skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would agree that in some organization sizes it is fading out & becoming hidden by ever increasing raw compute/disk performance which inevitably hides many bad queries.

However for some orgs this becomes a brick wall they eventually smash into.

The cloud vendors now provide moderately ok database offerings on a variety of virtual hardware that allows you hide a lot sub optimal data modelling, index usage and inefficient data modelling.

Any database workload is performant while all the data fits in ram.

I agree with some other comments that there is a bit of a shift left approach to the DBA role now. I find that dedicated DBA skill sets are somewhat useful up until a point then they struggle to have context of the application stack beyond.

If you want a solid DBA career you may want to look at a SRE track/pathway that includes some deep focus on databases.

You will want to know the how various index types work, when and why to use them.
Data types.
Intricacies of various database mechanics that impact performance and scaling workloads.
Solid foundations in highly available system design, maintenance and operation.
A willingness to be on-call.
A willingness to write code to a software engineer level or send in changes to the dev team/s to help optimise queries, drivers, connection pool settings/timeouts or ORM usage (shudder).

I think the days of a pure DBA role are coming to a close in technology lead organisations. Maybe not in banking/insurance or other orgs where DBAs found a home to sit in the back office doing minute query tuning on a reporting query etc.

If more developers have read and understood the content in https://use-the-index-luke.com/ then there would be less need for DBAs.
Does the 3050 have a lhr lock or is it just useless at mining?
People who never get the coronavirus could teach us more about [it]
My thoughts when I first heard the radio commercials was that it was a government scheme, having said that their website and their other visual marketing doesn't give me that indication at all. However I was never interested in using it to do any research.

My point being that the wording "My pay now" and the description of it allowing you access upto a quarter of your pay early, is fairly misleading. You aren't accessing your pay, you're obtaining a loan, of which the amount is a percentage of your salary/wage, which you will pay back with your pay.

Forget the idea of it being a government scheme, that was irrelevant to my argument.
I think they end up having less living space for the truck drivers. I don't know if that's a design limitation, or just a separate aspect of the European market (where the flat-front trucks are ubiquitous), but it would be bad for the quality of life of a lot of truck drivers in the US if the result would be a less comfortable living space.
You do realize how much of the world's energy is produced by fossil fuels / chemical energy, right? The electrons don't materialize out of thin air. The energy still has to come from somewhere. And if the world's gas-powered auto fleet were to switch to electric overnight, we'd have blackouts for decades because we do not have the raw power generation capability to make up for that much energy deficit. Nevermind the massive amount of lithium and cobalt mining necessary to do so. That just gets us to square zero. You also need to build nuclear power plants, massively, in order to make up for it. But we're led by complete idiots who didn't see this coming 6 months or 6 years ago.

I gotta tell you, I travel 50K+ miles a year, and stopping every two hours for 30 minutes to fill up my car would be a primitive nightmare not much better than riding a horse. I also cannot envision an emergency infrastructure built on electric in its current form. What are you going to do, run ambulances and fire trucks on electric, when the power grid goes out during a natural disaster and people need help the most?

At any rate, I'm actually pro-electric hybrids. I think hybrids make the most sense of any tech I can imagine, but no one seems to really want to invest in the concept. My roommate had a Volt for a while and it seemed to be the best of both worlds (charging for inner city transport, with gas as a backup for longer distance travel). Until batteries get probably about 2-3 times more dense in storage capacity, there's no way they can supplant gas cars and diesel powered semi trucks.

And we should still be massively expanding nuclear power supply, 10 years ago.
I comment more on these types of threads (random banning by big corp who never provides reasons) than the random software project ones because these are more substantial
Several Universities in Canada offer co-op. I understand that it originated in the UK
that is weird, I was able to view it without an account in the browser (chrome). oh well. hostile ux.
Yes! bitcask paper is straightforward to read and understand. The idea of bitcask was suggested to Riak's devs when Eric Brewer (of CAP theorem fame) joined Riak's board:

> None of the local key/value storage systems available were ideal with regard to all of the above goals. We were discussing this issue with Eric Brewer when he had a key insight about hash table log merging: that doing so could potentially be made as fast or faster than LSM-trees.

(from the paper)

> That whole experiment sent me on a different career trajectory - and was key to me switching from Devops/SRE style career path to a dev path

How did it go? Do you have any suggestions/insights to share? I am also hoping to make a career transition from backend dev to database dev down the line.
Plausible is AGPL while Umami is MIT licensed.
What will this do for graphics cards prices? They were just coming down.
Please explain why one would be a shitty person if one tried to start a business that is sustainable on a few hours of work per week.
Retrocomputing has been quite popular lately. You’d be surprised how young it skews.
If anything at least it is a simulation of real life, is it not?
It does indeed! It's a great note. As you say, randomly choosing between left and right if they both exist would fix the bias.

Another issue is that it forms a perfect diagonal, which isn't the most pleasing to look at. It can be addressed by randomly allowing for stacks of two granules and allowing spreading further than just one position to the left or right.

I figured where I left it was appropriate for this post, but I'm happy to write follow-ups for other particle types and the kind of improvement you mentioned!
So, we're seeing a contraction of the segment of startups that promise to make you more money, because businesses are getting skittish and hunkering down.

We'll see a concomitant expansion of startups that promise to save businesses time and money, trim waste, do more with less, etc.

Contrasting examples of the two categories: Startup that promises to enable you to respond to more RFPs faster, vs. startup that allows you to undercut competing bids.
I used to love the (sequential) sound of the flip boards at stations and airports. Gigantic arrays of flat screens are so boring (but I'm sure cheaper and easier, I know, I know).
Yes there are very few Oracle rollouts but there are still plenty of on prem MySQL, PostgreSQL and MS SQL rollouts. Yes, there is a lot more cloud today, but I feel Oracle really is the product hit the hardest.
Isn't that one of those laws that would basically bring the city to a halt if it were actually enforced? Consider the horrible traffic jams created by Nestoring as another example.
Growth hormone increase cranial volume size.
I wonder how much brain volume it could increase of supplemented during ttenage years.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120974/#:~:tex....
I wonder if it has any cranial effect at adult age.
But even if there was a cranial volume increase at adult age, I doubt the space would fill with neurons since adult neurogenesis is very location specific. I know synaptotrophics exists and are very potent (magnesium l threonate, etifoxine) but it's unclear to me wether the outer pzrt of the brain can have synapses and benefit from those, it might be intra and not outer brain space is too dense, synapse saturated or not. Hard to Google.
There exist many hypermnesics and so called neurotrophics, such as Dihexa, prl, etc
However for them to induce neurogenesis in adult necessitate the presence of stem cells or progenitor cells. (I've heard glial astrocytes can differentiate into neurons though). So the question is wether in adults the outer brain part contains those. Moreover it would likely not result in a resizing of the brain regions, only the outer part would expand.. Contrary as if it was administrated in teenage years.
The human outer brain has wrinkled (although i heard there existed a human with a smooth brain).
It increase volume in a possibly fractal like manner and i have read that the wrinkled are constituted mostly of stem cells but I can't find a source yet for this claim.
"First they came for the truckers and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trucker.

Then they came for the Russians and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Russian.

.."
The hard part of recycling lithium will be doing it reliably in safe and low labor. It's totally possible, and possible to do profitably, but it will just be really complicated to do it cheaply and reliably.
> The medical community is full of contradictions.

Looking after our physical and mental health via modulation of multitudes of interrelated bodily systems and their unique chemistry and biology is a massive multivariate optimisation problem.

However, there are reasonable heuristics we can use as a guide for better outcomes, for example, "spend more time in nature" - it's probably no coincidence that doing so is reasonably good for us given we've effectively evolved over many millenia to make the most of "being in nature".
> Another interpretation of the situation is that if we aren't growing enough food to allow for a single missed harvest in one conflict zone, then we aren't planning well, particulars aside.

The last 20 years of my life and all of my activism has been summed up in a succinct manner, yet almost no one including people in tech will ever do much about that until they burnout enough times and have enough money to get a hobby farm that is.

You'd think this would be an immense task and a call to arms that is only for the elitist-technorati around here to solve, but 'hey... it's not my fault FAANG just pays us to sit on our asses.'

With that said, Ukraine is and has been the breadbasket of Europe and a massive exporter of wheat in the region and to Africa, even after Chernobyl: we saw something similar happen during the Maidan Revolution in 13-14, and the first multi-nationals in there were mainly Big Ag corps and Petro corps: John Deere, New Holland, CAT, Eni etc...

This is no coincidence, and it's no surprise no one took this into account until this happened in February '22: Russia was standing at the border of Ukraine in the Spring of '21 [0] but unless you're involved you weren't aware of this fact. I was there in the Fall-Winter of '21, when Belarus and Poland had their proxy war, and it was clear that invasion was going to occur. Even the PM of Poland said the same thing but did little to prepare his nation for the influx of refugees: all the work is still being done mainly by volunteers. They have been the most receptive to Ukrainians, but it's still a mainly grassroots initiative is what I'm saying.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/politics/biden-putin-r...
Exploring GitHub repo name distribution with jq
I've contested in a separate comment that there are likely some talented individuals who took a boot camp course. Really doesn't say much for bootcamps though. My anecdotal experiences differ from your anecdotal experiences. My experience has been that people were trained to pass interviews not keep jobs.
In the words of Jimmy McNulty, "What the f** did I do?"

Part of being on top of the pile is taking hits. Comes with the territory, and if can't staff up for it with all your earnings, then tough cookies.
I think "public figure" refers to how well known the person is. In this case, I'd guess that a way larger group of people read the journal than will read these comments.
They made a profit building some of the most pervasive anti-privacy software in the world. Google continually attempts to ruin the web, and communication (email), and Facebook uses AI to make people miserable.
There was plenty of right wing politics in my schooling... do you not remember singing the national anthem every day? I got suspended for speaking out against the Iraq war. History books glorified genocidal maniacs like Andrew Jackson. A blurb about equal pay would be completely inoffensive in comparison if the question weren't poorly written and perhaps intentionally misleading.
A lot of answers here entertain the idea that DBA role are disappearing...

I would argue that it's way more accurate to say this role is actually outsourced in most organizations with all the tradeoffs that come with that strategy. I begged my former employer to subscribe to a good PostgreSQL support company. Guess what the one we picked is constantly looking to hire new DBA to sustain growth...

I was in database engineering/administration position for the last 10 year on a small company. It was exhausting because management wouldn't care to rely one guy to manage the whole data stack. It was rewarding because the CEO saw me as probably smarter than I was because I knew SQL well enough to produce outstanding value as a single individual.

Often reading HackerNews I felt like an imposter because NoSQL was the new hype and database was seen as a thing of the past... well trends reverse... and people will always need reliable systems to handle business critical data.

So maybe in a few year after few major Cloud data horror story DBA will become the new trend. No one know.

But learning how to handle data? That will always be handy no matter the underlying technology.
That’s kinda like asking what’s the boundary between having wheels and being an aeroplane. Most planes have wheels, but as a car you could add infinitely many wheels without turning into a plane.
I was in Japan in the pre smartphone years and it was really hard. To go anywhere by train I had memorized a fixed number of routes, though its not like I would randomly cross the city to go to a famous ramen place or something, because I’d just get lost anyway. I honestly can’t remember how we found things in Tokyo since there is no consistent street address system, probably just getting close and circling for 20 minutes or asking someone, or trying to read numbers off telephone polls or local area maps. There was a sense of one’s “home turf” where you knew everything, and then leaving that was like exploring somewhere new. Now when I travel its an undifferentiated mass of places I can look up on google. I miss the serendipity of it all now, the excitement of finding something really cool and unexpected, but don’t have as much time to explore.
"Ono-Sendai: in the book this is a Japanese corporation that manufactures cyberdecks. In Japanese “Ono” means ax and “Sendai” is the name of a prefecture in Japan."

Ono (斧) is indeed ax in Japanese, but is also a common surname. (The name is written differently, as 小野, no relation to axes.) Being a company name, it sounds more natural to interpret it as a surname rather than a weapon.
Linux-libre – Linux kernel with no binary blobs, proprietary or obfuscated code
Then there's Blazor, there's MAUI, there are changes in C# itself and lots of new libraries.
> "I have perused the literature"

...and you are?

> 5k IU is an average dose and will absolutely not cause harm.

This is wildly irresponsible to post, and should be removed from HN.
So something like abduco (https://www.brain-dump.org/projects/abduco/) should do the job too? I think GP's comment was more concerened with the terminal multiplexing, not the ability to detach a session.
The whole point of TFA is that no, it’s a law that would cause a new type of truck to be brought to market that did comply with the length regulations.

Of course you don’t start enforcing the law overnight, you make a credible firm commitment to phase it in at some point in the future. (I’d be interested to hear how aggressive the phase-in was in London).
Related: https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre
It's not a terrible metric, in fact I think it should really be the only metric when it comes to loans. We're not talking about grants, nor are we talking about the value different professions bring to society.

Those teachers and nurses you are referring to should absolutely not be saddled with loans they will never be able to repay, and the situation now, where many of these people will be making large student loan payments into retirement or near death, is unconscionable.

There are much better ways to support people who want to go into these professions than signing them up, many at the age of 17 or 18, for a lifetime of crushing debt.
It was going so well until it turned into “old white men created Agile and they don’t understand POC’s and women”.

The ‘weirdos’ in the first paragraphs were primarily nerdy men. The landscape has changed tremendously since then - Agile is terrible for many things, but it does not incite racism or bias. Perhaps the only bad thing it does not do.

I was hoping for a better ending to this read.
Canadians generally (to a supermajority level) dislike the unvaccinated, shun them, and would see them pay a healthcare surtax. Employers don’t want them around.

https://nationalpost.com/news/tensions-high-between-vaccinat...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-poll-shows-...

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2022/01/12/canada-poll-unvaccina...

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/majority-of-canadian-small-busin...

The convoy was despised as well.

https://www.cp24.com/news/almost-2-3rds-of-canadians-oppose-...
Oh, OK, so expect the oil companies to interfere with alternatives then.
I did not claim any intent.
Human biology is made up a number of interacting systems, negative and positive feedback loops and other biochemical pathways.

If you focus on individual mechanisms, it looks like contradictions, but as a whole it makes sense.

Sunlight is beneficial for vitamin D production, but harmful when it comes to UV damage.

Both can be true and not contradictory.
I think ethics is closer than Morals in this case
> The problem with *-tab is that each application has no fixed place in that space.

BTW Win+1 to Win+9 will switch to the first 9 pinned items in taskbar. If there isn’t an available window it will open one. I have Outlook pinned as the 4th item on my taskbar so navigating to it is always Win+4.
I love this. As a visual learner this helps get the ideas across extremely clearly. It’s a lot of fun, too.

As you noted at the bottom to reach out if we want to see more like this - yes please, I think that would be great.

Coincidentally I’ve been curious about writing something like this since playing a game with very primitive materials and physics with my son a few years ago. This made me realize we could actually build something quite easily, so thanks!
I made an account just to respond to you(I'm a 100% lurker). I collect old (pre-1900) books not because I look for financial profit or an increase in value, but to preserve literature- especially older books that are less likely to have been scanned.

What I usually do is I look for books that are on their last threads or are so old they likely won't survive much more abuse of time and tear- and scan/upload them so that they can survive as digital copies long after they turn into dust and mulch on my low-income bookshelves I made myself.

I don't expect these works to survive much longer- much like the memories those older than me will disappear forever after they die soon(most people don't record their lives). So I do what I can to preserve the memories of the past by cloning them into shareable media.

To me, once it's been uploaded- their antique value still remains the same, other people just get to have python-translated pdf/txt formats of the genuine physical copy.
> Consider the horrible traffic jams created by Nestoring as another example.

If people want to speed and tailgate, they are the ones causing traffic. Some random dude, staying in one lane, going the speed limit, is not the problem. It's narcissist jackasses weaving in and out of traffic.
Living there, it definitely feels as if there's a low key lawlessness about town. I haven't developed a hatred for the cops here yet, but there's an outspoken critique to the point of being a meme that they enforce very little of these everyday things and beyond (like muggings)
The benfit with GoAccess is that you don't need the consent banner like you do with JavaScript trackers [1], cookies or not.

[1]: https://volument.com/privacy-is-the-future
> hate to imagine how many startups out there don't even create indexes and just consider it to be a database problem and increase CPU/RAM

I've worked for a few of those fairly recently. I also worked for a place that was running on a fully custom codebase, no framework, php with all sql scattered through each page and all the devs using their individual machines to ssh into a central dev computer to work (tell people which file you're working on first). No version control of course.
Yes. My no-name company paying average or below average wages, in my no-name western EU town in Austria, has received over 30 applications for one position within a week, most from outside the EU (I think the Russo-Ukrainian conflict added a lot of gas on the fire).

So most companies here have raised the hiring bar accordingly due to this oversupply of applicants, therefore getting a job now is pretty rough if you're not at the top of your game in terms of experience and skillset.
The difference is that I'm not claiming bootcampers are broadly exceptional, either; I'm saying I don't have enough data to tell you whether or not someone will be a good engineer based on whether or not they went to a bootcamp. I know my anecdotes are limited, and I'm not trying to make broad statements based on them.
> So you agree that socialising at work is more difficult for some people than others...

That statement paints an incomplete picture of my views. It is the combination of the person and environment. I'm sure there is variance among peoples' inherent ability to socialize at work, but in certain work environments, people who are otherwise good at socializing don't have the desire to socialize or don't find it meaningful.

> And you agree that it's one of the reasons you work from home...

Nope, I have no problem socializing at my current job. Most of my comments are about prior workplaces. I mention them because I can empathize with a lot of people who might be working in such environments. Like I mentioned, I can and do socialize with my current colleagues well remotely, which I consider to be "socializing at work" too.

> And the part of my premise that you were disagreeing with was that I said some people work from home because they struggle to create relationships while at work...

Nope, I never disagreed with that. I disagree with your characterization that that is the reason I work from home.
Even if you were to take that guy's word as gospel, he even says later that the game is good, that the game's controls just aged poorly, thus if you use the mouse+keyboard patch the game is good again.