skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> considering that a single server can easily handle a million simultaneous connections

Can you elaborate on that part?
If your estimates are too crazy, you are forced to break them down into smaller tasks. This means lots of meetings. I think most engineers would rather have a bad estimate and "face the consequences" (generally not much), rather than put up with more meetings.

Can you describe "OKR lead management"? I am familiar with OKRs.
Refers to management and autoscaling, not whether physical hardware exists somewhere. From your point of view it has DNS entries, you've defined how high/low it's allowed to scale and some other configs, you've defined network access rules, and allows client connections. That's it. You don't manage the server instances. Hence: "serverless"
Ask HN: Website full of single use Mac utilities?
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask. But I remember someone on HN recently posting a (personal?) website full of single use Mac utilities / apps. Among them was a replacement for mac's default Alt Tab.

Does anyone happen to remember this website? I've been searching my Chrome history all day.
Did you know there is a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it…

In all seriousness though, this is a cute and fun tool. I actually played with Spirographs a lot as a wee one.
It sounds like you're really angry. Does this directly impact you?

They can pay those wages because workers who can do the work to a level they consider acceptable will accept them.

One way to solve this problem is to convince those workers to work together as a bloc, not accept those wages, and demand higher ones.

Some folks won't like that of course, but the willingness to tell them to fuck off is important. If someone can't say no to a bad deal, after all, they can't actually negotiate.

I don't have a horse in that race however, and have more than enough of my own stuff I need to focus on.
Quality of life is expensive, doesn't mean it's not worth it. Not that there shouldn't be some allowances for denser apartment buildings.
There were blackouts in California in 2000. Everyone should have seen them coming by now. They weren't solved then. It should have been obvious that the problem would recur.

Those NIMBYs you refer to are often lobbyists for special interests groups. For example, PG&E has been lobbying for years and in the meantime they inadequately cleared underbrush, didn't keep records on natural gas pipes falling into disrepair, etc... And in return we get falling power lines sparking wildfires and the San Bruno natural gas explosion.

We have had water shortages for years and years. Yet the far left environmentalists block desalination plants. The environmentalists are actually ideologically opposed to all attempts to increase water supply: dams, desalination plants, etc...

Meanwhile water rights are such that most of the water goes to agriculture. You can completely starve urban areas of water and the problem will still be there. The agricultural groups are loath to give up water rights.

Our politicians are serving these groups at the cost of most of the population.
This make excellent sense, and the only solution would necessitate public transportation.

Unsurprisingly, whether it’s public housing or public transportation, there really is no way around investing in public infrastructure if you want to have a healthy society.
Terraform stores secrets in state. Generated database password, etc.
Kudos and props to @Jordanmorgan10. To write book on Swift which is an extremely competitive niche is hard enough, but to come out with a tome on the Swift API(Apple doc sucks donkeys) is even harder.As someone who is just started dabbling into SwiftUI, I started with the official docs and hackingwithswift series by Paul Hudson. But I will be sure to check your books out too.
cheers
Show HN: Microtone, my C++ MIDI synth library. Example app runs in terminal!
If no one’s told you yet: the experience list on a job listing are a wish list, not a requirement list.

Frequently it is a wildly unrealistic wish list. I have NEVER seen all of those requirements fulfilled.
I'm pretty sure the profile manager stuff in Firefox goes all the way back to the Netscape 4 days. If I recall correctly, back in the way back, it used to throw you into Profile Manager and walk you through creating your initial one on first launch of fresh installs. At some point they tucked that under the rug and just started creating the default profile automatically - maybe because it made less sense to ask for a bunch of personal information up-front when the browser was broken off from the mail client? Now most people have forgotten that Profile Manager even exists, but it's been there the whole time.
Yeah, I've worked on AAA games with great networking stacks and the network traffic is orders of magnitude lower than streaming something like 4k@60fps to the client over x264.
Car-centric living is absolutely not quality-of-life focused...
If suffer from seasonal depression, I’d suggest that a couple lightbulbs (household size dependent) and some electrical work are well worth your time, even as a renter. Do it now, while you’re able to take on projects.
You having a legal right to discuss pay means your companies can't prevent it, and you could sue for wrongful termination if they fired you for it. This is as opposed to the government having no opinion, and a company could fire you for discussing it, with that act still being legal.
This looks to be from 2020. Is there something that's been updated?
Huge discussion yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31532285 (220 points | 21 hours ago | 223 comments)

Does the discussion in Slashdot have any new information or comment?
Twitter pays $150M fine for using two-factor login details to target ads
Yes, SaaS Startup Growth Is Slowing Down. Here’s the Data
I’m a developer. I do tons of work to get the right to build - buy the property, the permits, the environmental review, neighbor meetings where they oppose it, more legal and municipal review, this drags on for years.

Now after all of these fix costs would I rather build luxury units that net me tons of money or affordable units that net me little money? And also the neighborhood itself is opposed to a lot of low-income housing for all sorts of class reasons. It’s just not in any stakeholder interest.
No, the point he is making is not that they are actually less expensive than existing comparable homes, but that people complain that they do not meet affordability standards that would require them to be less expensive.
You can argue about whether enforcing language consistency across an organization is a good idea or not, but it isn't "micromanagement".
Of course all media are manipulating, I'm not saying that they are not.
But some of them are doing it lots and lots of more than others.
Apologies. It showed up on my Twitter feed today and I impulse posted it. Apparently it's an old announcement from 2020
Yes, although there is a trade-off with respect to the fact that the more vibrant you want your colors to be, the more brightness they generally require (starting from dark colors), which may result in less contrast on a white vs. a black background. On a white background you therefore want to stay with muted/dark text colors.

Another consideration is that screen brightness should roughly correspond to the ambient brightness of the environment. Unless you work in the dark, that basically requires a light background.

Vibrant text colors on a dark background look attractive (like neon signs), but aren’t very ergonomic in the long run.
What a comprehensive comment. Thanks for sharing your feedback. Same page, we will be improving the structure as well as design of this crucial section. I think the best is getting feedback from local merchants specially when it comes to the businesses daily usages.
Thanks a lot :)

Yes, All animation on the site is designed from scratch by fundamental DOM animations. But I think it will be slow in Safari and old versions of browsers. So I disabled autoplay right now.
Nope. It's an old post. Added 2020 to the title. I realized late that this is old news already
Yes, I'm personally not very happy about another large scale usage of flourocarbons. Seems the history of these compounds is basically "look, we found this new compound with some very exciting and useful properties" followed a few decades later by "Oh shit". Rinse and repeat.

That being said, there are alternatives. Like polyalphaolefin (PAO), which is apparently used for electronics cooling in aerospace applications and for some immersion cooling datacenter products.
So basically you have no idea.
I was so skeptical. Living in SF in 2018(?) during the wildfires, my apartment was drafty and I’d come home from work to a hazy indoor environment. I’d wake up with a sore throat and that’s what got me to take action (can’t sleep with an n95 on)

I got the cheapest air purifier from Amazon and just put it on my bedside table. After one night my sore throat was gone.

As simple as these machines are, they do work.
Why does he define the sample schema with “series_id TEXT, timestamp integer”? Isn’t it more reasonable to use “series_id bigint, timestamp timestamptz”?
Same here. Mixing ui and data logic layer was not pretty. Alpine js didn't cut it for me.
If putting NVIDIA cards behind some solar panels or Icelandic geothermal is such a massively lucrative operation, why did NVIDIA recently report a 52% year-on-year decline in sales of its crypto mining GPUs? It doesn’t add up.

Based on the numbers I’ve seen, I’m inclined to believe that crypto mining on renewables mostly just isn’t anywhere near profitable. The big operators all seem to be taking advantage of cheap fossil fuels. Of course if we could ban that and force mining to surplus renewables only, then fine — but it seems a long way off.
Performance analysis and tuning challenge #6
Audiophile equipment and the associated forums are a pretty fun rabbit hole to go down.
Of course that only works as long as you're surrounded by people who clap for BS.
Not every problem is network or io bound. Imagine a system that ingests data from clients. Only a subset of the capacity may service client connections, while the rest may be running computations over data.
Apple highlights studies saying that the App Store is good for small business
Simple counterexample from this week. I added a Heroku app webhook to Terraform. They have some flags, and an ID. Without storing the state, there would be no way, using only the Heroku API, to know which webhook is supposed to be managed by Terraform.

I don't understand where the 99% comes from. Maybe I'm just using the wrong services, but it seems more like 50% to me, anecdotally. Maybe 90% if you include hacks like storing "tags" in other fields like the description or resource name.

If it's truly 99% for you, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make a tool that generates an ephemeral TF state file from the services on the fly. Win-win? Or you'd run into the next problem, collecting all the state all the time would probably be really slow in big projects.
I guess it’s just an example. It can be sensors, cars, apps, …
Foleying is better in the sense that it is more fun creatively.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foley_(filmmaking)

Or conversely, you can hire a professional to work with.

Like these people: https://www.monstersp.com/custom-music

For disclosure, John (a partner and a big part of the game audio studio) and I have been friends since kindergarten in 1970. If you want a warm intro, send me an email.

Good luck.
The small and good ones all go to shit eventually. Eventually the karma-addicts figure out how to pander for points and turn the subreddit into a flanderization of itself, using a torrent of low-effort nominally on-topic posts intentioned only to be upvoted. The fundamental dynamics of reddit result in a 'game' where karma addicts use low-effort content to actively sabotage communities. The only way to avoid this is to keep a subreddit small and obscure, balanced on a knife edge between too-obscure to survive and popular enough to attract karma farmers.

A good and small subreddit exists in an unstable equilibrium on borrowed time.
My parents live in a very old house (~1700s) and it reduced the dust significantly. Not perfect but maybe it's on the model too. Like it's not an $1000 one which would probably work much better
CPRA Draft Regulations Arrive
I checked both of those arguments and wasn't convinced.

First link demonstrates an email by Poettering claiming checksums won't fix anything useful. Clearly he's talking about a specific usecase of checksums and not talking about the whole idea of using checksums to recover data. He was asked about a specific feature in systemd, there is no reason to believe he'd want to bring up anything bigger. So implying he doesn't know RAID... is simply absurd and childish. He could have referred that person to RAID; but that'd be completely off-topic.

Second link is about a feauture request where someone wants a complete machine login functionality from machinectl unlike su. Then, Poettering explains why this situation exists (because su doesn't inherit cgroups) and then they go ahead and implement the desired feauture. Original user says "it works perfectly". Now, the criticism seems like Poettering calling "su" broken since cgroups were introduced after su. This doesn't make any sense. Of course this is a problem of su. If there are two tools: ssh and su, and they perform a certain task differently and one of the behaviors causing problem, clearly it's relevant to mention su's method is flawed and a more complete implementation can be written (and then they went ahead an wrote it). Bizarre.

Another day of reading tons of anti-systemd material for me, and another day of realizing systemd is a perfectly ok piece of software yet there is an odd internet obsession against it.
Awesome, the website already feels much lighter and snappier!
Because a few people will leave quickly and you can’t chose who. It may be a problem.
We do respect to the cultures. The guys here are right about not using flags.
It’s the same in cities with good public transportation though.
> Do they make a difference? Perhaps a placebo? A must have?

It really depends on where you're coming from.

I have one of those air purifiers from Ikea (Förnuftig). It's cheap but not the cheapest. On any high dust/polen concentration level day, a minute or so with the device turned on at full blast is enough to make any problem go away in that particular room.
For houses, it is the same in the US. But new condos and apartments buildings are another story.
There’s some of that in the US but the reality is that modern home construction is way ahead on energy usage, even if the homes aren’t built from solid timbers and boards.
Something I noticed happening around Boston metro starting with the pandemic is there is a lot more new builds than additions and remodels. The remodel we tried to do ended up significantly delayed due to labor and other shortages, and shopping around was very difficult. It made me wonder whether the developers prefer the hassle-free experience of unoccupied or new builds where you don't have constant headaches of finding old out-of-code shit, having to design custom workarounds, back and forth with the owners, keep the existing structure protected from elements, etc. I can imagine if the work is very asynchronous it would add hidden costs as well due to inefficiency.
You are exactly right, both about how he deals with criticism, takes credit, and I should have caught on at the time (I didn’t - due to unrelated reasons).

It was apparent from very early on that I would never want to work for him. Later I have met ex-Tesla employees who confirmed my concerns (“you work on whatever is his most reason pet idea, dropping everything else”).
Bill Gates Shorts Tesla
When should you use FDB over Redis?
Agree that analyzing DNS requests is the highest-value infosec practice when it comes to detecting compromises in enterprise networks.

Shame that (mostly US-based) ISPs realized the same thing (albeit for entirely different purposes), and therefore DoH is now pretty much the default.

And ensuring all DoH requests go through a corporate proxy is... not entirely trivial. On Windows, all major browsers respect their respective group policies, but that doesn't help for mobiles and such.

Shame!
Seinfeld?
>There isn't anything learned in a 4 year degree that you couldn't get with a healthy appetite for YouTube. But they're just adult daycares for parents that think the system will work for their kids.

Would you rather go to a surgery with a doctor who "learned" by watching YouTube or with one spent his time in University and residency?

The state of political activism eating from the inside and destroying the higher learning in US is pretty sad. But the reaction to that shouldn't stopping learning but kicking political activism out from schools.
"Chance favors the prepared mind" - one of my favorite quotes. The point being, chances come your way every day, and you need to be prepared to grab them.
> Our only hope is Mozilla takes their head out of their arse and start working on their browser instead of faffing about and making small, meaningless changes every release, but I don't see that happening any time soon.

Tab syncing is a small meaningless change to me, but not to you. Some of these things you find small and meaningless could be important to some other people (for example, multilingual spell-checking is very important to some people, X11 isolation is very important to some others).

What do you actually expect from Mozilla by "taking their head out of their arse" ?
Paginating Requests in APIs (2020)
Safari is fairly pro privacy and blocks or deletes data more aggressively than others sometimes.
You just described TCP
I believe that is correct.

The next section of the linked-to law, at https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm , gives an example:

> It is an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the person who possesses or promotes material or a device proscribed by this section does so for a bona fide medical, psychiatric, judicial, legislative, or law enforcement purpose.

I think this is the right description: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebuttable_presumption

Here's an example for "Killing deer by use of certain lights; acts raising presumption of attempt to kill.", from https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title29.1/chapter5/secti... .

> The flashing of a light attached to any vehicle or a spotlight or flashlight from any vehicle between a half hour after sunset and half hour before sunrise by any person or persons, then in possession of a firearm, crossbow, or bow and arrow or speargun, without good cause, shall raise a presumption of an attempt to kill deer in violation of this section. Every person in or on any such vehicle shall be deemed a principal in the second degree and subject to the same punishment as a principal in the first degree.

Here's another, for fishing: https://apps.leg.wa.gov/WAC/default.aspx?cite=220-310-110

> Possession of fish or shellfish while using gear in violation of the provisions of this section is a rebuttable presumption that the fish or shellfish were taken with such gear
My assumption was to keep it SFW
I greatly enjoy reading his articles, but I wonder why he seemingly refuses to put a date on them?
Let's say I'm a developer and there's unmet demand at all price points. Obviously I build the highest-margin product until I've satisfied that demand. Then I move on to the second-highest-margin product until I've satisfied that demand.

Anywhere that demand across the spectrum dramatically outstrips production capacity (e.g., anywhere in the Bay Area, where NIMBYism has made it nigh-impossible to build anything) what little production manages to happen will target the high end of the market.

You have to build enough to make satisfying demand at the bottom worth doing. Our regulations (onerous constraints to construction and land use) preclude that outcome.
why don't more people act as their own architect / build more of their housing themselves?

I'm coming from an attitude of "a house is a home, a machine to make the lives of my family easier and more comfortable", not "houses are an investment with incidental utility as shelter." Is it that many don't care about their house as a home?
The difference is that it was the original driver stack and the system didn't have a way to run at all without that Linux code until a handful of years ago.

The ndis drivers are the opposite, because the closed source parts weren't written by people even thinking about open source code. No one could say they were derived from Linux. And Linux had it's own network driver stack so saying that Linux was derived from NDIS would be a stretch too. Hell, I don't think NDISWrapper even was ever upstreamed.
Can you you develop this a bit farther? How is it being exploited?
Is this satire? I can't even tell any more.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersive_sim
https://manytricks.com/ ?

https://github.com/lapcat/ also has some small apps
(2018)

An online acquaintance informs me this was a "thing" 10-15 years ago.
This matches my experience - it's not Firefox that's getting worse, but I'm encountering more and more sites that don't function correctly when uBlock Origin is enabled. Whenever I run into a site seems busted, I disable uBlock, reload, and suddenly everything works. I'm not sure if the filters I'm using are getting worse or if the JS on the sites I'm visiting is.

I used to use Decentraleyes but I ended up uninstalling that completely because it broke so many sites.
This is the answer, and it's kind of amazing the strange contortions people go through to not admit it. Regulation is a tax. Review requirements are a tax. NIMBY opposition is a tax. Complex irregular permitting requirements are a tax. All those taxes must be paid up front by the developer, so obviously developers are only ever going to build high-margin high-income housing. They'd probably lose money on anything else.
What if IA replace coder or no-code makes coder useless ? Maybe the same heartless MBA would reduce programmer staff ?
Exactly, "Luxury" really just means high-end looking finishes built at the lowest possible quality they can get away with. At least in my city all the new builds are absolute shit quality.
I'm mostly self taught. Been programming as a hobby for 10+ years, mostly focused on learning game development but have also done web development. I have "shipped" two Ludum Dare games done in C++, and I have a web app I recently developed with React/PHP/MySQL for an organization that is deployed.

The only credential I have is a Full Stack Web development cert from a bootcamp at a big name university. The DSA stuff I self-taught because it's pretty essential to game dev, and the bootcamp taught me the MERN stack.
Or this one
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-sidebar-w...
Elephant in the room being the 'help to buy subsidy'. Half the deposit needed for a new build rather than an old build.

That said, I'm not sure I have much sympathy for these buyers. There is a new esatate near me where everyone is driving a newish car in the 30-50K price range?
Not the GP but they might be referring to [0] or one of several other articles you will find if you Google "handle a million connections in *".

Realistically you also usually need to perform some non-trivial work from time to time for some non-trivial portion of those connections, which will further load your server, but still.

[0] https://phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-webs...
With asbestos, lead, I couldn’t just pick a piece of land and go to a showroom and get exactly what we wanted. Choose to get cat 6 prewired throughout the house. Some really old ones don’t have central air (even my parents house they had built in 1978 did).

I’ve bought five properties over the years. The two I bought to live in I had built and never had the maintenance costs people complain about (2002-2012 and 2016 - present).