skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A database has much more information than the operating system about what, how and when to cache information

Yes, on a dedicated server. However many DB engines instances run on non-dedicated servers, for example along a web server flanked with various processes sometimes reading the local filesystem or using RAM (Varnish, memcached...), and often-run tasks (tempfiles purge, log aggregation, monitoring probes, MTA...). In such a case letting the DB engine use too much RAM, and therefore reducing its global efficiency while limiting buffercache size, may (all other things being equal) imply more 'read' operations, reducing overall performance.
In my experience, people who prefer synchronous communication are much more likely than those who prefer async to think that now is always a good time to have whatever conversation they want to have. Therefore, asking them to consider whether now is a good time will not make any difference. That condition always returns true for them.
Thank you for this! I've been unhappy with the iOS options recently (bugs, no one replying to bug reports, etc). So far your app is working better than the other choices and it handled my 15k+ bookmark collection easily.

The most important feature for me is being able to use the iOS share function and quickly add something with tags (and tag auto-complete). It would have been nice to test that ahead of the in-app purchasing but decided to go for it. Happy that all works well. Great work.
Rewriting in go sounds great, but why microservices? Isn’t the target audience the “throw this onto a Raspberry PI / NAS and forget it” crowd?

I can’t imagine people wanting to administer dozens of independent daemons for such a setup.
I do this if I don't want a notification popping up on the person's computer when someone else might be looking (i.e. I don't know if they're sharing their screen, which is common on teams I work with).
I forgot to most basic thing, of course this should start with "Ask HN:"
Totally agree. I also hate it when people assume that I'm synchronous even though I may respond quickly to the first query by chance.

I usually periodically take breaks to batch process all instant messages and then mute notifications until the next break. If I've already responded to your first question chances are I won't return to your chat window until the next break.

I'm also not opposed to synchronous conversations, it just needs to be scheduled. So the first question should not be "Hey how was your weekend" but rather "Hey how was your weekend, and what time this afternoon could you spend 30 minutes with me chatting about (A) (B) (C)"
>because every time someone hits return, the messenger goes bling.

I realize there are still distractions re: notifications, etc. but I recommend people turn off chat sound effects to make the notifications less distracting.

It bugs me when on a Zoom call, I slack something, and I hear the Slack notification sound.
Agree with this.

Even in real life, it’s good practice to say, “hi I have a question. Is this a good time?” It gives the party the option to say “yes” or “give me 5 minutes?”

Just saying “hi” isn’t good online etiquette in my opinion.
They're not paying to use their Internet connection, they're paying to use the XBox Live infrastructure, just like any SaaS business.
I disagree, Google is not making a threat and is not abusing its market position. A search engine simply cannot exist if it is required to pay for links to content.

Rupert Murdoch and his corporations are incredibly damaging to Australia and to the USA. We should oppose his lobbying efforts everywhere we can.

I think Google is now no longer a good company, but it is not nearly as bad as Fox News or Comcast or other companies that truly abuse their market position.

The one area that Google does actually abuse is Google Ads, the auction system there is basically a scam against small business unfortunately.
There's widespread criticism of the pandemic response in England, France, etc.

Are you just objecting to the phrase? It seems obvious enough that Trump is responsible for much of the failure in the US, failure that exacerbated the death toll. If he had done sensible things instead of dancing around talking about injecting bleach, it's painfully likely it would have made a difference. And then the choices about who led the response. Why was Kushner involved at all? He had no obvious experience to suggest he should be making decisions (and had pretty much already demonstrated incompetence).
The probability to get 8/10 choosing randomly with equal probability is 4.4%. This has 241 points now, so if we assume that the number of people that took the test and has an account to write a comment is similar to the amount of people that upvoted, we get 10.6 with 8/10. I prefer to round it to 10, because there are too many approximations.

So it's not unexpected to get a few person that got 8/10, even if it were a topic anyone knows nothing about.

(With a similar calculation we get 2.5 persons with 9/10 and .2 with 10/10.)

(From other posts informal statistics, there are like x100 visits for each upvote, but I guess more of them don't have an account or don't want to make a comment.)
> I'm a fountain pen nut, AMA if you want.

As am I! Been collecting since childhood. I've spent more money than I care to admit on pens and ink...
> A computer can only do what the apps installed on it let you do, unless you're an IT person.

As recently as the early 2000s, ordinary users were comfortable searching out and installing new software. I remember Napster becoming absolutely massive, and it wasn't because the IT folks installed it for users.
In the same way that using glib does not mean you are forced to use Gtk, you can use pieces of Qt without pulling in the GUI library. That's why I mentioned "non-GUI" explicitly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)#Qt_modules

E.g., Core, Network, SQL do not require the GUI components.
Ah, it was the “probably a non-torturous society will bring you back, since they are more likely to be altruistic” assumption that I was missing. Of course, it only takes one entity to bring you back for an eternity of torture to ruin this logic, as is the case in IHNMAIMS.
But what it means is that they then take up more of the other person’s time as they sit and watch the typing notification. At least have the question ready typed so you can copy paste it into the message box.
> what I _really_ want is to continue on with my pre-existing memories/experiences

This reminds me of an interesting philosophical question.

To state the obvious, even if the clone had an exact copy of your memories/experiences, that clone isn't you, you've died. If I had a teleportation machine that could "teleport" you to work by destroying you painlessly and instantly at the source location, and reconstruct you particle for particle at destination, how many would use it? I wouldn't, however irrational that may be, because "I" would be dead.

This bias is pretty interesting since by that definition we all die multiple times, as the particles that constitute our body are literally interchanging with the environment over time. But we don't feel uncomfortable about that fact.
It being 20% is stable. And mostly overlapping. It doesn't affect much. Women have a different set of measures compared to men, but both have a top 20%.
A lot of times when people say “the internet”, they mean “the web”
Are we working on the same definition of rational? I am using what I consider to be the standard definition which would pop up from a google search:

"based on or in accordance with reason or logic" / "able to think sensibly or logically" / "endowed with the capacity to reason".

You made the claim that you do not believe people are rational. Following from this you would also have to believe that individual's actions are without reason. Consequently, any perceived reason or logic, either by the actor or an observer, would actually be a post-hoc explanation for action. From a behavioural persective cause and effect would no longer exist, nothing could be predicted and nothing could be planned.

This is entirely at odds with what we know about post-truth. Individual behaviour can be modelled and population behaviour can be predicted to a degree.

Irrational actions do not imply irrationality. An irrational action is usually a consequence of rational thinking based on incorrect information.
I think FB has a fundamental issue here, which is that:

1) they don't feel they can NOT police content

2) they are wayyyyy too big to police content manually

3) any AI they train to police content, is not going to be able to state clearly why a given post/account was banned, and anyway...

4) if you state objective, clear rules that are automated, it will be pretty easy to game them (e.g. using euphemisms or code words for objectionable content)

I don't see how FB can get out of this situation. Any social network that is as large as it is, which relies on advertising (and thus cannot be as content-neutral as e.g. phone companies are regarding what you talk about on the phone), is going to face the same situation.

Of course, if FB ends up getting way smaller as a result, that would be fine by me. But I'm not holding my breath...
I love all of my tombow and stabilo pens. They’re total workhorses. I unexpectedly started using some tombow fine liners for pretty much all writing last year, especially for journaling. I love how clean thin pages end up, and using both sides of pages remains clear and clean.

This was a fun read. Not sure why, but I could buy one of any nice pen despite having plenty already. I just love nice tools.

I’ve skipped on the uniball vision elite for a while now. After reading this and the comments it seems like I need to give it a shot.
the idea here is sponsorship is backed by github sponsors, while onlysponsors makes it easier for devs to create content and restrict it to sponsors.
Actually, how do you set Firefox's search engine to something which isn't already in the default list of options, without an add-on?

I couldn't figure out how to change it to Startpage without installing Startpage's add-on.
>So I have to reject cars because of their negative effect in dense urban areas?

Yes, sounds good.
Why is Swiss Made better for ethics?

These are the same folks that looked the other way on Hitler (and in fact were his preferred banking location) and recently sold a phone with a backdoor while claiming it was private.

The Swiss are extremely systematic, which makes them great at banking, but ethical? Not sure about that.
The fact it has potential excuses should make it clear it's default selfish without them.
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These were people who came to kill.

Or protect themselves from counter-protesters? Are you saying anyone with a gun at the event had the mens rea for murder? There are probably more guns at the average baseball game.
As mentioned in the article, the refillable variant HiTec point V5, may be the better choice, it being a tad thicker in diameter of the pen as well.
Damn, I guess I'm not even a junior dev then lol.
Excellent comment;

from The Gulag Archipelago,

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them.

But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being.”

I laugh when I see so called progressives acting the same as puritanical early Americans in their infantile understanding of humanity.
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Think about railroads and even early highways. It’s hard to standardize before you have a problem.

Containers have big downsides too... but technology allowed costs to be vaporized with containers.

The other big thing is that containers appeared in the US as the railroads entered their death spirals. You can build a dock anywhere and have trucks show up from 100 companies quickly compared to the negotiation required to live railroads. Think about how quickly the NYC maritime business died and moved to New Jersey... that’s a market that represented ~10-15% of the US population at that time.
You can also mount a file system in synchronous mode on most OSes, which may make sense for a DB storage volume (but not other parts of the system).
Well, yes, but it's not so simple. Water is free when it comes from clouds and they block the sun. So it's kind of an either-or thing. Cali's central valley gets great sun but it must pipe in the water from the Sierras. That's not free. If there's a drought, well, you can't buy the water for any price.

Another problem is that this cheap land with free water and sun is often a long way from the people who will eat the food. That means transportation and that also means you're still paying something even if the land, water and sun are free.

Another interesting feature is the way that solar cells can capture the energy from a broad spectrum of the sunlight and then the LEDs can be tuned to the narrow spectrum that the plants absorb. Even with losses to resistance and conversion, you could end up ahead eventually.
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CERN is made possible by shared European funding, hardly 'Swiss'.
If it had been authorized, presumably they'd have kept my name on it, no?
The strange case of Alibaba's Jack Ma and his three-month vanishing act
Doesn't one need to be choosy about paper to avoid ink bleed? That was the reason I gave up on fountain pens. IIRC, even with specialized bleed-resistant ink, bleeding was a problem on common (i.e. cheap) notepads and notebooks.
Are tag auto complete on the horizon? I use tagging a lot and it is really hard to tag without.

Also one amazing feature Pushpin has I haven’t seen elsewhere is they also tell you how many times you have used a tag during auto complete. If this could be available cross platform, it would be amazing.

Paying is not a problem.
Escalated indeed.

"A major funder of the anti-vaccine movement has made millions selling natural health products"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2019/10/15/fdc...
The footguns can be solved in part by the type-system (preventing certain types from being stored), and (if necessary) by cooperation with the OS (e.g. to guarantee that a file is not modified between runs).

How else would you lazy-load a database of (say) 32GB into memory, almost instantly?

And why require everybody to write serialization code when just allocating the data inside a mmap'ed file is so much easier? We should be focusing on new problems rather than reinventing the wheel all the time. Persistence has been an issue in computing since the start, and it's about time we put it behind us.
Could you please name at least one that would warrant a "naked greeting" like that though?

"Production issue" comes to mind, but that would just as likely warrant a quick summary of the situation, since waiting for a response to "hi" wastes even more time.
In a free market, a company can choose to provide or not provide services based on whether they make money or not. If you require a search engine to pay for content it links to, it cannot make money. Google is correct in making the statement that it will need to exit Australia.

You may not like Google, and I don't either do to it's abuse of small business on its Ads/ AdWords product, but I don't think any search engine could operate under these rules.

Rupert Murdoch, and his extremely powerful company, have lobbied for special rules that harm democracy and free markets.
Because it won't work?
How many died?

The elapsed calendar time from the birth of the first human to when an electronic drink blender was first invented was much longer, but I wouldn't say that was more effort and sacrifice than getting to the moon.

Do you know how many lives were lost in Germany, prisoners marched in the cold by force, a huge number of them dying along the way, to dig underground missile production factories with their bare hands, being shot if they stopped? Or that those men leading those atrocious slave factories were then effectively saved from certain death from war crime tribunal, just to help with the early U.S. rocket program that went into the moon effort?[1][2]

That's not even including the sacrifices leading up to it by the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., which I'd include in the overall effort[3][4].

[1]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

[2]- https://amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Program-...

[3]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Space_accidents_and_i...

[4]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight-related_ac...
Since we’re talking about Xbox and cost here I have a question for the HN crowd.

I’m always amazed that a $500 console can run games better than a $1500 PC. I know these consoles are sold at a loss, but how much? What are the components worth?

Also would a console be any good as a PC if you could get a common OS running on it?
I guess HN is taking what I listed that way, ha. I really just meant that things have changed since the old days. This list is just an outline, certainly not all of the skills are required.
Why should hobbies be prioritized below commercial interests?

There's good arguments for exactly the opposite: Hobby use is often much less intensive than commercial use, and at the same time, much more price sensitive.
Pentels are decent and inexpensive rollerballs too.
I assume you were trying to describe how you did well using statistics and demographics, but your wording comes off sexist. It hits my ear as bragging about the disparity in the field, and I have to consciously try to change my initial interpretation to allow for something different.
I also got an 8/10, but I had at least one woman in my set who was a language developer (one of the Cobol designers) and I got that right too. I went with the intensity in the eyes. By my method, I most certainly would have marked Steve Jobs as a serial killer, so it's not perfect, although in his biography he said he learned his trademark expression from a guy he knew who later started a cult.
I don't think it's the same. A steam engine is more like a wagon or a truck. The steam engine can power many things; a truck can haul many different sorts of goods, but they're still fundamentally single-purpose. The engine powers, the wagon hauls.

I guess you could say a computer computes, but that's using an overly broad term to deliberately elide the point.
But those same indies get more people playing their game with a subscription like game pass. This is all just speculation, though. We need an indie dev to tell us how game pass has affected their company—positively or negatively.
As a mostly C and sometimes Rust programmer, I don't know why I'd ever reach for C++ instead of Rust these days. If I'm going to take on the mental complexity of these big languages, I'd rather have Rust's safety properties. (Not to mention, superior, portable, single-vendor standard library features — something C++ struggled with for a long time and probably still struggles with.)
Or maybe it is an ongoing mistake that HTTP 402 is left as it is. “Everything on Internet should be free(-beer)” is such a load of BS.
> I want to understand if there exists a well paid, comfortable position in this stress-saturated industry.

Try freelance/consulting. Set your own holiday time, set your own hours, target the projects and tech that interest you, and don't agree to do on-call. Not always easy to get started and it's not for everyone but it's like a whole other world salaried people don't know about because it's outside their norm.
donateware becomes sponsorware
Especially if you are German and need banking during a world war.
This website is awfully light on details. Is it open source? Is there a whitepaper on the encryption used? Does it have e.g. forward secrecy? At the moment there's no reason why you might want to use this over e.g. Signal or Wire, both of which use well-studied encryption schemes.

Also -- "Complex encryption system for all transmitted data" does not seem like a particularly good thing.
That is very kind of you to share.

Local ISP?

You could share with neighbors, though in my opinion you may want to set up captive portal with an end user agreement. Even if its free, in 2021 the laws have been slowly catching up with the internet and your users could bring a lot of heat to your doorstep. You could even become a "free ISP" for your neighbors and SWIP [1] out address space to them assuming you have a big enough CIDR block with that 10gb/s connection. If not and you are letting people share your address space, then you should have a way to log who is doing what since that circuit is in your name. When neighbors do something dumb, it will come back to you.

[1] - https://teamarin.net/2017/08/14/lets-talk-quick-easy-way-swi...
Also: https://dontasktoask.com/
Agreed, but by that definition my consciousness in 15 years isn't me either, since most of the cells in my body will have been regenerated with different particles.
Is anyone not using Lombok these days? I haven’t written a getter or a setter in years.
True. And much of the work at ETH is conducted by foreigners, but the marketing association is still there.
They generally can't, as cyberpunk showed. More often than not the console version has lower quality graphics than their PC counterpart is capable of.
Somewhat related, any recommendations for a LCD or similar writing tablet? I had a boogie board but I wish it was bigger and possibly supported erasing or uploading. reMarkable any good?
That's a truly excellent paper (and exceptionally honest, considering some of the touchy subjects involved) and disentangles many of the origins of the various concepts in Objective C between the Stepstone and NeXT environments.
You can just ask the person to let you know when they are available to talk to you. This way you are less prone to interrupt the person and also don't expose sensitive information.
As much as I can't stand the type of people he is talking about, Glenn Greenwald has slowly been loosing his mind.
If someone is studying what happens to people who spend 24x7 reacting to Hypocrisy, that too on fucking Twitter of all places, please study Glenn.
In terms of practicality, I've never found anything as good as a sharpie pen.
Neat, but I'm talking about experience as a left-handed writer. I don't see anything indicating it writes better for lefties.
Tag autocomplete is available after purchasing? I didn’t see it under the list of unlock features.

Though I’d probably be more interested in how the Mac app works unless Pins also gets Pushpin’s feature of showing you how many times you’ve used tags during auto complete.
I wonder if, I'm next after making https://nomorefacebook.xyz but that's why it's good to export contacts and other data now and not when it's too late. And don't use it as login provider.
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