skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do in fact know who else would have had similar problems, directly from personal experience and experience of coworkers and friends. large-scale mysql community is fairly insular, lots of talent rotation between the large scale companies and between percona and pythian, everyone knows everyone else, everyone talks war stories at the conference bar and elsewhere. but thanks for making assumptions once again!

i am NOT saying that github can hand wave this away with money and hiring. you misunderstand. what i am saying is company of their business size and scale should have already handled this long ago, because that's what literally every other large comparable company has done.

there are front-page-of-HN threads about multi-hour github outages every single day this week. show me an example of another similar-size company having an equivalent meltdown please. only real equivalent is twitter during fail-whale days when they were only a few years old. they solved it early on, as should have been done.

i am not saying the entirety or even majority of github is incompetent, but i am saying there is clearly something extremely wrong and extremely unusual that led to this, and citing "complexity!" is just a pile of BS.
Right, but it looks good on the designer's screen. That's the issue.
Thanks for sharing this it’s helpful. A quick look shows that in most states the % of what the local school would get is high. It’s still fundamentally a program that makes a lot of assumptions that low cost students cost more than they actually do. I’m glad to see additional funds for special needs kids but the distribution seems flatter than reality. The kids with a special needs assistant aren’t getting the full cost of that assistant more on the voucher and the kids without a special needs assistant are getting some portion of the cost of providing for special needs kids in theirs.
Great talk on this topic from 2015 by the team from Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWcKsX0_qAg
Historical precedent is not a very strong argument when it comes to scientific questions.

What's the model? How can that model explain the observed phenomena? "XY = male and XX = female" is a very simplistic model and it doesn't seem to adequately explain everything that we see in the world. Perhaps it works for 97% of the cases (just guessing).

We can do better than 97%. Let's work on finding a model that explains the world more accurately.

P.S. Frogs can't talk :P So yeah, it would be rather silly to try asking it a question.
In quebec it can take months, maybe weeks if it's a simple radiography.
Yagh. Today coffee is good for you. Yesterday and tomorrow it is bad for you.

The thread running through nutritional research is "yep, could be good or bad for you", so why not do what pleases you?
I like how Bitcoin's answer to scalability concerns is so bad that getting a scammer to use it is considered revenge.
>I was thinking of things like servants, typists, textile workers.

I don't think they were eliminated because of minimum wage. They were eliminated because of a combination of outsourcing/globalization, which set an upper bound on how much those jobs can pay (at least in the US), and baumol's cost disease, which set a lower bound on what workers were willing to accept. The two forces combined to make those professions unviable. Getting rid of the minimum wage probably won't bring those jobs back. If anything the jobs will go to more productive sectors (thanks to baumol's cost disease), rather than to the utterly unproductive ones like you mentioned.
“Scale-independent layout” (layout that ignores pixel aliasing) really requires PPI over ~200, that is, more than most desktop monitors provide. We’re still just not there.
So, you start with the idea that people prefer making web apps essentially because "money". Then conclude that making desktop apps will eventually go back to be the favorite, because they'll become as easy to make as web apps. Doesn't that imply that ease of development, distribution, and maintenance are (the?) current major factors?

The economics of web apps is a pretty straight line and may not point to a particular cupid trend. If you make a web app and want to serve it, someone has to foot the bill (bandwidth, storage, security, maintenance, etc). Also, people will keep asking for improvements and fixes. If you want to offer nicer things, you may want to hire a UI/UX dev. If the app becomes popular, at some point you'll have no choice than to generate some income. It means that you can finance the app through either donations (which you can pull off if you're super popular, like Lichess), ads (if you're reasonably popular, like Photopea), or subscriptions (if you're in a niche, like many of the one-person SaaS out there).

Also, your target audience may express its preference for one monetization model over others. If you build a web competitor to the Salesforce suit, you might be surprised to see many of your prospective users frown when they ask you how much it costs and you reply "donations".
A Dive into MySQL Multi-Threaded Replication – Percona Database Performance Blog
The parent company doesn't get a blank check though. That's the risk with franchising. Some franchisee may do something stupid and it reflects poorly on the parent. That's why most franchise agreements are very one-sided.

Here's a perfect example of how a franchisor can play hardball. I worked for a McD's that was a dominant store in our region. Located right off the Interstate and got tons of consistent traffic. Just an excellent, very profitable store. But our owner/operator was a dick to Corporate. So they opened a new store at the next offramp. "Offered" it to our operator, but the terms were ridiculous, so he passed on it. Found someone to take it, and we dropped 30% in sales. Back in the 80's that cost our owner $80K in lost PROFIT. He was pissed.
This has been debated for decades. Joel Spolsky has a blog post about it from 2007.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2007/06/12/font-smoothing-ant...
> We debate these things because some people say "I feel X" and others say "You aren't allowed to feel that way and here is how we will marginalize you for that".

Sounds like a straw man fallacy. Some people are saying "I feel like such and such", and the others are saying "you have a mental condition, let's seek medical treatment".
It just doesn't revert to the old download.

As I said, the first thing I did when I saw the release notes was checking how to go back to the old settings. I tried that on 2 computers, both using linux (Ubuntu and PopOS), without any luck.

It doesn't ask me anymore what if I want to open the file or save it.
Off the top of my head:

- Tie tax rates/benefits/penalties to the discrepancy between CEO/C-suite pay and average/lowest-paid employee pay

- Tax benefits to companies who provide enriching programs for employees (like some universities that offer tuition benefits and programs to help you get mortgages, etc)

- Tax penalties for not giving COL raises each year

Etc.
Message interop is the bit that leaps out at me. How can that work? (Because I’d really like it to)
> Collections: Find what you need fast with our new collections feature.

Collection is a feature we see in more an more knowledge sharing tools. Biggest user of that feature today is probably pinterest. The two usages that you can use them for is curation and quick retrieval. If you strip the collaborative part (curation) then YOU JUST reinvent bookmarks. Congrats mdn
Good on you man. If I got an email that said “opportunity: port 20+ cpp app to web” I would chuckle and close that sucker real quick.
Modern cpp I maybe can deal with. That 90s stuff is real bad.
Hmm dunno but if there's no such case, it's a point in favor of democracy.. Dictators aren't subject to election cycles.
A sense of fun and play seems to be the main way creatures have evolved to try new things and learn. I think this includes curiosity. It also seems common that it is young creatures that mostly engage in this behavior, and as we get older we get more serious and set in our ways.
Idk, millions? You can be self sustained without being an international rock star. I lived off of my musicianship for just over 10 years.
It's because the well got poisoned by marketing teams selling things that were not actually a material improvement over what came before.
That's not a very realistic scenario.

Here's a much more realistic one: Putin keeps getting his ass kicked, as it happened today when he lost the Orsk amphibious landing ship. Instead of admitting defeat, he decides to use a tactical nuke. He has a spectrum of options, from an underground nuclear test somewhere in Siberia, to an underwater detonation in "Russian waters" in the Black Sea, to an above ground detonation over Russian territory, but close to Ukraine, to an outright detonation in Ukraine, but with few or no casualties, to nuking an Ukrainian village, or even city, and ultimately a tactical nuclear attack on a Nato country.

At each point on this spectrum, Biden has to make a decision. There are 3 possibilities: response with no nukes, response in kind (a similar tactical nuke) and all out nuclear war. The middle ground is no good, because it legitimizes Putin's first use, and does not actually put him in a worse position. No nukes is a bad move, because Putin will just become more audacious. All out war is obviously not a good move either.

What is Biden going to do? Is it possible that in the end Putin comes out ahead?

That's how Putin thinks.
We don’t usually coin a new pseudo-medical term for your run-of-the-mill sociopath. Can you name any other one?

I guess you have to bigly take it to new heights.

To me - a leader’s character matters. But it has become obvious to me that it isn’t as common a trait as I would have expected. Coincidentally, curious - where do you stand on Putin?
Probably this article from the New Yorker not the Times.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-purges-in-putins-...
Most of the price is due to the shortage of land, near the employment market, where the government has permitted any housing to exist. Someone paid over a million for a half-burned shell in Walnut Creek, which is a lot more than a very nice house in the middle of nowhere.
And yet they don't. This is the frustrating part of the discussion, because proponents will just name-drop every hypothetical technology. The actual reality is that nobody is actually doing it (using batteries as baseload), even though there is a political desperation to want to implement it. There is a reason why every natural gas company either supports and pushes wind/solar projects. Every large scale wind/solar deployment leads to a corresponding increase in natural gas investment.

That should be a clue that there are some major (and insurmountable) issues with deploying batteries at grid-scale. It's sad this is a game that is being played on the public, where the public is made to believe wind/solar investment leads to less reliance on fossil fuels.
One could argue Gitlab outsourced a decent amount of R&D to Github by copying it as much as they did, especially earlier on.
Yes and no. They definitely push the boundaries, and the framework imposes certain extra restrictions on how it wants you to use them, and they warp your normal intuitions a bit. But at the end of the day they are just function calls. They don't compile down to some other sort of construct with totally different language semantics.

There's a fundamental difference between a framework that takes your code and does weird things with it, vs a framework that rewrites the semantics of your code out from under you.
I can't downvote you, but an arbitrary binary is unequivocally a much bigger security and privacy threat than a js script executed in the browser, this is an indisputable fact. My guess is that you're getting downvoted because you're confidently espousing an opinion that any security expert would easily disabuse you of, if you're willing to listen.

> This is absurd. A binary reviewed and vetted by a Linux distro is really unlike to contain spyware

What's absurd is your special pleading a linux distro review to conclude that arbitrary code execution is more secure than a js script. This is wrong on so many levels. This comparison is also specious because you're comparing a curated repository to arbitrary js on the internet. You are also woefully misinformed if you think that "linux distro review" precludes the existence of your vaguely defined "spyware", arbitrary binaries (unlike js scripts) have unrestricted socket access and quite regularly emit all kinds of telemetry over the internet.

> Additionally, it's false that desktop applications are not sandboxed. On the contrary, the sandbox implemented around an application can be way more fine-grained that a browser. Firejail is a good example.

You have no idea whether or not an arbitrary binary is sandboxed before you execute it, thus it is capable of literally anything - not true of an arbitrary js script which is always sandboxed.

> Browsers are behemoths and you can look up for yourself how many vulnerabilities they have and also the SLOC count.

The top browsers are literally the most hardened sandboxes in the history of computing and there are far more vulnerabilities exposed through the uncountable ecosystem of arbitrary binaries than through browsers, many of which are never patched, and when they are, often aren't received by users because they may not upgrade them. Additionally, the vast majority of browser vulnerabilities are of a modest threat level, with the higher threat vulnerabilities usually being discovered by highly sophisticated security research firms where they are usually safely patched before ever being exploited in the wild.

> This is material for /r/ShitHNSays

Indeed. Try submitting this thread and see how that turns out for you.
There are goods and services with income-elastic pricing, like housing.

UBI indirectly and unfairly benefits only the people who control those goods and services. If everyone made $1000 more per month, housing prices would raise up to that amount for everyone. This means the majority of the UBI raise would go into just the landlords pockets.

This is why many welfare programs are expense- or need-dependent, because it maximizes the benefit to those who need it without impacting price inflation as much.
After seeing this comment and watching a few of the AMAZING vagrant holiday videos, I learned from the comments that he likes to upload to specific locations and has deleted his videos and re-uploaded them many times over the years.

I checked other mentioned locations and you can still watch the full collection here: https://www.bitchute.com/video/OkQQggPH6a9B/
Does it even need to be studied that heavily? What is India and China trying to do? They have massive billion people populations that are poor. Lift them into a lower middle class, voila, you have unmatched consuming class.

We’re going to lose this fight to these countries because our country cannot for a second think outside of squeezing the living hell out of a stagnantly growing 350 million person population. That’s why they squeeze you on home mortgages, rent, cars, salary, everything. They are squeezing because they see no fucking growth and that’s all these people understand. If the population isn’t scaling horizontally, they have no other creative ideas. It is unimaginable to them that an enriched 350 million Americans is as potent as a billion person population. We will actually go to your stupid diner and drop 50+ every week. Why are these people so fucking scared?
Yep - It was bad enough that it was common practice for people to proxy their skypes through a third party.

(It was pretty nice that Skype let you do that really easily though)
Excellent and publicly available book on this subject if you find it interesting: https://www.iecc.com/linker/
During 2020, however, Sweden had ten times higher COVID-19 death rates compared with neighbouring Norway...Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives. If Sweden wants to do better in future pandemics, the scientific method must be re-established, not least within the Public Health Agency. It would likely make a large difference if a separate, independent Institute for Infectious Disease Control is recreated. We recommend Sweden begins a self-critical process about its political culture and the lack of accountability of decision-makers to avoid future failures, as occurred with the COVID-19 pandemic.
... And also towards fields that are very close, like the famous characterization of the appearance of group theory in particle physics as Gruppenpest. (Lev Landau was perhaps the last of the physics greats to share this view, but he still made it live on as the absence of a standard group theory course in physics curricula throughout the ex-USSR. Of course, the problem is not that Landau was somehow especially shortsighted, but that keeping a university curriculum essentially unchanged for half a century is stupid and that a single school of theorists, however mighty, should not be able to dictate the course of a field in the whole country.)

I know the term scientism came to be used as a pejorative in humanities discourse and consequently in journalism, but I’d prefer not to use it here, both because of the contemptuous connotation and because it was originally coined to mean something much more interesting: a counterpoint to a naive, maximalist sort of positivism, of attempts to dismiss any picture of how the world actually is as unverifiable and therefore the question itself as meaningless. (This is the pop culture impression of Popper, though AFAIU Popper realized the problem and said far more nuanced things than that.)

The argument went along the lines of, “if talking about the ‘real world’ is meaningless and science is exclusively about experiments in labs, then it sure is peculiar that those experiments appear to be so remarkably coherent, even with things outside of labs—almost as though there actually is something worth calling the ‘real world’ and that science is in fact about that thing?” Thus, scientism.

(Cf. Liberalism Unrelinquished[1] on a similar issue of terminology.)

[1] http://liberalismunrelinquished.net/
I think Freddie does this also. I'd much rather have this kind of back and forth and not have any comments enabled. They are mostly a waste of time and energy.

This works even when the authors are using pseudonyms.
I've worked with so many businesses, especially rental businesses, that don't understand that their business model - that every business model - is that they provide consistency and indemnification in exchange for more money than their other services are objectively worth.

It's not that I'm paying you for a bacon cheeseburger, it's that when I got chewed out by my boss about some work issue, and I'm telling myself I just need to keep my shit together to the end of the day, and then I'm going to go home and get that cheeseburger from my favorite place, and somehow that's the glue that is going to help me keep my shit together, that your store is open, and you haven't run out of bacon because the manager you sexually harassed was the only one good at keeping on top of ordering.

I, the average preoccupied customer, don't need to hear the sad story of the bacon supply, and frankly the idea of offering it shouldn't even cross your mind, let alone find my ears. It's one thing if I pull the whole story of a broken freezer or a burst pipe out of you, I've done that any number of times, but don't open with it. You're paid not to open with an excuse. Open with an apology, a discount, and possibly a recommendation another customer favorite that's good even without the bacon.

If you can't keep your doors open without a stream of excuses, then you fail at logistics and you should throw money at someone to solve that problem for you, or go back to working for someone else, or someone might send Gordon Ramsay to explain it to you with a lot more swearing and a lot less empathy.
This post is poorly written by someone severely misinformed or deliberately dishonest and at best seriously naive about how technoology is adopted and evolves. Sad that people would give it any attention.
More people need to learn some labor history.

The oligarchs and people at the top aren't your friend. Granted, neither are most middle managers or small business owners, they just have a smaller pool of people to throw into the furnace so it's in their own best interest to show some restraint.
Thanks, excited that you like it!
> [...] However, the trial was only able to enroll participants on small stationary aircraft on the ground, suggesting cautious extrapolation to high altitude jumps.

I'm surprised they were permitted to use human participants for this in the first place. Should have been done in mice and on the floor of a lab, as a first pass.
This would certainly help as the majority of low cost kids would have cost similar to the 50th percentile. I think this isn’t a general fix though and only works in this case because of the nature of the data distribution.
> only so many houses (land) available

Here is a radical idea. Build more houses. Maybe put them on top of each other so they don't have to be so far away from jobs. American love complaining about the inefficiencies of centrally planned economies, but then make one of the most important aspects of the economy, where people can live and work, into a entirely centralized way of doing.
Most of my friendships are long distance nowadays, or over the internet, so I tend to know people for like half of my life and meet them once a year if it all. That's all good, but sometimes I just think why not actually organize and do something? Everyone is struggling with their own things and we talk about it often, but it'd be great to actually contribute and help each other out.

It feels like everyone is always in their own world. It's not a very productive way to live.

And yeah, I can respect a real nomad; but at least create some bases!
There are explanations for that that aren’t as nefarious as what you’re implying.
I've worked with nice. several of my students still do. We've kicked out of the NHS quite a few meds the industry and academics were wrong about, based on the evidence, not what the industry/academics said before they were shown to be not correct.

The whole posit of this article is wrong. "acedemics said so" is not evidence based medicine, it is one small facit of it, and the author matters, no one trusts "sponsored by" papers, NIHR is constantly publishing counter evidence. Some of that even ends up in court (e.g. Avastin)

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-novartis-bayer-britain-id...
Wahhhh. I heard this crap from my owner/operator every time the minimum wage went up. We'd be told to cut staff hours because it would hurt the bottom line. He made roughly 10% profit after controllable. 10%. Sounds horrible. However his gross sales at our best store were over $3M/year in the 80's. So PAC was $300K. Waaaahhhh.

He also owned four other McD's (though none as profitable as this one), so he was able to amortize all his corporate costs across five stores. He pulled in over $600K/year back in the 80's, yet was a Scrooge when it came to treating his employees. Cry me a river about "single digit profit margins." Tons of businesses have small margins, but make it up in volume.
> I know how this works: someone will show an example and someone else will say that decent human beings don't think like that and that they deserve to be silenced.
> not since the port scanning from ebay have i seen something this reprehensible

That was the same company/script btw.
You could do text hinting (snapping to the (sub-)pixel grid) after layout, based on some kind of auto-hinting heuristics. Arguably, this is needed anyway because text gets "laid out" all the time as part of advanced typesetting, including all sorts of complex microtypography that doesn't really play well with the old-fashioned "bitmap font" type of hinting.