skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You also see the background flash as it "renders". The whole website concept is just rotten and dead if you want to even get close to as smooth as Doom in 1995 on computers with less computing power than a shader processor in my mobile phone. Cue the discussion on "speed of light" in this thread while people applaud getting your website to display in under a second.
Why did this fall off the homepage so quickly?
Some 'Podunk' Town in the Middle of Nowhere
> many egregiously ad/tracker-laden websites actually "work" well enough without Javascript, meaning the content is readable, sometimes even the images are displayed.

Websites that can't manage to load an image without javascript are a pet peeve of mine and they are everywhere. News sites are the worst, but even popular images hosts where displaying images is their entire job fail miserably. At the very least sites that can't load the image should show a direct link to the image but they never do. I'd happily welcome back all the marquee tags and "under construction" banners of the past if we could take web development back to the point where we didn't need several massive JavaScript libraries hosted across multiple domains to do the most task like display an image.
> China is nearly using as much coal as the rest of the world combined. They're using four to five times as much as the US.

370m people in USA vs 1.7b in China. Kind of makes sense. And, they need the electricity to power all those electric, green, clean cars!
"How I Built This Episode WeWork: Miguel McKelvey" (Sep 3, 2018)

Host: Do you think all of this could just collapse one day?

McKelvey: You know it's a great question. One of the things we're holding
onto very tightly is the feeling that we're still figuring it out every
day... We'll have that learning curve forever which is what make it
awesome.

I guess "awesome" is one way of putting it.
It still appears wonky, yes. FF + uBlock.
You need at least one more piece of information, otherwise how would you know it's solar noon? You either need to know where due South is, or you need to make multiple measurements of the sun at different times to determine when it reached its lowest point. The good thing about using two stars is you don't need that information and you didn't need to wait around in the same spot from solar noon until nighttime.
> Lightspeed doesn't allow for that on websites if you're far enough from the servers.

This assumes that we need remote servers to do our computing for us. :~) P2P software doesn't require remote servers, plus it means your apps still work offline.
This is what unemployment insurance is supposed to do. Should it pay out more and for longer?
They have def given up their regular users in this point. Ads thing shared here is one item recently. Also think they can re license my content without asking (below): https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/333089/stack-exchan...

Plenty of other stuff in past year or two...

(below): I shared it but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053475
I should probably mention that unlike grandparent, the above URL actually works …
As a non-mathematician I've always conceived of the relations among data as existing in the queries. In a SQL query the "relation" is specified by matching columns in the tables containing the data we're looking. Conceptually indexes, etc., are system implementation details.

That's certainly not a rigorous definition but helped me keep my head straight about what I was doing.
That one was posted later so we've merged it into this one.
I had a remarkably intense series of frontend... ish interviews for a really difficult to define project. As in, I was working very hard in the little 5 minute slices of time I got for "do you have any questions" figuring out just wtf the job was and what the team was doing, and nobody could really explain it.

It was some sort of "connectivity and identification team" working to identify people/customers/tenants/whatever. Something like, you'd walk in, and WeWork would know it was you, and like, turn your office lights on or some shit. It was going to start off with keycards and I remember someone talking about bluetooth or wifi recognizing your phone, eventually doing face recognition.

I couldn't figure out the point. A HUGE team. The questions I was being asked were wild system design questions and android app stuff (what? I'm frontend lol). All so that people's desks would be at a certain height or whatever when they came in the room.
> it was broadly understood that his sin was creating a toxic/sexist culture

Excluding the sexism, the toxic parts go hand-in-hand with the mindset Uber needed to ignore incumbents and regulations. The only reason Uber was successful was because of that attitude. Where it failed was growing up.
Ask HN: How did you migrate from Mongo to a relational database?
My team owns a Mongo database that's a big mess, and since we have fundamentally relational data in there we're looking to move to an RDBMS like MySQL or Postgres.

Have you managed to move from Mongo (or some other NoSQL / NoSchema database) to an RDBMS? What considerations did you have to make? Any traps or pitfalls?

It seems to me there are two basic approaches:

1. Create migrations for the data, and rewrite all queries. Test thoroughly, then flip the switch and move everything to the new DB

2. Create migrations, then keep the two databases in sync while rewriting queries, until all queries are migrated and Mongo can be turned off.

Approach (1) seems both difficult and risky, but means I don't have to keep data in sync, which seems to me to be the big risk of approach (2).

I'd love to hear your thoughts!
CVE-2019-0801: Microsoft Office URI Hyperlink Hijinks
The cost you're talking about is really hard to measure. Were they able to reduce the team sizes and get rid of positions after the change? Did the payroll reduce at all?
this is hopefully fixed now..
It depends how you measure. But my company runs .NET at a much bigger scale (in terms of http requests and infrastructure footprint) than SO and I doubt that we are the only ones.
Keep in mind though that in the iPad it's having to push a lot more pixels.
I think you're missing the point here.

Most college students don't even pick a major until their sophomore year.

Many "self-taught" developers went to college and took "pointless" philosophy classes, they just decided later in life they wanted to learn software development. Most people who attend bootcamps have college degrees, including many in other engineering disciplines.

College CS courses aren't necessarily designed to be practical; many are more theoretical and not really practical for day-to-day SWE jobs. OTOH, bootcamp curriculum is usually optimized for practical software development (e.g. React/JS). Most "good" developers become "good" on the job.
From Wikidepia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_tax#Germany

About 70% of church revenues come from church tax (Kirchensteuer). This is about €9.2 billion (in 2010).
I hope when he asked why he was getting replaced he got a [DUPLICATE QUESTION] reply.
> An iPadOS update made my iPad 1 useless and crash all the time.

Do you mean mean an iOS update? iPadOS was not released until today, 24 Sep 2019.
I kind of want web browsers to give a budget of layout changes. Once a page does enough things to exceed the budget, too bad, your layout is stuck there.

If the user does something interactive to warrant further layout changes, then you're allowed to start changing things again.

The idea is to make it cost something to change the layout. Then people will have to actually try not to do it excessively.
Those deck chairs aren't going to rearrange themselves!
Managed or custom deploy? What is the size of the cluster and team that will be using it?

Kubernetes is a hell of a lot configurable, so your environment matters a lot on the must and nice to have.

If not managed, make sure you go through all components flags and configure things like reserved resources, forbid hostpath usage, pod security policies (do not allow root), etc

Also, avoid service meshes until you fully understand how to use “vanilla” Kubernetes, don’t add this complexity from day 1 because debugging cluster issues can get a lot harder.
> as long as we mitigate the known shortcomings of a market economy - externalities, tragedy of the commons, etc.

Pretty loaded caveat there. I can't think of a market economy that's actually existed where we've adequately internalized externalities and protected the commons.
This is silly. If you own the equity you don’t have to give him any of it, unless there was an agreement beforehand
Fivetran hauls in $44M Series B as data pipeline business booms
Please do television next, I'll donate for this functionality even if all it does is auto-mute my "smart" tv, so I can tune out the mindnumbing advertising.
She makes rational adults uncomfortable because her childhood has been spent by her activist parents on being a political shield.
I'm not trying to be too much of an ass... but is anyone really surprised? The whole thing seemed like a gag from the beginning. Was it really taken seriously? Reading that it has problems with soft dirt is kind of sad too. Plus, it took them $2.5m for just the robot? I hope that's incorrect in the article and those funds include business expenses too. Because that's really bad management... wait, it all makes more sense now.
How is that any different than running your app in Kubernetes or, heck, even deploying it with ansible?
For me, this becomes more true the longer and more oddly specific the domain becomes. I'd feel perfectly fine with biketours.com or duderanch.com, but no way would I visit best-bike-tour-discounts.com or discount-dude-ranch-vacations.com.
Apple's AR Glasses Are Hiding in Plain Sight
Is this an example of the kind of reactive, interactive design you're advocating? I don't see how this is helpful: it's dogmatic and doesn't address the actual tradeoffs that might be at play. Why 64 ms? And 32 and 16? What studies are you relying on to suggest that 65 ms is too slow or that 30 ms is too slow for initial feedback? How does it affect user behavior? What is advised when these rules, especially the "full screen of content" cannot be met because of things like external dependencies out of the site's control?
My assumption has been he will step aside, wait for an inevitable restructuring post IPO markdown (and blame the markdown on his being pushed out) then swoop in and take the credit for getting it back on track
WeWork Has Reportedly Considered Laying Off One-Third of Its Employees
"Consumer Reports said multiple Volvo vehicles, including the XC60 and XC90 SUVs and the S90 sedan, were reported to have issues with their display screens and infotainment systems, including freezes and a failure to display. The publication said issues had also been reported with the XC60's climate system along with rattles inside its cabin, while the S90 also had problems reported relating to engine knocking or pinging. Of the three Volvo models it analyzed, Consumer Reports rated the XC60 as Volvo's most reliable vehicle and the S90 as the brand's least reliable vehicle."

Really? The infotainment system makes it rank low?

edit: and looking at the _actual_ report https://www.consumerreports.org/car-reliability-owner-satisf... - no volvo's on the list?
But instead of swap make an identical copy. You now have two ships.
Every Feature Is Considered Harmful
How would you categorize something like ClickHouse or Interana or Druid? Columnar I guess, but then the description of Column-family in the article doesn't match up with my experience of how those work.
Sure, I don't think I disagree with any particular point you are making.

> I think many, many people's careers would benefit from going partway down the computer science path -- being able to script repetitive tasks or diagnose computer issues methodically will help you wherever you land.

I apologize that I didn't make it clear, but I'll clarify now: if you want to make your current job better, then these "teach yourself to code" things are probably great. You'll probably learn a lot to make your job less boring.

> I think it's possible to condense down from 4 years for someone who is highly motivated and self driven.

Yeah, as I said I'm a dropout, I do ok after ~1.5 years of regular school, then straight to the working world, so clearly it's possible to do these things, but I think this path is just sub-optimal. I feel like I had to practice stuff a lot more than I would have if I had just stayed in school.

But I will concede that it's possible, and school isn't for everyone; I just don't want to encourage the trend of people dropping out, and then thinking they'll make a ton of money in Silicon Valley. Yes, it does happen, but it's hard, and you'll have a much easier time if you just finish school.
I'm very excited to see this -- data portability and management is a primary struggle we're trying to map out. Would love to see an engineering post on what you did for ElasticSearch.
Gathering for a couple of hours ona nice sunny weekend then
This manifesto is made just for you! Waiting for the response before updating the screen is the wrong answer. It’s not impossible, you’re assuming incorrectly that the manifesto is saying the final result needs to be on screen. It didn’t say that, it said the app needs to respond to action visually, not that the response or interaction sequence must be completed within that time frame.

The right answer for web and networked applications is to update the screen with UI that acknowledges the user action and shows the user that the result is pending. Ideally, progress is visible, but that’s tangential to the point of the manifesto.

A client can, in fact, almost always respond to actions within these time constraints. The point is to do something, rather than wait for the network response.
It was not close to going public. That was just PR and marketing, which is part of the game.
The mechanism that gave the Apple IIe such low latency has little to do with processing power - the keyboard had an exotic setup that you likely won't get over something as generic USB.
Thanks! I don't have money now to afford a lawyer, and even if I did, it's possible that I'd pay more for a lawyer than potentially get in cash or equity

Jim would never leave me the company and frankly, I have no interest to stay even without him
Juries might disagree about what a reasonable person would do in a given situation. But that was just a digression.

I think that almost all juries could agree on some subset of behaviors being labeled as “horrible.”
I assume we work spends tens of millions on marketing that could benefit from optimizations through data science.
I just did that on your recommendation, and wow, you were not joking. The term "Kool-Aid" was used in half the reviews I read, and in the Jonestown context, not the crappy flavored beverage context.
Nit picking a turn of phrase doesn’t add much to the conversation.

You can read the comment you replied to as “but it costs more, and more expensive things tend to be better”.
In the case of DNSSEC, it doesn't do anything in this scenario, for two reasons: first, and most importantly, virtually nobody uses it (for instance, like almost every tech company as well, CHASE.COM isn't DNSSEC-signed and isn't likely to do so), and secondly because DNSSEC protects only server-to-server lookups and not client-server lookups, so if your Pi-Hole picks up a bad record somehow, DNSSEC isn't going to keep your browser from detecting that.
Well, do you deserve it?

The fact that you've included no further details or rational investigation is a signal that you may be an impulsive person, potentially with mental afflictions. Trying not to read too deeply into your single sentence, but your expression displays elements of paranoia.
I think you two misread the number. It's only a tshirt that is 100, shirts are much more, and it's in British pounds, not dollars.
Sandboxing a JIT compiler is impossible to do perfectly, so there will always be the possibility of a sandbox escape, allowing the device to be jailbroken; but alsio for bad actors to take control of the device.
Ah, I did a quick CTRL+F for "ADHD" and found nothing. Thank you
> If we raise taxes on everyone else to make up the safety social net, the taxes will most likely hurt consumer spending power -- which drives the economy.

Except that the money is going back to people who are going to spend it, driving the economy. We aren't taking the money out of circulation.
They don't have sales, but they definitely have 'sales team pricing' .
... with his $700 million exit. The whole thing is infuriating.
Not necessarily, it can be a union too? Depends on the type of join.
Culture is not genes. It's not necessarily true that all the children of traditionalist/conservative Catholics will themselves grow up to be traditionalist/conservative Catholics, so even a higher birthrate in that subgroup doesn't guarantee cultural reproduction.
thanks.. continuing to dig into it..
Depends where you are in the country. One of the reasons why setting one number nationwide doesn't feel workable (but the alternative - giving "coastal elites" more money - is even less politically possible than the original proposal)
What really killed OLPC:

"Negroponte of $100 One Laptop Per Child Sued for Patent Infringement"

http://www.huliq.com/43721/negroponte-100-one-laptop-child-s...

"Intel: doing the dirty on OLPC"

https://web.archive.org/web/20130517082425/http://www.p2pnet...

Oct 2005: “Remember that a key part of our strategy is to create a situation where even if Nick rejects us for philosophical reasons there is a long and visible history of our attempts to work with them and then we have to ask to get a license for the "open source hardware" and we will make our own offering on the commercial side.” Craig Mundie

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20100114225709...
It could be a really good thing. Until it's not.
Not going to argue, but what are you suggesting we do instead? I think we work on adding those safe guards as best we can, rather than throw out the entirety of a market economy.
It's a different sort of scam for sure - I should have made clear that I was basing this on my read of the star CEO rather than the business.

I have a similar enough personality type to such folks that they're easy for me to spot. Rather than taking claims in good faith and doing extensive due diligence to assess their business-worthiness, if I read someone as a fake (an almost purely intuitive thing) and then look at their project with that working assumptions, the holes in their pitch are magnified into yawning chasms.

It's not perfect, of course. I've been taken in by other sociopaths several times, but in personal or employment contexts where it was a 1:1 relationship. I'm not money-oriented so sociopathic entrepreneurs stand out like a sore thumb because I don't have any feeling of excitement about an investment opportunity to get in the way. It's like being able to spot a good or bad athlete in a sport you don't play, if that makes sense.
> Originally this whole discussion started because someone claimed that the upload (not copy, in this case) might not be the same as the person it perfectly mimics. That is, even though it is indistinguishable from the original, it is somehow not the same. This is the kind of strange conclusion that is drawn from having a naive conception that self is not a fluid construct but rather a rigid objective reality. This is the flawed thinking I'm seeking to remedy.

Why do you think I'm talking about physical you vs digital you? That's why I'm so focused on shared experiences and things. I'm not sure what self is, but this is clearly part of it.

The problem with this discussion is that you already have an answer and are trying to teach me. That doesn't make for a very good discussion. I am also confident that your answer is not correct, though it has merits to it. I'm sure there are flaws to mine as well. But at this point we're talking past one another because you already have an answer.
In case anyone else is curious too, the recording is here: https://youtu.be/3is9lvGv27M
Of course there's cases where a sale must be made quickly so you may get the widget for $4 but one could argue that you're bringing $1 of value by being able to make the transaction at that time.

If a widget is generally sold for $5 and you can make some amount of that back using the widget doesn't mean you're getting more than you pay for if you pay $5 for it.

My coworker is buying a lightly used $7500 Chevy spark. It's a $7500 car for a reason. Most people don't want it because its small, pretty slow and the specs aren't that great. It is a great car for his use case, equal or better than lots of $10k cars. That doesn't mean he's getting more than he's paying for.
Thank you, good point. I'll try to get as much upfront as possible
They pushed it (and iOS 13.1) up to the 24th a few days ago.
In some cases (most requests succeed, and you know the likely outcome) an optimistic update would suffice.
I wrote that the far left would be worse than Brexit. The only way businesses might think no deal Brexit (not just Brexit) would be worse is that they hope that a communist government would be quickly voted out of power or somehow prevented from doing what they say they would do.

Of course with Corbyn we would get both Brexit and the far left. I.e. the worse of both worlds.

Most people still prefer the Tories to that, as shown in the polls.
An alternative explanation is "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

Certainly holds true for me: the experience, it turns out, depends more on where I am in that stage of life than the substance in question. Cannabis is radically different for me now (at 30-something and after several intense psychedelic experiences) than at 19 or 20 when I first tried it.

And...I'm not assuming you're a man :)
>"Oh, they'll just walk away from the leases. Each lease is owned by a different subsidiary. That subsidiary will just file bankruptcy. Problem solved. They'll just cut the losers, and turn up the dial on the profitable buildings."

"Each lease is owned by a different subsidiary" doesn't help you that much against the lessors, they'll either charge you more or demand signed guarantees from the parent corporation. Counter-parties are not idiots, generally speaking. There's no free lunch here.

How the structure helps is by protecting against other creditors that may arise out of operating the physical business in a way that may inadvertently generate legal liability. Since this is a real estate business, I'll go with a classic example - there's a spill on the floor, someone slips and falls and sues the people running the building. This litigant can generally only collect from any insurance policy and the subsidiary running the building - in order to go after WeWork's assets, they'd have to convince a court to pierce the corporate veil, and that's significantly more difficult.
> because we need to give the founders and early investors an exit

Here's your mistake. The failed IPO is a symptom, not a cause.

Now they're trying to fix this broken company. There were still too many people believing in the fantasy before.
I wonder why the American listings put Volvo at bottom (as there is no comprehensive annual inspection like the MOT or TÜV checks in Europe). In Europe, the bottom quality tends to be American and some French and Italian cars.

A fairly detailed statistics is from TÜV annual inspection reports, found here: http://www.anusedcar.com/

There, Volvo is rather average. Where I live (Finland), Volvos tend to get a bit more kilometers than most other brands, so being not at the bottom of listing means they're doing reasonable quality.
They missed the remaining portion of the manifesto:

* Websites making controversial claims should state clearly the claim in the first paragraph

* Controversial claims should be backed up by at least a summary of a well reasoned argument within the first 5 paragraphs.

* Controversial claims should be backed up by citing sources.