skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My microwave oven uses a dial, and it works great. It uses increasing intervals between dial ticks (5 seconds for cooking times under 1 minute, 10 seconds for cooking times under 3 minutes or so, than 30 seconds, than 1 minute, than 5 minutes; I don't know the cut-of points by heart). The intervals are chosen in a way that they're precise where they need to be, and large where they don't need to be precise. It's really easy and fast to set the time you need.

It's a bit limited, in the sense that you can't set the time to e.g. 17:27. But who needs that?

When my old mechanical kitchen timer died on me, I bought a digital one with a dial, in the hope that it work the same way as the one on my microwave oven. Boy was I wrong. It kinda increases the interval when you spin it faster, but in a completely unpredictable and impractical way.

So I guess it's easy to make impractical dials, but it certainly is possible to make very well functioning dials as well.
Absolutely. I recently tried switching to Linux, and realized how amazing Preview is. Tasks like "swap 2 pages in a PDF" or "crop this image" are much less intuitive and often require you to install a single-purpose command line utility, or fire up something like GIMP which has a steeper learning curve and feels like overkill
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Thank you! I lamented greatly how short the clip was. When I saw it was only 6min I almost didn't bother watching it - how the hell in-depth can a 6 minute video be...
Yeah, high-usage categories in areas without sufficient supply of water. On other hand in some areas there is sufficient amount of water available even with this usage. There really isn't one fit everywhere policy.
The periodic back and forth movement of a pendulum can be modelled as a circular rotation with constant angular velocity. We "know" that it just goes over and back so we "know" that the circular motion is just a model. All the same, maybe in the future, they'll figure out that pendulums actually move in 4 dimensions. Then they'll look back at us and think "surely they should have known that pendulums really moved in 4 dimensional circles, because they knew about this model".

I'd imagine it's similar looking at the sky. If you "knew" the motion of the planets was related to some Gods moving around, you might expect that circular motion was just a model there too.
Dqlite is also interesting, and in a similar space. It seems to have evolved from the LXC/LXD team wanting a replacement for Etcd. It's Sqlite with raft replication and also a networked client protocol.

https://dqlite.io/docs/architecture
Yup. Orchard farmers will routinely leave their thirstier crops in puddles of water, leaving their sprinklers on the whole day because it's easier and less management than a smarter plan. Any exposed water that evaporates from the surface is effectively wasted and won't be replenished until the next rain- or snowfall.
Because you cant do unethical and societally harmful things and say it’s not your fault cause it’s not illegal.

I mean, sure you can legally, but you’re still a harmful entity with a problem.
Sometimes I hate having to deal with three different syntaxes for content, styling and interaction each, and I think of QML and how things could be if all the frontend stack could follow a similar fashion.

Then I remember the immesurable amount of shitty code around the web and I get over it.
> where you rarely interact directly with another human

I hardly call that async / remote work at all! Quite the contrary, remote work and async work define themselves by how interaction with other people happen.

Most importantly: The issues TFA discuss also are important for face-to-face work. A manager who constantly interrupts, and wastes time by allowing too many meetings, is ineffective. It doesn't matter if the interruptions are a tap on the shoulder or an IM; and it doesn't matter if the meeting is face-to-face or via Zoom.

In order for remote / async to work, there needs to be a clear recognition that effective office work requires time management. The time management skills that keep meetings effective and provide for uninterrupted concentration are the same, both for face-to-face and virtual workplaces.
ca 1200 cubic meters
Inadvertent NFT creator is suddenly thrust into the world of NFT pump and dumps
The Gervais principle of management hierarchy:

Sociopaths (friends with everyone)

Management (clueless)

Losers (actually do the homework)

I'm trying to be the biggest loser and outsmart the system, but thank God, I failed. The sociopaths want to copy the homework. Whatever good ideas you and your kid have, please type them and share! There's no intellectual property here. We're not afraid to ask "What if?"

Welcome to the community of the Internet, we love you.
Burnout: The truth about overwork and what we can do about it
Yes but where it fails is allowing a rectangular selection to be made and copied over to eg Pages to make a composition.
So my real problem here is the disconnect between Adobe's "rotate view clockwise" being a document-wide operation, and the fact that actual PDF documents don't have consistent page orientation throughout.

It's usually that all of the pages are consistently oriented as portrait, but some of them actually have landscape content.

The incorrect portrait page orientation was probably done on purpose to keep printers from screwing it up, and rotating a piece of paper to look at it barely requires a thought. No big deal if you're printing it.

But the ease of looking at a single page sideways and then going back to the original rotation doesn't map to reading it on a computer screen with document-wide rotate commands, and they really should've sucked it up and let me fix individual pages. Even if it's a temporary "view" change and not something I can save back to the file.
We switched to buying USB-rechargeable AA/AAA lithium ion batteries. The brand we buy is Pale Blue, but there are many other brands.

These batteries have a regular form factor, with an added micro USB (and USB C on some larger battery sizes) port for recharging. They work really well for us and charge quickly (and conveniently — everything has a USB socket nowadays).

The price may seem expensive, but after 10 or so charge cycles they should have paid for themselves. I expect these batteries will be good for many hundreds of charge cycles.
Litestream author here. That's a good question. There's not very good visibility into open source usage so it's hard to say unless folks write blog posts about it. For example, I know Tailscale runs part of their infrastructure with SQLite & Litestream[1].

I wrote a database called BoltDB before and I have no idea how widespread it is exactly. It's used in a lot of open source projects like Consul & etcd but I don't know anything about non-public usage.

[1]: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/
You can just start typing to go to a folder. E.G. type "/tmp↵" will move the panel to that directory
It is still inconvenient for everyone. It like saying "Growing up, and living with the house full of lying rakes, I find it is trivial to deal with". Sure you are, but it is one thing what was solved decades ago and now nothing stops to at least having both prices on the tag.
So when will we have message-passing processor architectures again?
Most managers don't have the luxury of being Gabe Newell from Valve. They'll just fire you as soon as you sound like your numbers are going down with some cause. Even if in the long run it'll be better, most managers only work at companies for 4 years, under VPs who only work their 6 or 7 years. The long term health of the team isn't a priority for anyone.
It sounds like he was hyper-focused to the detriment of his health and others around him at several steps in the story (lying to nuclear scientists, performing dangerous experiments in a residential area, it goes on). I agree with you that he did amazing things, but those things are tainted by his disregard for others. I think that's what they mean by social naivete.
I really hope we get sequels to that. They left the ending nicely open in the movie, and there's a hell of a lot of material to draw on. Although imho the original manga kind of got worse over time. I've read the whole series except for the flashback books set on Mars, and it gets to be a bit of a slog and has some very strange ideas.
I completely agree that the first step is to admit water is scarce and the cost of usage needs to reflect that.

The Utah Governor is an alfalfa farmer though, so good luck getting the states upstream to do play ball

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2021/07/16/cox-says-its-ignorant...

> Gov. Spencer Cox — a farmer himself — is calling on Utahns to conserve water to help save the state’s farms and ranches. And he doesn’t want to hear from anyone that the state’s water woes can be solved by further restricting the flow to farms.

> That’s “very uninformed,” Cox said. “I might say ignorant. … Nobody has done more to cut back on water usage in this state than our farmers,” whose water has been cut “between 70 and 75% on most farms. As a result, that’s dramatically reducing crops.”
This a great and interesting offering! I think this fits well with fly.io and their model of computing.

I now wish that I had engaged with this idea that was very similar to litestream that I had about a year and half ago. I always thought SQLite just needed a distribution layer to be extremely effective as a distributed database of sorts. Its flat file architecture means its easy to provision, restore and backup. SQLite also has incremental snapshotting and re-producible WAL logs that can be used to do incremental backups, restores, writes etc. It just needs a "frontend" to handle those bits. Latency has gotten to the point where you can replicate a database by its continued snapshots (which is, on a high level, what litestream appears to be doing) being propagated out to object / blob storage. You could even achieve brute force consensus with this approach if you ran it in a truly distributed way (though RAFT is probably more efficient).

Reason I didn't do this? I thought to myself - why in the world in 2020 would someone choose to use SQLite at scale instead of something like Firebase, Spanner, Fauna, or even Postgres? So after I did an initial prototype (long gone, never pushed it to GitHub) I just felt like...there was no appetite for it.

Now I regret!

Just a long winded way of saying, congrats! This is awesome! Thanks for doing exactly what I wanted to do but didn't have the guts to follow through with.
Idaho law says so long as the train is moving, it can take as long as it likes :(
[1]

They put up a 15 minute limit, but then put in "Oh, but so long as the train is doing 'SOMETHING' then that limit doesn't count".

[1] https://legislature.idaho.gov/statutesrules/idstat/title49/t...
Not to mention the possibility of operating swarms of drones to overwhelm air defenses. If an attacker can launch one drone for $200, it isn't much harder for them to launch fifty for $10,000 -- and it's a lot harder (and more expensive) to defend against.
No-code is targeted at non-developers, so it's constrained by a need to be relatively simple. The author wants to edit the UI entirely without touch markup, but that isn't possible unless you have affordances for a context menu that scrolls for hundreds of items....because that's the number editable properties HTML and CSS have.

Only mmm.page lets you edit the UI directly without ever taking you into an "admin/editor" type view first. You can see from its style that it's not designed to be a full website builder. In fact, you can't even link two pages together. it is strictly a one-page website tool. That's the tradeoff.

Most no-code tools will provide a halfway solution:

- Bootstrap Studio is a visual webpage builder, but has a code window so you can write the markup and styles either there or in your editor of choice. Same was true with Dreamweaver back in the day.

- Tulmult Hype is similar, but for Flash-like web animation. Both visual-only and code-based views are supported, so you can add in custom logic w/ code that can't be achieved within the UI

- Microsoft Excel is visual, but includes a scripting language for power users
I have really enjoyed using Fly. Great service and support.
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> Or just raise the price of water to a market level and let things work themselves out.

This doesn't work well for something which is required to support life and a scarce resource.

The result would be that the very rich still continue to water their acre of front lawn, wasting a lot of water on something nonproductive because money is not an issue. Meanwhile poor and middle class people get priced out of being able to afford basic usage of water to live.
Where is Jamella Editor Resurrected? D2 was a great into to memory and hex editing as a kid :)

Edit: wouldja look at that https://github.com/dschu012/d2s

Also fun: https://d2esr.fandom.com/wiki/Eastern_Sun_Rises_Wiki
Thank you! Will give it a go. :)
There's also rqlite. There's definitely a place for this kind of stuff. But we already use a bunch of stuff that does distributed consensus in our stack, and the experience has left us wary of it, especially for global distribution. We almost used rqlite for a statekeeping feature internally, but today we'd certainly just use sqlite+litestream for the same kinds of features, just because it's easier to reason about and to deal with operationally when there's problems.

https://fly.io/blog/a-foolish-consistency/
In the actual actual economy, the magic castle buys almost half of the Treasury bonds issued by the government; and when you give free money to people who can't meet all their basic needs, they spend all of it, which causes a cascade throughout the economy of taxable transactions, which reimburses the government for most if not all of the money it laid out.
Come on, this is a startup news board... Failure rate of startups is 90%, restaurants 60%. Both well known facts. You can verify in 2 minutes on Google.
Thanks! Looking at pag 9 of the presentation it seems the comment would talk about Performance differences, at the same price, not of the same type.

While looking at the StrangeLoop presentation it would be 5x difference for the same type.

I am skeptical. Need to dig deeper here.

Edit: Ok. I was already familiar with the Brendan Gregg presentation you shared. I have just carefully reviewed what you kindly shared. Particularly the Reddit discussion and I think this come up out of a misunderstanding.

Brendan Gregg does not mention it on his presentation. I would be shocked that he would omit mention of such a possibility. Many users in the Reddit discussion tried to investigate such a scenarios and could not observe it, other than the +/- variation expected with instances like T2/T3.

So I think somebody heard variance ( possible with the T2/T3) -> then also variance on performance for same price ( but possibly different types) -> Then variance with workloads and over time of a deployment. And that might explain it.

But none of the resources helps point to actual factual statement. I am not saying it's not possible. Only that personally I have not seen it, and I also have not seen other than tweets and rumors. ( That could be true but not with the evidence seen so far.)
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>Rendering HTML server-side is just nice

No, rendering html server-side is not nice and never was. Why on earth you will send markup template for every list item over and over again instead of sending just data and only one code-template (to render data on a client) ?
Suppose you need to show to user a list of books on your web-page. Server side rendering means you need to send to user a markup consists of html elements for every book

<div>
<div class="book">
<div class="book-title">Book 1</div>
<div class="book-author">Author 1</div>
<div class="book-description">..description..</div>
</div>
<div class="book">
<div class="book-title">Book 2</div>
<div class="book-author">Author 1</div>
<div class="book-description">..description..</div>
</div>
<div class="book">
<div class="book-title">Book 2</div>
<div class="book-author">Author 2</div>
<div class="book-description">..description..</div>
</div>
</div>
...

Don't you see something wrong with this? Why you need to duplicate over and over again html template for every list item resulting of significant increase of size of page to download if you can send only one template-component like this

<div>
<div class="book">
<div class="book-title">{book.title}</div>
<div class="book-author">{book.author}</div>
<div class="book-description">{book.description}</div>
</div>
</div>

and a data in a more compact way

[{title: "Book 1", author: "Author 1", description: "..."}, {title: "Book 1", author: "Author 1", description: "..."}, ...]

or more compact like this

[["Book 1", "Author 1", "..."],["Book 1", "Author 1", "..."], ...]

or even in more compact binary-encoded format resulting in more than magnitude size compaction comparing to over-duplication html-approach. More size means more traffic for users to download over network and users which use data-roaming will "thank" you for your hundreds of kilobytes instead of dozens

This is why server-side rendering approach was flawed from the beginning (not because of page reloading but because of data duplication and traffic consumption)
I am just a user, not a developer.
That's called a tree nursery. Seeds are planted and germinated in controlled conditions on a few acres.

Once they're baby trees, then you go plant them by hand in areas that need reforestation.
TIL postscript has an rng in the form of the rand function.

Assuming it’s widely implemented, it’d be hilarious to distribute files that replace their contents with a 4koma 1% of the time.
Uhh… this seems like an excessively pedantic distinction. What’s the source of truth you’re pulling from here?
maybe millions of people aren't supposed to live in a desert a mile above sea level
You're going to hit the religious wars on this one, but for me basically all code goes under Apache 2 to maximise freedom of people to use that code for any purpose, likewise Solderpad for electronics and CC0 for data where I can. If you want your stuff to be used, rather than getting glory for it, the most liberal licence possible is likely to help IMHO.
All of the action around SQLite recently is very exciting!
I work for a company who's headquarters are there. It has great infras (railway, bicycle lanes), everything is modern but...it is pretty boring, lacking character.

You can't create and buy a thousand years of history.
Agree. Bigger pot will probably do wonders for it.
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The kids toys are probably all manufactured by VTech which has solved this problem once across all of their products
Which is fine, you’re asked to consent and if you don’t you won’t be tracked.
Well that's it. Pack it up. There's no solution as long as government can be bought by companies.
The FoundationDb team is working on distributed systems simulation testing via a new startup... Antithesis. See https://antithesis.com/

Stardog, enterprise knowledge graph platform, (stardog.com), is an early adopter of Antithesis and we've found it to be very helpful in HA Cluster, distributed consensus, etc.

Not a stakeholder, just a satisfied early adopter.
Does this work with the free tier?
Yes, the goal was to make pragmatic choices in order to make the data freely available, here and now, to other apps (most of which operate on plain text files), despite running in the browser. I do have hope that the POSIX file system still has its place in a "change-aware" setup, for instance by adding a folder, similar to .git, alongside the "final state materialization". Do you see a reason for this not to work?

I'm really thinking in practical terms, i.e. of how we can make this happen incrementally, without forcing a new standard that everyone needs to adhere to in order for it to work.
I think it's a matter of trust and boundaries with work. I love having work email and IM on my phone; but everyone I work with respects work/life boundaries.

It's especially useful at the moment, because I'm in a small company and we do devops.

If I start getting a barrage of work-related IMs after-hours, first I'll point out to the offender that I expect them to respect boundaries. Then I'll try to configure quiet hours. Finally I'll remove the apps.
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Security Advisory: Insufficient Tenant Separation in Azure Synapse Service
> SQLite isn't just on the same machine as your application, but actually built into your application process. When you put your data right next to your application, you can see per-query latency drop to 10-20 microseconds. That's micro, with a μ. A 50-100x improvement over an intra-region Postgres query.

This is the #1 reason my exuberant technical mind likes that we use SQLite for all the things. Latency is the exact reason you would have a problem scaling any large system in the first place. Forcing it all into one cache-coherent domain is a really good way to begin eliminating entire universes of bugs.

Do we all appreciate just how much more throughput you can get in the case described above? A 100x latency improvement doesn't translate directly into the same # of transactions per second, but its pretty damn close if your I/O subsystem is up to the task.
A quick glance at Amazon seems to confirm your intuition. The cheapest mechanical scale I can find is $32 but there are lots of electronic ones for ~$15.
This is also the reason modern smoke detectors are all annoying BS. We can't have nice things because this one guy went through a whole lot of trouble to do something silly.

Now they're all oversensitive steam sensing BS models. I'd rather have freaking IR cameras looking for too much heat (outside of kitchens).
> Long term investing is de rigeur on Wall Street

On what do you base that? My immediate reaction is that you are being naive.
I have found it easy to overload SQLite with too many write operations (20+ Concurrently), is this typical behaviour referred to in the post, or a write heavy workload?
That's roughly enough water to grow 50-100 acres of alfalfa. There's a million acres of alfalfa grown in California. And more of other water intensive crops. Yeah it's shitty but it's not a root cause, it's a rounding error compared to agriculture.
That's fine. It doesn't change my opinion, nor my sentiment. If Spotify's recommendation engine wasn't as good as it was, it would not have the users it has, and would probably have been eaten up by now. Nothing anyone has said has shaken that belief, nor offered up anything worthwhile.
Except that there's only one database, you it wouldn't even billions. In fact, I suspect it will handle significantly less load than a batched model will. I've been able to get 100x speedups by batching SQL queries.
Cops have always had "the blue flu". Why is there not more co-ordinated "sickness" ? Does it invite some kind of RICO prosecution ?
New York City might well be the safest city in the country:

https://twitter.com/mnolangray/status/1520134999164395521

Obviously there's much that could be done to make the city safer, and it does seem there was an uptick in certain types of crime during the pandemic (though not localized to NYC in any way). I'm just wary of people's intuitions about things like crime, which have historically been divorced from reality.
The major specific externality called out in the letter is engineer burnout. I would be surprised if other costs are not significantly externalized, but I don't have data to back this up.

Not all the externalities mentioned are specific to derailments, but also apply to the general difficulty of our infrastructure in supporting such long trains.
rqlite author here. Anything else you can tell me about why you decided against it? Just simpler, as you say, to avoid a distributed system when you can (something I understand).