skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the most part, yes, but I was thinking about explicitly proloading all tables and indexes into RAM or even using the MEMORY engine, if it makes sense in that particular case.
My guess is that they are writing code (migrations...) Without thought given to rollback.
"many URLs are meaningless": many, but not important ones such as URLs from Reddit and GitHub.
Host inventories modelled with ansible. For user X to gain access to ansible host group Y, you just need to make a merge request with your key and host group. CI syncs ansible configs with the hosts.

There is also a cron that checks authorized_users vs git and sends email when something is out of sync.
in cheap shared hosting apache setups its still the best way to do 7t oldschool. still love it
It doesn’t support (and yes I asked the author, he refused to add support) tls connections to the database (despite that being a ~2 line change when the dB handle is opened) - because the code is a metric fuck ton of copy pasted code (ie the same exact code copy and pasted in dozens of files) patching it to support tls means we have a non trivial system in place to patch the code.

It also tries to use a MySQL database as a queue/cache which is (predictably) terrible at larger volumes when you have eg a db cluster tuned for durability rather than raw throughput.
Simon is also in Paris. He an nox both worked on the "layout 2020" project (with pcwalton).
Water is certainly cheaper and easier to handle than xenon.

But the company's site claims a "3x increase in efficiency" (WTF that is), so I guess they didn't manage to get any high isp.
Climate change? ;-)
I very much disagree. If your bad deploy included migrations that can't be reversed (drop an old table for example) then rolling back just gave you two problems.

As long as the dev wrote (and tested!) two-way migrations and they are possible, then yes you are correct.
I’m not being contrary at all. Nor do I think I’ve grossly misunderstood the word. Haven’t you ever been to a trade show - a meeting of people from one profession?

I don’t think I’ve used the word outside of its definition:

> 3. b : the business or work in which one engages regularly : OCCUPATION

> 3. c : the persons engaged in an occupation, business, or industry

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trade
Now confirmed: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/barrycolli...
Yeah thats probably true. There are a few I'd certainly consider picking up if not only so I could manage to do work myself as opposed to hiring someone else.
Not only Mozilla, that is the outcome of pretty much most FOSS projects when one doesn't have a solid income, only a selected few get to live from donations and patreon.
Computer software development has none of the characteristics of a profession, either. There's no licensure, no guild, no liability, and many people practice it without formal training.

The software industry would benefit from moving in the direction of being either a "trade" without the manual labor, or toward being a real profession, but it currently occupies a weird middle ground.
I don’t disagree with you, but I think it’s an extremely common viewpoint among the Upper Middle Class and potential Ivy Leaguers.
I think a more meaningful link is:

https://github.com/servo/servo/discussions/27575

It's a very sad situation, I hope Samsung or another organisation steps in to hire the team.
This is at best ingenious. For the most part (emphasis most) conflict hasn't been started by Israel. Genocide is literally not something of which it can be accused. Arab citizens of Israel have democratically elected representation in government, social services, and public schools. Arabic is one of the two official languages, and citizens are entitled to 100% of their services in Arabic.

Could it be better, absolutely. Many of us are working to change that. But today one can go to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Netanya, and pretty much all the cities and see Arabs and Jews. We converse, we live together, we call each other cousins. But let's never pretend it's not equal - that's what we're striving towards, together.

Now, it can be accused of not being a peace partner. It can be accused of creating negative conditions. It can be accused of murders. But ethnic cleansing is at best untrue, and baiting at worst.
If you can't keep your keys around in a safe way you shouldn't be in this business to begin with.
The value offered by colleges is not just an education. It is 4 years of living away from home experiencing whatever floats your boat ( frats, independence, parties, sports, friends, etc... ). There is virtually no demand for online only classes above a 5k/year price point.

There is a similar situation with private schools. Some of the demand comes from the fact that it is also a babysitting service, forced social group, networking opportunity for parents.
Some private universities go as far as mandating undergraduates live in campus housing for up to three years.
Chrome uses Bink.
That's interesting, here's [1] an overview of Web Vitals. Do you have a source for Google's timeline to enable this for Top Stories?

[1] https://web.dev/vitals/
Actually they even blocked it. Microsoft had a YouTube app in the store but Google blocked it [0]

[0]: https://www.cnet.com/news/microsoft-neuters-youtube-windows-...
You say this as if those engineers (and it's not 100,000) are all voting in a democratic decision-making process on feature direction. It's a very small number of senior leaders who make these calls.

Remember, Sundar used to be in charge of the Google Toolbar. That was his claim to fame inside of Google before Chrome.
Google doesn't like you using the term "google <something>" because that opens the door towards a genericized trademark (like xerox or cellophane), but plenty of advertisers buy keywords or a phrase on Google and then use terms like "search for <keyword or phrase> to find out more" in their radio/TV/outdoor ads.
I feel you. I find all race based things rather offensive - on all sides, and in all the countries I've lived in.
Check the bees, plug mushroom logs, and lots of yard work including: mowing, burning, cutting out stumps, bucking logs, amending soil, and pulling weeds.
How do google engineers stand for this shit?
This is why I use and support Firefox. It's so sad to see Mozilla doing so badly right now when Google gets away with Evil.
Quickly-running plugins. I haven't used them, but it seems like a important aspect of the editor. Here's the plugin preferences window: https://i.imgur.com/HAtJ5ej.png
You're delusional if you think you can maintain a competitive browser runtime with 50 employees.
Chrome took off because Google leveraged their position in another area (search engine) in order to push it. Exactly what people were concerned about with Microsoft and Windows/IE.
Wow, what a shitty attitude.

Standards bodies are powerless if there's only one implementation.
For example the db connection logic is about a dozen or so lines. Those same lines are copy pasted into dozens and dozens of files. The same goes for other logic.

Want to fix a piece of logic (ie add tls support to the db connection)? Well you have a couple of dozen files to make the same change in.

And no i can’t link to it because it’s proprietary, and the really ridiculously bad code is even “obfuscated”, in a manner.
I found that these two articles provide some good context about YAM and yield farming. It seems like there is some messy, but really interesting experimentation happening in DeFi right now.

https://www.coindesk.com/defi-degens-gaming-ethereum-money-l...

https://www.coindesk.com/defi-yield-farming-comp-token-expla...
Yes of course there will be, any diseases could cause long term health conditions in some of population. Flu too can cause long term damage too. But does it justify lockdown ? closing down school ? No. Especially when its still unclear and lacking in stats.

>why should we even have bothered eradicating polio?

Because it doesn't require locking down significant part of the population...
There has been no customer agency as Steam had a monopoly what are you not getting?

A multi billion dollar publisher can't avoid being on Steam after years of struggling in what universe do you think that means devs have agency to not be on Steam.

> You celebrate this as "playing hardball" at the cost of consumers, but probably would outraged if steam were return fire.

You realize the return fire from the people with their finger around the throat of an industry isn't the same right?

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It's kind of annoying replying with the same thing to both your comments.

You clearly know nothing about this industry past playing video games.

As someone who worked in it and worked on launched titles, please hush up until you actually do some research and learn about what role publishers and store fronts and value adds all play here.

This isn't Reddit, there's a slightly higher expectation of knowing what you're talking about.
> given that the old engine is not much to compare with Blink or even Webkit

Do you have a citation supporting that? The old engine compares quite favorably with Chrome and Mobile Safari.

https://caniuse.com/#compare=firefox+79,chrome+84,safari+13....

https://kangax.github.io/compat-table/es2016plus/
Instagram is my last Facebook product; I'm very close to removing it. I left Facebook because I don't care to read anyone's political rants. Insta was dog/nature/travel photos from people I know or have met. Lately I've been unfollowing people reposting social justice slideshows or anti-covid rants...which has kept me around longer. Now in the last week insta takes you to ads and "recommended" posts instead of older posts and no option to disable.

It's probably healthy for me to axe this last social network.
Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but having gone to a similar university I suspect that the underwater basketweaving degree from Harvard will come with lucrative enough connections to make up for the lack of actual skills.

Remember, success is way more than half luck. Going to Harvard makes your luck much better.

That Harvard Rolodex will get you a job even if your degree barely certifies that you have a pulse.
Several millions US dollars, at least. Interplanetary missions are expensive, even the small ones.
And probably rebooting the whole server wasn't necessary, just restarting the MTA would probably do it. When I was younger and had plenty of time, I'd spend hours or even days diagnosing the root case. These days, I'd just add one line to crontab and moved on.
AMP has done nothing for speeding up the web in general; in fact I know web properties that implemented AMP instead of focusing on core speed issues with their main site.

It's also notable that AMP projects almost always originate in an SEO strategy, not engineering.

Google was on the right track by including side speed as a signal in ranking. From Google's perspective, that became problematic because it started disproportionately punishing sites that run lots of ads... AKA some of Google's most important customers. AMP is a site speed initiative that is more compatible with Google's corporate strategy.
True. I don't think we disagree much.

This is part of the reason why I think the level of investment needs to remain high. College performs a complex task. It can't just be replaced by coursera.

I do think that in-person lectures, course design and such need a total overhaul. Modern technology does change the equation. In-person lectures no longer make sense, for example. That doesn't mean in-person college doesn't make sense.
Category theory has found application in quantum theory: http://zxcalculus.com/
> I have seen teachers who think using a different editor to write a program might affect output.

Isn't this fairly common for Notepad for windows though? Weirdness and unexpected output due to ansi encoding rather than utf-8 IIRC - it may be fixed now, but i vaguely remember something about this
Wow... Hard-core racism, here on HN? And connecting 'accomplishments of races' with modern day policing practices...

Are you even aware of the influence of black people on ancient history? Of the black Roman emperors? Of the black Egyptian Empire, one that was looked at in awe for 5 thousand years?

Are you aware of the inspiration the founding fathers took from the Hodenoshone (Iroquois)?

And in general, are you even slightly aware of how much circumstance and happenstance impact big historical moments?

Either way, you are a perfect example of the kinds of people who invented IQ, and exactly the reasons why it was invented - scientistic veneer to justify racist beliefs, not much better than phrenology before it.

And I sincerely hope you'll get to experience how the kind of policing you praise feels on you own skin. It will hurt, but perhaps it will help you grow as a human being.

Edit: the above comment was heavily edited after my response, removing everything except a link to 1 study.
The choices of individual users are already affecting the fate of these companies. Most people just prefer life with these companies and their products rather than life without.
Everything you just said applies equally well to conventional current.

What kind of situation is there in which thinking about cold propagating instead of heat will give the wrong physical intuition?
When my factory has grown so big and unwieldy that I start to feel a massive refactoring is in order but that it's going to be too much work, I just start a new game and use the lessons I learned from the previous game to design a better factory next time.
it would be interesting to see the ambition and execution discipline of a young person who made in to, and through, Stanford applied to a traditional trade. If i may use a dirty word, "disruptive" comes to mind.
China’s Chang'e 4 has been conducting radio astronomy from the Moon’s farside
Wouldn't we be showered by particles/gamma rays though? I mean... its not only visible light reaching us... but I'm not an astrophysicist
Must Catholics Insist Upon Mary's Assumption?
Is college actually good at that sort of thing, or is it just better than staying at home? If I spent half my college tuition on networking, social clubs, conferences, hobby groups, etc, I bet I could do a lot better than I did at my college campus.
Deliberately getting Fortnite kicked off is political. Either Epic will win and this will all be moot or they'll lose and, because they don't hate giant piles of money, go back to providing an app-store-compliant game. Barring a major shift in the landscape (granted, always possible) major vendors who ignore iOS are just saying "nah, I'd rather have less money". I expect vendors overwhelmingly to continue not doing that if Epic loses, and to continue providing software that abides by Apple's terms even if they'd rather not. Since, overall, I like Apple's terms they impose on developers more than I dislike them—do I want that everywhere? No. Do I want that on iOS? Yes, their stewardship of the iOS app ecosystem is surely among the top-3 reasons I prefer it to Android—that is the outcome I would prefer.

There's a chance Epic loses but Fortnite is so big, and no clone takes its place on iOS and ends up pwning it out of existence (a risk Epic is taking), that they decide to deny themselves piles of cash to keep sticking it to Apple, and that Fortnite's absence ends up eroding Apple's marketshare and so the App Store model becomes untenable that way. Or that that happens the next time a company does this. Of course that might happen. One app doing it does not yet have me worried I won't still have an excellent selection of software, all with spying and other anti-user capabilities significantly dampened versus other platforms, in two years.
Money, and space, and natural resources for the CCS membrane / infrastructure, etc. No guarantee that none of those will run out if we try to do this at the required scale.
This seems like a reasonable enough perspective, especially for something like a photo. An average person still doesn't have a lot of power though in a world where the de facto standard is that goods and services are provided at a cost of all your data and usually some cash on top.

Opting out of the camera mesh being built in SF is impossible without moving. ISPs monetize our browsing habits, and a typical individual has no recourse -- common suggestions like a VPN just kick the can of trust down the road, and logless VPNs are usually proven to actually track you. Even if you didn't use any Google services, the adwords network is on the bulk of websites, and even with an ad blocker is a typical user expected to know that being logged in to Facebook means opting in to being similarly spied on nearly anywhere you visit on the web?

IMO it's reasonable to expect uploaded photos to live forever somewhere (even if GDPR obligates companies to do otherwise), but even learning how to opt out of the rest of what's collected where it's even possible would be a daunting task when undertaken from scratch that inevitably missed some key component and still resulted in being spied on and tracked. With that in mind, and given the scale of the problem, regulation preventing the most egregious of data-related offenses seems prudent.
Whenever someone publishes an article like this, I want them to find out what its like when you reach the threshold of 100000 individual delete requests per second which ends up being five million actual deletes when you factor in all of the associated references to the item being deleted and its metadata. Then I want them to find out what happens when you have to propagate those deletes across geographically distributed data centers, clear a geographically distribute cache and do it in a way that minimizes user facing errors and guarantees consistency. Finally you have to also ensure that deletions don't effect any business facing applications since ad revenue and metrics are all generated from certain types of data.

These people imagine you just rm -rf a file and run a few SQL queries, you literally can't just delete data. I've worked at the scale of Instagram before. Literally nothing works like that at that scale, the person who wrote that article should have called up someone from Instagram and had them explain at a really high level how complicated deleting data is at large scale.
I'm confused about this feature in general actually. Isn't the whole point of PHP's "simplicity" that each request creates a new interpreter process? So you're always in a "cold" state?
Remember folks, Apple has been doing this in Safari since 2014. And there's been zero uproar over it at all. I don't understand why people suddenly hate this just because it's Google.

For most users, total focus on the domain name is a security feature. For 99% of users, what comes after the domain name might as well be gibberish. I mean, it is a majority of the time.
Developers want screenshots. The only people who don't need a screenshot are the project contributors.

It's kinda funny how we will spend years collaborating on some project yet not think to spend 30 seconds checking a screenshot into the readme for a project that we supposedly want others to find and use. It's like self-sabotage.
If you take your definition then all jobs are trades, in which case why do you think we have the word trade if it doesn’t add any new meaning, and what do you think a ‘profession‘ is?

Have you never heard people make a distinction between tradespeople and professionals?

What do you think the words in this article mean? Are they completely new concepts to you?

https://www.gov.uk/hmrc-internal-manuals/business-income-man...

> A ‘profession’ historically meant the three learned professions of the Church, Medicine and the Law but today the term goes much wider and normally involves some substantial exercise of intellectual skill.
Excellent point. But the information I want before going to a URL is different from the information I want while there. But if we could reliably separate the two, I don't think I would object to this kind of a UI change in principle.
>I know people who went to college, but lived at home with their parents "to save money". In reality, they didn't need to save the minimal room and board fees of a state school; they were mostly just cowards.

1. Anecdotal evidence that you know a few people that didn't grow up for whatever reason does not mean everyone is like that.

2. In most asian culture, people live with their parents for the entirety of life. Somehow according to you more than half the world's population is cowards. I digress because we're talking about american colleges and living in America but it still baffles me that someone educated like you would think there is nothing wrong with a stupid argument using selection bias.
The purpose of it does not seem to be to stop anyone from ever doing this ever, but rather to discourage patch submitters from wasting upstream maintainer time with patches that can't be reviewed because they use one of these shim layers.
Instead of browsing via URL, companies could buy "AOL keywords". A user could just put in a keyword, like "dog food", and AOL would send them to a particular dog food page. In the days before good search engines, this was very convenient even though it was obviously pay-to-play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1npzZu83AfU
I have no idea how that would work.

Two ideas:

* Let us pay for Firefox development. I'm not sure how much that would bring in.

* Partnerships with news sites. You pay Mozilla, they keep 30% and use the rest to pay the news sites to not paywall Firefox.

Currently Firefox is basically funded by Google, how does that not clash with their principles? It's okay for take money from a company that directly profit from collection user data, just don't collect the data yourself?
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Racial Categories Are Reactionary
Google renewed their deal [1] and Mozilla is still going to get 400-450mil per year until 2023 at least. Yet they gutted firefox servo, devtools and MDN teams.

Using Firefox from now on is just feeding the troll called Mozilla management. We need to seek another open source privacy oriented browser or have a serious foundation like Apache fork Firefox.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/14/mozilla_google_search...
TBH I think this is a feature, not a bug. Over-credentializing coding will limit creativity. If you want a better existing paradigm, consider design (as in the broad field of design, which includes graphic, fashion, industrial, etc.)
I always hear "much greater percentage" type language when referring to long-term effects of COVID-19. Is there an actual number associated with this? Or is it more so guesswork
I would say that any parent who outright rejects this logic is a moron too, probably moreso.

The idea that "social desirability" does not reflect actually valuable stuff is foolish. Class exists in some form in every society. People are always hyper-aware of class issues, and it has always been a primary part of the college/career decision process.
Note that a for-profit owned by a non-for-profit is really a not-for-profit. Because the only things that the for-profit company can do with it's profit are reinvest it, or give it to the non-for-profit.
I'm a dedicated Debian user, and any time I have a question about something, I hope to find the answer on the ArchWiki.

They've got their shit together in terms of documentation.
Sure, anyone can do that and it is entirely fair to use the software that way privately. The barrier is that they can’t distribute the resulting modules because no one else will have a kernel that has been modified this way.
> since the vast majority of jobs don’t really need a college degree.

This is the unfortunate part to me. I see a large amount of "not minimum wage, but not that great either" jobs require bachelors that the average person could probably do with a HS education, or jobs wanting advanced professional degrees that are paying pennies and probably don't require much more skills than from a bachelors or even associates programs.

And then there's a number of fields where highly skilled (and proven) individuals can't get the better job because they don't have the right degree.