skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“ Imprisoning trolls: the rise of hate crimes in the UK and the increasing measures to tackle them ”

https://sociable.co/social-media/hatea-crimes-uk/
I also have a lot of issues with people using tables and cronjobs instead of just using queues.

I once was the one implementing this stupid idea. It's very easy to shoot yourself in the foot. It seems to be ok at first, but it is a stupid idea and will give nightmares to the operations team.

It works as long as the table is small. It gets especially problematic when there are sudden spikes in the workload, so that the table is growing rapidly. People don't test these scenarios enough.

Often it's important to do the jobs in the order they came in. This means you need to have the index set up this way or you'll end up with full table scans. You also need to remove jobs which are done, but this will also mess with the tables performance.

There are tricks with databases to help scaling this, but at the end of the day it's much simpler to just use a queue.
And spending your life working to make other execs rich isn’t a waste of oxygen?
Interesting that this is classified as self-refential paradox by Wikipedians.
Yes, term you're looking for is anti-radiarion missiles, they've been around for a little while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-radiation_missile?wprov=s...
KeyDB is really good. We use it in production to achieve millisecond response times on millions of requests per second.
Postscript, the printer page description language, is a general purpose programming language in common use, also as the basis of PDF.
That's I believe that's incorrect. WP won't "crop up", unless you're using some special plugin.

In fact, for example, if you have 3 images sizes registered, say 100px wide, 500px wide, and 1000px wide, and you upload an image 800px wide, native WP will not produce the 1000px wide image. It can't. It will only resize / crop down. It won't take an image an stretch it.
You don’t understand what the mass shootings are and who does them.
As if too much [0]information is not information.

Or not enough depending how one interprets information
Leetcoders talk about their job hunt
Can anyone explain the need for redis in a clear way for someone who knows how databases work but isn't a backend developer? What alternatives are there? What did people do to solve the same problem before redis existed?
When I first encountered the behavior I thought it was a lazy bug. I was and still am baffled.
How peaceful was the transition of power in Ireland?
Again, I'm not saying the US is perfect or even good.

I'm saying you have two separate moral measuring tapes here, one for the West, and one for the rest. Clearly the only current superpowers are the US and China. China's moral performance is absolutely shocking - from state-sponsored cannibalism (read up on the Cultural Revolution), CURRENT concentration camps, supporting North Korea. To most importantly, not feeling any shame about any of the above.

If you want to compare the US to past superpowers, name an empire, and I'll name a list of atrocities that'll make Carter and the Khmer Rouge and Nixon and Pinochet look like a Sunday school lesson.

The US isn't a little angel if seen in isolation. But in contrast to the alternatives it's just wonderful.
Interesting point about what developers prefer vs. what the data shows. Developers also prefer command-line tools even though data indicates that GUIs are more productive.
That's roughly correct, it depends on the university. Usually most of the cost is for the public transport ticket.
Up until the 60s, most people that went to Harvard lived in the NE. People didn't regularly travel far for college until cars became widespread.
You’re dealing with survivorship bias - those companies whose products were successful enough that they needed your services. You don’t speak to the teams who went bankrupt because they spent too much time fiddling with RabbitMQ, when Postgres would have been fine.

As always, there are trade offs, no silver bullets.
The range where databases work fine is pretty small. Sudden spikes in job creation will kill the performance of the database. Often enough the job creations come from external systems you can't control.
A very important, stabilising segment of every society. Don't know what the optimal amount is, but clearly history teaches us that too many or too few of such conservatives can lead to disaster. The British system's incredible staying power (especially for a country of some note, and not a tiny state on the periphery of history) suggests theirs is something like an optimal percentage.
Define locate.
Not sure how fundamental it is, e.g., is it fundamental to bar ad-hoc caller-ID functions and require displaying the actual number & name of the account (maybe allowing additional info also)? Telcos already pass on this info - how big a deal is it to transmit accurate data?

But even if it is fundamental, such fundamental change is needed.
Doesn't this also imply a level of conscious decision making that a fern is probably not capable of making?

Occam's razor would suggest that exposure to light, orientation relative to gravity, etc are more likely causes for the divergent characteristics of ferns at different positions, not any kind of purposeful social organization.
So then this logic brings us to space platforms, anti-space platforms, and observservations of space platforms.

Everyone is probably already arming space to the teeth. I guess it's better than mutually assured destruction?
Correction, AWS hasn't replaced IT, just added a bunch of requirements now for it eg:AWS certifications. They replaced the hardware aspect though.
Actually afaik, there are accessibility issues with that solution. Instead, stick with img and use object-fit instead.

https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/o/object-fit/

I'd also suggest reading this. Having to write ultra-complicated media queries (width + resolution, etc.) feels friction-y. Instead, use sizes and scrset and the browser will take care of the rest.

https://ericportis.com/posts/2014/srcset-sizes/
What he calls "world construction" involves the development of a rubric custom to the problem.

This creates a faster feedback loop inside of the larger, noisier one. Your feedback is now guided around the question of "what makes the rubric itself better?" This can be done on principle, with limited access to external information. Philosophical thinking is eminently suited to this style of problem, but it can be supplemented with short-term empirical studies that add some falsifying points and narrow your cone of uncertainty.

At the end you've generated a list of yes/no questions forming the rubric of whether the course of action is likely to succeed. It can be turned into a ranking score, or a pass-fail threshold.

If you're frustrated by the idea of just making it up on principle, that's a frustration with philosophy itself; it rarely "works" until you accept some pragmatic premises around what is "good" or "true". The point of having a large number of questions, using a wide variety of perspectives, is that they test the overall coherency of the premise. Something can work fine from one perspective, and then completely fail in another. When that happens, it's a good sign that you have more to improve.

It's quite an important life skill to practice. It's easy to go along with the crowd, but this is a way of breaking away from it.
Oh, man. I feel like I should show it to my hacker friends at Cyberdelia and ask if it's worth the trouble of downloading/using.
Who says the change was in Europe? The US got around to leveraging its comparative advantages in internet tech and grew some huge companies. The Facebook was never going to emerge from Poland, no matter how much public policy tried to support smart Polish engineers building PHP frameworks for people to upload pictures of their friends. Europe did not create any Facebooks, but achieved comparable productivity and GDP growth rates spread across a more diverse range of fields, and excelled in fields like Coronavirus vaccine research despite comparatively modest success stories in selling digital advertising. It is not obvious that we are worse off as a result, or that a giant company like Facebook is substantially more likely to come up with the Next Big Thing in technological progress than a merely large one like Siemens, or even a reasonably well capitalised research company well outside the top 1000 firms. The value of growth is demonstrated in goods and services, jobs and potential for goods and jobs across the entire economy, not in vanity metrics like number of companies with enough monopoly power to show up in top companies indices.

(And China was always going to move up the value chain in consumer electronics and grow faster than both of us; when it does so further in the next couple of decades it need not represent a flaw in US/European policy)
Sizes is needed when you specify the intrinsic width of the image with the w descriptor I believe. Alternatively you can specify resolution factor (1x, 2x, etc) in which case the sizes attribute is not needed and the choice of which image to download is placed on the browser in a more autonomous manner than specifying sizes.
Yes, of course a democracy without universal suffrage can be one. In fact, the UK was more of a democracy before universal suffrage than many formally democratic states with universal suffrage today. This is because democracy is not solely, or even approximately defined by the mere act of casting a ballot.
Particle seen switching between matter and antimatter at CERN
I'm interpreting 'The OIG report said the hackers used "a compromised external user system" to access the JPL missions network.' as the Pi being a legitimate user's project.
The UK is different, because the EU is not like the US federal government. Economic systems and cultures vary massively across the EU, far more than across US states. Hell, half the EU were Marxist-Leninist autocracies just a few decades ago!
On old POS systems you can just roll back the transactions and put the cash in your pocket, as if it never happened…
I wonder how true the preference for relationship over transaction is. I buy fish from my local fishmonger because it’s qualitatively substantially better tasting. If that stopped being true, my relationship with him would end immediately and “supermarket fish it is now, because that’s about 50% the cost”. He can basically only stay in business by competing on quality because he can’t possibly compete on price and there aren’t enough people who would pay his rent out of a sense of charity for the local fish butcher.
A cinematic approach to drug resistance (2016)
In my experience, successful women would rather be single moms than be a breadwinner and support a stay-at-home husband.
> No, not at all. But you don't have the same party ruling in U.S. for several decades.

Look at state/city level and you will have a different picture of United States.

And for Europe, let's take France as example. Here are the ruling party changes in the last forty years : 81,86,88,93,97,02,12,17

Do you know the average tenure of the current American senators ?
Help me understand Paul, as I'm a tad bit younger - what's that mid-to-late 2000s writing style? Mind giving some examples?
> I fear that all the cynics blaming everything that's bad on politicians and the EU (instead of the voters putting those politicians in power)

Yes. Last year I started playing an browser game about running your own commpany and got interested in economics.

If capitalism can be fun inside a game, how come it isn't fun in real life?
After all a game that disenfranchises new players and prevents them from playing the game is going to die over the long term. People would quit the game the same way they quit their job. There must be a fundamental difference in how the game has designed its economy vs how we designed our real economy.

For example, unlike real life it's possible to win a video game. It's possible to have produced everything everyone else could have possibly wanted. At some point there is simply too much stuff and not enough buyers. The game would die from deflation. The game devs have strategically placed market maker NPCs that buy products at an extremely low price that is never worth it unless there is sufficient deflation. It's basically a job guarantee, it's demand side stimulus. Dumping your resources into the MM will cause inflation, which will raise the price of your resources until it makes more sense to sell your resources on the market to other players. Even if there are large players dominating the market and dumping prices to rock bottom rates, it will always be possible to earn some money until those prices are no longer rock bottom.

The point isn't that politicians should implement a job guarantee (it would certainly help though). It's that politicians have the power to design a working economic system. I always was under the impression that these politicians simply didn't understand the economy but that's not the case. They aspire to a certain form of capitalism that is good over the long term but just happens to suck over the short term right now and people willingly vote for them. Things are guaranteed get better once China, Eastern Europe, Africa, South America have caught up with the US and rich part of the EU but how long is that going to take? 40 years?

You just need to break the chain for 8 years, get things back in order over the short term. Biden is doing it. The EU has to follow similar actions but that requires voters to not choose right wing populism or the same old party they voted for 20 years straight, they need to vote for parties that actually want to help them.
Nvidia to drop Windows 7 and Windows 8 driver support in October
How to protect species and save the planet–at the same time
What does it mean for a SWF to be "democratically accountable"?

Given SWFs generally act like other large scale institutional investors - I suppose democratic accountability has put political pressure on some SWFs to act on ESG concerns (changing investment strategies away from fossil fuels towards renewables, voting in favour of climate activist resolutions, etc) but apart from that, is there any reason to think that the Crown Estate is doing a bad job at maximising returns to the government?

(And to be clear, though I suspect you know this - I'm not using the S in SWF to refer to the head of state specifically, but to the government, as is the traditional meaning)
Colorful Launches the First GPU History Museum
It does get bit more interesting when the wealth has yearly net-cost... And really can not be liquidated. And some wealth brings more yearly than some other. With royalty and old upper-class this likely doesn't compare to more modern wealth.
> You’d probably already have indices by user then.

Do you mean "you'd probably already have indices by user then, so you won't be able to take advantage of quick drops"?

> There also other ways to store the data, for example not as a time series of user actions, but as another data structure. It just depends on your requirements and data model.

I suppose I want to be a bit more specific. Till now, if I wanted to deal with this issue, I would just have used a cron job and some indexes and taken on the load. But what is an example of a nice way of dealing with this? You get to make up plausible requirements and data model details, perhaps drawing on particular requirements you had when you faced a similar issue.

> The gist of the original article is asking whether you could reduce tech stack complexity and use a single set of technologies for more use cases, allowing to understand the tool you are using better.

The legitimacy of a question in a free-form conversation doesn't depend on the original inspiration, several iterations ago. But even if it did, the question is here is exactly about understanding the tools better and whether we can use one tool instead of two, so by your summary it's perfectly on topic.

> Also, note that a traditional database may or may not be the right tool for the job - there are different storage/behavior needs for writing lots of data, processing lots of data and serving the results.

The subquestion here is precisely if we can get away with just using Postgres for data with mandatory lifespan requirements that vary over the lifetime of the data.

Extra tools come at a cost - that is the presumption of this article and the thread it has spawned.

If we have to use Postgres, we need to assess the cost of doing this in Postgres before we can decide whether or not to pay the cost of other tools. Waving in the general direction of other tools isn't helpful; it probably takes as much work to enumerate candidates as it does to calculate the cost of doing it in Postgres.
If you find this interesting, you will probably also enjoy this TED talk from Suzanne Simard on how trees communicate. She also was in an interesting Fresh Air segment recently.

https://www.ted.com/talks/suzanne_simard_how_trees_talk_to_e...
So you don’t believe that we can manufacture nucleotide-perfect sequences of RNAs? Than I have to break it for you, we absolutely can, to the point where you can simply order a specific sequence online without much trouble.

I just don’t understand why would you trust a car engine all that much more vs medicine. Do not blindly trust anything, but questioning uncontroversially held beliefs by a whole field is just cocky.
Good idea, but there's a history of user accounts with disabled or restricted shells for various reasons. And execve would bypass that. There's no real pattern/standard for disabled shells, so a fix would be tricky. I suppose you could at least support execve of the login shell plus the command line, but that's not what people are really looking for.
well, that would depend on how one defines conscious, and also on the assumption that eusociality depends on conscious decisions.

Occam's razor could equally well be used to cut out the dependence on consciousness for the development of eusocial behavior.

do we ascribe the eusocial organization of ants to conscious decisions made by individual ants?
> He accidently poisoned himself? Unheard of for passionate mushroom hunters!

Poisoning yourself with false hellebore suggests he might have been a little unhinged. You’d have to be pretty impulsive to do that.
> in Britain

In Great Britain, as opposed to Northern Ireland...
There are many viruses in the world that have never been wiped out, and which I've never caught, nor have any other people I know.

The assumption that eventually SARS-CoV-2 will infect 100% of the population is a common modelling assumption. When I went looking for validation of it, I couldn't find any.

As for known dosages, as I say above, I couldn't find any information comparing dosages or cell death levels of vaccines vs actual viral infections. That would certainly be helpful to know, assuming such reports were reliable.
it's cool that they added listen notify to postgres; I wonder when they will add many-to-many relationships; my problems with postgress start when i have to do a many to many relationship. For these you need to do an extra table for the link entries; now performance tanks, and you need to denormalise this for read requests, that's where the fun starts...
Born in a diamond mine

It's all around you, but you can't touch it

Sayin', "God, make me famous"

"If you can't, just make it painless"
Infinity is a bad abstraction. Mathematicians make them too.
140k lines of code: why we built our own licensing system
I said I couldn't stand Indian food. Then a Twitter friend took me to dinner
Space based weapons are extremely limited in practice. The problem is that at any given time 90% or more of your orbital assets are over the pacific ocean, or the arctic, or antarctic, or anywhere other than where you want them to be and you can't change that very easily.
Thanks for your advice!

1. Yeah. I should have had screenshots on my webpage :).
2. It's Chacha20-Poly1305-IETF. I haven't have time to document the protocol, so if anyone wants to see it, they need to read the code :).
3. Yeah, that's also in the plan.

My point is that average people might not care about the exact algo being used. They might not even care that it's actually encrypted, so there is no need to specify it in the homepage. The only point of documenting this might be just for devs or people who wouldn't use before they know how it works.
It goes further than just games, of course. Many otherwise sensible people believe they can use their phones while driving — often making up rules like “it’s OK if I’m in heavy traffic” or “it’s OK if I’m waiting at the light,” as though they aren’t at best losing situational awareness and contributing to traffic even in that scenario.
We've had radar that can "detect" stealth since the 40s.

Radar is a huge field and HN's simplistic view is humorous.
> US social mobility is only slightly better (insignificantly) than the two worst countries in Europe. I think that article rather supports my claim.

Compared with the cohort of European countries, America fairs poorly (though not excessively so).

The original claim, however, was that it fares "among the worst in the world." This is incorrect; it's roughly middle of the pack [1][2].

On the measure of the "number of generations it would take...those born to...the bottom 10% of the income distribution...to approach the mean in their society," America ties with Ireland, Portugal, Italy, the U.K., Italy, Austria and Switzerland. It is ahead of France, Germany and Hungary. In summary, America is good at allowing the poor to become middle class. It is less good at letting the middle class become exorbitantly rich, though not terribly so.

[1] https://www.oecd.org/social/broken-elevator-how-to-promote-s...

[2] https://www.oecd.org/els/soc/1-5%20generations.png
You also might not be thinking that clearly if you had just been swallowed alive by a baleen whale. That he was reasoning with any clarity at all, in his situation, is impressive to me.
A year is still blazingly fast. Most plumbers will wait years to try a new way of joining pipes, and it might take decades until it's clear if the new way is more reliable.

In the time it takes most professions to consider trying a new framework or tool (beyond the early adopters), entire programming languages rise to popularity and fall back into obscurity.
Some loitering ammunition also do that. It waits in the area until SAM battery turns on their radar, then it knows its position and destroys it.
Admirable Attributes of a Great Technical Lead
Ah ha. Yup, that’s exactly it. Thanks for the pointer.

Edit: can you explain by what you mean by solving it with topics? I thought topics were a broadcast mechanism?
And this is why we have declining population growth
Solar city was basically a series of acquisitions. It ended up being bailed out through the Tesla acquisition but once Musk bailed out his own Solar city stock/bonds he gutted the Tesla Energy (Solar City rebrand) branch and basically pretended that it never existed in the first place. The solar roof was just some hyped up product to get the acquisition through.
This has been referred to as [Lacros](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/refs/he...)

[aboutchromebooks](https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/news/lacros-vs-chrome-and-c...) has a nice explanation as well.

The reasoning I've read behind it is this will allow updates to continue for the browser much longer (probably more important!) than the cycle of the OS which has a much more finite support window.
Obvious incompetence bordering on malevolence aside, isn't that also a violation of GDPR?
Same for any queuing system. You need to set the expiry time long enough for the expected task duration.

In SQS, for example, you use a visibility timeout set high enough that you will have time to finish the job and delete the message before SQS hand it off to another reader.

You won’t always finish in time though, so ideally jobs are idempotent.