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| Edge 42 | Chrome 67 | Firefox 61
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Speedometer 2.0 | [3] 76.8 ±1.0 | [1] 118.0 ±1.3 | [2] 85.7 ±2.1
JetStream | [1] 283.0 ±21.4 | [3] 235.1 ±2.4 | [2] 240.8 ±2.7
Motion Mark | [3] 273.2 ±12.9% | [2] 305.4 ±0.9% | [1] 445.7 ±0.8%
ARES-6 | [3] 65.4 ±16.5ms | [1] 17.8 ±0.4ms | [2] 51.4 ±1.7ms
Well yeah but then where do you tell your story about moving to AWS?

If it gets upvoted enough to hit the front page enough people must be interested in it - there's a hard low-end cap if I recall, must have at least x votes before it's even considered for front page

For popular services such as Linode it also makes sense as if you're ever thinking "Man I see this all the time on HN" it's probably a good call to avoid that provider
Thank you for helping make people aware of all the things canvas throws away, usually.
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whether if i've finished The Coursera courses and Udacity's courses?
If taxes were not set too high and states didnt abuse their power, people wouldn't have to resort to such tools.
The edited title was a bit confusing to read for me. I would've found it easier to see it reversed:

The Four Most Expensive Words in the English Language: "This time is different"

Anyway, on to the actual topic... I need to sit down to give this more thought, but I still think there's value in P2P networks, and it's worth pursuing. You should be able to easily replicate and share content that you care about. The big incentive is being able to keep your own copy and being able to do whatever you want with it. How many times have you tried searching for an old YouTube video, only to find it got taken down?

Another example: package managers! You want to have a machine-local cache, a remote cache for reproducible builds and deployments, and whatever other remotes you get the original packages from. Maybe different registries have varying content policies, and you can pick your favorites. If you have a few developers in an office it's a lot faster to grab dependencies from the laptop of the person sitting next to you than a CDN.
Thinks like TensorFlow for Swift are probably partially motivated by the same problem you mention.

Swift overall seems like a good possible static language for ML, but gaining popularity is a slow thing. Actually I really can't seems to see much other alternative languages than it that could gain popularity except maybe Julia.
My father would turn the TV on and walk right out of the room again.

Unrelated to that anecdote, I think there is a fear of silence in many people. You can get yourself into a sort of buzzing state, where life is a noisy continuum that is happening to you and you need to keep the buzz going else you notice the stark contrast of silence and nothing, which for many can be really uncomfortable.
Not disagreeing, but some points from a different perspective:

a) Arguments don’t work because team doesn’t listen and/or doesn’t want to change because they wish to stay in their comfort zone.

b) The responsible manager is incompetent and/or does not understand the things he/she’s responsible for and/or is a micromanager which kills any spontaneous action.

c) Those who see a bigger picture do not care to or cannot explain it and/or keep it a secret.

d) Sometimes the best option is to just do it (and improve it later) instead of going through a slow and energy consuming process of gathering consent etc.

e) Software architects
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I personally dislike with a passion every language or grammar that depends on white-space identation, especially if the designers were extremely opinioned to the degree that you can only use spaces (or even, a specific number of spaces per identation level) and not tabs.

It's not as a big of a deal in Python because as others have mentioned, you usually don't end up writing large functions to begin with, and tab identation is supported. It still means that if you try to send a code snippet to someone over email or Slack, IM, etc it may not work because whitepsace may be trimmed etc. With YAML, it's way worse for reasons the author outlined.

Something may look good on paper (or in screenshots) but practical considerations need to factored in when designing a grammar, and there are myriads pretty-formatting utilities that could be used to that end if one cares for that sort of thing (see also: clang-format).
I think the relationship of power is important here. Reaching consensus among peers is not the same thing as asking for permission from an entity of a superior position of power.
corsite (and all but the lowest end datacenters) will sell you multiple power feeds... but you usually have to pay substantially more for those feeds every month than you would pay for the same watts out of a single feed, and my experience at the newer coresite locations is that the single feed is reliable enough. (when I was in charge of prgmr, we moved from he.net with single feeds... well, we ended up at coresite santa clara with single feeds. I think there hasn't been a datacenter fault power outage at coresite, in like 7 years, even though I was on a single feed. There were a few outages that were my fault, but that's a different thing.)

I spent some time in the (I think now defunct) SVTIX co-lo at 250 stockton. It was super low-end, super shoestring, in some ways lower-end than he.net - but they had multiple power systems and would sell you a/b power if you wanted to pay enough for it. 250 stockton was certainly built out to higher standards than the he.net datacenters, though the he.net datacenters were better maintained.

(My favorite "my fault" power outage story was that I would give my friends co-lo access, right? And then I'd call them when I needed remote hands that knew what they were doing. Well, you know how cheap nerds are. One of my buddies shows up with one of those ancient PSUs that have a 110-220 votage switch. My rack was 208v. He had the switch on the 110 setting. It fried my PDU, the same avocent that everyone in the rack was on. The outage wasn't long; I had a spare in the office that was only a few minutes away. It was super annoying, 'cause I had earlier given the man a perfectly good 1u chassis that came with a modern 100-240v autoswitch psu... which he put in. This was his second computer; I would have been happy to give him another chassis/PSU. I was so mad. So mad!

I actually didn't see him for a while... the next time I saw him... I was at a party, telling this very story. He walks in right in the middle. I point and kinda shout 'It was him!" which, yeah. uh, I should not have done that.)
Maybe this is implicitly assumed, but a terminal multiplexer such as tmux is also a useful utility for using unix as an IDE. For example, you can have a pane for your code in an editor like vim, and a pane for running your tests next to it, and maybe another pane for an interactive shell of your language. Lacking a consistent local development environment, tmux is indispensable when I ssh into into my remote development environment.
The first google hit I get is a presentation that includes a very small config sample: http://www.hpts.ws/papers/2015/wilkes.pdf

The second hit is a google+ post wailing “arrrrgh, somebody reinvented borgcfg for Kubernetes” :)

I’m guessing the switch to YAML, even though it might be a bit tedious, was an explicit reaction to the fact that the ultra-programmable borgcfg turned out to cause some big headaches.
Just remember, being gay used to be a disorder in the DSM. And that wasn't even that long ago. The DSM is a joke. People vote made up illnesses (often nonconforming behaviours in a society) into a catalogue and that is then what you are diagnosed with after a brief talk to a psychiatrist or psychologist. That's not how science works, I'm sorry. And science is what medical diagnosis is supposed to be.
Have a look at the trends[0] and tell me it does not show a descent to darkness.

1. Firefox was at ~30% market share at its apex (it's now half that)

2. It got surpassed by a newcomer with no previous experience in browser making in less than 3 years

3. And the newcomer was so much better at technical stuff and marketing that it not only kept superseding Firefox but it kept growing uninterrupted ever since

3. Meanwhile, instead of stabilizing and reversing the trend, Firefox's usage share just kept tumbling down to the level of Internet Explorer's (Internet Explorer!)

4. It. Never. Recovered. Seriously, it had around 12% market share a month ago[1], below IE's share. That's ridiculous.

Of all those points, I think maybe #4 shows Firefox's irrelevancy best: the most generous estimates now place it around 14% global market share, barely above while Chrome is striving at around 60%. If IE is becoming more and more irrelevant (it is, right?), then surely Firefox is becoming just as irrelevant as well.

Even though the data isn't ideal and there are probably some +/- percent point errors between Netmarketshare, W3counter, Alexa, Google, etc., the trend is identical among all these reporting platforms.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/m...

1: https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?options...
This is the type of tradeoff I have with Emacs vs. an IDE. Certain IDE-like features are good enough for Emacs; it was better with IDEs. However, IDEs were designed for specific purposes. Having the flexibility of the same text editor at the same time is probably more important than possibly faster autocompletion.
I have this problem with JIRA: ever since Google authentication was enabled there I can not login on two separate JIRA instances with the same browser.
Did the organist obtain permission (appropriate license) to do so?

Or is it the case he did but its not possible to communicate that to YouTube?

Very different problems, one is failure to understand copyright the other is YouTube having a poor user experience.
The authors acknowledge this.

From the conclusion:-

“Being a pilot study, it requires sufficient expansion of sample sizes for statistical analysis as well as blinded studies.”
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Yea, I only have 7 years native experience, which tells me Xcode filters don’t work worth a crap at separating out our warnings from RNs warnings, and that warnings are still a clear sign of amateurish coding practices, and burying the console in gibberish is, like the warnings, a recipe for obfuscating serious issues.
Depends on the amount of optimism expressed by the phrase. As the saying goes, "no-one ever went broke overestimating human stupidity."
Too bad there is no way to install Safari on Windows.
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I haven't invested the time to read The Idiot, but I will be following Frank Guan for his quality and eye-opening criticism in the future.
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You do realise that this post is a link to the Linode status page. I'm not sure what you're saying in that first sentence.

All I ever hear about Linode is their great speeds but also their downtime issues. I'm still on DigitalOcean and Vultr. AWS is too expensive for what I use it for right now.
>it had always been slower

Only if at the very beginnning. For a long time now Chrome is much faster than Fx both in rendering (withough Fx WebRender) and general responsiveness.
This is pure speculation but given such a “large” news week that falls outside of hn guidelines I’m guessing that perhaps attentions have been diverted. Cue study.
I used to read a lot of books when I was in school as a form of escapism. I would stay up until the early hours of the morning reading books, usually until about 2 AM or so. Obviously this lack of sleep caused "impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning", to quote the article. Does that mean I was addicted to books? Is reading addiction in the DSM?

There's unhealthy habits and there's addictions, and often the line seems blurry between the two. You can be an addict and a fully functional member of society. My uncle is an alcoholic of the symptoms of addiction in the DSM: "significant impairment in personal, family, social, educational, occupational or other important areas of functioning", he shows none. I've never seen him sober for more than half a day though, he usually cracks his first beer about an hour after waking up.
I can’t offer specifics, but it’s probably at the point that you’d compile a different scheduler?
When I read the article title, I immediately thought of the language LISP as well. The idea made me chuckle though, so I commented.
I was surprised by the time it takes to go from neutron star to black hole...
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tmux + cscope + a $CSCOPE_EDITOR script that starts $EDITOR in a new tmux window == awesome.

EDIT: Also, add nested tmux sessions to make it awesome++.
How about playing chess 5 hours per day? Is that a disorder, too?
I use animation and transitions a lot in my work and manly use firefox. I have noticed this problem as well, it does not manage transitions as well as chrome for some reason.
Why? Is stamp-collecting a vice? Listening to music?
I'm afraid I'm not deliberate enough to have an actual playbook I go by. It's more like; this is my goal for the first month or two.
How long does a 12oz bag of coffee last you?
We've found particles of radioactive fallout in newly contacted remote tribes, those particles exist throughout the ecosystem and are present in all of us... Yeah, we have caused a slightly higher cancer rate with atmospheric testing.

Cleaning is a non-starter, but anyone with sense is working to prevent more radioactive material in our atmosphere.

If what you are suggesting were remotely viable it would be a wonderful way to, for example, capture radioactive particles released by burning coal. Swapping out coal plants with nuclear reactors being the 'final solution' there...
"Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries".

Is there another way to access this?
All succesful influencers also have pro photo gear and yet post vertical photographs on Instagram.
Nothing to test there. Firefox eats battery on macOS like a beast. Even compared to Chrome.
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Sadly, FF still slows to a crawl on OSX and it makes it unusable for me. I can't even watch a Youtube video without it skipping frames.
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Using includes/imports is not the greatest idea ever.

Your configuration file is one of your program interface. It's something that must be well define. If your configuration file is a programing language this interface is not that well defined.

Also you expose yourself to all kind of weird bugs because some (too smart for their own good) people will monkey patch your software using it.

It adds a lot of unnecessary stuff in the configuration file, things like ';' or '$' are not really useful.

Lastly, common configuration file format are good because there are... common. You can have 2 pieces of software in 2 different languages accessing the same configuration file. A common example of that is configuration management, There are a lot of modules/formula in salt/ansible/puppet/chef doing fine parsing of the configuration files and permits fine grain settings, and I'm not mentioning augeas. If your configuration is a php/python/perl/ruby file good luck with that.

I know it's really common for php applications to do configuration files in php, but frankly, it's a bit annoying.
Arbitrary code execution in configuration files has caused a few vulnerabilities in Wordpress extensions already, so yes, it's a terrible idea.
Not sure how popular or known here but I use ungoogled-chromium. Personally I never had any problem with Chrome (features and performance) but more with all the ties to Google (telemetrics etc) https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
"And then there are items that should go straight to the trash — garden hoses, wood pallets, or, on one recent afternoon, a bound stack of roofing shingles."

Ideally this stuff should be redistributed to places it can actually be used ("freecycling")
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Not really sure if that's new - in the 1980s, you paid for video games 25c at a time.
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In most jobs, there are plenty of ways to get fired even if you haven't broken any laws. This was just one of those ways, for one of those employees, at one of those jobs.

At-will employment goes both ways.
The company behind Douyin showed up in HN though.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15458720
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Am I mistaken or it seems to me that promoting a slave to a master is kind of fragile operation(detecting that it did really fail). I mean there are more robust methods:

1. There is a bookkeeper cluster providing replicated log. (No Kafka! Hold on a second, move to 4)

2. All nodes of a single MySQL cluster have a service on them that has two responsibilities: 1. accepting writes. 2. following the log. MySQL service only serves reads. Write will be performed indirectly from the writer service which is running besides MySQL service.

3. Bookkeeper (and DistributedLog on top of it) enforces single writer. So essentially one node is appending to log, the others are following it.

4. Whenever one of slaves thinks master is failed (or maybe partially-failed), it issues a FENCE request to bookkeeper, which either stops current master from appending to log, or fails to get majority vote from bookkeeper nodes. In either way log stays consistent. (There exist no two masters at a single point in time)

5. If one slave is able to fence the current master, it just notifies service discovery component to redirect clients. This operation doesn't have to happen atomically. Since old master is fenced and it can't append to log, anyway. So client operation will be safely rejected.

This approach can convert any data store to a consistent, highly available store. It is even capable of running multiple databases grouped as one cluster. Replicated log is a separate module. It is possible to replicate from MongoDB to SQL Server as an example. It has the advantage that, you don't have to adopt any untested databases. Just use good old MySQL/PG/...

I understand that, it requires quite a lot of work to refactor already running infrastructure. But it is more robust and somewhat safer. Bookkeeper's built-in fence mechanism precludes any random writes from any partially failed master.
> "Unfortunately, our website is currently unavailable in most European countries".

> Is there another way to access this?

GDPR (and, for that matter, all state interference in the internet) in a nutshell. What a shitshow.

(Of course, it's also the fault of websites doing the sorts of bad-faith tracking that GDPR, in good-faith, tries to prevent, but the result is predictable all the same).
Life on Earth has never been wiped out, no matter how bad it got. And we're not even talking about glaciers over every continent bad (humans survived that), just less fish and some other things. Not even always making them extinct, just less of each species. You're assuming that if we carry on without worrying about it, we will make important species extinct. That's only an assumption and not obvious.
That taking 5 seconds is very strange. I have an early Core M (mobile laptop chip, much slower than Core i7, which is a desktop chip) and that expression takes 0.7 seconds at a fresh prompt. That's still much worse JIT compilation delay than we'd like it to be, but 5 seconds is either a very bad configuration or perhaps a bit of hyperbole? There are other situations like time-to-first-plot where compile times do cause a really serious delay that is a very real problem—and a top priority to fix.
I agree @ariwilson, I don't know what needs to be done about this lack of critical thinking. Most discussions here and across the 'net' are filled with unintelligible chatter, so it's no wonder that people use this conversation to spread every misconception they've ever heard about YouTube.

The post is about an YouTube UX issue that caused Blender to choose another video platform, that YT didn't disallow the content as some people believe.

Wouldn't it help if Discussion boards had a logician magician who moderates posts? Someone who's sole purpose is to point out logical fallacies- like whether a post adds value to the conversation. Is it objective or opinionated? Is the post related to the discussion? If not, does the post expand upon the discussion in a way that's relevant or did the writer lack critical thinking? How?

My post is slightly off-topic considering the original, however, I'm relating to user @ariwilson about this discussion's lack of critical thinking and deductive reasoning, which is related.

I'm adding to the discussion similar to ariwilson but not adding new examples since ariwilson covered that. I'm not just complaining that people are "Stoopid and shouldn't be allowed to post of they're not helping everyone so we should ban them"! hehe- because that would be my ignorant opinion based on personal belief void of fact checking or research. Plus, banning people, places or things is never a good idea! Banning speech and freedom of thought are definitely terrible ideas! ;)

It's late a here and I'm rambling, sorry. But, you get the idea...a mod mage with a symbol map depicting the fallacys within each post in an easy-to-understand way. Wouldn't it be nice?
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Well, think about it this way: airplanes don't have differential gear boxes that transmit power to the drive train in contact to the ground. In other words, power on the ground is not delivered by the wheels.

This means the engines that deliver the thrust in the air, are also doing the same work on the ground. The traction is delivered to the air, and the rolling is all relative to to the thrust.

The manner of control for the power of the thrust isn't based on throttle alone. There are a handful of factors that tie together, to generate force.

Just like stepping on the gas, when a car is in neutral, you can spin up the turbines or propellers, without directing the air in such a way that moves the aircraft. The pitch of the blades matters. Also, with multiple engines, thrust must be synchronized, or the effect is a turn, and one engine could push the plane in circles, if controlled improperly.

So, it's not like leaving the emergency brake engaged in a car. There are other variables at work.

I think it's also a factor, that often enough, with complex machines created to solve for a complex problem domain, leaving configurable items as independent as possible prevents more footgun scenarios than it creates. When quick thinking is needed in an emergency, to deal with real world forces in play, systems are best designed so that in a proverbial sense, you can quickly throw yourself at a problem, when stopping and thinking about a strategy might take too long.

This is not to say that stopping and thinking carefully about strategy should be skipped, but that when trouble finds you, despite best efforts, and seconds count, having the ability to skip checklists and improvise in the heat of the moment does represent a desireable pathway for saving throws.
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