skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interviewed with a company that was like this. Their Engineering Manager took me through a systems design quiz. The problem was simple:

* 100k users updating their gas / electricity meter readings every second

My first question was what unit was the meter reading in, he said it was the current total (called a totalizer in the biz). I'd worked for a Flow Metering company before. So I said:

"There's no need to upload the total every second reduce the frequency and the problem becomes easier"

Didn't accept that and I said ok a few optimized servers behind a HAProxy load balancer would the trick as the processing is very simple here. The database is the harder part as you can't have a simple approach here is 100k requests / second is going to cause contention for most DB's. You'd need to partition the database in a clever way to reduce locking / contention.

This answer was unacceptable he ignored it and asked me to start building some insane processing system where you use Azure Functions behind an api gateway to process every request into a queue. Then you have a scheduled job in Azure of which the name has changed by now. This job looks at the queue in batches of say up to 1000 records at a time and writes these in bulk into the DB Once it's finished it then immediately reinvokes itself to create a "job loop".

You would create multiple of the "job loops" that run in parallel. Then you would need to scale up these jobs to drain the queue at a rate that meant we could process 100k requests per second.

You would also need something to handle errors, for example requests that are broken somehow. These would go into a broken request queue and could be retried by the system automatically a certain number of times if they went over the number of retries then they would go into a dead letter queue to be looked at manually.

I'm pretty sure this was the actual process he would take in designing this type of system. Use every option the cloud gives him to make some overly complex thing which is probably quite unreliable. I also suspect that's the reason I wasn't hired as I was just looking at the thing sensibly rather than in the "cloud native" way.

He doesn't work for that company anymore and is now back to a normal (non-senior) software developer.
It really seems that way, but finding good foundations/abstractions is crucial if you are building such megalomaniac project that should cover all JS/TS tooling. It seems they feel pretty good with what they found (Rust & some form of CST) and they will drop formatter soon. We'll see if these foundations will last at least 1000 years.
It's 100% a culture / organization problem.

Check this out. The original poster of the tweet thread being discussed here retweeted:

"The bug where background audio stops playing for PWAs seems to be fixed in iOS 15.4 Beta" https://twitter.com/wes_goulet/status/1491238784020905986

Job well done, ship it! Hang on, let's check out that bug's public tracker at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198277

- Reported in 2019

- In 2021 got a "Thanks for further reporting this bug... This bug is tracked internally".

- Lots of excitement when someone finds it's fixed in 15.4 (of course no feedback from Apple that a fix was made anywhere or released, bug is still in original "New" state)

- Disappointment strikes: "(on 15.4) it sometimes keeps playing, but sometimes stops when you pull down Notification Center or switch apps. Sometimes the Play button doesn’t work. It also stops when you get a push notification with a sound" :(

Now, how much do you want to bet that the "internally tracked" bug is marked fixed, the developer is not aware of these corner cases, but could probably fix them if they only knew. No worries, another developer (the original having long moved on) will probably take a crack at it again in 2024 when this information makes it back to them.

I've worked in organizations just like that, where every bug report is a game of telephone. Everything takes exponentially longer and is perpetually broken because the developer and the user having the problem can't just talk to each other. Throwing bugs (and fixes!) over a wall and hoping for the best just doesn't work.
Yeah, for music I was still using cassettes until the very tail end of the 90s. Music CDs (including burned MP3 CDs) from maybe '98 to '05. I wasn't part of the Apple ecosystem at the time and wasn't made of money so didn't have an iPod, which also seemed like a weird thing to spend money on in a world without AUX inputs in cars, but with CD players in cars. Using a digital music player in the car meant breaking out those tape adapter things, for most people. Or short-range FM transmitter. If I wasn't in the car, I was close enough to a computer to use that, or I was outside (the idea of listening to music while doing outdoor stuff was totally unappealing to me), so I'm not even sure what I'd have done with an iPod.

Shit, if I didn't need a smartphone for all kinds of other reasons I'd probably still just be using CDs, now that I think about it. Especially now that burners are dirt-cheap and draw power over USB.
Sure, but this post is specifically about a tool that relates to that weak story. In the context of the use cases PgCat is trying to address, Postgres is most definitely not "the greatest". Apparently, that's a controversial statement :)
> You can get 59 megajoules out of your wall socket if you wait long enough.

Assuming a French wall socket, 240 V at 13 amps, and a pure resistive load, that will take

$ units
Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2020-11-15
3677 units, 109 prefixes, 114 nonlinear units

You have: 59 MJ
You want: (240 V * 13 A) * s
* 18910.256
/ 5.2881356e-05
You have: 18910.256 s
You want: hms
5 hr + 15 min + 10.256 sec

which helps put the figure in perspective.
Gotcha. Your idea would be nice. It's not ideal, but in the meantime you can arrange the letters by dragging them around at the bottom.
I hardly understand the purpose of it. Never had any issue with prettier speed.

The compilation speed is already solved by eslint.

Looks like they are creating a unified alternative of prettier,eslint, webpack?. If so why not just fork all these and build on top of that.
>2. Status can’t pay the rent

>Unlike wages, status is extremely difficult to directly exchange for goods and services. You need an intermediary, such as a person desperate to market their latest brand of protein powder or neo-fascist authoritarianism, who will pay you for access to your status.

This should be number 1, and probably the only item on the list. The word influencer should evoke in you a deep dread. Sure there's neo fascist authoritarians, but they aren't really the dangerous ones. It's the sales people. In order to convince a person that they need to buy something, you usually have to get them to believe something that isn't true. That's obviously not a stable system.
You’re conflating a bunch of separate concerns. You’re saying that people are drinking soda because they need cheap calories and can’t get them because they live in food deserts and are in poverty and somehow are obese despite insufficient calories. This all does not make sense.

Soda is not cheap. A 2-liter bottle of Coca Cola contains 900 calories of corn syrup and costs $2 at my nearest Walmart. For the same $2, you can buy a 4lb bag of sugar and get 3400 calories if you don’t care that your calories are coming from sugar.

If you want something that at least kind of looks like food you could get 1200 calories of Chips Ahoy cookies for that $2 and while that’s not good for you, it’s gotta be better for you than soda. $2 will also get you about 1200 calories of Wonder bread or Great Value granola. Or $2 will get you a whopping 1500 calories of Kraft Mac and Cheese. Soda is a shitty deal in terms of calories. Even milk costs less per calorie than Coca Cola. And don’t tell me poor people are mostly buying off-brand cola because it’s not rich people making Coca Cola billions. (And it doesn’t change much because I was mostly comparing equivalent brands. You can get calories from Walmart-branded bread as cheaply as you can from Walmart-branded soda.)

People buy soda because it’s tasty, convenient, and widely advertised, not because it’s cheap calories.

Obese people are also not in need of more calories so the idea that they are turning to soda because they need cheap calories doesn’t make a bit of sense.

> The thing to tackle is poverty because it sits at the root of all of these issues, not making sugary drinks more expensive - all this does is punish the poor people yet again for being poor!

These are orthogonal. You can “tackle poverty” and also make soda expensive. This isn’t punishing people for being poor. It’s placing a tax on a very unhealthy habit to make it less appealing, exactly as we do for cigarettes.

This argument might be compelling if people actually needed soda for the calories, but they don’t.

> skills to cook food [4]

This is an odd choice of article. It says literally nothing about poverty or why poor people don’t cook. It’s just some random survey of adults who say they don’t cook and only 23% of them said it was because they don’t know how anyway. Of those, there is some unknown overlap with the 51% who say their spouse does all the cooking and undoubtedly some overlap with other groups such the group who live at home with their parents and the group who have enough money to always eat out.
Uruguay’s Controversial Turn Towards Law and Order
You wrote: <<to pass some kind of law that employment contracts can't prevent you moonlighting for the government>>

This is a brilliant idea. In some sense, the gov't is the biggest non-profit in any modern nation. Large corporations love it when you "moonlight" at a non-profit. Your are idea is not so far-fetched! I'm sure lots of techies would love to pitch-in and help to improve an online gov't service -- be it local, regional, or national.
> I find your warning a bit unfair as there are literally no CTA inside the blog content promoting our product

It’s obviously blog content designed to promote your product, hosted on the company’s product website. I don’t see how the FYI is unfair.

I added it because the content was valuable but HN can be finicky about blog posts from companies advertising their own products. Trying to get ahead of indignant dismissals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30274912
Yes, it’s removed on newer models, though not across all the products yet
Are there no other sources for this data?
As an avid traveler, I disagree with your assessment. Yes, there are definitely things that are very similar in all places, particularly as western companies take over the world (much to my disappointment).

However, if you get away from the "tourist" spots, every place is unique and does offer something interesting to experience.

My wife and I were driving back to our rental in France from someplace and stopped for lunch at the only restaurant we could find in the little town in the middle of I have no idea where we were. Very little English spoken (we don't speak French, but can manage with a few words and technology) and had a very enjoyable meal and a little sightseeing in this small town.

Not saying that everyone enjoys that kind of thing, but if someone travels to Paris, for example, and has their sights only set on the popular things, Eiffel Tower, Louvre, etc. They're missing so much more to the city. Yes, certainly plan on seeing what's popular because that's why you went there, but also spend at least half the time exploring the little gems that every city offers that unique to it.

And for the love of everything, don't eat at places you can eat at home every meal just because you know it.
> I've no interest in preserving some historic or literary register in aspic

That sounds like what you're doing with trying to lock down "literally".

Hoist would be "blow up"/"thrown into the air". He was blown up by his own bomb.

That leaves the question of what English you find actually "correct", and why you chose that English, rather than the English spoken 30 years before or after that correct English.
i do not really understand, why students do not come together then and try to write, for example on wikibooks.org good comprehensive study material.

i mean after that, and when everybody looks on the project, that would be done? and at least that works for the entry level courses? why does nobody do that?
That is essentially what Apple CarPlay and Android Auto are. The phone generates a secondary screen with a simplified UI and projects that to the car. The car displays it as a video and returns touch events to the phone.
It runs into the spaceship problem where later iterations of a spaceship reach the destination first because new technology allows them to fly faster. At some point (maybe) materials and other technology will develop enough so that fusion becomes feasible on a decades or so timeline. Or solar & battery technology will develop to the point where fusion isn't really needed.
To your last point, it's worth pointing out that making your built environment more easily traversible and usable for people with accessibility needs will pretty much always make it more easily traversible and usable for everyone. It's hard to appreciate this until you visit a country where they haven't spent decades making sure their elevators and hallways are wide enough, there are no unnecessary stupid steps, the sidewalks don't have curbs at crossing points, etc. etc. This is just general societal progress, it makes all of our lives easier and we're so used to it we don't even notice it anymore.
Google's 2FA auto-enroll uses your installed phone apps. For example, if you have the Google app on your phone connected to your account, you're auto-enrolled. From what I understand, you don't need to give your phone number (but I believe you now need to give a phone number when signing up for a new Google account)
I would have loved to hear the Car Talk guys chat about this one. Rest in Peace Tom Magliozzi.
yup, i believe that's the plan - no need to split textures out.
It would be interesting to see:

1. How the online ones are doing financially.

2. Which sectors are doing well - what are the trending tools.

Skimmed through PH APIs, don't think this is possible. Courtland's Indie Hackers (they have stripe verified revenue) maybe of help - a quick google resulted in this¹ result

There's also microconf report on SaaS's²

[1] https://www.indiehackers.com/post/indie-hackers-are-making-6...

[2] https://microconf.com/sois-report-2021
If you can still edit the title, I think you mean "scraped".
This is an interesting article, but seems to fail to complete the point being made. Yes, having a very flexible API that has lots of possible entry points and extensions is useful to experts, but risks overwhelming those new to the API, especially if they are also new to the domain. Likewise having a convienent, inflexible API can lead to short term adoption at the expense of long term commitment.

Despite making both of these points, and even then going as far as to say you can package a more flexible API into less flexible but more immediately convienent parts arbitrarily, it doesn't quite complete the point by indicating what you really want to aim for is a layered API that allows you to start off with a convienent, high level wrapper and as you need more flexibility, peel off that layer specifically in the place you need it. As ever, talking in the abstract about such things make them seem easier than they are, but still a worthwhile goal.

It's slightly surprising the post doesn't quite make this point, considering that they directly link to Casey Muratori's talk on exactly this as a footnote: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0024.

Separately, I also find it interesting that there are domains that seem to be deliberately eskewing the layered approach within a single API in favour of requiring separate users to write the higher level convience libraries. Notably some of the modern graphics APIs, including WebGL and WebGPU, which provide the 'lower level' access to graphics functionality, but expect most users to use a higher level library for interacting with them (BGFX, Raylib, BabylonJS, ThreeJS etc.).
> Increasing acceptance hasn't done anything positive for their depression rates, drug use rates, suicide rates, either.

Bold assertion. What are you basing it on, the PIDOOMA institute report?

> Trans culture, at least in part and mostly why it's slanted so far MtF is because autism affects men more than women and they internalized the porn differently in that they'd just tther be the women seen in the porn.

> Trans and Incel culture are two sides of the same coin Imho.

No, you just have no bloody idea what you are talking about, and are blindly parroting talking points that you decided sounded right: you started out with a falsehood, followed by a bunch of not even wrong assertions, throwing in a couple of articles - very loosely related to at most one of your assertions - to give them the appearance of respectability.

> Why do you think trans people call people bigots for not wanting to sleep with them.?

If you simply cannot control your need to engage in culture war bullshit - targeting an already extremely victimized minority to do so - could you kindly do so in a less boring manner?
> But to your point: yes, the broader political question of how the fourth estate is funded in the U.S. remains unresolved for now.

It's been funded by for profit organizations, that have a vested interest in controlling what is newsworthy and what is ignored, and who gets discredited and maligned. Unbiased news died with Operation Mockingbird in the 60's and it's corpse has been dancing along like Weekend at Bernie's.
It’d be nice if they rewrote Safari on Chromium. I think we’d all be better to pool our collective resources to work on a single browser vs. a whole bunch of competing standards and implementations
I think it's hugely disingenuous, to the point of bad faith, to pretend there's not a massive difference between the internet in the U.S. and in China.
They switched to a jog-shuttle knob. I think BMW had a similar interface at one point.
According to Wikipedia (German) the Wendelstein 7-X already did 150 mega joules of "sustained fusion" [1]. So how is this record breaking?

[1]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
What is also interesting is the period with zero flu cases reported

Wait, in the US or world-wide? When did that happen?

No matches for flu on the submitted page… I can recall - it was reported in the news - flu cases in the US dropping dramatically.

When did we have no flu at all?
Same here. Got annoying enough I uninstalled the app. I was able to block Trending and You Should Follow using ublock origin but the ones inserted in my stream are shit. Same opinion.
7 can be a bit early, so recognize that your sessions may need to be fairly short.

I'd suggest you each have a laptop so you're not constantly stealing the control to demonstrate. When I'm teaching my kids on a laptop specifically, if there's only one laptop it always feels like I'm removing autonomy when I take the laptop from them. ("No, you need to click the touchpad like this, then hold them like this" and "oh, hm, i forget where in the navigation that feature is, give me the laptop.")

It breaks the flow and encourages them to mentally coast ("if i struggle, dad will take the laptop and do the heavy lifting for me").
I cringe to recall that, on a date in a Manhattan restaurant, I once showed a woman my PalmPilot. She was deeply unimpressed, and went on to marry an A-list celebrity, which only pours salt on the digital wound.
Not to mention we haven't invested a fiftieth of what we should have into fusion research.
For true safety you really need mass production as you need several "copies" of the car for crash testing.
I'm a layman and so its possible I am missing some limiting factors but I do feel as though this rebuttal does not take into account the possible ranges of values that can be configured when tweaking things like scale and operating speed. For example the Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C operates at 15-102 RPM generating 100,000 HP (or 74.5 megawatts for your comparison) [0].

Nor does it take into account the difference between a prototype investigation being constantly modified for experimentation and analysis and a production system built to purpose.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%A4rtsil%C3%A4-Sulzer_RTA9...
I can relate to the need for unique experiences... The older I get the more I feel like I need to travel. Especially when most of my work is done from home. I feel energized for weeks after I get back from a trip.
I had a rental with Apple CarPlay, it worked well but I still got the impression that the system in the car played a big part... it was an interface but I'm not sure it wad driven by my phone. That of course means it could be at the whim of some silly car infotainment type setup. At least that's the impression I got.
No more nefarious than the measures websites put up to avoid scrapers? This just rehashes the Linkedin vs Hiq case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

(not a user, but I do some amount of scraping through other means)
It seems like the manufacturer is responsible for 'integration' of CarPlay into their systems. On a recent 2021 Hyundai Sonata rental, the Carplay system crashed multiple times while driving and forced me to pull over, unpair the phone and reconnect to get it working again. I don't think I have ever used any Apple software that was this glitchy. Makes me think that there is some screwups the manufacturer can still do despite Carplay coming from Apple.
> I quickly skimmed through 20 MacBook unboxings by regular people on YouTube

I am curious which videos you watched. The first four hits for 'macbook unboxing' on youtube for me are[0][1][2][3]. Of these, only 0 installs chrome; 1 does not seem to use a web browser at all, and 2 and 3 both use safari.

0. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI6OvkcFES8

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8oFSlBHo14

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Zghbf4fwE

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYHDmPvtWHA
Why was it doomed to fail in the courts? Trump banned Huawei with an executive order as well.
You're probably thinking of https://www.collabera.com/

Note the 'e' instead of the 'o'..."bera", not "bora".
I do, and I find it fascinating that HN is somewhat a victim of its
own success in terms of churn. As a reader its disorienting to see
things in the New pages and be unable to find them 5 minutes later.

After reading HN for years I only created an account recently,
shamelessly because I wanted to submit things related to work I am
doing.

But the fire-hose of submissions means that links to articles, results
and papers I'd like to share just get swept downstream in minutes. It
actually makes one feel a bit paranoid, that there's a "conspiracy of
suppression" against challenging ideas going on here. I don't
seriously think that, rather that there's just too much competition
for attention, and too little real attention being given.

Where does that leave us? It's discouraging for researchers and
authors who would like feedback from a more general audience to submit
here. There is a temptation to be an asshole and repeatedly submit
materials until they gain traction, but that just feels cheap and
anti-social. Meanwhile the same old popular stories that are
circulating on other tech/hacker sites seem to get recirculated
ad-nauseum. This lowers the quality and perception of a community of
ideas that HN has enjoyed.

Something needs doing to rate limit and filter the input here. But I
don't know what. Probably what is good for researchers like me is bad
for some other group of interests. However you cut it there's a kinda
tragedy of the commons going on where low attention is creating too
much velocity and shallowness.
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