skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a person who has and currently does work professionally in clojure (at multiple all-clojure shops): The smart engineer effect is extremely overblown.

You will hire smarter-than-average engineers, but with a caveat that no one talks about: they are all self-selected for being people who enjoy tinkering on computer science problems to a fault, and not necessarily your business. So the breakdown is that you get 10 super-smart people, but 9 of them are focused on myopic bits of code plumbing or reinventing APIs or something, and in practice you only have 1 smart person focused on your business.

As the other 9 continue to reinvent wheels, the nature of clojure being small relative to other open-source communities means that eventually your shiny new clojure tools get replaced by better community offerings, except you don't have the bandwidth to switch over and start using them.

Overall, velocity would be improved if you had hired 1 super smart engineer and 9 mediocre ones.

It's important to note here that while technically clojure can interoperate with java or javascript, in practice everyone expects you to use poorly-maintained clojure-ish libraries to paper over the java/javascript bits, which get out of date quickly. This effect is 10 times worse for clojurescript in the browser, although it's pretty bad for clojure targeting the JVM as well.
No I meant like if the actual text was still there in the HTML.
Don't make the mistake of dismissing game design. Spend way more time than you think is proper on non-digital paper prototypes and greybox digital prototypes. Get your half-baked games in front of people and watch where and how they struggle, get bored, have fun, lose interest, etc.

All the best engineering, art, audio, marketing, and polish in the world won't make a game more fun. Stickiness comes from game design and game design comes from iteration.
Feedback welcome: https://github.community/c/github-help/dark-mode-beta/65
> I see no evidence that this harms consumers at all. Quite the opposite.

Then you are blindfolded. Many companies refuse to build for ios or charge more because of it. This isn't theory, it's fact supported by those companies and even the smallest amount of applied reason.

> I like the walled garden and have no interest in it going away. I like that my mom can install apps and not worry about them spying on her.

Apple is spying on you. Perhaps you missed the bit where they phone home with every app that you open, thereby fingerprinting and tracking you.

> I like that developers aren’t allowed to use their own payment processors. I don’t want to input my credit card into your black box payment system that might or might not charge me correctly.

This is a nice feature, but consumer choice exists. don't like it, don't use apps that require a different payment processor.

> I see that it does harm developers, but that’s a different conversation entirely.

It's really not. If the people making the apps lose, that's a problem.

> If you want to install whatever apps you want, buy an android phone! And have fun while their bloat ware and preinstalled crap spams you with notifications and scams you.

No thanks, I like my apple integrations but I also want to install what I want.
This isn't what you assume. Inexpensive commodity goods like soap are frequently stolen because they are much easier to fence than expensive goods, since everyone needs them including poor people. Poor people can't afford to buy expensive stolen goods, and non-poor people don't buy fenced goods generally. Non-perishable household commodities are among the most liquid stolen goods to sell, so that is what people steal.

I've seen (obviously stolen) soap being peddled by apparently homeless addicts on multiple occasions. In some locales, they've been locking up the soap for a long time.
Why is this attacking YouTube alone instead of the copyright system itself?
> If a almond takes the same amount of water per calorie as a strawberry, does it matter that it has a husk?

No. But it sounded like you were surprised that almonds were so consumptive it the first place. I don't know off the top of my head that they are consumptive relative to any given metric, but it shouldn't be surprising that they are, considering how almonds "work" and how much they are produced in CA.

Especially since you compared against wine. Wine can be extremely drought tolerant; there are wine fields in california that are only watered for the first season of growth and the remaining productive years are sustained by waters from the local aquifers (rainfall).
But the dung they describe is simply an additional coating of the nest.
I think they were just holding on due to the inertia of older folks that were used to shopping there.
I think I bought luggage there once, but I avoided that place like the plague. Reminded me of all the worst of retail, all in one spot.
Yeah, that's not enough money.

People think games are like startups, but with games you don't get to iterate after a failed release. People don't take a second look at games.
Its a bad analogy.

If an online liquor store was systematically ignoring ABC laws and shipping booze to underage customers across state lines, MC would probably act in a similar way.
Holy shit. I have had something like this in my head for months. I surely hope you all the best of luck.
And filtering syscalls for seccomp or literally packet filtering. I believe Jens Axboe and team were looking at using eBPF for some of the low level IO subsystems.

But I was explaining the most common and obvious (for a user) use of eBPF.

They should just look at the io visor project to see some of the stuff that can be done with it (disclaimer, I work with one of the io visor maintainers)
SF school district revamps controversial assignment process to boost diversity
I don't understand how companies that should have lots of real estate in what is now becoming prime land as the city grew around them can fail.
Most people have lost the tech amazement and are looking critically at these companies, and their effects in the real world. We have been seeing for a few years already the other side of the coin, and the story of "the entrepeneurs and their big piles of money" isolated of the rest of the world is not enough anymore.
>The news reader will be integrated directly into all versions of the browser except for Android.
Most retailers actually try to get rid of their real estate. The ones that hold onto it are constantly harassed by their shareholders to either sell to a REIT or spin one off.
Our data encodes systematic racism
In this discussion it's important to not reason from a personal preference. If everyone would do that I think you would agree that the world doesn't end well.
We need to look at it from a society perspective. And then you will find out that competition in a equal environment with fair rules is much better for a healthy market. Please reconsider your opinion.
hn_throwaway_99, I don't think it's mere griping to point out that companies like AirBnB trampled the rights of others in the communities it serves, because they literally ran an an illegal hotel business. It is roughly analogous to my setting up tents on the sidewalk in front of your house and renting them to my "customers", or charging people to come to noisy parties right outside your front door. Maybe the AirBnB are incredible business people, but they crushed neighborhoods and competing businesses in an illegal and, to me, hideously unethical manner.
This is my biggest fear with everything going towards digital payments. What's to stop the government from saying you can't buy porn, liquor, or video games? I know it sounds extreme but so many things are barely acceptable in society.
My point was that the poor are not the corrupt. They need to be helped. If the shelters are stretched we need to ensure those shelters get the funding they need to cover the demand. We need to treat these people down on their luck with dignity and help them get back on their feet.

The corrupt are those with other motivations beyond survival.
thats not the best thing you can do. the best thing you can do is put excessive time into quotas.
aws has way better quotas for starters than gcp has, sadly
106 House Republicans have just joined in a lawsuit by 18 Republican AGs to overturn the results of the election. The Trump administration of course followed eight years of ferociously racist conspiracy-mongering about Obama's illegitimate birth. The GOP is a minority party that simply rejects the legitimacy of their political opponents to hold office. Why do you persist in these ridiculous false equivalences? They're not even 10% different, they're 100% different.
I believe this is exactly what cryptocurrency was made to solve, to prevent legitimate businesses from losing a major revenue stream at the behest of a select few payment processing companies.

It doesn’t help that the major players in payment processing seem to often work in lockstep, being banned on one platform often leads to being banned on another.

While I recognise cryptocurrencies are far from a perfect solution, short of legislation, which is even less of a perfect solution, cryptocurrencies democratise payment in the digital sphere, free of institutionalised, arbitrary gate keepers.
I'm not sure I understand what you are trying to say.

>>As soon as other shops can install 3rd-party parts

But....they can. Of course they can. What's more, both EU and US law protects the ability of 3rd parties to make replacement parts, and your ability as the consumer to fit those parts. The law goes so far as forbidding manufactuers from voiding your warranty due to fitting of non-OEM parts unless they can specifically prove that the part that you fitted caused problems.

>>you wind up with cars that, for example, get better performance by violating emissions standards except when they're actively being tested.

Again, that's already a thing and has been a thing since forever. Modding is extremely popular in some circles. Just like flashing your phone with custom FW is popular in certain circles too, but that doesn't mean that once it's allowed everyone and their grandma will suddenly run some HAXXOR build of iOS.
Building the nest requires sealing it. They don't coat it with dung unless they smell wasps nearby.
"Meet your match, Zuckerberg" is one of the best headlines I've read in a long time. You're a very entertaining writer - I can see why you're having success. Great job and I look forward to trying your product!!!
Not who you are replying, but fair points, and there is obviously a really important question at hands, that is trust. No one person can hold all the information, discoveries we have accumulated over the years, so we ultimately rely on the belief that someone we respect is trustworthy.
And the thing to notice here is that even an astrophysicist can only BELIEVE that gravity exists, when asked even though they could most probably prove it if needed.

With these things aside, the both sides mentality stops being applicable at a certain point. While one side can show you thousands of evidence that a certain cure does work, the other side shows one questionable example of it not working and it is enough for their believers. So as to answer the specific case with antivaxxers: I will not engage with such an argument because they in fact have no scientific leg to stand on automatically. For to have any meaningful debate, we would have to talk about a specific vaccine that may or may not be safe. If we have such a strong statement (in a mathematical sense) that ALL instance of something is a given property, is ought to not be true in a mathematical sense - and without understanding probabilities there is no point in arguing.
Ok, we've taken the 'first' bit out of the title above.
I almost bought this just now on impulse as a gift, but I couldn't see anything on your site's product, tutorial, or resource pages about whether I can attach them to an iPhone, which is what the person I'm buying for has.

If they work as made with phones, in my opinion you should say so, and if they don't ... well, I imagine there's money to be found in that market!
"The downside of disabling active resources is huge. It would mean a catastrophic interruption to the customers application exactly when its the most popular/active."

Lol what ... this is exactly what happens any time you hit a rate limit on any AWS service. The customers application is "catastrophically interrupted" during its most popular/active period.

The only difference is in that case, it suits AWS to do that whereas in the case of respecting a billing limit, it doesn't.
s/is starting to lack/has always lacked/
Starlark is also designed specifically to not be Turing complete (it is only a subset of Python).
Yep, when I make the argument that "the problem is resource allocation, not overpopulation" I don't mean to imply that resource availability can be instantaneously ramped up locally with an influx in population, there is obviously latency there, and there will be a lag in standard of living during a sharp population increase. But this isn't a permanent state due to there being too many people.

I don't think it is impossible to bring the projected population of India up to decent living standards, I think this is highly unlikely, but my point doesn't account for that, so it could very well be.
May I say a sincere thank you for taking the time to write an articulate, reasonable, credible counterpoint to the above discussion.
Whenever they can get away with it and it's in their best interest (thanks to lobbyists). If they don't get anything out of it, they may as well take the free goodwill from voters.
Last time I talked to SVB, you had to be in the bay or had to be funded $100k.

I didn't have that, but I did have more than $100k in revenue. Did not matter. iirc, it was a rule enforced by their investors.

I will never consider SVB again and nor should you
On the one hand you're right, though at some point 'arbitrarily long' and Turing complete become pretty similar. In fact an ordinary computer isn't entirely a Turing machine either, as its memory is limited.

Also it means you need to be careful about malicious input, you need to take countermeasures when you evaluate an expression from an untrusted source.
How THP Slows Down Your Database Performance and What to Do about It
It's sad to see HN users just downvote something they don't agree with instead of responding to the arguments made berg.

berg, what other options do we have besides capitalism? We saw how millions of people died of starvation with communist/socialists societies.
Yep. Mine was running happily as well.
Lol.

So basically, AccuWeather wants to have their cake and eat it too.

What's the nature of their lobbying?

Are they basically trying to defund any kind of front-end, consumer facing services from the NWS/NOAA, while keeping the back-end data sources available for them to feed their own consumer facing services?

Hilarious if that's the specific scenario.
> Finally, let’s imagine we have something more like a typical SaaS application, for example, a CRM. We have an accounts table with 20 secondary indexes defined for all the possible sort fields

What makes you think you've imagined a good CRM schema here?

One problem with this article is that it doesn't have any code. You'd think it would, right? You're selling this thing to developers and architects. Why aren't we linking to a supplementary repo with the examples used for this application for both DynamoDB and Fauna?

One possibility is that the example DynamoDB design is a very bad one (I mean, you're actually using all 20 GSIs; what?), and that anyone familiar with DynamoDB would say "Actually, you can cover all the query patterns with 3 GSIs if you do it this way."

Why do this? One possibility is that the ways that Fauna actually is better than DynamoDB are too subtle to get anyone's attention. They're real and useful, but not ridiculous. The people who actually use DynamoDB at massive scale might understand them, but also probably won't want to change up.

So you go after people who aren't using DynamoDB at massive scale. Say, early-stage startup founders who want to be on DynamoDB from day 1 because someday their product will be Web Scale. But don't have a lot of time to carefully evaluate claims like this. They just say "10x cost reduction? Wow, Fauna is the new best DB!" Most of these guys fail, but a few of them are a runaway success (and would have been equally so if they'd used DynamoDB), are now stuck with Fauna whether they like it or not (but let's assume they like it as least as well as DynamoDB, maybe even slightly more), and are now listed as large scale users of Fauna on their website. You too could be a unicorn startup! Start using Fauna today!

Basically, I think the makers of Fauna are trying to con you with this article. It's not that their product is bad, it's that they're trying to get you to buy it for reasons other than that it's good.
Apple and Google have held the mobile app distribution market hostage for over a decade now. I hope Cydia is successful in tackling Apple's anti-competitive behavior.

We need real competition in the app distribution space. There's a generation being raised right now whose exposure to computing has been limited to what Apple and Google have deemed worthy for them to consume.
Why do we need courts anyway when we can use our own discerning sense of vigilante justice?

Individually humans are quite helpless. That's why we build systems to are able allow us to cooperate and tackle problems that are bigger than any one of us.

The justice system, government, private enterprises, the media, etc. We should make sure that all of them are doing their job and weeding out the bad actors accordingly. We then give input to these systems to ensure that operate within their remit.
Simplify, batch, and cache: how Shopify optimized storefront response times
"...acheiving policy goals through the political system"

Some of the roadblocks we face now are the result of our two party system.

But getting back to the actual question... what is the differentiating topics between a trump supporting conservative and a non-trump supporting conservative?

The point I was trying to make with the question is that you could potentially find a trump supporting conservative and non-trump supporting conservative that share the same opinion on a specific issue. These theoretical classifications (in some cases built on stereotypes) really aren't helping anything. For example, you could have a trump supporter in any of the categories you mentioned.
To Prevent the Next Covid-19, We Must Prioritize Biodiversity
From point 1, this is my favorite wat example in ansible...

- file:
path: /etc/foo.conf
owner: foo
group: foo
mode: 0644
Actually, they have close to $5 billion in real estate assets.
That conflates undocumented workers with migrant workers when there is more like a ~50% overlap (at farms).
Besides the performance and general UX for Flash on mobile, there's the pretty common pattern of its UX being a dumpster fire on the desktop [0] as well.

For every good use of Flash on web pages there were dozens of UX abortions. Flash sites were rife with mystery meat UIs. They were also accessibility hostile. While you can commit a lot of the same sins on a web page you have to go out of your way to do so.

Besides all of those problems it was also a closed platform like the GP was decrying with Apple's App Store. You can make a web app entirely FOSS with entirely FOSS tools and served from a completely FOSS stack. If you want to avoid any platform lock in it's entirely possible. Flash was the literal opposite until years after it's mobile availability was a meaningful concern.

[0] https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flash-99-percent-bad/
I don't know what "walked in" means, but having been introduced by a YC founder didn't get them into YC. It would at most have helped them get an interview.
Hudson's Bay is really a strip mall operator, NRDC Equity Partners. They'd been buying up failed retailers for years. They also bought Macy's, Saks, Lord and Taylor, and a home improvement chain that was shut down. Hudson's Bay was the oldest buy and they kept that name. Up until the epidemic, they were doing well for a company in classic brick and mortar retail.
Do you have geo-replication turned on? More regions will be an additional $5/month (plus bandwidth between regions) if you replicate. You can serve everything out of a single region but it is pretty easy to add others if you're not paying attention during initial setup.
It's true, it does!
A lot of food banks are closed.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/coronavirus-food-banks-are-c...
I'm a freelancer, I also have imposter syndrome. I've been using Vue for 3 years, and laravel since 2013. My depression and anxiety over current events, turning forty mixed with some burnout has led to a very rough six months. We had to use gofund me for the rent for the past two months. We had to get on SNAP.

An old friend wanted help with wordpress (I hate wordpress), but had to take it. I jumped at $30/hour for 5 hours of work, just so we could put gas in the car, and get a few gifts for our toddler's for Christmas.

Not everybody on HN is doing great making 6-7 figure incomes. My best year, I maybe did 70k. My hourly is $40, generally as a freelance dev, even though others get $100, I've not once been able to secure that kind of pay. At 41, I'm getting a bit frustrated with the life, I had dreams of building a SaaS but just getting out of bed is so hard lately.

Or I just want to spend every waking minute w/ my kids, cause I have this dread that Covid will take me, and I'll miss out on valuable moments with them. My wife's never had a depressed day in her life, until this year, she's on anti-depressants now, her mom died in August from cancer. Usually she'd keep me out of my depression, now I have to find a way to pull her out of hers.

I'm sure there's more people in this thread who are in the demographic, than you think are. Lots of people go to HN and Reddit startup threads to get ideas to break out of poverty. (That's why I learned to code in the first place).
Police are not judges or executioners.

Robocop, as initially specced, was the villain. It had an awakening, turned on its creators, and began .... well, serving justice, but still acting as judge and executioner.
It sounds almost like it is a kind of fuzz-testing then; I'm interested in what percentage of problems uncovered were problems in the spec or undefined behavior, versus problems introduced by the simulated annealing itself.
I have 20 years+ experience. It doesn't have to be like this.

I know exactly what happened. Changing languages and domains every few years can wear you out. If you were lucky enough to pick one language that madw it 20 years you can spend your time deep diving different domains. Bonus if the language becomes unpopular with developers but still need with business. Bonus points for picking a fun language you like.

A real pain is leetcode.
It's more that the rays from a point on an object converge to the smallest point when in focus? The rays from the object as a whole are spread out over an object-shaped are on the image plane, unless the object is (effectively) at infinity, when they will converge to a point...