skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like you just hit the threshold where defaults don't cut it anymore. With >100 concurrent clients you need to tune your DB for your workload.

innodb_thread_concurrency and innodb_concurrency_tickets would be a good starting point, and optimal values depend on your r/w balance and number of rows touched per type of query.
That's not misleading. The title, as worded, does not state or imply that only those who voted to unionize were fired.
End of an era. I remember using them consistently in the mid- to late-90’s. Sad to see them go but change is the only constant in life. Goodbye old friend!
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The problem I have with that is - where is the team? It probably not a single person writing that app. It's likely a whole team of people.

In non-tech companies, IT is seen as a cost. Half the time your contribution is just saving the company from hiring x number of people to do the work manually.
You might genuinely have missed it but that was almost certainly hyperbole/humor.

It’s a critical component to certain writers’ style. If we all take everything literally those writers would become more boring.
The drumbeat of fear continues I see.
Use of A/B tests does feel like an organization where the leadership is not there to either help make hard decisions or the culture doesn't allow people lower down the ranks to make these decisions. The excerpt mentions "good taste".. well plenty of people don't have good taste, so while saying we don't use A/B tests because we have good taste, I think its likely a combination of good taste and leadership in the company that allows the good taste to drive the decisions and some level of agreement among a group of leaders of what "good taste" is..
I can't believe this one isn't here yet:

I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
So Amazon forking ES is then ensuring that if Elastic dies, ElasticSearch doesn’t go away, right? Part of the problem here really is that if I am using AWS for the rest of my stack, why would I run my search elsewhere, introducing latency, etc? Elastic’s opportunity was to approach AWS and try to get bought. But their business model really isn’t as good as it seems.
I’m going to say I called this one at least 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419270

Loon is not competitive in a world with Starlink (even without Starlink it seems).

The business didn’t make strategic sense.

I still really liked their original goal of loon for all and the first video they made for it: https://youtu.be/m96tYpEk1Ao

It’s a little sad they had to downsize and give up. I guess Licklider was write to title the original internet paper an “intergalactic computer network”.

Loon for all started too small.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergalactic_Computer_Network

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Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23419880

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601473
Here's the quote from the article:

"He had some very creative suggestions for how to deal with journalists. I'm not sure any of them were especially actionable, at least not while the Geneva Convention remains in effect. But it was still a good learning experience."

If pointing out something very dark was stated in the article that was shared is considered flamebait here, I think maybe that reflects a desire on the part of this community to look the other way when the people they respect do ugly things.
Random piece of history - John DeLorean got his start creating snowcats when he purchased the Logan Machine Company (LMC) brand. He quickly renamed it to DMC, and continued to make snowcats at the same time he was making the DMC DeLorean. I have one of the LMC snowcats from the mid 80s and it's fantastic machine.
I'm sure a lot gets caught, but the amount that slips through is just unacceptable. Fortunately I haven't come across the kind of content you describe, but I reported ISIS propaganda on Twitter and was told it didn't break the rules. Shortly after complaining publicly and tagging @jack the tweet was removed. Could be a coincidence, I'll never know.
> I don't really get how people get this twisted.

Quite condescending this attitude.

I don’t agree with you at all, and find your argument completely stupid. I don’t think there is anything twisted about it. The software was released under license terms and as long as Amazon is complying with them there isn’t a problem, it’s really is that simple.

And really this is much ado about nothing. These fork fights are sometimes interesting with bit players, but the FAANGs of the world they could just build a tool like this from the ground up if necessary.
For Doom, you don’t have to guess! There are half-dozen source ports that are still under active development - some of them have fairly high system requirements in terms of CPU/GPU/RAM for advanced graphical features, but they’re generally much smaller than 2GB in size. e.g. GZDoom is 16 MB, not including the game assets.
Yeah we changed names a week or two ago and the logo has not caught up yet :)
With electric cars, I have a feeling we'll see a lot of "classic cars" from Model Ts to Trans Ams re-introduced in Electric form. Once the platform is perfected, why not drop different bodies on top of it?
If curious see also

2017 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13652093

2014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7998048

2013 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6565011

Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16109145
I too have a good laugh when someone suggests I commit war crimes. Ha ha!
Vae victis. Losers of conflicts against non-western expansionists were no better as a general rule.
NZ itself was hardly a haven of peace in pre-european times, and Maoris didn't have too many qualms exterminating Morioris either.
>I think they're just trying to be the trendsetters so they can have the most control of it when decentralized social networks take off.

Nope. Dorsey has stated he wants twitter to be a client of an open standard https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

It is in Twitter's favor to hand moderation to community admins. The "trendsetters" already have millions of users on their decentralized platforms https://matrix.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/twitter.modular...

The likely scenario is they create a modified version of an existing protocol, and manage a large client instance of that protocol (e.g. mastodon.social). Users will be free to host their own twitter server, so to speak, and twitter will have no control over those instances.
> The workflow for modern scientific research always seems so amateurish from the perspective of basic software development.

It's sad but it's true. Although there are fundamental pressures that come because academia is academia, I pretty firmly believe that this can be fixed culturally too.

Ultimately, I think people in some fields enjoy programming but view it to be either beneath them or beneath their paper. This is clearly not the case for Computer Science, but I noticed a few papers in the tire society journal which presented promising results but with absolutely no source code.

One slightly ugly truth is that a lot of academics don't really know how to program properly or how computer actually work (Again, outside CS for obvious reasons). I'm reminded of the Imperial Covid Model's bugs as a fairly easy example.

As to culture-question - the obvious solution is to start requiring disclosure of almost all materials and data used to construct a paper - for instance if Hendrik Schon had to publish the data behind the curves in his graphs his fraud could've been spotted almost immediately.
If you want to check out that price range VR headset today, I recommend https://varjo.com/products/xr-3/ Varjo XR-3 now available for €5495 + 1-year subscription for €1495. Apple likely aims to that level or better with smaller, lighter and more ergonomic design.

They blow away anything Oculus, Sony, Valve/HTC offer.

They are amazing, but I think there needs to be order of magnitude leap in technology before VR becomes commonplace. Apple probably targets that.
We made so much progress in that field over the last 40 years... I sometimes get lost trying to imagine what will be the computing performance available in 100, 1000, 10000 years from now...
Stronger socioeconomic background, as with any success.
I think you are going to have to rely on another human being (or perhaps a group of trusted individuals) even in that case.

Not necessarily. Bank safe-deposit boxes are a secure place to keep secrets. To guard against rogue bank employees, encrypt the stored secrets and keep the key at home on a sticky note. If you ever hit your head and forget all your secrets, just present your ID to the bank teller, pull the secrets out of the vault, and decrypt them with the key on the sticky note.
I don’t really know why you’d want to develop on a remote machine in 2021, unless you have a VERY “thin client.” Even a $20 raspberry Pi could probably be a good dev platform these days. You can generally write, build, and test applications entirely locally using containers. Port forward to remote dependency resources via your vpn if needed.

I think you’d pay back the costs of a pretty good laptop vs AWS workstation or EC2 instance (not VM - Instance) within a few months.

The only scenario where we use AWS Workstations is to provide in-country workstations for offshore resources in certain compliance situations.

If your builds or tests are taking too long due to compute constraints on your local workstation, maybe AWS CodeDeploy or something like that could help offload that to the cloud efficiently.

The pricing for AWS instances at least is pretty clearly stated on their site if you google for it.

Id recommend maybe looking at some AWS 101 YouTube videos to understand the space a little better.

Heroku is a pretty easy to grok cloud platform as well, efficient way to bootstrap but maybe not long term.
Subaru CVTs already have essentially this feature. The transmission doesn't have gears (duh, it's continuously variable) but it still has the ability to manually shift to predefined ratios.
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Safety Deposit boxes are not trustworthy

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
> I would actively seek a therapist who looked and sounded likely to help me.

And a therapists goal is to feel like that person for all of their prospective clients, ideally. The less you can pigeonhole them into social/religious/political/etc boxes the better, from this point of view.
I agree, but I think there's many many shades of grey here.

Elastic (and Mongo and RadisLabs) are trying to do something new.

Linux, without doubt, "reaped the benefits of open source, including free work from the community," to the point where although the original release was 100% Linus's own code and arguably "Linus's software", these days to a first approximation _none_ of the code is "his". The percentage of the ~27million LOC that is "linux" these days that were personally written by Linus is effectively zero.

Elastic is a company paying 500-1000 employees who I suspect (but haven't checked) contributed the majority of the code rather than it being "free work from the community". (And their ability to relicense the code suggests that any community contributed code was contributed under their CLA which meant the contributors explicitly granted Elastic future rights to relicense those contributions, so it's not like the "community" can pretend they didn't know this was possible.)

I don't know that Elastic's business model will work. I don't think there's any guarantee that it will. Part of me kinda hopes it does, because I suspect that the business success of "company backed venture capital funded free-as-in-beer software" might result in more and better software being available to use - perhaps software on such a large scale that "scratch your own itch" motivations have insurmountable ramp up difficulties. I personally think the jump[ from AntiRez's "scratch your own itch" redis, to RedisLab's "Widely Fortune500 adopted and enterprise ready Redis" is not a thing AntiRez wanted to stick around and do. And the world _might_ be a better place for the existence of the non-OSI approved software under license like RedisLabs "source available" one.

It'll be interesting t watch this play out over the next decade or so...
Thank you very much! Not really a perfect solution (you still have to make many clicks, I just use MiddleClick or Ctrl+LeftCLick to open a background tab normally) but a really great extension nevertheless. I'm very happy to discover it.
They thought they were gonna be old Kanobi vs. Vader - vanquished but become more powerful.

It would have made sense if their belief system (ie, Trump and alt-right moving mountains to make them viable) were in place. Clearly that wasn't the case and they will be a footnote in history.
> Code contributed under Apache stays that way.

IANAL but I think code doesn’t really belong to contributors if they agreed to sign their rights over with a CLA, no? Which is why I always feel iffy about CLA’s. I get why they’re needed but I don’t like what they enable.
Thanks for mentioning that! I took your example and was able to find myself - there was only one record which matched the combination of birth day and state, parents’ ages, and mother’s birth state (which is different than mine). Add in birth weight if you know it, and I speculate you’re almost certain to be able to find yourself.

An interesting aggregation query would be how much information is needed to uniquely identify some large percentage of all births in the data set.
Except a small group of people have all the swords.
Chinese martial arts folk/action hero movies.

they first few are quite good.

mostly based around "Shoot boxing" a fairly fast and close range and not terribly flashy but stull impressing martial arts form.

IP man is the hero's name.. (not I.P., IP)
Yeah the license they chose allowed a better funded competitor to sell a paid hosted version of their service (in direct competition with their paid hosted service).

So if they had the license they have now from day 1 they'd have been better off.

Sounds like a gap in their licensing to me.
I'm a big fan of spatial audio and I think this is really cool. I like that it doesn't make me use my mouse too much which makes it way easier to use on a laptop with trackpad.

It would be nice if there were alternatives to login besides Google (like email?).
Google/Alphabet is shutting down Loon, its internet balloon company
Bear in mind, lethality of weapons like these has been based on measuring the mortality _without_ treatment, and all who survived received prompt treatment.

Unfortunately Charley Rowley, who unwittingly discovered the container used by the Skripal’s poisoners, was not treated so promptly and later died

https://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2018/04/06/myth-...
Thankfully I don't have that problem. The Netgain motor is pretty big as motors go and it'll be close to the power steering unit, but still I think I've got enough room there.

Most of the work so far has been making battery boxes. I've got one under each rear seat where the gas tank used to be, one in the front down low where the radiator used to be, a smaller one above it, and another that goes over the motor (which raises the CG more than I'd like, but the other batteries that basically as low as they can be probably offset it). Weight balance should be about the same.

I'll have to do some welding on the back seats, because they're too low for the batteries to fit. Sacrificing about four inches of foam will make for an uncomfortable seat, but it should at least look normal.
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> How about we let the case play out instead of assuming innocence?

Excuse me?!
We’ll find out this year.
The data centre is located in New York but the staff are in Aus. I guess it's hard to move all of the staff to another country, many of whom are probably quite attached to Aus.
Not all touch screens are created equal. The one in my Tesla is as good as a phone or Ipad
Twitter just removed a bunch of Antifa, after the last few days of violence, and twitter was not deplatformed.

https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1352399672594345985
Isn't that what extensions are?
No need to speculate, AMD has said and released slides showing they plan on shifting to 5 nm next. They've also booked some of the production.
Isn’t this an open and shut case of Trademark violation? Elasticsearch is a trademark of Elastic, right?
If you read the news every day then you will certainly hear from the other half of the country. I just checked CNN's front page, and while most coverage focuses on the new President, these three articles all feature right-wing viewpoints:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/2024-republican-prim...
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/politics/fact-check-marjorie-...
https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/01/21/conspiracy-th...
Beautiful calculation.
Let's say that if you listen to music for 3 hours a day then it is as if every month you spend 5$ which goes to divide for all the artists you listen to, every month.
So you have to listen to an artist 100 hours to compensate for the purchase of an album, it's not something you do with every artist you know.
Run Ingress Apisix on Amazon EKS
While some people get upset about it, "Democrat" is useful to differentiate the two verbally. Obviously capitalization isn't possible.

Obama's team launched https://democrats.org/ in 2009 or so. I really think people shouldn't get upset over "Democrat".
You can't get CDs anywhere near a easily as one could 22 years ago. All the old music stores I used to go to are closed. The big chains are gone. The small indie stores are all gone. Some of the boutique websites still exist, but it has been more than 10 years since I purchased a real physical CD.

One thing I do miss is that CDs are mastered far better than anything on iTunes or YouTube is these days. Modern music is compressed (not MP3 artifacts, but flattening of dynamic range) in a way that wasn't common back then. Algorithmic remastering of music by all the big websites is overdone in my opinion.
No, but it's pretty easy to tell based on the response they provide. In a nutshell, they write the same way as my cousins (back in India) do, rather than the way Americans do.
Of course modern architects need to know and learn about the pyramids. The structure both from a mechanics and static stability perspective are a marvel for building architecture. They are not drywall hanging workers to only care about learning the available drywall types they will use tomorrow for their construction project. If you are a CS PhD student the expectation is that you become a scholar in the discipline. This vocational attitude about 'where will I need this' is perhaps an indication that you don't quite understand what a doctorate really means. Have a chat with your advisor about this, it will be eye opening.
The scenario being discussed is a college student with a "portfolio" funded by birthday and Christmas presents.

It makes sense to be less risk averse in that situation than a mid-career software engineer with a family to support planning for retirement.
Here is a decent selection of top articles: https://medium.com/handwaving-freakoutery/top-slate-star-cod...

I didn't write this, but I second most of the selection.
Loon has stepped up to restore internet after disasters like the Puerto Rico earthquake.

Sad to see it close.
> In a normal distribution, "average" must always also refer to median; they are always the same value.

...and mode too! I am well aware of the characteristics of a normal distribution (this is HN after all). I was contrasting parents insinuation that gp's assertion on halving only works with uniform distributions
Nobody can afford to use an Apache 2.0 license when an Amazon type company also uses your product in the same way.
Great! can we then start making classic VW beetle, and the original Austin/Morris Mini, and not the beefed-up-on-steroids grandkids?
For a comparison, you could get a 64 processor, 256Gb ram Sun Starfire around 20 years ago[1]. Wikipedia claims these cost well over a million dollars ($1.5 million in 2021 dollars). This machine was enormous (bigger than a rack), would have had more non-uniform memory access to deal with, and the processors were clocked at something like 250-650MHz.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Enterprise
He compared the suggestions to war crimes.

Its called hyperbole. Explaining the joke kills it too. Hope you enjoyed your comedic writing lesson for today.
They managed to secure the crate name "windows" [1] which always is a nice touch.

I clearly remember that this name was squatted.

[1] https://crates.io/crates/windows
Well, if you live in SFBA the interns are making six figures (equivalent per hour). Everyone's still living in a studio apartment though.
I have been working on WickedBlocks for the last 4 months because I wanted to have ready to use snippets for my other project, https://www.wickedtemplates.com so it would be quicker and I could have some consistence. I decided to share it because I think many could make use of it.

See it here live » » http://blocks.wickedtemplates.com/
See the repo here » » https://github.com/michael-andreuzza/wickedblocks

So what is WickedBlocks?

An open source collection of layout blocks and components built with Tailwind CSS V2 ready to copy paste on your Tailwind project.

You will find:

Left Headers
Center Headers
Right Headers
Authentication
Pricing
Clients
Grids
Forms
Gallery
Navigation
Footers

The blocks are unopinionated, no fancy images or styles just the bare blocks with text and placeholders.

Anyways, I hope you guys like it and remember that I am always open to feedback and DMs are also open for anything you want to know.

Twitter: @mike_andreuzza

Have a great day everyone.
I would love a personal CRM where I can assign my contacts to a certain frequency of communication -- and then after that amount of time has elapsed without any calls or texts, it will prompt me to reach out to them. Is that anything along the lines of what your app does?
AWS also a a very large contract with another Twitter competitor: Pinterest
Are Google and OpenBSD paying for their OpenSSL forks? Google, Apple, and Microsoft paying for WebKit?
Is it platforming or deplatforming that is causing the escalation though?

When the white nationalists did not have a platform, was the escalation higher or lower than it is now? Granting them platforms seems like the issue that started the escalation to me.
> nobody is doing much to make an electric car pretend to be something it's not

This is actually one of the aspects of the Leaf that most impressed/surprised me - Nissan put a lot of thought in to making it behave like an ICE car with an automatic/CV transmission.

For example, when the car is in D mode, sitting on flat ground, if you take your foot off the brake, it'll roll forward at low power. Similarly, taking your foot off the accelerator while rolling faster will apply just a little bit of regeneration.
I still don't see many. There's a contract Filenet job with a contract rate of $60/hr. I don't think it's worth it to trade a fulltime job for that. Not to mention, I'm starting to work with AWS now (sort of, they switch me all the time) so that would be the better longterm option.
You're still abdicating personal responsibility. Why is it Facebook's responsibility to keep YOU from becoming more extreme? I'm just playing devil's advocate here because the easy position right now is to blame social media.
If you make that while trying to live in SF/SV area, then it's probably hard to do. If you make that, and you live in nearly any where else, your money suddenly goes further. If you take it one step further, and make the same money but live in a state without state income taxes, your money goes even further. Keeping up with the Jones in the SF/SV area is quite expensive.

Just a bunch of sentences to say that $/hr isn't the end all, but a decent at-a-glance way of comparing.