skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“In the new joint venture, Arm Holdings, the SoftBank subsidiary sold a 51% stake of the company to a consortium of Chinese investors for paltry $775M. This venture has the exclusive right to license Arm’s IP within China. Within 2 years, the venture went rogue. Recently, they gave a presentation to the industry about rebranding, developing their own IP, and striking their own independently operated path.”

It sounds like what really happened is that Softbank and Chinese investors initially voted to oust Allen Wu, but he held onto something called a seal that gave him legal control of the company still. Retrieving the seal would have taken additional lawsuits and cooperation of Chinese courts, but they did not do this because the Chinese investors were not onboard with it.

Apart from Allen Wu holding onto the seal the rest is just cutthroat capitalism.
Given that’s pretty much the only way you can differentiate in this market, it makes sense for planetscale to believe that.
The push for less ownership of one's primary residence, and less rent control (rent control is a policy that is much less popular now than it less was) also serves to heighten this separation.

If one's residence is determined by market rents it's going to be very segregated by income level. Less stable neighborhoods and buildings where your neighbor who was there for two decades might be much lower income but "grandfathered" in by a lower sales price or lower rent back then.

Being reminded that people in "lower class" jobs used to be able to afford what takes a high professional salary now would be a good reminder of the fragility of ANY labor, regardless of today's salary and comfort.
> Other nearby stations are expected to have enough capacity to pick up the slack

This post seems like fearmongering. Out of 24 pumping station, one is out, two are at partial capacity, and the other 21 are working at full capacity.

At the individual pump level...

> 96 out of the S&WB’s 99 main drainage pumps are ready for Ida.
If the database itself can’t handle failover properly, there’s nothing your hosting provider can do except rewrite it (which is exactly what Amazon ended up doing with MongoDB). Also if you’ve spent any significant time being responsible for operating a database and came away with “backups aren’t practical” you’re insanely lucky (or I and everyone I know is insanely unlucky).
1. That's debatable. Some would argue every person is entitled to a good life in absence of any actions that would take that entitlement away.

2. It's not about anyone owing anyone anything. You can go to the city and have a small chance at a good life or move to Alaska and have guaranteed survival but nothing more. It's a tradeoff like any other. What it isn't is people rushing to live in a big city out of convenience despite the alternative being just as good otherwise, which is what people often claim - that's what I was talking about.
You (probably purposefully) make no distinction between the long term / residential rental market and the short-term / holiday let one. That is what Airbnb trades on (and the point of the article): they muscle in on the role traditionally filled by hotels and guesthouses except that they do not face the same regulations and costs. You have to apply and be regulated (you know, to stop guests being burned to death in unsafe properties) to be an actual B & B; to open a house as a... B&B on Airbnb you simply have to list the property. And you can do the same thing over and over again.

Anyway now the people that actually live in these locations can no longer afford to rent, let alone buy (again, the point of the article). If you don't see the problems with that (starting with airy concepts of 'community' and ending with your anger that there are no longer any nurses or teachers in your town) then you are even more of a wilfully ignorant passive-aggressive libertarian dork than the hacker news average (a bar which is set extremely high).
Who is banning people for saying China doesn’t respect western IP? Please show me a single example.
It reminds me more of alcohol purchases where the top 10% of drinkers (aka alcoholics) account for more than half of all alcohol sales in the United States.
"So, the critical mistake was probably sending out units too early."

No, the critical mistake is not telling the costumers about the change.
Is it any wonder that Ukraine wanted to join NATO, given what happened with Crimea?

I'll make no judgment as to whether Crimea and its people are better off as a part of Russia or Ukraine (they very well might be better off a part of Russia), but invading and annexing is just not ok. (Same as if China decided to do the same to Taiwan.)

I just don't see the problem with NATO expansion. As a parent poster pointed out, it's a defensive alliance; if Russia has a problem with other countries promising to defend each other in the case that Russia wants to get aggressive, that's, well... Russia's problem.
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Completely different geography and logistics.
And China has its own problems, including hugely problematic demographics and an export-fueled economy that is still highly dependent on trade with the West.
The last part of the article was not here last year. The last part and images are from an event they held recently. Notice the

"Before we get to the event they held and the significance of it, let’s do a recap."

He refuses to leave and he has the stamp. The 7-1 vote was even mentioned.

I would love if you could find those images from the event last year. You would need a time machine for that.
That's a reasonable assessment. If military confrontations kick off, it's probably going to be at the tail end of a lot of buildup probably including diplomatic breakdown, major economic sanctions on both sides, etc. I would wager that before China invades they would've already cut the US off from any supplies that might help in a conflict, and vice versa, for example.
37% of China GDP is reliant on foreign trade and it lacks significant domestic resources like rare-earth metals, copper and oil.

All which have to be imported.

The Chinese belt & road initiative is a huge project to reduce the reliance on the china sea with a hallmark project opening a new main economic corridor to Karachi & Gwadar in Pakistan. That would allow for an alternative import-route through less hostile waters and dramatically increase the cost of a blockade.

China is very interested in Afghanistan because it provides a route for an oil-pipeline to Iran and has large mineral deposits, reducing their dependency on the seas.

Maybe it could military counter-blockade some of these islands, but that would not prevent the US from enacting an efficient naval blockade in the chinese seas.
I'm not sure if we can attribute the gap solely to colonialism. Chinese rulers back in 1890s thought the products of industrialization were simply exotic crap. They despised STEM and didn't have a single school teaching STEM (there were a few such schools due to the Western Affairs Movement, but they were not created by the government). I don't think this level of barbarian culture was caused by colonialism.
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They're blowing up an issue.

"Industry data shows that part of the reason women are at greater risk than men is that we tend to drive smaller, lighter vehicles, while men gravitate toward bigger cars and trucks."

Ok. So that's simply choice, not negligence or bad design.

"For example, the neck musculature of an average woman contains far less column strength and muscle mass than a man’s, making women 22.1% more likely to suffer a head injury than men."

IE, men are physically stronger in some ways. If they make the vehicles safer to compensate, men will still have lower injury rates.

"With a president who himself knows the pain of losing female loved ones to a car crash, and our nation’s first female vice president, who herself is at greater risk every day she buckles into a car, if not now, when?"

Good lord. I've always thought Fast Company was a trash magazine, but geez.

To the extent they should test cars against male and female morphologies in order to ensure they aren't optimizing safety for one gender over the other, great. Chest seatbelts shouldn't garrote smaller women. That's reasonable. But the big problem is just different behavioral and innate physical differences, and that isn't going to respond to new legislation.

Oh, and just because I was curious, here are some stats:

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/males....

Females are more likely to get injured then males in similar accidents. Still, nearly twice as many males are killed/injured in car crashes than females. Cars are dangerous any way you look at it.
>Does that matter? Is it a meaningful option?

depends on how you value time. Which seems to change based on age. At 14 it wouldn't matter, I'm happy spending hours grinding. Now at 27, it's much more ambivalent.

>she'd have free time, and there are a milion more addicting options (plenty of which are free!), so the steady state would likely be the same time spent on similar whateve

maybe, maybe not. I've had friends who quit big mmo's just play other MMO's. Some just moved to a new MMO, some moved to new hobbies. Sometimes even more expensive (oh boy, I'm SO glad I'm not a car junkie. Geez, the money and time spent on parts... not to mention the danger. ), some "productive" and even profitable (e.g. I helped give some tips to a friend learning to program and said he quit Lol, which I remember him playing pretty heavily even before college).

Too broad to assume.
These last few years all of that went into overdrive. We do have a real Ministry of Truth now from 1984.
Rectangle is just an app that helps to move windows around, like on Windows: Win-RightArrow to move to right half of screen, some other combination to maximize etc. I found that recreating i3 experience as-is on a Mac is counterproductive, especially when it's on a laptop-sized screen. I rarely want to split the screen, and when I do, it's mostly left-right halves. The only exception is terminal, and I use tmux for that.

Hammerspoon is just an automation tool for Mac, you can do a lot of things with it, including moving windows around and a lot of other stuff (just look at the docs to get a feel). I use it as an app switcher: I found that it's more efficient to do "show me Slack" or "show me VSCode" than "move to workspace 3 where VSCode should be". I don't use workspaces at all nowadays. So, with the help of Karabiner, I mapped my most-used apps to combinations like "caps+g" for Google Chrome, "caps+s" for Slack, "caps+c" for VSCode etc. And for cycling through windows of the same app, there's a built-in cmd-` on MacOS.
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Please include the one extra character that turns on `--fail` for curl, lest `HTTP/2 500\r\ncontent-type: text/html` sent right into a shell ruin some user's day

curl -fsL run.linkerd.io/install | sh

and, while I can appreciate how slick it may look, in a post about mTLS including the protocol can save someone the coffee shop/hotel intercepting the request and violating the Authenticity tenant, to say nothing of, again, sending html into shell

curl -fsL https://run.linkerd.io/install | sh

I didn't bother to read the relevant scripts, but it's very, very likely they contain bash-isms, in which case those other 2 characters can also lead to better outcomes:

curl -fsL https://run.linkerd.io/install | bash
Honestly, the complaint here seems to be less about dashboards and more about the data behind them.

Static dashboards sound like timeseries backends, where the data is pre-aggregated (graphite / statsd, prometheus). You can't really drill down into the metrics, or can only drill down into preplanned dimensions. Grafana is a commonly used dashboarding frontend here.

Dynamic dashboards, in contrast, are dynamically aggregating data. More akin to structured logging, or maybe splunk / ELK. You have granular data, and write queries to extract, filter, and aggregate on demand. Tableau, PowerBI, Apache Superset all compete in this space.

But by focusing on the dashboard angle, the reader doesn't think to hardly about why they're different, and also why you might prefer one over the other. TSDB like Prometheus are very fast, and if you focus on collecting aggregate data, allow you to collect a lot more metrics, or sample much faster. You're probably not logging in the TSDB any labels associated with UserAgent strings, or screen size your mobile app got, etc. By paying the price in dimensionality, you get much faster queries at lower cost. I'll let you guess which type of backend Charity's startup represents.

Both have a place. I've been able to build canary dashboards that work quite well using both backends, as a proof of concept that something like Kayenta is feasible for my team. In fact, high dimensionality works against you in release engineering. The more dimensions you can compare across, the higher chance for a false positive, and the more investigations engineers have to do to rule them out. Worse, there are often confounding variables you need to go hunting for, and the dashboard won't find them for you.

And execs absolutely don't want to have to care about the complex causality chain you need to model. They want 'a single number' to improve on over time. They don't want a dashboard to dive in and analyze on ten dimensions. They want to see their chosen KPIs going to the right and up. Fundamentally, the dashboard is less important than your audience.
Amazon's department-store plans are less surprising than they appear
I use F3 to jump to next instance of the word I am searching. (Shift + F3 goes backward)
Right, but in the long run you're more locked in than you were when you didn't know that.
Thanks, that was a mistake, I meant to say 'foreign supported'. I edited my comment.

> It is China that is bullying Taiwan, not other countries bullying China.

That's not their perspective. Hard to argue effectively against someone without understanding where they are coming from.
Exactly this.

The vast majority of IP networking end users only care about their LAN. (Home and business networks.)

Making things easier for ISP's is not what they asked for and not what they want.
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For SSDs, the controller basically is the product; a different controller should have a different product name. I realize in this case there's only one workload that's slower, but I've learned that we can't give companies an inch on this topic.
Different products should have different SKU's. Call it the 971 if it's better or 969 if it's worse.
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Just create this small Vue3 application to get some free vegetarian recipes, not big deal but a small contribution to climate change. Cheers
I disagree, I don't think Imperative aligns with the human brain. Humans have thought thru problems for millenia before computers existed. For a 1700s mathamatician to solve a problem in grueling, iterative steps that loop and change a state would be seen as a boneheaded caveman method. Pure functions were the norm of elegance in the olden days of famous polymaths. I didn't grow up with access to any computer, but I did a lot of mathematics, so going from that to Imperative thinking was super jarring and not natural at all.
Well rather than removing SMR from the Red line, they introduced the Red Plus line which they pinkie promise won't have SMR.

WD built brand loyalty and trust around the easy branding the created with the Blue, Green, Black, Purple, and Red lines. People knew what they were getting when they bought a particular color.

Now WD is leveraging that trust to trick people into purchasing a lesser product. When they were called on it their response was "Oh well here's what you really wanted but now it's a different product line". This benefits them because customers oblivious to the controversy will still buy the inferior product thinking it's something else and not knowing better.
All external observables of my software running devices really should have a way to be observed programmatically.
These stats are similar to but much more extreme than alcohol, where the vast majority (~90%) of sales go to a tiny minority (~10%) of "consumers", aka alcoholics.

I wonder how many industries have the facade of normality but are propped up by this kind of ugly secret.
They were distracted by their "clash of cultures" wars in the middle east. They failed to fully identify China as the main threat to democratic nations and allowed the transfer of capital and technology to go on unhindered. The lack of democracy and human rights wasnt a real issue to them because China wasnt considered to be a future threat. There was the naive belief that democracy would be the inevitable outcome of economic growth and a growing and more affluent middle class.

But people care primarily about their economic well being, and whatever system delivers it is what they'll be happy with. There are no huge movements calling for democratic reforms in well off non-democracies like Saudi Arabia, or the Gulf states. And even in democracies like Hungary or Poland the slow slide to a more authorotarian government hasnt got the majority of people worked up, as long as their personal circumstances arent too badly affected. Democracy is only that thing which is demanded when they want to change their circumstances for the better, otherwise its forgotten or undermined when the good times are rolling.

Will China win? No I dont think they will, they dont have the ability to change course peacefully or quickly enough under an authorotrian system. They let momentum carry them in straight lines until they crash into a wall.
Our problem is that we're stuck with a rich and technologically advanced threat that we built. Trump for all his faults did the right thing by starting the economic war with them, Obama was quite happy to let the status quo of technology, capital and job transfers continue unabated.

But we havent learnt our lesson and we risk making the same mistakes with India. The western nation are looking for another low wage, low cost manufacturing base, and they're going all out on India. But we can see the authorotarian and less democratic direction the government there is taking everyday. Yet all our major tech companies and planning to build and invest in capacity over there. Until we end up with another rich and technologically nation that isnt a friend of democracy.
DFeed, the program that runs forum.dlang.org might be of relevance to this discussion
Find a map of the rivers that drain into the Mississippi. Think about how much shipping still happens on the rivers, despite the highway and train networks. Lots of goods pass through there, which means lots of money flows through (and all too little of it sticks).

New Orleans is the least shitty place to put a port on the Mississippi. Or at least it's been that since its founding. Rising sea levels and "hundred-year storms" becoming "twenty-year storms" may change that.

And also... it's home. I grew up there, left for a while, came back right before Katrina, and leaving after that ripped a chunk of my heart out that I've only started growing back after returning a couple years ago. The place is fucking magical for the 347 days out of the year we're not staring down a hurricane that might be aimed right for us. Most of them see us staring and decide to go elsewhere.
These two things are not even remotely comparable.
I've got a LimeSDR Mini. I mainly use it as an ATSC 1.0 signal generator from time to time for testing TV tuner code at work, and it does a good job, as long as I'm running it on a PC with a high-bandwidth USB 3.0 port. I've had issues going through hubs.
Backups are most definitely a necessary part of any persistent datastore that is accumulating value for your company. Sharding is something that becomes necessary at scale - having it in your toolbox is a really good idea - but it doesn't come up for most folks. Failovers are the least valuable of what you've mentioned IMO since downtime management is something that even very mature companies have a lot of flexibility with.

SQL is a pretty easy language to learn - you can get pretty much everything working right with some SELECT, FROM, WHERE, GROUP BY and subqueries alone - the more arcane dialect components of SQL (like HAVING - gosh I hate how easy to misunderstand HAVING is) are things you can grow into. But basic SQL - it works and has worked fine for decades - I strongly dislike tooling and languages that go on crusades to make a better SQL.
Median for a particular action/page might be more useful.
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It's also just false outrage generated by media that wants to shock readers.

The reality is that, from the article...

>Other nearby stations are expected to have enough capacity to pick up the slack

At the individual pump level...

> 96 out of the S&WB’s 99 main drainage pumps are ready for Ida.
> What if I have a couple of peer-reviewed articles saying otherwise? How do I present that without being banned in this world?

At this point, you'd probably need the backing of a government of a large or influential body.
The author skips the first decade of database systems in the 1960s. The oldest databases were not relational! They were hierarchical or navigational.

Hierarchical databases were much like a filesystem, but for records instead of files.

Navigational databases allowed data to be linked in a network. Look up CODASYL for detail.

The relational database design was first proposed in the 1970s.
But then you'd be obliged to call it Ice Cubed
One thing TFA doesn't quite make clear enough (IMO) is that agriculture in the US southwest has been largely the result of a fever dream held by presidents and the Bureau of Reclamation after the 1905-1930 era was among the wettest in the last thousand or more years. This is why the estimates for flow in the Colorado were so optimistic, and it's why the idea got established that dams and irrigation schemes could transform the southwest. This view was bolstered by another brief blip of large precipitation levels in the early 1940s, just as the Bureau's work was reaching peak expansion.

Had the precipitation levels of the 1905-1930 period actually been the norm, then perhaps the dreams of "water + sun = a green eden" might have been viable. But they were not, and we're now facing a huge set of difficult choices, which the article lays out very well.
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~hello everyone, author here~

I know posts with ThOuGhT LeaDeRshIp titles like this are usually annoying, but I thought it would be interesting to write down some of the lessons I've been gathering as I've spent more time covering and using specific databases. My background is in data science / analytics with a couple of years of more traditional full stack here and there.

Broadly we've seen this pattern with infrastructure in general – it's a lot easier to set up a server than it used to be, all things considered. Now obviously if you're a tiny startup, you're more comfortable outsourcing everything to Heroku, and if you're a hyperscale enterprise, you probably want more control on exactly what your database is doing.

The thesis here is that on the tail end (hyper scale), things are getting more under control and predictable, and developers there want the same "nice things" you get with platforms like Heroku. Elsewhere in the ecosystem, more and more parts of the stack are getting turned into "simple APIs" (Stripe for payments, Twilio for comms, etc.). And perhaps most interestingly, as serverless for compute seems kind of stuck (maybe?), it may be the case that serverless for databases – whatever that ends up meaning – is actually an easier paradigm for application developers to work with.
Ah, and what is your proposal for changing the status quo?
> Western businesses

Western business and the ruling class that are in bed with the said corporate world.
But will less confidence.
Really don't care. I like my computer to be mine so Linux all the way for multiple years now.