skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ops overhead would be my guess.

Take a look at https://litestream.io/guides/systemd/ and compare that with CockroachDB's.

In all fairness, litestream is no CockroachDB/PlanetScale/YugaByte; but why pay the ops overhead (and your lawyers to make sense of their "OSS" licenses) when litestream would do just as nicely.

TFA goes (emphasis mine):

Litestream..grabs a lock so that no other process can checkpoint. It then watches the WAL file and streams the appended blocks up to S3, periodically checkpointing the database for you when it has the necessary segments uploaded. ___This gives you near real time backups and lets you replay your database from S3 trivially..It's a great hack, and a small enough program that I could read my way through it entirely before committing to it.___
I loved this article, despite the negativity.

A discussion that keeps recurring on HN is how you can get a lot done with simple, boring solutions. This is a perfect example of that in practice. What’s the simplest thing that’ll work? Do that, monitor the solution, and when you start hitting a limitation reevaluate what the next appropriate solution is.

There are plenty of comments here deriding this as insanity when we have established best practices, but “best practices for me are not necessarily best practices thee”.

People aren’t perfect, not every engineer comes fully-formed grokking the industry’s best solutions and their trade offs.

This is what learning looks like. This is what an evolving system looks like. And this is how valuable software gets built every day.

Who gives a fuck about scalability on a poc? “Let’s just put in a json file”. I Love it. Personally I start at the “use SQLite” step and go from there because SQLite is such amazing software. Thanks to this post I’m excited to try out Lifestream.

You might rightly point out that Tailscale isn’t a side-project/poc anymore. But that’s exactly why they’re changing to SQLite and writing this post; this is their team learning to deal with larger problems and changing needs, and they’re sharing that journey with us.

As long as they’re not _ignoring_ serious risks let them experiment. But try not to get too upset if they’re making different risk/effort trade-offs than you would. Even if it’s “objectively” the “wrong” thing.

My rubric for technical sanity is:

- are you taking (and testing) backups?

- is your infra/data secure?

- are you monitoring what’s happening?

- can you recover from catastrophic failure in a acceptable time frame?

- are you meeting your legal obligations?

Cover those needs and you can be forgiven a lot suboptimal/experimental implementation details.
Why stop there? What if we even had a huge tent, available to workers from all around the world...
::This::

I even go so far as insisting that my coworkers infer my source from vague documentation & then create their own white-room implementations. They'll get not so much as a println or an import math from me.
It's not defeatist. As I said, I just don't think, even in the optimal scenario, that it is a goal worth achieving. Personally I'd rather software developers focus their time on more worthwhile features.
It's not top-down. People vote for this stuff, so I agree it's organic. Politicians reflect the culture of the people they represent. That's their job and they will be fired if they don't respect it.

It's actually kind of amazing how free the internet is compared to TV and radio. Nobody seems to be worried that you can't broadcast such offensive things on those traditional media. Why should the internet be a special free-speech zone when it can have the same reach as them? Not saying I agree with it, but that could be the common feeling among British voters.
I once took out the internal telephony network of a large bank's head office through simply scanning the network for devices. They weren't tracking IP addresses (or anything) in any form of database or even a spreadsheet, and I was tasked with finding and updating every device on a particular network. I used nmap and simply did a subnet scan to find anything that would respond on common ports.

It all went down in a heap and I felt very guilty for a few minutes until I realised that this infrastructure was so fantastically unstable that a TCP half-open (just a SYN packet!) could kill it stone dead. That's not my fault.

You can't blame the postman if knocking on the front door demolishes your building.
Explaining all of the ways an RSA key can be weak, and what you have to do to avoid generating one, would take a lot longer.
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Yeah, I don't see an image either. I imagine one. I can't stare at a piece of paper and trace what I see. That's not what people mean.
tell us what you really think
> I wonder how much innovation in the US is constrained by the fact that people need health insurance, and it is generally expensive as hell.

Health insurance is expensive, but I don't think it's "expensive as hell", I've got an unsubsidized ACA plan for $1200/month for a family of three (two early 40s adults and a 10 year old child; Kitsap County, WA), plus $30/month for dental insurance for the kid. Past employers paid more for better coverage, but this covers the mandatory items, and none of the higher priced ACA plans appear to offer me more things covered or a meaningfully better network, so meh.
Wait isn’t this the villain at the end of the incredibles?

https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/The_Underminer
Depends on the word directly but the article touches on that. "insulin lispro" is a generic.

> they discovered that insulin lispro was not available at 83% of pharmacies. Among those pharmacies, 69% of them said that they could not order insulin lispro even if the patient did not need it right away. Pharmacies’ inability to offer or order the cheaper generic most likely contributed to the low fill rate for insulin lispro.

> Additionally, one of the nation’s largest pharmacy benefit managers, Express Scripts, announced in their 2019 formulary exclusions that insulin lispro would not be covered by their plans. They instead listed the brand Humalog as their preferred insulin drug. This decision may also have contributed to the low fill rate of insulin lispro since Express Scripts is responsible for 24% of the nation’s prescription drug insurance claims.
And just to make sure I wasn't getting suckered by two groups collaborating, it's also on archive.org from that timeframe.

https://web.archive.org/web/20200808234935/https://www.ge.co...
This is good advice in practice but I don’t think the HTML spec should be concerned with bad browser implementations. Writing semantically incorrect HTML in order to coax the browser to behave in a certain way should be discouraged by the spec, I would say. Instead, browser vendors should be encouraged to fix their UI.
I have over the years developed an ever increasing disillusionment with the quality of medical providers. Not all of them, mind you, but it seems just as rare to encounter a smart, extremely competent doctor as it is a random person in the general population when one would expect the selective process to result in a much higher proportion. The sneer is well deserved. The attachment of “neurotypical” is inappropriate because it is unnecessary.

> Some of the people I respect the most have had extremely negatives experiences but mention them only with great reluctance. There's something about that that seems right.

This reminds me of the recurring story of the apparently happy upbeat person committing suicide to the surprise of almost everyone around them. Hiding your demons to survive and overcompensating chasing respect and accomplishments is one way to cope, this sometimes results in a quality life, other times it is just masked suffering. Promoting this ethic can be extremely toxic trapping people, especially if from childhood, into being afraid of letting anybody know about their problems.
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Took me a moment too. I'm only vaguely acquainted with Lichess, so for the first half of the post it was buzzing in the back of my head, isn't this OSS?. I finally, confused, resorted to google to confirm. Then I came back here to make low-effort posts to continue the gag. Good times.
The thing is, who exactly in the "Linux world" should be doing this thinking? Unlike Microsoft or Apple it's not a single organisation with a single leadership, but a whole bunch of small projects and individuals with different goals, preferences, styles, etc. Quite a lot of people doing open source stuff aren't really in the business of "building a product" in the first place.

That said, at least both KDE and Gnome have offered fairly comprehensive and complete desktop environment about on-par with a standard Windows or macOS installation for many years now. There's also things like XFCE, LDE, Cinnamon, and probably others – but I don't really keep up.

There are plenty of issues with "Linux on the desktop", but I don't think this is one of them.
Looks like the guy who devised the keyboard mapping also did something similar with an old VAIO:

https://github.com/thedalles77/Pi_Teensy_Laptop/blob/master/...
> As far as I know, they've not been able to find the an ancestor of COVID-19 in any natural reservoirs prior to the pandemic.

Careful, this wording implies "if we evolved from apes why are the apes still here" logic.

Actual "ancestors" have all been dead for a bajillion of their generations. All we can hope to find are cousins, outside of some rare time-capsule situation.
They inherited the DNA of a guy who did lots of good, thus leading our lizard brains to suppose that they, too, have potential
Nope, I checked. It seems there's a permissions error on their repo that accidentally made it public. No hackers even, just an awful mistake.
Yeah, this part of TFA sounded like it might almost be a reference to the DFW speech:

> This is why you have to choose your status game wisely. Because whatever status game you choose in life ultimately determines what you optimize for. Choose money and you’ll end up working all the time. Choose beauty and you’ll always want to look better. Choose fame and you’ll constantly be seeking attention.
When I last played with it (Emacs + Org) I had options enabled which hid much of the markup entirely (e.g. the **) and applied various styles to express the intended structure, and it was lovely, much more than just coloring. Nothing I'm saying is without love for Emacs and Org, more just sulky acceptance that tools can add additional mental overhead, even if they're cool, and this seems to be the opinion/philosophy of modern tools etc, VSCode/IDEs/Web-based IDEs etc.

So.... when I tried to use Org in VSCode, Vim, Notepad etc, it just sucked. Not even a comparison. In that case, Markdown was better. Maybe I'll look at it again. But like the OP (in the sense of making up my own thing) I have dabbled in creating my own clone of Org-mode based on a Markdown spec.
The combat IS the driving force behind their games, even in Elden Ring. It doesn’t need all that other stuff to make the game more “rich”. It focuses everything into the combat, both in terms of the actions the player can take and the sheer variety of encounters.

If you don’t enjoy the combat, then yeah, you’re not going to see the appeal. I would argue it takes quite a few hours (maybe 30?) of playing soulslike games to get to the point where the combat becomes more satisfying, as certain actions start to flow and feel more natural.

With all that said, there is a more to Elden Ring than just the combat. There are quests, actually quite a lot, with a bunch of variety, and many of them are quite long and epic. There’s upgrading weapons and upgrading summons, and all the complexity that comes along with that, such as ashes of war etc. Then there’s the secrets. So. Many. Secrets.
I love Tailscale and it's true that I am not suffering from stability problems with its database choices.

But, I do have challenges working with their ACL structure -- which is backed by their database -- and specifically would love to be able to update users/groups separately from tag groups and both of those separately from ACL rules and I can't help but wonder if the fact that this feature doesn't exist relates to the fact that the database doesn't normalize these concepts into separate "tables" separated by "foreign keys".
People would rather get a diagnosis to belong to a community than be an outcast who struggles to fit in and have their gifts recognized.
And from it a management philosophy which needs to be more prominent: the goal is to strive for the best output each employee is capable of by shaping their environment to serve them best. The goal is not to hold each employee to the same standard and punish the below average.
Unions have not only fought for retraining, but for compensation for workers whose jobs were outsourced or automated away. Compensation is important in order for workers to transition careers without their families ending up homeless.
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Marco Rubio came out in favor of the works at Amazon., last year he wrote:

>Here’s my standard: When the conflict is between working Americans and a company whose leadership has decided to wage culture war against working-class values, the choice is easy — I support the workers. And that’s why I stand with those at Amazon’s Bessemer warehouse today.

Was there a large ground swell of popular conservative outlets against this?
Yeah. We could hold elections for union reps amd call the dues "taxes" and the union "government".
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Who hacks their own site for the source? Why not just make it OSS in the first place? Maybe it's a disgruntled employee thing.
You can also hide by holding option while clicking outside the window.
I have nothing to add to this discussion, but I wanted to add that I love this comment. Sometimes we have to take a step back and really think about why we're making all of these choices and picking certain tools for a job.
> That doesn’t mean Edward is failing at his job or ignoring work; he does whatever his manager needs and, because he always replies to emails and attends scheduled calls, he’s never seen to be late. Rather, he’s decided simply to coast along, on a comfortable salary and in a remote set-up that suits his work-life balance.

Problem?
I was picturing looking at a screen of solid rock. The indie game I assume added a lot beyond that.
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I wish people would stop misusing the word pedophilia. Most normal adults can be sexually attracted to 15 year olds. Pedophilia is something completely different.
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What makes you think it's satire?
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Been reading HN a while and it's disappointing to see this much unjustified negativity.
Yeah sounds like you are subconciously doing the work 100%, it's just you operate with different subconcious/concious roles and limits. The mental visualization is off bounds for your concious mind.
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This is similar to my own format too, but opposite meanings for some of them, and a few have somewhat mnemonic character names:

~ todo (tilde)
* started (star)
- done (dash)

x didn't or won't do
# comment
> design item

I use this mostly to write out and track steps in scripts and programs I'm writing. I will use one or two levels of indentation and blank lines within entries.

example feature steps

> the example feature will demonstrate such and such
and make use of this and that

- write stub version
* fill in actual code

- part A
~ part B

x call xyz function
# didn't do this because of ...

~ add extra features

I do this mostly in the header comment of a script (Python doc string), but sometimes pull it out into its own text file if it gets too big.

I wrote a script at one point to convert these kinds of notes into a web page with various background colors per status. It helps to visualize it sometimes but I don't actually use it that often.
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Maybe. From your examples, though, if you think you're going to make any money whatsoever from the "weightlifting status" game you are in for a rude surprise. Similar to other examples from the article (softball team, nightschool classes).
> The fact is that everyone has a certain amount of "privilege" due to their membership to a group and the complex dynamics that exist between groups. There is no person who doesn't have a list of advantages and disadvantages compared to others. Understanding that, and that your experience will not always be what everyone's experience has been is all you need.

It's really hard to get people to realize that, and to see the different types of things they benefit from silently. Do you have better suggestions to get people to notice?

> Men get harsher sentences than women for the same crimes, but we don't really hear much about "female privilege". If you want to point out discrimination, you don't need any concept for "privilege". The problem was never that one group has something. The problem is that one group does not have something. It's the inequality that needs to be addressed, not the "privilege".

People do talk about both sides, but you're right that they don't use "privilege" there.

I think the word privilege is useful to point out when one group has a huge advantage over another, even when there are some advantages or 'advantages' going in either direction.

> Making blanket assumptions about people on the basis of their skin color is something we should be avoiding, not encouraging. Keep the focus on what needs to be solved and suddenly you avoid all the problems focusing on "white privilege" causes like resentment, defensiveness, blame, and guilt.

It's not really an assumption that if you're white you face a tiny fraction of the racism that a black person gets, for example. As far as defensiveness and guilt, etc... I feel like any language used to talk about this will get politicized and twisted that way.
Not directly but it will lower the barriers of talking to their grandparents.

FaceTime means that my kids have way more frequent “face to face” conversations with their grandparents who live across the country than I did as a kid.
There is a reason why Wolfram gets routinely dismissed: he repeatedly makes bold self-promoting claims backed by algorithms that are in reality pseudo-random number generators. I must admit that I feel sorry for him. His insatiable need for recognition overpowers his otherwise impressive intellect.
I was thinking this would be cool as a tree map (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping) since that allows for nicely visualizing hierarchical categories.
What prisoners' dilemma? What part of collective bargaining agreements give benefits to employees who choose not to join the union?
Kavanaugh has sterling credentials. He was in Law Review at Yale. He was both a SCOTUS Clerk and Bristow Fellow. He argued a case in the Supreme Court. He was a partner at a top law firm. These are the brass rings in the legal profession everyone is trying to grab.

He was a prominent judge in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals for 12 years, during which time he developed a reputation as a “feeder” judge who regularly placed his clerks onto the Supreme Court. That is the same role that Justice Ginsberg and Judge Garland had before they were appointed to the Court.
FYI: Most "methylation" tests, books, and treatments are very firmly in the alternative medicine category. Much of it is pseudoscience.

It is true that a small subset of people can have a certain set of mutations that has clinical significance, but the alternative medicine community has been hard at work trying to expand this condition to cover far more people than it actually does.

One common trick is to perform as many tests as possible, along with as many permutations of those tests (e.g. the various ratios between values). The more tests you conduct, the easier it is to find one that might be out of a specific range and therefore convince the purchaser that the test was worthwhile. If you really wanted to test something, you'd skip this test and get a cheap genetic test to see your MTHFR variant (note: heterozygous is fine, no matter what the naturopaths try to tell you).

It's also common to claim a test has significance in every medical condition that people might be Googling. The test you linked is guilty of this, claiming to be "Useful for" everything from autism to birth defects to cancer, down syndrome, immune dysfunction, nutritional deficiencies, psychiatric disorders and more.

Any test that claims to be relevant to so many different medical conditions is a huge red flag.

Save your money. If you're curious, you can read more about how the whole "methylation" and MTHFR alternative medicine got so out of control because one naturopathic author pushed it so hard as an explanation for everything: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/pseudoscience-reviews/gene...

There's another good article here about why this test isn't really warranted for most people: https://health.clevelandclinic.org/a-genetic-test-you-dont-n...