skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook employs over 30k employees.

The parent company of the company who performed this lift employs 11k employees working 900 ships.

I don’t think your analogy makes sense from a “Don’t require so many people” perspective when you look at the numbers tbqh
"NewSQL", not NoSQL, is apparently taking relational databases and adding on the features that drive people to NoSQL.

(This is also the first time I've heard that term, but it seems to be several years old and that's roughly what I got from a few quick searches)
> is it's possible someone edits a comment before they see there's a reply to it (this is pretty easy with HN's interface).

For years I use "delay" in my HN user settings:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231024

(Just to point to those that missed that possibility).
> Commonly known in NYC maybe. That view is antiquated in the rest of the US.

Respectfully, I doubt it. People may not _like_ NYC, but ...

- Wall Street
- Carnegie Hall
-MOMA, etc
- As the other poster mentioned, the U.N.
- Still tons of movies and shows use NYC as the setting for their story
- Broadway, and theatre in the US
- A huge part of the publishing industry is in NYC
- Along with LA, Nashville, and Atlanta, NYC is one of the hearts of the US music industry.

And I’m sure there’s plenty I missed that we all could add to the list given a little time.

Those all seem like pretty obvious and objective markers identifying NYC as a US, if not world cultural, financial, and political hub.
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One of the things I love about NYC is how diverse it is both in people and industry. I don’t really know many finance types (at least assuming they are how they’re stereotyped); my social cross section seems to be tech, education, art, and law, so I guess I managed to miss that part of your experience.

Otherwise, my experience has largely been the opposite. I’ve worked with expats from Japan and Europe, and most of them love it here. Most of the Japanese folks actually chose to bypass the West coast entirely, having never been there, and came straight to NYC. One described it as “the future” in terms of diversity.

But yeah, it’s a big city, and I see shitty behavior all the time, so I’m not surprised by your experience.
I agree that appropriate configuration/policy management is part of the solution for preventing these attacks on Kubernetes, but our view is that monitoring also plays an important role.
One important application of chunking is efficient I/O.

Mass storage is most efficient when doing large sequential reads and writes, so you normally feed your constant-space streaming algorithms from buffers with a large number of input records.

Sometimes you can just tell the OS do efficient chunking prefetch for you.
That doesn't make sense though. If you're outside the USA, ending coal is coming. It might just take a little longer in the US and Poland. The UK has, I think, five remaining coal plants - all spending 90% of their time idling as source of last resort. They'll all be gone before 2025. Offshore wind is already competitive with gas, and the expectation is it will be cheaper than existing gas in the next round of auctions, i.e. electricity will cost less from closing and demolishing gas plants and building new offshore wind.

There we do get to a slight issue - UK doesn't currently have enough pumped hydro or other storage to underpin 100% renewables, so gas will probably survive a while as the fill in source, in lieu of batteries and pumped storage.

That has been done with a low carbon tax - $25 per ton[1][2]. Brought in under the Conservative coalition government - not one you'd expect to tax excessively. Democratic societies in Europe manage to tax petrol and diesel enough to bring it to double or more the US price.

You're conflating far too much though. Elections come with hundreds of promises and policies - there are multiple issues, and multiple often conflicting policies that get or lose a vote. It is exceptionally rare for a single point to swing a vote one way or another. Thus despite winning politicians of every nation trying to claim 100% support of every controversial policy, nothing could be further from the truth.

As far as being equitable is concerned, it's perfectly feasible to bring a carbon tax that spends the take subsidising the poorest to enable them to insulate their home, get solar panels, or replace their car with an EV. Maybe with a policy to build out or subsidise more public transport. Car taxes based on a combination of weight and emissions should help push the rest toward EVs. If voters consistently claim they want more action, and far faster, then it's reasonable to suppose that at least most realise that will come with a cost, whether in increased state borrowing or adjusted taxes. The magic money tree only gets brought out for illegal military adventures in Iraq.

Without going into growth as an unwise Ponzi scheme, there's no reason to suppose huge spending on modern sustainable infrastructure would hurt economies - it would boost a new and growing sector in place of an incumbent. Growth would probably surge due to the additional government funded activity. The New Deal was an attempt to boost the economy though didn't spend enough - ultimately it was spending on WW2 rearming that brought the necessary effect. Little wonder some transition policies have been labelled Green New Deal - attempting to achieve similar during a transition to sustainability. The logic is sound, though I don't know enough detail to know if the numbers add up.

Fossil simply isn't the cheapest fuel any more, far from it. Which is why the transition is happening anyway, even without policies to encourage or require it.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/uk-renewables-out-ge...

[2] https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-renewables-generate-...
Of course there is a workaround. But why should we give FB any of our attention, knowing that they likely will and previously have intentionally violated our privacy and trust for their financial benefit?
Things We Can’t (Yet) Do in CSS: Page Floats, Figures, Exclusions, Regions
"The cure for this in the software simple and difficult"

Apologies. This should read:

"The cure for this, both in software development and
elsewhere, is both simple and difficult"
There's a world of difference between "clean up" and "refactored the codebase in the middle of the night ... [and] other team members were all forced to work around his refactor and waste time updating their PRs to match his work".

"Clean up" would be things like fixing typos/docs, bumping version numbers, fixing a build script because some path/version/etc of some external dependency changed, and sure -- mostly that's fine. If you're doing proper CI, there should be little to no surprises like this in your master branch, because you shouldn't be merging branches that break the build, and the "final release" build is really no different from any other build, other than you label it "release" (or "GA" or "RTM" or whatever) after the fact.

Refactors and any thing that could be classified as an "architectural change" really must go through code review. If someone thinks their skill is so great that reviews are pointless -- I absolutely guarantee in 100% of cases that they're gravely mistaken.

If the rest of the team can't understand the changes, well, they're bad changes, full stop. This is the team working on the code base, they are the ones that have to be able to understand it. This can be fixed of course, by firing everyone and getting a better team (just kidding), helping raise the skill level of the team, or by simplifying the changes. In my experience though, if no one understands it's usually a sign of overly-complex and/or under-documented code.

Code reviews are a two-way street, and learning is not just for the reviewee -- it's a great opportunity for the reviewers to learn, too. They get to see how someone else solved a particular problem, with rationale, the opportunity to ask questions (and 80%+ of the time, a question about how/why is usually an indicator a comment in the code is missing), and "current context" (eg: it's a change that's probably been discussed in the days/weeks before).

If the changes really are good, and it's a good PR (eg, not a massive, surprise major refactor that touches thousands of lines of code) then the PR will pass easily.

And seriously, if you need to do a massive change like this in a rush right before a release, then the team probably missed something major and the release simply isn't (and was never) ready. Major refactors means brand new code, and putting brand new code into a release with no testing (not even dev testing!) is a terrible idea.
Because those engineers in the marine industry still use software to design those impressive ships, balance the ballast tanks, and successfully complete their jobs.
> Complexity will increase, but our level of abstraction will increase to match, as with any technology.

But this is no panacea. The complexity will still be there, and ops folks will have to deal with it through extra layers of indirection and obscurity (which are other ways to spell "abstraction").

That might be the best compromise, but it is still a compromise.
Just want to compliment how well written this article is. A lot of technical articles lack the context or basic background (“why”) and this article does a great job.
Thinking about page floats, figures, regions and grids
Let's see Paul Allen's yacht...

...look at that tasteful off-white coloring, the thickness of it. Oh my god -- it even has a water mark.
How big were the committees?

A group of 10 seems too large and counterproductive. I think a group of roughly 3 seems about right.
These are also often used to reposition or completely move entire oil rigs, which I think is probably their biggest use case.
As I recall, the captain of the docking ship (the smaller ship) relinquishes control when the bow crosses the dry dock's threshold. Does that apply for these open ocean vessels as well?
For very short distance flights, electric aircraft are already viable. For example, Harbour Air Seaplanes operates a 20 minutes flight between Vancouver, BC and Victoria, BC. They use float planes because both cities are on the coast. Their first electric aircraft should take off in a couple months.

One nice thing about electricity is that it's much cheaper than biofuels. This is because motors are much more efficient than engines, and because large generating stations are more efficient than small aircraft engines. BC is 95% hydroelectric which makes electricity even cheaper.
So what exactly is the point of this? Is it more efficient to have the ship be tugged this way than to have it move under its own power?
I don’t think you should dismiss these concerns so quickly. It sounds like you have experience in this field. Perhaps that would make it easier for you to spot potential fakes? What about your grandma? How would she fare?

And besides, the end game isn’t to fool everyone into believing a fake. No, the more insidious goal is to flood the zone with enough dis- and misinformation to overload our ability to filter it. It’s like gaslighting at scale- at some point you just stop being able to process information because it’s so voluminous and of dubious quality that you stop believing any of it.
Surprised the article didn't also mention the megamall "American Dream Meadowlands" (just west of Manhattan in New Jersey) which recently opened after over a decade involving bankruptcy, and a 2011 roof collapse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Dream_Meadowlands

edit: article written in June 2019, Meadowlands opened in October 2019.
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I too have been having this issue as of late on my mid 2015.
Seems they got acquired for $12MM about seven years after their last seed round, per CrunchBase. That's perhaps a "soft landing" --- not a "success". The founders probably got something, but maybe not much, since there may have been debt to pay.
Maybe they used adjectives instead of adverbs because it’s both ad-words and they can no longer feel the difference.
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You left out:

... while the lifting body is also floating on the ocean.

That's the mind bending bit for me.
Slightly off-topic, but does Java have standalone (without a class) functions now? He said he was using Java but I didn't recognize some of this syntax. I know it's been changing a lot the past few years (and it's been a few years since I've used it).
"Disease was exacerbated by a primitive view of cleanliness among Europeans of the age. Though latrines that cantilevered over the ocean were available on some galleons, many sailors didn’t use them, instead shitting into the ship’s bilge, or even in the general hold. In part, Careri tells us, that was because of the incessant, brutal cold. But this indifference was widespread. The French sailor François Pyrard de Laval wrote in 1610 that typical Portuguese ships around India were ‘mighty foul and stink withal; the most men not troubling themselves to go on deck for their necessities’.

The lack of basic hygiene on ships illustrates the vast gap between early modern knowledge of geography and sailing on the one hand, and of the internal frontiers of the human body on the other. It was well-known that the world was round, part of the basis for the galleons’ amazing navigational leap. But few educated Europeans of the 16th and 17th century had more than the vaguest concepts of nutrition, infection, germs or the role of cleanliness in health. Most ships, even as late as the 18th century, relied for rudimentary medical help on a multitasking barber whose most effective tools were his enema syringe and tooth-puller."

Given my upbringing with 20th Century American standards of fresh water, toilet and bathing facilities, I could not imagine the sheer amount of filth experienced by these sailors and travelers. What an immune system the survivors must have had.
Because in America these things are designed by zoning and the political process. What you describe in Japan sounds like the Horrors of Captialism and can't possibly be allowed in America.

(Except I suppose it does happen, since the whole point of the article is that NYC does it).
I employee a number of high caliber software engineers (MS and PhD level folks). I'm pretty sure there's a balance between interestingness and pay. If you are an eningeer in adtech, you should reasonably expect to get paid in gold bars. We should make it expensive for companies to be in that business. If you are solving cancer, lifting giant boats, or going to Mars, then you have a much more interesting problem to work on.

Should we pay those folks more? Sure? But they like doing the work. Perhaps we should also demand far higher salaries from adtech companies. Like, $10M annual.
Would something like pihole not work in this case?
Ok, you got a click out of me....

This sort of basic advice (use browser features to defer loading, and plead with the masters not to ask for so much JavaScript) is obviously already considered by the HN audience and so this link is basically useless.
Which early accelerated graphics cards had ability to run code? I'd wager they had only fixed function ASICs controlled by commands from the host bus and the ROM contained code for the host CPU to run in the S3/early Matrox era.

They sometimes had ability to follow non turing complete command lists though (eg Amiga Copper programs)
I worked at one company which did design reviews for major projects where one person would present and everyone would pick at it until some semblance of a decent consensus was reached and then said designer would go off and build their stuff.

That worked pretty well and kept each review fairly focused.

And it was generally one of my favorite parts of the day from either end.

It’s really nice to be able to sit with a group of engineers, hear each other’s thoughts, find things you missed, and get away from the laptops for a bit to thing about new systems.
I don't understand this distinction. Is the reason that they are not testing the frontend itself? Would it be if they were only responsible for the API? Can't you end-to-end test an API?
War doesn't suffer fools. Glad something doesn't.
I couldn't answer in the other thread because your reply got downvoted (and rightfully so) and went "dead." I get it. You personally hate Clojure. The reasons though objectively, are your own personal and nothing to do with the design of the language.

You felt that Clojure doesn't bring any value. Well, there are thousands of people who think differently, not just me. I have grown to distrust fanboys, and even more so, haters. If you hate a programming language that consistently being ranked among others at the top of "the most loved" category, there's something wrong with your assumptions about that language.

Please don't waste your energy trying to write another lengthy comment. Your argumentation is flawed, but I won't spend my time trying to prove you wrong because you wouldn't see the truth even if it hit you right between your eyes.

Clojure notoriously known for attracting older, experienced, "grumpy" developers. Programmers with years of experience and seasoned in many other languages, because it simplifies many things. "Out of the Tar Pit" - as the phrase and as the widely known paper, accurately characterizes principles that Clojure has built on. And If your only take on the language (I quote your own words), is: "Clojure is a garbage language," then I guess I misjudged your programming experience level. Maybe you haven't struggled enough with other PLs to the point that it gets so tiresome you start thinking about retirement.
Take that one step further and do what NFSv4 does: do more per command (system call); instead of sending a single command (with a single response coming back), send a sequence of command and the responses from all of them (terminating early if any of them fails).
Debian reconsiders init-system diversity
This is exactly what HDF5 was built for. Figuring out how often to persist to disk is going to depend on a number of factors. If you want to get fancy you can dedicate a thread to I/O but that gets hairy quickly. You also might want to look into fast compression filters like blosc/lzf as a way of spending down some of your surplus CPU budget.
It's a mobile dry dock.
> "For the premium they charge for App Engine"

Uh... I'm paying sometimes nothing up to around $10/month for the same services that AWS elastic beanstalk charges $50/month for. App Engine is the cheapest option almost anywhere. What are you talking about?
I think we want a precise computer language, but with a code completion/suggestion good enough to make transitioning from natural language trivial.
Don't forget the overflow:hidden for paywalls/alerts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IYZ8mktk7k
geogebra is just an aspiring example, I do not have any encounter there. So, kudos to geogebra founders =)))
Personal anecdote: was going through a tough time in my life (early 20s), and was hating my major in school, dealing with a failed relationship, feeling like my peers outclassed me in every aspect, etc.

Was suicidal.

Spent some time in mental health facilities (urban Canada, free and open access for citizens). Surprised to see the diversity in the homeless/low-income population (which makes up a significant chunk of the population in mental health facilities). Former aerospace engineers, electrical engineers, teachers...and of course, students (like myself).

My mental health is another story, not relevant to the topic at hand. The mental health facilities where I had to spend time are relevant though: some of them didn't allow devices (privacy concerns for others in the facility), and there was a lot of time to kill. Time was spent ruminating, reading, and writing (yay for the public library). Incredibly productive, in large part because given where I was, I felt so far gone, that I no longer needed to worry about what I was doing/how well I was doing it/what I should be doing, etc.

I had already failed in all those judgements/metrics. Now, nothing to do, but to do.

Coming out of facilities, started to get caught up in old life (getting job offer from internship firm). Could no longer tolerate it. Was ballsy, having just literally faced death, and simply walked out of work. Ballsy because I was literally throwing away my future. How would I earn money?

Ended up bunking with my parents. That's one edge I had even when I was in the mental health facilities. Most of those homeless people I mentioned? Homeless because of lack of family support.

Sat down at home. Reached out to professors doing work in the sort of things I felt genuinely interested in. The rest has been reasonably productive history, with more on the way.

Point of this anecdote: the value of leisure time is something I feel very strongly about. It's what helped liberate me, and I only had it because of privilege (parents). I find it rather sad that there are so many people that disagree with arguments along the lines of "people are motivated by money, if they didn't have to work for money, they wouldn't do anything with their time".

And judgementalism regarding low-income/disabled/homeless individuals. Heard this from a PhD student at uni, when I was telling him about how I always worry I might end up homeless some day: "Don't worry, you won't end up homeless. Everyone here (i.e. including me) is too smart/valuable to end up homeless."

Couldn't help but laugh (internally). Remembered the Russian electrical engineer who gave me an old Russian (Soviet era? not sure) text on linear electrical circuits while I was in CAMH (Toronto). He was a patient there too. I don't think he knew that I couldn't read Russian...

He was homeless, and was helping me pass the time the way he would. I still have that book with me today.

I hope you're all okay, wherever you are. I believe in you, because I believe in the power of the human spirit. We are driven by more than survival.
but why do they want to do this?

Its not like they can move that cruise ship anywhere it couldn't have gone on its own.
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This pretty much describes the end of the internet as we know it. Even before AI generated "content", the internet has become lower signal-to-noise as time has moved forward.

It is already the case that for many everyday searches I do, I am forced to be very creative in my search phrase in hopes of filtering out the garbage sites that manage to dominate the first results page.

Watching less tech-saavy people use computers (such as elder family) is enlightening and frightening. They either cannot tell real content from fake content, or worse they are satisfied with what they get from obviously suspicious sites.

Maybe my concerns of polluted websites are less relevant considering the general population is getting more of their "information" from within Facebook rather than even going to search engines (of which they use the default for their browser!).
Trump proposes massive one-time tax on the rich (1999)
That's plausible and could have been implemented, by exploiting RCE vulnerabilities in jpeg decoder libraries.
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That was really interesting and fired my imagination! Thanks.
I actually don't have a problem with the original poster asking why they get downvoted either, I think there is often a learning opportunity in such a situation. What does annoy me is if the person then gets an explanation, but digs in, and it turns into a you're-wrong-I'm-right discussion, but to be honest I don't see that happening that often.
Amazing how they worked around with 4 tracks back in the day. Iirc, even Bohemia Rhapsody was recorded on 16 tracks and they had to essentially record, bump everything to a single track, record again.
Aliens total conversion for Doom was quite creepy, for its time. Supposedly a gaming company even tried to hire the creator. I'd say it doesn't hold up today though.