skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what happens to the business if nobody solves this problem space

> Attaching your work to the reasons they hear for things taking too long, costing so much, or causing downtime

> if you don't align incentives with your work through bi-directional communication you're going to find yourself eternally understaffed

This comment reads grounded in practical, pragmatic, real world experience.

Talk backend stuff to decision makers and they will find a way to avoid (or worse pretend) to listen. Don't talk and they will never know your worth.

The middle ground here is to connect. My hack; I maintain 2 lists of key words from town halls, skip levels, one-on-ones and company-wide communications. A green list of things we want (targets, goals, visions). A red list of things we don't want (downtime, op costs, hardware cost, incidents, bad customer feedback, etc.)

Connect each chunk of backend work to at least one green item. If not, connect to the absence of 2 red items. Ideally both.

A slide with "Customer support costs from our last quarter's town hall meeting was at x cents per customer interaction. This self-help feature should avoid 3 of the top 5 common customer questions reducing the load on our customer service teams, dropping costs" delivers the message strongly as compared to a demo about the ingenious AI based (ugh!) routing mechanism.

The harder stuff is where things get expensive before the get cheaper.
You should kill pigs regardless of your stance on killing pigs?
"radical, development-heavy architectures" = niche use case

Connection machine = only had one customer afaik (NSA)

Transmeta - interesting technology but nobody in that market wanted to run anything besides Windows+x86.
> There’s a certain class of programmer who seems to derive great pleasure in comparing programming to architecture. Maybe because architects are cool, or sound more grand than “programmer”.

in my experience, when people say things like "Maybe because architects are cool, or sound more grand than “programmer”.", it's because not only do they not get the appeal of whatever it is, but they cannot even imagine anyone else doing it for any motive other than posturing.[1]

the true reason (at least from my perspective a someone who does enjoy the comparisons of programming to architecture) is that we already have a lot of intuition for architecture; there is something mentally satisfying about considering the way buildings are designed and constructed, and we have a more physical intuition for the forces and balance involved. software is a lot more abstract, so thinking of it in terms of physical architecture helps people gain some intuition for how all the parts fit together, or at the very least the illusion of intuition.

[1] an interesting analogy is gilbert and sullivan's "patience", where critics have pointed out that gilbert meant to write a parody of the aesthetic movement, but since he himself did not "get" the movement, all he could think of was that its members were conscious frauds, and therefore made that the thrust of the operetta.
Can't say I've eaten them, but I have turned in some cat at a pet-meat butcher, they said that not all animals like to eat cat meat.
So is OP under the impression that the Jackson trilogy is not available in 14+ languages? Or that the Tolkien books aren’t, for that matter?
Nonsense. You can argue that to be true for a reciprocity -only proposition, but claiming that any reciprocity causes society to collapse is absurd. The proof is that most jurisdictions recognize rights of self-defense and expand it in some contexts (eg your home), and yet society endures.
OpenWrt 22.03
Hands down the best implementation of shortcuts I've come across is Blender (the 3d modeller). First it has shortcuts for many actions out of the box and second you can create or modify any keyboard shortcuts on (almost) any operator (button) in the interface by right clicking on the operator and assigning your shortcuts. There is also a fully searchable and customisable key map, you can import and export key maps and you can switch between them easily. Lastly it supports search based navigation.
Isn’t that all a matter of subjective opinion? If a beaver floods a field and leads to the extinction of some small species, is that “unnatural”?

What if humans flood the same field?

An even bigger question - if humans didn’t exist, does the earth have any intrinsic value at all?
Yep. No disagreement here; I was just trying to say that when the per-capita electricity consumption in California will go up, it's not because policies don't work, but because of EVs. And we will see drastic reductions of CO2 emissions per capita in California as a result.
They are ephemeral, they hold no data after being closed and backups of them aren't useful. Only the name is needed, therefore a tmpfs is the place to store them.
I love how some shut-in modded that down. Sad.
Termite mounds may be overkill, but you are right that design matters.

There’s lots of problems, but imo a big one is just like the “low fat” crisis of the 80s and 90s… we changed building codes to make buildings like envelopes and pursued HVAC efficiency over everything else.

I live in 1920s frame home. We have at minimum 2 windows per room, often more. Every side of the house has windows, allowing for cross-drafts and adjusting for the sun through the day.

The average modern development typically skips windows on the sides, and builders put the smallest windows possible in the rear and ceilings are lower. Modern construction techniques designed to slow fire often reduce airflow to the second floor of houses as well.

We live in the northeast, and we use window ac units for probably less than 30 days a year, in our bedrooms only. The key is to manage the windows/blinds and have an attic exhaust fan. My sister lives a few miles away in
a circa 1999 home, and totally different story… they use the AC from May to October.
> underwent a baseline scan after a minimum of 4 weeks from the diagnosis of initial COVID-19 between April 2020 and October 2021 and a follow-up examination after a minimum of 4 months from baseline

They had time.

Study only looked at 350 people.
it's just not considered half decent fanfic, is the main issue.
The more relevant question is if US would agree to sell their TLDs in exchange for Liechtenstein paying for administration of _their_ governmental domains. Look up Liechtenstein GDP & wealth per capita.
Black soldier flies harvest themselves.
The omega 3 fatty acids in fish come from algae.
Duckweed is one of the fastest growing plants out there and is protein packed.

The above is the combo I think would be the path to support such a raceway system. One of many crazy dreams I have is to start a trout farm based on that.
In an OLTP system yes of course. In an OLAP system no since they’re often ignored anyway but are nice to be defined when trying to understand the schema. We logically use them in that the id column from says a supplier table might be found in the orders table.
So is this 120k nodes are validating/producing/verifying the blocks?
or less testing!
This reminds me of how android backs up WhatsApp photos/videos on my phone so fast that it caught and accidental send and deletes. I received a video of a friend badly singing karaoke that wasn't meant for me.
Surely multiplying both signals by two is changing them? What if overflow happens? How do you store the information that it needs to be divided back when decoding?
While at my previous work, my manager deleted a message in such a way that it would make the conversation appear hostile from my part.

We were already not in good terms, and it was a small company so there was little to be done. But having seen the message and knowing the intention, and not being able to prove it felt horrible.

I since left (after discussing with the boss).
I've tried FitNesse professionally. I think it comes short in many regards.

To be clear, I think integrated/integration tests in their own only add value if you have a couple of them (meaning <5).

Otherwise, they're red and no one knows why. And they take a whole lot of time to execute.

JBRainsberger has an nice talk on them [1].

Pactflow have implemented a Contract/Collaboration framework called Pact [2]. I haven't used it professionally but I love the concept.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDfX44fZoMc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U05q0zJsKsU
The power to weight ratio on these machines is very high indeed. They can accelerate straight up. In horizontal flight you can get plenty of lift from angle of attack without careful wing shaping. You might get more efficiency with better shaping, but these things are already so outrageously flyable that the demand on the pilot is the limiting factor.
One would hope that "for this reason I have cancelled my Prime membership" would've made it obvious that they were joking. Alas.
> don't bother. They don't know enough to engage with it, and they're not going to know enough to engage with it

On the other end of the spectrum we are being to forced to think of backend development in terms of user stories
A good plug n play model is Zohd dart? https://www.getfpv.com/zohd-dart-250g-570mm-epp-fpv-wing-pnp...

There are even more "ready to fly" kits but in this hobby, you typically want to buy a good transmitter separately. That way you can reuse it across all your models, especially when you crash and get a new one etc..

A good radio is maybe Radiomaster tx12 mk2 Elrs version and Matek makes decent elrs pwm receivers.

I mostly fly fpv quadcopters and don't need too many sliders and knobs on my radios. Hence the TX12. Someone else may have a stronger opinion about Radiomaster Tx12 vs. Radiomaster Tx16s for fixed wings.
Thats exactly why market cap is a bad metric - it does not encode market depth (how much you can actually sell before the price moves) or velocity (how many units are changing hands in the wild in a given period).

Worst of all, currencies do not have market caps - equities do. Market caps are measured in currencies.
Unless you are an engineer working directly with code concerning file systems, you don't need to know any of that. Well, maybe file permissions, but most people don't need to deal even with that in their daily uses of computers.

Being able to understand where your data is located in a computer and knowing how to manipulate them makes a lot of subsequent data management easier. For one, a file system is independent of any given piece of software. You don't need to rely on your word processing program knowing where your documents are, you can just tell it where your document is. You don't need to wrangle with sending a picture from your Photos program to your email program, you can tell your Photos program where to save the picture and you can just tell your email program where your picture is.

And did I say picture? Is it a JPEG? PNG? GIF? An abstraction of the file system won't tell me, but if I go look in the file system I can immediately tell what the picture is, and where it is too.

And like I just alluded to, you get to decide where the files reside too. Your Photos program might stuff all 6000 of your pictures under "C:\Program Files\VendorMcVendorface\Photos\userdata", and sure, that works, but that's nonsense. You could sort everything exactly how you want it where you want it. "C:\Photos\2006\Yosemite" for just all the pictures you took on a trip to Yosemite National Park in 2006, for example.

Admittedly, it's a feat that file systems have been successfully abstracted away for Joe Average, but not knowing how to navigate and use file systems is going to bite you in your arse when something inevitably comes around demanding you do it.

Understanding file systems is one of those bits of knowledge and wisdom in life you can do without, until you can't. And by then, you don't have time to call for a time out and get a crash course on it.
Even The Hobbit, which should've had a much easier time piggybacking off of the success of LOTR than ROP, struggled to recapture the magic that made LOTR great.
Perhaps live streaming mics and cams designed to be affixed inside quarters and to one's person. Local relays designed to be hidden to facilitate both buffering and redundancy in cases of transmission difficulties due to inclement weather or tampering. The whole thing could be issued as a standard kit for a few thousand dollars.

Maybe add some picture booklets for the crew explaining how fucked they are if they try anything, and include a copy of Captain Phillips for good measure.

Of course, such a scheme would just increase the need for observers to have their own tamper-proof food and water rations as well. At that point, industrial "accidents" are about the only thing remaining.
Yes I use constraints, because I like having CASCADE for DELETE and UPDATE.

I think trying to manage consistency in your application is probably a bad idea.
It's pretty rare I go anywhere that lacks good enough cell service to stream FLAC with. I don't even live in a city, but I get it if you're really remote or can't afford cell service.
I think you're talking video output, not input. Yes, there are USB-based video digitizers (for ingest), but you have to be running capture software on the host device. Very different from simply having a video input going to the screen.
Good grief! I'm in the UK, I haven't come across this sort of thinking before but "working in IT" isn't high status I guess.
I think ignoring someone because you're embarrassed by them is only marginally better than ignoring someone because you think you're better than them. A smile and a nod are free.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/rural-economy-population/rur...

Sometimes population density is the defining concern,
in other cases it is geographic isolation. Small population
size typically characterizes a rural place, but how small is
rural? Population thresholds used to differentiate rural and
urban communities range from 2,500 up to 50,000, depending on
the definition.

So yeah 88,000 people could be rural if your primary factor is population density.
Except LOTR is an excruciatingly boring drivel and even the current GoT with its second-hand agenda is more entertaining and watchable.

Time will tell, but I am sensing a major fiasco for Amazon studios
>The highest revenue stream is children

No it isn't given that children tend to have no substantial income to spend. The highest revenue group is generally young, single, professionals given that they tend to have high amounts of disposable income, and that's generally reflected in advertisement preferences.
> Google Cloud, Azure, deploy a server yourself, etc.

My point is that if AWS decides to follow Hetzner, the rest will too. If it was so easy to just deploy a server yourself, then more people would be doing that already. Right now, AWS is the lowest bar cause that's what half the people running this stuff know already [1].

> If your service is illegal

PoS / staking is a grey zone right now... there is a lot of discussion over the legalities.

> There's a big difference between using AWS as dumb compute and using AWS features.

Correct, but even the dumb compute involves setting up VPC's, networking, disk, monitoring, logging... etc... and each provider does it differently. For one staker, no big deal... but for the larger ones... it gets a lot more complicated.

[1] https://github.com/verida/storage-node#lambda-deployment
I think they mean Twitch.
So you manage a lossless and a lossy library? That sounds like a lot of work.

My collection is lossless and nearing 2 TB in size. Too large for mobile usage on iOS, where I don't really need that kind of fidelity anyway. However I still don't want to manage a second lossy library and keep them both in sync. Luckily Apple's Music app can be configured to transcode your lossless audio to a lossy format on the fly whenever you sync your collection to your iPhone. That way I can have my whole collection in my pocket without having to manage it.
Many of the language simplifications on more recent C# versions, code generators, Rosylin analysers, expression trees are all features that in Lisp boil down to one thing, macros.
> the visual aids

Of all your pictures the actual useful ones are three:

Drawbacks of PAM

Lessons Learned

Credits

Presentation != blog post. Different formats. I could read that only after sticking the browser to the side of the screen with 25% width and reader mode. Reading your post on the desktop is like trying to watch a 10-minute episode interrupted for an ad every 10 seconds.

Perhaps you can split your 'visual aids' to 'essential' (liek those three I listed up there) and 'non-essential', which could be skipped in the blog post.
Yes. I use FK constraints and cascades. Experience has taught me doing these things in the application layer is very lengthy to get right, often error prone, and rarely as fast.
Thanks for the post, nice to see new apps. In my experience with webRTC, a lot of the time the p2p connection does not get fully achieved, and the connection falls back to the server. Are you saying that the chat room will not run unless it is true p2p? If not, it would be good if the app shows the type of connection that is being used (p2p or via server).
This is an extremely weird take.

I know people who are much richer than me. I don't feel patronized when they say Hi to me.

The fact that a person is doing a lower paid job doesn't mean that others are stepping on them.
You're making a cause and effect mistake.

We know there is excess mortality. We know there are deaths from covid. We know there are deaths with Covid from events, gunshots and car accidents. We know from actuarial tables there are 3 sigma increases in deaths among some working age populations. We know here in the US, for the majority of the epidemic, the treatment for COVID only started if you were bad off enough to be in the hospital; unofficial off-label treatments have been widely demonized. We know there are alleged weird adverse events from both Covid, and the vaccines. We know some medical treatments for COVID early in the epidemic are now considered contrary to Standard of Care for COVID. We know many people are claiming new disabilities from Covid, and also, the vaccines. We know many people have lost their jobs for refusing vaccination, particularly in healthcare. We know drinking and substance abuse have gone up. We know extreme isolation which many people have experienced has gone through the roof. We know that many industries have been devastated by Covid. We know many people are depressed, and suicide rates have gone up. We know supply chains have been damaged, and some essential supplies may be transferring in greatly reduced numbers. We know that many families have had to do virtual schooling, and have much higher stress levels. We know that many businesses in the US are still treading water and having problems making payroll, with 20% of small businesses missing rent payments in the last 3 months. We know many people are becoming homeless, and some people are likewise going hungry, or starving. We know some states, NY & NJ in particular, ordered at-risk populations of eldery to sequester their vulnerable infected, with the vulnerable un-infected, and to continue to accept covid infected referrals from hospitals. We know that hospitals and potentially others, have received renumerations based on covid cases, diagnoses, and cause of death that may disproportionately effected ICD coding used by hospital administrators.

Given all of above, it is dangerously cavalier to point out one singular cause of deaths only.
Hi, what do you use circleCI for here?
Thanks, now I could read it entirely.
But you could get duplicate key errors when turning fk on. A customer of mine uses UUIDs as keys. That makes almost impossible to get duplicate keys and removes any problem with moving data from one db to another. Reading UUIDs is a minor pain though.
Amazingly she didn’t even run out of breath while running over swords of her compadres.
Do elves posses superhuman stamina as in they can sprint a marathon and some such?
I wonder if anyone has sent Morse Code over is-typing status.
Why would one assume that an explorer has connections to every node in the network?
Breaks continuity with the official timeline, as Gandalf doesn't come to middle earth until thousands of years later. But with the hints they dropped (e.g. the names he mutters and the speaking to insects), I don't see who else it could be. And bringing Gandalf in early for this series would be a good change imho. It would balance out the cast of characters and be an interesting plot development.
I think Hacker News users should too. After all, HN is an influential website read by many important people in the tech industry and beyond. It’s concerning how anonymous HN users could spread misinformation that impacts our critical technological infrastructure.

You first.
Market capitalization of a currency is not a defined quality. That's a quality of an equity. You measure market cap in a currency, you do not measure the currency in terms of market cap. Currencies only have supply, velocity and exchange rates.

There's no market cap of USD. There's only the supply. It's value is derived from how much you can reasonably anticipate exchanging one USD for in an economy. Fundamentally that requires goods and services to be priced in USD so that you can derive a value for the dollar from a basket of goods and services. But nothing is priced in BTC, it's priced in local currencies and converted in real-time at the point of a transaction since generally speaking you can't exchange BTC for anything directly, cost of inputs is determined local currency and taxes are due in local currency at the spot price at the time of the transaction.

This is an aspect of the holy trinity of crypto where it's all things to all people.

It's not a currency, it's a high-beta speculative play on US dollar liquidity in the market as determined by the Federal Reserve.

Nodes are gameable, market cap is gamed for sure. The only way to more forward quantitatively is to actually treat BTC for what it is. That's why none of these definitions fit.

If you want to treat it as a currency compute its GDP, which is supply times velocity converted at spot to international dollars.
Already did it, twice. First time by leaving my (relatively rich and comfortable) upper-middle class life in Brazil and moving to the US. Also have absolutely zero regrets about leaving the US and coming to Europe. Salaries are lower, the tax burden is greater and I'm losing the opportunity of "wealth" generation, but the amount of money I left on the table will never be enough to buy the quality of life my family and I have here.

Now, your turn.
SaaS for what? What service?
It is my understanding that it has long been known that many viral infections have the potential to cause heart inflammation.
Imagine if they started oscillating between two colors at high speed, or suddenly displayed some kind of shock image.

(Sorry if double post, other one was flagged for ? reasons.)
Your argument was that since bad posts were eventually removed, the site itself was not advocating those things, sidestepping the issue of which people are drawn there and what the main use of the site is.