skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I’d be glad to talk about it. Was part of a team that was asked to design a whistleblowing software platform for large corporate and government customers. The rest of the stack was RDS Postgres but this whistleblowing app had super different requirements. We would need to run in basically every region and also not exclusively in AWS.

After trying some different options it became clear that Cockroach was the best option by far. The strongly consistent nature of Cockroach made it a good choice for a SoR like whistleblowing unlike say Mongo. The ease of deployment and the stability of the Raft consensus protocol for managing ranges of data was better than expected.

For me having done a global rollout of it, I’d recommend it with very few caveats. You do need to train developers on what queries it can and cannot support, since it does have Postgres client support but obviously cannot handle the full range of queries. You also need to have lots of alerting around the Raft log, since that is your bread and butter in terms of “is this working or not”. However in aggressive testing, removing nodes with no warning under load, simulating pretty severe networking problems, etc, it has held up remarkably well.
This is getting even more interesting.

> I have this fantasy that we could have an out-of-band hinting system for SQL,

I think not breaking the optimiser, and out of band hinting appear somewhat orthogonal but I'd be very glad to be wrong. I'm looking at OOB hinting for a different reason, but what you're thinking is very close to mine, and I'm struck by the fact you see hinting the same way I do (actual, and extensive, logical vs physical separation, inc. indexes as hints).

> and one would be forced to check for [nulls]

Even more interesting. I will shortly have something of relevance. Do you have a contact e-mail?
Would that not just manifest as... you feel like you're out of tune, so you adjust minutely?
That also seems like an inefficient way to handle transactions. This is honestly surprisingly, I always assumed crypto had better payment solutions! After all, that’s what they all proclaim to be - not speculative gambling or scamming.
This isn’t super surprising. Going 5km/h faster when you’re already going 20km/h takes just as much effort as going those 20km/h in the first place.

If you keep pushing yourself to 25km/h at the start, you’ll end your ride exhausted and going 15km/h.
About 80% of the article is devoted to explaining why your comment is missing the point.
Yes, depending on the temperament.

Not in 12-TET because the ratio between every semitone is the same.

In other temperaments the frequency of every note can be different in every key.
But Only problem of nomad is all examples are running on Vagrant which is designed for VMs . Everyone who is looking these days are containerization. There may be non-standard ways to run Nomad with containers but , putting Vagrant as main example is not a good idea.
It's perhaps wrong because there is no limit on supply, infinite copies can be made. To charge for such a thing doesn't reflect the cost to make or acquire the software.

However, usually people are talking about free as in freedom, and cost is simply irrelevant. There's proprietary freeware as well as free software that is sold. It's about what rights the copyright holder grants the users via a license. You can sell your friend a CD with Emacs on it for $5. It is not forbidden.
Was Al Capone breaking unjust laws smuggling alcohol?
Neat. I see the GNU Lightning project (from which Guile's Lightening JIT was forked, as mentioned in the video) has its own RISC-V port: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/lightning.git/tree/lib
Is that a bad thing? Not everything has to be Hegel.

The reality of advice, and this goes for almost any category, is that most of the advice that matters is fairly simple and obvious "eat your vegetables"-type stuff.
> How do you determine it's time to scale?

This part is still really hard for a lot of workloads. We have some applications that have a really long startup time (5-10minutes) and also have on the whole predicable traffic patterns. It'd be great to be able to tell k8s to scale up/down based on time of day in addition to the usual metrics without having to resort to a hacky cronjob to adjust the min replicas.

Sure it won't help with a unexpected traffic spike, and it would be better if the applications could come online faster (vendor app out of our control) but most days this feature would allow us to right size the workload way easier.

There's been a few issues like https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/49931 but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere right now
The random number is just a temporarily solution. The ideal one would be to use the memo field with an unique random string which contains all kind of characters. With this option you would have infinite payments.

The number solution can be improved if you search in the database for "free" numbers. I set the maximum payment time to 12 minutes. In this case, you can offer 100 payments per 12 minutes. I should update the article with this information.
From the anecdotes I’ve heard, I believe the “legal” cannabis industry is pretty shady. Even the business/professional services that orbit the industry are kind of shady. So I’m kind of amused at the idea of taking a business sector that’s got some issues, and giving a monopoly on it to people who’ve already demonstrated their willingness to break the law.
I play blues guitar by ear. I don't read music.

The people replying to this thread, the person who wrote this blog are so far away from me it is hard to say we inhabit the same field called 'music'.

I play a lot of improvised lead lines. I know my pentatonic scale shapes on the fretboard, but I also play lots of notes not in those shapes...because I like the way they sound. I also play a lot of 1/4 tone bends (notes between the piano keys) which don't even fit in the traditional system, but sound good. I say this as it is an interesting case of 'more than one way to skin a cat'
It reminds me of an old school movie poster.
Something is definitely lost.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/%E3%80%8C%E3%81%AF%E3%80%8D%E3%81%A...

edit: what I really want is a list of sentences which are exactly the same except the particle is different, and an explanation of how the meaning changes. I haven't found any resources like that online.
> These items are best done in a standard way.

k8s is not a "standard" in any way. It is clunky, prototype-level code that has never been engineered for elegance or ease of use. It's pretty much the same problem systemd has, except to an even greater extent (because clustering is inherently a harder problem than tweaking a single system to enable the use cases systemd devs care about).
The weird thing about key travel to me is that the keyboard isn't an instrument, there's no control or finesse required, it's binary - you want the character or not. When playing an instrument like a piano, you want the level of control (assuming you play better than I do) so long travel makes sense. If playing a guitar at speed, economy of movement is key to accuracy at high speeds - (a) strings should not be any further away from the frets than is required, (b) fingers should not lift any further away than is required, (c) pick should not move miles and miles but just enough to make the required sound.

I enjoy typing on clicky keyboards like my Keychron, but I gotta say, the flawed MBP keyboards of recent times with hardly any travel were amazing. I'm on a 2019 MBP 16 now and it's not as good as the previous one, and the new 2021 MBP isn't much better either.
Let me know if I am wrong about using crypto for payments:

My understanding is that a big, maybe the biggest, obstacle is taxes.

In countries like the USA and Germany, the way I understand tax law is: When you buy something with crypto, that counts as a sale of an asset. So you have to document what the fair value of the coffee you bought is at that point in time, subtract what you paid for the crypto you used and then pay taxes on the difference.

This makes it more or less impossible to use crypto for payments, right? Every coffee you buy would have to be documented and evaluated and be part of your tax declaration.
There’s obviously a ton of skill carryover on the farming of it - regardless of the legal status, the skills/knowledge required to grow it doesn’t really change. It’s still the same plant, after all. If that’s true, why does it seem ludicrous to suggest there aren’t other skills to transfer over? Some of the customer base is even still the same people.
That's part of the why but not the root of it. Underneath the social sanction element you mention is the fact that Japanese society raises people to give a thought for the sake of others,
otherwise known in the west as manners / the golden rule.
You probably were "sweetening" chords without realizing it.
To be precise. Brazil was the last country from the West to abolish slavery.

Almost 40% of slaves traded over the Atlantic went to Brazil.
FWIW, San Francisco did this too when introducing its rules for license for adult use, with those disadvantaged by convictions getting a year or so head start.
Amazingly I have this on my bookshelf, arms reach away, the times before everything was on the internet. Good times. Though whoever stole my ring-bound vi reference guide of that era - cursor you.
You’ve got it backwards. The current energy problems in Europe are due to a reduction in the supply of imported natural gas, nothing to do with renewables.

By reducing Europe’s dependence on imported fossil fuels, renewables are part of the solution to energy security.
MIDI Music (1992)
poor education?
Some players of fretted instruments move the frets to match individual pieces of music.

In modern rock music, some musicians will change guitars every song to have sweeter chords depending on the particular chords in that song.
I did this in my first project. As I said, UTXO blockchains are intended to work like that. But with every address you create your daemon has to look for changes there. Your wallet file can grow like crazy if you don't built some spam protection in your system.

For blockchains with the balance model you actually use only one address. There are solutions for Stellar to provide an unique address but this is not implemented yet.

The memo tag/field is the way to go. But as I said, it isn't widely implemented.
But then wouldn’t the fact that they’re theoretically the same also not arise?
The kind of trades that are currently happening in Europe for electricity are removed from the reality on the ground. You can look through this Twitter thread for some good commentary on what is happening: https://twitter.com/yakutsavas/status/1563529006997450752?s=...
I'd be happy to get Samba and macOS working together that way macOS doesn't disconnect mounted drives a few times per hour.
Even pulling out all the stops that'll still take about 5-7 years. The crisis would still be history.
An interesting precursor step to coal mining was peat mining and the transport networks that evolved around it, especially in the Netherlands. Lowtechmagazine as usual has an excellent article [0] about it.

[0] https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/09/peat-and-coal-fossil...
Don't be so hard on yourself, and don't compare yourself to a computer science prodigy. You can teach yourself to become a decent web developer in 1 year and take it from there, your life is far from being wasted in any sense.
Oh, the Europe Country. I live in a country in Europe too and we do have a problem with cold calls. There was an attempt at regulating it, there's also a service you can subscribe to that supposedly hinders this.

Doesn't work though because there are lists of phone numbers and addresses that can be bought that still give you access. And if you're considered a customer, which is extremely loosely defined, they can call you.

Sure, it's far from as bad as it seems to be in the US but my personal threshold is 0.
Were you able to tell by watching the video if he was looking at the keyboard or not? If yes, how? Because the video only shows fingers hitting keys. There’s nothing about what is being typed or if the typist is looking at the keyboard.
Your understanding is correct, at least for the US.
Vagrant supports containers since v1.6 (released in 2014).
Ehh I guess you could ask users what addresses they are sending from or use the memo/credit-to field in the transaction as the article mentioned. The latter is how bank wire transfers work, but it’s inefficient for humans so nobody does that.

I’m not sure what you think is inefficient about spending microseconds generating a public/private key pair. This is done once per user. You then verify signatures to “accept” payments.
One big server ( 6 Physical Core Xeon with 64GB of Ram , 1TB Nvme SSD) only cost 80$ a month .
Can start with 2-3 big servers across 3 different DC. Equlivant specs would cost easily 300$ a month on AWS/GCP/Azure .
If it goes so deep underground, how did people not eventually suffocate with the lack of ventilation?
Available online as well:

https://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/st...
We actually do have something like a canteen with delivery in east London
https://www.getdad.co.uk/
Really? Can you make a shape then adjust it after you made it? Cause I cannot find that - as soon as I fill or stroke the vector it drops into bitmap and can only undone not adjusted.
You can skip the first 10 or so paragraphs, for sure, and miss nothing.
this is what gimp was named after to begin with (specifically in reference to pulp fiction). it used to even be called "the gimp" i believe. so it kind of stands out above the crowd of mediocre open source software names by being fully intentionally awful
YAML should be fine if it is not badly designed like Kubernetes helms .
Also depends on topography and road quality and where you choose to push hard vs relax. Same effort on a bad part of the road will gain you less time and waste more energy than if you relaxed on that part and pushed hard on the good parts.

I've noticed recently that I'm more exhausted (to the point of "hitting the wall" and doing under 10 km/h for the last 5 km) when I'm going 30 km to my parents than after 110 km ride from Lublin to Kazimierz Dolny and back. The main difference is that the first half of the road to my parents is on a shitty brick-paved bike path and it's consistently slightly uphill for like 20 km. The other road is mostly asphalt country roads and small hills and downs every 100 meters so you can rest every few minutes.
Capitalism requires competition and there is little competition in anything google does. That's in large part due to how heavily "subsidized" they became thanks to governments "overlooking" blatant tax avoidance.
I completely agree with you, and it is important to remember that all it takes is very few people to ruin it for everybody. With accountability comes consequences and that fixes the incentive function.

However I also think the system requires something kinda like forgiveness, or maybe better yet, redemption. If, once you have been kicked out there is nothing you can do to be let back in then nothing incentivises you to better your actions.

Maybe you could be let back in again by paying a cleaning fee, and having to provide pictures after you used the toilet for the next 40 times.

Accountability is super important, but if you don't also have redemption then you end up with the US criminal system.
At least in some places it is widely (universally?) known. I’m surprised to see so many who don’t known.

I took high school biology in a classroom named after it. The Christmas song always got explicitly recognized for the loss it memorialized. Any worry about invasive exotics got a “next blight” rhetorical flourish. Our elementary school thanksgiving pageant included a chestnut character (it was a coveted costume). In the summer of 2020 the blight vs hoof and mouth was the frame in which COVID could be productively discussed. The list goes on…

Regardless, as one who knew, great recommendation.
I’m curious about how you use spaces and arrows. Is it that you have space work on tab but on hold it becomes fn1 or allows you to jump to a different layer?

I don’t have split spaces but it had never occurred to me to use space as a mod!
Thanks!

I was thinking this was Kay Sievers--I forgot the spelling of his name. Kay Sievers might be worth listening to.
A lot of those in-between notes hark back to times before the scales were rationalised into the "well tempered" system we mostly use today. Often they are harmonics like the 5th harmonic which lives between the minor and major 3rd on the scale.
Hong Kong also has lots of cheap labor.
There are people, myself included, that appreciate a crypto payment inclusion.

I am proud to say I have used crypto to buy a physical souvenir, a steam game, and a yearly subscription to a service.

I would gladly do that more if they allow me.
That's always the case...luxury goods can be bought at sticker price for delivery in the future, or for a premium if you want them right now.
> Physical instruments can't be perfectly in tune even within themselves.

No, but they can sidestep the need to be perfectly in tune within themselves by allowing the player to produce notes unbounded by discrete steps or subdivisions thereof, e.g. fretless string instruments and trombones.
You're probably right, AND, I'm speaking about doing this ~a decade ago. I expect things have improved, but if I recall correctly, the challenge was all the integration with external systems (krb5, LDAP, print stuff). Took more than a month, but was a thing of beauty to have windows and linux desktops, where you type your password _once_, and then everything just works, and you have the same experience regardless of computer. For some reason I remember spending a lot of time on getting the printing to be one click working... shrug

I guess my only point was that samba for just sharing files is already super easy, so I don't get what an "easy way" is for. :) You might be saying "but hard things are easy too", implying that you're more experienced than me at samba and/or the software itself has improved. I wouldn't be surprised if both were true.
The cost is covered by Google Summer of Code program.
Not as callous as most parts of the Internet.

HN is the garden spot of Ceti Alpha Six.
> memo/credit-to field in the transaction as the article mentioned.

I assume there should be an API to prefill this, making it easier for humans. Could literally just be the unique order ID or a hash thereof.

> I guess you could ask users what addresses they are sending

Why would you need to ask? Isn’t there a captive payment portal API, like with popular wallets eg Metamask?

> I’m not sure what you think is inefficient about spending microseconds generating a public/private key pair.

The problem is not in generation. Firstly, it pollutes the blockchain with single use addresses, though I guess maybe people don’t care. But AFAIK, the website would need to pay fees on a per-wallet-transaction basis when cashing out right? Payments need to pay fees anyway, but cashing out from a single wallet would be cheaper than this mess.
> the GIMP team has hard time questioning their UI choices

That seems to be a popular myth.
NFS gets a bad rep. I use it everywhere with 0 problems or configuration headaches. Sure, I wouldn't use it in situations where security is a concern, but for me and all my computers? It's wonderful. And SO much faster than sshfs.
Yet, C is still slower afterward.

The C++, rewritten correctly (see sibling comment), is substantially faster than the Bolin code.
I don't understand what you want to explain in the monetization part. For example, things like hasura, supabase are open source. but they can make money by selling their own services. and there are other examples like this. I think the author's point of view is too romantic
You improve society by starting where you are and going from there.

I am glad to see a company trying to do something about this issue. I'm not thrilled with their solution but even if they fail, perhaps it at least gets people to stop accepting that nothing can be done about it.
The biggest error is to assume people want to pay with cryptocurrency.

They just want to speculate on it; first buy, then sell. Nobody actually pays with cryptocurrency.

edit: ahh it’s in the actual article. Never mind.
This company is about to grow new organs in a person for the first time
Performance comparisons like these are always pretty useless. What you're in the end comparing is the two programs, not the two languages.

But "this PHP program is faster than that C program" is a lot less of a shocking headline than "PHP is faster than C".
I am not aware of any manuscript having different tuning of organs vs other keyboards in the Renaissance or Baroque eras... can you cite one?

The Wikipedia article for Wolfsquinte makes it clear that it has nothing to do with keyboards or organs: it's a feature of your choice of tuning. Perhaps you're used to organs and keyboards with different tuning choices?
Many of those alternatives aren't really an alternative a professional would use.
They're trying to get me kidnapped and tortured, but Twitter doesn't care
Atleast if they sell food. Dunno how e.g. a Subway restaurant can get away with having no bathroom.