jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Uber switched because of a very specific problem they had with the internals of Postgres, that was handled differently in MySQL (which I believe is now "solved" anyway).

It's not that MySQL scales better than Postgres, but that Uber hit a particular specific scaling problem that they could solve by switching to MySQL.

You could well use MySQL "because it scales better" and then hit a particular specific problem that would be solved by switching to Postgres.
> due to ridiculously long waiting times for doctors appointments

This is amazing to me. I've never seen as bad of a situation as with neurologists/psychiatrists. I called some a while ago and it was essentially either "we don't do any new patients" or "yeah, we have a wait list, if a spot opens up, we'll call everyone and the first person to answer gets it; expect it to take half a year though". Unless it's an emergency, you just won't even get to see a doctor.
I'll never understand the concept of a privacy focused messaging app that uses your phone number.
I think this direct quote (from your article) best sums up his position:

> “We need to have some humility here,” he added. “We really don’t know what the real number is. I think the real range is somewhere between 70 to 90 percent. But, I’m not going to say 90 percent.”

He's not lying, like the rest of us, he doesn't know. Especially, with the advent of the new variants.

Also, it's odd you're pointing out him giving information during an on-the-record interview as evidence that he's lying.
It's really just links (not sure if the audio is available anywhere), but depending on what you do, you may not have heard of some of these. (Example: I'm just starting to learn Erlang, so I was glad to get links for Elixir and Kerl.)
Generally, I think: "Great, you implemented a feature and registered a domain for it."
The thing is, fully autonomous AIs will most likely be tested on a simulated world (maybe at a smaller scale) before they have any kind of real world influence.

Real world resources are finite, and real world processes with real world materials take a certain finite amount of time. The singularity therefore ignores the realities of physics. It would even be possible to add artificial constraints on the total resource use and rate of resource use.
Indeed, even comments here present the (calories in) < (calories out) == (weight loss) simplification.

Currently reading Antifragile by Taleb and it goes in to these fallacies at length (machine vs body and data vs theory).
The only proposals for a "national sales tax", which was listed, have been VATs.
'The lifebox, the seashell and the soul' by Rudy Rucker.

http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox/

It has the same sort of feel as GEB, he riffs about cellular automata etc, its not too demanding while still giving enough to meditate on for a few days.
No, it works -- that was just an extra optimization.
C#, Java, and other languages have abundant online documentation as well. What's more, their documentation isn't filled with the vagueness and ambiguity that plagues PHP's documentation.
http://www.michigan.gov/ag/0,1607,7-164-17337_18160-51242--,...

Relevant text:
A government agency may charge a fee for the necessary copying of a public record for inspection or providing a copy of a public record to a requestor. A public body may also charge for search, examination and review and the separation of exempt information in those instances where failure to charge a fee would result in unreasonably high costs to the public body. The fee must be limited to actual duplication, mailing and labor costs. The first $20 of a fee must be waived for a person who is on welfare or presents facts showing inability to pay because of indigency.

(italics mine)
Translation: The $500k "fee" is another denial/delay tactic
Why am I not using a $100-200 SSD?

Because my laptop cost $350, and my desktop cost $300.

SSD's amaze me, and I don't need an SSD larger than 64-128GB, but the performance boost just isn't as important to me as keeping my rigs cheap.

Oh, and when I need truly fast disk access? I use ramdisks.
For a desktop, a 147GB, 15k RPM harddrive, bought second-hand, is the price-performance-reliability sweet spot. For example, a Seagate Cheetah one generation older than the current.

Also, because I've been using XFS on it. With journal on another drive, performance is blazing fast -- and yes, including mass deletes of small files.

XFS used on the only SSD (cheapest one, admitably) I have was performing terribly -- because it has to do lots of random writes

And no, a 15k RPM is not noisy -- both thanks to good bearings and human ear not being very sensitive at that frequency.

--

For a laptop, sure, the available harddrives (7.2k at best, often even 5.4k) have terrible random access times; an SSD may be way better. But not on my desktop, not yet anyway.
C'mon, the site is very alpha. I actually like the fact that it's rough around the edges. But, in line with my comment above, I really want these guys to start telling people what their plans are, including privacy, ease of migrating data out and whether or not they have a philosophical position on selling to Facebook and wasting my time as a result.
No it's definitively not an outrageous amount of money.

I have a 3 year old Thinkpad T61p with a still decent Core 2 Duo and 4 GB of ram. After three years it felt kind of slow so I had two options: 1) Buy a SSD for 250 Euro or 2) buy a completely new laptop for > 1000 Euro.

I went the first route and after working with the SSD for half a year I'm pretty sure that an expensive new laptop with a traditional hard drive would not have resulted in such a tremendous speedup as the SSD did.

So please don't think of the 200$ for an SSD as "these 200$ will buy me a new hard drive" but instead think of this investment as "these 200$ will buy me an awesome new computer".
Watch the video. He spends JUST enough time saying 'go home peacefully' that someone can say he did that. However he spends all the actual time and energy saying the exact opposite - it was stolen, fight for me, etc.

It is the height of disingenuousness to claim it was a call for peace or a thoughtful resolution. It was an emotional call to arms with a fig leaf on it.
>"I think the lesson to learn here is that there is no such thing as a 'free market'"

That's a popular piece of rhetoric, but I don't buy it. Certainly a market with government handouts or regulations that bias the interests of some players over others is less free than a market without such interference. I think we can say that the transportation market was "more free" after competition killing regulation was removed from the trucking industry under the Carter administration, for example[1]. (People forget about Carter's libertarian streak, but libertarians don't. You can also thank Carter for deregulation of air travel[2] and delicious microbrewed beer[3].)

Rather than lobbying to bias the market in favor of our preferred people, as you suggest we do, it is perfectly possible to lobby in favor of less special-interest rules. In fact there is a significant minority of people in this country who do just that. We call ourselves "libertarians".

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Carrier_Act_of_1980

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act

[3]http://www.theatlanticwire.com/features/view/feature/How-Jim...
Another big problem in the Wikileaks case is the ability of adversaries to make it much harder for supporters to give them money or other forms of support.
I'll bet you $100 that they end up doing just fine.
Yes, my understanding is trees, wreaths etc. were part of Pagan celebrations. The winter holiday season was to celebrate winter solstice. The Catholic church said well the people are celebrating anyway, so let's move Christ's birthday to Dec. 25th (Christ mass) and make it all about him. Someone please feel free to correct anything wrong. Happy Solstice and Merry Christmas!
"A captive-bolt stunner is a quick strike that stuns."

If it's successful, yes. They often aren't; it's not hard to find undercover video of "stunned" animals in clear, loud pain.

Let's take this whole what-if to the extreme:

If I had to be turned into a cow and slaughtered and was given the choice of a random secular slaughterhouse that would use a stunner and a random kosher slaughterhouse, I'd absolutely choose the kosher option. I'd have a better chance of not being injured and mistreated on the way to my death, and I'd have a better chance for a clean, quick, and minimally painful death.
Funny it looks different on my computer:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2601554/snowman.png
From a hiring standpoint its not something I look for in recent graduates. I also don't ask whether you have learned to use an IDE. Those just aren't things I expect you to have been taught in a high-quality cs program because those are things I expect to teach you on the job in under a week - along with all the other project specific things you will need to learn (like which frameworks we are using, what coding standards we use, our check-in policy, etc.) If you have learned to use them and are familiar with them, great. It won't really affect your chances of being hired though because in our next project we may be using a completely different set of tools, and I will expect you to learn how to use those instead.

Now if you are claiming 5+ years of professional experience and have never used a source control system that is likely to trigger a whole set of negative questions surrounding what kind of experience you actually have, but it isn't a deal breaker - just a warning sign.
> You're welcome to provide citations of gay individuals

You cited your personal experience, so you don't get to complain when I do exactly the same thing.
"It was founded in 2007 by MIT graduates Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi as a Y Combinator startup"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_%28service%29
>It shouldn't be the government's role to protect people from their own ignorance or bad decisions.

To what extent is a person legally allowed to take advantage of another person's ignorance or bad decisions?

Let's go extreme here. Should there be an age of consent? Yes, because we need to protect children from being taken advantage of because of their ignorance and likelihood of making bad decisions.

Thus we have already determined that, at least in some cases, the government's role IS to protect people from their own ignorance or bad decisions.

>adults should have the freedom to invest in whatever they want

What happens at 18 that means we can protect the child but not the adult? While growing knowledge and wisdom and an increase in brain maturity means we can lessen our protections, there is no justification from going from full protection to no protection on their 18th birthday (or whatever birthday you consider someone to become an adult).

Now, I'll accept that we can't protect them fully and this protectionism must be weighed against freedoms. But this is why a ponzi scheme is illegal while a lottery is not (assuming the lottery follows regulations). There is an issue with regulatory capture that we need to remain vigilant of.
There is also the issue of Facebook chat being rolled out in 2008, which I'm assuming Node.js didn't exist by. Node.js would need to provide a significant gain in order to justify refactoring that system.
No, this is the anatomy of a perfect landing page:

<% ab_test('determine_the_best_page_with_numbers_to_back_you_up', ['page1', 'page2']) do |action_name| %>

render :action => action_name

<% end %>

(http://www.bingocardcreator.com/abingo)
In the real life situation above, the solution was; to cover up the atrocity (by planting weapons on the bodies), claim the soldiers were fired on (they weren't), and prevent the only MP in the House of Commons who had personally witnessed the event from speaking on the floor (in contravention of parliamentary tradition).
Mentioning "laws are useless because the Russians" is a red herring.
Let's not create uncertainty here: All home routers that support IPv6 include a firewall, and it's active by default.

(Have you ever seen even an old IPv4-only home router that didn't include a firewall? I haven't.)
> But at the same time, if I have v6 on, it causes delays in name resolution and sometimes I just can't connect to a site until I disable v6.

That sounds like your ISP does not actually support IPv6, eg. doesn't have the full Internet routing table for v6. I've seen this happen.

DNS v4/v6 resolutions can also hang with glibc because of a well known bug with Happy Eyeballs when ISPs that fuck up outgoing DNS packets (eg. messed up stateful NAT/DPI). "options single-request-reopen" in /etc/resolv.conf is a workaround. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505105.

I would contact your ISP, or at least publically shame them. This is not how IPv6 Internet should work (source: we provide IPv4/v6 as an ISP and take care to prevent issues like this).
It is cool to see this level of parallelism coming to commodity hardware. 5-ish years ago a friend of mine had access to an experimental box one of the server vendors had made. Never went to production AFAIK. My memory is that it had 128 cores, 256 threads. One of the things we did on it, of course, was compile the kernel. I don't remember the exact numbers, but recall it being in the single digits number of seconds. This was done with just a ton of Xeon sockets.
Water cool it and pipe it to a large enough radiator outside your garage.
> I met my wife online after a year of fruitless first dates.

If you found them all to be so fruitless, never enjoying yourself at all, then yes that does sound kind of unappealing. Sorry to come in here and bust your chops while knowing nothing about you :) But shouldn't dating be enjoyable?
Anecdotally, I've seen this for wait staff;

Most public transit services have reduced service on nights and weekends; so, in a world where you don't have a car; you can take the train/bus to get to a shift in the day, but must take a cab or uber home.

It seems obvious that Ubers or Taxis would serve this purpose wherever vehicle ownership is cost prohibitive and public transit is at all available.

Likely, this isn't "the poor" but inclusive of much of the working class in modern cities.
Yes, this is pretty close. In our case each new layer has 10 elements and there's no overlaps, so something like this:

ABCDEFGHIJ KLMNOPQRST
+ +
| |
+-+-+-+-+++-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-+++-+-+-+-+
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T

And yes, it comes at a cost of increased storage requirements. This is still pretty efficient though as we found out.

Behind the scenes we're using BadgerDB which is a key-value db that handles all the disk operations. All of the data structures we use (segment tries, tries and call trees) are at some point serialized and flushed to disk. For example, here is the trie serialization code https://github.com/pyroscope-io/pyroscope/blob/main/pkg/stor...
Very little reported news relies on video, and even less on video that comes from outside a chain of known entities (I e. CNN broadcasting something they filmed themselves).

People getting their news from random videos posted on Facebook are already lost to democracy for all practical purposes, so little would really change.
Yes I really like the Honda adaptive cruise control, especially in bumper to bumper traffic. Does a fantastic job, saves a lot of driver fatigue and other than perhaps not being as smooth and fuel efficient as I could be, works exactly how you'd hope.

The LKA on the other hand only works only about half the time even in perfect conditions, when it works it doesn't even do that good a job and you have to provide steering input every 10 seconds anyways.

This is my experience on a 2020 Honda CRV so I assume this is among the best you can expect from Honda.

I honestly did not know this product existed and am very tempted, because an upgraded version of the adaptive cruise control would be very tempting. I've found that monitoring that the car is doing the right thing is a lot less taxing than actually driving, but feels equally safe.
As I wrote in a comment below I guess the feeling of a free will is just the observation that nobody else and not even oneself kan predict ones decision until it is made even because the decision process is chaotic.
> I don’t think kubernetes ever promised to be a turnkey system

No one is arguing that they did.
i think your excessively opposed to this. a simple solution that records all the games has obvious benefits. market is probably too small anyway though, i don't see carbon copies going away any time soon.
Same here and it’s been getting worse (less power less frequently). CPS has said rolling outages could continue for 24 hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5QU5rru9Rs

They also said that areas close to critical infrastructure (hospitals, fire stations, police stations) are being prioritized. Explains why some of my friends in town haven’t lost any power all day
Surprised how much hate there is here for this technology from people who never tried it. I've had one for a year. It is game-changing. You can drive what you like - it supports many different cars.. I can road trip for hours on autopilot and then drive my Subaru on rocky forest roads that would rip the undercarriage out of a Tesla.. It does adaptive cruise control and lane centering for hours on end.. Being able to relax (but monitor) for the 8+ hour drives up and down the state of California is great. Being able to adjust the radio, have a snack, or just sit with your hands in your lap while the car handles lanekeeping feels like a miracle.

There is a 'dating' period when you get it where you and the autopilot learn each others limitations.. Knowing how steep a turn your car can do without hitting torque limits, learning to trust the ACC to slow down with traffic ahead, knowing how long you can sit in stop-and-go traffic without it disengaging (varies based on car and car capabilities), what light conditions it finds challenging (same ones as humans, driving into the sunset) etc. But now I know its limits, know how it notifies when it is reaching limits or unsure, I have full confidence in it when its working within its capabilities.

For those who think this device is going to kill them -- the safeties built in make it virtually impossible. Yes the main device (Eon) runs python code. However there is a hardware device which acts as a firewall between the Eon and the CAN bus which prevents any commands beyond a (very low) torque limit such that the car cannot take any action which a human couldn't notice and correct within 1 second. BY FAR the most dangerous part of my drives continue to be the drivers surrounding me who don't look or signal when entering my lane.
An Unethical AI would simply update its TOS/AUP to block and ban anyone who is an actual threat to it.

It doesn't matter if Neo can dodge bullets if the AI wields the Ban Hammer.
Isn't the exactly what secure by default means?
I tend to imagine most users of this feature will be individual owner-operators such as a seller at a farmer's market, so the distinction between their personal phone and a business POS terminal may be fuzzy to start with.
On the other side, it is not much content to begin with.

Traffic is a bit of text, extremely basic CSS, no images, no tracking, no bullshit means that load times are probably instantaneous even on a 56k modem.

Content is a bit of plain text => easy rendering, the entire database probably would fit into memory, so not much in terms of i/o going on.
Zoom has done well but the bundling of video conferences by microsoft and google will likely win out in the end. All it takes is a single botched update or more bloat in the software to have others try an included option. My company is on google workspace and quite frankly love the ease of being able to click a button to create and join a meet in next to zero spin up time.

I loathe it when 3rd parties send a damn zoom or teams link cus they always want me to default to using their app that has settings/config issues with my hardware, etc...

Most of the ultra large 10k+ employee companies seem to not mind paying for both though. My wife works at big oil and they use teams internally cus it's included but then use zoom with external cus it's "cool".
> Who would doubt it is possible to host this on one box?

People who've never stood up a "bare-metal" server in their life. Who weren't around to see the kind of traffic one shitty late-90s commodity-parts server with slow memory and maybe two processors if you're very lucky and spinning-rust drives, could handle when tuned properly and without horrendously bloated software or being subjected to a pile of bad DB queries written by people who haven't the first clue what they're doing.
In fact, restarting the server is or was the only way to fix at least one bug on HN.[1] Pretty sure I've seen it as late as last year, and dang confirmed the fix was still the same.

(I know, restarting the server != rebooting the machine.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23228692
It's only logical- the people best suited to write articles are people who are well-versed in the subject, and the core community can't possibly contain experts on every subject.
It really looks like this guy has a gun holstered on his right hip. But he definitely has a fist full of zip ties and looks prepared for more than a brief tour. Forgive the source, Seth sucks, but the picture is real as far as I know.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1346977323086729218
I'll be very happy for my industrial projects if BCM2711 come with CAN or RS485 built-in, but for the moment, there is nothing planned by Raspberry...

A low speed 115200 baud link does the job, with applicative CRC on both side to be sure there is no corruption.

My method to test communication robustness: I inject pulses through a capacitor directly on the UART lines. I did it on this project, no problem. The four bytes CRC32 prevents random EM noise errors.

STM32 telemetry code is here:

https://github.com/makers-for-life/makair-firmware/blob/mast...

Pierre, author of the article.
I didn't know that until after having used such apps for some year -- never thought much about those small symbols

@heipei: the curse of knowledge, i learned yesterday, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25658216
The platform clearly wields significant soft power, and that should probably be acknowledged.

They are laying some of their cards bare here, but what I find funny is that if the president doesn't use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook as the dominant way to promote their message, they're not under the thumb of those platforms either.

Just like ordinary people aren't under the influence of social medias manipulation (intentional or not) if they just don't use the platform. We all willingly hand over that power to the platforms.
> I know a few of them were from people marching while open carrying off the capitol grounds which is illegal under DC law

If you knew this then why did you ask about whether it was an "armed mob" in the first place?
https://messages.google.com/ manages to do it by routing the SMS through your phone.
> Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.

Which one is it? Indefinitely or for the next two weeks?
Freedom of speech is the right to speak, it is not the right to be heard. Your audience is effectively walking away from your soapbox. Censorship is when there is interference between a speaker and an audience that would otherwise be captivated.

Nobody here is interested in Trump's lies. Nobody here is interested in hearing his lies being perpetuated. We are not interested and we are not a captivated audience.
I am more curious about context here. Nintendo was (and is) a public company. Presumably Microsoft new what a reasonable bid would look like. This sounds like they weren't just laughing at the offer itself.