skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right; lots of modern document software, for instance, basically saves continuously; so a Google Docs-style application could have such a load. But if you have a write transaction every second, but each transaction only takes 1ms, that's still ~1000 concurrent users before you start to get noticeable lag.

Remember, the person I was replying to claimed SQLite was "not useable outside of the model... where you have a single user". Yes, if you need 100k concurrent users doing a 1ms transaction every second, SQLite isn't for you. But 1000 concurrent users is a lot more than 1.

Although on reflection, what they may have meant for "single user" is a single process (perhaps with multiple threads). That sounds reasonable to me: people just don't realize how much you can actually do with a single multi-threaded process running on a modern server.
I don't think the "2 bulldozers" was a serious plan. Just what they happened to have nearby where someone thought to give it a go.
They'd probably hand over the account information of some poor sap who shares my very common name since I don't have a Google account.
Row/Table level access controls don't work; you can't model use cases like "a user may not insert an order if he has 3 ore more unpaid invoices" or "a user can not insert anything until his password was changed in the last 30 days" etc. We have been there, it doesnt work. Thats why we use service layers of the DB to assert business logic.
Maybe placing 4 helicopters within 40ft of each other is not such a great idea?
No, you're not. That site and Greenspun's book about database-backed websites were a big inspiration to me.
A lot of our talk about leadership is about MBA-style, influencing by charisma, large ego, maybe wanting to be in power, etc.

What about leading by fundamentally admirable example? Would the people who decide to follow/join end up influenced more by merit relative to those values, than by high school popularity contest?

For pragmatics of this hypothetical, what if the imaginary Woz-leader had, e.g., a Chief of Staff, who was aligned with Woz being leader, and who made sure the necessary things Woz didn't want to do or wasn't good at, still happened?
Future makes me shudder, at least in this version:

> “Operators could face fines to the extent the car is not being operated in fully autonomous mode. For instance, the operator of a SAI L4/L5 car could be to blame if the systems had been inappropriately overridden (speeding due to fabricated medical emergency).”
At the time, London transport was pretty much at gridlock anyway and made the city pretty hard to live in IMO. It wouldn't have taken much to threaten the major income-generating source of the country (look up the economics of the city of London).

I don't even think it requires you to throw your life away. It could just be classified as civil disobedience.

To be clear, I had no sympathy at all with the IRAs violent campaign. I'm just pointing out that committed civil disobedience could be pretty effective if you have people committed enough that they will already kill people and go to prison quite often (or blow themselves up for that matter).
The hull looks pretty tough but it's gonna be a job getting enough pull to drag the thing.
Chrome remote desktop has quickly replaced teamviewer, vnc, ms remote desktop and osx screenshare for me, in one fell swoop!
Most significantly for helping other developers (usually just to undo a git state :)
The UK has been relatively proactive regarding money laundering. It was actually one of the first countries to mandate a publicly accessible company registry that includes beneficial owners.

Canada is on the other end of the spectrum in terms of both transparency requirements and enforcement, so much so that the term "snow washing" has become part of the vernacular internationally, and even garnered its own Wikipedia entry. There are developing countries (e.g., Ghana) that have more robust anti-money laundering regimes.
How so? I lived in the city and this is what I thought at the time. I might have been mistaken (which is part why I posted it here... to hear alternative arguments).
Churchill has also been said to be responsible for famines in india and africa
[1] https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/best-shot-at-unblocking-suez...
Well how long before they tell us they are "a very different company" [1] and decide to pull the plug on 3rd party apps.

[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update...
> I'm not sure what it's called -- it's a file that MacOS uses to let the computer hibernate when there's no power. It's a few GB, which (like the blog post stated) is a nontrivial amount of freeable space.

Should be /var/vm/sleepimage and the same size as your RAM.
I was surprised by this too, now have in firefox about:config dom.pointer-lock.enabled = false
Yes - that's kind of what I had in mind when I first suggested it. When containers fall of ships they often wash ashore on the UK coast. Even a container of motorbikes arrived in Cornwall recently... I'm presuming that only happens because they have some natural bouyancy.
> Finally, I haven't read all 162 comments here - but OO is not "bad" nor "the holy graal". There are different ways of doing programming, and its as simple as that

What are we programmers supposed to do with all of our free-time unless argue about what is the holy grail versus which is not?! I feel so empty.

Jokes aside, I think this is the most important point really. There is no single language/paradigm that works best for everything, it all really depends on the context, environment, and so much more. It's easy to forget on the internet, that someones environment might be vastly different than yours, and think your solution will work for others because you miss their context.

OOP is hated all around the world, and still solves problems. Functional programming is loved all around the world, but is still not the right solution for everything.
Reading about the 2 million codepoints: Is there a good set of open-source licensed fonts which cover as many codepoints as possible? Just curiosity, no real usecase at the moment. I don't think it would make sense to create one huge font for this, right?
(We need a new "rule", rule ... 42?
"If it exists, there is a HN thread on it. No exceptions." :)
Tie heavy duty straps with a small float attached to it before you dump it over the side, then use a tug to pull it away.
Corruption still exists in the west, and is much harder to fight since it is well hidden and mostly in the upper spheres.
I think it's different if you are re-using source (with GPL notices) or binaries (which don't have them)
Of course the problem is with the government. That's not my point.

My point is that there are plenty of reasons why this kind of name is not supported. Besides the legacy computing reasons, having a name that only a handful of people in the whole world could spell out is going to cause problems.

Fixing this problem would cost real money that could be used on other things. Perhaps the indigenous community should be consulted on their most pressing issues before enshrining the right to have these characters in a business name.
I believe POWER also has selectable TSO Mode. So did older sparks (before TSO became the only mode available).
It's risky for small boats due to the huge waves down there. Huge cargo ships seem to manage ok.
I stopped using Gnus because its elisp freezes Emacs (I now use mu4e, which has a separate process).

I would guess Eww would have a similar issue, although I've never been able to get it to work (I use emacs-w3m, which has a separate process).

I've found some programming modes to be very slow and prone to freezing; most noticably Scala using Metals (which uses lsp).
When exporting to a raster, the product of the inch dimensions and the DPI specifies the raster's pixel dimensions.

It is this pixel dimensions that matters on the web as it sets the size.

Some prefer to leave this out of the SVG and size them with CSS where there are richer options for dynamic sizing.

I recommend setting a good default size and then overriding it using CSS.

I have seen too many SVG that due to the lack of sizing constraints that would have been imposed by their container end up as wide as the screen and equally tall.
I think that's a great idea! Personally i'd like a nice failover test using a Pi Cluster. So if Pi's when failing and getting replaced on the fly if processes would still be up and running flawlessly. Probably a pretty useless and expensive setup, but i think it'd be awesome to watch.
How Does the English Premier League Make Money?
'Campeones' (Champions), directed by Javier Fesser in 2018, is a beautiful movie inspired by 'Aderes' team in Burjassot (Valencia, Spain), a team created with people with intellectual disabilities, some of them with Down Syndrome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champions_(2018_film)
See the "many people dishwashing in a small kitchen" comment upthread :)
The economics of charity won't solve those drivers problems.
Seems everyone and their dog moved their long-form into medium. And it does RSS. So, it's back to being mainstream?
Google's Noto Fonts[1] attempt to cover all of Unicode and are released under the SIL Open Font License.

[1] https://www.google.com/get/noto/
It is not a shame. Memorialising the suicide of a famous figure on a banknote is a terrible idea, for obvious reasons.

What happened to Alan Turing was an awful and ignorant evil, but this note is about celebrating his life and achievements. He has been pardoned and modern representatives of the government have apologised for his treatment. Is this enough? Of course not, a man was persecuted and driven to death for no good reason. Adding a coda about his suicide everywhere his name is mentioned won't help him. We simply don't have the power to right this wrong; we can only stay vigilant in the present day and honour the memory of Turing (and countless others) by preventing similar injustice now.

Edited: to remove joke that could be seen in poor taste.
I get that; which is why I call out such things when I see them (I really hate threading!) ;)
That's hilarious, thanks for posting
Great post, quite unusual to see something like this but also great to see who else believes in the product.

I wonder how you figured out pricing, since I'm working on something that is similar in a few aspects and am trying to figure out how to combine open source and pricing for it.
I think there were two fears. One is that you might want to stay in your house for a long time without having to go and get groceries. Either because you are quarantining, or because you're very afraid of catching a dangerous virus if you go out. Having plenty of food in the house could be the difference between having to take a risk and avoiding that risk.

Secondly I think a lot of people worried, rationally or not, about a 'breakdown of society'. If there is enough death and disease then maybe everything stops working. People don't go to work, transport and food production break down, there is looting and widespread lawlessness, and so on. Perhaps it's very hard to get food, or impossible to get some foods, or some form of government rationing starts. In that case having a stockpile could be very valuable.
Makes sense. Seems like IQ is just fluid intelligence which mediates the rate of acquisition of crystallized intelligence.
One killer feature could be some form of ransomware protection. If a sudden entropy change is detected, snapshot the data, then provide the customer with the option to revert changes from that time (up to, say, a week).
Is this is the correct place to debate whether it's a ship that is stuck, and not a boat?
> Look at some of the photos of the front of it. Look at how far out of the water it is sitting. The ship might look like that if it were totally empty, but not when it is full of containers like this.

One thing many people are missing is the Suez Canal is not concrete, it’s sand, so the canal “walls” are not vertical they’re a relatively gentle 3:1 slope (4:1 in wider areas). Meaning only the center half of the canal is flat and “at depth”, the ship started hitting sand 30-40m from the edge of the canal. By the time it reached the visible edge it’s half-sitting on sand half wedged into it.
Wow you must be the only person in the world that things Jenkins is more usable than Github Actions!
That sounds really interesting, do you have any links?
The big things are indeed being outsourced to separate processes. LSP handles a lot, I also see some attempts at moving syntax highlighting to tree-sitter[0]. But all such work means a good chunk of code is running inside a foreign process, whose behavior cannot be easily inspected or modified at runtime.

But there are a lot of various smaller things in Emacs and elisp module ecosystem that would benefit from being able to run off the main thread. Emacs performance is fighting death by a thousand cuts, with almost everything being tied to the main thread (despite async features being used to pretend it's not).

--

[0] - https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
Looks really neat. We have a not-super-trivial rails app that I want to move to docker one day, but kinda scared to make the jump. We're already using docker for development, plus even have a home-grown docker-compose setup for ephemeral labs, but it's clunky at best.

This seems like something that might provide a simple jumping board hopefully... Also bumped into fluxCD[0] recently which also looks interesting.

[0] https://github.com/fluxcd/flux
Nor “FYI”.
Does this have anything to do with why Google Keyboard/Gboard doesn't have the Scottish flag? It's by far my most used emoji and my keyboard not having it drives me nuts.
It's not exactly helpful to be a contrarian about every action of a government (by the way, the "English government" doesn't exist) because they haven't implemented the specifics of your personal political agenda.

The problem with being so blinded by hatred towards an entity is that you attribute malevolence to their every action and fail to consider things objectively. The government have pardoned him, the prime minister has issued an official apology, we are now celebrating him in multiple extremely prominent ways, which can only lead to more people learning about both his achievements and the injustices committed against him. Your reaction is to call that "a disgrace".
I've been reviewing CMSs for some time, and PicoCMS is the best in terms of simplicity, hands-off and easiness.
Sometimes the moderators encourage reposts of unnoticed articles they thought were good (by reaching out to the poster directly). Although I don’t know if that’s what happened here. It could have been a sufficiently different url.
> In my opinion, fairness requires having skin in the game.

Everyone has skin in the game, it's called 'life'.

> Contributing proportionally would give them skin in the game

They do contribute proportionally, they have very little so that contribution is low. In general this is done because if you take the same proportion from the worst off as you do from the richest, the poor starve.

> they would all of a sudden discover the importance of demanding fiscal responsibility from those that are governing.

While they starve because of the new tax regime. I imagine the first thing they'll demand is that their taxes get lowered so that they can live, so back to square one. If there aren't just food riots first. Also it looks like you're mooting introducing some sort of unbreakable, unchangeable law so that people would demand other changes. I'm not sure that's how democracy works...

> you shouldn't tax what you want to see more of in society

You don't want commerce?

You realise that to support your scheme, sales tax would have to go up to the region of 100%?
VSCode disables syntax highlighting on very large files.
In my mind, an escaping convict is not the same as a "fleeing suspect" though (the term the GP used). A convict has already had its day in court, so the presumption of innocence doesn't apply.
Is that bit about recipes why so many recipes online come with a story?
> Why do you care that someone uses a car?

I don't care if they use a car, I care if they need a car to do basic things such as: grocery shopping, going to a café, to a restaurant, to a park, to meet friends and so on. I really care if a car is a basic necessity for life, it's stupid, I came from such a country and it's just stressful, stressful to drive in traffic, stressful to maintain a car's upkeep, taxes, parking spot. All of that eats your money so you can have a care idling 95-99% of the time, it's a waste of resources, both financial and mental.

> So for someone who doesn't mind driving (i.e. most people)

How can you state that? Do you have data to corroborate this statement? What culture are you talking about?

I believe you see all of this too much with a US-centric myopic approach, the kinds of cities being discussed already exist in other parts of Earth, have you lived in one of them?
Linktree raises $45M Series B
This approach of using the system python, although somewhat mitigated by flatpak, is Bad. What happens when you have to ship GIMP on non-flatpak platforms, like MacOS...? You're either stuck on an ancient version or you must ask the user to install it separately. Neither option is particularly good.

It shouldn't be too hard to pack up a python executable instead.
They do sometimes depending on oil prices and how much of a hurry they are in https://www.imarest.org/themarineprofessional/on-the-radar/i...
CapRover is cool, although at least last time I looked at it, it felt more suitable for personal hosting. In a way it promoted point-and-click interactions over scriptable, CD-type deployments.
Indeed, and so is Ever Greet (sister ship of Ever Given): https://www.fleetmon.com/maritime-news/2021/33141/mega-conta...

There will most likely be lots more that choose to take the long route.
I don't get it. You can be charged with attempted murder or attempted robbery, where you failed to do the thing you're guilty of, just fine. Why is this different?
Considering that people using the open source android version got eventually banned I wouldn’t suggest people try this out.

https://github.com/grishka/Houseclub/issues/225
I'm at a seaside resort in Egypt so I could get a bucket and spade and head up there to dig it out. Might take a while though.
Our entire society is based around the notion that institutins are separate legal personalities, distinct from the people that make them up. They can take on liability, sign contracts, be sanctioned by courts, etc.

Besides, we're talking moral responsibility not legal.
You're right of course. I just have a personal hatred for the whole situation; to lose the genius of someone like Turing and all the further developments he could've made if it weren't for the persecution of his "crime" is absolutely tragic. That's without even considering the personal, moral aspect to this, which is something that many gay people experienced during the time. No number of meaningless pardons or pretty bank notes will change that fact, unfortunately. It'll always just be tragic.
I cried, fantastic.
Grumpy.website
My wife works a part time job and chooses to do most of the cooking. She does most of the laundry but other house hold chores are spread out amongst everyone including the children.
Same here. It became somewhat obvious after learning to think about the world in terms of distributions.

Most everything at the top and bottom ends of the distributions are problematic in some way. IQ seems no exception.
Djikstra is the king of insightful CS quotes.

FTFY.
There is this philosophical dilemma. Should your Stark-trek-inspired food-machine be able to load recipes from an URL, using a standard recipe-format, or should an URL on your computer device load an app that connects to the food-machine... ? eg. static web with different kinds of formats and devices - versus web-apps and API's
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If they can dig a tunnel along the boat a 100 feet deep, that would probably be enough to set it free. No need for a boatload of C4 then.
Right, but how does that compare to the incumbents? The JVM and .NET CLR don't seem to be going anywhere.

In this day and age I don't think the abstraction layer is the issue. Modern bytecode VMs are already able to be within an order of magnitude of native code, and I'd imagine there's still plenty of room there for improvement (WASM comes to mind). Unless you're on constrained hardware, or developing directly against hardware (rather than using an operating system, which is itself a horrific layer of bloat-on-bloat), a bytecode VM is still perfectly reasonable even for soft-real-time applications (let alone for applications that are throughput-sensitive rather than latency-sensitive).
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> I'm stunned how often I get the permission prompt on completely unrelated websites.

I have the same problem and found that the embedded Vimeo player assumes all videos could be played in VR, although the video is a normal, flat video, so any webpage embedding a Vimeo video, prompts that permission notification for me, although the actual video could be on a different page but still initialized on page load.
Like the OP said, folks really aren't understanding the scale of this problem.. If they manage to do a single crate per minute, that's still just under seven days to do them all.

An empty forty foot shipping container on its own weighs about four tons and their max supported weight is 33.5 tons, so the problem is somewhere in between for every single container. A Mi-26 helicopter, a "heavy transport helicopter" can only lift 14.5 tons, so there will be crates that can't be lifted.

Even if it was possible, and ignoring the logistical issues, you can't ignore the safety issues. Doing it quickly across seven days is going to lead to human and equipment failure, and somebody's bound to get hurt or killed. Considering how many eyes are on this right now, what do you think is going to happen the first time someone dies?
Rule 42a: if a HN thread does not yet exist for it, then it is your civic duty to create one.
The documentary The Crash Reel is about a snowboarder who gets a traumatic brain injury, but the comments of one of his brothers (who has Down’s syndrome) on his life and on his family form part of it - really interesting to watch
Outside of Vietnam war movies, it's very unusual to see helicopters flying in close proximity.

I suppose it's possible you could find a bunch of pilots confident in cargo handling, landing on ships, and close formation flight all at once. Or that the ship is large enough the helicopters would practically be independent of one another?
Can we just drop some anvils while we are at it? Why ask Tesla to help when ACME has never let us down?
Yes, but that's a legal fiction. They can't act, neither can "our society" or "the government".

The only entities that can take actions of any kind are human beings.
Nah but a US ICBM could be there in 30 min.
I like this one better than 42, with the appeal to civic duty and all :)