skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was also the fact that the productive capacity of almost all of the industrialized world besides the US had been destroyed. China and the rest of Asia were mostly subsistence farmers, and China itself was undergoing a huge famine.

It's unlikely we're going to see circumstances like that again. We have to figure out how to make things work with the world we have today, not try to return to some bygone era that was actually really horrible in a lot of ways for a lot of people.
I guess the only freedom is that of multi-year license contracts.
is this purpose built database based on mysql?
I'm actually building something right now.

I'm building it because it is a problem I've faced among my friends and well.. the "millennial" generation to begin with. I'm building it first to be used among myself and friends.

I don't want to say too much because to me the solution seems so obvious and I'd like to have something out there and tried on a small scale first, but... the key is not to focus on events directly, but people.

If anyone would like to know more, my twitter is on my profile, DM me there!

Right now it is just me. I'm also currently torn on focusing on the consumer social space (not social network) or the business space. Both seem pretty promising targets but vastly different approaches to marketing.
Isn't this article an indication that Debian intends to? I'd also guess there's a pretty good chance that distros based on Debian (e.g. Ubuntu) will follow that switch
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Hiya! I don't usually submit the monthly updates to avoid flooding HN with spam, but this one is special. Many thanks to the HN community which continues to help Sourcehut become successful!
i always thought facebooks greatest strength was their events. i never attended anything through meetup so far. it should at the very least be mentioned as an alternative. not everybody likes sharing data with the Zuck, and that's legitimate, but it's arguably the market leader. and it's free.
I've seen the same architecture implemented in MSSQL and MySQL. It's pretty easy to paint yourself into a corner where your one database is doing all sorts of stupid things because you never sat down and identified the problem space in the larger context and moved to a wider configuration instead of simply using a table with short-lived rows as a queue. It's the same arguments about nails and hammers.
is this purpose built database based on mysql or postgresql?
If the goal of SOA was to reduce Oracle lock in then it utterly failed. After SOA practically every team had an Oracle db, so now they have to convince tens of thousands of engineers to migrate thousands of databases.

Imagine what Oracle is going to try and charge Amazon per month for every remaining DB given how publicly hostile Amazon has been.
"I don't buy the thesis that some people are born into an oppressed class and can't escape it."

How does this match with the economist that determined that climbing out of poverty requires 20 years of nothing going wrong on average? [0][1]

0. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/economi...

1. HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16794514
Everyone loves to blame the austerity measures. Not the people or ideology that got them into the mess in the first place.

I'm sure the government can find better ways to pay the money back but it's still a massive burden put onto an already struggling economy which didn't have to exist.
Can We Turn Down the Temperature on Urban Heat Islands?
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and using HN for ideological battle, so we don't have to ban you again?

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and post in the spirit of this site, we'd be grateful. It's not hard to use HN as intended if you want to.
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(sorry just missed the cutoff to reply to the main post)

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Ah, okay, thanks.
Shameless plug (that I haven't had much time to work on lately), you can also programmatically do similar in a few lines of Go: https://github.com/cretz/bine
The issue is you're not really measuring skill at any step just past performance which is what leads to the feedback loop of privilege begetting privilege.
Why did you link to start of production page?

https://www.rust-lang.org/production/users

has all production users (it admittedly has a lot of Bitcoin Startups). But lacks some important users like Microsoft (for ripgrep in Visual Studio Code) and Facebook for its usage of Rust for Mercurial (admittedly this isn't production ready).
This is objectively true but it broke my brain.
15 years does indeed sound like typical GM timeframe for a fix, as evidenced by Northstar disaster.
Everybody has an ID. Find a study that shows differently (for example [1]) and you'll be able to see how obviously synthetic it is. I have no doubt that the people who are opposing Voter ID have no nefarious motive, but there's a lot of confirmation bias at work that creates a false narrative that getting a photo ID is "difficult" and that people without photo IDs are common and disproportionately minorities.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/d/d...
Ultimately the top tier camera makers had enough cash reserves and brand recognition to sort their shit out and build digital cameras that were actually good. Then they could differentiate again on bodies and lenses.

There was a long time there where everyone thought the startups and the consumer electronics companies were going to win. Wasn't there a time when Sony had the best digital cameras? Digital cameras were one of the big 'disruptions' in the early information age.
Search is broken, almost all searches I do now, the first dozen links are all crap (no content, gamed the algorithm). This is for Google or DuckDuckGo. I hate the modern internet.
Similar story for me. Until a few months ago probably 90% of my searches included `!g`. Then at some point I just got out of the habit, and now I usually don’t even think about the fact that I’m on DDG’s result page instead of Google’s. I have no idea if it is because the results actually got better or if I just got used to them.
The Holloway Syllabus on B2B Sales
Toyota commit to 20 years of parts.

(I can probably still get new mechanical parts for my 23 year old Ipsum, but I doubt the in-car electronics are replaceable except from the second-hand market)
The biggest problem with DDG for me is how easy it is to game. Try doing research on new cars/trucks and you'll find most results at the top are trash sites like 2020-make-model.com and the like.
The poor don't have estates. When they die, they leave their families wondering how to pay for the funeral, not how to preserve their holdings for the next generation.
I wouldn't say that you need to be at top of the field for that - just smart (smarter than you average dev I guess) and have 8-10 years of experience. Although to be true, I don't think people at the top of the field make more than $200k-$300k (assuming the field is in demand), and these are rather uncommon cases - I imagine that is much more rarer than the same money in the US.

On the other hand, pretty great deals can be had in Europe as well - I'm currently sitting in Poland making $160k, with low costs of living and taxes. Would need to probably make twice that much in California for the same lifestyle and yearly savings.
Of course you can escape, but it is much harder. Love of music style is learned, and you learn it from your immediate social environment.

I recommend to read "Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste" by Pierre Bourdieu.
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They were all registered. Several investigations are underway. Update: this is now unclear. Lol
> Everything must be part of the same gigantic Goldberg-esque state so that everything can catch fire and burn down at once as soon as there's a conflict of any kind.

Well, that's exactly the job of competent package managers, to make sure that packages fully stated their dependencies (so that the package manager would forbid you from getting into an illegal state wherein a required dependency was not installed or the wrong version of the dependency was installed), and installed correctly according to the LFHS so that there would be no conflicts.

/opt isn't new. Plenty of people decided that they could throw everything into a folder under /opt, including copies of all dependencies, with no references outside of that folder, and that would be enough. And it might have been enough if it wasn't for sysadmins in charge of uptime tearing their beards out over /opt constantly filling up and causing multi-product outages when it did.

The whole point of the LFHS is that it represented a contract along the boundary between developers (who needed to bundle libraries, save state, have access to a cache, etc.) and operators (who worried about disks and associated costs - why would you ever spend a dime backing up /var/cache? Why would you ever use a fast disk for /etc?). When this contract was followed, systems worked splendidly. When the contract was broken, the people who broke the contract shot themselves in the foot just about the same as anybody writing C code knows how many footguns are in the C language.

Of course, today, with the price of resources having crashed through the floor, and containerization having more or less reached maturity, this is all more or less an academic, historical, moot point. But dynamically linked libraries weren't stupid, they were an artifact of an age where statically linking libraries was horrendously uneconomical and the idea of namespacing anything was enough to get laughed out of the room by people wondering how you would expect to pay for any of it.
Ask HN: Client not happy after software consulting, what to do?
Hi Everyone,

Posting on a throwaway for anonymity.

I recently finished a 3 week engagement with a client. Everyone was happy when I was working there and I did not feel like I was the lagging person and we reached the deadline, but when I start to bill, all of a sudden they told me I did not do a good job.

We had a deadline Oct 7. I was to implement a service that would consume data and expose the data out. The data was several GB and it wasn't clean per se. So there was a part where data had to be cleaned but the data was never clean before launch so we had to release a small subset.

I am now being blamed for failure to launch with all the data, I bill at $5000/week and they thought I only did 1 1/2 weeks of work on it although my git history says otherwise.

What's sad is that I did my job according to their proposed scope, and finished it. And when I was there, I didn't feel like I was the bottleneck.

I did not have a concrete statement of work because I did a previous engagement and was successful. So this time around I trusted them and we "winged" the project management but they obviously had other expectations.

What do I do?

Thanks YC people!
There were 16 million new vehicles are sold last year in the US and there's 260 million registered vehicles on the road with a median age of nearly 12 years old.

To say that there's "tens of millions" of perfectly operational cars on the road in the US is really an understatement.
"I'm working from home today because I need to be able to focus on this project."

I'm going to start using this as a reason on my Work From Home request. Ever since our company has started requiring to add a reason, I keep inventing excuses when really I just can't be productive in our open office.
I appreciate your comment.

>And get yourself a girl friend.

As much as I would love to snap my fingers and make this happen, I really have no idea how to go about this. I met my last serious girlfriend at a bus station in Minsk, just struck up a conversation (in English).

Whereas here in the US, I have been in $BoringTechCity for 3 years, and haven't had a woman so much as smile at me. I'm very much a skinny George Costanza, and I freak people out. I also abstain from dating apps and am at this "squishy" part of adulthood where I enjoy staying in, making Indian curry and playing Red Dead, and can't imagine doing anything social in the evenings after work. (I did, however, perform stand-up comedy twice last week, at two different venues. Both times went pretty well, but I don't feel compelled to do it again anytime soon.)
Sure.

Now name any Swiss company that makes software that you heard of before.

I'll wait.

Switzerland is eager to compare itself to Silicon Valley as a center for education and innovation, but I have lived here for 11 years and I can tell you that that comparison is utter horse shit. Why?

Because Switzerland, as a tiny neutral country, most of all lacks ambition. You can't make it as a small company with lots of ideas.

You couldn't pay the salaries for talent - the talent can earn double or triple working in private banking, insurance of big pharma.

Or maybe the talent already moved away since very few companies can afford to even open offices in Switzerland, or if they do, they are sales only. Google, Microsoft and IBM are the biggest exceptions in the Zurich area.
Why something needs to be cut or edited to function for the dumb US and A morons? Or any other country what ever. IMO Me, myself, has to read up things I dont understand from the film, rewatch etc. The writer wrote it for only that purpose. Editing or cutting kills it. I cant understand it.
If the state can't put together a list that doesn't disenfranchise one in every five voters on it, it shouldn't bother.

Voter fraud is a non-existent issue and these mass-removals serve no basis except as cover to remove voters that don't support their party.
Learn When to Use State, Binding, ObservableObject, ObservedObject, etc.
From what I can tell, one of the main goals of IPFS is decentralization. Anyone can be hosting the file you want and it will download from any of the peers. Does OnionShare do this?

As you mentioned, I've also found IPFS to be fragile, particularly in that it is unlikely for stuff to stay up reliably, as ironic as that is. If I'm trying to host a website with not too much traffic (nobody else replicating), I have to keep my computer online or it will become inaccessible.
It's not just purging.

Think of voting like a sales pipeline. Any friction whatsoever reduces the conversion rate.

Every little extra bureaucratic step disenfranchises voters.
There's a huge difference between global state in C and redux, though - redux state is immutable and updated atomically. And immutable state really is a game changer in reducing complexity.

When you're just dealing with functions and data, I don't know how it could get more simple. I know that it has made my code much more readable, testable, and organized.
Germans face racism in Switzerland
I'm not sure why, but if you have a node that has been running for a while and you add some files to it, some gateways will find them right away and others will keep timing out for many minutes. Discovery seems to be very hit-or-miss, and it's the most important component of IPFS...
It says they lived on a farm, not a house in town. From the pictures I think you could grow enough food for 7 people to live on. Pretty normal up until the last 100 years or so to live on that much land.
Reddit or HN are actually ideal platforms for meetups. All you need is list of links for tech meetups. Either a subreddit like /r/nyc_meetups or just a weekly "What's Going On" post where people can post about events. We're already on the network. I don't see why we need a separate website just for the physical act of coming together.
Although it is not exactly streaming, you can see them on-demand in tv (Movistar+ in Spain has many of them available now). So, it is not true that you have to either watch them on theater or buy a copy.
Does this work over arbitrary concurrency barriers (ie a network), or is it for libraries only?
Regular reminder that Docker Hub is not really an enterprise registry with an SLA. You should use pretty much anything else for serious applications that rely on pulling images in the hot path (such as auto-scaling up).
List of Open-Source Meetup Alternatives
Much of canvas 2d fingerprinting relied on system fonts, which browsers have started to restrict access to these days.

WebGL fingerprinting, in my investigation, seems to be identifiable by gpu vendor, and potentially by generation, but not individual GPU.

So there's still bits of info, but not as bad as they used to be, or as bad as people generally fear.
It's the same now, but in previous versions there were important differences. Might be legacy code that's hard to make forward compatible.
With all due respect and affection, Miyazaki-san (and/or the people now in charge at Ghibli) is just being a stubborn old mule here. There is no practical difference between homevideo and streaming, and homevideo copies of Ghibli films are everywhere (whether official or otherwise). They have been on TV multiple times in Japan and elsewhere.

Maybe it's a way to push reluctant distributors to continue these mini-festivals they have been touring for a few years. Maybe they are trying to raise the price for when an agreement is inevitably found. Maybe they are waiting for the streaming wars to be over so they can talk to one distributor rather than five. Whatever it may be, I am sceptical that it springs from some deep reasoning about the way people consume this type of media.
Thanks I’ve sent this comment to our DBAs. Very useful.
if it's that bad, can you point to the health outcomes in the US (which uses this at massive scale) that definitely are attributed to this?

I worked in life sciences and there are many things which are published that don't actually have anything to do with a compound being safe.
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Has anybody at Mozilla been pointing out that "data-driven" design predicated on incomplete data, making incorrect assumptions about the relative importance of different users, might be contributing to the decline of Firefox?

A single power user who happens to be a system administrator for a public school district has the power to install or uninstall hundreds of firefox instances. And it was power users that spread word-of-mouth awareness of firefox the most during the days when firefox was actually growing. Continue to treat them as equals to all other users and I predict firefox will continue its tragic slide into obscurity.
I'm not sure what the statistics are, but the high conflict cases anecdotally seem to be as frequent as the amicable ones, and the "medium conflict" ones that still cost 10s of thousands of dollars seem very common.

The whole marriage/divorce system is (unintentionally) designed such that conflict is likely, and there are also plenty of lawyers and maybe-or-maybe-not-well-meaning friends to stoke the flames.
Are there any privacy laws the mention DNT yet?
But as a language doesn't betterC provides lots more useful features than C (the module system, meta-programming (imagine C with generics), scope() and many other useful things) that make it really a better language than C while still keeping C interop. I agree that it is in an awkward spot though -- and would have benefited from being it's own separate programming language. It would have been a killer feature if it could also compile standard C at the same time!
One of my astrophysics professor's named her dog Laika, so it's already begun.
>Whenever I see things like this, I wonder why are they talking about gallons per nut or tree or whatever?

Because most people can relate to gallons and water rights are measured in terms of liquid volume. In a drought-prone area having a conversation about where the water is going is discussed in those terms instead of how many grams protein/fat/carbs it produces per gallon compared to other food sources.
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I'd use the DDG iOS app if only the search field wasn't at the very top, out of reach in one-hand phone typing... It's terrible UX on anything but the smallest phones out there.
This sounds interesting and I love spending money on video games, so I will look into this.
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Internal teams are using some GCP services, but overall nearly all teams stick with Borg. Many key services like Search are not able to switch to GCP b/c performance degradation.
I hadn't been to their users page in a while. I'll update my post.
How do I install this?
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Please put quotation marks around a quote, so we can know what's the quote and what's not! I've added them to your comment now, based on https://www.gwern.net/Timing. It's good to link to the source of a quote too. (Your comment was fine otherwise.)
Dude. Honestly feels like you're being purposefully hard to engage with for the sake of pushing your agenda. It's tiring, really.

> Why, that seems like a rather silly thing to give the benefit of the doubt on. Hiring someone into a high responsibility role based on education rather than experience and proven ability. I don't see why you would do that...

Who said they are hired on education _rather than_ experience and proven ability? It's not like MBAs are 18-year-olds with no experience. As I've said elsewhere, you need to have at least 3-5 years of _great_ work experience to land a spot at top MBAs. I was promoted every year for 3 years in a row in one of my homecountry's top 5 largest firms and was about to be promoted to manager when I went to my MBA. The same is true of a lot of MBA graduates. And those who were not managers in the traditional sense displayed their leadership abilities elsewhere, such as the many veterans that join MBA programs.

> ah.

Great ad hominem. Go read up on HN's guidelines, please: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Sure, but fix your comparison metric as "timestamp of insertion" (and forget for a moment that this isn't technically pure, you can fiddle to make it pure), and you still get all the CoW-niceness, but this is internal to the mapping type, my keys and values don't need to be comparable or orderable, only hashable. I'm given an ordering, the ordering is arbitrary, but I don't care, because CoW/persistent hash maps are mostly an implementation detail or optimization.
DuckDuckGo isn't that big of a company. It's more than likely it just has a lot of legitimate enthusiastic fans.
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I have never heard of that before. I create and link static libraries all the time. My exes are usually a drop in without any dependencies whatsoever.
I wonder: How long before someone adds a patch to PostgreSQL as a 'compat' patch, or extension.