skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I started my career at a fully remote job and it was really difficult for quite some time.

Today I see working from home as a tool with a spectrum of useful applications but I really haven’t found a replacement tool to being next to people in the same space.

Although, I am optimistic about these more casual video chat tools that enable spontaneous conversations. However, I haven’t used one in a serious capacity yet.
A lot depends on your consistency requirements and data model here.

I use SQLite heavily, and have evaluated litestream and rqlite but not deployed them, so bear that in mind.

If the application is set up so that it serves a user for a session, so a given session ID is reading and writing from the same SQLite database, there are many opportunities to replicate that data optimistically, so that you won't lose it if a meteor hits the server, but it might not live in all the replicas right away, since applying patchsets off the gossip network happens in downtime.

If concerns can't be isolated like this then yes, dedicated swarms of database servers are the way to go. Frequently they can be, and using SQLite punches way above its weight here.
I believe new technologies will continuously injest energy to the DBA staff, and change the way of how DBAs treat database management. Different and further research and developement in database area nowadays, like distributed database, cloud native database, serverless database, ai4db, db4ai, NoSQL, NewSQL, time-series and graph etc, what I mean the industry always need and welcome specicialists and professionals in each area.

In the meanwhile, there will be somewhat new framework that makes DBAs life easier and bring a broader entrance for anyone who want to manage their database well.
It is not the same (I was alive during the dotcom bubble).

In contrast to bitcoin/etc, it was always clear how broadly useful the internet would be.

Even while companies with inflated valuations like eBay were being battered, a broad amount of the mainstream population was using the sites every day and loving them.

It does not feel the same with cryptocoins, where owning an NFT Ape remains some peculiar niche thing and typical people have no relationship with cryptocoins at all.
Apologies, I'm so used to HN being US centric. Even more reason for Their ship, if the UK has been doing it for 30 years...
I have to say, the bluetooth experience is one of the worst pain points for me on macs these days. I'm always connected to the wrong source. Or it's connected to two sources, but playing sound from the wrong one. Or I skip an ad on youtube on my macbook and my headphones switch source to my phone in that instant. Or it just doesn't want to connect at all, and I end up turning BT off and on. Or one bud connects and the other doesn't. Or I walk out of range of my computer and my headphones connected to my phone tell me I've disconnected every ten seconds forever. Or I try to hit the pause button on my headphones and they think I want to skip forward 6 podcasts. Or my phone rings and my headphones are connected to my computer, and I can't switch them fast enough, so I just have to take them off and answer without them. Always something.
Not mentioned in this version of the story, the aircraft was a Boeing 737-800.
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By the way, let me note that this means that all the "a woman's right to do what she wants with her own body" is a smokescreen. The issue isn't about her body, it's about the fetus, which is not her body.

When someone brings out the "her own body" line, they're begging the question about the fetus. It's a dishonest rhetorical device. We aren't going to solve this by yelling dishonest rhetoric at each other; that hasn't worked for 50 years. We have to actually address the real question.
A decoupled SPA+BFFE is usually, incorrectly called a "microservices architecture".
It absolutely is not. Thin clothing is bad at blocking UV. For example, a cotton t-shirt blocks 41% of UVA and 40% of UVB. That's like wearing SPF 1.7 sunscreen, i.e., you're getting twenty times the UV exposure you'd get wearing bare-minimum SPF-15 sunscreen.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4414538/
You're coming from a BTC direction but you don't know what self custody means?

Anyways, an example of what I would use stablecoins for: I expect the price of $TOKEN to go down so I swap it for USDC. While I'm waiting for $TOKEN price to go down I lend my USDC on Aave for ~3% APY (and yes, there is smart contract risk here but I chose Aave in my example for that reason). When $TOKEN price drops enough I swap the USDC back for $TOKEN.

Another situation: I want to send my family member money to help with down payment on a house. I don't want to sell $TOKEN because I think the price will go up, so instead I lend $TOKEN on Aave and borrow stablecoins. I send stablecoins to family member (worth noting this would be difficult to do in FIAT due to the amount) and when he pays me back I can then withdraw my $TOKEN.

One more: I just sold a jpeg and want to make sure I have enough cash to pay taxes next year. Instead of hoping my $TOKEN price will stay same or go up I sell some for USDC to cover taxes
Ah yes, English – that famously-consistent and unbaggaged language with just one word, entirely native, per concept. Rot and cobblers for excessive prose!
Agree.

But even fighting for RDMS in 2022 is getting daunting as so many people will immediately start pushing for document DB's, GraphQL, etc. Seriously - I feel like SWE's have no idea the powerhouse a modest MySQL/Postgres instance can crank out while perfectly maintaining their data (ACID, replication, etc).

Everyone wants to use tools that were designed for FAANG scale regardless of org size. Anecdotally I've fought this hard because it's almost always at incredible detriment to the business's needs.

I find that modern devs balk at "single RDMS database + stateless middle tier" but only for selfish reasons like resume-driven development. This pattern is really burning me out more than anything else of my career.

Again, all this is personal anecdotes.
Hehe. Technically cheating though, nothing in Erlang will ever be really a monolith. But it's a great solution for the space, it does require a bit of unlearning before you can be really productive with it.
One thing Intel has not payed attention to is the software development kits for programming these chips. This great hardware is useless if you can't (easily) program it. nVidia has CUDA which is fantastic from a programmer's point of view. Does anyone use Intel's One API or the data parallel C++ / SYCL implementation? Hopefully they realize someone has to actually write code for these chips.
Because it already has a standalone article?
oh nice, that's exactly what I was imagining. A crafting system that allows you to create one-off unique items.
So one question here is: Why reduce the distribution (with long tail or whatever) to a single estimate number? If the distribution represents the range of possible outcomes well, then the single number throws away most of the information in the distribution.
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On the contrary, if you look at, say, a Catholic viewpoint, the modern conception of liberty, where you are a sort of free-floating mind, "subject to your will alone", all prevenient natural relations dissolved, or rather transmuted into mere contracts of volition, without natural obligations to impinge your freedom and preferring "to have neither a whence nor a whither, to be neither from nor for, but to be wholly at liberty" (so Ratzinger), is identified as exactly the root of disagreement in a host of issues, from abortion (no mother-child relation), to divorce (no husband-wife relation), to gender and sexuality (no body-self relation).
If I remember correctly that is only with x264, and no longer the case with x265.
A ThinkPad P14S AMD Gen 2 with AMD Ryzen 7 5800H and 32GB RAM (Work) running Ubuntu

A Lenovo IdeaPad with Intel i3 8th gen. Not a fancy machine but it is a flip laptop that I use to read once in a while. Runs Linux Mint.

A Dell G5 SE with Ryzen 7 4800H. The absolute worst laptop I've ever owned and the last Dell I will ever own. Running Ubuntu / Windows

3 Raspberry Pi 3Bs

4 Raspberry Pi 4 (8gb)

4 Raspberry Pi 0W

10 Raspberry Pi Pico

10 ESP8266

1 ESP32

10 STM401F32 boards

4 Arduino ProMicros

1 desktop with an i5 5th gen, 1060 6GB, 16gb RAM. Running Linux Mint

1 PS4 Pro

1 Nintendo Switch Mario edition

1 Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+

1 Lenovo Android Tablet

1 Kindle Oasis

1 Amazon Echo Speaker

2 Misc smart bulbs

1 smart switch 10Amp

An Asus RoG 5 Phone. Loved it until Android 12 became a thing. Hate it since.
I remember students sharing Excel games back in the day (when webgame sites were blocked at school). There were simple snake games and also fancier ones like a pop-up shooting gallery.

Eventually they discovered that they could download a Flash game as a SWF, bringing their collections in on flash drives and trading them in the lab.
That is fascinating. I thought that bells had one or a couple dominant / loud frequencies that would mostly determine pitch, and the rest would just mix in to change the timbre but not the main percept. I always found the sound of melodies played with bells kind of uncomfortable because there is too much going on, too many different frequencies interfering with each other.
I wish... my bots are actually capable of parsing information. I, it seems, am not :(
I learned that countries in Europe and Asia have better sunscreens because the bureaucracy of the FDA in America makes it too difficult to get those sunscreens imported here. I like using it though. If it's good enough for Europeans it's good enough for me.
The article references a meta-analysis, which is hardly a smoking gun.

The analysis suggests variation between afib occurrence/risk and the brand or omega-3 supplement or dose.

Additional points from the article:

* despite finding a link between afib and omega-3 supplementation, the meta-analysis didn’t find increased heart or stroke risk

* although the analysis linked a prescription-strength omega-3 supplement with higher afib risk, the analysis indicated that omega-3 appeared to reduce heart attack and stroke risk

Existing evidence and analysis find that omega-3 can impact various medical conditions and health factors.

I think that, as with any medication, one should consult their doctor and weigh the cost-benefit / risk-reward of taking omega-3 supplements/prescriptions.
This is where the term "Mittelstand" gets lost in translation, and speaks to the Author's point that the Americanized definition of start-up has become too polarized and absolute.

It is neither a lifestyle business nor a shareholder-driven business.
Yeah, I think the most palatable definition of microservices is just SOA with no arbitrary lower bound on how much code a service needs to justify itself.
There was a off hand comment in the Big Short book, about a Money Market fund, Reserve Primary Fund, that announced they couldn't pay back all debits, during the worst of the 2008 crisis. It was, "Money Markets weren't cash -- they paid interest, and thus bore risk, ..."

Its interesting to note that Money Markets pay out <1% interest now. When I searched for Money Markets to get the %, I got an Ad for "Donut" touting a 7% APY DeFi. They advertise they put money into StableCoins and earn a return. Customer Quote on the page, "I make so much money on interest, I can pay rent". My god, the collapse will be huge.
The important thing is that we keep blaming subsets of humanity instead of collectively taking action. The first work and the third world can blame each other, and neither will need to take action. Socialists can blame companies, and capitalists can blame governments and that way nothing will change...
This concept was already used in The Expanse. I forget which episode.
I've been using a 2007 17" MacBook Pro as my main machine at my desk for the last couple weeks. Honestly it's great. The 17" screen is still bright and high enough resolution for me (1920x1200), the CPU is perfectly fine for web browsing and some light VS Code (2.5GHZ Core 2 Duo). I have Mac OS 10.13 on it which is still supported and receiving updates by every App I use. The keyboard on these old MacBook Pros is fantastic as well.

I even loaded up Final Cut and dropped in some 1080p h.264 footage and it edits it just fine.

I think the one good thing about Intel's CPU monopoly for all those years is that these old machines are still powerful enough today. That is likely going to change now that CPUs are getting significant performance boost every year again. A dual core CPU that is usable today I suspect will be unbearably slow for the web in ~5 years.
Or maybe they are, and they still think its worth it? Stack traces are not an issue I've faced, good tracing helps a lot here. Encode-decode is a minor issue in comparison to the issues they are often trying to solve (which may not always be technical, especially at larger orgs)
Have you ever questioned if "choice" was merely propaganda by the elite to sell a certain lifestyle?

Ex: "Women's rights" disguised as "the right to have sex without consequences" regardless of gender?
Yeah the header bar.
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You know, if Luke Skywalker hadn't listened to Obi Wan and switched
off his targeting computer that Death-star would still be out there
menacing peaceful planets.

Good job the Rebels didn't disable manual over-ride.
I'm not seeing how using the internet as analogy is at all relevant to the discussion about corruption. The internet, if it has resistance to catering to special financial interests at all, is only so because it is far removed from that sector, not because of any special attributes from being a distributed network.
I keep recalling that line from "The soul of a new machine" 'No mode bit.'
I dunno. I feel like the first 500K aren’t really the big problem, since growing to, say, a 500M valuation as an upper limit is still quite the upside. Also, non traditional funding options are on the table at that level (some cash from you and family, some equity in your home, perhaps some state funding or loans).

I feel like the next rounds may become much more difficult. How can I raise the next 10M, …, 200M if the company is unlikely to grow beyond 500M?
A random connection to bikeshedding being mentioned yesterday in a totally unrelated thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31315883 (interesting comment is the large block of text 3 replies deep)

Bit random, but my brain likes linking connections between things. Not sure if useful?
JavaScript supports the modulo operator and the native syntax for this:

let isEven = theNumber % 2 == 0;

There are reasons to dislike JavaScript, but this isn’t it. The native solution is about as standard as it gets.
Correct.
The good answers assume the askers actually want ACCURATE estimates.
In many many cases this is not true at all.

I've worked for guys that shop around and give the work to the lowest estimator, even when they have a track record of low-balling and then running 5x over their estimates.

In other scenarios, to your point, optimistically low estimates are used as a political tool by product/management to wrestle some task/responsibility from some other team in the org.

Inevitably what I see again and again is everyone takes (and fights devs for) low-ball estimates, which assume the happy path of "nothing can go wrong". They are then happy to hear & communicate to clients the various excuses when each "downside surprise" is discovered through the development process. Of course the estimate high-baller has built in time for these as theres rarely positive surprises that make tasks faster, and few tasks are surprise free.
A set of paint markers are useful for these LEDs. Especially the ones used for small figurines.
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This is something I would agree with. If you can keep the boundaries in place but work in the same process space you've managed to avoid the mess often associated with Monoliths and the overhead associated with Micro services.
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No, I'm saying that there is a limit to the degree of accomodation they should expect from groups that they join, and have no right to demand special treatment and cultural change. But in the modern West this freedom only applies to female and/or minority groups. The "majority" is not allowed to maintain or practice it's culture. It's a bigoted double standard.
And this feeds right into the mentality of: "If you ass isn't in a seat, you aren't working"
Besides what others said, the textile factories were in the north
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How is ceph on the RPIs?
Sure, it could be. For those that want to really know what's going on it's better to actually get the data. Fortunately, it's not that hard to do. A couple times a year I track all my dietary intake for a week using an app. I'm not just interested in the macro-nutrients (protein, fat & carbs) but also all the micronutrients. There are apps that are more focused on micronutrients.

I can track just a couple of typical one-week samples a year and get a decent ballpark approximation because my normal diet isn't super varied. Vacations and a few special occasions aside, I typically eat mostly the same types things in about the same amounts because I like those things and it's convenient. I decided to spot check micronutrients because for the last five years I've been on a very low carb diet that's working great for me health wise and I've also had significant improvements in cognitive sharpness and emotional stability vs eating a 'normal' diet that made me obese for decades.

Because what I eat is fairly limited, I was concerned that over a long time period I might be missing out on some important nutrients. After getting a few data points, I was pleased to learn I was already covering everything my body needs. The only thing I was a little low on was DHA/EPA. While I can eat lots of fish on a VLC diet, I just don't particularly like fish, so I don't choose to eat much. For that reason I've added a high-quality supplement. Except for special cases like mine, I do agree it's entirely possible (and preferable) to cover all your body's nutritional needs with real foods. The challenge is that individual metabolisms can vary. General dietary advice is based on large-scale averages across many individuals. I'd also caution that the typical FDA "Food Pyramid" that is still widely promoted isn't ideal for every individual. My metabolism was certainly an outlier and the recommended 'balanced' diet wasn't working optimally over the long run for me.
Not for nothing, but this subthread has finally given me a name for my own eating disorder. I'm almost 45 and in the last 10 years I've made some progress towards eating like a normal human being, but from childhood until I was almost 35 the stuff I'm reading about this disorder describes me incredibly closely. I grew up with food allergies (tree nuts, some seeds) and somewhat abusive father (he would get frustrated with me and hold me down and shove food in my mouth—obviously that didn't help matters any and I honestly believe that provided the impetus for most of my "origin story".)

This is something that affected nearly every aspect of my life. I didn't go to college away from home because I was afraid of cafeteria food in the dorms. I didn't join the military because rations. I never took a semester or year abroad because foreign food. Many of my relationships ended because seriously, how many times can a normal person eat bread and cheese in a week for years on end?

I'm sorry to unload here, I'm just reeling from having a name for this. I'm painting a picture here that is pretty bleak, because from the outside it definitely looked that way. I hope you're able to help your daughter move through it. The world today is far more accommodating than the one I grew up in though, so I'm sure her experience is somewhat different.
You have missed the point, a video encoder isn’t just math anymore than chemistry is just math.

Finding the methods is the discovery and there are a lot of experimental work that goes into video and audio encoding as well including perceptual measurements and actually coming with a method that can be efficiently implemented in both software and hardware.

There are plenty of patents that don’t require nearly as much experimental or hard science work as developing a new encoding method.

This isn’t even about discovering anything new in mathematics although that can happen it’s about a novel implementation which does deserve patent protection whether you like it or not.

If one can literarily get a patent for a new pressure valve with just using a pen and paper or in even a better analogy a purely computerized simulation your argument simply falls apart.

The argument about it being non obvious is also has nothing to do with software as many things in computer science (since that is the field most relevant in this rather than software development) can be very much non obvious to experts in the field too.

And that is the gist of issue here the software implementation isn’t what is actually protected by the patent that might be protected by copy right. The patent itself covers a method which as you said can be implemented even on a piece of paper if you want to do things really slowly.
If I go into a library, I can open and look at any number of books without the library recording it. Of course if I check it out they’ll know, but that’s primarily to ensure you return it (and secondarily so they can see what books to buy in the future).
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> Can a laptop from 2012 be a viable home server?

My take on this, the answer is yes, until a hardware part fails, and in 10 year old computers, they do.

Then it gets tricky: laptops, especially 10 year old laptops can be very hard to fix.
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All the same.
Maybe the Russian government will come out with the first decent widely adopted mobile OS.
It's true. If I wanted to make a stronger argument that people who held the opposite opinion weren't "a quite small minority," then I could've used another poll like you've suggested. It would make the same argument, but wouldn't be open to your tangent argument, which doesn't contradict the underlying point.
> 140%

We're still stuck on this[0]?

[0]: https://www.sec.gov/files/staff-report-equity-options-market... @ Page 25
Global temperature might temporarily reaching 1.5°C threshold in next five years
Less costly doesn't mean more costly is morally equivalent
> green beret friend ... If the first two shots doesn't stop or scare em off, the buck will.

Cool story but no gun person would actually give that advice. The shotgun part, yes, because you will not get overpenetration in a flimsy apartment building. But not the loading non-lethal rounds first part.
Desktop software with a subscription model, sold to businesses (so, economics similar to SaaS).
I'm an EM and I would say 30-40% of the meetings I'm in I have to be there in case I'm needed for something, but do not need to actively participate day to day. Some I just need to know for my reporting, but I'm definitely not asking anyone to take notes for me, so I just listen. Some I might be needed every third or fourth time and it's easier to just be there rather than have someone get me if something comes up. The rest I'm actively contributing to (at least somewhat regularly).

If it were in person I'd still have to be there, except I'd only really be able to check email or maybe take half-assed notes rather than actually get work done.