skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A few people can complain loudly for 24 hours, and then everyone's practically forgotten what the old UX was even like.

How do you know how many have forgotten the old UX vs. simply given up after being dismissed or ignored? How do you distinguish between someone who has learned to like the change, and someone who is quietly enduring it or has left the conversation to migrate away from the problematic software?

I don't know a way to measure those two groups better than simply talking to them, but I can say with certainty that the latter exists. I have felt the impact of short-sighted, change-happy, dismissive UI development more than a few times.

This bit from the article resonates with me:

> What matters to [most regular people] is continuity and reliability. Again, this isn’t being change-averse. Regular users typically welcome change if it brings something interesting to the table and, most of all, if it improves functionality in meaningful ways.

I like continual improvement as much as the next creative mind, but I also have great respect for the users of my software and understand that disruption is frustrating and costly to them. I therefore avoid releasing workflow-breaking changes until I am fairly sure they make things objectively better and I can also provide backward compatibility and/or a smooth migration path to folks who need it. If I can't, then I seriously consider redesigning or discarding the change I had in mind.

To put it a different way: Once I have encouraged people to use my software, I feel a responsibility to them. It no longer belongs exclusively to me, and I am not necessarily the most qualified judge of what is "better".
> A pistol grip makes it much easier to accurately shoot multiple rounds from a semi-automatic

In the military they require you fire from the hip a long gun and hit your target multiple times within a time limit before qualifying. There was no pistol grip.
same here! i was going up to hundreds of new files for my notes. very comfortable!
Ah sorry thought you were an expert.
Would be fascinating to hear his take on it seeing as how he also tried to run a database startup. Nobody outside knows what Datomic's profitability actually looked like, but the fact it was aquihired by a banking startup suggests to me Datomic's financial position was less than compelling.
The Bradford smallpox outbreak in 1962: a personal account
I felt obligated to reply to this comment, because you're correct at interpreting my intent.

I should have been cleared with my numbers considering the audience (HN is a stat-aware place it appears!)

Both of my numbers were accurate as stated:

* There were 20K~ active creators.

* The average monthly payout was $5K.

HOWEVER, those numbers are not intended to be calculated together for a total payout valuation (doing that would assume every creator received a payout every month, which was not the case).
1) Change zoning to actually allow mixed use and high-density living space instead of single-family

2) Fix tax laws and incentives so that property owners actually pay tax based on the real value of the property instead of whatever nonsense they pay today (California is especially bad for this, but the mortgage interest tax deduction sure as hell doesn't help)

3) Reduce red tape and regulatory bullshit that slows or massively drives up the cost of new developments
In my experience, Salesforce feels bloated and sluggish.
Always check for the threat model. I am too insignificant for any government to track. I pay my taxes on time and have nothing to hide.

However, I don't see the argument shifting towards the big tech- they are responsible for giving us the crap operating systems. I genuinely miss BlackBerry 10 now.
TikTok’s Algorithm: A WSJ Video Investigation
How do I access that from my phone or in native apps or store encrypted notes?
Neither does anything to me at all (at least mentally)
There are also costs associated with placing non-marketable limit orders[1], and nasdaq has found that after factoring in the costs/benefits into account, the overall cost is pretty much the same. In that case you might as well place a market order and save yourself the time.

>the “benefits” of waiting increase roughly in line with the risks of not getting a fill. That seems to indicate the market is especially efficient at pricing liquidity.

[1] see: "chart 4" https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/an-interns-guide-to-trading-...
I thought I'd add to this (because I was surprised) that the equivalent namedtuple is also 56 bytes (I expected it to be larger) and the equivalent dataclass is a mere 48 bytes. (although there's overhead for defining a namedtuple or a dataclass, on the order of a constant 1kb).

Although there seems to be some kind of trickery happening there, because if I make the class accept 3 floats instead of two, neither the class nor the instance get larger.
A beautifully written piece about a life well lived.

Death is the world's change agent. It's never pretty but it must happen.

At least reading this is a reminder to me to not stress too much, enjoy life and be good to your family and friends.
You could certainly program it to delete the source and destination once speed goes low enough far from the destination.
Another interesting angle about the single real server is the reliability.. it'll eventually break from some physical cause, that happens, it hurts your uptime.

But sometimes with the big microservice/kubernetes solution, the configuration space is so big that miscommunications/mistakes could potentially take you down for more hours/year than the downsides of being single-hosted would. So now you invested all of that effort and for what?

One company I worked for wrote a distributed scheduled jobs system that was immune to single-machine failures, it went down like 4 times in a year, messing up my team each time. I was like "guys, if we just provisioned one machine with cron and no failover, it would have better reliability".
If you can deliver a warhead, chances are you can deliver a satellite.

Some of the space launchers today either started life as an ICBM turned dedicated launch vehicle (Proton) or are decommissioned ICBMs turned launch vehicles (Minotaur)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(rocket_family)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minotaur_(rocket_family)
The term is perfectly apt and descriptive here, because gate keeping isn't about the keeping of a gate, it's about the inappropriateness of the criteria that is used.

Software engineers, even the ones that are so superpowered that they :gasp: got a job at Amazon once in their life, can go an entire successful career without knowing how to use a kernel debugger, or understand iptables or ifconfig, or understand how virtual memory works.

Some engineers might need to know some of those things, but it is absolutely bonkers to claim that you could never progress past level 2 at Amazon without knowing such things. I know this because I once taught a senior principal engineer at Amazon how to use traceroute.

For many roles in Amazon (particularly the tens of thousands of SDE positions that will end up working with the JVM all day long), asking such low level questions about how OSes work is about as useful of a gatekeeping device as asking them whether white cheese tastes better than yellow cheese. And that's why the term gatekeeping is used.
What is KubeEdge?
>The vaccine surplus in the U.S. coupled with the shortage in other countries has prompted the Biden administration to donate 80 million doses abroad, according to a White House press briefing.

>Sixty million of the donated doses are of the AstraZeneca vaccine—which has not yet been granted emergency use authorization by the FDA.

Why is the USA hoarding this if they haven't even approved its usage?
AWS's Cloud primitives are certainly better. Of course it's not FOSS, though it proves orchestration can be done simpler.

https://ably.com/blog/no-we-dont-use-kubernetes

For local development (a must imo), just rock a docker-compose.yml that emulates your Cloud orchestrated with terraform/cloudformation.
Well, with automotive, the main profit center of dealerships is the service dept. the manufacturer and the dealer are different, and can adapt to the demand of each of the respective roles. More demand for cars but more self-repair means a bigger manufacturer and smaller/fewer dealerships, not that the product cost itself needs to change. I think similarly a company’s size if it’s based on selling support is based around the demand for that support plus the profitability that’s possible to sell it for before there is competition for 3rd parties to provide that support. Kinda like red hat, they made money off of support but anyone could support Linux or red hat systems, so there was a market force keeping them from charging too much for support because other vendors could undercut them.
... is there another principal dev platform besides MacOS?
This is probably what I find most frustrating about the way things are done now. I'd really like to get some idea of how these cloud services work. Every time I'm stopped by the concern that I'd rack up a huge bill and have to rely on the goodwill of a large corporation to have the debt forgiven.

I understand the role and the necessity for "the cloud", but it's a re-invention of the role of the mainframe. I hate seeing one of the most notable aspects of the microcomputer era go away which the ability of a motivated individual to gain computer skills using an individual's resources.
The first ad blockers existed for popups and because ad networks were being used as a malware injection point.

Only extremists had an issue with the standard JPG banner ad at the top of every page.
Racism against Middle Eastern people and islamophobia are thoroughly entangled in the US.

I agree Islamophobia is usually the more precise label, but sometimes it's also racism and sometimes rooted more in race than religion.

Ex. I think non-muslim Middle Easterners are more likely than white muslims to be accused of being terrorists by bigots.
Lab Notes from an Unintentional BZ Experience (1962) [pdf]
I mean, it is an investment. However the success of that investment basically means depriving future generations of a home, which they are fine with doing, clearly.
I use Notepad++ like this too.

But I try to use its split pane feature to keep all my scratch txt files out of the way of whatever project files I need open.
How is that abusive? You pay for what you use and that’s it.
In other countries this would be considered bribes
Confounded why sshfs wasn't chosen.
Not necessarily. If a device were repairable, users would be more likely to repair it when it breaks instead of replacing it with a new one. This reduces demand for new devices and pushes the price downward.

On the other hand, a device that is repairable has a longer lifespan than the same device if it were not repairable. The longer lifespan adds utility and perceived value to the repairable device, which would increase demand and push the price upward.

It's hard to say whether the net result would be a higher or lower price. It would depend on the product and the market.
Sure but my point is that this is irrelevant to swatting, which by definition involves a claim that guns are involved.
Any more insight into blockchain stuff? It was my (admittedly basic) understanding that most of the money to be made there was from getting some initial supply or speculative price increases.
I like to monetize my hobby. I make fancy work clocks and sell some occasionally. I don’t feel pressured to sell since I like the hobby. But I also like to sell one now and again. Plus it’s a big ego booster.
This is a question that I have spent a ridiculous amount of time pondering.

My conclusions so far are this:

Single node application systems are by far the most reliable and manageable from a business logic standpoint. At no point does spreading a problem across more than 1 computer make that problem easier to solve.

If you are concerned about latency, you need to get really abstract with your problem and ask what is even possible in information theoretic terms. If you are truly constrained to 1 serialized, synchronous context (i.e. a competitive counterstrike match or a stock exchange), there is little you can do to alleviate the root problem as your users get further from the server. You can certainly look at using some consensus protocol like multi-paxos, but then your transaction latency goes from microseconds (if you were clever) to milliseconds, representing orders of magnitude slowdown in the typical case.

The best solution I can come up with is a synchronously-replicated append-only log store which is utilized in a primary/sync-witness/async-witness/... configuration. The first tier of resilience would be synchronous and provided by a set of witness nodes which must ack as a majority to progress primary. These nodes would ideally be within 1-2ms of the primary. The async witnesses could be in orbit and/or on mars. These are more about extreme geological disaster recovery. The witness nodes would also use a separate consensus protocol to decide when the primary needs to be taken down and replaced with a sync (or god forbid async) witness. They would be able to elect an emergency leader separate from the primary who would be authorized to stop the bad primary in the hypervisor, and edit any relevant DNS records to ensure traffic stops hitting the bad system.

For the customers I work with, it is wayyy easier to build & sell a system that operates on a single box with sync replication + manual failover. Our customers are tolerant to production having a brief outage for a few minutes during the business day. Especially considering the fact that I have still never had to do this exercise in a production setting. The hardware we run this stuff on is so ridiculously stable.
Even at smaller scale, dealing with any distro + k8s + helm can be simpler than doing ops on an bare ubuntu install.

If your dependencies are not too many / well supported you may get good results with nix.
Nah, this part:

> Usernames must be unique and can only be registered by one commenter at a time. If you are seeing this message, it means your desired username is already taken, and you should try registering a different name.

The journalist didn't just google that username and assume everything he read was from her or something, he simply clicked on her linked account in the Disqus system and read/screenshot what else she posted. She's obviously lying when she said that the racist comments, but only the racist ones were written by someone else.
That doesn't account for the fact that nearly every major culture and region on earth has a flood myth.
It's a terrible sort of gaslighting. The amount of times I've been told my in-person apologies are insincere is staggering. I don't know if it's flat affect on my part or a reflex ingrained by TV dramas, but I do know it's largely pointless to apologize.

At the end of the day, we're the ones who must live with our own feelings. If I must apologize, I'm going to feel that viscerally, and I'll apologize for my own conscience. Likewise, forgiveness is a favor someone else has to do for themselves to alleviate their own emotions -- it needn't matter to me.
They must have just taken down the paywall within the past 30 minutes. It was still paywalled at that time when I checked.
Source, comments on the original post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shubham-sharma-34bbab18b_webd...
Is it your nephews choice or would he not be able to afford a reasonable lifestyle without working 60 hours a week?
So now we find ourselves back at the beginning. I remember a rick and Morty where they save the purge planet and at the end the people make it a purge planet again. This sounds like that.

The problem uber and lyft set out to solve was not solved. Maybe it was corporate greed, government regulations, bad marketing, whatever, in the end it seems the rideshare industry will end up with unions and medallions. Whatever the case, they were on to it until it became this whole big thing.

So how do you solve this problem? That's easy. Let people with cars give rides for money if that's what they want and find a way for them to network to make that efficient. A FOSS uber like network would solve it. The drivers that wouldn't be happy wouldn't be able to strike, they'd just quit. The drivers that liked it would keep doing it. Everyone would be happy and nobody would rent seek, government or corporation or cartel or guild or union or anybody, the supply and demand for ride sharing and pricing would solve itself naturally. But how do you market that when everyone finds the services they use from YouTube ads? Hmm I wonder.
How to keep screens from ruining your vision
I've seem the "29 people" statistic quoted a few times but I think it's more interesting to look at medical studies about how many people reattempt it after failing the first time:

"Nine out of ten people who attempt suicide and survive will not go on to die by suicide at a later date. This has been well-established in the suicidology literature. A literature review (Owens 2002) summarized 90 studies that have followed over time people who have made suicide attempts that resulted in medical care. Approximately 7% (range: 5-11%) of attempters eventually died by suicide, approximately 23% reattempted nonfatally, and 70% had no further attempts."

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/means-matter/means-matter/survi...
Does apologizing work? An empirical test of the conventional wisdom
Just to chime in on this one.

You're obviously right mathematically.

Both of the claims in my original comment are correct as stated:

* Roughly 20K active creators (VAL_A).

* An average monthly payout to creators of $5K (VAL_B).

HOWEVER, that does not mean that VAL_A * VAL_B = total monthly payout. The below details are relevant:

1. Not all active creators made money.

2. There was a payout minimum (well, a free payout minimum, which the majority of users waited to reach).
China sends a drone (UAV) to provide temporary mobile network in disaster area
The point being made is that the "for free" part of that sentence doesn't actually exist in the GPL. You can modify GPL code, then charge for access if you want (which, IIUC, Red Hat does). You just have to give it to whoever you sell it to under the terms of the GPL, which means your customers could give it away for free if they so choose.
Can I use python projects to do any of these in an automated way:

1. Stabilize footage

2. Cut out silent moments from clips with dialog.

3. I have spikes in audio from handling the camera. These are very distinctive spikes. Some automated way of getting rid of these audio peaks or lowering their volume.

I just want to throw the clips in a folder, and pre process them in the background, before I add them to a final cut project.
A YouTube chat about chess got flagged for hate speech
Makes sense that former-ICBMs that can reach orbital velocity have utility. (Are they still ICBMs if the goal isn't to reach another continent?)

I think the deltaV's needed to place a warhead on the surface are significantly less than those needed to put a satellite into low-earth orbit.
> we couldn't make too powerful a PC that might cannibalize the minicomputer sales (AS/400).

Agreed, knowing when to cannibalize your own market is one of the key inflection points.

Apple has done a fantastic job (up until now) of introducing something that basically makes a "current at the time" product obsolete.

Classic version was the iPhone when iPod was a household name. A more conservative company would figure out how to keep the iPod market extremely healthy, but in the end losing out on the whole pie. A lot of smaller/other instances as well.

> IBM made much more money on an AS/400 than a PS/2 model 95.

I wonder if someone high up in IBM made the same mistake for personal computing that Ballmer did with the iPhone - "There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance..."

To be explicit, making the bet to cannibalize your own market is one of the toughest any company can make. High risk, high reward. It's so easy to point at the winners and forget the landscape that laid waste to the ones that lost.

But, being able to do it consistently is what makes a company multi-generational.
I like Chef Habitat. It pretty much does all this. It's how I've kept away from k8s this long.
Not originally me from here: https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/olwous/airbnb...
A scab is just a union term for people who disagree with them. It’s like being called racist when complaining about crime.
> So what in your mind could have been done better?

If it's a security risk, there shouldn't be an option. Setting up a web server is a low bar for malicious actors.
I used to love AirBNB. As it became more popular the quality plummeted.

On Booking.com - I have very rarely been extremely disappointed when I arrive at a hotel and it does not meet expectations. On AirBNB - it's like 50:50. Additionally, there wasn't much supply of entire apartments / houses on places like Booking.com a few years ago. Now there is plenty.

I avoid AirBNB now. It's just not worth the uncertainty for me. When I go on a vacation - the last thing I want is to be disappointed.
It's generally considered one of the best episodes in all of TNG. I've seen a few people mention how Picard was awkward around children prior to this episode but afterwards he wasn't, and it was never elaborated upon, but I'm not sure how true that is.
Anybody is free to have an opinion on Andy Ngo but calling him, with complete credulity, someone who "became noteworthy by documenting the excesses of the far left" without mentioning his vocal and widespread reporting in favor of white supremacy, with the Proud Boys being the most prominent example, doesn't make me think the author is being genuine. If the article had a more nuanced view as opposed to pushing a point along the lines of 'never give up, never surrender', I expect I'd be far more open to its message and reasoning.
Eh, I wouldn't say it works very well if you get a white flash half the time on switching tabs.
IMO hashistack nomad provides a better development experience. The complexity is gradual and it doesn't try to do "everything", it can stay focused on workload orchestration(whether its a container, vm, or even a process) and delegates coordination out to specific services better suited for it(consul for service discovery, vault for secrets etc...)
Absolutely this! The uncertainty freaks me out. I don't have money to pay thousands of dollars as a result of some bug or attack.

I'm in love with DigitalOcean because you know the price you'd pay each month. If it's just 5 USD or 5000 USD, it's what you expected, nothing more.

I believe the rest of the clan (Linode, Vultr, etc.) give you the same certainty.
Yeah, you're close on the cut (varied from 12.5% to 25% depending on purchase types).

The revenue was nowhere near 1.2B.

(I wrote the below in another comment, but it's relevant to this comment):

Both of the claims in my original comment are correct as stated:

* Roughly 20K active creators (VAL_A).

* An average monthly payout to creators of $5K (VAL_B).

HOWEVER, that does not mean that VAL_A * VAL_B = total monthly payout. The below details are relevant:

1. Not all active creators made money.

2. There was a payout minimum (well, a free payout minimum, which the majority of users waited to reach).
USCIS is a fun one, I've actually had nothing but great experiences with them in person. It's clear they're underfunded and under-resourced, likely because (as with the patent office and state department) they operate on a cost recover basis. As such, they are required to make up 100% of their budget from user fees and there's only so much blood you can squeeze from that stone.

They're clearly not set up for success, between their funding model and their role as a bureaucratic obstacle course to keep prospective immigrants out of America. That however isn't their fault (the blame lies with Congress in defining their mandate) and I've found the people I've met in person both friendly and effective civil servants.