skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the one thing that strikes me as different, having lived in manhattan / queens / brooklyn for 25 years, is that by a highway there is high speed traffic, which is extremely loud and sudden, and a lot of it is heavy commercial traffic, heavier than what is feasible within an urban environment. the next time you're at a rest stop off of I95 just stand outside and listen to the noise of huge trucks blowing by at 80mph. I think those sudden blasts of sound and vibration are well above and beyond the stress when you're in a dense urban environment. City traffic, especially if you're on a side street as is more common for residential, you're looking at 10-20mph traffic for the most part and without 18-wheelers going by most of the time.

There is also the issue of subway noise, which is more like a constant stream of periodic vibrations. that is probably not good for one's nerves either but it is fairly subtle.

The most stressful thing about urban living for me was the constant light, ugly sodium colored light at all times, flashing lights, emergency lights, etc. I now live in a rural area and I will bundle up and sit outside on my deck at 1 am in 20 degree weather just to enjoy the darkness. There was never total or near total darkness in the city at any time, not even indoors unless you have blackout shades which we did not.

the worst of all worlds are those folks living in those apartments that overlook the BQE and stuff like that. They look like expensive places and I think whoever is choosing to live there is completely crazy, they get the most particulate matter (except that their windows are probably sealed shut, which is bad in itself), the most noise, the most light, etc.
I stopped going to all-you-can-eat buffets years ago for the simple reason that you don't stop eating when you're full - you stop eating when you hate yourself.

If the number of all-you-can-eat buffets drops, it's likely because society is starting to advocate healthier lifestyles in my opinion.
Sure, I don't disagree. I've ditched sqlite for Postgres many times.

It's just that for 99% of the projects I ever worked on, writes are like 100x less than reads so wrapping the writes in a queue of sorts has been quite okay and performant.

It can and it has been coming to a point when it's easier to use a full-blown database server, too.

I was simply pointing out that for a lot of classic workflows wrapping/centralising writes works quite fine.
>A German triathlete was asked to prematurely leave an $18.95 buffet after consuming 100 plates of sushi.

Gotta love this guy's confidence in the ability of the budget restaurant to procure and handle properly high quality fresh seafood
That looks like a powerful tool! I've been on the lookout for something interactive like that for awhile, only saw desktop-based simulators. Nice find, curious where you came across it.
Recorded livestream: https://microconf.com/saas-this-year
Could you point me to any of the newer cement chemistries?
Bratton: Face recognition is not the enemy
Why 1080 on the 24”?

I get not moving your head, but lower resolution seems odd. I found going from Retina to 1080p was a bit jarring / pixelated.
Didn't prevent it is closer to my recollection. My first job was on a system that used this idea pretty heavily - what a nightmare! We only got that code stabilized once we removed any sharing (and later removed Access completely).
Typo: "more even way"
The Main Thing
As far as I know LD_PRELOAD does not allows overriding syscalls, for example mmap. I believe also open call can not be overriden to (because it is a syscall too), so I wonder how ld-preload-open works?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/31439038
I find that a 39-40" 4K screen is optimal and has about the right size pixels such that you don't need to scale the UI. I use it in portrait mode which I think is the most effective use of screen real estate for code editing.

With this setup you have less useful parts of the screen, like the very top, but you also have windows that you don't need to look at so much. I run a text editor with two windows side by side and three windows high. The smallest windows are at the top and basically double in size as you go down. The bottom ones are used to edit and the top ones are mostly used for reference.

I find this arrangement incredibly productive. I have actually migrated from 3x 4K screens, which was overkill.
Artist made only $2,700 in royalties from 43M plays on Pandora (2014)
Relotius produced exactly the right facts; they just weren't true.
I can't figure out where that article gets its numbers from or which banks it's referring to.

The industry standard measure for bank profitability is something called ROA, return on assets, and it's an extensively studied academic topic, with the general consensus that an ROA greater than 1% is pretty good.

https://greyhouse.weissratings.com/ROA-ROE-and-What-These-Ke...

https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/resources/cbi/report/cbi-ro...

I'm sure there are some large institutional players that do consistently better than 1%, maybe up around 5 or 7.

But a longstanding industry with a sustained 24% returns would... sustained compounding 24% a year seems like it would lead to weird results. Like if a bank had survived fifty years and had a few hundred million in assets it would now be responsible for the entirety of US GDP.

EDIT: I looked at BOA as a random test case - 2.1T in assets, 22B in income, seems to match the ~1% rule:
https://ycharts.com/financials/BAC/income_statement/quarterl...
WAL mode means readers do not block writers and a writer does not block readers. If it locked the entire database you likely weren’t using WAL.
Depends. There are enough cheap cuts for slow cooking - and you could always drawn your meats in sugary sauces anyway.
I've seen some of my "cost plus fee" government contracts I've worked on in the past; the fee (profit) was only around ~3.5%.

Not saying this is a typical fee on government contracts, but the company I was working for (big dollar government contractor) was happy with that.
I'm not sure about that, with things like Kindle and Kindle unlimited, book junkies have a Netflix equivalent.

I read a lot but switched to ebooks almost entirely 2 years ago
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The trick is cheap food and tons of glutamate.
You suggested a tax-funded news outlet that could focus on publishing well-sourced stories instead of keeping up with the hourly news cycle.

What you are asking for already exists [1]. In fact, the article we're commenting on is about the guy who co-hosted it [2]. Up until a few years ago, the program was even called the "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" [3].

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Lehrer

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PBS_NewsHour#The_MacNeil/Lehre...
The hermit in me wants to scoff and say "I'd love to be so isolated for weeks at a time", but (aside from the fact that its the "isolated together" problem) the sheer inhospitable nature of that environment as well as the somewhat involuntary nature of the isolation (you may sign up to go, but you can't choose when to leave) is sufficiently daunting for me that I'll stick to more Walden-esque hermitages.
>Unless you have had a previous successful startup you will not get funding if you are some random executive with an MBA who doesn't know the technical details of the product.

I don't disagree with that, the discussion is about devs avoiding VC funding and why, not about what VCs want and a perfect world.

My impression is that preferences of marketers are a better fit for VCs than the preferences of devs, and it's obvious that they're looking for a mix of both, but this seems to become hard with devs putting their mental health first. They can still make a good living by staying small, and at some point your happiness just doesn't scale with more money.

>And the reason a lot of entrepreneurs go the VC route is because you get money e.g. $2-5 million which allows you to set up a proper team and build a proper product without worrying about paying the bills.

The thing is that a proper team can require different processes than those of a single developer/entrepreneur, and that's exactly what I meant. And while you don't have to worry about bills, you still have to worry about your reputation in your niche. If you've just discovered a market and create an app around that, good, but that's not what most devs do, they create something around their area of expertise.

If your product isn't special, like most ones out there your reputation in your niche is what counts, especially true if you make the typical SaaS app and create tools for other developers.
And weight, presumably heavy vehicles wear through more rubber, and batteries are heavy.
It's not that confusing, just a bit needy†

1. How many memes are there? Still, this is the most unlikely brag which is probably why it's first.

2. I've had great ideas that turned into things too (causality not confirmed). Friend could have been in advertising.

3. This is… unlikely as stated but there may have been an audience participation part that could be generously reworded this way (and some people say "crashed" to mean "went spontaneously" rather than "snuck in").

4. Easy to imagine a bored bartender on a dead night exchanging a shot for a moment of levity. #Anchorman

5. Could be an embellishment of "I added a song or skipped forward a track and there was someone famous in earshot."

6. I think the brag here is "I take desirable things from rich/famous people because I'm at their level" but it's much more likely just a maître d's mistake and the vodka guy was escalating to get his way. Also we don't know the result—who got the table?

7. Wouldn't surprise me if there are "experience archaeology" tours that contrive this kind of thing. #StartupIdea

†Which, to be fair, aren't we all?
For a start, you have to specify it. If I have some weird font installed, you don't get to know it for free.

Anyway, if the site had to ask for the fonts, it would be viable for the browsers to impose some sane limitations on their API.
The "better" all-you-can-eats are priced accordingly. The Bellagio in Las Vegas had a seafood thing that cost north of $40, if I remember correctly. The crab legs get constantly refilled, they also had giant prawns. This was years ago so it may not exist any longer. Founding Farmers in DC has a brunch thing, also expensive, but the lox tray is never empty. The surprise in the bill is the cost of drinks, espressos and mimosas add up quickly. I wonder if there's a different economic model for the more upscale all-you-can-eats. The food choices is more appealing all around.
Fossil fuels are the same. It burns. It's obvious it burns. The internal combustion engine was inevitable.
That makes me happy. I live in a small town (Sedona Arizona) but we have a fantastic library, probably because we have several billionaires living in the area so there is money for libraries, medical facilities, etc. that is unusual for a small town.

I wonder how peoples’ perception on the state of the economy affects the library vs. going to the movies decision. For many people in my social circle they are doing better than ever financially and for some, worry about high inflation (currently well over 6%, ignoring the big lie also known as CPI) and reduced social security and Medicare benefits in the future.

Libraries are wonderful places to hang out and they are usually free.
I don’t think there’s a rule that says good must always be art. A Philly cheesesteak sandwich isn’t art, at least the ones I’ve seen.
"Microsoft Azure Cosmo DB and Amazon S3 are examples of a neo-serverless databases."

Can we back away a bit from the bandwagoning of misused terminology? Serverless literally means "running your apps on somebody else's server". S3 is not a server you run your apps on, it is SaaS that you manipulate through an API - you don't put your apps on it. If S3 is serverless, then literally every network service of any kind is serverless.
Real movie junkies probably also go to library to borrow bluerays.
Plutonium is not spread worldwide. The stuff that spreads has shorter half-life.
> Inflection points aren't timing, you recognize them after the fact

“Timing the market” means incorporating timing and/or peak-to-trough measures in investment decisions. When you’re not asking “which assets should I buy” and instead “when should I buy them,” you’re trying to time the market.

Research is pretty consistent in showing almost all timing strategies are inferior to consistent investment, e.g. investing $X per month, regardless of your views on where the market is relative to what you believe to be an inflection point.
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My local library is wonderful. My kid has activities, learns reading, draws, etc. and it offers computer skills to those who wouldn't otherwise learn them. Very good use of local tax dollars.
It's also the third generation of their simulator - they've been collecting data and creating tools like this for a bunch of years now: https://www.climateinteractive.org/tools/

I just randomly found it in some article about a month ago.
They might not have enough money to just put it in index funds and live off the dividends. So they have to work, and the business pays their wages
I second this. I switched from a MBP to Linux + Xmonad and it now brings me deep pain to use or see other people use macOS.
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Sure but in that case the risk is small and the base is large.
I would like to know Why I should contribute to Open Source when Microsoft is a massive company that has plenty of resources to fix its own bugs.

Sure if you are at Uni, Just starting out or something that not likely to be commercial (console emulator, hobbyist projects etc) it might be a good way to get some experience and something to put on the CV. Otherwise you are just giving your hard work away for free to companies that have plenty of money to to put plenty of developers to work on it.
The article explains that one. If we were gone today, we would probably not leave any fossil.
Question to all the non-swedes: why do you find this interesting? Is it the play on words? War propaganda in general being interesting?
As they should be. California has perhaps gone as far as it can go, and one wonders when the rubber band is going to snap back so that the place becomes friendlier to workers and business.
So to

> It absolutely is. You don't have any evidence for this, just speculation. Is it plausible? Sure. Is it "most probably" (as the commenter above suggested, linking to a source)? No, there's no evidence cited that the disease was spread by eating bats in the article.

You replied

> It's been reported that there are tv shows in China where bats are eaten [1] Not a great source but it links to official China Gov sources.

But later stated

> However, I would think it fairly uncontroversial, and readily provable, that bat meat is indeed eaten in China [1]- which is the claim that I was making earlier.

Effectively, what you've said then was entirely a non-sequitur to what I was discussing, which was the specific claim about whether or not there is enough evidence (presented here, anyway) to claim that bat consumption is the "most probable" cause of the disease, or even if consumption at all will be linked to the disease (rather than proximity/hygiene).

In fact, you later stated that you agree with my point.

> Personally, I wouldn't claim at this point in time that the virus originated from bats or other animals - although it is certainly possible.
absolutely agree with the risk of slow clients saturating your connection limit

when doing DB work with these, I'm a little shakier -- once I start a multistep DB write, I probably want it to finish. Yes I can use a transaction to roll back the whole thing, but I think there are cases where rollback is wrong and I'd rather keep the write.

so while cancellation is cool, it's also a little fraught and hard to test.
“Distributed-first” is the new “mobile-first” in the search for unicorns
The size of the US restaurant industry revenue in 2019 is "projected to total $863 billion in 2019 and equal 4 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product." [1]. Compared to $467 billion for the global software industry [2], or $19.1 for the global music industry [3].

I think there is some money to be made selling food.

[1] https://restaurant.org/Downloads/PDFs/Research/SOI/restauran...
[2] https://www.statista.com/forecasts/963597/software-revenue-i...
[3] https://www.ifpi.org/news/IFPI-GLOBAL-MUSIC-REPORT-2019
Some businesses are inherently more controllable: for example, you cant expect 5% accuracy on NASA building a telescope that has never been done before but you can expect +% accuracy on the price of commodity product
A running program has no security boundary against the user the program is running as. This is not an “exploit”, this is as designed. A program is started by the user and running on behalf on the user – it should be 100% under the user’s control.

If the program has additional privileges which should be withheld from the user, like original Unix setuid or setgid, or modern style Linux capabilities(7), then LD_PRELOAD is ignored by ld.so(8), and there is no problem.

But if you are talking about a normal user’s environment being “compromised”, or the users’ wishes being a problem, then you have no business writing software for users, or, rather, users would be better off not running software written by you, since your software is obviously not written with their best interest in mind.
Thanks, and good point. It might not be very hard to reduce brake dust dramatically, just put a vacuum cleaner in your frunk right?
Just assume the higher ups value whatever this guy has, so either become like him or go work somewhere else
I wish it was that affordable then.

Signed: A Canadian
If you have a very small percent of your population pay an ever increasing share of the tax burden, it’s quite easy for them to avoid it (move to Florida). This problem has hit NY and Connecticut especially hard. Here is a story from 2016 of how a single resident moving from New Jersey put the entire state’s budget at risk https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer...

The truth is that if you want to dramatically increase taxes collected, you need a broad-based tax that hits the middle class. But the middle class hates taxes as much as everyone else! And therein lies the problem for politicians. They can continue to bash the rich, but when push comes to shove soaking them won’t solve the problem. Seizing all of Bill Gates money will only fund the federal deficit (over $1 trillion this year alone) for a few months. And then what to do?

One enormous, immoral handout to the middle class is the mortgage interest tax deduction and the fixed-rate 30 year mortgage which are simply subsidized handouts to people well-off enough to purchase property. People have come to think this is a right, when in reality all taxpayers are handing over money to those rich enough to purchase property. Only the USA has the fixed-rate mortgage because it’s bad business for banks. Eliminating this would be a much more economically logical way to increase the tax take than soaking the rich, but I guarantee there is 0% chance of this happening because, again, no one likes paying taxes!
Recently I've been doing a teeny tiny bit of CFD again. You might be amazed at how little CFD goes in to wings. It's still a huge amount, but tunnel testing still wins. I was kind of surprised.

As best I can tell, CFD is still kind of like impedance-based home body fat scales. They're kind of directionally accurate but have a pretty high error.

I thought CFD would be a solved thing by now, but then I remembered how good (e.g. bad) weather prediction still is.
Did the Swedish actually fight in world war II? Didn't they just roll over and let the Germanys roll through to Norway?

And if that's true, what was there to keep secret?
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Let me guess... IT guy?
In case of paywall:

* https://archive.is/Mra7Q
Does this mean that you can hack some database storage (w/ sqlite) together on frontend only hosting platforms like Github or Netlify?

I think not, but I wonder if some hack is available by virtue of it simply being a file that you can read (and somehow) write to.

The best I came up with: let's say you have a toy project, and you call the Github API and replace the file upon every write. Implementing a read is easier as you know where the file is located. This hack shows that you somehow need write access to get any form of performance out of it, because this hack is super slow.
As you quoted, people in this discussion are saying that writing a dummy program that has its own sqlite and does nothing but pass messages to it that it receives from all other processes on the system that need to talk to that sqlite file results in much better performance than accessing that file "directly" from the separate processes.

so if everyone's saying this, is there such a standard dummy program?
Everything you borrow is attached to your card. Everything is self reported.
We have some very good explanations for the distribution of fossil fuels, with a lot of predictive power. They would all be trash of some thinking being decided to take some of it our.
I should’ve known that it’s turtles all the way down. Considering how many years I’ve sunk into programming for other platforms, this shouldn’t have come as a surprise, but I got suckered into believing that mobile computing platforms represented a significant enough paradigm shift to allow for starting with a cleaner slate.

Not true! Having gotten into iOS development over the past couple of years, I’ve come to realize that seemingly no attempt has been made to actually clear the cobwebs on this shiny, relatively new platform.

For example, SwiftUI is just an abstraction layer for UIKit, which itself is (keep me honest, HN) an abstraction for some mishmash of Cocoa, Display PostScript and Metal. Bits of NeXTSTEP are everywhere still, even when using Apple’s latest and greatest programming paradigms.

Don’t get me wrong, iOS is great, and I love it to death. However, the baggage signals to me that a massive opportunity to start anew has been missed.
Well, they were suspicious as far as those people were not carrying gold. If they were carrying gold, the Swiss were happy to profit from it no matter what their origin or the origin of the gold.
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> Like the Dutch East India company?

No, not like that. The East India Company had independent military power. ICANN does not.
India is now a larger smartphone market than the US
> None of these are easy to implement with synchronous multithreaded networking code though, like in Go. Realistically it's only viable with asynchronous single threaded programming models or an actor model.

It's hard to see why synchronous multi-threaded code would find these things any more difficult than async or actor models.

All three models are equally able to access shared data structures to keep track of resource usage statistics, per-connection statistics, and timers.

OS kernels do this routinely, and are essentially multi-threaded on SMP architectures or with kernel pre-emption.
Reconstituted fish product (Surimi). You probably ate a ton of it.

BTW, its really bad for the environment because it encourages overfishing.
You are probably joking, but in case you are not the play on words only works in this particular configuration (present tense, "a Swedish tiger" vs "a Swede [keeps] quiet".
It lets you use the natural structure of the DOM to define the structure of your data models. And it lets you easily point to which elements have data. These two things combined mean you now can treat your front-end HTML like a database.
Because a 5% margin doesn't translate to a 5% annual return on investment.

Also at many small restaurants the owner and the owner's family is also working full time, and that 5% margin doesn't include their salaries.