skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The part about driving skill is definitely just wrong, there are many reasons why cars get damaged.

There is a long list for sure - but they are all very unlikely. The risk of having your car stolen can be mitigated with a 50$ GPS transmitter. Fire? What year is this, cars still spontaneously combust, or maybe do you live on an active volcano? A moose going though your window sounds like a life and death situation, having your car totaled and walking away safe and sound would be glorious.

If you were to purchase insurance for such risks, it would be negligible compared to the major source of insurance claims, trafic accidents. So you are are either paying for other's people accidents, and it makes no sense to continue to do so, or you are actually getting a positive value out of it because you are a bad driver, case in which it makes sense to try to improve your driving, while keeping the insurance.
Change data capture, though. That is so so useful for tearing bits of the monolith off.
Thoughts about .company domain names?
What are your thoughts about .company domain names? Google invested in x.company and g.company.
> But the X server already provides all the necessary information and mechanism for implementing this,

X server provides that at the display level, not at the screen level. If you do that at display level, you cannot move windows between displays, the application has to destroy and recreate them (out of all applications, only emacs can do that). If you want to use then per screen, how it is done today, then screens must have identical density.

> the window managers need to implement some way to inform toplevel windows that they need to change scale (e.g. via a custom message), applications need to inform the window manager and the compositor that they support such scaling messages (e.g. via a window attribute) and compositors need to be able to scale windows that do not support this scaling (this will probably need a special window manager <-> compositor protocol for compositors that are independent from the window manager while still allowing the window manager to handle scaling without having to also be a compositor).

Defining the protocol would be the easier part; persuading application authors to support it would be the hard part. They would ignore it for years to come. And that's for applications that are maintained or can be updated.

So when you have to make changes, you might as well as change the protocol and adjust for achieving multiple additional objectives - which is exactly what Wayland did.
Was AMC in trouble before the pandemic?
So many conspiracy theories on both sides these days. Don't forget Ocram's razor. I don't think there are many sophisticated actors here at all. I'm speaking as one who did DD on GME back in September and throw some money in (thought it was a great opportunity mainly because of Cohen +
the upcoming console super cycle with a tiny chance of squeeze thrown in) It was a smart discovery by WSB and got a bit more than average attention but then it kept growing.. every week more DD's posted and more attention. Now the entire sub is so dedicated to GME its actually annoying.

I think it really is the simple dumb story of a really bad bet by a hedge fund getting called out online and a with more and more jumping on the wagon and with the hedge fund making more and more dumb mistakes. And everyone is underestimating the redditors who, behind the emojis and crap talk, are actually pretty smart. Collectively they can, and did, cause this.. no need to invent other actors to explain it.
New “Liquid” AI Learns Continuously from Its Experience of the World
Is anybody working on an AR version of this? Where you walk through an archeological site and can see through your phone how it looked originally? I have been looking now and then but can't find anything like what I have in mind.
My honest opinion? If you’re in it to make memes about it then maybe don’t take it too seriously when market breaks due to the collective actions.
Except in group chats. The switching costs are higher for those.
And why are the gross margins best in industry? Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that they have a different model (no dealers) than other manufacturers, so comparing them is apples to oranges?

Despite that, gross margins are shrinking, and their net margins are terrible.

Also, can we stop comparing this company to Amazon, just because they both "lost money"? Their business models are not remotely similar.
> If a civil engineer accidentally writes down one load calculation incorrectly, doesn’t follow well-known safe design practices which would’ve caught the error, and it causes the structure to collapse, they do have personal liability. Why should software engineers have special immunity?

The government regulates civil engineering, because when civil engineers screw up, people die.

The same is true for certain categories of software – aviation, motor vehicles, medical devices, etc. You can argue about whether the regulations in those areas are good enough (incidents like the 737 MAX suggest not), but those flaws are arguably best addressed by improvements in those industry-specific regulatory processes rather than trying to regulate software engineering as a whole.

With your run-of-the-mill blog hosting software or SaaS app, software bugs don't kill people. Privacy violations, financial damages yes, but actual deaths no. Anyone who wants to propose increased government regulation of software engineering – to turn software engineering into a regulated/licensed profession like civil engineering or medicine, with the kind of personal liability attached that those professions have – is going to get a lot of pushback from businesses that it is adding expense without any great benefit. And I think it is going to be hard to find anywhere enough political capital to overcome that pushback. Financial damage is insurable, and voters value their life and health far more than their privacy.
Up to a certain point, sure, you can vertically scale.

I work for a large CDN, with many thousands of servers pushing near line-rate out of our NICs... we certainly can't vertically scale that.

There is a limit to how much you can vertically scale.

Even for the things we CAN vertically scale, we need to be able to handle hardware failure and OS upgrades without taking any downtime, so you are going to need to be able to horizontally scale enough to handle that.
Yeah, beauty pageant are going to start asking for this instead of world peace. Dream.
WhatsApp gained many users at first by running on most of the early feature phones (largely Java ME if I’m not mistaken). These days you target two platforms, iOS and Android, and you’re done, but back then running everywhere was a big feature.

Interesting article, I find domestication analogy quite apt.
What is your response to the argument that

- CPI(-U) is not a suitable measurement of inflation anymore since it discarded fixed basket goods somewhere in the 90s and that

- inflation measures with "old-school" fixed baskets report inflation rate in the range of 6-10%/year

- production of goods became much more efficient but instead of being reflected in cheaper prices it increased shareholder profits and wealth inequalities?
Ubisoft did a lot of research when created their world. They added having some education components to accient Greece.

https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+assassin%27s+creed+t...
I can't speak for the rent but from what I was told the setup (machines) is very cheap, as are the ingredients like you say. I'll also go out on a small limb and say food businesses with predominantly foreign student workers tend to have a history of underpaid cash wages. My wife was offered $6 an hour cash in the early 2000s at one place in Sydney, I think she was 17 but still that's way too little.
> There is no "apartheid situation" in Israel.

How would you respond to South African apartheid survivor and Nobel Peace laureate, Desmond Tutu, who said:

"I have witnessed the systemic humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces," he said in a statement.

"Their humiliation is familiar to all black South Africans who were corralled and harassed and insulted and assaulted by the security forces of the apartheid government."
> Remember that green thread car traffic demo?

Indeed - I still have the software (though the disks are long gone).
A few years back I even rewrote that demo in C# (console app) because why not.

Edit: Anders Heljsberg is responsible for C# and TypeScript. Prior to that he wrote what became Turbo Pascal and was chief architect on Delphi. Seems I can't escape his stuff.
They latched onto Citron first. They're focusing on punishing the "enemy" instead of an abstract trade idea. Motivates holding longer instead of jumping ship to cash out.

At this point though, many original buyers have probably sold some/all and most current holders are in it to make a quick buck, not to stick it to the suits. They'll be happy to jump off with a 2x or 3x return if they think the house of cards is about to collapse. Hedge funds sell first and retail traders left holding the bags, complaining the system's all rigged when they should never have entered in the first place. We don't know the exact timing, but we know it will be bloody at some point.
The Broker calls Person B. Person B has 1 day to get the share back or they're in default. It's up to Person B to buy back from whoever is selling at whatever price they want.

It is possible for short sellers to get caught as you describe (someone owns all the stock and they have bought 1 additional share and now wont sell). But it's very rare. It requires a few things to all happen at the same time:

* 1 person has to own all the stock. This in itself is very unusual. In many jurisdictions there are a whole bunch of extra requirements once you own more than X%.

* Someone has to want to short the company. If it's small enough to be owned entirely by 1 person, it's probably too small to attract short sellers or to be lent. Unless someone BOTH wants to short this small stock, AND happens to know the broker in question has some, no one knows who to ask to borrow it.

* They have to short it over 100%. This is unlikely, since a small company that's been bought entirely by 1 person, who is left to buy more? The market is one sided as apparently the only buyer is the guy holding 100% already (if anyone else bought those shares, they could sell them back to the shorter).

It's really really rare.

Technically the short seller defaults when they cannot source the stock, he has to absorb whatever losses he's caused the broker.
You want to, but they don’t. Those people just want to get stuff done, as opposed to a language like Haskell or stricter where you’ll never be able to get old code to run because newer compilers print errors that take a week to understand. There’s some old Yegge articles about this…

PHP converting between strings and numbers is usually a mistake, but the one data structure doing everything (array and dict) is nice enough.
The user has to choose the device to connect via a browser pop-up.
Can you post evidence of anything you are saying here?
They're both Windows but are based on entirely different kernels. Windows 98 is DOS based and Windows 2000 is NT based. Some software runs on both thanks to compatibility layers.
"Rational", in the strict sense, is really only a useful concept if you are wealthy.

If I have a spare $50, then deciding how to optimally invest it to end up with $51 is not worth the thought or effort put into that.

I'm gonna spend my $50 on entertainment or chicken tenders - here, I have a chance of getting both. It's rational.
That being said, if you spring for 900mhz WiFi, you can kiss that 8-day battery life goodbye.
This is true, but is true for many new cars today. Even minor accidents are total write offs.
>I think it's borderline offensive to assume that the "vast majority of women" won't become "skillful enough"

I think there’s some miscommunication here. The qualifier is that most wouldn’t become skilled enough to overcome the strength disadvantage. To be fair, the same would apply to men with the same strength disadvantage although that would be less likely due to the lower likelihood for the same strength disparity. Most people won’t spend enough time developing that skill. If I had to speak in broad terms, it would probably take a purple belt (maybe a strong blue belt) to overcome a large strength disadvantage with even a moderate amount of athletic ability. Most people won’t put in that time, irrespective of gender. If you disagree, join an mma/boxing gym (that actually spars) and see what percentage of people stick with it for 4-5 years. I would venture a guess that most people who flippantly advocate BJJ as a solution probably haven’t been in a real physical altercation and don’t know how it would go down. And no, sparring/rolling in the gym doesn’t generally equate to this type of altercation. I never claimed its not effective because it can’t handle every situation (because nothing can). BJJ is not worthless, it’s just pragmatically a low percentage solution.

I’m not quite sure why you’re taking so much as borderline/highly offensive but it rarely leads to providing clarity in discourse. Again, there is real danger with instilling false confidence (I.e. when confidence outstrips one’s abilities) whether you are offended or not. I’m not interested in placating someone at the expense of putting them at higher risk.
Aside from pissing all over WeWork, which given their immense losses they probably deserve, This article could have been summed up in a couple of short sentences.

There's a lot of words and effort going on here to make Kafka sound immensely complex (and dare I say Kafka-esque?)

The article continually chides Kafka as overweight, hard to setup, complex, blah blah blah. None of these things are true in modern day deployments.

Three instances of Kafka, Two ZK instances, and you're off and running. All of that will run in docker and the docker images will stand themselves up if you let them. You need even less for developemnt.

Postgres is a bit more complex given that you've got to manage machine sizes and database schemas.

But even with that being said, the article gets one thing right. For average data use, most any system will do and some startups are over-engineering their stacks.
It's impossible to have a steroids-optional elite sports league because all the non-steroid-users would get outcompeted, effectively turning it into a steroids-mandatory league. Either everyone uses steroids or they're completely banned - there's no middle ground.

In the jargon of game theory, in the absence of a ban, everyone doping is the only strong Nash equilibrium.

The fear is gene edited babies would trigger the same effect: If I'm in my country's richest 3% and I know parents in the richest 2% are gene-editing their children to be healthier/smarter/prettier, can I afford not to do the same?

And we can't rely on national governments to provide bans - if I'm Country A's leader, can I afford to ban gene editing if our rival, Country B, is making full use of it?
We always ask for zero sugar zero ice, unless it's a very hot day. We'll often get lychee jelly or something as well as the pearls so it's sweet anyway.

You can also order it heated from some places instead of having ice, I had it in winter in China, it was nice but the bubbles get very gummy if you take too long.
What an awful headline
The driving force behind the movement is a David and Goliath story. Take away Goliath, or turn the enemy into some abstract concept, and you weaken the story. I'm not sure it would have worked as well.

Organized pump and dumps aren't anything new, but this is the first I've seen that used a story with mass appeal to energize its base.
That's a useful stategy, yes. But scaling your database is one of the more costly things you can scale.
My last 3 consulting gigs have all had the same general issue - they went with the "quick to start up", scalable solutions and immediately smacked into a brick wall of complexity. These are 1 to 3 person eng teams that started with serverless functions, NoSQL databases, and event-based architecture and not even 6 months down the line had to hire an expensive consultant to shake out their architecture and point them at something less scalable but more practical to build on at their size.

If they didn't have VC, they'd likely die on the spot, drowned before they even had a shot at real product-market fit under the weight of their own accidental complexity.

Now, is there a set of common patterns that works well enough for startups to iterate quickly with, that _also_ scales? Probably. Can you be successful with NoSQL et al out of the gate? Almost definitely. Does it make it _much harder_? I have three anecdotal data points that point to "yes".

From my work over the last year, I'd suggest "choose boring technology" over "worry about scaling early" 10 out of 10 times. You need something that scales _conceptually_ before it can scale in the cloud, if you don't know what your core business value is or how your product actually works it's really damn hard to build a cloud-native app that anyone can actually iterate on. You're fighting incidental complexity every step of the way.

Maybe in 5 or 10 years, when the average developer has a wealth of experience in scaling technologies, when serverless functions have fewer dramatic downsides, when we start seeing out-of-the-box event driven full stack frameworks, when the bleeding sharp edges are sanded off NoSQL and we've figured out a good story around schemas and validation, then it starts to look more attractive for young companies. Until then, though? Stick with the boring stuff.

EDIT: Though, re-reading this, I suppose I should acknowledge my own survivorship bias - the companies that figured out their scalable, cloud-based tech stack early have no need for my consulting services...
StackOverflow seems to be doing well keeping the number of servers small, and having one dedicated hot failover for each machine.

Today you can without issues have 128 cores and 1TB RAM in one server (or 48 cores and 1.5TB memory if you prefer Intel). Of course not everything scales perfectly, but you can get pretty far before you are really forced to scale horizontally.
Vice is garbage. This article is an excellent example.

I put it slightly below Brietbart.
Tollund Man, with his remarkably well-preserved face and hat, is also fascinating.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tollund_Man
Yeah, I know this is true, and we always try to remember to understand that the engineering decisions that were made at the time were made for good reasons given the circumstances we were facing.

It helps that I was one of the people who made those decisions at the time, so I know we were making what we thought were the best decisions at the time.

Still wish we had made some different ones, though!
Library books don’t just sit on shelves?
Ask HN: Who isn't an entitled white person here?
I am unfortunately one myself.

Common.. be honest. ;-)
> As other young men throughout the country swindle hedge funds by investing in video-game retail

Hmm... Anyone else find it odd that a ton of news is reporting on the GME event with this false angle, on unrelated news events? Not just me, right?
> All the "wildly successful" kickstarters and stuff seem to have commercial backers lined up to make the social media buzz effect appear bigger than it is.

This is interesting (and not at all surprising). Do you have a link to more information or is this just something you've noticed?
Not sure what the founder of barstool sports actual experience is in this area. Or whoever else. Also, it's very easy to describe order flow in a disingenuous way (citadel sees the order before the market) that's technically true and will make people think it's front running.

Did the experts say front running? Or did they say paid for orders and somebody else said front running?
Don't know about how Gnome does that[1], but Apple certainly does that, and it allows them to limit compounding of the pixel errors to a group of 8 or 9 pixels. Each new pixel group starts without any compounded error.

[1] Last time I checked, they didn't scale entire framebuffer as Apple does it, with output scaler. It looked like they were scaling surfaces individually with GPU and then composed the scaled surfaces into framebuffer with the same dimensions as the display resolution.
And so painful in the short, medium and long run for anyone who has to troubleshoot or operate it.
> "Public transportation" is something that only a minority of college-educated elite actually think is a good thing.

And I would certainly argue that this is a gigantic problem that is hamstringing the competitiveness of the United States for no good reason (like Tom Brady playing with one arm tied behind his back). Paying for those trucks (or cars), new highway construction, auto insurance, healthcare for those injured in car crashes, etc. is largely an unnecessary cost. It's clear that most countries can do just fine without.

With that being said, certainly I applaud anyone who is achieving the "American Dream" - I want people to be prosperous, but deriding public transportation and by extension things like sidewalks or bike lanes as though it might be some ivory-tower conversation is in my opinion a bit ridiculous. Everyone should be concerned with the costs and benefits of public transportation as well as buying cars and maintaining the highway infrastructure. It's not free...

You might say "the U.S. is so big!!" but I would just say we should largely be living closer together in medium density mixed-use environments (not skyscrapers, and certainly not suburbs). That doesn't mean you can't have a car or a yard, or a garage, but you should probably be walking to work or riding a bike - or at least some of your family members should be.
Maybe (maybe...) they did nothing against the 'rules' but that's not going to help them much when their angry customers transfer their accounts to other brokerages.

In my book, "really pissing off your customers" is "doing something wrong" which is why if you absolutely must do something that will make your customers angry you absolutely must explain yourself as quickly and as transparently as possible.
Absolutely.

4% inflation-adjusted returns aren’t going to turn a single contribution of $1,000 into $1,000,000 in anyone’s lifetime. We have a massive economic problem where the young and the economically disadvantaged face massive challenges achieving financial security. And without the spare funds to contribute non-trivial amounts regularly (and the financial education to buy-and-hold through thick and thin), even somewhere like Vanguard isn’t going to wildly change people’s fortunes.

I don’t know what the answer is (although I have some educated guesses) but what I know doesn’t really help is glorifying a gambling regime where one in millions gets filthy rich, one in tens of thousands gets kind of rich, one in hundreds does maybe a little better than the market, and everyone else is effectively donating what little they do have to the Wall Street elite.
China still has huge wealth disparity. So, while China might seem overall more prosperous than Argentina, Chinese emigrants are often from parts of the country with a standard of living below Argentina's.
Since you seem to like statically facts, here is one. Here in Sweden, being Muslim and an immigrant is a higher statistical risk of becoming a rapist than being male. To put it in mathematical terms, the portion of all Muslim immigrants that was found guilty of rape was higher than the portion of all males for the same period.

The question that statistician and researchers have been asking if such statistics is at all meaningful in order to reduce crime.