skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I think you're right. I've used Heroku a lot and it's great for small apps which I'm not too interested in optimising by the ms. I always thought fly was very optimisation heavy - but in reality it is a better cheaper heroku if you ignore all the global distribution stuff!
I don’t understand why this story is worth the amount of text written.

I’ll save you some time: the author pushed code that had a bug that caused issues for some people. They didn’t show a sense of urgency, or at least the people around them didn’t think they were on it, which got communicated to their manager. At this point manager is feeling the fire and decides to sort of take over putting pressure on the author. Manager and author have a communication style mismatch, and seems like author has not earned the trust of manager. 2hs later the stress made the author cry.

Overall, the author failed to handle the expectations of people around them, the stress made them cry.

In the end, a learning experience for the author.

We’ve all gone through this and it’s a lesson of how to handle other’s expectations.
Those are guidelines, not rules. Perhaps it is time for HackerNews to put on its big boy pants after 14 years, and introduce a solid ToS, privacy policy, rules et al. Watch how people stop using it.

For the record, that UX is poor in 2022. If something isn't accessibility friendly, by all means, people should be called on it so that they know it is a problem. It isn't like we're saying "it's shit," we're giving constructive criticism.
Randomly choose 3 big paragraphs in the entire ebook to add an extra newline in the middle of at the end of a random sentence. This would be my choice if I had to do some kind of invisible watermarking, at least.
>Sounds like a pretty disingenuous take. Epictetus was a slave and a Stoic.

Which is neither here, nor there. "Stoic" philosophy, as understood and practiced by ruling class/execs/etc has almost nothing to do with Epictetus, and is the product of a culture millenia away from the ancient mindset.

Similar to what western "Buddhism" or "zen practices" (used to be more productive, combined with modern life as a lifestyle accessory) is to traditional Buddhism.

>Yes, but it's true for the vast majority of humanity, and so arguably considerable suffering is imaginary is it not?

Citation needed.

For neurotic people their "imaginary fears" might be harming them more than actual problems. But not for the "vast majority of humanity".

War, hunger, poverty, health issues, precarious jobs, bad jobs, persecution, bullying, bad relationships, loneliness, old age, betrayals, and so on, are actual things that harm people in actual reality, more than any "imaginary fears" they have.
I agree. Anxiety has a huge impact on sleep. A lot of sleep experts focus on sleep hygiene which is important but not very helpful when anxiety is the main cause for the sleep problems. Sometimes people are not even aware of the problem cause anxiety can trickle in very subtly.
It is both overloaded and not working at full capacity simultaneously, due to chaotic and foolish rules.
At least in my experience, this isn't true where I live. Rent in Munich is basically the same as Seattle (where I used to live), if not higher. I pay something like 600 Euros/month/person for private health insurance in Germany. The fact that I'm ON private insurance is probably a mistake on my part, but that's a separate discussion.

And frankly, the $70k/year thing doesn't even count the increased bonus ranges or increased raises you get from that base salary increase.
> only one failed (harmlessly!)

They (CureVac) failed because they started trials too late, and by then the Delta variant was going around and caused the numbers to not look as good as Pfizer and Moderna's.
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If you look back, it's a real shame, because Pfizer's and Moderna's Delta numbers are no better than CureVac's.

[Also, speaking completely anecdotally, but I'm in that clinical trial and thus a recipient of 2 CureVac shots and 2 Moderna shots. I have yet to catch Covid despite taking nearly zero precautions and a lot of high risk contacts. And yes, I get tested constantly. There might be something more interesting yet to discover about this.]
I prefer longer videos. If the videos looks like it was heading off the tracks, I'd check the ratio. If it is positive, I'd stick it out to see where the video was going. If the ratio was negative, I'd save my time by skipping the video.
A friend of mine bought the transmitter from an AM radio station that went out of business to use as a ham radio transmitter... how they managed to shove it into his basement is beyond me. He ran it on its low power setting, and everyone loved the quality of his audio.
Or my $30 ones...
By now, your claims have become so weakened that they no longer have any relevance to the original issue, which is whether there is a better way than the current method for handling the problem of loans fraudulently acquired through identity theft.
Open developer tools and type `document.lastModified` in the console. Though this is painful for every web page, is useful in these instances. Maybe someone with experience in developing Chrome extensions, can develop one for getting this plus other useful page info by just clicking on it in the toolbar
The reviewer stops dancing around his own opinions in the final third. TLP's views, according to the reviewer, are thought provoking, but "cucked" -- TLP lacks the intestinal fortitude to be a hardcore neoreactionary racist, like the reviewer. I found it disappointing.
Then they'd be messing with the actual written content of papers not authored by them, though
my personal complaint: sometimes the left earpod doesn’t boot

both are fully charged, but when i put them into ears, only the right one actually connects

i have to put the left one back into the case and take it out again to get it to connect

i assume this is a software issue
I had the same thought. These issues might just be issues with bluetooth in general, and not much apple can do about it.
> Automation might help a firm become more profitable and thus expand, leading to a hiring spree. Technology might also allow firms to move into new areas, or to focus on products and services that are more labour-intensive.

This is a good argument as long as machine learning doesn't get too good. Unfortunately, improvements in ML are accelerating, so we'll see if that holds up.
I had JBL earphones and they had exactly the same problem. Also couldn't turn it off. Extremely annoying.
U.S. Federal Reserve Publishes Discussion Paper on CBDC
Had Music.app completely hose my entire data plan last month because it was downloading about 12 albums I had in “Downloaded Music” then deleting them then downloading them over and over last month.

Not to mention Apple Music keeps turning itself back on when I turn it off.

All impossible to diagnose why and the only advice is reset and delete everything and start over.
Many / most corporate negotiations are legitimately necessary because every contract being negotiated is unique. Negotiations allow both parties to set terms and come to an agreeable price when there is no preset price.

A market vendor who knows an apple should cost $2 but charges $5 in the hopes of screwing over a tourist is just an asshole. I can't imagine how that builds relationships.
> If someone is balking at spending $200/mo on the lowest level, they are simply not a customer.

>> Ultimately, we want to accomplish two things:

>> It should scale well, from small mostly text based web apps to large, intense apps that handle a lot of data. You should be able to build a CDN on Fly.io without worrying too much about your bandwidth costs. You should also be able to run a hobby project for close to free.

>> Transparency and predictability are good. People should be able to glance at pricing, do minimal mental math, and judge how well it works for their app.

from: https://fly.io/blog/we-cut-bandwidth-prices-go-nuts/

Btw, technology adoption begins at the "lowest level", if Geoffery Moore and Clayton Christensen are to be believed: https://archive.is/42NS6#selection-586.0-586.1
The article you're responding to is exactly about Postgres. Here's Redis: https://fly.io/blog/last-mile-redis/

Here's a boring Rails app that uses Postgres: https://fly-global-rails.fly.dev/

And here's more Postgres:

https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/multi-region-databases/

https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/

Rails and websockets are not very good, Phoenix and websockets work great though.
SQLite vs. MySQL
If you look at dollar and time amounts, all financial interactions are pretty much zero-sum.
Oofta. Is anyone having trouble with white text on black background? That was a design anti pattern that I thought died out in the early 2,000's.
"Are you trying to say the number I mentioned in my comment was wrong because I said “few hundred million” instead of “a couple hundred million plus change”"

No. You claimed "of the 1000 people with the vaccine 2 died, vs the 1000 people with placebo, 187 died" which is just factually wrong. The trials didn't show anything even close to this disparity.

"Why are you looking at the number of participants? It’s not relevant to your point there. The number that had covid is needed to answer the question you’re posing."

Trial size determines ability to detect small but real effects, which is why the larger number of deaths in the vaccine vs placebo arm was ignored.
deflate is implemented in hardware on game consoles.

PS5, in addition to zlib, has hardware [0][2] decompressor for RAD Oodle Kraken [1], which is of course much better than zlib.

If at all possible, especially if you control both ends, please use zstandard[3] instead of zlib/deflate/gzip/zip for free general purpose compression. It is more advanced by about 30 years of technology development. It always spends less time to produce smaller files which are then decompressed insanely fast. There is no tradeoff, it is always better. It has a very wide range of compression levels you can choose from if the good default doesn't fit your need. It also supports multithreading, custom dictionaries and long range compression out of the box.

0 - https://www.tweaktown.com/news/71340/understanding-the-ps5s-...

1 - http://www.radgametools.com/oodlekraken.htm

2 - https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1240341184867758085

3 - https://facebook.github.io/zstd/
He was clearly a smart person.

I do wonder though, if the reason we won’t see his likes again is because he was truly a one-off, or that his particular environment enabled him to show his excellence.

I’ve been reading “The Idea Factory”, about Bell Labs, recently.
Ug, managers love how these spaces look but they terrible to work in. I want my own setup in my own office that I can close the door and leave out books and papers and have sticky notes and the kind of keyboard and mouse I like and everything set to the right heights, and a computer I can leave all my programs up and just lock so its all ready for me the next day and so on and so on. Wilkinson can go suck it.
I can't comment on the bugs (I'm actually not sure that I've experienced any), but those connected etc. Messages really are very annoying, partly because they feel like forever
There is worse than content without a date. There is content with a fake date, changed to appear like it's relevant while it isn't.

There is nothing more frustrating that typing "XXXX 2022" click a link and see "XXXX-2020" in the URL.

People legit not changing their article but updating the title to stay on top of the SEO game. Usually found on generic searches that drive big traffic.
I freaking hate that so much.
>How often do you actually browse with old hardware?

On a daily basis.

It's a matter of perspective in the end. I upgraded from a notebook with a 6th gen Intel chip which I thought was fine to a notebook with a 5th gen Ryzen and the difference blew me away and made me realize how sluggish things were on my older machine in comparison.

There's nothing wrong per se with my old machine, on it's own it's fine, but the newer on is so much faster in comparison, it's night and day for me.

For my parents the old machine is fine not it's own but they're coming from one with a core 2 quad so there's that perspective.
The pricing is like medical billing. There’s no logic to it. A number is just made up and the insurers (in this case the finding agencies) are willing to foot the bill. Once the insurers (funding agencies) decide they no longer like that number the billers will try a new made up number and the cycle continues.
A bit disorganized and apparently pastebin thinks there is something so offensive in here they won't let me share it but here you go, a collection aphorisms and various other adjacent things

https://controlc.com/db66d6e4
>Annoyance 4: Sometimes, only the left or right AirPod plays sound. Taking them in/out of your ears doesn't fix it, you need to put it back into the case and take it back out, which sometimes, doesn't fix it. So you need to put your AirPods in/out of your case two or three times to fix it.

I run into this too, anyone know what's up with that? Is there some "listen with only one headphone in" feature that I'm accidentally enabling?
Honestly, a big factor here is likely simply the testing infrastructure. They're reporting a 7 day average of about 90k cases per day. Most countries with 9 million people do not have the testing infrastructure to accurately show that (eg when Ireland, a country of 5 million people, was reporting 20k+ cases per day at the peak, the government health advisors' view was that it was likely to be twice that or more in reality).

The important thing is what happens with hospitalizations and deaths at this point. Ireland passed through its peak without overwhelming the hospital system, and with no real increase in deaths relative to the past few months, with a likely higher real case count per capita (assuming that the numbers Israel are reporting are accurate). But we have a somewhat higher vaccination rate than Israel, and in particular virtually universal vaccination of over 65s.
Any resources on how can I view this in 3D? Not acquainted with that world.
Other than inertia and prisoner’s dilemma, there’s zero reason a cheap journal can’t be equally prestigious. The bloodsucking big academic publishers contribute approximately zero to science for what they charge compared to a Gowers-style journal run by the same editors and reviewers.
> sharia

Can anybody offer some insight into what people mean by that? I know that in the 19th century, sharia was basically just a legal tradition, that drew on Islam (just as western legal traditions draw on Christianity, or eastern ones Confucianism). Is it more extreme these days?
Agreed. People who exercise in the morning are weird.
One of my past coworkers worked on AirPods hardware.

One thing he could've said under gazillions of NDAs: software came much behind the hardware.
Yea, that’s a good one!
How the Air Fryer Crisped Its Way into America’s Heart
Cubesort
How’s that an anti-pattern? With dark mode, it’s more in style than ever now.
As for 1) You can configure devices not to auto-connect unless previously connected
I wonder if there are any offenders that exceeds Elsevier in this regard.
What's your point exactly?

When most people go online they go to consume content on the websites of the biggest corporations like Google, YouTube, Netflix, Reddit, Facebook, TicTok and so on.

That's what most of the internet is for most average consumers.

The fact that indie devs exist who care about well optimized websites doesn't change this.
I attempted to read it, but wasn't able to figure out what analysis exactly was missing or faulty. But I did give up at around page 3.

On the face of it, the case couldn't be simpler: Intel had >50% of the market, and paid to exclude AMD. If this case is taking over a decade to resolve (time during which the bad actor can further entrench themselves), then EU anti-trust law is practically useless.
> Merge your commit and get in line.

Much easier said than done, if there are 50+ devs working on the same service (monolith). Decisions are made much slower, improvements need to go through long discussions, deployments are much more risky, onboarding is a hassle, and so on. Sure, monoliths work very good for small teams (it's hard to define what "small" is), but I'd say that around 15-30 developers you can think about splitting up.
obviously you can use sci-hub to read the paper
... I mean, they _don't_ give liver transplants to alcoholics, generally. Lifestyle is a big factor in most places in figuring out who gets a transplant.

> or any medical care to smokers.

Normal medical care generally works on a completely different heuristic. If there's one ICU bed, and a car crash victim, a smoker, and an unvaccinated covid case needing one, then whoever out of the three has the greatest need and will benefit most gets the bed (ie. _blame_ doesn't come into it).

For transplants, they look at possibility of long-term success, and lifestyle problems _are_ a factor there.
>Now that I can afford one, I think an iPhone is the only viable choice

On a low budget used iPhones are pretty good choice. I've a couple of 2016 SEs bought for ~$100 each. Work well, usual Apple plus points. Easy to get fixed when you break screens, batteries etc. too - go to any phone fixers.
>I disagree, we are having inflation because of supply bottlenecks, not because of demand. Raising interest rates would only make it harder for companies to get finances to ensure supply chains meet demand.

Certainly an interesting take. Not unlike this read from somewhat recent. So you're in good company with your position.

https://research.stlouisfed.org/publications/economic-synops...

Mind you, basically everyone and their mother has announced new semiconductor fabs. Intel in Ohio recently for example.

I am curious if these are confounding factors. Maybe they will all play against each other. In terms of the 40% inflation locked in. This has nothing to do with supply chain at all. This is private debt to GDP being 235% in the USA. This is the central bank balance sheet being 8 trillion $ in the negative. This is the money supply being 7 trillion in the negative. Pretty standard Quantity Theory of Money

Supply chain isn't a factor yet, this is ~40% inflation locked in. Now if you consider supply chain struggles. It only exacerbates and makes the situation worse.

>That's if you even believe raising interest rates stops inflation. The correlation between interest rates and inflation over the last 40 years is pretty nil.

The correlation has been weaker because they are using these other options to affect macroeconomics. The central banks are beyond bankrupt, but there is no bankruptcy system for them. So instead of fixing the debt situation, you run inflation high and technically you reduce your debt at the expense of those who are holding currency. Primarily retirees are those who are harmed.
Yeah, they're great, but definitely not quite perfect / magical.
Another thing I noticed is that using the noise cancelling ocassionally gives me terrible, luckily short-lived tinnitus. Never encountered that with other (over or on ear) noise cancelling devices.
For me personally, one of the most infuriating product design decisions that Apple made was the removal of the headphone jack from the iPhones and iPads. This is literally the only reason why I switched to Android, despite being a long-time Apple user.
A list of a variety of bugs isn't what I expected from the title.

Airpods are nice, but outside the Apple ecosystem they're horrendous (and somehow still better than most alternatives...). The proprietary chip / protocol in use makes me sad, but what makes me even sadder is that they're not actually even working on supporting them as a good product on Android.

Maybe it makes economical sense but it's really sad that we got to the point that a company can release hardware and go out of their way not to support a significant amount of potential customers. This feels like what anti-monopoly regs try to prevent, but it's not a monopoly either so ...

Also, the microphone quality is a lot worse than people say it is (I'm using the Pro version). They are barely usable for calls in a loud environment.
This looks really nice! I’m interested to learn more about the custom reactivity model. I am a Svelte developer, and so far, Svelte is the most economic and powerful DSL I’ve used on web. I enjoy using it every day! I would be remiss if I didn’t ask- have you tried it? I would love to know how Svelte might influence your perspective on the perfect web language, or perhaps just what your opinion of it is. I’m also fascinated by Scrimba- it looks lovely and the product that its built for (scrimba.com) is pretty incredible web tech.
I had one pair of AirPods and left the charging case on a plane; getting a replacement case was a pain because I had to prove the AirPods were mine. When the battery died in them I gave up on them completely. Battery life too short, too easy to lose, and environmentally not sound.
What, less than 1000 USD per month? But that's a joke. In the Netherlands it's something like... 2800 EUR or 3000 EUR per month, so let's say 3000 - 3300 USD / month. I know the Netherlands PhD candidates have it relatively well (in relative, not absolute, terms), but I find it hard to believe people are expected to live off of 900 EUR / month. Is it really that bad these days?
I have the "listen for Hey Siri" thing enabled on my iPhone and also my MacBook. I would like to be able to use this to start playing music on the Macbook. But when I say hey siri, and both devices are in range, they both answer, then the macbook shuts off, and siri proceeds only on the iPhone.
This +10 (if I could). Also target (for anger) those who rank universities by how many "top tier" journal articles their professors have published.
James Webb telescope and how it works
Bitcoin is decentralized, Diem was centralized. It is hard to shutdown decentralized networks. Hollywood still cant shutdown bitorrent/piratebay.
When one customer finds 7 gripes, and they aren't an outlier, the product is bad.

A good product would have 1 gripe found by 1 in 7 customers...
Apparently you don't realize this, but peterburkimsher has some personal connections to Taiwan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17400350

I'd like to say that jumping from a single post to conclusions about the posters motives makes something evident about you, but I don't feel like looking at your posting history to find out what it could be.
LZ dates back 45 years but is still high performance. I can only imagine that we've been saddled with deflate because it's computationally light.

Well we have computation now and still enjoy using storage efficiently, so are (slowly, lazily) moving off deflate.
> Eventually you have to apply a small stimulus (incremental change) and observe the response

I wonder whether if that observation is transferable so that the second-order thinking need not be original if there exists a directory of common decisions & outcomes?

I've been trying to validate[1] whether if we could create a standardization for common decisions and outcomes; Then people could share their recipes of decisions & outcomes to a central directory which can be used to make Second-Order decisions without actually having to make one our self.

[1] https://needgap.com/problems/263-plan-second-order-third-ord...
This is why for EVs most CAs also do phone validation.

For stuff like Verified Mark Certificates (which is used for BIMI), it goes much further than that. VMCs are like EVs on steroids.

HN crowd can sometimes react very hostile towards having to pay anything at all for certificates, but there are real costs in such validations.
I'm reasonably sure you can actually turn those messages off though. I did that for a while, but ended up turning them back on again as connecting them can be ... difficult ... and I'm never quite sure if they're connected until they tell me they are (and if I don't play any audio fast enough, they will also helpfully disconnect).