skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jurisdiction matters far more than most people realize. If we had state level environmental protection laws, Missouri might be more than happy to let St Louis save money by dumping their trash into the Mississippi River where it becomes Louisiana's problem instead. Thankfully the EPA has their jurisdiction set appropriately.

Housing and Land Use definitely need wider jurisdictions. State level would be nice, but at the very least they need metro regional jurisdiction. When a city like San Jose or San Francisco doesn't build enough housing, the affordability and traffic effects ripple far throughout the region. Right now, land use planners don't have to care about the effects they have on neighboring cities, but with wider jurisdictions they absolutely would have to take those concerns into account.
That reminds me of the password used to enter the TARDIS control room in Doctor Who: "Crimson Eleven Delight Petrichor". But you could not say the password verbally, the words are irrelevant. You need to visualize the color, and the recall the petrichor smell in your mind, ...
Jerry Seinfeld's story about show business
Going through medical school and years of post-doc training makes physicians less responsible than people with no medical knowledge whatsoever? Yikes! If this is true, I hope the AMA lobbyists who bribed that turd onto the books were paid well for their evil deeds...

It's probably also not great for patients with rare diseases, that physicians are penalized for trying to solve problems no physician has solved before.
Makes sense. I think the 10,000 number was way too high, but completely removing the free plan is a bit jarring and frankly annoying. I'd be much happier keeping the free plan but only 100 emails a month instead.

I'm still trying to figure out my new costs, I send approx 30 e-mails a month. I think it's like a handful of cents a month which is annoying.
Yep, it's called secondary infringement. Apple knows how to play the game -- Apple sued Samsung for Google Android specific features found in Samsung smartphones a few years ago (though the jury found no infringement).
Do you know why the shared database vision didn't work out? Because I still think it would be the best approach for many companies. Most companies are small enough that they could spend less than $10k/month for an extremely powerful cloud DB. Then you could replace most microservices with views or stored procs. What could be simpler?

I think one reason to avoid this approach is because SQL and other DB languages are pretty terrible (compared to popular languages like C#, Python, etc...) But why has no one written a great DB language yet?
Ugh. I settled on Mailgun for this use case recently and now I'll have to switch.

I used to use https://medium.com/@ashan.fernando/forwarding-emails-to-your... to do this cheaply via SES, but it was a pain to set up for new domains and had some odd behavior at times.

https://improvmx.com was something else I came across, but I don't feel great trusting an unknown service with all my incoming mail.

Zoho works and is free for one user but the webapp is pretty rough to use.

https://forwardemail.net is an open source option but I wasn't sure about how reliable it would be.
Don't be so dismissive of people asking questions you want them to know the answer to.
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90% couldn't write a good monolith. 90% can't write good micro-services. Both share the same problem of modularity and separation of concerns. One comes with much lower development and operational costs for the competent. The other hides and creates new problems. I've developed on both architectures and there are use cases for each. It's never all or nothing. I can't even imagine how many engineers would be needed now to maintain the solid money making monoliths I've worked on with teams up to 8 over a decade ago. When the money dries up we'll be back on the monolith train.
I don't think DoD projects ever get positive press, when the products work people are apathetic and when they break they are criticized as boondoggles - infrastructure actually tends to get relatively positive press.

I think the problem here isn't in public opinion - it's strictly a matter of corruption at the political level.
It’s great to see the community coming together to save the content. I’m glad that they were able to save a considerable amount of the data.
Anyway it was clear that Google got leverage out of the deal, for instance they wouldn’t allow navigation while it was available on Android, no vector maps while they were available on Android etc.

That was never going to work for Apple.
He’ll be CEO in 3 years as long as the RH acq works. Otherwise he’ll be thrown under the bus.
I don't want advocate one way or another (micro vs. monoliths) because tomato tomato. However here are a few arguments in defense of microservices regarding these three signs you commented:

1. Microservices do not have some inherent property of having to duplicate data. You can have data in single source and deliver that data to anyone who needs it through an API. There are infinitely many caching solutions if you are worried about this becoming a bottleneck

2 and 2.5. There are tools for microservice architectures that counter these problems to a degree, mainstream example being containers and container orchestration (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes). One can even make an argument that microservices force you to build your systems so they are more robust than your monolith would be. If the argument for monoliths is that it's easier to maintain reliability when every egg is in one basket then you are putting all your bets into that basket and it becomes a black hole for developer and operations resources, as well as making operations evolution very slow

3. There are again tools for handling data and "syncing" (although I don't like the idea of having to "sync") the services, for example message queues / streaming processing platforms (e.g. Kafka). If some data or information might be of interest to multiple services, you should then push such data to a message queue and consume it from services that need it. The "syncing" problem sounds like something that arises when you start duplicating your data across services which shouldn't happen (see my argument on 1.)

Again not to say microservices are somehow universally better. Just coming into defense of their core concepts when they get unfairly accused
Lots of people are misreading what I said here. I'm not "against" "idealistic languages". I haven't done much Haskell but I suspect that I'd love it; I just haven't had time to take it for a spin. I think it's great that people are trying to improve the state-of-the-art and I think there's lots of improvement to be made still, and I think Haskell is a focal point of that improvement.

I was very specifically disputing the phrase, "I believe that a perfect programming language with perfect tooling...can exist". I am only making the case that "perfect" is not attainable (or even real), even though it can often feel like it might be in the pure world of code. We can keep our eyes upward, and always be making things better, but we will never "arrive". Because of this, qualities like expressiveness and safety - while valuable - always have to be balanced against realities like human nature and project constraints. A feverish compulsion can overtake some of us (or at least me) when we feel like we're very close to true perfection in our work, so it's important to be reminded that you will never quite get there. The desire for refinement has to leave room for other priorities.
Yep, I can totally do this. It's normally not the whole song, just a section of it (but that doesn't bother me). It's a particularly common thing for me to do in bed, using the last song I heard that day.
> I used to from time to time imagine my half of a conversation in which I was showing around someone notable who had traveled through time to get to the present day. Maybe someone from 1,000 years ago or maybe from 50. That is, for entertainment, not to cope with anything. I never felt like my imagination was quite good enough to turn it into fiction.

I do this exact same thing.

I also have conversations with random people in my life, explaining what I’m doing and what I’m thinking to them. When I have an inner monologue, I don’t think of it as talking to “myself”, but rather the imagined presence of some friend or family member. I have no idea how normal this is.
My experiences line up with yours. It was terrible then, it's not any better now.
It’s not the electoral college (that’s its own problem). It’s the senate.

The senate gives 2 representatives to each state, irrespective of population. It’s essentially already government control by the smallest states - you have tiny states with 2 senators, when Washington DC has none - despite a larger population than a number of states.

PR, Guam, and American Samoa have no representation.

And the majority of those tiny population states are rural states that consider science to be secondary to whatever the Bible says.
Had anyone correlated the sightings with weather radar?
Well, I don't have the feelings of "envy" that you do. The fact is, there's little he can do with his "millions of dollars of equity" unless he moves far away from family, friends, and social network. It's cruel to force people to move. I'm not envious or cruel, so I support Prop 13.
You have it backwards. Prop 13 overall increases house prices, yes. But kids, whose parents own a home, benefit the most from Prop 13.
Is it the year of the Linux desktop?!?!
"I posted a poll on instagram to get a more accurate assessment of the situation."

Cute.
Interesting, one of the signs that I’m about to fall asleep soon is also that I accidentally feel my thoughts as if they were said by another person.
>California is a perfect example of what happens when you let environmentalists handle housing policy, the poor suffer because environmentalism is classism in disguise in these social contexts.

Most of the environmentalists that I know are very much in favor of increasing housing density and reducing commute time in ICE vehicles. Current housing policy does neither of these things.
I don't really believe in this generalization, but I was struck recently by how a local "classic rock" station is playing the same songs as they did 30 years ago. You'd think that "classic" would have advanced by a few decades.

But come on, is your claim really supported by Tom Brady being 42 and not 38? Or by the falling US life expectancy? Or by social security retirement age changing from 65 to 67?
It took at least 4 hours to deploy if everything went well; not sure if that was policy or an infrastructure limitation, but in any case more than 2 deploys per workday would have been impossible.
On Leaving Cities
It's our brain's job to give us lots of ideas. It's then our job to contextualize and filter those ideas, into "useful" and "discard".

You shouldn't feel guilty for having a brain which gives you outrageous ideas. You should only worry if you can't filter them appropriately.

My understanding is that part of schizophrenia can be experiencing those ideas as an external voice.
I'm completely in your camp, and I'm surprised by the lack of nuance HN seems to show (especially regarding micro-services & Kubernetes).

There are many benefits to having microservices that people seem to forget because they think that everyone interested in microservices is interested in splitting their personal blog into 4 different services.

They take coordination, good CICD, and a lot of forethought to ensure each service is cooperating in the ecosystem properly, but once established, it can do wonders to dev productivity.
Don't forget the infamous in-group preferences they bring as soon as they take over.
I can't visualize every kind of object. The easiest things to visualize are simple geometric shapes with a strong color. By default, if I try to "visualize something" it will be a red triangle.

I cannot visualize faces whatsoever, even if the person is right in front of me and I close my eyes suddenly.
And the senate, which is where the skew is much more gratuitous.
Ask HN: What are some examples of Microservices?
I hear about microservices a lot. But how micro are these services?

Can you please name the services that you have in your microservices architecture?
It's worth drawing a distinction between increasing costs and schedule complexity, and increasing overruns in both.

Regardless of how complex or expensive a project it, if the people doing it aren't strongly incentivized (positively or negatively) to keep these things under control, the will not. That doesn't matter what era you are talking about.
I think we should build a lot more housing and make housing affordable by increasing supply.
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> despite sending an email being an utterly trivial, long solved problem

Then why do companies need transactional email providers?
> 2000 extra hours during a 12 month period

11.5 hour days, 7 days a week for a year?

> I almost burned out

No kidding. Seems like a recipe for much worse than burn out.
....no they don't. They actively avoid the GPL versions of various things they use so they don't have to give back even though it hurts their users.
Until 2018 you could inherit homes from parents or grandparents and keep the original assessed value, but that's no longer the case. So unless the kid is earning enough to pay taxes on a massively appreciated house, they're going to have to sell and/or move away.

EDIT: I was wrong about this.
1. You're making up vague statistics that I believe are false. If "the vast majority of customers" only "tenuous"-ly care about ethics, then why are major multinational corporations reacting to today's ethical concerns like climate change? Doesn't stand up to your own logic that companies do amoral things.

2. If you reward companies for being bad, then they will be bad. If you reward companies for selling blue items, they will sell more blue items. Your own logic about amorality dictates this. Why is it so hard to understand?
Yeah so wrong of them to invest millions into their map data and not immediately give it away to their competitors!
Do you as a consultant have a free tier?
Thanks Tyler!
Try again with a lower dependency version is not that different from try again with the offending commit reverted.
Or even just avoid turns in general. When I moved to Atlanta in 2014 and was using Google Maps for everything, before I knew my way around, it would often send me on complicated routes that clearly were meant to save a minute or two by doing a "staircase" sort of routing with more turns. Even right turns end up taking time and causing stress because I was always in the wrong lane. (I think they've gotten better with the lane indicators.)
jump through FDA hoops

Not that again. Bioequivalence is important so that a patient can take Levothyroxin 75 μg from Ranbaxy one month and Levothyroxin 75 μg from Teva next month and notice no difference. Unfortunately, the market for orphan drugs is so small that it's impossible to recover the outlays.
Yes, I always thought that when a novelist describes the “voice in the head” of a character, or when a coworker does the same, they are trying to convey thought over a medium incapable of conveying true thought.

I never imagined that that was the actual thought!
> Do you have to come up with elaborate verbal descriptions of abstract concepts in your head before you can think about them?

I am very unusual, but for me, yes.
> Without your thoughts you only your body, an animal. Language is what expands human sphere of influence beyond what we see, taste and feel.

This is nonsense. Geoffrey Hinton pretty much demolished this. Language goes in, and language comes out, but your thoughts aren't little word-symbols in your head. They're patterns of activation. Language is a by-product, not the essential thing. As I pause while writing this, I'm visualizing a machine part, rotating it in my head, animating screws going into it and out of it, and oh, it just turned into a banana and walked away.
For complex business support software, are pop-up messages usually written by developers? What about the various translations of those messages? Don't these all just sit in .po files somewhere? This seems like more of an "analyst" task to me.
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Most of the environmentalists that I know are very much in favor of increasing housing density as long as it isn't in their neighborhood.
It has its downsides, like I think the sender-chosen notifications over receiver-chosen notification was a mistake.

But at this point I would give my firstborn child to have real threads, and it does have that.

So I like it much better.
We can speculate all night, it remains speculation. All I've done is use the numbers you suggested to point out inconsistencies. Yet you keep finding reasons for why we are almost literally all going to die (with mortality rates of up to around 50%), when you have no more insight into this than anyone else in this thread.

Everybody is taking this seriously, but playing prophet of doom is really shitty and has all sorts of potential negative consequences in the real world.
Are Napa, Atherton, and Malibu filled with environmentalists?

I'm so confused by your reaction, are there specific housing policies that are focused on the environment that have had bigger effects than things like prop 13? or cities with 30k jobs in a year but 300 units of housing (looking at you, mountain view)?
Yes, but the more important distinction is the election structure which is not systematically designed to result in a two party system. "System" being the important word here, not "outcome".
Well, no, you are just hacking it to support your claims. A split-stack work-stealing implementation is ok, nothing special, basically goroutines. But you are not addressing the most important difference between events and shared memory multithreading - synchronizing access to shared memory. Idiomatic event driven applications don't do synchronization and have to be sharded to scale to multiple cores. Choosing memcached and running it multithreaded is particularly bad, as memcached is not a decent event driven applications, it mixes threads and events and suffers from all that synchronization overhead. At least you should run it in one process per core configuration [1]. But it's much worse than that, there is some serious research in this area that addresses those problems, in particular the Anna paper [2], it kills any possibility for shared memory multithreading as a concurrency model to compete with anything, it's just too broken on a fundamental level.

[1] https://github.com/scylladb/seastar/wiki/Memcached-Benchmark

[2] https://dsf.berkeley.edu/jmh/papers/anna_ieee18.pdf
"The last 20 years of Silicon Valley/Bay Area development are effectively rent seeking. Google and company blew up newspaper advertising while cannibalizing newspaper content"

What do you think rent seeking is? How is quoted sentence #2 an example?
You could allow for partial tax deferral until home ownership is transferred(sale, death, etc). So, retired person keeps paying $100/month while their neighbors are paying $10000/month for the same exact services, but if they accrued $150k in taxes by the time they died, that chunk is taken out of the sale price of the home.
It's a quale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia
Why your free software is never free
Maybe. I think that's less likely than syntax error, for two reasons.

#1, if you look in index.php, there's a < on line 228 and a > on line 258, correctly rendered. Granted, the < is part of a <=, which weakens that argument.

#2, if you look at the surrounding code, $user > 0 makes logical sense given what the code is doing (and assuming 0 represents an invalid/nonexistent userid, which I believe it does given that facebook userids increase monotonically).
> Only for Presidential elections, which, to be fair, isn't the most important one for the federal government. Congressional elections are more important.

The Presidential election is the single most important election in the US federal system, but in any case, he skew in the electoral college is less than, and mostly a a side effect of, the skew in the upper house of Congress (there is skew of a smaller scale in the lower house do to granularity effects, which also impacts the electoral college, but the skew in the upper house is a much bigger issue.)
Are you sure that the F16 was a success? After all, it was decried as a horrible plan early in its program and service just like the F-35[1]. Also, that F-35 that lost to an F-16 was software limited undergoing testing for the explicit purpose of testing its limits. The plane has had those limits raised since and it has done very well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkrtxDdaWuM
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Yeah: verbal thinker here. Can visualize imagined scenes and objects no problem.
This is not entirely true. There are a handful of decent actors (Emeryville and Redwood City come to mind in the Bay Area) but they're absolutely swamped by bad actors like San Francisco, Palo Alto, Cupertino, etc which have massive undersupply of housing relative to the number of jobs they have.
I attended an interview of a major non-tech CEO and he attributed the cultural attitude of Jugaad [0] as the reason why so many CEOs are of Indian descent.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugaad
I dont know how to save my place to come back to a comment on mobile, but I too am curious about this.
Verbal thinker here: Can imagine smells (and 3D scenes, and musical sounds).
I don't think that's unique to environmentalists, turns out a big subset of everyone is selfish like that.
If anyone that isnt Anti White Commie still lives in Comifornia and you stand up for right wing western nations, its time to move to Vagina or Texas
Because of my father's job, my family moved 9 times before I was 12. It wasn't as big a deal as you're describing.
That is exactly what NASA did for Commercial Crew. The started out awarding 5 contracts, then at each stage down-selected to 4,3, and finally 2 suppliers, Boeing and SpaceX. Also commercial crew contracts are fixed-price, pay-for-performance, not the standard cost-plus contracts. So Boeing won't get a dollar to repeat this test; they have to pay for it out of their own pocket.
Real question:

Why pull it into memory like that? Why not just pump it through a stream?
What new problem was Nodejs trying to solve and why does it exist?
A couple ways:

1) By thinking about them in other modes. I have an internal monologue, but it's not so much "the only way I can think" as "a thing that happens that comments as I think, and can be used to talk through things in my head". Eg: I'm also a pretty strong visual/spatial thinker, I can recall scents OK, and I'm reasonably facile with numbers; all of these sorts of thinking / recollection feel different as I do them.

Some may involve the inner monologue in an assistive role - eg, for math, my mental voice will often either narrate or speak key numbers as I complete steps, which allows me to use audio-memory as well as visual-memory to keep track of all the things I'm operating on.

2) Dynamically created neologisms that refer to particular not-easily-describable thoughts. Though in many cases, my brain may not create an actual word but just think "THAT thing" where "THAT" is accompanied by the concept in question, or some association/shorthand of it.
I get the feeling that large acquisitions wouldn’t help Apple given its culture and emphasis on tight integration. Also, it’s R&D budget on an absolute level is pretty large.
Indeed, poisson processes are surprisingly common in networking.
Never assume free tiers will last forever. Recognize they are often a way to entice people into the system. And that often they change as the business grows. Thus don’t build your business that depends on free tiers.