skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the following are the main differences:

- CRDB talks Postgres Protocol and Dialect, TiDB talks Mysql Protocol and Dialect.

- TiDB is OLTP+OLAP, CRDB is OLTP only.

- CRDB is a single binary, TiDB has more moving parts/can be used in different ways.

I picked CockroachDB because it's Follow-the-workload[0] and Interleaved tables[1] included in their Community Edition, I'm a Postgres person so it was a natural fit. Also it's the little things, I made a comment in a closed issue and somebody paid attention in less than a day[2] which makes me feel closer to them.

On the other hand, the fact that TiDB claims OLTP+OLAP feels like they're moving faster than CockroachLabs, PingCAP also says they have 25 companies using TiDB[3] where CockroachLabs has less than 10 known study cases[4].

[0]https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/demo-follow-the-wo...

[1]https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/interleave-in-pare...

[2]https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/24932#issuec...

[3]https://www.pingcap.com/success-stories/#TiDB

[4]https://www.cockroachlabs.com/customers/
The system functioned as designed. The ground proximity alarm sounded and the pilot in command took control.

It's possible the pilot should have refrained from engaging the autopilot during initial climbout. Pilot workload is high at that point in a flight, and fiddling with gadgets is distracting. Maybe wait until passing through 5,000 feet?
This means they are underpaid ( which I am pretty sure quite a few people in tech are ):

- LIC Queens high rises have 2/2 rentals that go for $17k/mo. ~ 1200sq feet. High floors. Ok views. Ok buildings.
- In Manhattan those are $22k-$30k/mo in newer buildings and $15-20k/mo in older hifg rises.

They aren't full of tech bros. They are full of finance and attorney bros. I have an acquaintance that lives in one. He is one of the portfolio managers for one of the hedge funds. He is a salary only manager. By the standards of NYC apartments qualification, it means his take home after taxes has to be at around 65k/mo as proven by his tax returns for last two years.
Why Militaries Must Destroy Cities to Save Them
> after descending 500ft in about 18 seconds

The article says a maximum decent rate of 4,300 ft/min, so almost 3 times faster than that. They were about 13 seconds from crashing into the ground if that rate held constant.
Seriously, having html represented as an actual tree structure that can be manipulated like any other data is so absurdly powerful it made it impossible to go back to anything else after that. Even JSX feels like a crude hack by comparison.
Can you seriously say it's hard to distinguish the ads from content here with a straight face?

Bootstrap 3 docs had ads too.
When I was learning to fly, one busy day my instructor and I were stuck waiting on a taxiway so he pulled up the autopilot and we had a play.

One of the preflight checks is that the autopilot is disengaged for takeoff, but we did this after the checklist.

We took off with the autopilot set to something like 4000ft, making it want to climb at an impossible rate of climb. As a novice pilot it took me several seconds of fighting the controls to figure out what had happened, all the while with the stall horn blaring on takeoff. Scary lesson.
"An Air Accidents Investigation Branch report said warnings alerted the pilot, who fixed the error at 928ft (283m)."

It's odd, you'd think that the sensation of dropping 500ft (152m) in 18 seconds would have alerted him, especially after take off. It's hard to visualise what that would feel like.
Something else is going on here... Let's look at the reasons given:

- Noise

- Pleasant to use

- Accurate

The real reason is because the author is a hipster programmer and wants to elevate his status. It is well known that "real" coders who set up ISP's in the 90's and accomplished other badass feats of superhuman programming use clicky keyboards (https://workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/40897/how-do-i...).

This goes back to the bullshit nature of most technology jobs. It is such an empty life to work on abstract intellectual problems with no discernible results in the real world, as noted by David Graeber:

"Crucially, the realization brings a delight, the pleasure at being the cause, that is the very foundation of our being." - https://harpers.org/archive/2018/06/punching-the-clock/

The key (pun intended) component here is the theatre of a loud keyboard. It FEELS like you're getting work done! The author readily admits it, "This thing is loud, which really makes me feel like I'm getting serious work done when typing."

So the noise and being pleasant are really one in the same. The feedback make him feel better about being able to make something that produces change in his environment. Even if he is his own audience and only fooling himself, that is enough.

Finally, I question the accuracy piece. I grew up typing on mechanical keyboards, and therefore can appreciate the haptic sensation and noise aspect, but I'm happier with my keyboards' accuracy today. Most of my typing errors are not an issue of incompletely depressing a key, but typing the incorrect key. Mechanical keyboards do nothing for improving this kind of accuracy.

Theatrics for an audience of one. That is the reason. Plain and simple.

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I remember writing bindings for Zephyros in Chicken Scheme, it was an enlightening and fun experience! and I just wanted to echo all your comments about it.
The Disrupters: DeepMind's Demis Hassabis [audio]
Beyond the language barrier, does the regulatory burden of complying with all applicable EU and individual state rules factor in at all?
A lot happens on the web in 12 years.
Remember that we used to have antennas in the our cellphones back in the 2000s? Well, where did it go? This is a pretty interesting history about an Amateur Radio hobbyist going to a Amateur Radio conference and Fractals!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mPefLpoz50
That's a lazy excuse, IMHO.

To me the key is to embrace new ideas, think big and have the drive to deliver.

An example: Deliveroo is doing extremely well in many markets around the world but is a British company. Interestingly the founder is... American of Chinese origin.
Earth Enveloped in Airglow
Their goal is to be billionaires first. Then they can have the leisure life.

You won't become a billionaire by enjoying life on basic income.
> But what else to do?

At the intersection of career and life purpose-- good interview here with Simon Sinek on Finding Your Why...

> https://www.jordanharbinger.com/simon-sinek-whats-your-why-a...
> The rest of the country desperately needs real industry and good paying jobs - and will go to huge lengths to try to get them but it appears nobody can come up with a business plan.

Got to tell you: few smart people want to live in some anti-civil-rights nightmare where everyone is anti-gay, anti-immigrant, and hopelessly religious. To top it off those states are full of rampant anti-labour provisions: no anti-poaching, no anti-non-compete.

Sorry, the Rust Belt made itself suck. This isn't disturbing. This is righteous.
Do you think this is really haunted
Best for the internet is encouraging IPv6. There aren't extre fees for that, so people with less money are equal.

Meanwhile, if Amazon is going to use all these in the medium-term future, that seems OK to me.

(3.3.3.3 and 3.2.1.0 would be more memorable.)
It should be noted that you can have correctness bugs can occur in safe code if a Rust guarantee was violated in an unsafe block. This might seem obvious, but it does mean that when you hit one of these bugs you might start with debugging safe code and thus it's not as clean a separation as some Rust evangelists might imply.
> How many of those more conservative/cheaper US cities actually take walking/biking/transit over driving as a serious issue?

I often wonder about why relatively conservative /cheap/low-density/car-bound are so correlated.

Are there
significant counter-examples, in the US or elsewhere, where, for example, a more conservative area is higher density or urban, compared to it's more progressive surroundings?

If those situations are very rare, then why? Is it strictly historical, or does relatively higher density, and more frequent interactions that result, change many people's perceptions.
No there isn't, I get into a head space that goes a little something like this:

* I think I'll create a little website for XYZ

* Better setup a GitHub repo for this

* Hmm, I really like using Angular/Typescript since I use that so I'll use that

* Better make sure Webpack is all setup and working

* Should I do my development in Docker since that's how I'll deploy it?

* Maybe I'll try this new NodeJS backend framework that looks interesting

* I need to make sure all my config lives outside of my app so that I don't hardcode values

* Oh crap, I want to share code between server and client but they both have their own Webpack configs and merging the two without screwing something up doesn't sound fun

* What, was was I going to create a website for again?

My most enjoyable non-work programming over the last year or so has been in my ~/git/temp-scripts folder where I can just create a new folder for something, run npm init, and be coding in less than a minute. This is mainly used for, as the name suggests, temporarily scripts or better yet, scripts that I'm not sure if they will have legs or if I'll just use it once. It's pretty much my little playground where I don't have to worry about scaling, reusability, etc.
"Eventually", ha.
Amazing that nobody has so far mentioned "Mission Impossible Rogue Nation"! There's a scene where Benji has to pass a corridor where people are identified by the way they walk!
Developer created a chat bot to talk to recruiters for him
Meh, HN seems to hate questions when they think the questioner isn't genuine: Basically if they wish the answer weren't true. That's been my recent experience anyway.

Better suggestion - stop politicking and answer the question or move on.

Sure if the question is badly made then downvote it. Whilst downvote for disagreement is encouraged here (by the site owners) you can't "disagree" with a question, that's nonsensical.
No, it's a map from 2006
If you read Haney's translation, which somehow gets lionized, I don't blame you. Frederick Rebsamen's translation is pretty literal, and since I knew some of the kennings, and the alliterative aspect of Anglo-Saxon poetry (Beowulf doesn't rhyme in the old language), it worked quite well for me. It was one of the great literary experiences of my life, along with Brothers Karamazov, Goethe's Faust, the Iliad and Moby Dick.

I taught myself a good chunk of Anglo-Saxon about 5 years ago specifically to read the elegiac poems in the books mentioned in this article, and Beowulf (which has escaped me so far; need more vocab). It sounds like a big lift, but it really isn't.

FWIIW my parents, baby boomers who went to ordinary high school, read Beowulf in Anglo Saxon, so it used to be a fairly common thing. I need to get back to it to the point where I can read Beowulf. After that, Icelandic is pretty close (I could read menus and such on my visit, despite my faded vocab).

Edit add Bagby's recitation is super great:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROghKY1jmuE
They should just be required to disclose all their source code by law regardless.
I thought the same of Canterbury Tales.
What's up with IPv6, anyways?
Show HN: Standups.io for Mobile – send and see standup updates from anywhere
Blog on proprietary FAANG protocols taking over the internet
Around the time that Pai and the FCC rolled back net neutrality rules, I recall someone here linking a well-written blog post predicting that it'll ultimately be irrelevant, the way things are going.

The outline was a bit like:

1. Up to now, internet infrastructure has been designed and built around open protocols like HTTP that anyone can use
2. FAANGs already represent most traffic on the internet
3. We can expect them to start sending their packets in proprietary form that has been optimized to their traffic
4. They've already dumped a bunch of capex (i'm paraphrasing) into massive physical infrastructure; it shouldn't be surprising if we see that infrastructure begin to be designed around & compatible only with proprietary, optimized protocols
5. The 'open' internet that anyone can get started on independently will become a relic like ham radio

Unfortunately, I didn't think to bookmark it. Does anyone here know what I'm talking about or have a link?
I think it's also important to note that when looking at a blank screen there is nothing stimulating, and stimulation (external or internal) drives our attention control. Putting a progress indicator on something gives us something to pay attention to, and so we're more likely to respond with frustration than inattention.
As a kid I always thought spandex or whatever bike riders were huge dorks who got scammed into wasting their money. If you’re driving around your home area a few times a month (or even week) I doubt that you’re anywhere near good enough that your clothing matters this much.

Similar with people who suck at guitar but own a $3000 Gibson or whatever. I feel like good equipment while you’re bad just makes you look like a joke. Perhaps this is a blue collar ethic though
That's how I take it as well, as I said in another comment it is a compelling pitch. And yes he's not talking about Moore's Law, but how much compute is actually being dedicated to DLNN's simply because the value of doing so is going up so fast.
$200k/yr can "easily" pay for $1.5m home purchase? The general rule-of-thumb for how big of a mortgage you can afford is in the range of 2-3x your gross income. [1][2][3]. You're talking about a staggering 7.5 multiple, assuming no down payment. Yes you can accrue a nice down payment after a couple years with that salary, but it's hard to make a huge dent in $1.5m.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/pf/05/030905.asp

[2] http://time.com/money/collection-post/2792048/how-much-shoul...

[3] https://smartasset.com/mortgage/buy-a-home-for-2-5x-your-sal...
No but most likely you will have a better overall life (imho).
Frameworks aren't at odds with knowing CSS or any other language. You're missing the point with "CSS isn't hard!"

And you're wrong. CSS is incredibly hard to maintain. It easily becomes an append-only list of rules. Medium.com for example hired a team a CSS developers including a co-creator of Bootstrap just to work full-time on its CSS.

This is a good example of developer hubris and the HN trope of "it isn't that hard, why don't other idiot devs just do <X>? It must be because they're incompetent." I'm not convinced you've drunk your own Kool-aid in production on a non-trivial project. Because then the trade-offs would be obvious to you and you wouldn't think one is better.
Won't widescale addition of IPv6 crash the price? It's coming any minute now!
There are a lot of factors besides the number of hours an individual works that effect their pace. Huge government support (including things like industrial espionage and technology transfer) and a huge number of citizens are much more important than having individuals work obscene hours.
I used model M in the 90s, I wouldn't use one today though unless I wanted to drive everyone around crazy mad at me. As for the cherry blues, it gets on my nerves far quicker than model M could ever do. It has to be down to the nature of the switch itself the sound is artificial and the feedback is awful even with the good key caps on a sturdy board.

> Something hard to describe but probably when and where on the keypress the click and release happen.

Exactly this, there are some mods that can fix this icky release, never tried those. If I remember correctly it shortens the key travel as well so it might not be to everyone's liking.
It probably wouldn't be better for the health of the internet.

At this point it seems like a desperate play by a company with deeply entrenched IPv4-only infrastructure (hi EC2) to eke out more time without major upgrades. Meanwhile IPv4 addresses remain scarce for small ISPs, and the (healthy, natural) push to IPv6 infrastructure continues apace everywhere else.
The video boils down to “more compute => AGI.” It’s silly and specious.
If you’re using VS Code there’s an extension called PolaCode that can do screenshots of your code, but without those MacOS dots on the upper left.

https://github.com/octref/polacode/
I'm genuinely curious how they test their conclusions with something like this.

The 35 year old theory seems equally as likely as the threat-simulation theory. What has made threat-simulation supplant other theories on this topic?
I think this might be a known issue. I’ll pass it on, either way!
> Size of the market, US and China have #1 and #2 economies. Start-ups in India seem to have similar problem as Europe, given multi-lingual nature of mass market.

I've never done internationalization, but I'm surprised language could be such a barrier. Couldn't you just hire a team of translators on a contract basis?

Maybe theres's some market for internationalization-as-a-service.
Lol'd at the comment.
It isnt decentralized, this is a feature that allows

>Hidden transactions

>No txn fees

>Anonymous usernames

And the obvious benefit that you own an index fund instead of USD.
A friend found this https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-fundamentals I took the class so I could help her if needed. It is a very good class on how to THINK as a programmer. It does not teach any programming language but is IMHO a perfect intro.
Sam Altman on Choosing Projects, Creating Value, and Finding Purpose
Yea, I imagined it could be a one-off but didn't bother to dig into the situation further. The point is simply that we don't fully know the motivation to sell. Or for that matter, the motivation to buy. For all we know, that competitor is continuing to squeeze RHT's margins. Or maybe Oracle (purveyors of Oracle Unbreakable Linux) approached the board with an offer to buy and someone walked it over to IBM with a note saying 'care to beat this offer from Oracle?'

None of this is evidence suggesting there will be another standalone open source vendor. The model seems to be converging towards taking open source technologies, buying a bunch of servers and sysadmins, and renting them out to customers on an ad-hoc basis. In which case, I won't call it winner-take-all but there's obvious economies of scale to be had. If we look at the recent Redis and MongoDB relicensing debacles, it seems like a direct acknowledgement that the cloud service model is eating their lunch.
Exactly. A perfect market requires these things:

- Perfect market information

- No participant with market power to set prices

- Non intervention by governments

- No barriers to entry or exit

- Equal access to factors of production

- Profit maximization

- No externalities

The less you have those, the less efficient your market is. "Free markets" aren't these magical things that arise on their own in nature. They are carefully crafted and maintained artificial environments and most are far from efficient.

Market forces are not a silver bullet that will solve all problems if we just sit around and wait long enough for the invisible hand to do everything.
It sounds far worse than it is. 13 seconds is a huge amount of time. Any pilot would react and correct in a second at most. This isnt some slight drop noticed by scanning instruments. They would have felt this and reacted by instinct. Autopilots off, throttles up, arrest the drop and regain a climb. Over and done within moments. They may have even deliberately let it fall a bit to gain speed, if they thought this might be a stall.
Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin
Philadelphia is Brooklyn for people who cannot even cut it in Brooklyn.
Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware
Nice note. While Israel is rolling in the intellectual and monetary riches, the native Palestinian population is forced to endure a life in the ghetto and the wonderful life of never knowing if a soldier or a settler might just show up to end your life or eliminate your livelihood.

But thats not so pleasant. Lets just celebrate the scientific and capitalistic success of Israel. Lets ignore blatant, barbaric disregard by the Israelis for the basic humanitarian conditions of the Palestinians.

Edit: To all the downvoters trying to suppress this comment, have some spine and respond. Tell us, why should we celebrate Israeli startups and technologies and ignore the Palestinian blood their nation sheds? Why should celebrate Israeli wealth and ignore the fact that they trample on all basic human rights?
Getting the iPad to Pro
first of all: debaculous. i mean, what a great word. even better than shambolic.

second of all, this comment on racial job discrimination in America and especially Hollywood: Narrators of Japanese ancestry were available—and most were desperate for work, having been only recently released from their internment camps on American soil—but producers hired Conried to imitate the accent instead.
When we were hp we used to own all of 15.0.0.0 and 16.0.0.0 (formerly DEC) but now we're down to only 15 and hpe has 16. It's weird how these blocks move around, should really be more of a shared resource.
They would get the expertise to build their own dams to power datacentres ;).
The cost for a "vanity/memorable ip" like 8.8.8.8, or the cost of a global anycast redundant recursive resolver setup?
200k take-home in NYC is about 350k gross. And why on earth would we assume no down payment? Surely we have been saving some fraction of our income during the years prior to buying.
Yea, but the desirable language feature is a differentiation of Joyent and its CTO, based on Joyent being an adjective and CTO a noun, not on noun gender. (Did I set up the problem correctly?)
What Microsoft Needs to Learn from the Mac App Store
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While Mozilla support does help a lot for sure, a lot of the hype around Rust (imo) comes from people trying it out, just falling in love with and then promoting it
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If there was no rampant tribalism, my comment would not be buried with negative votes. It would receive a response like the one you gave, which is subjective, and that would be the end of it. Some may even up-vote it because diversity is always good. But feels like Rust users are zealous and it's a bad sign, tbh. Wouldn't want to be part of a community that acted with hostility towards others for presenting alternative view points.
Hi HN! Over 3 months ago I launched Standups.io via a Show HN post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17672247
) after working solo on the project for 5 months! The feedback that you guys gave me was really great — the response was overwhelmingly supportive and I'm super thankful.

Today I can tell you guys that we've finally released our iOS and Android apps! :-)

I started alone and things have been going great so far. Already there are some great clients using Standups to manage their team standups across time zones. It's been an exciting ride! We're now 4 people (2 full-time / 2 part-time), working on Standups and doing our best to keep growing. :-)

Now that we've released the apps, we have a common ground to start shipping more features on both web and mobile!

You can try Standups for free https://standups.io/register,
and if you need an extended trial just let me know at jp@standups.io. Btw, due to App Store restrictions, only existing accounts can use the apps. So basically, you can register from mobile web, but not directly from our apps. The recommended way is just to sign up via desktop or mobile, and setup your team standup via desktop.

If you find any bugs or have any suggestions for our apps, just let me know here or via email or our live chat. I'd love to hear what you guys think!

Thanks so much!

JP
In English as well you can build sentences like "It's you I would love to love to love ... to love!", with arbitrarily many terminal infinitives.
The economy exists for people, people do not exist for the economy.