skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MySQL replication isn't really what I would consider a distributed RDBMS in the sense we're talking about, but it is in some senses. The main distinction being that you can't actually use it as a regular SQL interface. You have to have a primary/secondary and a secondary can't accept writes (if you did dual primary you had to be very careful about updates), etc. Mainly that you had to put rules and procedures in place for how it was used in your particular environment to allow for sharding or multiple masters, etc, because the underlying SQL system wasn't deterministic otherwise (also, the only replication available then was statement based replication, IIRC).

More closely matching would be MySQL's NDB clustered storage engine, which was released in late 2004.[1] Given that Postgres and MySQL both started ab out 1996, that's quite a time after initial release.

I spent a while in the early to mid 2000's researching and implementing dual master/slave or DRBD backed MySQL HA systems as a consultant, and the options available were very limited from what I remember. There's also probably a lot better tooling these days for developers to make use of separated read/write environments, whereas is seemed fairly limited back then.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL_Cluster
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One thing that NFTs have taught me is that people love collectables. If that encourages more people to give then what's the problem?
The survivorship bias is strong here
"Defend" is a four letter word; I wouldn't paint with such a broad brush.

I hold the position that you need to be careful to distinguish between a) "every Tether statement is true/in good faith" vs "b) Tether will fail to produce sufficient backing value, sending crypto into a secular crash", and that a) is false but b) is false as well. That is enough to get me labeled a "defender" in some contexts.

Disclosure: I hold liquidity pools that have Tether and have borrowed Tether against BTC via DeFi.
Doesn’t require NFTs, but NFTs could solve the problem of digital trading in untrustworthy markets - like game codes and event tickets. (Introduce other problems too, like getting hijacked by people who are overexcited at the thought of fractionalised links to jpgs…).
If I buy a license of a game, I gain the legal ability to play the game.

If I buy a print of and associated license to art, I gain the legal ability to look at and resell my copy the art.

If I invest and buy the copyright to something, I can sell the above rights to others.

If I pay to record on a blockchain my ownership a hash, I gain...nothing. I guess I could brag about how I paid money for a hexadecimal string when no one else was willing to? The theoretical advantage is that I can try to pawn it off on someone else for more money by convincing him that he can do the same to someone else.
Starbucks card readers too. Pointed right up at your face

Here's your act of civil disobedience for the day: Try to remember to bring a tiny strip of Scotch tape with you the next time you're at Starbucks. If you do remember, and if nobody's looking, put the tape over the lens. Hopefully the piece of tape is small enough to be inconspicuous, and fuzzy enough from being in your pocket that it ruins the camera's view.
I rarely ever heard about homeless women and constantly hear about homeless men. This one, where male homelessness is not cared about is just lie.

The people who talk about female suicides are the ones who argue that women should go back to traditional home. They are hardly feminists and suicides are not much topic related to women.
Not at the age people go to college. More men are born but they die quicker so you have more old women and more young men.
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> What I find ironic is that the crypto ecosystem still ended up with something like central banks, only in this case their mandate is make money for its owners, and they have no accountability or obligation to serve the general public

So, like private currency-printing banks before government monopolies (and like private banks, which subject to central regulation still create money though they don't print currency), not like central banks.
Related giant thread from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28866805
> The telemetry part is more scary.

There's a nice big section in the Firefox settings called "Firefox Data Collection and Use" that has some fairly fine-grained options for what data you feed back to Firefox. I have all of mine unchecked, but I could imagine that if I were more community-minded, or if I were interested in actively contributing to FF's development day-to-day (for example running on nightly builds) I would activate those.

FWIW, I do explicitly allow telemetry for the applications I buy licenses for and use for my work; it's in my best interest for those programs to be improved as efficiently as possible (and to have my use patterns be part of the corpus used to prioritize those improvements), and it makes it easier for me to report issues.
Walgreen's is not in the business of morality. They are in the business of making money. Walgreen's could say just about anything they wanted about closing up shop in San Francisco and it doesn't really make good business sense for them to say something provocative. It seems to me they're telling the truth.

On the other hand, the San Francisco DA is acting in a highly defensive manner. It's pretty offensive of them and it's pretty clear they're doing a bad job.

Worse, the San Francisco DA is helping create a false dichotomy between safety and compassion. I think both are possible; the SF DA, however, does not seem competent enough to offer either.
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You know what else is a shared database? Shared databases. In the mobile market games already have a long history of key-ringing on common advertiser IDs to strengthen their Ad revenue (i.e. all Square Enix produced games might use a shared advertiser ID on OSes that support that (like iOS)).

Additionally some games already have carryover content - it's rather rare but a good example is Total War: Warhammer - where DLCs from the first game also applied to the second game (i.e. allowing you to play the Wood Elves in Mortal Empires). The reasons these things are rare is that, except for some limited circumstances (like in TW: WH it was the same dev and publisher) you're usually cannibalizing your own sales to boost some other game's revenue which is just weird.
Im pretty sure that if the person you sent it to doesn't accept the gift it gets put back into your inventory after some time.
> The business model of a Walmart is pretty simple. Buy wholesale, sell retail.

Is it?

https://www.pymnts.com/news/retail/2016/retail-charging-supp...

I would not be surprised to see the big retailers passing off a lot of inventory risk to the smaller brands it can push around. Walmart also definitely uses sales data from its stores to sell their own brands (Mainstays and others) alongside other brands.
> "They are saying that’s the primary reason, but I also think when a place is not generating revenue, and when they’re saturated — S.F. has a lot of Walgreens locations all over the city — so I do think that there are other factors that come into play,” Mayor London Breed told reporters Wednesday.

https://youtu.be/2jrnhaLzCqA

There are dozens of videos of theft in SF Walgreens captured on YouTube. Can someone explain to the mayor that your revenue is going to decrease when criminals are walking out with garbage bags full of merchandise?

Per typical, SF Democrats are trying to cover up their underreporting of crimes.
I've long desired a separate "Events" product, like what Facebook provides, but not associated with Facebook. Messenger and Whatsapp could be separate. Groups and Ads could also be separate. Those are horizontal cuts. I'd also cut two verticals, Identities from below, and Feeds from above. Common protocols could allow smaller players to enter the field in all of these distinct markets.
But if Harvard declines donations how else are affluent alumni supposed to buy in entrance for their offspring that prefer showing off their exotic vacations on Instagram over studying hard? Harvard exists for children of the ruling class to form strategic lifelong connections that will keep them in the ruling class and keep outsiders out for generations to come. Harvard's recent focus on making admissions more Woke is really only a cover for, "We need an excuse to let more donor children in despite their SAT scores being lower than those of tiger-parented Asians and other groups where parents work hard and sacrifice to get their children ahead."
https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/tether_assuranc...

This all boils down to two questions in my mind:

1) Do you trust the unsigned report from the auditor, who appears to be a fairly unknown entity?

2) Do you trust the asserted quality of the commercial paper, which makes up 50% of the putative reserves?
Homeless man talks openly about being addicted to heroin
I honestly don't remember 54-46 split in other direction in something being treated as big deal. In literally any context where there were 46% of women people treated it as being just about the same.
They (maybe) leaked data that showed these shows don't even make much money, so it's not about money. Between this and the long string of stand-up shows with transphobic and homophobic bits, I get the strong impression someone with influence within Netflix wants to keep funding these kinds of acts.

Is it true? Maybe not. But the way the company is behaving sure does give that impression. They must have some PR person guiding them here who I'm sure warned them firing the black pregnant trans organizer of an employee walkout wasn't a great look days after firing and rehiring another trans employee who criticized the company. They did it anyway.
Most references are thread local, where this implementation will still beat out atomic refcounts in a multi-threaded app
This is most likely it. They already collect light KYC (SSN) if you make significant sales on those trading cards that you get from games randomly and can sell or dust. Currently, there are not enough clear rules around how to regulate any digital asset, so it could be a very complicated problem for Steam.

I do believe we'll eventually see integration of digital assets into the platform, but I believe that will absolutely be the case with all major platforms.
Azure Active Directory -- the OP is a PM for that at Microsoft.
I am not the creator, it was posted in a Facebook group I'm a member of. I'm sharing it here because it's remarkably authentic sounding and likely of interest to many people here. In their post, the developer remarked:

"Hey everyone, in the beginning of this year I shared a little project I had been working on for some time with all of you in this group. Many of you seemed to like it, and today I uploaded version 2.0 of that project.

So essentially I wrote a small program that composes Djent/Progressive Metal music with procedural generation. It's all done in my own game engine, so I added some visualization to it. Since the first version, I've improved the mix quite a bit (Using GGD Modern & Massive for all drum samples!), improved the variety a bit and many other smaller improvements.

Give it a watch if you want to, and let me know what you think! Cheers!"
How to run database migrations during a Kubernetes deploy
The point of NFT's is that, yes, you could bring something into another game (As long as the devs allow porting of NFT goods into their game).

As an example, if someone has a Runescape party hat, they could equip that on their world of warcraft character.
I tracked down my stolen car with an Apple AirTag
The BBC is right now an arm of the Tory government with very little editorial independence. I hope a future Labour government swiftly replaces the editorial staff to ensure independence and institutes mechanisms to prevent such hijacking from ever happening again.
To borrow a quote from the motorcycle community:

"The graveyard is full of people who had the right of way."
I love this sort of aesthetic so much, and wish that the car around it was better (e.g. RWD) such that it would be worth buying and fixing up.
Oh there's nothing wrong with it - and it might be (much like collectible pins[1]) that this is a thing that can help boost engagement in a profitable manner. But it's just "Gotta Catch'em All"-ism and I wouldn't say it's utterly without value - but there isn't a lot of value there.

1. https://store.penny-arcade.com/collections/pins
depends on the cost of electricity
An older Macro, who also had his problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naevius_Sutorius_Macro
Game devs would never do this. Even if they're bullish on NFTs. The whole point of a sequel or spin-off is to hit the reset button on your game economy and shake down big spenders once more.

It is also a design challenge. One of the design benefits of a new game is you can cancel, rework, or nerf strategies that players spent money on in the previous game.
Though there is still the upfront cost of publishing ($100/game I think?).
> I'm not sure you've thought this argument through.

> Are you suggesting that women are naturally better-suited to mathematics and theoretical engineering then men are?

I have thought it through, but thanks for your concern. Mathematics is close to gender parity, engineering is not. When computer science shifted from being closer to math to being closer to engineering you saw the population attending shift to match engineering rather than math ratios. It is that simple, and it matches observed data perfectly with how CS curve went upwards matching the curve for math but in the late 80's it took a quick nose dive and followed the curve for engineering ever since.

I am not sure why you bring up suitability to study a field though, nowhere did I say that men are better at anything than women and vice versa. People study what they find interesting, not necessarily what they are good at.

But you are right, we know that women are more willing to study the purer more theoretical classes over the engineering versions. I don't see how that would contradict anything.
> Someone WILL fill that position at Evil Corp. and they will also get the 300k.

That’s not actually how it works. Maybe it’s 90% true, but the 10% matters, even if it is difficult to evaluate.

What is the impact of a position at Evil Corp staying open for 6 months longer than it would have otherwise if GP doesn’t take the job? I don’t know, that is a difficult question. But I know it isn’t zero impact.

Our actions matter.
the article is right, it's all about narrative, and these "optics" make SF politicians look bad
> Central banks are not companies

Actually... it's complicated. The Bank of England, for example, was nationalized only in 1946, and it remains technically a company which is owned by the state, not actually part of the government.

In the US, the Fed is... well, it's not a company, but it's also not not a company... or group of companies...

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_Bank
Wrong answer, at least for a time. Microsoft was actually sued by Adobe over the PDF implementation with Office 2007 (before it was standardised in ISO, that was circa 2008-9 if I remember correctly). That's also the reason that XPS (the weird Microsoft format, not Dell laptops) exists.

Nowadays though, I don't really know since Microsoft has successfully overturned that case (probably because of Adobe being Adobe?).
The antidote for damage from UV light is the pro-metabolic effects of red light. Red light hits the red metal (copper) in the Cytochrome C Oxidase enzyme [0] in our mitochondria and refreshes this enzyme. When the cells have enough energy (ATP) they can repair the damage from UV light.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome_c_oxidase (no mention of red light therapy in this article).

UV light from the sun comes with plenty of red light. UV light from the tanning bed does not have any red light. In the winter I used to go tanning, then would spend 12 minutes in the bright-light room [1].

[1] at Planet Fitness. The company website doesn't have any information, but I found this page: https://thelifevirtue.com/total-body-enhancement-pros-and-co...
Yeah the problem is that they're trying to say "Agile is like baseball - it doesn't work if you make all sorts of misguided improvements to it. You need to stick to the original, then it will be great."

But baseball was a poor choice because original baseball is bad.
Except in Illinois, where that is illegal.

If it's not illegal in your state, it's time to start petitioning your elected officials.

If you don't, then you're part of the problem and shouldn't complain about the situation on the internet.
In the case of Autoglyphs there actually is no URL involved. The instructions are stored immutably in the smart contract. However that is besides the point.

How is the mode of ownership of this wall drawing different? The physical piece can change or disappear. What matters is who is recognised as the owner of the artwork an immaterial sense, as evidenced by the certificate.

The owner cares about the piece of paper but not because the typography is so sweet. The piece of paper is not the artwork. The piece of paper is a token.
> In comparison, a huge percentage of the country has maybe single digit stores within 30 minutes of driving.

That's also a part of the country that doesn't have a ton of people.

Again, I wish this applied to physical stores. But the fact that it doesn't, doesn't mean we should say this is a bad bill.
Netflix just fired the organizer of the trans employee walkout
Sure but that is a much weaker case for using NFTs versus doing something similar without them. For example running a free weekend or marketing campaign.
Walgreen's are not perceiving local support for their stores. They are not alone. There is a Walgreen's in the Castro and it is likely from my reading they share a lot of the complaints in this article [0] which says law enforcement is no longer to be counted on to help.

[0]https://www.ebar.com/news/latest_news/302626
No worries! Feel free to drop me a line if you want / need any help with the bridges @xethos:xethos.net - I'd be happy to help another person (potentially) switch over to Matrix + bridges.
Google and Facebook have natural monopolies. The answer isn't to break them up (which will just restart the cycle) but to place them under public ownership. This would also enforce first amendment rights on both platforms and disallow the legal side-step the government has been using to pressure them into censoring people.
> If I buy a print of and associated license to art, I gain the legal ability to look at and resell my copy the art.

If I buy an NFT, I gain the defacto ability to resell my copy the art.
Any forks of Firefox OS still alive? That comes closest.
I know you know about Moral Hazard. I know you know about small bubbles allowed to get bigger getting out of control. I'm sure you know the phrase "Privatized gains and Socialized losses." These all apply here.

The mark of a successful Fed is in reducing not just the frequency of banking issues but also the amplitudes. Every time the Fed is forced to step in, the interest rate cuts get bigger, the debt they create gets bigger, the Congressional action larger.

The mark of a successful Fed is in stepping in ahead of time before the bubble gets out of control. If a Fed needs to take drastic action, they've already failed. CO-VID, being the first non-financially caused recession in 50 years, is a special case, and for that I give them leniency.
Trumpist county clerk barred after leak of voting-system passwords to QAnon
Qt Creator 6 Beta released
Hey, I think there may have been a misunderstanding. Definitely agree with you on the complexity of weighing O notation costs for distributed systems.

What I'm talking about, and I think the OP I replied to is referring to, is the monetary and compute cost in CPU and memory overhead of the kubelet and it's associated processes on real-world deployments. There are plenty of other costs associated with Kubernetes, of course.

GKE charges a fixed cost to operate the consensus protocol (etcd) and control plane (kube-apiserver) on their own systems.

On the nodes the user operates, the costs then are relatively fixed, that is, there is some amount of CPU time and memory spent per node on logging, metrics, and so on, but as the node gets larger, that quantity does not increase. (It's definitely sublinear.)

Or in other words: you can more greatly increase the capacity of a GKE cluster by doubling the size (CPU/memory) than doubling the number of nodes. Scaling up will increase gross capacity by 100% while increasing overhead by a few percent at most, scaling out will have the same increase in gross capacity, but also increase the amount spent on node overhead by 100%.
Does it really matter if it is a Task or Subtask? I think that kind of focus on the words is why people start hating Jira instead of trying to fix what matters.

JIRA is a bug tracker -- it has "summary", "description", "assignee", "status", and "a bunch of fields only management cares about". So deal with it as you'd deal with any other buggy software. If subtasks cannot be used, make a bunch of new tasks and set it as a blocker of the "final" task. If setting blockers is buggy, start putting comments in the title ("Big task [1/3]: Refactor foo", "Big task [2/3]: Add bar to foo").

Now, perhaps the real problem is then you are not allowed to add/change the tickets at all, only middle management can? It is a huge problem indeed, and I fully agree that this can ruin your life. But this is not JIRA's problem -- your management could do the same thing even you have switched to sticky notes attached to your wall.
This occurs in America routinely, dating to 20+ years ago.
Every movie and TV show could soon be dubbed into any language you want
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Yup, which doesn’t stop people doing it nor does it stop people doing it as a job.
What would you suggest as a good starting point for a founder looking at (3)?
> Isn't this pretty much the description of every company?

Which is why we don't let private companies create currency willy-nilly anymore.
Agreed. Tangentially, seems likely to me is that blockchain makes it impossible for Steam to police fraud. There's consumer expectations around refundability that Steam simply won't be able to meet in this world, and people will blame Steam for if they're on the bad end of it.
In addition to the fact that the very idea of NFTs is a scam

This makes no sense. It's like calling the very idea of an Oracle database is a scam. NFT's are basically a consensus-driven shared database, that can be used for legitimate reasons or for scams.
That definitely matches my experience. I've learned that when I'm paralyzed by uncertainty, I just need to pick something, and in the act of implementing things I automatically make the decisions. But that habit needs to be honed..
It's "good enough" for most and extension points allow for filling the gaps.

This also dodges the crux of GP's argument -- instead of running 1 cluster with 10 components, you now need a half dozen clusters with 1 component each, but oops they all need to talk to each other with all the same fun TLS/authn/authz setup as k8s components.
Portable, low latency, retained-mode GUI library in C++
How big a problem is the possible breakage of C extensions for new code? Is there currently some standard "future proofed for multi-thread" way of writing them that will reduce the odds of the C extension breaking? And maybe also being compatible with PyPy? Or do developers today need to write a separate version for each interpreter that they want to support?