skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a horrible business - why would I even want to enter it? And if I was insane and did, why would anyone use my Uber app?

Uber is a monopoly that already has all the drivers and spent $10B+ to aquire them - plus all the riders - they're already trained to open that app - already have it downloaded. No one can compete with that without spending $1B+ - at which point - you'd need a 50% margin for years just to return the value. Maybe I'm uncreative, but I cannot think of a worse business to enter.

It's equally amusing to me that you seem to assume Uber is efficient just because it's a public company.

Sure, GE and IBM don't waste money either.
Get used to it. Crypto related stuff is only getting more influential and adopted. Current prices don't mean anything. Use case and utility of some of them is where it's at. BAT from Brave is a good example of a practical application for an alternative ad system. I have been using Brave with the BAT option enabled for over a year and even though I started as a skeptic, I can now say it works relatively well. Is it perfect? No, there a some bugs in their UI for them. Does it accomplish the objectives it was designed for? Definitely. But the most important part at the end of the day is having the option to participate or not. I don't mind seeing an ad every once in a while specially if I can get a cut of how much it cost to display that ad to me.
I found this link with test results:

https://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations/summary-pm
There was a post (here?) about how Netflix uses NICs that offload TLS encryption because that’s literally the only way to hit 200 Gbps. It’s not that the CPUs can’t encrypt that fast — the limit is the memory bandwidth.

I see some clouds deploying servers with 100 Gbps NICs and I wonder what percentage of deployed applications could get anywhere near that…
This seems like a very Ted Gioia take. I remember over a decade ago one of my best grad-school friends, a fairly sophisticated student and connoisseur of rock, getting into an extended Facebook argument with Ted because he’d made an off-handed-yet-overly-confident dismissal of a significant portion of the genre. Ted was unrelenting in defending a bad take, even though it was pretty clear he didn’t know what he was talking about in that instance. The guy knows jazz and its history better than almost anyone, but he seems to sort of Dunning-Kruger his way through culture outside that rarefied sphere. He definitely shouldn’t be setting himself up as some sort of oracular critical voice on culture.

(Of the brothers Gioia, I’ve always preferred Dana, anyway.)
It probably just gives them the grounds to justify a ban, if necessary.
Graphics is increasingly using ML, so I doubt it. But still, don't give them any ideas :)
I’m a little confused. If you don’t ensure data is committed to storage (log or otherwise) before acking the write request, how can you call it durable?

If it’s not truly 100% durable by default, it’s best not to suggest that it is. Experience says people will use the default settings and then become very cross if they lose data. It undermines trust and is harmful to reputation.
None of those let you allocate objects from those arenas. You can't deserialized into a ByteBuffer.

Hell, you can't even do linear object arrays in the JVM (still waiting on value types...), the most basic of memory optimization techniques.

Also for a JVM or Python, you can't avoid the extra overhead in an object (such as the ref count for python), which increases cache pressure and limits how much cache locality you can exploit.
Google Fonts are also available through npm to host them locally.
Tri Via....
- Modal
- Push notification request
- Login to google popup
- Chat with us notification

How does something that looks so much like spam go live?
From what I’ve come to understand you are right on the money. All these “sharing economy” models rely heavily on churn and burn like many other less than solid business models like MLM.

I would love to see the breakdown of drivers and their immigration status, because from what I can gather, what is happening here is not any different than in the past of America’s history where the whole business model relies on the exploitation of “immigrant” labor that knows no better and is easily exploited, aka their unrealized labor value is converted into profit, or better states, benefits and riches for the executives.
Personally I've seen the opposite: video sites on Chromium that would eat up 300MB+ and an additional 1~3MB of leaked mem per action. Whereas the same site on FF would happily sit at 20~30MB.
On my Ubuntu firefox can do the same. On windows 7 it falls apart.
>If AWS has half their customers disappear

Nah, they're not even 1% of AWS. Plus AWS is profitable AF.
I wish. In my situation, it's new management that is onboarding [1] and they have changed how we do things in my department, for the worse.

[1] The company I work for got bought out. And the new owners are "taking charge."
Many databases have actual cursor implementations which are transactional. That means you’ll get a consistent view at the point in time you created the cursor.

That said, they tend to live only as long as the db connection (with some exceptions), so yeah you need some application work to make it sane.
Typically not enough to offset 50% of budget once the brand is known.
Spending your own money is called angel investing. VCs spend other people’s money.
Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Books (1859–1915)
It's surprising the site doesn't mention the actual, official standard `system-ui` font alias.

font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, sans-serif;

Is really all you need these days. That covers all modern browsers, and older browsers will just fall back to whatever sans-serif is.
They turned into MapTiler, a commercial service.
"Marketing is crucial" is the most important marketing message.
The 1600 lumen ones are a game changer if your light fixture only has 2 sockets. I used to have 2 800s and swapped them for 2x1600s, significantly better, and if they ever came out with a 2000+ lumen bulb I would pick it up.
Subcultures can have countercultures, though.

An example would be tabletop RPGs. D&D would be the mainstream within the and outside of the subculture. There's a counterculture that rejects that games should be a power fantasy (as in fantasize, not as in elves and dwarves) about killing people and taking their stuff.
The "not real money" I'm somehow able to convert to USD and transfer to my bank account after claiming my rewards every month without having to put a single dollar into their system.
based off what?
Not necessarily in postgres. If an index is available it may use that, though it will still have to refer to the visibility map to see if any row is available to the current transaction (cheap check), and if it can't determine from that, then and only then does it need to also refer to the heap / actual table (slower check).
They can’t, that “S&M” is heavily focused on getting low information drivers into the service by smoke and mirrors about how wonderful it is to drive for them. They have to keep the rate of influx of new drivers at least above the rate of people realizing what a bad deal it is for them, aka churn.
Cost and availability. Cylinder filters tend to be way more expensive ($30-50 per, I've seen true HEPA cylinder ones "for allergy sufferers" aka medical space, >$130) than rectangular (a few bucks). Rectangular also comes in a wider variety of form factors than cylinders, with more different filter styles (eg different thickness, with carbon, high flow, true HEPA/MERV >13).
> Prices will go up, which will incentivize adding new supply, and prices will eventually stabilize at a new (albeit higher) rate.

I think you're missing the point. Employees are desperately trying to increase supply right now. They need people to do so, but there aren't enough of them. That's why the labor market is so tight right now.

Rising prices aren't going to goad the economy into adding supply that it's already trying and failing to add. They're just going to destabilize the economy.

We can have an economy with structural issues, or we can have an economy with structural issues AND high inflation. We might ask Argentinians what they'd prefer.
Brave's way of using cryptocurrencies is the only good use of crypto I know of. (There are probably others)
"Anytype is co-owned and co-created by the people who use it. Everyone is welcome to contribute to Anytype and everyone is rewarded."

Is Anytype a DAO?

I'm getting whiffs of blockchain/"web3" stuff between the lines here, but they seem to be actively avoiding using those words.

Can someone confirm/deny? If so, can you explain what exactly the relationship between the software and the blockchain stuff is? E.g., does the software depend on blockchains to operate, or is it just the governance structure for the developers?
You're absolutely right of course. I was having a mild dig at the snobs: don't take it too seriously. My apologies for any offense.

If it's any consolation, I've found better literary recommendations on random HN threads than in any mainstream reviews. I know Iain Banks had similar views.
How is it absurd? Do you have any technical explanation to back this up? Because it sounds a bit absurd.
If you want to argue that an ALU is performing “boolean logic” just because it’s made of logic gates, be my guest, but in my opinion that’s a bit like saying a bucket is “doing math” because if you put 5 rocks in and add 7 rocks, it’s smart enough to contain 12 rocks when you’re done.
No, it’s way more complex than that. In the UK, the public phone network was privatised in the 80s and 90s; the assets are owned by the private company Openreach, with various regulatory requirements to provide access to the network to third-party operators. Providing access to that network is a chargeable service.

So yes, third-party operators contribute to installation and maintenance cost.
OT, but it's kinda crazy how cryptocurrencies totally hijacked the word "crypto", which may cause confusion for years to come.

Like in the sibling comments that confuse it with cryptography-crypto :D
Why isn't `sans-serif` just the default sans-serif font? Why do we need a new keyword to get the actual default font?
Comic books are long gone counterculture. Look at all the marvel/DC movies as of late.

No counterculture item is going to be front page news like the whole new "Doctor Strange" movie.

Which, I get, knowing this makes me so not counterculture.

It's also at the point where even recreational substances, which were the idealogy of what countercultre was - is now legalized. We see this now with Marijuana and Mushrooms (Denver, at least.) - For medical reasons or not.
What does Cost of Revenue means?
> edit: and the second link advertises using Postgres, which will never scale past the size of a single US state

to be fair depending on the exact implementation details you probably could do everything you need, including management using Spanner and BigTable.
> Never, ever use system-ui as the value of font-family

> It turns out that the value of system-ui in fact not only depends on the version of the current OS, but the language of the OS as well.

https://infinnie.github.io/blog/2017/systemui.html
Tesla Researcher Demonstrates 100-Year, 4M-Mile Battery
The slow messy scrolling experience on the landing page is downright enraging on mobile. Seeing manifestos instead of a demo is also a red flag.
What he did isn't antisemitism, and neither it was arguing against right to exist of State of Israel. It was disagreement with Israeli government, and that's perfectly fine. One might even agree with that criticism given the number of Palestinian women and children killed by Israel at the time.

Let me repeat this, because it seems warranted: criticism of Israeli government (its policy and actions) isn't antisemitism, and isn't calling for Israel to cease existence. Mixing those two is especially dangerous, because this would lead to conclusion that periodically killing 1500 unarmed Palestinian civilians is a necessary price to be paid for continuing Israel's existence, and further discussion if this is a price worth paying.
IMO if a solution requires users to address data by page, it's a sign that the search functionality is not good enough.

In general a user doesn't want to find "page 3", they are looking for a record that has certain characteristics. They shouldn't need to think about pages, just search terms.
I'd imagine LZW would do a pretty good job without being too complicated.
The best selling vehicle of all-time is the Honda Cub. The best selling four wheeled vehicle of all time is the Toyota Corolla (or the Volkswagen Beetle if you don't count multiple generations of a car).
That doesn't make the slightest lick of sense to me. Can you elaborate how cryptocurrencies compromise browser security?
You don't need to put a single dollar into Brave's BAT in order to get paid in them when volunteering to get ads from their ad system (which companies pay for btw). You can easily sell them for hard cash. Your pyramid scheme example doesn't work here buddy.
Stop trying to portray Norton as "Left". He's a CCP/Kremlin mouthpiece and Uyghur genocide denialist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

The Ukraine-Russia war is an western-imperialism "proxy war"? Putin is trying to reunify, and has before and is now again engaged in ethnic cleansing and wide-scale war atrocities to do so.

Not surprisingly, most of the world takes an extremely dim view of this. The only countries not behind economic sanctions against Russia are almost exclusively countries which are heavily reliant upon Russia's wheat, oil, and/or fertilizer lest they face rioting, starving citizenry within months.

I don't particularly blame those leaders for prioritizing keeping their citizens from starving - but pointing to people who will starve if they piss off Putin and saying "see, the world isn't unified in this proxy war" is either extremely naive or very disingenuous.
this assumes Uber can only hire silicon valley engineers. $72k is plenty money in a cheap gas/food/rent no state tax city like Dallas
>That sort of defeats the purpose of grpc flow control, doesn't it?

Why do you say that? I don't know the full implementation details themselves but generally there's no reason you can't safely ask for even more after having asked and consumed some. If you have a buffer of M bytes and ask for M, then consume N, you could immediately ask for N more without waiting to receive all of the original M.

Although, I wasn't speaking about gRPC in that case though. I'm not sure how exactly gRPC achieves back pressure. I was only speaking abstractly about a pipelined call vs many pages. You seemed to claim that multiple requests was a requirement.

But fine, ignoring gRPC, you could possibly tune your stack such that normal http calls achieve back pressure from network stacks and packet loss. Http is built on top of TCP streams, after all. That doesn't make it inherently stateful does it?

Going all the way back, I still think its fair to say that a streaming response with backpressure can be stateless and without multiple requests. If you want to argue that multiple packets or TCP signals are needed then perhaps so, but I think that's a far cry from the many separate requests a paginated call requires and I dont think its accurate enough to conflate them.
This blows my mind. I used to use Uber a bunch, and I built relationships with drivers such that I could just text them and get a ride at a certain time for a discount.

Ultimately, I wonder if Uber is prime to be disrupted if drivers got together and funded a few engineers to build a city-scale service for the hailing and payment aspect.
I tried an experiment a while back to handle this using custom units for the "Range" HTTP Header.

The biggest drawback is that the expectation is still that data would be valid concatenated, so (for example) multiple results would be expressed as multiple JSON values concatenated together, rather than entries in a single array.
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Baltimore Kinetic Sculpture Race 2022 Report
Is that a recent change? Back in 2016 the Citus guys claimed that:

There is no single universal row count that the database could cache, so it must
scan through all rows counting how many are visible. Performance for an exact
count grows linearly with table size.

https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2016/10/12/count-performance/
> wasn't most of Freud's psychosexual work debunked?

No, it wasn’t.
driver cost is a lot more than $3.75. you think really drivers are working for 75% of a $10 ride per active hour? they're publicly measured to make 4x that
"different interaction" != "similar interaction".

Apparent effort to understand what you criticize may make your criticism seem worth more.
Of course there's no counterculture---(but not for the reasons given in the article)---the Internet has made it a part of mainstream culture. No matter how absurdly counter-mainstream you make a piece of music, film, etc., you will find an audience enjoying it online. There is no counterculture because almost everyone is a part of at least one niche subculture. The fact that you're posting this on a forum that would have undoubtedly been called "countercultural" 30-40 years ago is telling of how far culture has changed since the times when the Top 40 chart was relevant.
You're missing my point. It wasn't ever a case of 'medicine now or then' - we took the medicine before. It worked.

Then some other stuff nobody could have foreseen (for real who had land war in Europe on their 2022 bingo card) caused a separate and in many ways unrelated crisis. The mistake is blending them together into one just because they happened back to back.

Further, dealing with a massive deflationary spiral and everyone being out of work is fundamentally significantly harder than tackling supply-driven inflation. Inflation rates are already coming down significantly. The last monthly CPI print came in at 3.6% annualized, and month-over-month PPI came in at 0% for services and 1.3% for goods (driven by commodities of course).

You are treating the $4T as a 'liability' without considering what it purchased. You're reading half a balance sheet. Spending can be inflationary or deflationary depending on what it's used for - and so many other factors.

Japan has printed huge quantities of new money since 1990 and their CPI has been ~0% for the last 30 years. [1]

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/JPNCPIALLMINMEI
This is a bit of a tangent, but the idea of "moving through time" always struck me as a little weird, because the concept of motion is dependent on time already. I like to think of things having a shape that exists along the time axis in addition to the spacial ones. The 4D shape of a thing is fixed, but captures within itself what we perceive as motion in 3D space.
same for Stripe. and Twilio. and Segment

b2b companies that coasted on free reign will struggle a ton
I don't think 'out of the public eye' is really a requirement for something to count as counterculture. 60s counterculture was highly visibly, a zillion people showed up to Woodstock, etc. 'Successful' counterculture eventually bleeds into and is sometimes outright absorbed into mainstream culture but that doesn't really make it not-counterculture the moment it gains visibility.
John Oliver bought millions of dollars of debt for, like, $60k. I can't afford to get into that game yet but I think I will in the coming years. How can I do that?
“The Three Banalities” of Chinese People in the Bay Area
You just need flexbox or construct an SVG. Let the divs size themselves to the font and allow the browser to put them where they're told to go.
It uses a MITM attack to inject Cryptocurrency span into webpages. Sorry, it’s indefensible. Nobody is going to “get used to” the modern equivalent of viruses, especially when non-infected browsers are available.
I'll build you a better, leaner, Uber-clone for the low low bargain price of a mere billion dollars. VCs PM for term sheets.
This is not true. Google Cloud ‘s FedRAMP offering uses the same regions, zones and binaries and configurations as the regular public cloud offering.

Source: I work on FedRAMP compliance for GCP Databases.
If I take keyset approach then obfuscate my sorting key+value in some token it becomes a "cursor"? The only point in doing this is to stop abuse of large offsets?

Also article states a con of Keyset is you can't use an offsets. Technically you can, just the same a pagin (WHERE ID > X ORDER BY ID LIMIT Y OFFSET Z)??
I guess different patterns of mass media consumption were never quite a sustainable way to distinguish oneself from the mainstream.
Thanks, that's good to know (will have to perform some tests at some point). I do have a few tables (namely logs) that will have millions of rows eventually over time. But there I've also been planning on rotating them whenever that becomes a problem, so I'm not overly concerned. Or experiment with OP's solution.
HyperOptic are annoying in that respect, but Community Fibre are at least arriving in my area and I have had some marketing from them.

I currently have an OpenReach 900/100 connection so I'm not in much of a hurry but CF do seem to be a lot better than HyperOptic
That's really funny, I wear a fake Rolex, the watch-repairer looked at it and initially refused to open it because he thought "¡Es un reloj automático!" but I set him straight no it's a fake, you can for sure fix this. He did, I frankly wouldn't wear a genuine...the faster-tiny ticking is cool...but, uh, you could do that with that same oscillator anyway. And the complications, at the present moment I write this I just think they're stupid. Stupidifications, that's how I see them now. Maybe I'll change my mind, I think I will.

The only advantage to a genuine mechanical watch is surviving uh...solar flares and EMPs. That's cool, hey maybe someday that'll matter. Especially solar flares, because that fucks with the light from the sky, like it did in the 19th century. Anyway, it'll matter, but not yet.

Also, there's expensive oscillators with much lower time variation, they're like $60 for a 100x lower Tau (I think it's called Tau, there's a whole language I don't understand). Same size, basically. Just two wires. That's the whole luxury element of a watch in it's essence, the idea you are getting time from it, the luxury of time. Jules Verne talks about this, in Around the World in 80 Days, there's a watch that loses a second per year. You could do that for real with that oscillator. To say nothing of the CSAC 45 chip on the market, kind of big, but somebody made a clock that loses a second per...million years or something, out of that. It just looks ugly, is the problem. Too big. Hey maybe it'll be cool to wear!
Actually it's addressed in the linked posting.

Hardening does not start at choosing the right tools or networks, hardening begins with gathering information to inform yourself and others in order to stay up-to-date so that you can deal with current and upcoming threats. Tools, extensions and Co. are just a workaround until someone build the right system, that starts by voting and supporting the right politicians and organizations.
This is the one:

> Put down the number of your living brothers; multiply by two; add three; multiply the result by five. Now add the number of your living sisters. Multiply the total by ten. Add the number of your dead brothers and sisters, subtract 150 from the total. The right-hand figure will be the number of deaths; the middle figure will be the number of living sisters, and the left-hand figure will be the number of living brothers.

I found it in a book published in 1946 and describing the work of someone operating around 1900 (I will let you try and find the book yourself if you want further information, while I believe this item to be outdated other ideas from it are still in use).