skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oracle RAC is a great solution for Oracle database availability. AIX solves the generalized problem of bringing RAC-like availability to general monolithic applications. Different use cases, each with their own particular strengths.

As much as I am loathe to choose Oracle as a database when solution designing, there is no hesitation when I run into a use cases where nothing but Oracle can address the performance, feature and/or availability requirements, and Oracle RAC comes along for the ride many of those times.

However, anytime I see someone demanding mainframe- or POTS telephony-grade availability outside of an Oracle RAC, and they’re willing to spray the money hose at the problem to get it quickly nearly out of the box instead of underwriting an open source research and development project, I first reach for AIX on POWER System iron to try out the feature fit.

I’m shameless in flirting with whatever tech stack will meet the business and engineering requirements.
Which specific parts of Florida are uninsurable because of climate change?
Wait, what does that mean wrt the Dos Equis beer then? Is the most interesting man in the world actually irrelevant?
Yes, it's exactly this. $13bn of pure unadulterated hubris
The comment didn’t say it was only a single officer or that they were unarmed.
I went from a similar small extreme (~10 devs) to a large company (> 2000? devs, I don't even know). The feeling I got wasn't imposter syndrome but great frustration by how slow everything moved, especially myself.

The thing that I had to grasp was the tradeoff that although it might take 5 times longer to get a feature safely shipped following all the processes, once it's 'in the wild', it's used by 10,000s more customers than if I was still working at the small company. I also spend more time trying to make my work visible while in-progress so that it levels-up the team, which is another benefit of working slowly.

I've found sweet-spot cadence of switching between 2 or 3 WIP, or gardening/grooming ideas/experimental work on the side. I don't produce enough persistent documentation (e.g. in the codebase or formal docs) as opposed to Github issues/PR descriptions that tend to not get looked at after the work is done.
Good for you. I haven’t seen any evidence for the “it was only dick pics, definitely nothing else” theory, I assume you have some?
It doesn't matter to these sorts of people. "Guys" is similarily in generic use in English and I've seen mods of an ostensibly inclusive space immediately get on the case of a newcomer who just said "hey guys" as a greeting on arriving to a Discord server.
"Guru" is offensive lmao... It literally means "teacher" or "expert". Gurukuls were what were schools were once called during the Vedic period in India.
If an antitrust bill doesn't include Microsoft, something's extremely off and fishy. MSFT doesn't get the attention Apple and Google do, but they're much more of a monopoly.
Stairway to Heaven (1971) was 8 minutes long.
Nothing new. Lots of great songs are also very short. Them Bones by Alice in Chains from 1992 is one I can think of off top of my head. It isn't even 2:30 in length.
Card games are inherently complex. Look at the trailer for Slay the Spire (A tier) or Inscryption (S tier horror card game trailer). They both show cards on the move and cool things happening in short cuts.
I’m intrigued by the poker, Yahtzee and the theme but I really don’t know what it is.

Congrats on releasing a game! I’ve been there and it’s great to get it out there. But also painful.
I was blown away by Lolita, but couldn’t finish Pale Fire. The poetry felt like satire to me. And reading online about it I found mixed opinions on that!
I’m surprised with all the health brands like Skinny Pop and Boom Chika Pop that we don’t see mass produced pop grains.

We all know corn isn’t the greatest food in the planet. Some argue it’s not real food for humans, more suited for livestock.

A lot of these grains are more dense in nutrients.
Yep, that's exactly the stance I've heard from people who are interested in this sort of thing.

And to be honest, <1% odds seem a lot better than 0% odds for normal death. (Sans religious aftermaths)
>but I think it's more like a stolen credit card situation

How did the account get compromised? What was the nature of the attack (e.g. cryptocurrency mining, expensive egress traffic for file hosting, etc.)?

Every (consumer) credit card I've seen requires you to take reasonable steps to keep the cards secure to be eligible for fraud protection (e.g. changing the PIN if compromised, not lending it to people, alerting the issuer ASAP in case of suspected fraud, etc.). I do not use Azure but I would imagine that it works the same way - that is, if you fail to follow basic security precautions (enabling MFA, not using shared accounts or passwords that have been known to be compromised in a leak, etc.) you'll probably end up stuck with the bill. Hopefully you had things reasonably well secured.
um. big O notation?
for me even 60 fps videos look "wonky" cause it feels unnaturally fast (for the lack of a better word), to me.
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
> They are more or less stating that the problem is overzealous responses from police, rather than police receiving a fake call for which a SWAT team would be an appropriate response.

The problem is that swatting is enabled precisely because the police's response isn't appropriate. The fact that swatting is so prominent, let alone an issue in the first place, is a testament to that.

Police forces demonstrably: tend to be hyper-militarized, do not train or require de-escalation, do not face legal repercussions for unlawful actions, do not keep up-to-date with various trends and technology, etc. Going in guns-blazing isn't going to save anyone if you don't validate basic information like "is this the right house?" or "did this call purporting to be from someone in our city come from a random Google Voice or Skype number?" or "have we received fake calls from this address already?"
Sounds like my coffee mug.
I really enjoyed Recursion but am disappointed by Upgrade (finishing it atm).
Same here. This joke/meme is cute but it isn't really true, lots of tech people have smart devices.
https://archive.vn/hFliY
UI and Web Design with AI (Midjourney) [video]
are you using frigate or what for the video?
How exactly are they entangling the 2 qubits at room temperature? And how are they doing quantum error correcting? If I were to guess, I think they are lazily slapping on "quantum computing" to some system where QM is used to describe the properties of the system.
> No one cares about decentralization until there's a centralization failure

It’s so wild to hear this, when, actually let’s just count some decentralized failures.

1) Remember when Solana just turned off? I bet you do since it happens so often. (I know, it’s the miners fault; crypto can never fail, only be failed)

2)Remember when Bitcoin hard forked 8+ times and many of those forks suffered 51% attacks due to lack of interest? If decentralization were good, then why does everyone centralize on the original chain?

> The entire Internet is built on various levels/degrees of decentralization, and while there are performance costs, it's still usually cheaper than the alternative in the long term.

Explain to me how many machines running at under 100% capacity is cheaper. Why does the cloud exist if that’s the case?
Consider writing "C++1x" or "C++2x" instead.
I was talking about the parent comment's workaround to disallowing the location access permission after allowing it the first time.
"Long time no see" is bad. Their suggested replacement: "I haven't seen you in so long."

Wow. "No can do" is out, replaced with "I can't do it". OMG.

"Prisoner" replaced with "person who is incarcerated". It goes without saying that "prisoner" is someone with many characteristics, who happens to be in prison - a significant life situation. When released, they are no longer prisoners.

In regards to "blackbox", the meaning is about absence of light, not "black is bad". The Stanford list is embarrassing, and I would argue harmful.

One on the list I agree with is "stand-up meeting". Literally standing up in a meeting doesn't improve the quality of the meeting. Happy to see that go. Inviting someone in a wheelchair to a "stand-up" would be a low point for everyone involved. This is an exception on the list. Things like "sanity-check" are not the equivalent because "sanity" is very broad, not as clear-cut or narrow as "sit/stand".
“master” never made much sense to begin with. I’m still a bit disappointed that the default wasn’t set to “default”. I argued for either that or having no default at all.

Seriously, ignore political correctness for a bit. The “master” branch is generally not in charge of anything. It’s not like a master recording of which everything else is a copy. It has no special rights and isn’t even necessary more important.

It made a limited sort of sense in Linux where torvalds/linux.git’s master branch is the branch that everyone else’s development eventually follows, but my git clone of that is not any sort of master despite being called “master”.
We’ve been in a post-truth society for some time now. Anything that makes it easier to lie is a positive in my book. Society needs to accept that we’re well past the time where information can be trusted. Either we adapt or die.

One thing that helps me is to understand that I really don’t need to know the truth. I wake up. I see my family. I watch my daughter smile. I enjoy the company of friends. I drink a nice glass of wine. What value does the “truth” have in my daily life? Most of the time, what is true and what is lie only comes up in a political discussion, and it almost always is unpleasant.
I don't think that the state is funding the affordable housing here. The state is forcing anyone who wants to build more dense units to fund affordable housing.
That is who they always blame, but it is just a ploy. Like netflix, the dominant player always wants control

Remember when Netflix first started they had amazing API's and all kinds of cool things where built off them, then one day they got big enough and shut them all down, of course they claim it was the "evil industry" that made them do it, but I simply do not believe them, nor do I believe spotify.

This pattern has been repeated over and over since the dawn of the internet, Early Platform is open, and dev focused to bring people in, then over time they wall off the garden to only their apps...

Google, Netflix, Twitter, Facebook, and countless others all follow this pattern.
Also, (sorry for the tangent) the "intro songs" of tv-series is always wayyy shorter than it used to be.
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This is the classic reference book on software estimation; and yes, it still applies in 2022…

Barry Boehm:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Boehm

“Software Engineering Economics”
https://archive.org/details/softwareengineer0000boeh
I would love if self-driving car pedestrian-, and intent- detection algorithms were deployed at traffic lights to understand when there's a person wanting to cross and automatically change the lights for them.

I don't know how we can align economic incentives to make this happen though. Maybe we just need to wait for a self-driving car startup to go bust and release all their code to the public domain.
Another example: In Love by khai dreams. Just over a minute iirc
I didn't know that. And now that I do know it, I feel harmed.
Lmfao. I’d encourage you to really look inward and understand why you’re trying to gatekeeper the definition of charity.

What pray tell makes a legitimate charity and why did you get to decide?
Ask HN: Why do Apple and Google watches have such bad battery life?
Every time Apple or Google introduces a new smartwatch, I'm always hopeful that it will have 5+ days of battery life. Since they never do, I assumed that it's basically just not possible (without sacrificing size, a la Garmin).

But when I looked into replacements for my aging Pebble, I found out that various Chinese companies offer smartwatches that have great screens, svelte profiles, and much better battery life. Huawei, Xiaomi, and Amazfit all have watches that seem to have far superior battery life than Apple/Google. Why is this?

For example, I'm currently trying the Amazfit GTR 4, which is providing 8-9 days of battery life in real-world usage. The watch isn't bulky and the screen seems as good as any Apple/Google watch I've seen.

I know Apple and Google watches offer more functionality, but this doesn't explain why the devices would chew through 2x-3x as much battery as an Amazfit when in standby mode.
Has anyone spun up the track the article discusses? The song could be even shorter, by the time you hit 0:25 you've pretty much experienced it.

Can't say I'm much of a fan, given the track is effectively just a somewhat low effort heavily produced hook. Starting to wonder how much of the zeitgeist is just reputation and spread as opposed to substance. Its making me think of Pentecostalism (i.e. listeners want it to be good).
That makes a huge difference, thank you.
Crypto makes it easier to buy things that are illegal to buy. That's exactly what's being touted as a benefit here. Being outside the law cuts both ways.
Or, look up how many people drive ICE cars before you criminalize these companies for supplying a need.
I've found the simplest way is to just use a mouse and keyboard that support bluetooth and RF and just keep the RF dongle on one PC and the bluetooth paired to the other PC. If you're running Windows, Mouse Without Borders is a handy utility and I'm sure there's an equivalent for Linux. I often find myself just using Moonlight streaming as a remote desktop since my tower is a lot more powerful than my laptop.
Are You Garbage? https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-you-garbage-comedy...

All-In https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in-with-chamath-ja...
Dave Arnold tried this and was not impressed: https://cookingissues.com/2009/06/11/maillard-pipe-potatoes/

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As you can see from the photo, the potato turns a dark mahogany all the way through (cause it is 355° all the way through). Even the water turns mahogany.

This experiment taught me that not all Maillard reactions produce good flavors. The Maillard pipe potato tastes awful and smells acrid. Damn it’s bad—but it’s instructive.

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I can’t think of a single kind of situation requiring a police response where surprise escalation is a key component that will help solve that situation in favor of controlled investigation and a focus on de-escalation.
Skepticism is violence, folks!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34049130
Is this a trick question? A data scientist can become a software engineer and a software engineer can become a data scientist. Both involve compute and data structures in different domains, with a different set of tools and frameworks.

Formally, I would think if a data scientist wanted a more formal CS education, one would take an intro to OOP class (just take a basic Java or C++ tutorial or something to learn about data types and some OOP), algorithms and data structures, operating systems, computer architecture, and networking. Akin to how if a software engineer wanted to become a data scientist, one would take linear algebra, calculus (to understand back propagation and minimizing some error function), machine learning, and perhaps some data science specific sources like data cleanup with canonical DS tools.
The question is: whether it would actually trigger the "lp%d on fire" error message?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux...
Try to contact Microsoft support immediately.

Don't rely on the distributor/vendor, they act very slowly.

You're a customer of Azure, you can contact them by any mean, the fact you pay through a distributor doesn't change that relationship.

So I would open a Azure support, and also will try to find Azure team on Twitter/Hacker News etc and contact them politely for help.

There is no way you would have to pay this bill. They will sort out something or even waived it if it's the first time.
My big problem with the high frame rate in the hobbit was the slack of camera stability -- I think whatever image stabilization solution they used performed very poorly for that film -- not sure what went wrong but always hypothesized it was related to the higher capture rate.

It felt like the camera was always bouncing and moving around randomly in a way I found very displeasing...
"There could be a solid secondary market 20 years from now for panels that have dropped to say 20% efficiency"

Current drop down to 70% output is roughly 30 years. These panels won't go anywhere for a long time.
Because tracking you is their first priority...
Something I learned from a principal engineer- estimates from sde 1 multiply by at least 3x, from sde 2 and sde 3 multiple by at least 2x. And then add two-four weeks padding. And then pray.
Ask HN: Sveltekit newbies, what’s your experience so far?
I ask because I got curious about sveltekit when the 1.0 release happened and am now trying to build a little app with it.

My experience has been extremely frustrating.

It feels like a lot of the tutorials and code examples I can find (or those provided by copilot) are outdated and not working (like try finding how to create a post route).

And then simple things (connecting to mongo for example) also become extremely convoluted or flat out stop working (I have an example where one bit of code works perfectly fine in express, but then doesn’t find anything in svelte).

The thing that sold me on svelte were all the experiences shared by many in YouTube videos and blogs about how logical and straightforward svelte is, yet I seem to find nothing but frustration.

Am I alone in this?
I have to congratulate them: That brave bit at least is new.
> Yes, proofs are a powerful part of mathematics, but they aren't at all the only goal.

Ultimately, they are.
I wonder which suggestions that choose to adopt vs. reject, and on what basis.
OK, I’ll bite since ChatGPT posts are flooding HN:

Is this legit? As in, no human interference in the responses? Something feels very off with this. Is there a building full of former Twitter employees churning out responses and pretending to be an AI?
What a fantastic visualisation.
Truly puts the staggering scale of things into perspective.

Now, imagine digital public goods such as Aadhaar and UPI being rolled out across all of these countries all at once.
You haven't seen US houses. They call them McMansions for a reason. The intruders will still be searching the third hallway to nowhere while I'm comfortably calling the police from my summertime reading nook.
+1 to this. I don't know if it was depression for me but definitely been a period where I was in a rut. Everything seems to be going badly, relationships, romance, career. Because so many things needed "fixing", I didn't know where to start and was always overwhelmed. Then I try to change everything and end up not making much progress anywhere.

What eventually got me out was just focusing on 1 thing in my life and make it better. That one small achievement fuels the next one and so on. Positive feedback loops (and negative ones) are powerful.
One of my university professors advised "multiply your best-case-scenario estimate by Pi". It's still absolutely plucking numbers out of the air, but I've found it to be pretty reasonable over the last decade or so...
As a sysadmin of many decades, I have not owned a printer in 15 years, and no self respecting tech worker I know would ever have one of them in their home.

I do have an enterprise grade network, next gen firewall, a homelab, and a host of vlans with home automation segmented off to a dedicated network with zero internet access
Long story short, it seems like music is evolving based on the challenges posed by TikTok and Spotify, and other streaming/sharing services. Like other commenters have written, this article also mentions that shortening songs isn't a new thing.

What's new though is the nature of the pressures. Here's the spooky part for me: "If you go to a club and you watch people dance, they only dance to the 15 seconds of a song that’s famous on TikTok,” he says. “For the rest of it, they just sit there.” My mind is blown because I had been listening to a writer on a podcast claim that music is becoming more cerebral and less about moving the body (as in dance).
The use of a blockchain itself is the complexity, and it is a tremendous amount of complexity. All the smart contracts, infrastructure, and cryptography that it entails adds up. And there's the maintenance burden of setting up and running a byzantine fault tolerant system - If this is a private chain, who owns the servers and how many votes for each participant? How do you keep the voting fair if one side has to scale up more than the other? If this is a public chain, how do you keep your transactions private? What if there's a bug in the chain or the smart contract?

All of these questions need serious consideration if you are doing real business. Particularly when a database looks like it gets you 98% of the way there and your legal department covers the other 2%. What value is a blockchain actually adding compared to MySQL and a lawyer?

After all, the threat of a lawsuit is enough to keep the databases in sync almost 100% of the time, and to resolve most other problems quickly. For anything more serious, you will need to do a full reconciliation of the stuff and the money, which a blockchain won't help you with anyway.
I use 4 - double and double again.

But yes, I subscribe to the approach of make your best guess, then multiply by 4.
Yeah, we should expropriate the assets of [Nonprofit that does thing I don’t like] to spend it on [thing I like].

Almost everything people in rich countries do is a ridiculous luxury compared to the fact that it costs about $1,000 to save someone from dying of malaria. Most of everything humans do is clearly a waste. We can’t even get it together to prepare for the next pandemic, never mind existential risk. This is besides the fact that nothing matters. There’s no God to ascribe meaning to things. Things only matter if they matter to you.
Bide-a-Wee was about organ harvesting. It is mentioned off-hand in various stories as a throwaway world-building detail.

It deserves a Wikipedia page.
Applying a hydrocolloid bandage immediately gives you a waterproof seal over the wound, so it basically lets you skip the “dry out and form a scab” part and go straight to the “sealed wound starts healing” part. The “wet” part is really just referring to how the wound is still “wet” underneath the scab.

I see hydrocolloid bandages in pharmacies/groceries a lot nowadays, so hopefully they’re helping modern swimmers avoid the pain you went through!
It’s interesting how people who are supposed to have enough understanding of how this system works are still able to project magical properties on this system.
Does the OP not know what an LLM actually is and how it works and why it is outputting what it is outputting given the prompt?
Even if you ignore the racism aspect, "main" is shorter, flows more naturally from the fingers, and is more semantically correct. The world is objectively a better place now.