skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three past submissions with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8572600 - Nov 7, 2014 (76 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10409507 - Oct 18, 2015 (46 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20808000 - Aug 27, 2019 (103 comments)

EDIT: I also highly recommend reading the original mailing list thread. A lot of interesting discussion there that I don't recall having read before.
To get an answer your question, consider the PI on a grant who's located in, say, Champaign, IL, or Carbondale, IL, and who needs to fly internationally to attend a conference. (Or, perhaps more direly, needs to attend some family emergency.)

With rail alignments going, say, STL-CHM-CHI and STL-CDL-NVL, and with those alignments being wallclock time-competitive with just driving, the opportunity exists now for those PIs not to have to worry about, e.g., the roadworthiness of their cars or whether they'll have to account for traffic for the two- or three-hour commute to the airport.

Extend this to cover other folks who live away from major metropolises but who could be served with better airport access, or college students from those metropolises (or even internationally) whose schools are in places not particularly conveniently served by air, and this plan might start to appear to do measurable good.

To compare this with Europe, flying into FRA out of ORD (after a cramped puddle jumper flight out of STL and several hours' layover) and taking the ICE to Offenburg to visit family for Easter was a thing I did for years, and I found the German side far less agonizing. There were some years when I never even bothered to purchase my Bahn fare until I could get to the DB Reisezentrum in the basement of FRA because the frequency of the trains made it certain I'd not have to wait long.
I don't have that one, but I have one of the A4 sized onyx tablets. I use it for sheet music, turning pages with an air turn pedal

I get about 3-4 weeks on a charge, albeit with somewhat light use
Very interesting concept. Is there something like this but for a marketing team?

Btw, the team described in the readme doesn’t have any people doing sales or marketing, which are crucial activities in a company, software or otherwise
The software works excellently in a development environment and performs well when running as a single instance. However, I encountered issues when scaling it up for high availability in a clustered setup. The system would fail inconsistently, with two masters consuming messages simultaneously, which wasn't ideal for my use case. Eventually, I switched to Kafka and haven't revisited the original solution since.

It's worth noting that these issues might have been due to my improper configuration. Nevertheless, if the configuration process is fraught with pitfalls, that's problematic in itself. I've had these experiences more than once.

Additionally, I found a critical race condition in the Python library, rendering it practically unusable for me. I submitted a bug report with a minimal example demonstrating the issue. I considered fixing it myself, but since using RabbitMQ wasn't crucial for my project, I switched to ZeroMQ, which didn't require a broker. The issue was acknowledged and fixed about a year later. At the time, I had to assume that nobody else was using the Python bindings.

Three years ago, I worked on a project that used the software for a Celery queue. Messages would occasionally go missing, although this could have been a configuration issue on our part. Ultimately, we replaced it with a Redis queue (not the best practice, I admit) and didn't look back. This was for a lower-availability use case where a single instance of Redis sufficed.
Let’s fix this. There’s funding already allocated to improve ventilation in schools. Since the coronavirus is endemic we’re going to be dealing with these increased risks for decades. Why can’t we get this done? Let’s actually save the children for once.
Yeah, that's too soon for a repost. Reposts are fine on HN once a story hasn't had significant attention for a year or so (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html).
What if it never accessed the book, but read everything relevant like episode summaries, fan wikis, and forum discussions? It would still be as conversant. Is it still infringement?
> This said, I'd use a dedicated queue these days.

I agree, primary reason being that if you're in the cloud (thus this applies to a lot of people but obviously not everyone), all the cloud providers have extremely easy to use, and cheap, hosted queueing tech. Even if you're worried about vendor lockin, queueing primitives are so small (basically push and pop), that it's relatively easy to write things in a way so it would be easy to migrate if necessary.
First I have heard of this term, but may be referring to searching for gold along a stream or River. Source: https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/things-to-do/go...
It is, but it comes with a lot of the same costs as having a PostgreSQL database and a proper queue system.
Discussed in Matt Levine’s “Money Stuff” column as “The Elon put”: https://archive.ph/pQVLF
If you zoom out all the way you can see color corresponds with elevation. Reddish is highish elevation.
> It proves we are in fact capable of grading a railroad to support faster speeds.

In one important way, it doesn't: the majority of the Brightline Orlando route runs over the pre-existing Florida East Coast Railway[1], which was re-graded to support speeds of 110mph, not higher. That's well below even the lowest bar for HSR (i.e. 125mph).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_East_Coast_Railway
Research from all over the world indicates that this isn't the case. At least, not generally. It may be the case for you.
No, that was the doctors
I've thought a lot about storing program structures in distributed hash tables and came to the conclusion that the only viable languages that can be safely stored are purely functional. If you consider OOP languages, there are many stateful dependencies, for example a method may rely on a constructor initializing a private variable in some specific way, so the smallest unit of modularity cannot be a method. Similarly an entire class could perhaps rely on methods being called in a certain order. Even though classes are designed to be self contained, stateful behavior really mucks up the ability to separate things into constituent parts.

Purely functional on the other hand has none of these problems. This is the approach taken by the Unison Language people, which I think makes the right design decisions.
The article talked and linked to so many URLs but the the topic in question -- where are the Audiobooks! What's the logic behind these types of writing which is prolific these days?

What about get to the point, then supplement that with the stories. Or, start with the story that lead to the point.

Edit: Someone updated in the comments; here it is https://marhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-pu...
Too much effort has been invested on folding screens when people would probably be more happy with a keyboard phone case and better OS support.
Not in all states if you have no dependents.
‘15-minute city’: One of S.F.’s biggest developments finally set to break ground
Yeah I completely agree with you and I’ve never driven any Tesla. CarPlay is an extension of your phone and somewhere between an Apple Watch and an iPhone. There are so many situations I experience where if CarPlay had like 10% functionality it would feel like a must have game changer. Instead it just feels like a pretty good maps UI (regardless of which maps platform you use) with an ok but severely limited music UI.
> It works great until it doesn't, and the way it breaks puts you in a state that's very difficult to recover from.

This is similar to saying, 'if I mess up all the tables in one database I wreck the rest'. Just my opinion, but this is not actually a thing in databases.

Maybe compromised the performance of one database due to another loading things up? I think database are developed with this as an important consideration. I can't say I have seen this, but admit it's a possibility.

Also, if you run one postgres, you won't have of an issue running another if you have the experience in production.
If it's decoupling you're talking about it has never been proven to occur on a global scale.
+1 to the other comments, but I feel like crystal has a few huge chicken and egg problems, maybe exacerbated by the fact its natural "audience" is perhaps the ruby community. As a rubyist myself I've tried to evaluate/subversively introduce crystal into projects a number of times and every time I had to bail out because i couldn't identify adequate libraries for things i needed.

I don't need (or, frankly, want) Rails but I couldn't identify even basic things like an adequate ORM or anything other than the most basic wrappers around raw DB drivers. There's a few web frameworks that look kind of promising (amber, kemal) but I ran into immediate problems testing them out and they seems just way too immature. And it just continues - libraries i need just not existing, or being so basic I couldn't in good conscience rely on them in a professional context.

This isn't crystal's fault, it's just not done yet. The problem is, right now at least, crystal's "sales pitch" is "ruby, but type safe and faster and more modern" - but that seems like a vague theoretical future benefit, whereas I have all the tools I need in ruby right now. It's gonna be a tough nut to crack. I do wish them the best though.
I think this may help. A control plane for PostGre and Kafka and Pulsar.
https://github.com/apecloud/kubeblocks/blob/main/docs/releas...
> I was surprised (but not too surprised, actually, because you hear this all the time) to discover when I got back to America that I didn’t gain any weight in Italy.

Having made a trip to Italy very recently I can second this.

We ate huge amounts of food (not necessarily any huge meals…the slow Italian eating style made it difficult to eat too much at any one meal) but we were eating a lot of different things because there was so much food we wanted to try. And we drank a lot of wine. I don’t usually drink much but Inwas probably averaging a bottle of wine a day in Italy.

Ok returning to America after 10 days I hadn’t gained any weight and had even lost a little (although that was likely just natural variances).

American food (including possibly many fresh ingredients…many fruits, for example, have extremely high sugar contents bred into them) are simply not good for you.
Paywalled, but what I should clarify is income generating assets. If you live on an income inflation is negative vs individuals who mostly gain from assets aren’t affected by it and thus grow their real wealth.
> Having a family is a serious commitment. There's a limited amount of time in everyone's day, you can't commit yourself to everything

Comparing “move to another city (or country) for three months” with “there is a limited amount of time in everyone’s day” is a rather disingenuous way to frame the discussion. You make it sound like it _must_ be a zero-sum game when it doesn’t have to be.

The YC (and by extension, all YC-like) model comes across more as a system of selection and control for a specific demographic that has little to do with potential for success.
It is happening everywhere. Men are taking the narrowing of life's options, hard.

It's much more profitable for your average joe to adopt a cynical 'lie flat' attitude and then not show up until someone pays you.

Broken promises does this to people. The traditional structures don't have this problem, militaries can turn the majority of joes into soldiers.

It's regular society that has fostered the environment where malaise is comfortable and profit is meaningless. The wind has been sucked out of the country into code, and you get energy deficits in the populace. Who made programmers the jailer of their own soul? Who made men subservient to machines?
Yes. Fossicking is also more generally used for searching for gold or gems as a hobby. I live in Australia currently so there are lots of places I can go to. I personally prefer to use a metal detector and dig with a small pickaxe and hand shovel.
> We used the barometric pressure sensor in the phone to detect when the user pressed.

My phone doesn't have such a sensor, so this wouldn't work.
No, you already know how to run and manager a postgres database.

If have you large teams, for sure, pick a proper queue that someone in the team knows well.
There are too many negations in your comment for me to understand its meaning.
"I do think anyone can agree that pushing the vaccine..." "Is terrorism?" Or did you mean the opposite of that?
I had one of these moments where I was like "Why does anyone use apps like tic tok/instagram/whatever and not just surf the web? Then I browsed on the web without on a computer without an adblocker after years of having it on my phone and computer. My thought was then reversed, "Why isn't the web dead, why do people that don't know how to adblock subject themselves to this crap".
Execution is vastly more expensive than keeping people locked up. This is well documented. Shortening the appeals process enough to make it cheaper than prison would be radically authoritarian and would result in even more innocent people being executed.
It's sort of amusing, because recently, through walmart.com, I ordered an item, and the vendor happened to be "Bed Bath and Beyond".

Now, normally in such marketplaces, I will only accept merchandise that is sold and fulfilled by the site itself, i.e. Wal*Mart itself. But for a brand-name seller, I may make an exception. BB&B gave good service, and delivered the item as promised, but if I had considered their "lulz" phase, I might have thought twice.
I have one of these sitting next to me right now, and it's essentially unusable due to the dispaly lag, and largely (though not completely) reliant on a service from the vendor for syncing. The hardware is passable, but the software is not, and it seems to be at a very slow drip of maintenance, if not completely abandoned.
> I know I am the outlier of outliers and had more luck than anything else, but god damn don’t disdain others who are willing to sacrifice to give it a go.

This is a red herring. Nobody is showing disdain for people who are forced to sleep in capsules for a chance at winning the lottery. It's profiting off pushing lottery-players to the brink that is coming across as problematic.

And another reply to your comment is justifying it for minimum-wage workers, who clearly don't even get a ticket.
> “In this case, we learned through our investigation that the customer did not act inappropriately, and we’re working directly with the customer to resolve their concerns while also looking at ways to prevent a similar situation from happening again.”

They acted inappropriately, but crafted a sentence which talks about whether or not the customer acted inappropriately.

It's like out of some narcissistic phrase book.
Seriously TSA security??
I was the same way. I only had a Blackberry for a short while -- a BlackBerry Bold 9000 (got it in 2009). It was my stop-gap between plain cell phones and my first Android phone (a Droid 4, got it in 2013). Then I moved to touch screens with the Samsung Galaxy S4. I'm currently a Pixel 7 user.

Nothing ever matched the typing speed of the Blackberry Bold 9000. I was slowed down a bit by the slide-out on my Droid 4, and slowed down a TON by switching to touch. I could actually "do email" on my Blackberry. At essentially the same speed as my laptop. But, even today, with many years of practice, including swipe, text prediction, and all the rest -- writing a mid-size email on my phone is excruciatingly slow vs my typing/thinking speed. Even more frustrating is that when people observe me typing on my touchscreen, they'll say, "my goodness, you type SO FAST." And I'll just think, this is half-speed for me.

As a simple example, sometimes I try to transcribe text from a podcast I'm listening to on my phone. It's basically impossible -- I have to go back frequently, slow it down to 0.7x audio speed, etc. But, if I transcribe text on my laptop, I can do it so fast that I type ahead of the speaker, even a fast talker. It makes a difference. I could have transcribed a live speaker on my Blackberry Bold. I could even type at thinking speed, which was great. Alas. Two steps forward, one step back.
Yup, this.

The Cure tried really hard to make ticket sales for their latest tour as fair as possible. “Verified fan” sales only, resales disallowed (except where required by law), not allowing dynamic “Platinum” (aka airline ticket) pricing, transfers not allowed, face value resale only, no added fees. They also had their tickets go for extremely
reasonable prices (like, $200 for front row tickets down to $25 for the nose bleeds). Even merch was reasonably priced; $20 t-shirts, $35 sweat shirts, and everything was high-quality. It seemed like they tried everything they could to balance playing in large venues (which unfortunately means dealing with TM since they have the monopoly here) while allowing a fair experience for fans and it still went sideways.

Scalpers still found ways to game this. Tickets couldn’t be transferred, so the novel approach they used was to sell the entire account with the tickets attached to it.
Good, Fandom wikis are a nightmare to use.
Everything on top of machine code exists solely for the benefit of human understanding.
Thats cuz you think of it as a tech/content company, instead of Wall St financializing content.

In the same way they did mortgages. The people who built the houses that were sold to people who couldnt afford them, were also standing around scratching their head.

Its a joke because there is an upper limit to what the world can offer for content. Only the finance robots who run these companies believe it doesnt matter.

After all this time, Netflix hasnt been able to get more than 200-250 million subscribers, even though Startups and CEOs love to bray about how the internet is full of billions of people, just waiting to hand over their cash. The truth is vast ocean of people dont have cash.

And now the market capture phase is complete. The people who can pay, have already been corralled into pens and are milked everyday. The finance class then turns their attention to milking the "subprime" crowd. Give them credit cards. Get the advertisers involved. Reduce the VFX, content creation, animation budgets, layoff those self important expensive engineers.

Such a system doesn't generate software quality beyond a point, cuz it doesn't need it. In a few years Netflix will look like Yahoo.

Tech and Content do not run the world. Finance does. Sooner or later into the ground. Cause the goal of milking cows hits an upper limit.
> I cringe, cringe deeply, to my core, when people try to create socioeconomic mobility by force-pushing tech and STEM and give-them-lucrative-careers content into schools. I cringe even though access to that kind of learning •is• important, and can unlock choices.

> I cringe because at its heart, it is about meeting employer needs, not human needs. It is asking students to conform to the world, not to reshape it. It does not treat children as human beings who are and should be free.

This, this, this 1000%. I deeply detest the focus on STEM above all else at all levels of education. It's one thing to focus in college, but pushing high schoolers, middle schoolers, even elementary school kids to start focusing on how to write code is such a waste of potential. Coding can be learned at any age, but things like reading an impactful book as a teenager, learning a foreign language as a youngster, or building a relationship with a musical instrument or sport can never be recreated after that critical period.

I loved science and technology as a child, but in high school I took an unintentional detour and focused on debate. I learned so many skills and was exposed to so many world views that I never got in my STEM college degrees or experienced in work.

I used to think all these skills were a waste of time, but that's not at all what it's about. We aren't all just cogs in a machine, hoping to deliver the maximum possible value to our employer above all else. We are citizens of this world, we have a civic duty, and we should know how to participate intelligently in all matters of life. Not just our narrow technical specification.
The problem is that, while the RasPi may be 3x as fast, it doesn't necessarily have the software ecosystem you want.

If all you have is a closed-source Win32 program that barely runs on XP, at best, you can emulate the P4, thus likely eating up much if not all the RasPi's performance increase, and diving deep into the realms of undocumented behaviour and incompatibilities.

I'm surprised we don't see more moonshot efforts into improving decompilation/reverse-engineering toolkits. There's a huge and obvious need for "I have this software, the developer's dead/bankrupt/disinterested, can you get me something close enough to human-readable C that I could compile it against winelib and get it running on a more modern machine?"
> Whenever I explain my research at Google into mobile text editing, I’m usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile “Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What’s the problem?”

These people must have never used a phone. This article hits 100%, there's quite a lot of these micro-issues on things we use constantly that could be major differentiators and extremely easy sells, but no one implements.

My very personal pet peeve is text reflow on mobile browsers. Just zooming into a long paragraph and having it wrap so you only have to scroll vertically and never horizontally to read it. It's a killer feature and almost no browsers have it!
I was an OG subscriber while in college. I can't remember what I was paying- was it $4.99 a month? And you could have out 3 DVD's at a time... so what I would do to maximize my bandwidth was rent 3 DVD's, and as soon as they'd arrive I'd toss them in a PC dedicated to ripping discs. One drive to read from and one DVD-RW drive to burn. I'd then send the DVD's back the next morning on my way out my dorm, and I think there was a queue to send more out as soon as they got those 3 back in the mail, which took 4-5 days for where I lived, unfortunately.

I did this for a year or so. The movies went in one of those giant zip-up trapper-keeper things for CD's. All in total, I think I ripped about 80 DVDs.

And a lot of them I don't think I ever actually got around to watching...
Agreed. If anything, if I were an employer at a software shop, I'd be worried that a student of EE would get bored of the work I have to offer.
Its quick to read because its Axios, but:

> Musk's solution was a promise: Were Dorsey to ever need money, Musk would buy back his Twitter shares at the original takeover price of $54.20 per share. In other words, $44 billion became Dorsey's valuation floor.
Does anyone know the company that manufacturers the red envelopes?

My email address is in my profile.
> No, you already know how to run and manager a postgres database.

Well, maybe. Postgres is large and has lots of features. NOTIFY/LISTEN is a distinct thing with its own quirks, and just because you've been running a postgres database up until now doesn't mean you're going to know about the admin side of these other features.
Is there a Node version of Que?