skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Kroger decided to close a store because it didn't want to pay a covid front line temporary increase of $4/hr.

If you're talking about Seattle, Kroger closed that store because it was underperforming for years, not because of a temporary wage increase that affected every grocery store in the city. Weeks later, they started advertising open positions with wage increases for nearby stores they didn't close...

When it comes to political decisions, firms lie all the time about their motivations. I don't understand how anyone can take what they say at face value, without any means to verify their claims.

The reality is that nobody closes their grocery business because labour costs went up for them and their competitors. Customers still need groceries to live, and you and your competitors just pass the costs directly to them, without any change to profit margins or market share. Closing your grocery over this is as nonsensical as closing your grocery because the spot price of milk went up to $15/gallon.
The GIL is a good example because it removed optionality from Python by having its semantics leak out. Using a poorly performing tool is a different problem entirely.

Most of the really horrible errors in SW design involve choices where the semantics above will be visible and encoded as a subtle (or not so subtle) dependency that cannot later be fixed without an infeasible level of effort. I deal with these regularly and they are the true original sin in most sizable software projects.
In the US that’s true (according to Wikipedia), but in a lot of places around the world, landing strips on the highway used to be (or still are) a thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip
In theory but not in practice if you're distributing your apps sources.

If you write for C compiler Foo 8, there's a decent chance Foo 9 will raise a warning which didn't exist before. Now you have to handle "why doesn't this compile" issues and distributions have to patch your sources to do future releases. And that's ignoring bugs like GCC in the past where in some versions you could not satisfy specific warnings.
yeah maybe instead of making fun of that major industry other operating systems should treat it as an opportunity to gain market share.
This marble setup is a 'hidden variable' theory - the article is how quantum is different from that.
I don't understand the mention of "Judeo/Christian background"[0] or the invocation of race where religion is concerned (cultural is downstream of religion, anyway), but in any case, it is true, based on what I have read, that "American Buddhism" as practiced in the United States is sort of a consumerist ethos dressed up in Buddhist garb. The case is similar where Hinduism is concerned. The phrase "I am God" coming from the mouth of a traditional Hindu means something different than it does coming from an American who has immersed himself in a kind of Hindu-coated consumerism. The latter is sort of a pantheistic claim, at least theologically, while the latter is likely the expression of consumerist egoism.

[0] Btw, I would suggest using "Christian" or "Jewish or Christian" instead of "Judeo-Christian". There are important incompatibilities between post-Christian Talmudic Judaism and Christianity (itself fractured) that cannot be glossed over with a hyphen.
> European states with Napoleonic law appear to avoid the cost spiral.

At least not in France. The "SNCF" had to be rescued by the French state three times since it was created in 1937. And it was created because the private companies it replaced were bankrupt. [0] (in French)

Each year the French state gives ~16 Billion Euros to the company [1] (in French)

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/03/19/cinq...

[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9_nationale_de...
Blumenauer Announces New Space Tax Proposal
This sort of thinking precludes the possibility of ever developing better methods though. And this statistical argument was actually quite common in machine design until people started actually building machines that were more precise than many believed possible. The thesis I linked has examples of arguments analogous to what you're saying for why precision machine design is impossible.

Edit: I don't mean to be too harsh, you could be right, but software engineering is a young discipline. Mechanical engineering is much older and it was only recently that precision machine design became possible (and, just as importantly, teachable). I believe software engineering has the potential for a similar change in how it is done, at least for projects that warrant it.
but you still can't get unemployment if you voluntarily leave your job
I use a service called HN Notify to get email notifications when one of my comments has been replied to. It seems to work quite well. https://hnnotify.xyz

(To the author of HN Notify: if you're reading this, thank you!)
AFAIK SpaceX and Elon have said Starlink profits will fund their Mars exploration plans. That effectively hands-on astronomy! ;-)

On a more serious note, if you get the infrastructure going to get a lot of hardware and people to Mars, then getting some more modern space observatories should be quite easy.
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That's simply not true. The throughput provided by starlink absolutely pales in comparison to an optical fibre link. AFAIK current plans might look at 100 Gbps transponders for the interlinks (I think it might even just be 10 Gbps). Even if they go to future 800 G or 1T transponders (which is questionable if it's possible, especially because most of the constellation needs this, so a whole exchange of satellites would be required), that's still much less than 70 Tbps that can be transmitted through a single fibre over submarine distances, and a submarine cable typically contains tens to hundreds of fibres.

So in short starlink will have no influence on available crosscontinental bandwidth.

Source: I research on optical fibre and space communication
Yes, indeed, that does seem an oversight.
I have a custom tool for this: https://datasette.io/tools/hacker-news-to-sqlite

It provides me with a command-line utility for fetching all of the comments in a particular thread into a SQLite database, for example:

hacker-news-to-sqlite trees hacker-news.db 27897211

For threads that I'm actively involved in (probably no more than a few times a year) I will run this script about once an hour - then I can use "select * from items order by time desc" (usually in Datasette) to see the most recent comments.

(The initial goal of the tool was to archive my own comments, which can be done with "hacker-news-to-sqlite user hacker-news.db your-username" - I run that on a cron)
The correct comparison is “SQLite index” is faster compared to “file system inode index”
The title is a joke, right? It's not actually "faster than the filesystem" unless it's not using the filesystem; it's faster than something else that also uses the filesystem because they use different system calls (context switching).
This doesn't seem right. I plugged in San Francisco, and it quoted a $12.00/hr minimum wage. The actual minimum wage here is $16.32/hr.

They're using state level minimum wages, but that's just as inaccurate as using the federal minimum wage.
That makes sense though, because a blanket unemployment benefit extension is probably cheaper to implement than a bureaucratic mechanism to determine which jobs were lost as a result of COVID.
The guy's been dead for 62 years with no heirs. Now someone wants to cash in. This is where the original intent of copyright comes in... "to promote the arts and sciences." Well, since the guy who created the photos isn't here anymore, and hasn't been for 62 years, let's ask ourselves how someone cashing in on this now promotes the arts and sciences.
I think it's just simply a lot of folks on HN (including me) just like SQLite very much and instantly voting up an article about SQLite (even when we already saw it :D).
absolutely, and for directories for your projects /places where lots of files thrash about, add those dirs as exceptions in the options.

i mean i added c:\ as an exception because i do not need realtime av but i dont think it will actually work like that
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Known issue? Yes. One of the reasons many games have faster load times under Wine when compared with the actual OS.

No clue on what the actual underlying issue is. And it's not like we can easily switch filesystems to compare.
Even though I love Firefox and I think it's vital for the web, I can't really in good conscience support Mozilla when it keeps shooting itself in the foot times and times again.
I believe everything this article says. I also believe the opposite, that ideas can be worth 1000x execution.

Specifically, I would restate the author's thesis as "an idea without execution is worthless."

But what about execution without an idea? That happens all the time too. People have a goal, have no ideas as to how to accomplish that goal, so just brute force it. The result is often a wart that damages the cohesiveness and usability of whatever it was applied to.

I'm speaking in general terms -- it might be a "disruptive" company that captures value without creating any. It might be a UI feature that violates the mental model and thus makes the entire UI hard to learn. It might be a copycat app that adds to the noise of the marketplace. Even if something is executed just as well as the thing it's cloning, that thing already existed. We don't need two of them. If nothing is being added, then something is being subtracted from the overall system.

I'll confess, I've described myself as an idea guy. But I don't mean "ideas only", I mean "ideas also". As in, if I'm part of a team trying to accomplish X, I'll come up with a dozen different ways that we could approach the problem. Sometimes it results in a dramatically simpler implementation, sometimes it results in wasted time going through and discarding a bunch of dumb ideas that don't pan out. Sometimes it results in solving a set of related problems at the same time with little to no additional cost. Or pawning off the solution to a different group.

Don't tell me those ideas are worthless!
When I'm out rowing a boat I don't think anyone would consider me a captain. Or when I'm sitting on a ship, I don't think anyone would consider me a sailor.

When I'm on a flight I'm called a passenger, for example. They were passengers.
Can you point to some of the most relevant/recent research?
I've changed my mind on this a few times, but I think schools or creditors should have some duty to not give out loans of this magnitude to 17-year olds with little to no financial literacy. The same way that a bank would not give you a huge loan with bad credit. Schools should also be extremely upfront about this type of financial information.
What I think is interesting is that a lot of people really do struggle to come up with good ideas. They lack creative thinking, or don't exercise it very much.

Then there's the types that have so many ideas but so little focus and persistence to see an idea all the way through.

So the spectrum of people that have a good idea that they understand well, and a vision for that product, and can also either build it themselves or lead a team to do so is pretty thin.
Show HN: Really real-time messenger
Personally, I have not seen that. Which operations did you think were slow? Small-block/large-block?, sequential/random I/O ? etc, etc. Or did you just mean general productivity?
Ohh, ha! I thought you meant replacing flights directly to Earth destinations. So instead of taking a 787 from Seattle to Taipei I would take a Starship.

Yes, there are environmental benefits to putting the actual destination in space, I hadn’t really considered that.
> It's an NTFS limitation, not any specific version of Windows.

I would guess their surprise is because the charts specifically show Win10 as being 100% slower than Win7 in the first chart, and still a good 30% slower in the best case (third chart).

That's not NTFS v other, that's Win7 v Win10, both on NTFS.
This gets posted a lot here and I really wonder if anyone's bothered to try and replicate these results or test them with different sizes of data on different filesystems - You can see that the greatest disparity is with NTFS/windows while linux is pretty close in performance, but they don't bother to mention if they've got ubuntu formatted for ext4 or whatever. I can't really seem to find anything looking around, and this article is like 5 years old now. I remember showing this very article to a supervisor at one point and he scoffed it off as unnecessary overhead when all I needed was a plain file store and no relational queries at all.

It looks like this is the benchmarking code, I'll have to go over it for curiosity sometime: https://www.sqlite.org/src/file/test/kvtest.c
Zenput raises $27M Series C to multiunit operations flowing
I'm not saying it's more valuable, just that it's less enjoyable.
I did a lot of C - a lot - in the mid-90s through the mid/late 2000s and have never seen any sizable C code base where explicit sizes were not the norm throughout - u_int32_t etc. I think this is not the problem, it's the implicit conversions.
Firefox didn't support directly opening and rendering HTML files via ftp:// URLs anyways, it'd just download them like a normal FTP client. I can't even remember the last browser I used that supported that. You can't kill what has been dead for decades already.
just try getting customer service from cashapp...near impossible.
District 9 director Neill Blomkamp is working on a big budget video game
I don't. I say my piece, and let it lie. Sometimes it is taken well, other times it invokes healthy discussions, sometimes it is ignored, taken poorly, or I am corrected and downvoted. None of those reactions require me to keep constant tabs on it. I do check my history on occasion to see what gets positive vs. negative responses, and try to use that as critique to become a better member of the community.
Major selection bias here.

From a 10,000 foot view it looks like:

"Flaky dude attracted to Buddhist retreats who uses words like jhana had a freak out. Say it ain't so ..."
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/19/billionaires...
In case anyone was thinking this .5% APY savings account would be great for their company, this launch is just for sole proprietors.

> Your business entity type is a sole proprietorship, meaning you pay taxes for your business as an individual as opposed to another entity type (often the case for self-employed individuals or independent contractors)

They are apparently looking to add other entity types in the future.
Well touche, I'm fine with saying I'm wrong and that we've started. But it sure seems like a glacial pace. Whether we have already been reexamining property rights or not is IMO the least important part of my stance
You're correct. I should have said "Democrats", who are the party most closely aligned with progressives and the more progressive of the two parties, but not really very progressive. These books are written targeting centrist Democrats.
I'm sympathetic to those bearing the brunt of the work at the IRS, but let's face it, the tax code in the US is a complete and total disaster.

If the IRS were a corporation there would be political outrage at how impossible it is to work with them. However, the industry of tax software, overpriced accounting fees, government fees to e-File, etc. will never be stopped.
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That may be the case for some....but that is not the case for all. For one ancedote, my father in-law runs a restaurant with my aunt in-law (his sister). They are the only workers, and split the profits evenly. They are in the midwest (low taxes), and own the restaurant's property/building. They were able to completely shut down during COVID and restart back up, and have survived several economic downturns.

They are still worried about the long term health of the business because of enternal cost increases (food, supplies, etc.), and are honestly thinking of just shutting down their restaurant and retiring rather than raising prices. They honestly think that if they raise their prices to get the same profit (NOT increase, just to keep it the same!) they have been getting, no one will come anymore because the cost is too much.

They by comparision to a lot of other business are lucky! They don't have to worry about rent at all, and they only have themselves to pay. Both also have other external sources of income (their spouses works), and have absolutely zero debt.

I can't imagine how it is for business that have rent (and possibly rent backpay) and employees they need to pay. I went to Northern VA (Reston) before and after COVID....so see almost all of the local restaurants and a great local grocery store wiped out because the property management were so unforgiving for rent.
> plainly most relationships of employment do involve some sort of exploitation

Well, that's already a much more defensible statement than "All work under capitalism is exploitative".

But I'd want to add that not all relationships (and that includes work relationships) fall neatly into a oppressor vs. oppressed or exploitative "dominant superior" vs. exploited worker scheme. (Who'd have thought that you find me deconstructing binaries, but here we are...)
It's because Washington, DC is the nation's capital and where our legislative bodies, heads of state, and our various departments (ministries) are based out of. There are also many military bases in close proximity and the military headquarters (Pentagon) is across the river in Virginia.

I think people are misinterpreting my comment... there _are_ non-defense/government jobs in the area but they are dwarfed by the number of such jobs because of the pervasive nature of the aforementioned entities. When I lived in the area more than 90% of LinkedIn recruiter messages that I got were about these jobs. This ceased being the case after I moved even when I was still in the defense contracting industry.
The ‘Hacker News Enhancement Suite’ browser extension highlights new replies on the comment pages, including the ‘threads’/‘your comments’ page. Still a ‘polling’ workflow, but better than nothing. Also adds a few useful links in the header, and makes the front page a bit better-looking.

https://github.com/etcet/HNES/

(There's a downside that it breaks the ‘more’ links on paginated comment pages.)

Weirdly it seems that third-party Android apps for HN haven't bothered with doing anything similar, checking for replies in the background and popping up notifications. That would be pretty much perfect, and isn't really too complicated.
I don't know about German law specifically, but damages can be shown in a variety of ways. In the US, courts have recognized publishers of open-source software as receiving value from having made source code available at no charge, such as reputational gain or adoption leading to future sales of related products or services.
Mean and median give you strictly greater information than just mean (or just median).

Given assumptions about the distribution, you may even be able to fit (or at least narrow down) the exact shape based on these two values.
Depends on the bank, I would imagine. Anecdotally, I've never been charged a fee for having a transaction declined because of insufficient funds, nor has my wife, and collectively that's ~5 different banks.
Maybe, there aren't enough houses to justify the cost, sure. I figured that probably wasn't the case given the proximity to a city.

I'm not arguing that a satellite solves the problem of remote data access generally, they definitely do. My original question was whether or not that specific use case is worth the cost to science.

They don't solve access generally, so the other threads which reference large swaths of the planet not having internet yet feel beside the point to me. The vast majority of humanity lives in densely populated areas, and therefore these satellite based systems still won't solve that problem.
Programs compiled with GCC are not GPL by extension. Arguably the net weights are a kind of program themselves.

If you have a non-GPL license to use and redistribute the data you use to train the neural net, I would imagine not.
There's a big difference. We can (and should) fix light pollution incrementally. Once we are dependent on satellite arrays, we will never fix it.
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Oxfam’s Deepak Xavier vented about the billionaire-hobbies issue early this week.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/billionaires-blast-s...
Dual licensing with a copyleft license is common if you want to offer an ability for someone to develop a closed-source project: they can perfectly develop a GPL-licensed commercial project without paying anything.

If CC-BY-NC prohibits commercial use, it is not an open source or free software license (which have compatible definitions, but differ in motivations).

AFAIK, Creative Commons was set to create a set of licenses in the spirit of open source for creative works, and I wouldn't expect them to be open source at all.
It's worth noting that BO is much less open (pretty much the other end of the spectrum as SpaceX) about its progress.

We aren't really sure exactly how far along a lot of their projects are other than "not really close".
Until there is only Walmart and Amazon left.
filesystem search and access is different when you're talking a single larger file versus multiple smaller files. All filesystems have a per-file overhead that would effectively be eliminated if you could pack all of your files into a database structure. Indices would also speed up access to individual rows of the table significantly.

There is overhead in small file storage anyway, if the files are not the exact size, or a multiple, of the sector size. storing 1kb files on a disk where the sector size is 16kb is far more of an overhead expense than storing those files in an SQL database.
They should have played out the position, it's a known draw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVCst6vyV80
I think for the purpose of this discussion, explorer IS Windows. It is the UI that we all wish didn’t have these issues. I like using the command line / powershell when I’m on Windows for large file operations, but sometimes I still go to drag files around out of habit and quickly remember I have made a huge mistake as everything grinds to a halt / takes forever. On Linux and MacOS GUI file operations most of the time seem like they are just a visual way to call the same operations you’d be using on the command line.
$ ls -l /boot/vmlinuz-linux
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9464864 Jul 16 12:59 /boot/vmlinuz-linux

That's over 9MB, running in supervisor mode.

2021, and people are still surprised every time a kernel bug with security implications is found.

Maybe it is time to look at different OS designs. Large companies such as Google (Fuchsia) or Huawei (HarmonyOS) have begun to pick up on this.
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I imagine the geopolitical efforts involved in coordinating to allow passenger ICBM launches at major cities in the industrialized west is on the same order of the effort involved in designing and building starship itself.
I'd like to see them bench SQLite against different filesystems, since both fields have progressed quite a bit in the past 4 years.
You may find the formalization boring and arbitrary, but independent of that, your argument was one of utility.

An alternative argument, if you wanted to avoid such droll dry topics, would have been to say "I don't want OnlyFans to be a thing." Instead, you made an argument based on moral philosophy to support your opinion. That's totally fine! It also doesn't change the fact that your comment evaluated the moral utility of whether our world is better or worse for existing.