skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Latency is the exact reason you would have a problem scaling any large system in the first place.

Let's not forget why we started using separate database server in the first now…

A web server does quite a lot of things: Parsing/formatting HTTP/JSON/HTML, restructuring data, calculating stuff. This is typically very separate from the data loading aspect and as you get more requests you'll have to put more CPU in order to keep up (regardless of the language).

By separating the web server from the database server you introduce more latency in favor of enabling scalability. Now you can spin up hundreds of web servers which all talk to a single database server. This is a typical strategy for scalability: decouple the logic and scale up individually.

If you couple them together it's more difficult to scale. First of all, in order to spin up a server you need a full version of the database. Good luck autoscaling on-demand! Also, now every write will have to be replicated to all the readers. That's a lot more bandwidth.

There are definitely use cases for Litestream, but it's far from a replacement for your typical Node + PostgreSQL stack. I can see it being useful as a lower-level component: You can use Litestream to build your "own" database server with customized logic which you can talk to using an internal protocol (gRPC?) from your web servers.
We used to have one like that, too, and I don’t remember it being capable of single-gram accuracy like my cheap IKEA scales are.
This is how client apps use sqlite, yes. Single instance client apps. Litestream is one method of making sqlite work for server side apps. The hard part on the server is solving for multiple processes/vms/containers writing to one sqlite db.
Can you share the names of these manufacturers and/or devices?
To be honest, one thing which blocks me is people being productive -- although WFH has benefits for work-life balance, people tend to get distracted and produce less than they would otherwise.

My bias currently is to hire and ask someone to come into an office for 3 days a week for several months if they're looking to work remote full time or relocate.
Finland I got sometimes SMS in flow. For bank login it is account and password, then one time code. Then when making transaction getting SMS with which one time code to enter. And then when paying with confirmation same thing but just with SMS code.

I don't really see point of SMS in flow, but hey I can somewhat live with it.
>or a home in on signal jammer and explode command.

Congratulations, you just invented the anti-radiation missile.

The drone space seems to be speed running decades of SAM and combat aviation tech.
I agree Richard Hipp should be compensated but he explicitly licensed and releases SQLite under a public domain license: https://www.sqlite.org/copyright.html Not Apache, not MIT, not GPL... public domain. You can do almost anything with it and not be beholden to any demands. You can tell people you built your business on SQLite... or not. It's public domain.

That said SQLite has a business model of selling support and premium features like encryption: https://www.sqlite.org/prosupport.html
I wish they had secretly released the font and got it widely adopted a year or so ahead, to ensure we could get a second SNL skit.
> The U.S. went all-in on globalization. That includes globalization of food production.

"Globalization" would include an elimination of domestic agricultural subsidies and tariffs such that everyone is on a level playing field, which is something we have not done in our agricultural sector.
I'm a product manager at Cloudflare. Thanks very much for posting this here.

This looks like a bug with our "Managed Challenge" security action that's causing the loop. This feature attempts to determine browser versus non-browser traffic and block non-browsers. The fact that the challenge is currently not working for Waterfox Classic and Pale Moon is not by intent, and we do not want to be in the business of saying one browser is more legitimate than another.

I see that the name of our Browser Integrity Check feature (which is not causing the block here) is drawing some attention. This is a feature that blocks malformed HTTP request headers, and user-agents commonly used by abusive bots (like user-agents with Java and Python in them). This is a pretty simple set of rules that also does not attempt to differentiate between browsers. Here's our KB article on the feature: https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170086-U...

I'm sorry that this has caused a serious issue for quite a large number of users, and that we were not more reachable in our community forum. I'll provide a follow-up here when we have an update on the bug. Thank you again for taking the time to write this up!
I like this answer, but it would be more compelling if a concrete case of planning and execution over a long time frame could be cited. The kind of concrete example I'm talking about is, "We set out to build x or reduce y, over 300 years and it took us 450, but it's done.".
Maybe urban agriculture doesn’t work in theory, but in practice the Netherlands already has many regions where productive farms mingle with urban areas. For an example, have a look at a satellite view of the Westland region, directly southwest of The Hague.
I think a "yes-code" HTML editor GUI is much more achievable if limited to specific CSS frameworks since there are fewer ways to do things and the logic of what to add to what CSS rule seems a bit cleaner.
I played D2 pretty obsessively for a few years during my teens and never bothered going higher than 92, rolling new builds was always more fun than endless baal runs for me.
Would this raise the tax rates for NYers?
Quanta Magazine Wins a Pulitzer Prize
Tandem Shower by Boona
It would be shocking if it didn’t
Faster Than GPU: How to 10x Object Detection Model and Deploy on CPU at 50 FPS
It’s not even just endgame bosses that can wreck your day in PoE, a few unlucky rolls and even the first boss you encounter is going to be a tough one to beat.
With California and New York both exploring statewide single payer healthcare it looks like the Overton window is moving closer to legitimate discussion of a nationwide single payer plan in the US. It’ll be interesting to watch, since this is such a hot-button topic here on many levels.
> A central point of REST is that any resource (e.g., user) can support an unlimited number of different representations. This isn't just true on the level of, say, XML vs. JSON but also formats which embed and do not embed subordinate/related entities.

I'm aware but how does that work in practice? actual implementation wise. What does the formats to include or exclude related/nested entities look like? how do clients use these formats? also how does supporting embedding multiple levels of nested entities work in this pattern? I asked all of this because I don't think I've seen this implemented well without a convoluted in-house implementation of a query language like GraphQL's shoehorned into query strings. A specification is only as good as the people implementing them.

> How are query strings a workaround and not a declarative mechanism?

In simple cases, they can be. But they are very limited. How do you express in query strings the exact data fields, nested entities, and shape the client wants to retrieve? (this question might be related to the questions above)

> I mean, it would be better if HTTP had a verb that was like GET with a body so that you could define one or more media types that could be used to specify details of the resource representation sought, and that's what the QUERY draft [0] is about.

I didn't know about the QUERY draft. This is very interesting and would be great to have in HTTP. This is a good example of the gaps in HTTP that technologies like GraphQL are trying to fill.
This is completely out of context. He said that before civil rights were realized, and Black Americans were regularly structurally discriminated against. The special thing that needed to be done was to not let things remain the status quo but to allow Black people to become full members of society.
I always think that many people overthink things and tend to make them more complicated than they really are.

If you live in NYC you get to see all leaders come around for the General Assembly, you'd see Presidents , Prime Ministers etc. Including people who have been in public office for 20 years.

It's not like servers at NOBU get on their knees to worship them when they take their order.

It's people like the author of this piece who make a big deal about it or even Lex Fridman who see such figures and would become a doormat for the privilege of an interview with Putin or Musk, interview during which they'd just repeat over and over again the same talking points they have been fed by their PR managers or lawyers.

So I don't see the need for a numerical ceiling to wealth, at least in the US the ceiling is provided by the self-respect of the avg. citizen. Americans are very proud and don't allow anybody to buy them out easily.

Like when Musk tried to bribe that kid tracking his jet with 5,000$ . The kid asked him 50,000$. Had Musk accepted 50,000$ , he'd have asked 500,000$. Had Musk accepted 500,000$ he'd asked 5,000,000$...

There might be some crazy people who easily fall into cults, but by and large they are the minority and the halo effect vanishes very early.
> If you don't need that, you might as well read the entire dataset into memory and be done with it.

Over in-memory data structures,SQLite gives you:

- Persistence

- Crash tolerance

- Extremely powerful declarative querying capabilities

> if you have read-only traffic you don't need sqlite replication.

I agree with you that the main use-case here is backup and data durability for small apps. Which is pretty big deal, as a database server is often the most expensive part of running a small app. That said, there are definitely systems where latency of returning a snapshot of the data is important, but which snapshot isn't (if updates take a while to percolate that's fine).
No, it wouldn't.

The European single-payer systems pay half what we do per-capita, factoring in private and public spending in both systems. The US system is wildly cost inefficient.

See the chart at https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm
interesting, such a weird way to describe it then. but I guess some people are more familiar with that problem.
I am as obsessed with sub 100ms responses as the people at fly.io, so I think the one writer and many, many readers architecture is smart and fits quite a few applications. When litestream adds actual replication it will get really exciting.

> it won't work well on ephemeral, serverless platforms or when using rolling deployments

That's... a lot of new applications these days.
Litestream does a couple of things. It started as a way to continuously back sqlite files up to s3. Then Ben added read replicas – you can configure Litestream to replicate from a "primary" litestream server. It's still limited to a single writer, but there's no s3 in play. You get async replication to other VMs: https://github.com/fly-apps/litestream-base

We have a feature for redirecting HTTP requests that perform writes to a single VM. This makes Litestream + replicas workable for most fullstack apps: https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/

It's not a perfect setup, though. You have to take the writer down to do a deploy. The next big Litestream release should solve that, and is part of what's teased in the post.
We're in an exploratory phase on this. We have been experimenting with reading the .git folder to determine the current branch, and store this info alongside the CRDT in the client. Still early to say whether this is a fruitful approach or not.
They fill different roles. It's talking about replacing something suited for long distance, including intermodal, relays, etc with a short distance truck that has distinct characteristics. If you absolutely can't use 53' trailers, the best alternative is probably 48' trailers.
Here's a Bloomberg article on this issue

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-09/match-gro...
> We don't have universal domestic identity cards in Canada because, like Germany, and other countries post WWII, we have a memory of how internal passport systems get used.

Germany does have national identity cards though.

The whole "no ID card" is a very peculiar Anglo-Saxon thing: US, UK, Ireland, apparently also Canada. Of course, you have passports and driving licenses, so effectively almost everyone does have ID, just less conveniently.
"Died in committee" I assume will be the final result, official in a couple weeks.
I sometimes wonder if Preview being so much easier than Acrobat isn't an intentional poke at Adobe for all the times Adobe strayed from the one true path of Apple. That whole skipping a version of software release because Adobe didn't pay attention to words from up on high to quite using deprecated language surely didn't sit well.
The State of Windows [video]
Each server would have one copy of the SQLite database. Only one of the server would support writes — and those write will be replicated to the other server. Reads in the other server will be transactionally safe, but might be slightly out of date.
It’s Time to Get over That Stored Procedure Aversion You Have (2015)
I think CRDTs are super cool, and likely future of offline-first experiences. My main issue with Taskpaper documents in iCloud drive has been the awful conflict resolution experience, and would love an industry standard way of doing the merges automatically, in a syntax-aware way.

Funny you should post this article now, as I'm just getting ready to start on this work myself, would love recommendations about how to do this automatic conflict resolution on semi-structured text files if anyone has some!
Litestream author here. I've been on the fence about disclosing the amount. I'm generally open about everything but I know some people get weird about money stuff. I'm also autistic so I tend to not navigate social norms very well. That all being said, the project was acquired for $500k.
YouTube one's fine in Canada. NBC doesn't work outside the US, I think.
Wow... this is a much MUCH bigger question than you think it is. My answer will be obviously extremely incomplete.

Sales was my first profession. I was good at my work. After a decade, I decided I wanted a change of pace and moved into programming. I very much miss selling and will probably go back someday.

I got my start as a concert promoter selling concert tickets for my friends bands. I eventually tried most of the major categories of sales: SMB, Enterprise, Retail, Door to door, Patent sales, etc but ended up preferring mostly retail and SMB because the sales cycles were quicker and it made the job a little more fun. Enterprise tends to be the best paid, but much slower and often feels more like project management than a sales gig.

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To answer your question"sales" isn't just sales. There are many different types, approaches, techniques, skills, cultures, etc. If you are inclusive of any job performed by a "compliance professional" (Cialdini) or where there is a transaction involving two or more people, sales is the largest profession in the United States.

If you are just looking to get started I'd recommend 1) To actually sell something 2) get reading the literature.

As far as actually selling something: try reselling something at the farmers market, or go door to door and sell basic manual labor... those two things have high demand which you should be able to land a sale or two right away to get a vibe on a basic process.

As far as literature here are a couple of classics:

- Influence
- the little red book of selling
- SPIN selling
- Secrets of closing the sale
- The challenger sale
- The presentation secrets of steve jobs (for presentation skills)
- The rules of the game (neil strauss)
- Nudge

Once you get your feet under you go find a strong team with a great product and good leadership, or hang out with sales people and have them tell you stories.

(sorry for the terrible and short answer)
as long as these plans can negotiate and also use their market power to reduce the prices that healthcare services charge to Americans, but starting within their jurisidction

a significant portion of the consensus failings have been because simply having insurance for all is just a bandaid, and this has been an accurate criticism of one party's tax and spend trend whether that seems like a conversation derailing political statement or not
Michael Lewis has a great episode about this on his podcast Against the Rules:

https://www.pushkin.fm/episode/the-hand-of-leonardo/
Thanks for checking out. Yes, I totally agree with all your points.
The better question is whether NYers will pay more or less under this plan, not whether that payment is a tax or a premium.
Yes. Did someone say they're not?
Summary says it includes a "payroll assessment, similar to the Medicare tax"
In fairness you’re being really obtuse and not explaining what you want clearly. You refuse to change the way Finder shows pictures. Double clicking (or CMD o) will show the photos in Preview just like Windows. Tapping Space will show them in Quick Look.

What more do you want?
No, most calipers can only do relative measurements. It’s constantly counting how many 0.01mm the head has moved so it doesn’t lose track of where 0mm is located. Turning on the LCD when the volatile counter changes value is a free feature since the mcu is always on.

Of course better calipers do absolute measurements, but they’re too expensive to scribe lines with and therefore useless for hobbyists.
Of course it'll raise tax rates. That money does come from somewhere. The real question is whether employers will raise salaries enough to compensate for the additional taxes, once they're no longer providing insurance as a benefit.
> The Eiffel Tower was built as a temporary display for the World's Fair. It was very much intentionally designed to impress other designers; that was kind of the point

I'm not sure I got the point across. The whole point is that focusing on design is how we get outstanding, high-quality results. It makes the product more appealing and can even make it transcend it's status. High quality design creates value with negligible impact on cost.

The Eiffel Tower exemplifies that. It was designed as a temporary exhibition but it's impact transcends that of a mere temporary structure. It became the landmark of a European capital, and the symbol of one of the richest, most successful and culturally dominant nations on earth, and in the process generates fortunes in revenue due to tourism.

Another good example is the Sagrada Família cathedral in Barcelona, or pretty much each of Gaudi's work. Even the Gaudi's Park Guell, which failed as a real estate project, is a resounding landmark and tourist attraction.
I feel like the author is describing the thought process that brought about Dreamweaver - which made the gap between code and design much smaller.
Parable of the Poisoned Arrow
It doesn't, this gives you a read-only replica only.
It is dead in the water. The Republicans show no sign of supporting broad non means tested or non age gated taxpayer funded healthcare, and they hold the cards in the US Senate.

On the state level, any broad based benefit that does not discriminate is also futile because benefit recipients can move into the state and payers for the benefits can move out of the state.

See Vermont for the previous trial of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform

It the same problem with homelessness, education, and mental healthcare (a subset of healthcare). Without a border to limit the ratio of net benefit recipients to net payers, the numbers will not work out.
I think the idea that anything that worked in Europe would work here as well as there without inherent corruption and rent seeking is laughable.
If I pay $10 in tax to save me $20 in costs, I'm not inclined to see that as a tax hike.
The amount paid per capita and whether you would pay more taxes are not exclusive things.

I’m not sure why people keep bringing up Europe - the USA is not Europe. For one doctors are paid more in the USA compared to Europe, medicine is more expensive here, more of the R and D originates here, etc
Litestream author here. I just posted it as a reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31319556
This. I live in Utah and it's the same story.
FYI, do not do a wire transfer from a bank. They charge exorbitant fees. Places like your local grocery store will do it for you for less than $1. My local store does it for 25 cents.
If this is anything like the ACA then the vast majority of New Yorkers will end up paying twice for insurance. Once in taxes to subsidize the single-payer marketplace, and then again for their own employer-based insurance. Have to start somewhere though, I guess.
not always: Tim and Eric https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk
If only you had met Nathan Fielder when he was attempting to rebrand smoke detectors as musical instruments to avoid these customs declarations.

(If you haven’t watched the show Nathan For You, I can’t recommend it enough).
While I see where you are coming from, that's your definition of "burnt out", but it is not the only valid one, and many obviously don't require the condition to be as extreme as you do for the term to be valid.

I don't know anything about Jason, so I can't make an informed call on whether I think he is overly exaggerating things by using the term.

I do think there is at least a version of "burnt out" that just means you are really tired, because you have put a lot of effort into something for a long period of time, to the point that you are questioning whether it is worth it to you to continue doing it.

However, yeah, some people probably say "I'm so burnt out on 'X'" because they've spent over a half hour on it, and it still isn't done. That doesn't qualify, in my opinion.
Photographic prints were re-shot through halftone[0] film (or 'screen') producing a 'screened' version of the image, with dots at various sizes instead of continuous tones. The screened image was then used to expose a sensitized plate, which would be developed to produce a half-toned negative in metal. The high spots took ink and carried it to the paper. More dots, more ink -> darker.

Typical newspapers might use a screen with 80 dots per inch because they are running very fast and using cruddy paper. Art printers on shiny clay paper use much finer screens and get results approaching the original prints.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone
These tubes are translucent to let light in and help the sapling grow. The saplings are only 20cm tall and takes them a couple of years to outgrow the tube. They will also have to last at least that long.
Who said "yay democracy", please?
I totally buy that it wasn't the only reason but it is a possibility that an already fragile institution would be brought down by such an attack, if not this one then some other one.

Some constructs are on the edge and kicking them may cause them to collapse. It probably will only change the timing but it is still the kick that is the first order cause of the collapse.

Plenty of institutions are being hit with a perfect storm, two years of COVID and associated rules probably didn't help either.
This is actually a decent way of framing it.

> A foreign function interface (FFI) is a mechanism by which a program written in one programming language can call routines or make use of services written in another.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_function_interface
My old microwave oven has a fan that is on only when the microwaves are on. If that was possible in 1985 it can be made the same way now.
Something is going to have to change. As it stands, there isn't a plan on the national insurance exchange that I can buy that's even remotely as cheap as my company's plan (actual premium, not just the fraction paid for by employee).