skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So while a tool like this might be good when you're just starting out, for a "real" app you want to avoid this sort of automation, because the tool is almost certainly not going to be smart enough.

Tools can be smart enough -- it just requires a lot of work and domain expertise. For example, Facebook has used declarative schema management company-wide for over a decade, to manage schema changes for what is likely the largest MySQL fleet in the world.

Then again, maybe this is an area where MySQL's DDL limitations actually makes tooling more possible: there's no transactional DDL in MySQL, so you can't get real clever with ordering anyway. And historically companies don't actually use ALTER TABLE with large MySQL tables; instead they use an external online schema change (OSC) tool which builds a shadow table and then swaps it. Since the OSC tool isn't actually running an ALTER directly on the original table, the exact ALTER is conceptually not necessary, if the OSC tool just takes the desired state as a CREATE instead (as fb-osc does).

That said, I agree with the sentiment in this subthread that it's a complex domain with a lot of idiosyncrasies. I tend to raise an eyebrow when DB tools use generic DSLs and try to handle a lot of different database vendors, as it's extremely rare (almost unheard of...) for a tool's authors to be deeply well-versed in large-scale production experience of many different DBMS. The various communities around Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, and Oracle tend not to have a lot of overlap at the expert level.
sorry, citing by other people do not have value equal to publish article on first author... and just do experiment should spend very very time and money, e.g., "if I add this compoment to cultured cells" just spend one day and then spend half of year to add component to cell each day and collect results...
My comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but if we're going to push our glasses up and engage in some good old well-actuallying, I'll note that Conan Doyle appears to have retconned Holmes' self-professed ignorance later on, as he calls on knowledge of astronomy to solve a case at least once: https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1993JBAA..103...30S
Or simply tech stocks have been crazy thanks to Federal Reserve interest rate policies.
Like when American manufacturers hire an MBA to run the company and they decide to stop manufacturing and do tricks with money in an endless loop until one of those goes wrong and the entire company collapses.
Dear Starlevel,

Sorry if I came across as unhelpful, my intent was actually the opposite - to inform and hopefully educate. I don't like wasting what time I have left on this earth bothering people with unwelcome or unappreciated feedback (though I accept this is always a risk when engaging, especially via Internet forums where tone is not discernable).

Your argument would be strengthened if you added more explanation or insight into why projects using your disliked, cursed documentation format definitively suck :)

Feedback is always welcome, I'm always looking to improve, learn how to be more persuasive, and avoid miscommunication.

Sincerely,
metadat@hn
The idea of connecting two or three close skyskrapers for additional structural integrity and vertical movement possibilites (forgetting cost) seems an interesting tangent.
Asimov, Programming and the Meta Ladder
The National Labor Relations Board is a federal agency created by an act of Congress. No, they are not the Supreme Court. The acts of every federal agency are subject to judicial appeal. Generally speaking, you cannot file suit in federal court against the government until all administrative appeals are exhausted. Congress created the NLRB to administer federal law in this area and they are the only avenue available, barring some state law perhaps.
The EFF has been losing its way too lately, e.g., by being anti-police even in matters unrelated to dragnet surveillance, being anti-Israel, and https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/statement-re-election-...

It's definitely not as bad as the ACLU yet, though.
Hugo or Jekyll should be super easy for anyone who's seriously considered hosting their own WordPress instance, like OP is. If setting up a static site generator is too difficult, they definitely shouldn't be running WordPress themselves.
I think a Paternoster wouldn't be viable for a number of reasons (mainly ADA/accessibility). Instead you'd need to have each car independently powered and allow them to communicate back to a central planning server to allow cars to stop without stopping all other cars in the lane (and to prevent other cars from bunching up).
I'd go even further: I get a lot more enjoyment in going deep in things. Reading a book or watching a movie multiple times, discussing it with friends, family, people online, showing it/gifting it to people, learning about how it was made, who made it, in what context. I can't do this with everything, but I'd rather go deep on a few things than shallow on lots.
Public disclosure by the people that found the backdoor. I couldn't find any disclosure about it by AccessPress themselves between 15. October when they pulled the compromised themes and plugins to now.
"Lots of talks and meetings, and very little progress forward" spoke to me. Just left a growth-stage tech company last week (now at a startup) for the exact reason. Was asking myself, "How many days of my life do I want to continue discussing progress vs. making it?"
How can you order a valid national ID online and receive it in the mail, while making sure that someone who's not you can't do the same pretending to be you?
> Nowhere did I say this was a major bad decision in his life

Wait, are you saying he should take a step back and make fewer good decisions? You don't think this was a major bad decision, but you also don't think he should have made it?

I'm trying to follow the line of logic that says that people who make mistakes should stop doing anything else even if they're not making a new mistake. I mean, that sounds a lot like saying that he made a bad choice and therefore he just shouldn't participate in society now regardless of the role or appropriateness of his actions, even after serving his sentence. And if that's the implication, I'd push back against that sentiment pretty hard.
Mark Twain: 'A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.'
I think it is a legitimate problem here in the US.

So much waste. No more repair.
What is a link farm? How do they make money?
COVID-19 isn’t the same as a positive SARS-CoV—2 test. This is what they measured, from the caption of table 10 in the pfizer fact sheet you linked:

> Note: Confirmed cases were determined by Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) and at least 1 symptom consistent with COVID-19 (symptoms included: fever; new or increased cough; new or increased shortness of breath; chills; new or increased muscle pain; new loss of taste or smell; sore throat; diarrhea; vomiting)

That’s kind of squishy, but I think it’s a clear distinction.

I agree that the effectiveness against symptomatic Covid is lower with omicron, but omicron also evades immunity from prior infection as well.
All property discussions won't make sense until you separate land from capital improvements (houses). Property prices will not stop climbing if you build more houses, and in fact, land prices go up if you build more houses. Rents go down per house if you build houses much faster than increasing demand, but you can't build more land.

Supply and demand is not the issue when dealing with something of inherently limited supply, such as location/land.

If you want rent to go down, absolutely build more houses. If you want land prices to go down, tax land value.
Actually, the latest version also works on Linux! I just didn't update the readme yet.
What about project loom? Will that not solve this case providing you start the server with a virtual thread pool?

I guess thats what he was getting at however, not having to do that.
Are there any youtube sessions on this topic? I too am looking for similar resources.
> Also, why isn't building down economical?

Several issues:

* Digging is expensive. There's several factors for this, but some unavoidable stuff include things like "you need to put the stuff you took out of the ground somewhere."

* The deeper you go, the hotter it gets. Although it's probably not that bad if you're only digging a mile or so.

* Natural light is hard to come by underground.

* Groundwater intrusion becomes a much more significant concern.

* Having to pump all of the sump water and sewage up to the sewer lines is not going to be fun.
I didn’t say anything about freedom of expression. Not sure where that even came from.
Where does the line between recreational and medicinal really end?

Having a glass of wine after a stressful day, instead of Xanax, is that medicinal or recreational? You could argue either way, I suppose.

I don't think medicinal is smoked.
To be fair, that was a classic acqui-hire.
I wrote the original Dymo drivers for cups. They are now completely rewritten and a ppd iirc.
A few key things the author misses:

- The pre-commit issue - In the western world (not always the same in China, Dubai, etc.) most developers work on a debt finance model where they have to sell a certain percentage of apartments or pre-lease a certain amount of office space before the finances come together to develop a tall building. The taller you go the tougher it gets.

- Market reactions to complex ownership structures. Owners for office buildings are still typically single institutions. Owners for residential buildings are typically individuals with some kind of shared structure for payment of common building issues. When you get a tall building that contains offices, hotels, residential, retail, etc. it all becomes complex to manage and many potential investors/owners/purchasers have a major feat of this that drive them to simpler mostly single-use structures.

- Airspace limitations for aircraft manouvring. Though the enforcement of these varies by country - some are strong on it, others ignore them (Taipei 101 in Taiwan is one that is very close to flightpaths). Helicopters to urban hospitals can also be a big thing.
I rarely drink. I have kids so Saturday and Friday nights are pretty much at home like any other night.

If I didn’t I would consider a social sport in replacement of beers. Maybe a bouldering gym or a run through the city. Followed by a lemon-lime-soda kind of drink at a pub after?

The super power of being sober if you have a car is being able to drive. You can go wherever you like within say 60 miles - plenty of experiences for most people.

The biggest problem is friends or colleagues not accepting the change and trying to get you yo have a drink. You need a strategy for that and if there is too much pressure ot drunkness becomes too annoying have a bail tactic.
Bell, at the time, had a lot of non-computer pursuits like switches and microwave antennas. Engineering was a lot more than writing code back then.
Trying to tell a resident of rural Leinster what I should and shouldn't consider rural isn't going to get you very far.

To get back to your point...

> there were also completed and empty housing estates.... Rural areas had huge ghost estates

That's not accurate - an ambitious housing estate in a rural area would be usually a few tens of houses. Ten to fifteen would be much more usual. "Huge" is not the word.

> You will find that you are wrong about the occupation rates in rural areas, it's still at around 180000 unoccupied dwellings at the last count. Misleading not to make the distinction between Unfinished and Empty just to make a point, leaving out half the story in numbers terms.

The CSO figures don't allow us to see what proportion of the unoccupied buildings are ghost estates. Table 4.3 gives a breakdown but it's not particularly helpful.
From my own experience I really don't think that they are a particularly large proportion any more.
I do a decent amount of smoking (not steaks, too often, though sometimes) and I tend to mostly avoid mesquite, or use it very sparingly. It's STRONG.

I'm not afraid to use a good amount of post oak or cherry when smoking anything, including steaks, though.
You can get by on that "wisdom" for a while, but eventually your DB will garner a significant size and performance impact as a result. That said, even on very active products that takes a while, so there's probably something to blending the idea of one large migration every so often and only making schema compatible changes along the way.
Yeah, most photo editing tools have this functionality in one way or another. But the point of this is to be able to do it in a few seconds, without having to open a clunky program with an even more clunky workflow first.
Also, don't forget goat-staring!
It's mostly a problem for search engines, they typically don't want human visitors. Many of these wordpress installs are innocent small businesses that just haven't realized they're hacked.
I like the potential your comment has even though it's wrong on every point, it is interesting to go back and understand why 386 support was removed.

Since the days of 386 support, the kernel has only become much more modular and portable. It quite possibly supports more platforms and CPU architectures and families than any other OS ever written. Almost certainly true if you restrict it to a multitasking >= 32-bit OS with memory protection and virtual memory.

Many architectures and ports that have been removed or not merged were not due to being technically incapable of supporting the port but due to lack of interest.

If 486 support goes away, it won't be because suddenly the code has become unmaintainable after being fine for 25 years since the 486 was obsolete! It will because nobody has a machine to test or verify fixes on (although QEMU has improved this situation), or because the kernel or the x86 port decides to adopt a new feature which is more difficult to implement older CPUs (cmpxchg8b as another post mentioned).

So your post is totally misinformed and wrong. So with that out of the way here is the 386 removal changeset:

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1212.1/01152.html

Net code change is fewer than 400 lines removed, much of it in boilerplate and config options changing.

"This tree removes ancient-386-CPUs support [which] plagued us with extra work whenever we wanted to change SMP primitives, for years."

There were no issues with spaghetti. They can and did maintain it just fine for many years. It was not removed to fix a bug, it was removed for lack of interest in doing the work to maintain it. And the extra work was not because of spaghetti it was because it required independent implementations of SMP primitives. As you see from the code change it was likely not the code itself that was the headache, but the testing of it.

> Technically Linux could once upon a time run on a 386

That's a really strange way to phrase it too. A 386 was the very first thing Linux was written to run on. There is no "technically" about it.
Right, so you don't just want national ID laws like other countries, you want significantly more restrictive ones.

Perhaps, instead of asking

> How can you order a valid national ID online and receive it in the mail, while making sure that someone who's not you can't do the same pretending to be you?

Ask "If many US states, and many, to quote GP 'more civilized' countries don't use such restrictive voter ID laws, but still have essentially no voter fraud, what is the point of such restrictions?"
It could have been a minor bad decision, and it definitely had a major bad outcome for him.

I'm saying he should not trust his own decision making process right now, considering how often those decisions have led him to a negative outcome.
IMHO, it's an example of path dependence. If it had evolved during the CRT -> LCD era, we'd be looking at a very different present.

As is, it's competing against 120hz, mass-produced LED/LCD panels that can scale in price from tablets to TV screens.

It's hard for a "new" tech to have enough of an economic use case, so as to fund its own R&D, so at to become the best version of itself.
Reminds me of the Chinese technique for cooking cuts like pork belly: boiling in water first then pan searing. Works well with sauces that caramelize.
We need more buildings of up to six stories. We don't need more skyscrapers.

The low hanging fruit exists in the general lack of this mid-rise range of buildings in many places. Above six or ten stories, it's actually counterproductive in terms of things like energy efficiency.

Many good cities, like Paris, limit skyscrapers by policy on purpose because it's not actually the best human environment. Good urban environments involve a lot of mid-rise buildings clusters together, not a lot of skyscrapers.

that Roman residential buildings (insulae) maxed out at around 7 or 8 storeys, with 5 or 6 storeys being more common.

One of the reasons for that is that apartment buildings could not include kitchens. Cooking tech was based on using fire to cook and you couldn't build a multi story building with kitchens in every unit because you couldn't put fireplaces in the units.

Poor people in Roman cities bought prepared meals from street vendors. They didn't cook at home.

Buildings are primarily about meeting human needs. This article seems to fail to adequately understand the ways in which human habitation and human use drive such things far more than physics, technology and similar.
In your example there is one clearly right decision and one clearly wrong decision. It's not a difficult decision, it's a moral one (right vs wrong), which isn't a difficult decision at all. Just because thr outcome may be difficult for the decider doesn't mean the decision itself is difficult.
Need a vaccine card to leave the house, but no ID to elect the government, it would be hilarious if it weren't literally destroying the country.
By no means are you dumb. Some corollary of Dunning-Kruger Effect -- your frustration is probably proportional to your ability to think and to operate in this domain.

My summer project for myself last year was making a big working desk and a rack-mount setup for a workspace at home. I listened to Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, recording from 1989 (I think), when they taught on site for HP engineers; SICP in a week. I still had some surprises, things clicked for me.

https://overcast.fm/+Do0X1PN6k

https://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussm...

I was very fortunate to have been in the first or second batch of CS61A students that Brian Harvey taught at Berkeley. It's still my favorite class, and although it was challenging, I had far more difficult experiences with calculus.

Calculus almost broke me. The first time.

I completed some of the SICP exercises on morning train commute. Four years after seeing them for the first time. Five years after that, I returned to college for another try at linear algebra, having actually flunked it the first time.

All these people seemed to just cruise on by. But actually, everyone hits the wall at some point.
Properly isolated accessory non-free hardware is a good thing, and for a user whose threat model requires libre hardware, the security model of the PinePhone or Librem 5 where the LTE modem is isolated with a kill switch to interact via USB (rather than connected via PCIe, which would have direct memory access) is the right choice.

Is a Thinkpad T400 with a Core2Duo and SSD the right choice in 2022? What about a Pinebook Pro? Friends and acquaintances I know are using these computers as their primary devices today.
Did you perhaps buy it from somebody who had found out how expensive it was to dispose of?
A small game with phaser called crash jewel
While you may be right in some cases, or in other countries, here in Australia, farming in general is a highly developed industry with both very modern business models, and a rapidly digitising business platform.
yeah and maybe companies will start paying for open source software, but I’m not holding my breath
That's fair, I don't think I was entirely charitable with how I read your initial comment :)

On the thread of mass-consumption stuff, I think we all underestimate the effect of "mass" becoming a significant portion of the available market - when you measure your success against the top 100 earners in a space like that, it almost boils down to skinner's box style output.
Wikipedia has an article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_farm

But TL;DR: It's a form of search engine manipulation. The theory is that if you put a bunch of links to your low-ranking domain on a high ranking domain, search engines will think your content is more valuable and be more likely to crop up as top results. You set up a lot of these so they promote each other, making it look like your shady website is popular when it is not. It used to be more effective than it is today, but it's still relatively common.

Search engine manipulation doesn't need to be on these link farms, it's also relatively common to for example have a shady online casino raise their ranking by sponsoring open source projects, which reward them by linking to the online casino. That way the popularity of those projects will "rub off" on the online casino.
The easy Hugo or Jekyll setups do not match the features of WordPress. So they are not easy.
A project that transforms audio and drives the digital human
Here's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSZgoFyuHC8) a satirical 'honest government ad' on carbon capture from an Australian viewpoint.

We're attempting to apply dodgy accounting tricks to reality. It doesn't work.

(I know there's greater transparency without it, but I too would really like []() markup for links on HN.)
That's likely a far lower concentration.

The dose makes the poison.
Filets absolutely can be and are dry aged. They're again just even more expensive than a dry aged strip steak.

A filet is almost always more expensive than a strip, in the supermarket, at the butcher, or in the steakhouse.
Does anyone have a clue why we've suddenly run into fertiliser shortages? I feel like fertiliser and food demands should be fairly slow-moving? Not going up 3x in the space of 18mo.
I wonder if what we perceive as global theater is actually just leveraging concessions in the background, a weird parallel to "informants" being whisked away as if they've exceeded their operational life cycle or purpose; a pazzi.
I've used both. C over Pascal any day, warts included.
I mostly read books in the epub format, which is a great experience.

Things get a bit more complicated with PDFs on the 8" screen due to their fixed layout. KOReader has settings and accomodations to comfortably deal with many of them, but it usually requires a little tinkering. Typical A4 PDFs are just about readable with basic cropping in vertical mode and become quite easily readable in horizontally mode. There are some modes to navigate multi-column PDFs and reflow text blocks. But there can definitely be PDFs that are not comfortably readable. The situation is better the larger the screen is, so people tend to prefer 10" (Boox Note) or 13" (Boox Max) devices for heavy PDF consumption.

I would personally prefer it if people stopped publishing great looking but hard to consume PDFs as the only way to consume content.
Yes, you're right. "Soros"

I don't think we need to invent any political conspiracy theories here. My point with following up on the earlier article is that voters have stuck with the status quo. Invoking big names like George Soros gets attention, but the banal truth is that voters tend to stick with what they know.