skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The answer is unfortunately less clear cut. Particularly if you assume that whoever is tasked with scaling this hypothetical DB doesn't know what they are doing a-priori.

The following questions are likely to come up

1) My t3.xl DB is down, how much bigger can I make it?

2) My r3.24xl DB can only handle 100 TPS and now my site is down, what can I do?

3) My 2x r3.24xl DB cluster costs a lot of money, Are other solutions cheaper?

4) My latency is high, are other solutions faster?

For someone who hasn't dealt with these questions before, these will become long and painful lessons with massive material impacts to the business.

It's appealing to use Dynamo as it takes the magic out of scaling. It's appealing to use serverless RDBMS as you don't have to think about it anymore unless it has high costs/latency.
Pretty much almost every Silicon Valley VC funded company or startup I know are not using Agile/Scrum. My impression is Agile/Scrum is popular on consulting where the software buyer is external and therefore it's somewhat a mystery what they want so you hedge the risk and in companies where engineering is considered more of a "cost" and not well understood than something that drives the whole business.

Anecdotally, Coinbase and Airbnb didn't use Agile/Scrum and I never have interviewed in a company that mentioned that. Usually how it works that there the company knows what they want and there is some kind of roadmap of projects or experiments which are based on improving some kind of goal or metrics. Teams usually work in somewhat iterative phases, were you start with design, build the first prototype/mvp, test internally until you get to a stage to run an experiment with the users. During this time, your team meets every now and then, gets feedback from others and you do reviews with leadership. Then eventually if the experiment seems promising and the feature is good enough, it gets shipped. You can have sprints or not but no-one talks about or uses story points, retrospectives, planning pokers, product owners, user stories or other agile ceremonies. You have goal and project to accomplish, and then the management/leaderships tries to estimate with the team how long things will take.

Pragmatic Engineer had article about this too: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/project-management-at-big...
Yep. I don't see this game-in-the-browser thing taking off anytime soon for anything serious. Player retention, and immersion, are terrible. Casual 'adware' games, maybe.
> they built a system where cloud servers can push new software to the avionics systems of flying aircraft.

I seriously doubt any aircraft would allow an in-flight software upgrade. There are so many no-no's in there that the very idea is ludicrous. There is zero chance a company that's in this business since its start would propose something as insane as this.

What it may be possible is to push the software to onboard storage so it can be deployed as soon as the craft lands. Deployed if all security envelopes are correct.
Yes, definitely, we'll be expanding to more regions soon.
It doesn't seem like much of a downfall when you look back at history.
More confused on mine than anything.

noun.

shiznitpats

shiznit·pats

a $10 bill placed across the chest of another prisoner without proper reason, typically for mental anguish

"the shiznitpats were held and transferred to juvenile detention center"
There’s a wide gap between “forcing a business to exist” and 100% unfettered capitalism. My preference is to be somewhere along that spectrum, not at either end.
Power? I miss book stores.
They're not really trying to be defensive, so much as they're saying "actually, we found a more practical and more elegant way to solve this problem so we're not gonna do this."
Yes, I knew my wife before she went into teaching but it is a good match!
I wonder if it’s the opposite. From my experience dentists tend to run their own practice or partner with one or two other dentists. Could it just make sense for the spouse to run the financial / administrative portion of the small business?

Edit: s/wife/spouse
Great question. Isn't the reason the delta variant is so effective at infecting (mildly) already vaccinated people due to the fact that the immune system (unexpectedly) doesn't produce antibodies for the broad structures in the spike protein? My understanding based on a few papers I've read is that the immune system was more efficient than anticipated, and tended to produce antibodies based on specific structures that are part of the spike protein. Apparently, evolving an entirely new spike protein would be implausible, but mutations on the existing spike protein are more frequent, and this narrower than expected antibody is slower to bind to these.
Covid-19 and deaths in older Canadians
Izotope RX is spleeter, tweaked.
The plane won't crash if the connection goes down - no safety-critical system relies on an internet connection. The worst that can happen is that some telemetry will not be sent to the operator/manufacturer in real-time and will be synchronized as the system gets back online, causing a part that needs eventual replacement to be delivered to a different service center.
I searched for it right now -- DDG for "Wikivoyage" doesn't turn up the site Wikivoyage on the first page of results. Amusingly, the linked article is on the first page.
I've user accounts on 3 different servers, run by 3 different groups.

Every single one of them has a configuration, despite a selfhosted instance, that phones home to centralized servers run by your for-profit company.

I'm not sure if this systemic problem is in your config files, your documentation, your defaults, your js client, or what. It's a failing of some part (or multiple parts) of the process.
In the adolescents trial, myocarditis was only observed in male patients.
This is how you create a regime of regulatory capture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

>banning people that are definitely not troll farms but somebody who dares to say something contradicting the Currently Approved Truth (TM)

Hundreds? I can't think of a single one, honestly.
I tend to think I watch the Mac OS app market pretty well until I see lists like this and don't recognize the majority of the software titles.
What are the safety issues surrounding multiple shots or mixed vaccines?
Can I be extremely shallow? Because the language feels like it's from the 60s. Like writing Fortran or Ada or Algol in 2021. C is timeless, it doesn't count.

I love lisps, but Racket, for example, feels more modern than Common Lisp to me. And for shallow people like me, feel and ergonomics are very important when writing code.
>What I find insidious are those who would propagandize and coverup the incident within this country.

Demanding that the US bomb something at random because of the Liberty is obviously futile. Especially on HN, which does not control the US military.

If you want to blow up Israelis, and you are able to post coherently about it, you are smart enough to know that talking about the Liberty incident is not an effective way.

Also, "proportional response" is a red flag for me, for BS. It is mathematically impossible to deter anything with a proportional response, and therefore nobody has ever been serious when they suggest it as a standard.

Also also, if you can reply to a deleted comment, you can reply to the one that wasn't.

It seems like you won't break character. I am interested in your actual beliefs and am not drawing premature conclusions about them.

Still, the overarching goal of destroying the US's relationship with Israel is the only political motivation I can think of. I carefully refrained from condemning that or moralizing, in the interest of discussion.
Discord is just for chatting with people. I would not put it in the same category as Youtube, TikTok, or Facebook
True. But the non-monopolistic kettles get MY vote.
Probably not fully classically liberal like the ACLU once was but certainly far more classically liberal than they are today (which is pretty much not at all).
producers have only one buyer, and consumers have only one seller.

Monopsony and monopoly all in one.

For international HN'ers, a question: is the boardgame "Monopoly" popular in your country? Here in the US it's an old classic.
For students is there a system to get physical books on software engineering at a discount? I don't mind a $15 book, but they're typically $30-$50 a pop. I and other students I work with would love to delve further into industry materials, and it's really nice to own an actual book that can be referenced back to and nest with.
Ignoring performance, if you're just doing business-specific behavior logic for whatever process needs to be assisted or automated by an IT system, so often you get complicated parts of that system logic that may get implemented as a tangled nest of if-statements but where the proper mental model actually is a finite state machine/automata - and if you see it that way, you can cover all the possible transitions and improve correctness.
HOA's are in theory a choice. In practice, in many regions anywhere built out in the last 30 years (more?) years is covered by them and there is no real choice. I absolutely loath them for this reason. There is no "choice" about them when it comes to newer housing.
It's terrible if your goal is to sell a TV show to kids, whose viewing is controlled by their parents.
At the very least, it speaks to your personal cultural views of the trades, trucking, and small business ownership!
You're citing what Congress said, and I'm talking about what regulators actually did; take a look at GWU's graph's relating to regulatory agency rules and sizes, as well as the data on the Federal Register: https://regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/reg-stats

edit: look at this graph, which shows the total code of regulations expanding almost monotonically https://regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/za...
> The only way to escape that cycle is to be a creator (with yourself as an audience of one).

Sorry I must've misunderstood: is it a requirement that the audience is an audience of one?
It's possible to comment on something without overexplaining it using voiceovers and exposition.

It's a recurring theme in Korean media eg Parasite and Snowpiercer.
So I just had a hit on a real word (pejorative), not sure if that's the plan or not

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/oLvV
Launching with bridges to already-encrypted messengers, then immediately admitting this has to MITM them to work, doesn't make a good first impression...especially since users of these messengers will likely be more privacy-minded than most.

This is also making a bet that the inconvenience of juggling these 3 particular messengers is worth $5 a month.

IMO the real value in Matrix bridging that's been neglected (and has been mentioned elsewhere in these comments) is connecting different messengers _to each other_. Being able to connect friends/family scattered across different, otherwise-isolated protocols with a single "just works" tool is a much clearer value proposition than what feels like just another multi-protocol client.

Alas, getting that kind of multi-connectivity is tricky...as is VoIP bridging, which this doesn't support either, but should be considered as crucial for any Matrix bridge.

I don't doubt Matrix/Element will get there at some point, but for now this feels a tad premature.
As someone new to the WebGL scene, can someone shed light on what are the motivations in porting WebGL to WebGPU?
I imagine the numerous pipeline blockages by the authorities haven't exactly helped keep a lid on prices either.
>Is there a word for laws that disproportionately affect people in rural areas so that a government can play protectionist for urban companies?

how much of a difference does urban / rural divide make in France regarding such effects?
Also new technology = new plateaus to explore.

Internet really boomed and flourished in mid 2000's, and then the mobile and the app space took off in mid 2010s, where we had new content/ideas/innovation. Even way before then, VHS kicked off a video golden age in the 1980s.

Kind of curious to see the next frontier that gets propped up by a technology this decade. I thought it was going to be consumer robotics but it's probably still too soon for that.
You’re so right. Don’t know where I got the other figure.
Could there be a completely novel way of digging ? Maybe with Laser ? maybe a chemical process ? or a high pressure water cutter ? what if you could cut small block of stone in the hole without using so much energy reducing it to sand ?
Interesting. This query works for me, so something under the hood (locale?) may be skewing things.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wikivoyage
> So far the fiat currency system has been a part of the most rapid progression of technology and trade in recorded history.

There is an argument to be made that the progress would have occurred regardless of the currency system in place. That is to say it is nothing more than coincidence that fiat was in place during this period of progress. The progress is the result of capitalism not the currency system. However, had this progress occurred under a gold standard we would have been much better off. Fiat monetary policy has bled value from the economy for nearly 90 years. All of that value lost to inflation would still be in the economy if we had stayed on a gold standard.
Just English words? Boring.
I have read the free version and it is well written. However I do think that we need another book that extensively speak about modern tech stack data modelling, something similar to Kimball but targeting modern industries such as mobile gaming, large-scale e-commerce, video streaming and etc.

From my years of exp I feel that Kimball is not exactly the best solution for those techs. They typically involve very large amount of data, fast iteration (of anything, including data warehousing), columnar database and real-time streaming requirement.
Just as an aside, I think form validity checks that phone home to a server prior to submission are very questionable, and recording keystroke data from those is absolutely unethical under all circumstances (even if it's only to improve an autocomplete algorithm). Really, any out-of-band transmission from a web form to some other app / database is a potential security threat. The same is true with any kind of client-side scanning, which is part of the point: Although these files may only be scanned because they will be transmitted and stored in the cloud, the whole stack doing secondary scans is out-of-band and by definition insecure, i.e., it is designed to ultimately make human review possible. Who can access that side stream of data and when is intentionally left opaque in these types of proposals, and amounts to "trust us" hocus pocus which is usually a sure sign that proper security measures will not be taken.
We are always running grand experiments in virology, evolution never stops. We know the outcome of evolution, that is novel viruses pop up and kill massive numbers of people.

My take of your entire thread is we let these natural processes kill millions because we fear a significantly smaller long term risk.
The ACLU was founded by Hellen Keller, who was a lifelong socialist, among others.
DevOps salaries in 2021: where do you rank? – Gitlab
Maybe they died of Covid lmao.
Good fucking riddance to the whole lot of them.
Shouldn't the structure of the expression tree correspond to the structure of the document macros? i.e. (begin document ...)
Or, search engines see duplicate content on wikitravel/wikivoyage and consider wikitravel the real source and wikivoyage as spammers or SEO tricksters
What's a good Lisp dialect to write small programs in? I have some Emacs Lisp experience but I wouldn't use it to automate small tasks. For that, I typically use Python.
A wood catalytic converter stove will easily heat your main living areas and all you need is an area to store a few cords of wood, which does not need to be in your living area. It is more work to keep running but would save a ton of money as 1-2k of wood should get you all winter, not just a single month.
They may not be subsidizing shipping at all beyond the amount they would normally discount new books, but law prohibits such discounting as well. Books could be a loss leader here, but I'm not sure of it.
I'm curious - have you tested with oils with various smoke points? How does your device know which smoke point to monitor for? That's a 300F range (225 for Sunflower oil - which nobody should cook with, but if you want to prevent fires, look for the people doing things they shouldn't do, but that are convenient. 300F for butter, 520F for avocado oil)

Also, since I have a thing for flambee dishes - how does it deal with pyromanic chefs? ;)
Apple’s MacBook Pro Is a GPU-Shaped Warning to Nvidia and AMD
Recent suggestion for a New Yorker caption: "Honey, are you okay? You are barely taking pictures of your food."
I married a graphic designer, much like our ur out our personalities complimented each other fairly well so we could challenge and empower eachother, and had just enough overlap that we could relate on the nerdy things that counted.
Try WeWorkRemotely? I think you might find something good there.
If they will still treat it as a de facto requirement, would lying on the job posting help anyone? I mean, in many professions there are a large number of applicants, and HR has to throw out many of the applications without interviewing anyway based on various not-that-strong signals.
Wouldn't the analog of George Washington intentionally exposing his soldiers to small pox be more similar to getting covid on purpose?
> I posted about this a few days ago from Ars but it never gained traction. Not sure how this one is on the second page.

It's definitely a conspiracy! /s
I've seen it repeated pretty extensively on r/covid19, which I have to say comes across as a much more scientifically robust site for covid information than Hacker News. The quality of information here isn't much above Facebook.
Reminds me of this video on why 2007 was the best year

https://youtu.be/IafB6r4hi6g
Where I live, we first noticed the insects and then the birds disappearing around 2010. That was also around the time that the local climate changed considerably, and the summers became unbearably hot. Construction has also removed many of their former habitats in my area, while decreasing rainfall has led to drier conditions. The last of the local bee population near me disappeared around 2018.
Agreed! Same reason, for instance, that big oil companies love mandated additional costs for gas stations, such as replacing underground tanks more often: It drives out the little guys.
Amazon free shipping
I think the point is about the era before railroads, which is also the era before personal automobiles.

Cars are post-railroad. It can be true that car-centric places are less interesting, while it is also true that the railroad killed local culture.
I think this is half the explanation. The other half is that people stopped making cool internet things just out of the passion and craft of it. Now everything on the internet is "content," a hyper optimized form of human intellectual output that is devoid of art, minimal on information, excreted instead of created, measured to the lowest common denominator, monetized yet worthless, just enough bait on the hook for the next lizard brain click. And we ourselves have changed, trapped in this giant skinner box, too hooked on the next dopamine hit to dig deeper for our novelty. Even professional journalism is quite dead and with it went our collective consensus reality; instead we are left in a house of mirrors looking at endless reflections of special interest talking points. The world is an incredibly interesting place, but none of that makes it to the internet anymore.

In the meantime, go read an old gem, seat61.com and reflect on what we have all lost.
Not apparent in the original chart, but in the follow-on bubble chart there seems to be a weirdly strong connection between fire inspectors and pumping station operators.

https://flowingdata.com/2017/08/28/occupation-matchmaker/

They both seem like very small groups, though, so probably just an amusing bit of statistical noise.
I think a lot of posts are flagged / killed as off topic rather than specifically as ideological. In some sense, it's more of a problem that many purely ideological posts are not killed, and so it makes people notice the bias of what's permitted and what isn't.

HN is one of the few (maybe the only) forum that still tolerates some intellectual discussion about issues that other sites would ignorantly label as conspiracy / misinformation and ban discussion. And for that reason, it is a popular place to reach a minority audience that's actually interested in discussing unorthodox political views, without descending into some kind of raving charicature of the right or just trolling like free speech sites often do. But it's still a tech site, and would be better if there was less political / ideology from all sides
I hate Amazon because of their refusal to free their stack despite using and distributing plenty of AGPL software. I hate Amazon because they push software patents. I hate Amazon because they're anti-union. I hate Amazon for lots of reasons.

At the same time, I also realize that there are plenty of good things about their existence, as someone who grew up in an area without a good library.

Being good for a specific thing that is partially their fault (Amazon supports terrible intellectual property laws as much as any big company with their political donations, which prevents the market from being able to function efficiently; there's no reason Chinese sellers shouldn't be able to print out-of-print technical books, for example) doesn't make them good, or make me hate them any less.

I don't buy from Amazon, and I don't invest in Amazon, and I don't work for Amazon. I'm relatively consistent, but even people who aren't consistent aren't hypocrites for participating in society when they disagree with how it functions.

I think that voting isn't ideal, but I still vote, because it's available. This is pretty natural; it isn't some shocking abandonment of moral principles. Nor is using a company's services despite it being an awful actor in society because you can't afford anything else (partially because of their position and participation in society, which is worth pointing out).

I'm as capitalistic as anybody, but Amazon's a bad actor that's contributing to the destruction of capitalism by encouraging intellectual property laws and making political donations encouraging ending things that actually help the market like ePacket.
You're lucky. During my most recent job search (January 2021) nearly every recruiter ping I got either stated that they were using agile as a selling point, or listed it in the job description as a required skill.

If I have any say in the matter, I'll never work in an "agile" shop again.
Collision between 2 vehicles is a nightmare to make look good. But I haven’t had issues with extrapolating vehicles, it’s generally much easier to predict and reconcile than players.
I've seen very little abuse of flagging (although I skip some controversial threads) and it's already possible to vouch for flagged posts to rescue them. IMO additional complexity isn't needed.
I kinda really want to see how "unmarried" stacks up against other professions.
The day Erlang took over HN
There have always been divorce horror stories. The systemic reasons for declining marriage rates are mostly financial. The American middle class has seen declining incomes for the past generation or so, with rising student loan payments, unaffordable housing, expensive childcare etc. You have to be making a lot of income to seriously consider having children.