skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure it sounds interesting to try a branch of pg with, for example, just the sessions being multithreaded - but then how DOES one forcibly stomp on some session that has grabbed some critical lock without crashing other users' sessions?

Presumably as one does now, through pg_terminate_backend()/pg_cancel_backend().

> Killing off a session's thread inside of a MT'ed session handler without putting any other threads at risk would be the first problem (and an admin is likely to use "ps -Lef" to find the thread ID and then "kill")

ps+kill already puts all of Postgres' processes at risk in Postgres' MP system, because processes that unexpectedly exit may have corrupted shared state, so in those situations PG restarts. MT would not significantly change that.

> Going too crazy with threads can also cause performance issues, since there is overhead - just less than for processes - around thread creation/switching/etc, and is why thread pools are common.

(emphasis mine)

Considering that PostgreSQL currently is a multi-process architecture, surely replacing the Process primitive with the Thread primitive will reduce the overhead of connection backends, all else being equal.
There’s nothing wrong with having acquaintances that aren’t close friends though. I always see this argument and don’t get it.

Yea, my “true” friends will contact me anywhere, but it’s nice to have a small network of people I know that I can invite to stuff or even better yet invite me to events and activities. They may also become close friends at some point.
In which case, could I interest you in a list of lists of lists?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
Like Mastodon to Twitter? I like the idea, but it's not really taking off, is it?
> Companies are all about saving money and maximizing productivity.

I have yet to hear any company even robustly define productivity for tech workers.
> The problem was that the epidemic started in the middle of the US election campaign. At some point the Trump team started to support the lab leak theory. And then it became political; Biden supporters started framing them as conspiracy theorists, anybody who dared to support the leak theory was labeled as a Trump supporter etc.

You hit the nail on the head.

> In China some people must have been amazed how the US was arranging such a thorough cover-up all by themselves.

Exactly. Even in India we were amazed by the cover-up. I am pretty sure every Asian country knew it was a cover-up. The very first reports on Coronavirus I came across was not even in the media. It was on a Korean Youtuber who posted regular video updates on the virus leak in China even before the news was picked up in the West. He was warning how CCP was arresting scientists who put out information about the virus and even sharing videos of doctors who had recorded themselves warning about the virus itself (one of the first few who treated patients of the virus and fell sick themselves). I can't, for the life of me, find that channel on Youtube anymore. But yeah there was, and still is, a lot of censorship aided and abetted by Big Tech.
The payments space in India has a hole
found a hole in the #payments space in India.

Players like RazorPay and Paytm do not care about small businesses and indie entrepreneurs because it's a volume business.

YOU are not important!

If your turnover is tiny, they do not give a fuck about the SLAs with you.
Western society spent the past hundred years figuring out how to regulate hotels and apartments. Venture capital hit the reset button and now people are content farming the shitty results. Amazing.
We did this for a year or so just before Covid, through Europe with 3 kids, driving around and towing a trailer between locations. We stayed 2-6 weeks at a place, generally a house outside major metro areas. (for parking and price purposes)

My wife got really good at doing geoguessr to find out the exact location prior to booking. Between that and the review filtering, we never really had a bad stay. Though the one place in Spain halfway down a narrow 1 lane drive with a 12% grade, that one was tricky.

* I think we had one place with decent knives.

* Most places had enough pots and pans for basic cooking, never matched. Though, Matching isn't really an issue for me. The one place that advertised a gourmet kitchen was one of the least usable I've ever dealt with.

* Most places had a working corkscrew.

* One place had a still. (Small, tabletop distilling apparatus). That's the most unique. It was also wood heated, and we were there over Christmas/New Year's.

Since we had the trailer, we had boxes of our stuff -- the kitchen box, the electronics box, the linen box.
> OK, I fire up the site. I see 6 big pictures, 6 links to actual content and minimal navigation. A whole screen and only 6 bits of actual content? Its like a children's book. And more and more sites age going for this style. Is this the web now? The BBC Olympic site has gone this route and its awful to navigate. [0]

Wow, a comment about Digg in 2012 applies _perfectly_ to new Reddit, except I get 2 big pictures instead of 6.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4322126
Good points!
I once read that Talent is acquired, then considered property and referred to as ‘resource’ (sorry no reference).

Red flag == ‘Talent Acquisition Manager’ messages on LinkedIn.
I used shreddit and wrote a message of my choice in the conf file. I commented out the line from the script that deleted the comment.
They need to do a far better job of server discoverability as well as account transfer.

Needing to click through server after server with none of them accepting new users is a discouraging experience.
> MTA has already borrowed 15 years of projected congestion pricing revenue with the revenue as collateral. Great, so what does $15B get us

Signal modernization, station accessibility, new subway cars (last 2x longer), escalator and elevator repairs, new tracks and the 2nd Avenue Subway's Phase II (taking it to 125th street) [1].

[1] https://new.mta.info/document/10641
Posting duplicate questions hurts the community. The whole idea is to have one answer for one question. If the answer changes over time it is updated. This does not work if there are 500 identical questions.

SO is not your personal helpdesk. It is a Q&A site. If a question has been asked and answered it is up to you to find it and use it, you don't just ask the same question again when people have already taken the time to write a good answer. That would defy the entire point. Maybe you should try asking on Reddit or a Discord server or some other community more appropriate for the kind of interaction you seem to want.
What the hell is going on over there?
Ask HN: Do you think programmers have an edge over self-taught ones?
Do you think programmers who learned how to code in school have an edge over self-taught ones?
> All these apps won't be native, they won't have a relationship or license with us, we won't review them, they won't use our APIs or tools, they won't use our stores, etc.

I read this as code for letting business through without paying vig. It's couched nicely in case it comes out in discovery (hey! it did!), but "license" (leverage), "review" (leverage), "APIs" (stickiness), "stores" (30% of sales) - it's a string of words about control and money making.
Big difference between political reasons and usability reasons.
>It's literally the only way that will be accepted by the 1% that keep the site running (read the Ennui engine principle)

What makes the activists here think that they can speak for this 1%?
There’s a niche of medium lived discussions that are paced slowly and contextualized that the model of hn and reddit serve. The examples you gave don’t seem to fit.
Show HN: CS2 vs CSGO Skin Comparison Tool
Followed some of the links shared here, I fully agree now that the CEO should go. Earlier, he compromised the integrity of people’s speech by editing their posts: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/reddit-edit-post
They killed compact a few months ago, in light of recent events probably to drive people to the "official" apps
Yes, the zoonotic origins of e.g SARS and MERS were found shortly after the outbreaks.

In fact COVID seems somewhat unique amongst modern maladies to not have a clear zoonotic origin.
This can kill an entire sub like FreeFolk. It imploded and never survived the fallout.
This is why. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NorLTsOVFeE

He wanted to use the Baofeng radios on license-free FRS frequencies and got so much shit for that. He very much sums up how I feel about it. As long as it's programmed for the correct frequencies, who cares?

It's not just some operators, it's a large part of the ham community that's bent on policing "intruders" like that. I don't really care what other people think about my actions here. We can all have different ways we protest this issue, as long as it's lawful.

I'm just hoping that there's a tiny chance that idea might spread. As one of the many ways of fighting back against these draconian measures, without breaking the law. And I'll continue to come up with more entirely legal ways of countering this.

While I don't personally think it's hazardous to health, some people do believe that having a multiple hundred watt transmitter in the neighborhood might have health effects, and it could be especially harmful to small children. Lots of people used to complain about smart meters, and those are only 1 Watt at most, which is tiny by comparison.

Or even better, refuse to participate in the ham community and find something else to do, as the guy in the YouTube video does.
This boycott will not leave Reddit bereft of moderators or powerusers.
This just seems to be the strategy they teach at business school, and it never works.

I remember in the 2000s, all these mmos were popping up saying they were the "WoW killer". Um, no, people who play WoW already play WoW, and you are really trying to convince everyone who doesn't want to play WoW to play a game that is designed to be very similar. It never made any sense.

But I guess if you are a business exec, and you are risk averse, and lazy, you don't mind any of that. You just say "WoW makes money please make me one if those." That is not how creativity and innovation work though.
Suprise ? I thought documentation driven development is already the norm nowdays ? Is there other ways to do software development without documentation first ?
They should not use any CSS b/c lots of blocking is just based on elements and their style.
If users want to make a statement and move away from Reddit, where should they move to? What’s an alternative to reddit that is closer to the original reddit?

Sidenote: could the 3rd reddit party clients embrace such an alternative and give it a meaningful boost in usage?
It can not be news that when it comes to user experience vs flexibility Apple choses UX. They do this every single time.

Remember every (GPU) configuration has to be supported to not hurt the user experience, kind of like making webpages that support 1x1 pixel screens (is there any?) to 8k.

Every configuration setting increases the test area exponentially. This is what makes Linux great (for some)!
Strategies to keep momentum going post-launch
There are tons of tips and tricks out there about how to prepare for your product launch - the 24 hour window after you first post about your product - in which you can boost your product’s visibility, attract early adopters, and propel your growth.
What about after launch? You've stayed up late, replied to comments, onboarded new users, etc... but the excitement of launch day shouldn't stop just because the home feed refreshes. There are many more opportunities to continue reaching potential customers, establishing your brand as a thought-leader, and creating lasting relationships with your core supporters. To ensure your Product Hunt launch is a resounding success, we've compiled four strategies that will help you maximize your longer term impact.
Lots of sites a/b things, but it seems that when PMs start aggressively a/bing the core experience to the point of breaking the user journey and against just general common sense it points to a bigger product issue... i.e. "this is data driven and if we can uptick this KPI by x%", but isolated from any kind of coherent wider product vision.

It's surprisingly easy to kill a product through a series small isolated 'improvements'.

For instance, FB a/b a lot but I can't remember the last time it broke the ability to go to someone's profile entirely.
The situation described (cannot reproduce) is the standard in modern paper publishing, a significant fraction of even widely cited papers are just full of nonsense. The fact that it is not replicated in big publishers should therefore be sought in a different direction (I would say a political one).
That sounds completely reasonable - if you assume the users currently on Apollo 1) Can't be made to pay, directly with a price for the app or micropayments or indirectly via ads 2) Would move to the official app if Apollo shut down and 3) Don't bring in posts and comments with which other users engage, raising money that way.

Sounds to me that shutting it down is the one sure way to lose money, but I also don't trust that the reddit team had made that calculation properly. This all seems like a short term profit or like a power play to me.
i don’t care either way, other than HN and some Mastodon i don’t really social media much anymore. Reddit could disappear tonight and it wouldn’t bother me much, but…

> A comment which was a half-joke, as the audio recording shows clearly.

…at some point people need to understand that jokes are about timing, about audience, about place, and the subjects of the joke.

again, i have no dog in the fight, but the number of times i’ve heard “it was clearly a joke” is wild. we’ve all seen people from every political corner from every walk of life proclaim “clearly that was a joke” when repeatedly it wasn’t received this way by those involved.

jokes are about timing.

all of that said, i do wish the founder of apollo well, if old.reddit wasn’t your thing apollo truly was one of the better alternatives.

slight tangent, but this is another lesson on how we inevitably screw ourselves when relying on non-open source.

if it isn’t ours, the thing is someone else’s. we have to face this. we repeatedly see the repercussions of ignoring this fact.
It would be interesting to know the background of the infamous Lancet letter[1].

According to journalist Paul Thacker, the Lancet letter "helped to guide almost a year of reporting, as journalists helped to amplify Daszak’s message and to silence scientific and public debate." This affected reporting on the origins of the virus, "characterising the lab leak theory as unworthy of serious consideration".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_letter_(COVID-19)
Ok, so there's a list of communities that went dark [1] - but is there anywhere a list of communities that went dark and are moving elsewhere?

Like, where exactly?

I, for one, don't plan on getting back onto Reddit, i've deleted the official app and keep Apollo around for as long as it is still working.

Love the protest and i really hope Reddit leadership gets the message, but IMHO the bridges are burnt and Reddit itself is too - even if they, somehow, reverse course - i'd rather have communities moving elsewhere than going dark for like 2 days and then return to business as usual...

[1] https://reddark.rewby.archivete.am/ for example
Wow, it was peak "Apple, my way or the highway" mentality there. They were also expecting users to ultimately just put up with it, it doesn't seem like they expected the exodus. Calling Noscript users entitled. It really does feel like a different era. People aren't so ready to give tech companies the benefit of the doubt now.
Nah, nobody is going to be figuring anything out, you'll be able to generate it with little effort with a prompt, just like everything else. But we will be so inundated by high quality digital art in every imaginable style that it will be boring, everything will be boring.
I left Twitter. Most of the people I follow are now on Mastodon, and with Ivory, it’s essentially almost the same experience. I don’t miss it at all.
On one hand, it doesn't make sense to be talking about CSS and web design when we are talking about _policy_ changes. I'm sure if you go back to when Reddit first released the new frontend, you would fine all the CSS discussions you look for.

On the other hand, lots of discussions are also happening around design and accessibility. Reddit's official app has bad design, including many dark patterns and terrible accessibility and performance. This has been discussion alongside the policy changes from day one.
There are so many nuance to a problem that the approach of "one question - one answer" is simply naïve.

Even if we wanted to go with this approach, questions that are potential duplicate should just have an answer pointing to the other question and let the OP decide if it's right or not.

Having someone else that doesn't have the full vision on the question and context is not the right approach.
I need to read the actual paper, but this made me wonder whether those who are high in dark triad personality traits and victim signaling are more likely to have had adverse childhood experiences. My reason for wondering this is because it would sort of explain why they would develop victim signaling behaviour.
Perhaps victim signaling is an adaptation that is necessary for their survival when they’re young. Probably not in all cases, but I did think about that.
The clock isn't broken if it consistently tells the time correctly.
I never used Reddit the way you describe. I use it as a forum for niche interests and it’s decent for that. Similar to php based forums but it’s one login and plenty of participants.
google/rune is still better. and safer. and open source.

https://github.com/google/rune
Big Pharma dealmaking recovers with $85B M&A splurge
https://archive.is/z8RMz
Lest we forget, things are somewhat less normal and friendly in places where Russia currently drops bombs and shells on people's heads.
What is the question here?
Has there any been a single instance of a subreddit with a shortage of people volunteering to mod?
I wonder how big the network effect is for Reddit. From a personal perspective it's nonexistent. There is a critical mass, for sure, and that may be just as hard to overcome, which makes it perhaps a bit less all-or-nothing.
True, but when one of your issues is "I like a clear space in an apartment I'm renting for a month, and I had to spend a day decluttering!" that's a problem that's a privilege to have.

Especially when you're having it in an apartment that is no longer available for locals to rent because your American money goes a lot further than their money.

AirBnB privileges the landlords and subjectively wealthy travellers over the locals. This is well established.

(I admit that my snark got fired up when I read their complaint in an article linked from this about an apartment in Ukraine that only had two comfortable chairs out of four, because their two dogs that they're travelling with would hog the comfy chairs.

Firstly, travelling with pets is expensive, aa privilege to be able to afford on top of the usual cost of travel.

Secondly... ...tell your dogs to get off the human chairs.)
You'd probably get at most 5% signing up for the paid plan so the price would have to be more than 20x what they get from a free user seeing ads. Could work if they cut down the size of the organ but that has literally never happened
no,this is for that IPO.

/s if needed
However none of this applies to rhetoric against Russia [...] How come no US citizen is attacking Russians [...]

Quoting https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/03/03/anti-russia...

As Putin’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies, some Russian-themed businesses and Russian Americans in the United States are suddenly getting a frosty reception — and in a few cases, experiencing outright hostility. A Russian restaurant in Washington, D.C., called Russia House, was vandalized and the owner indicated that he thought anti-Russian sentiment might be to blame. Some Russian Americans say their children are being bullied at school.

“Americans were encouraged to sympathize with the people of Russia rather than the government. And that seems to me to be what is really different from what we’re seeing now, where you see people at protests with signs saying all Russians are to blame for Putin’s aggression,” he said.

Thulien pointed to another incident in which the parents of a close friend, a couple in their 80s, had their car scratched and vandalized overnight this week.

Also note that in the context of the US culture war, Russia is seen as an ally against the 'woke left', leading to the bizarre situation where Putin himself made references to Harry Potter author JK Rowling in a speech about the invasion of another sovereign country. This might shield Russians against at least some antagonism from that part of the political spectrum.
It means we’d better start figuring out solar radiation management technologies because our inadvertent geoengineering is causing a rapid increase in global heating.
Is there an expectation for Ycombinator funded startups to have employees at workplace?
It's a good place to discuss these changes. Especially if your an IT entrepreneur. You can get priceless information about user attitudes to change and what they really want and not want. The level of discourse he is much better than most anywhere else, so you get well thought out opinions and arguments.
I use Espial[1] for bookmark management. It’s a self-hosted Pinboard clone.

[1]: https://github.com/jonschoning/espial
I really like the way documentation works in Rust: You basically write markdown in a special type of comment over the module, function, datatype or method you wanna document and then you can convert that into documentation automatically.

Even better: if you have examples in code blocks in these docstrings per default they get tested as well, so if you don't update them, the tests will fail and you will notice.

In my eyes one of the biggest problems with keeping documentation up to date is that over time the mapping between the piece of code you are documenting and the place where you find it in the documentation becomes more complex, to a point where missing something is not unlikely. Rust's documentation-in-code-approach addresses this problem neatly.
Of course it is. It's right there in the name. It's not "competitism" or "winwinnism" or "fairism". Capitalism is about accumulating and making money from capital - that is, making money from what you own, not from what you do. It's pretty close to rent seeking - I'd dare say "rent seeking" is what we call it when you do capitalism too hard, and it starts feeling viscerally unfair.
That is mostly correct but thing is, if you go on stackoverflow or chatGPT to have someone else write the solution for you, that's on you to use the wrong solution.

I've used chatGPT (as well as SO as many others) but always in the context of having enough knowledge (either from experience or experimenting before opening a question) to understand if the answers were just wrong or not.

To each their own but I treat ChatGPT as a rubber duck 2.0 and I think that's what it excel at.
on of my favourite books is "Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big" by Bo Burlingham. It's worth a read if this is something that interests you.
Those that should go are the users really.
>The idea that you'd willingly use an app with baked-in ads is insane to me

Do you also boycott all movies with product placement in them?

Geez, no wonder Reddit is trying to kill third party apps..