningful manner.
We tried to deploy HANA with BW in a larger-ish life sciences company (200k employees) and so far it was a huge waste of money. It's not actually performing well and the support team had to stop replicating some of our most important data becase "there's too much".

I'm not convinced HTAP can actually work - the they OLTP and OLAP works internally seems too different.
Multi-master replication was also a MySQL-only functionality that came built in, while on Postgres you had to pick a third-party solution (I think...)? Did that change in recent times?
This already happens in a way in my country, you’ve got all these people who have emigrated for better wages and who are using the money they earned in those other countries to buy real estate at home. This is kind of shitty for the people that did not choose to emigrate, because on top of the shitty local wages they have to contend with rising real estate prices, too.
Local copies ftw for sure, and it's not just free or cheap cloud providers you have to worry about

Following hard disk failure last week, I attempted to recover only about 1Gb of data from SpiderOak. Without going in to all the roadblocks, bugs and strange design decisions that exist when recovering data from them, I'm yet to recover anything worth having.

Been a customer for over 8 years. I guess the old maxim is true; an untested backup is worthless.

I managed to recover most data from various local backups I had lying around. That's the direction I'm going to go now, with a physical snapshot off-site every now and again. Not perfect, but much less hassle than what I've just been through, and also cheaper.
I noticed the trend of switching from eating out to getting delivered meals in pre-pandemic years in countries like mainland China and South Korea. I’m not a fan of it, and perhaps there’s more to that than just the subjective “oh no, things are bad because they aren’t the way they used to be” bias on my side.

— Visiting a restaurant in person gives a glimpse of how they operate (Bourdain’s “clean toilets” measure and all), which seems important when discovering new places. Without that, you have to mostly rely on online optics when determining whether they’re even sanitary (doesn’t sound realistic to expect government regulation to frequently check every single place that prepares food for delivery).

— Near impossibility of establishing anything resembling a personal relationship between yourself and people who prepare your meal and/or the business owner, and indeed those you trust to bring it to you. The former applies more to smaller restaurants, but they are incidentally also the places one would feel most inclined to consciously support.

— Further contribution to sedentary/low-mobility lifestyle.

— Uncertainty about how much of your payment goes to the restaurant and also comes into play, though I already wonder about that every time I pay with plastic.

— When choosing to dine at a place that also does delivery (with delivery workers visibly coming in and leaving), it could be hard to shake the feeling of being in a place where other customers would rather pay someone they don’t know to go rather than coming in person.

— Somewhat tangentially, a walk in Seoul became almost hazardous because of delivery scooters ignoring traffic rules with deafening noise—trying to squeeze as many deliveries in an hour as possible, while shaving costs on mufflers and/or vehicle maintenance. Presumably, this also has to do with specifics of local law enforcement, but I can’t help but think how dominance of meal delivery could change the walkability and urban landscape of any city over longer term.

The trend was boosted by the pandemic and I hope it will fall back afterwards. Small but quality local restaurants and cafes can be satisfying to discover and visit when you can.
Yes but the game is deterministic and trades inputs which are rewound and resimulated. I don’t think the interesting part of rollback net code in fighting games is that it’s usually peer-to-peer. There’s a GDC talk on how it works here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3aieHjyNvw
So IQ measures something, but we don't know what and we don't know how it impacts the real world. How can we meaningfully say it measures something then?
> Transaction costs have nothing to do with sponsor's fee.

This is true, but choosing a particular security based on transaction costs alone can be penny wise and pound foolish. Savvy traders are obviously cognizant of the pernicious effects of high transaction costs, but you don't win as a trader by minimizing transaction costs; you win by delivering risk-adjusted returns. If the structure of a security produces lower returns or adds a high level of unnecessary risk, the transaction cost savings can be moot.

> If you want to trade bitcoins...

I'd argue that it's premature to suggest this is a realistic vehicle to "trade" Bitcoin until we see how well it actually tracks the Bitcoin market. Obviously, it needs to get the green light from the SEC before anyone has the opportunity to do that.

> You can have a substantial sponsor's fee of 1%. Let's say you're comparing the ETF to Coinbase - they have a transaction fee of 1% - then as long as you're making more than one transaction a year, you'd rather trade the ETF.

No, that's not necessarily true. Again, read the prospectus. Unless you fully understand and are comfortable with the risks associated with the structure of this ETF, the possible consequences of how the Sponsor's Fee and other potential expenses are paid, and the potential conflicts between the parties involved, one might have very good reason to chose a service like Coinbase over the ETF.
(serious) can someone explain to me how widespread WhatsApp is in your social circles? I'm unaware of a single individual that I know using WhatsApp and I only used it for a brief window of a few weeks when I (in Indiana) and a guy in Australia attempted to do a podcast together over a decade ago.

Is this big with folks outside of the United States? Is it something that is largely used in the tech community? My friends and I just use run of the mill SMS/MMS with whatever app, or use Facebook Messenger even when we have each other's numbers, or will indiscriminately switch between the two.

My wife's family almost exclusively uses Marco Polo and iMessage.
I think the other social media platforms don't have as much of a mega phone effect that twitter does? Twitter posts by default can be seen by the world which differs from other social media sites?
Yep, very true. I can't disagree with anything you've said. I do remember 2006 very well and the "I landed under sniper fire" from Hillary.

I agree Bill Clinton was outside of it, but he got in and they started their entrenchment. Prescott Bush spent decades preparing for his son to become the president, but it was his long term intention.

Trump started planning this in the 80s and his extended family are also much easier to listen to and less ... squawking. There's a good chance they'll rise despite all of this as another political family like the Kennedys.

Kennedy wasn't corrupt enough, and got taken out by his own people, and somehow to this day over half of the world believe it was just one guy with an axe to grind.

The actual undercarriage of what is going in is deep and complex, held by powerful people who will rip each other, and the peasants, in order to maintain their control and power.

Just look at how people on here are ripping at each other, accusing every Trump supporter as being a Nazi or fascist. I think back to the quote from Wargames about thermonuclear war .. the only way to win, is not to play.
Posted this last time and posting this again as a PSA:

A bit of a side-note, but this needs to be said: articles like these should be a good wake-up call for crypto users that are still using web-based wallets (and their accompanying apps for mobile platforms) especially for storing LARGE amounts of cryptocurrency -- you're essentially trusting a third-party exchange (with many of them using opaque ToS and PP) with your private keys and as a result your funds (especially those platforms that don't use multi-sig architecture). And crypto exchanges' data breaches/hacks is getting more common by the day. [0]
Even Bitcoin.org has stopped recommending web-based wallets, like they were doing just a couple of years ago.

The best alternative is hardware wallets, but a good middle-ground is using self-managed, 'semi-cold' software wallets like Electrum, Armory, etc. [1][2]

[0] https://selfkey.org/list-of-cryptocurrency-exchange-hacks/

[1] https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/wallets/online/

[2] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1741339.0
I don't think he's talking about Spain here.
From a place too terrible to name
All the effort Apple goes to to maintain their walled garden, and yet they let such blatant ponzi scheme scams as crypto currencies in.

What is going on in there?
Multiple computers belonging to congressmen/their aides have been reported accessed or stolen (https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/533162-merkley-says-capi...). Someone posted a picture of Nancy Pelosi's email client, stole mail and left a threatening note in her office. Other private chambers were vandalized (https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/134703950452849868...). Can anyone really confirm that there were zero foreign agents among the thousands of rioters who accessed the building? Let's not pretend what happened was normal.
i wonder if his last day will be as awesome as this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1M-IafCor4
False argument. It's not "either we know everything or we know nothing." For example, they can have incomplete logs.
Considering that it is a hyperspecific instruction manual and not a blog article, that's probably a good thing. It mentions all the topics.
Thanks for posting a meaningless aphorism. Might as well have said "A penny saved is a penny earned" in a thread discussing poverty.
As a guy who is in no way a sysadmin but has devops experience, I thought he nailed it pretty well. Take Ansible. It is declarative: you write down the list of packages you expect to find on the target machine(s), and Ansible will install any that is missing. Now, you remove one of these packages from your playbook. Is it magically uninstalled from the targets? Absolutely not. Because the playbook doesn't describe the "state of the world" in its entirety. A NixOS file does that. Remove postgresql from a master NixOS configuration file? Update and no more Postgres. Because everything that NixOS manages is described (installed software, configuration, etc) (1).

1: Actually, last time I looked at NixOS, you could also install things the imperative way, but that's a silly thing to do.
For copy/paste on Linux, I use ctrl/shift + insert. Seems to work everywhere including command line.
He is downvoted because his comment consists of two phrases that are both wrong. First:

"Forget the study", he is basically suggesting we should forego science, human kinds only tool to ascertain and record observable truths about the universe we live in.

"people belonging to Jainism know this for centuries", he is suggesting that some people have been aware of white blood cells and their regenerative properties for centuries. This is plain false.

Jainist people might have discovered fasting has positive effects, this is not special at all, almost all religions and belief systems have fasting traditions and attribute positive effects on health to them.

Why would've scientists even bothered to research in this direction if they didn't believe there was something interesting going on there?
> I have a mobile game API that does ~415rps and about 2100qps. (About 1500qps are in MySQL, more below.) We do that with one DB server with 122m RAM. While we can continue to scale RAM, we can see the handwriting on the wall - indexes will continue to grow, and we won't be able to scale vertically forever.

I don't know how many users you have now and how quick you grow, but you can buy a server with more than 10x as much RAM as you have now. You may not "be able to scale vertically forever", but if you hit that spot you reached at least 5x Stack Overflow level. Congrats!

> We use NoSQL to store certain types of info, just as SO does - Redis, Elasticsearch, and so on. The more data we store and the more we use it in new ways, the more types of non-relational DBs we use.

> I don't think we'll ever have a situation where MySQL goes away entirely, but it stops being the singular solution pretty quickly as you scale up.

Sure why not. Use what fits your needs. But I guess you used Redis and Elasticsearch for it's features, not because it scales better - for that, some more RAM would have done it.
There are the Catsters which have produced a large and wonderful set of videos teaching Category theory. This is the best guide I know to watching those videos:

https://byorgey.wordpress.com/catsters-guide-2/

Dr. Cheng's enthusiasm is incredible.
What baffles me is this: Why does such a (conceptually) simple thing require such a hairy implementation?
Two links, 1, a small tiny component can be the equivalent of a spinning piece of unsafe steel:

http://heartbleed.com/

And a small component is all it takes to make a vehicle unsafe:

http://www.gmignitionupdate.com/
A friend of mine has a school bus, but it needs a new suspension bladder and those a) aren't cheap and b) are hard to replace. There's nothing more expensive than a cheap (insert noun here).
great idea. looking into it.
I like it! Makes it more interesting than hello world and a little bit of a throwback to the years of yester.
open for that idea.
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Nice, but it'd be great if displaying same quote more than one time in the newsfeed could be avoided :)
Still more ethical than a vegan having to compromise their morals by taking a butchering job because they can't find any other jobs and need to feed their kids and have a roof over their head.
https://basecamp.com/handbook/15-international-travel-guide

Time to start wiping things before you go on trips again.
But they have to file a 1040NR, which most of the tax software won't touch with a ten foot pole.
Exactly. "Spending" the cryptocurrency is just convenient UX over the exchange process.

Using a credit card that abstracts the details doesn't get you off the hook from paying capital gains tax.
And yet NASA uses C, not Rust.
I think the more productive sentiment would be to try and have a more in depth discussion about Ethereum instead of attacking HN ad-hominem.

So, as someone who doesn't know much about crypto aside from "it's bitcoin!", please tell me, what advantage do stablecoins/Ethereum provide that fixes the problems presented with bitcoin? I actually want to learn more.

I would be interested to know about the volatility specifically and also if these currencies are less susceptible to a 51% attack or a fork.
I didn't mean literally socketed, but in 2012 things like msata interface cards (a predecessor of m.2) absolutely were a thing. Or implemented soldered on a custom small pcb to edge pin interface not very different in size and slot from a laptop sodimm.
One of the most important attributes of solar power is that it produces peak power during peak usage times -- the middle of the day, when people are running the air conditioning, businesses are open, computers are on, and so on. With a grid designed to provide continuous power at off-peak levels and solar filling in for some of the shortfall at peak levels, that allows a reduced number of peak-only reactors.
Brilliant. It's great to see new takes on navigation and ways to explore large data sets.
Head mounted cameras aren't necessarily a bad thing, much in the same way vehicle-based dashboard cams aren't necessarily a bad thing.

But Google Glass is definitely a bad thing. It's bad because the person wearing it can't claim complete control over the behavior of the device. It may or may not act in the best interests of the user. It might capture data, and retain it, regardless of the desires of the user.

Everytime Google Glass gets talked up in news, I wish people would question the very idea of Google Glass. Why should we buy into this system?

Wouldn't it be wiser to just engineer your own eyeglass-frame-mounted web camera, and relay footage to your own server, on your own terms, in a way that you can control?
But would I get angry at my friend, or the person who told me what my friend secretly thinks of me?
Your username is very fitting for the subject matter.
Neither of these exploits works on stock Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, with LXC or otherwise (AppArmor kicks in).

Like jpetazzo, I would love to see a working LXC exploit. In my case, "working" == "can get host root when given container root on Ubuntu 12.04 or later".
I never ever hold it against someone if they say they need to look something up. No one should nor can memorize all the things we developers need to remember.
Whenever you see "terror arrests made during dawn raid" on the news in UK, it's easy to dismiss it. But it happens pretty much every month now, and has been like that for a couple years now.

Did you sleep through V for Vendetta?
400bytes? Seems to be the absoulute minimum because Parallel Universe also claims that Quasar's fibers only use 400 bytes.
Not what I said but yes I was asking for a cite on something he claimed.
Was this meant as a troll comment? Seems like it to me. Where does one even start responding to this?
That's completely inaccurate. He responsibly disclosed the bug but Facebook security didn't have the right privacy settings turned on and was completely unresponsive to a huge security hole. So he did something non-malicious to get their attention and it was fixed in 5 minutes. See how that works?
Yes. A custom HRTF makes all the difference between "hey this is kinda cool" and "holy guacamole I can locate everything down to a tee".
This is pretty amazing. Very well done!

It would be fantastic if it had a Gmaps-style zoom feature. A ZUI of a sort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface

(I added this comment to the HN corkboard above but it got removed very soon afterwards!)

Edit: This was already suggested in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1963075
Would replacing all the PS3's fix it? It seems that this is more related to the infrastructure of PSN than the actual PS3 hardware. If that's the case, there's not much that Sony can do to really fix the situation.
yes, it's up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, X, O, X, O
Why can't it just mean "we don't have a clue whether they do or not?"
Hair rendering is awesome. Here's what blew my mind: In the (non-Pixar) film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, the character Cloud Strife, already recognized for his points-every-which-way hair (from the PlayStation polygon days), wakes up with a distinct and noticeable case of bed head.
I've been seeing the notion of accounting for the loss of sales due to "reputation" come up on HN recently and I wish to dispute it.

First, most of the time when we're talking about business and we talk about costs we're clearly talking about accounting costs. This applies to startups, too. When you're talking about accounting costs, you don't get to include economic costs (e.g., opportunity cost.)

Second, isn't trying to include these extra "costs" due to lost sales the same thing that the music industry is doing? That is, claiming that they lost trillions of dollars due to file sharing from, you got it, "lost sales." [1]

I don't think there's any real way to measure these costs, so let's stop trying.

[1] http://www.p2pon.com/2011/03/25/greed-hits-climax-music-indu...
That's probably a BDDK (regulatory body for banks) issue.

Good thing is you can actually use Apple Pay, I use my Watch to pay for stuff all the time.

You have to have a foreign bank account that supports it, I use Wise since it allows Turkish customers.