jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Really? In my experience adding columns to a production database table is pretty infrequent, and even when it happens it's usually only one or two. (It's often a pretty big headache to add columns in practice.)

I've worked on a lot of databases and I've never seen the number of columns grow to the extent that it would impact performance in a large way. It might go from 8 to 11 columns, but I've never experienced anything like 5 to 55.

For a variety of reasons, if there's a whole new set of data (like customer survey responses to be associated with the customers table), or large data (like product thumbnails to be associated with the products table), to be associated with primary keys, it's added to an entirely new table that you can perform a JOIN on only when required.

Not to mention that while any application client can often add new rows to a database, they can't generally add new columns -- whoever administers the database often keeps those privileges for themselves for general security reasons.
"people worked in a field with some bad people so they are bad people too"
Over-grazing and compaction of the soil can be a real problem however.
Building software is making a series of trade-offs, but most tech articles present themselves as though they have the answer. It's not too surprising, then, that the top comments take opposing stances on an issue that is definitely more complicated than the article made it sound.
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Languages: Typescript, Javascript, React, Node.js, Kafka, RDBMS, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://drive.proton.me/urls/KS5CFG7H6G#3yxrvTqA01fy

Email: See CV

Role: Engineering Lead / Fullstack Javascript Engineer / Frontend Engineer

I am an Engineering Lead having around 12 years of experience (5+ years as team lead) in shipping products and leading cross-functional teams. I have been involved in building products from grounds up, mentoring engineers on team, collaborating with POs to prepare roadmap & committing to timely delivery.
Sort of OT: is the movie, "The Big Blue" semi-realistic? Or is 'only' beautiful?
> Right click is disabled too

It works in zimbra.
New or not, this story in the NYTimes at least brought an old perspective to the new generation. Lot more people (due to Lithium take of the story) is now aware of the potential of Afghanistan, irrespective of the conspiracy theories etc.
Do you have any data or is this idle fear mongering? We're living through a man made disaster and you say we aren't doing enough?

Look at the (higher quality) data from Germany and SK. Very low mortality. 99% or more do not need medical treatment. Yet the societal devastation is already immense and harming much more than 1%. It's uniquely bad in Italy. Not entirely clear why. But even there the vast majority of affected people are elderly and have other co morbidities. So let's put it in perspective when we're cancelling our children's future.

I agree with masks. That just makes sense. Martial law keeping folks inside? You're living in a fairy tale.

I don't think we should do nothing, even though the worst case scenario of doing nothing is less bad than what's already happening. But what we are doing is totally wrong headed, rather than "not enough". We need to focus on protecting vulnerable groups, not indiscriminately turn everyone into a victim.
There is no problem with cpap.
Filters are available for the machines and tubes that lead to and away from the facemask.

CPAP is a good start for any patient that has a spontaneous inspirtory drive and acceptable work of breathing.

The problem for the COVID patients is more so oxygenation then ventilation (this is a technical complication of the disease were studies have shown that focusing on O2 with an elevated CO2 is better in the long run then trying to ventilate the lung to normal CO2 levels as the volume of air needed to do this effectively can do more damage to the lung).

CPAP helps O2 absorbtion in the lungs by maintaining a generally elevated pressure that pushes O2 into the alveolar sacs for perfusion without requiring a concentration of O2 that might create a fibrotic lung.

If the patient passes a certain threshold of respiratory distress and work of breathing they will need to be intubated to carry on the same O2/Co2 strategy above to protect the lung from further damage.

After intubation is when a real ventilator will be needed.
Ventilators can be very simple so long as people are aware the patient will be out like fashion so the ventilator can do its thing and medical staff monitor the patients vital systems. This is not always ideal as voluntary spontaneous movement of the patient can help relieve some of the neuro and physiological lung issues they are experiencing.

Ideally everything done for the patient as soon as they hit the ward is to keep them off a ventilator for their own and others best outcomes.
Dealt with sleep/concentration issues for over a decade. Some anecdotes:

- No caffeine after 1/2/3PM (even "sleep-friendly" tea throws me off)

- Melatonin / Sleep aids: See if they work for you

- Don't drink before bed (because it means a bathroom break in the middle of the night) [1]

- If you do wake up in the middle of the night, a snack may help. (https://www.sleepfoundation.org/articles/food-and-drink-prom...). Though I don't know, I've tried Chamomile tea and it keeps me up.

- Sleep study. Screen for sleep apnea. You may be able to get a CPAP machine depending on insurance.

- Find a psychiatrist to screen for adult ADD/ADHD.

- Consider a single monitor, ultra wide screen, and tiling/snapping window. Always have your content you need to get done open.

- Take a few days to clean and unclutter stuff. It takes an upfront emotional toll to get rid of stuff (loss aversion), but most stuff you forget. Junk is burdensome on the mind.

- A nice podcast on procrastination: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWFWsR0iPqI

- Dietary: Any sensitivities? Consider simplifying your diet to be very plain (cut carbs?) and experiment. I do keto. Simple carbs can impact me heavily!

- Bed: Do you have a comfy bed frame? Blankey? Pillow? Latex pillows are nice. I like soft pillows and hard mattresses. Amazon has cheap, high quality bed frames and mattresses-in-a-box, and I'm a big guy. My bed setup is ~$350 all included, with a comfy comfy pillow. Walmart has mattress-in-a-box.

[1] my hypothesis is for certain people, when they wake up at night, go to the bathroom, it's enough excitement to make it hard to go back to bed.

Subsystems to fix: Unclutter physical possessions, Streamline info spaces (computer workflows, email), avoid stimulants in afternoon / evening. Check for sleep apnea and ADD/ADHD.
That sounds like an out of context composite of concepts of dubious context. It was in the context of 'search vs in plain view' as distinctions and general availability was meant in terms of what was acceptable for technology to count as in 'plain view'.

The thermals were 'in plain view' technically but given that the technology was highly expensive and of limited application it was clearly disingenuous if the general public couldn't access it.

Essentially the argument is that just because a signal is emitted doesn't mean that the police have an automatic right to observe or decode it beyond a common observer.

Essentially if they had patrol bots on the street with human level hearing it is still 'in plain view' levels. If they started pointing parabolic microphones or laser mikes at people's houses that would be beyond plain view and into an outright search.

If that suggested interpretation jurisprudence were applied then audio bugs should have long been perfectly legal and not a search as nearly-everyone is already capable of hearing sounds and remembering them.
WHO says "very few" people will get a running nose, but that is not equivalent to saying you do not have the virus if you have a running nose. I'd be careful saying blanket statements like this
It's awful, but I feel it's not fair to single out China for this. I don't see the rest of the world doing much better of a job, especially in Brazil where Bolsonaro is still going on television to downplay the situation and actively making it harder for state governors to do the right thing (make people stay the fuck home, if you pardon my French).
It is available to be invoked but it is better that we dont have to use it to compel manufacturers and can instead ask nicely. Currently all manufacturers are basically complying without compulsion.
No, there are a series of screening questions that rule out high-risk donors (gay men, IV drug users, and travelers to high/risk areas are disqualified from donating). All blood is tested regardless.
I can't count the number of times when download + rendering time has been the difference between a useful and a useless response to a "do I still have time?" query. Imagine being in that situation in an emergency.
This study tried several methods of decontamination including soaking it in alcohol or bleach or even baking it in a rice cooker.

TLDR baking damaged it only slightly but alcohol and bleach significantly damaged it

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320361295_Filter_qu...
Have Experienced this, you probably have heard this before but I recommend organic growth, taking a look at niche networks or using better platforms with more intellectual audiences - like medium, quora, collaborate and Elevate, or Twitter
That is already how it works in US civil litigation.
>it doesn't seem like we should conclude that <x will never happen> because it was predicted a while ago and hasn't happened yet and now those predictions aren't in the news as much now

See also: video calling [0], internet as a social revolution [1], coronavirus [2]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/13/2867419/videophone-in-sci...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2000/dec/05/internetn...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/06/corona...
https://wiki.c2.com/?SharpenTheSaw
macOS still uses Objective-C, and in spite of Swift love, some key frameworks (like Metal) make use of it.

The new C++ userspace drivers is called DriverKit, most likely in homage to NeXT Objective-C based DriverKit.

DisplayPoscript has evolved into PDF.

WebObjects has transitioned to a Java based framework, that is only used by Apple, and was the basis for J2EE design. Other than that even less people used NeXT for servers than workstations.

EOF evolved into CoreData.

If you want Renderman it is still available.

The UNIX underpinnins never really mattered, in a MIcrosoft kind of way, its main purpose was to bring UNIX software into NeXTSTEP and be a checkpoint on contracts.

So for me it is pretty much alive.
Marcan had this topic covered on his stream. While reverse enginering is always gray area there is a lot of device drivers in Linux kernel tree that was created using RE. Also Apple never sued anyone for doing this.

Developer funded by community has more freedom than Red Hat employee. There is simply no profit for hardware vendor in attacking him.

Also OSX graphics stack is completely different from Linux one and Apple only implement their own proprietary Metal API. So even if you gonna decompile Apple drivers chances of copying Apple code are very small since the only common part would be running compilee code on the GPU.
OP said innocent, not unarmed.
> The common theme of Le Bon and Bernays was that such groups as "the voters" are inherently not capable of making deliberate choices, and those choices will be made for them by propagandists. I find that depressing, but their arguments for it are convincing.

It wasn't always the case that "fake news" aka propaganda made so much headway. The degree to which that was happening from ~2015 until now is a unique phenomenon not paralleled since Lippmann's time.
this was my thought as well. No idea why that was allowed to happen. No way that they went through everything with enough scrutiny in that timeframe.
You're comparing a public service building where normal everyday democratic governmental duties occur - a building specifically of the people - with what is supposed to be a highly secure military installation in which the sole mission of that installation is to launch missiles and cause death & destruction.

Never mind, you're right, the Capitol is also a building where mass death & destruction is launched from.
Now it’s OK to be political on Hacker News?
I am sick and fucking tired of both sides-ism.
A bit of self promotion, though not opensource. If you store your data in sheets, Probe Sheets plugin [1] calculates basic metrics based on some basic data: customer id, mrr, start and end time of subscription. We do not store the data you send (there is no way I can prove that to you though, but you can always obfuscate it somehow)

[1] https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/probe/108508041...
what about https://min.io/
Important correction. Selenium is a trace element. 200 milligrams is five hundred times the maximum safe dose!
Django and PostgreSQL. No JS (except for occasional client side validation). Django has stayed out of my way most of the time, letting me focus on what I'm trying too build.
So that's why maximize behaves so weirdly on Mac! I find it pretty jarring so I only use maximize now for some meetings and presentations if I have to use Mac.
Valve has also played a major role in normalizing DRM, microtransactions and lootboxes. They definitely do have the capacity for shady shit even if they are "better" than some of the competition.
yes, but alternatives for those groups exist. the biggest pain is the necessary regrouping on a different service. this is not about the loss of functionality that doesn't exist elsewhere, compared to say something like google streetview which is rather unique
In many countries the government and the company that you register the number with need to know who you are (or can deduce it from the place where you are connecting).
what is the benefit compared to https://min.io/
Trello is free, so is this meant to complete with Trello Gold?
My first guess was that she threatened someone.

Inciting violence is just about as good.

Seriously, why do people think they can say things like that, joking or not? It's in the same category as yelling 'Fire!' in a crowded theatre.
Yeah I bet Assange feels like he's been able to move way too freely until now, so he decided to start raping women!

He'll probably tour all Western countries, and rape a couple of women in each to make things a little more exciting.

Edit: Wow, what was fast! You really believe this is not bullshit?

Edit2: Or are we just not allowed to discuss reality on HN? Rainbows & Unicorns are much nicer.
Win the race in terms of volume, most likely: their product is pretty decent, and they aim at comoditizing phones and carriers.

But the race that matters is the race in terms of profits, and Apple seems on track to remain the most profitable company, without producing the most common phone:

- they have indecent margins;

- they have a credible strategy to comoditize carriers (cf. their not-so-secret deal with Gemalto);

- they cash in at all stages: on the hardware, on the software, on carrier fees, on the App store;

- a significant part of their R&D effort is shared between iOS devices (not only phones) and OSX.
Check this out:

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

[I read a book about them, _The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei_, but it seems to be out of print and way expensive.]
What? Just last week there was a flurry of stories where Android app developers were complaining about device fragmentation. Studies done that show the breakdown of devices, features, screen sizes, etc.

You know, occasionally you can trust what you read on the internet.
The more I think of it, the more I think that, indeed, the page is better without the form.

An interesting variation would be to expand the "Signup Now" button into a registration form with Javascript. It would greatly reduce latency and perhaps give a better impression to the users.

What happened to the page described in the article? I couldn't find it at http://www.vendio.com.
This is the page that users got to see once they clicked Signup now: https://secure.vendio.com/ecommerce/litelogin/hosted_store
Wow. This really makes our Armed Forces look completely clueless. It's disappointing to see them taking a page out of the China's useless internet censorship playbook.
more info: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=469716398919&id...
This can be misleading. Often these sorts of things are built by 3rd party companies and simply released by Microsoft or hosted on MSDN/codeplex or etc. A lot of them are just people at companies with pre-existing relationships with MS coming up with good ideas. It's not the same as more OSS-style ecosystems, but it's also not a centrally planned marketing facade, either.
Some viruses are better than others at staying around. Retroviruses, such as HIV, have an enzyme called integrase that adds the virus' genes into your DNA. That makes it particularly difficult to get rid of. Most viruses aren't that good.
To answer your question, probably not. icc has a long history of being less good on AMD processors, and almost certainly not on accident. With that said, they don't have a monopoly on x86 compilers. Microsoft's Visual C++ has been about equally good on both platforms and is far more dominant.

But with that said, I'm sure you know, that's not really relevant to the discussion at hand :-)
No. Hourly can still be problematic - you're just generally out less than you might be on a milestone-based project.
More. Please. Hurt me.
VirtualBox on OS X uses an installer, instead of being a .app you can drag to your Applications folder, so I assume it does as much.
You arbitrarily picked the midle tertile. There is a much bigger difference in lifestyle between the 33rd and 67th percentile or the 90th percentile and the 99th percentile than there is between the 67th percentile and the 90th percentile.

I would argue that wealth is a better measure of class than income anyway. There is an inflection point on the wealth curve, which (when you cross it) all you need to is not screw up really badly, and you will be wealthy for the rest of your life.
In my opinion this is wrong comparison. Simply because there is no physical obstacles that prevents you from doing what you have to do at your work, while in traffic there is plenty, hence the reason you're in traffic.

Such comparison alone distorts the view and paves the way to start to think that your minds lazy thoughts ("virtual obstacles") is actually something real, something you can't control.

In my personal experience, the moment you stop thinking about how hard it is to concentrate on a task and you start doing it, is the very moment when all those lazy thoughts disappears and you're back on empty "autobahn".
What worked nicely?
Even if most lose their interest in colonization, there would still be some interested in colonization, and those would do so. Unless there were some enforcement mechanism to stop potential settlers from leaving.
Remote does not necessarily imply international. There are over 300 million Americans who don't live in the Bay Area, so there are plenty of potential remote devs that are still in the US. Domestic remote devs are in the same or nearly the same time zone and can easily travel for regular, in-person meetings.

A startup I helped build over the last nine years was acquired earlier this year. Our entire company was distributed, and we thrived with email, persistent chat, weekly meetings via phone, and occasional in-person meetings.
The Open University http://www.open.ac.uk/
Athabasca University http://www.athabascau.ca/
It might get a bit complicated but sure, there's no reason you couldn't.
I expect plenty of offsite meetings once it's safe. Maybe it will all be offsites, much like academia has its conferences?
My first two searches failed to find results.

And then I searched for fried chicken, and it tells me "From the recipes we've sampled for fried chicken, over 35% have chicken." and "In fact, over 20% of fried chicken recipes contain oil." The percentages between conflicting ingredient names for chicken and oil still don't add up even nearly to 100%, so these sentences are quite surprising.

I think the wonky stats might be because "From the recipes we've sampled for fried chicken, over 15% have korean chile."

Either there are a lot of recipes making the same typos, there's a whole world of "korean chile" fried chicken recipes out there, the database has to expand considerably, and/or the code has to discern same ingredients with different names, before the analysis parts start to make sense.

I like the idea, but this first experience wasn't very fruitful.
You're arguing semantics. For all intents and purposes, Canadian parties can force their members to vote a particular way. They don't always do so, especially on less important matters.
Istanbul in in Turkey. As per NYT she fled to Istanbul, to give birth. This is why she has not seen her children, she is in Istanbul.

Kalbinur Tursun might be a made up name being used for Uyghurs being interviewed. It's probably two people.

I see now the Chinese government have stated the original Kalbinur Tursun was a pseudonym - http://jeddah.china-consulate.org/eng/zt/xjfk/t1767403.htm
It's the right click menus.
This is kind of why I like fitness trackers (minus intrusive user tracking) and would like to see them ever expand into automated tracking of users' physiology, allong with simple seemless logging of experience (like hitting a button to log a headache, or some other minor symptom that might be nothing but months or years of trends might reveal an issue)

It reminds me of the problem of a car noise, but you bring it to a mechanic and it doesn't reproduce on the spot so diagnosis is extremely hard. In fact I've had a heart issue of this sort recently where I experience symptom intermittently, sometimes weeks or months apart. My cardiologist has brought me in multiple times for an EKG, but since itt not while I'm having the symptoms we have no idea if the normal EKG readings are telling an accurate story.

Essentially I want to see personal health devices like the black-box on an airplane. Take blood pressure, weight, and resting heart rate once a week? It goes to the black box. Log a physical symptom or mood? Goes to black box. Sleep and activity patterns, I integrated smart-watch EKG? Goes to black box.

I think the advent of truly seemless UI and UX with unobtrusive comfortable devices that could do this would provide a massive leap forward in preventative health.

We just need to get there in a way that doesn't make it one of the most massive land-grabs ever of personal data by device vendors.
Oshkosh? B'gosh!
I've based my startup (www.groupsapp.online) on GCP and so far so good.. their free tier is really good. If you design your arch so that you only need lower-end instances your monthly bill becomes a joke. Datastore is ridiculously cheap too (but stay away from SQL, that can be expensive). 8 months ago I migrated to GCP from another cloud provider and found it more stable
The contractors of these projects know they can lock in long term deals for a ridiculous amount of money and take their time building and then after so long they end the project and then repeat.
So when can we get our tax refund?
Black cabs are the 'iconic taxis'.

You hail them with your arm, yes. This is quite fine and normal because there are millions of them.

Just like how you might signal for a bus.
We also took advantage of the stupid huge address space to make routing tables smaller, it's not necessary to have every /24 (or /64 in IPv6 equivalents) in your tables because we can assign big blocks and stop dealing with fragmented networks all over the place.
I'd like to see a once per month thread on HN that allows it, with rate limiting removed from accounts that have been flagged for participating in flame wars, and a policy of "try to speak only in truthful terms". I think some interesting conversations that aren't otherwise possible might result.