skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on transactions obviously (among many other factors). MySQL would handle simple one-insert web-style ones pretty well. At the same time very simple (but slightly more realistic) read-write transactions barely got 2500 tps on PostgreSQL with Xeons and SSDs with as low as 32 clients and almost no contention at all (https://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/performance-since-postgresql...). And all transactions were the same, and there were no long-lived ones, no distributed ones, and no rollbacks, and so on.
I made the jump to contracting 2 years ago and it was an unmitigated disaster. Clients would change course and drop me, leaving me without a revenue stream. I was always playing catch-up, and had actual work less than half of the time, the rest consumed with trying to drum up more business. I read a bunch of consulting books, which all said the same thing: Get satisfied customers and leverage them to expand. But that presents a bit of a chicken and egg problem while your finances sink dangerously low.

If it works for you, great, but there's a lot more to it than people in the business will say.
^ I stand corrected: My WiFi (ath10k) WOULD probably work...
I mean the question is if the complexity is needless.

Blockchain generally forces some level of standardization or there will be rejection, as well as being incredibly easy to audit.

In a well functioning system, there is little benefit, but I would say that a blockchain based system elevates the floor of a functioning system due to its nature.
Or when you run openvpn and pi-hole on a server somewhere and VPN your devices via it.
Same situation for Super Metroid, which seems to be one of the most popular games for speedrunning. The "anything goes" category seems to be "Any% Glitched" [0], which allows for techniques that modify in-game memory values -- the current record is 12m19s. The most popular category, and fun to watch (IMO) is "Any%" [1], which does not allow for such memory tricks and has a current record of 41m18s.

But the latter is still not quite a "glitchless" run, based on the average person's definition of "glitch". For example, I doubt it was intended behavior for Kraid to die after 4 missiles [2] based on the player shooting him during a specific animation. I never played SM much beyond beating it as a kid, but I enjoy its speedruns because besides the variety of techniques and clutch moments required, there's at least one boss who behaves randomly, and requires the player to improvise. Also, in the course of new records being set, there have been a variety of strategies (e.g. different decisions on which path to take) employed, and there still seems to be room to discover more optimal strategies.

[0] https://wiki.supermetroid.run/Any%25_Glitched

[1] https://wiki.supermetroid.run/Any%25

[2] https://youtu.be/ezFcybTLOOE?t=27m29s
Why have a CoC then at all? If you know that it is not the rules that make them resilient then why make them at all. All they serve to do is giving ways to exclude people based on Loopholes and overly strict interpretation of said rules.

If the leadership interpreting those rules are reasonable then they wouldn't need these rules in the first place, if they are not reasonable then the rules are useless.

Especially since CoC are most often applied in a very Hypocritical way. The CoC states "Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences" which is however only true if you have one of the approved viewpoints. Which we are seeing right now with the Linux CoC. Of course no one does anything about all the slanderous accusations that get made to oust someone with the CoC even though those accusations themselves are violating the CoC.

It is also especially worrisome that these pushes for CoC or language policing come mostly from the outside and try to dictate the rules you need to follow and the rules that you need to make people in your project follow.
You left out the part where he expected and tried to get the $850M but FB’s lawyers pushed back and he settled after burning bridges. $50M is 0.7% of his net worth last I checked (maybe it’s changed).

Look, I’m glad they’re not still at Facebook but this is hypocritical posturing. They’re not giving the money back. They’re crying all the way to the bank.
As an aside, typical wholesale prices in the US, for moving 200gb of data is about 50 cents, or less. So what is current cloud pricing for 200 gb of egress?
It's just another license to ignore. I'll personally do whatever I want regardless of what is in the EULA.
This link is a gem. It is very revealing of the dynamics of arguments over software in the airline industry.

> A number of financial institutions have discovered and acknowledged this fact and are now taking the first steps to address this situation by making the decision to go back to z/TPF, z/OS and UNIX because of their bulletproof reliability and transaction processing capabilities. This to the chagrin of the bulk of their application development staffs who are bolting out of these organizations for the more sexy technology environments. Yes, IBM Assembler, COBOL and other antique languages are making a resurgence at these brave organizations as they supplant and even replace Java, .NET, Python and other development environments.

Back to the good old days of IBM Assembler?!

Are they ditching source control and unit testing too?
Initial Analysis of Indian Supreme Court Verdict on Aadhaar
Is it rational though 850 mil. could literally be used to save few thousands of lives if one was so inclined. While FB is evil by HN standards it's pretty meh on global scale of things.
Depends on the data size. It's definitely not worth it for gigabytes, and for petabytes, there's not much else. Terabytes are in the middle.
My company aims to convert all the world's news into data. Please tell me another technology that will allow us to build a decentralised, failure-tolerant, censorship- and tamper-resistant archive of that data, that allows anyone to add data, and have it verified without a central authority, and that anyone can use to create news applications.
A relevant quote from J for C Programmers:

Writing code in a scalar language makes you rather like a general who gives orders to his troops by visiting each one and whispering in his ear. That touch-of-Harry kind of generalling can achieve victorious results, and it has the advantage that the orders can be tailored to the man, but its disadvantages are significant: the general spends much mental energy in formulating individual orders and much breath in communicating them individually; more significant, his limited attention is drawn toward individuals and away from the army as a whole. Even the great Rommel was overtaxed at times.

The J programmer is, in contrast, a general who stands before his army and snaps out orders to the army as a whole. Every man receives the same order, but the order itself contains enough detail for the individual men to act appropriately. Such a general can command a corps as easily as a platoon, and always has the 'big picture' in mind.
I don't understand how it's anti-spam - they are getting charged for receiving messages, not sending them?
>The fact that we aren’t using peer-to-peer encryption in our message apps today is solely because companies want to charge you money for sending messages.

Encryption export laws. And most importantly, pressures by three lettered agencies to target individual bad actors.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/09/skype...
They both use the same crappy way of reading heart rate through a camera so it can't be that drastic of a difference. My samsung watch tracks flights of stairs, heart bpm through out the day, nags about water just like the Apple watch, etc. Even has a samsung health app that lets you do a video call to an actual doctor who can send scripts for sickness.
Thanks! On the flip side, I sometimes feel like I never really have time for coding because I'm putting a lot of effort into community things, for better or worse :)

As for affording it: I still live with my mother (I'm 25 and a full-time student), so that works out well so far.

Not sure yet what'll happen after the studies, from how things look like now I might end up moving to my girlfriend's place in Vorarlberg (Austria, but close to the Swiss border) where things are cheaper, and try to live off qutebrowser donations and some freelancing gigs. We'll see!
Staying at my first job for far to long. If you’re getting promised x for doing y, and you do y, and don’t get x for some bs reason. Your getting the carrot and stick, dangling the carrot to get you to do something, but yank it away and dangle another bigger carrot. It is time to go look elsewhere for work.

Startups tend to do this more than not, because of lack of funds. Ie you do x will give you y on your next review. Review is rescheduled and rescheduled, etc... when review happens they forget about the deal, and were counting on you forgetting too. Don’t work for people like this.
While most of my clothing is 100% cotton or wool, embarrassingly I had never even thought of this outcome. Is there really any hope at this point? Plastics are just way too pervasive. We'll need finer and finer filters everywhere in the entire stream of things. Processes that will just never be adopted, especially by less environmentally friendly societies.
What is the reason for not using your own ip?
> The question is are they are going to create millions of unnecessary doctors’ visits from unnecessarily concerned users or are they going to save thousands of lives? My bet is both – until traditional healthcare catches up with the fact that in the next decade screening devices will be in everyone’s hands (or wrists.)
My use of the site is far more extensive than my posting history. My primary use of this site is for intellectual curiosity, as you say, and as the guidelines permit. Is "Use of HN" limited only to "Posting on HN"?

Throughout my entire time with an account on HN, I've made a total of 59 comments, by my enumeration. That includes these comments to you. Throughout the over 3 years I've had an account on this site. That's less than 20 comments per year on average. I've read scores of submissions and comments. Quite literally thousands of them. For submissions alone, I've upvoted 2380. I clearly don't comment on everything I see.

You say it's "fine" to "occasionally comment on the politicized topics," that "it's not an abuse of the site to occasionally talk politics." This is what I do.

Consequently, I fail to see how you view my account as primarily using HN to impose on others' intellectual curiosity. I want nothing of the kind. I have simply "called out" a small number of instances of behavior that I think should be reevaluated, some instances that would impose on others' intellectual curiosity. Indeed, some patterns of behavior that others and myself truly believe are greatly detrimental to our society. And while my words may sometimes be firm, I do know others have gained value from them. Even looking to the most recent thread of comments that I participated in, a discussion in which I flat out told an individual "You're being hypocritical." (amongst other statements), I received feedback--through honest, civil, unmoderated discussion--from that individual him/herself that, yes, indeed they were being hypocritical. The only pleasure I get from discussions like that is that we've both been able to freely speak our minds, and that our intellectual curiosity is not constrained so that we cannot learn from each other, that we both come out greater at the end of it.

I don't presume to know how others feel, especially when they haven't expressed a reply, or "flagged" me. Which is also why I'm surprised at being told that what I've done and have been doing is "deeply destructive," even though this is the first I'm hearing of it. Out of the few comments I've made over the years, currently 31 have a net positive "karma," with at least one other individual upvoting it, 18 have neutral karma (1 point), and 10 have net negative karma. I don't view discussions as a "war" with "sides." I seriously view discussions as an opportunity to share thoughts that I believe are worth sharing with someone, and, if they have something else to say, to learn something in the process. Occasionally I take that opportunity.
You can whitelist domains, you can add to the blacklist or you can temporarily disable pihole (5-10min whatever) while you do something.
Running on mainframes and java applets is not inherently a negative thing. Not everything needs to use npm or be written in Rust.
That post is a horrible mess of subjective misinformation by someone almost certainly involved in the mainfraim business.
This project could be improved by using pi-hole and unbound (docker images available). Unbound is a caching recursive DNS server. In an article all about hijacking and trust of 3rd parties, I find it amusing the author saw fit to point to cloudflare's DNS.
What's unclear to me is how I would be running afoul of the licensing terms if I used the non-free version of the JDK to develop Java software. Because "developing, testing, prototyping, and demonstrating [my] Application" is exactly what I'd be using the JDK for.
Can a block chain be poisoned by malicious actors easily? I hope not. I guess if there is a gate that prevents malicious actors from entering/participating in a block chain network... but how does identity verification on block chain work? Digital signatures of block chain content?
If you're privacy conscious, why do you have a smart phone at all? Get a standalone GPS

Even in airplane mode, your phone is tracking where you go with the accelerometer. I don't have time to look up the video right now, but this has been tested.
> with no appreciation for what it takes to build robust failure-tolerant systems

It's a risk aversion issue. Large software projects are horrendously difficult to get right, and managing airlines is a horrifically complicated kind of project. Fault tolerance aside, just correctly modeling the problem is a mess and by the time you have a correct solution, the problem itself may well have changed. So you end up having to throw a lot of resources at a very complex problem and know that you may entirely fail at it, which is not the kind of gamble execs love.
Oh sorry it wasn't something simple. I just enabled it on my laptop yesterday and it worked (Firefox 62.0.2 running on MacOS 10.14).

At first I thought that I hadn't enabled right. After checking the setting again, I found the problem--I had plugged the Yubico Key in upside-down.
"and has a history of working just fine for lower cost." Citation needed.

Also we are just talking opinions here, a lot of things seem impossible until they are actually here and in our everyday lives.
Ten Immutable Laws of Security (Version 2.0)
Cell phones have microphones, are closed source, connected to the Internet and carried with you into all the rooms of your home. Europeans use cell phones so why do they fear home assistants?
Like I said, I don't randomly add people. I network with founders and recruiters. I never send them a private message until we have something to talk about and I don't do sales.
I thought it was standard practice not to hold connecting flights, especially for 2 hours? I certainly would not want to be stuck at my gate (and potentially miss my connections) waiting for another passenger for that plane. It seems pretty obvious that the least impactful route is that planes take off when they are ready and do not wait around.
And you're of course free to have your own opinion. I'm not as quick to dismiss them simply because I acknowledge that new technologies have historically been ridiculed by experts at least initially. But healthy skepticism is always warranted.
Google admitting to privacy breach? Reactive changes. GDPR Case Study
What’s so hard to believe?

Europeans care about these sorts of privacy issues far, far more than anyone else in the world, for exactly the reason you point out. It’s very abstract to everyone else.

Maybe you’ll be proven right in the end, but for now, I love my Alexa device as it’s extremely convenient.
It's not that I care about privacy particularly - it's that I can't imagine the use case for me personally. They could give them out for free and I'd not be interested in owning one.
Yev from Backblaze here -> We charge $0.01/gb for egress. With this Alliance announcement, that'll be $0.00 from Backblaze B2 to Cloudflare. We have similar partnerships in place with Packet and ServerCentral already!
Question: the video explains that you can't just change a bit in the middle of the blockchain without having to fix all the subsequent blocks, making tampering labor intensive, but not impossible. Is it supposed to be VERY labor intensive, depending on the length of the chain?

Then ultimately a chain that is consistent might have been manipulated, but you can check it against other copies. At this point you could be just comparing plain text ledgers (but blockchain comparison could be easier by just comparing hashes.)
You have to change DNS on your router or on each device so I don't think it could be entirely plug and play? Preconfigured + some instructions seems doable.
Turns out when you worship at the alter of "diversity" and promote people based on victimhood status over actual merit, your products suffer.
You fire up vi and load /etc/hosts /s
Small sub-cultures, like this one, do experiments all the time in their little corner of the web. Some of the cultures die after a while, and some grow into something else, something bigger, something that starts to percolate on the mainstream surface, albeit possibly only tangental to how it started. I'm not sure I'd predict this movement will grow into something that reaches mainstream tech, but let's say I'm wrong, just for fun. Can anyone here think of a potential narrative that would describe how the current state of this experiment could possibly be perturbed and squeezed into a form that the mainstream soaks up as the next big (or medium-sized) thing?

I'm just curious to know how my prediction that this won't grow any larger than it is today could be wrong.
I used Phoenix (from about 0.6 IIRC) and for the most part had FF as my main browser - trialing alternatives occasionally (Opera, Flock, Chrome, etc.) and doing web testing with others (Links, IEx, android browser, Maxthon, etc.).

When Eich was ousted it seemed like things took a sea change and we started getting "commercial" stuff shoved in our faces (alright, stuck on our toolbars). Firefox doesn't appear to be a high moral FOSS project trying to release us from the grip of commercial enterprise taking over the web -- as it did to me before. They went from being very user-centric to being a bit more like Microsoft (of old, at least): "we added a non-removable addon to /our/ browser", rather than "would you like to add this addon to your browser".

Now I've no idea if the removal of Eich's influence on "business philosophy" was behind that; could be a coincidence. But, either way FF seems to have changed for the worse IMO.

Mind, I'm still mourning the demise of Opera Unite -- with their browser as a server concept -- which seemed to be on track to change the focus of the web and give us the distributed peering that has always seemed to be the proper focus for the web+internet.
I want to give this a try but I'm relying heavily on Firefox Containers now to separate different login sessions. I wonder if there's something similar on Vivaldi(Chrome)
This reminds me of a very cool apartment I visited many years ago. I used to party with some SCAD kids in Savannah. Two interior design majors I knew had gotten themselves a small apartment and a very tolerant landlord. The bedroom was amazing! The bed hung from the ceiling on strong cables, similar to the bed in the article, but the sleeping position was about 0.8 meters high rather than on the floor. In addition, the floor of the room was not flat, but made up of various levels of platforms. The lounge chair was up in one of the upper corners of the room, and you could watch the TV mounted at the same level over the heads of people occupying the floor space.

They also had a stripper pole in the front room, which was great for parties. But it was the bedroom with the hanging bed which really impressed me.
AWS starts at $0.15/GB, so $30. It's an unbelievable ripoff, particularly given if AWS is peered with your destination they are actually paying $0.
This is good to know! I'm still genuinely curious how many false positives this leads to.
> Do you have the same reaction to automated linters or being told to write unit tests?

There's a huge difference between technical processes that have gone through extensive peer-review processes and survived decades-long debates until a technical community reached the consensus that the practices indeed produce better software and brand-new social practices that are difficult to universally enforce. Making the statement "I don't need a list of unprofessional conduct to maintain a professional community" must be true, since you could never enumerate all unprofessional conduct anyway. You'll either leave something out (so the trolls can say "na na na, you can't get me!", in which case the method didn't work) or you'll encompass too many behaviors, which means different trolls can selectively enforce the terms of the CoC. Either way, it seems like a losing scenario.

>What about the enforcement sections of the GPL?

The terms of the GPL are criticized by many; that's why some projects choose different licenses.
False positives are not really an issue. Last I heard 60% of chest pain cases ERs see are false positives (constipation or something like that doesn't require ER care). However it is sometimes the only symptom you get of real medical emergencies so you go to the ER anyway.

There are also a number of people who die of heart attacks with no symptoms. If Apple can get even 1% of them to the ER that would be a huge win. If the false positive rate is 80% that is still enough real positives that ERs will be get used to telling people "This time it is nothing, but it is good you came in anyway because sometimes this is all the warning you get".

The real worry is false negatives - someone who has chest pain and decides not to go because the watch says all is okay. These people will die when a hospital could save them.
What is your qualm with calling ray-tracing physically based? Don't most models even include transmissivity and refraction?

I mean, unless you're expecting them to calculate absorption/re-emission at every bounce...

It still seems pretty "physical" to me.
Shazam was featured in one of the commercials for the iPhone 3G in 2008.
My 3 year old daughter told me that I was a "fabulous dad" the other day. Neither my wife or I use that word. It's amazing what kids can say and think.
None of that is an argument for or against the CoC, though, is it? Just because something can be survived doesn't make it a good idea, does it?

> Linux will not be destroyed by a CoC that tries to be more inclusive even if there are attempts at abusing that CoC.

Also, apart from the fact that this isn't an argument in favor: How do you know that?

Also, how does it try to be more inclusive by declaring more behavior off limits? I mean, it's a set of rules that mostly specifies what you can be banned for. Now, you might also dislike those things that are declared unacceptable ... but that doesn't really make it more inclusive, does it?

And mind you I am not saying that being more exclusive is necessarily a bad thing, but I very much dislike this kind of newspeak because it seems manipulative to me.
Groundhog day: someone on HN rants about the Echo’s privacy.

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/groundhog-day-amazon...
The “killer app” for me is being able to say “Alexa, turn the light off” when reading a book late at night, instead of having to drag myself out of bed to flip the switch.