skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These polemics are stirring and feel true. It's a purple prose version of east coast 2010s YIMBY. But they're not true.

> it's a country that can't build anymore,

See above.

> that can't raise sufficient money for public works construction

Infrastructure spending is at an all time high; massive $300B infrastructure package was passed a few years back.

> which has no immediate profit potential

What form of public works construction would have immediate profit potential?

> that can't persuade its young men to enter the construction trades instead of going to college.

Nah. Young men college graduates are consistently decreasing since 2020 for men.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/184272/educational-attai...

Construction has added ~1 million jobs since December 2020.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USCONS
That's why I laugh when people say discord content needs to be indexed on the web so things are more discoverable. 99% is garbage and the useful messages are scattered across channels.
Maybe this is better:

Cruise line A and cruise line B drop their passengers off at a remote island for 5 days, and then come to pick them up and take them home. After cruise line B drops theirs off, the cruise ships breaks down, and the passengers can't be picked up after 5 days, so they're stuck on the island with no immediate way to get off. Cruise line A says "OK, the next cruise ship we send will be at half capacity, so we can get the passengers from cruise line B off the island and get them home."

Is cruise line A rescuing the passengers from cruise line B? I'd say yes.
That's an interesting form of guerrilla advertising. Find a project with decent website traffic that displays sponsors, and commit just enough to be displayed in the list of top contributors (which includes some delicious SEO-friendly backlinking juice too). $750/mo and it's already getting the companies mentioned in the currently-top comment of a thread on the front page of HN!
They build a plane with 15M parts every single day. Their worst engineer is better than 99% of those on HN.
I started as a Notion user, but then it gets complicated and overwhelming quickly. It can be a good database and beautiful system, but for individual use cases, it’s too much for ADHD.
I tried to use Apple Notes and Docs from then, but with too many notes, insights get buried and cannot be found easily.
So I built an AI note app called saner.ai since & it worked better for me at least.
We already ran this experiment several times during the pandemic and inflation did, in fact, happen.
The funny part is ScyllaDB still uses tombstones for deletions, though they do have configurable compaction strategies and iirc Discord uses Scylla's Incremental Compaction Strategy that I suppose solves the specific issue they were dealing with. iirc that compaction strategy will trigger a compaction once a certain threshold of a partition is tombstones and then the table is rebuilt without the tombstoned content (which effectively pauses writes on that specific node and that specific table and partition for the duration of that process). Compacting a massive partition is really expensive. Scylla defaults to warning you that a partition is too large if it has at least 100,000 rows in it. My guess is when they moved to ScyllaDB they also adopted a new strategy for partitioning messages in a channel that keeps partition sizes reasonable so compactions don't take a super long time.
Robot hand can detach from arm, crawl over to objects, and pick them up
What occurred during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic was a classic instance of high-stakes decisionmaking and guidance under constraints both of certainty and of available interventions.

When the virus first broke out, we knew very little about it, applied knowledge from prior incidents, and tried very very hard to acquire new, relevant, knowledge.

At the same time, for numerous reasons, countermeasures, mitigations, and prophylactics were limited and due to supply-chain concentration could not be rapidly ramped up.

What's staggering about the COVID-19 pandemic is that we did learn amazingly quickly, had sequenced the full genome within a few weeks, and proceeded to develop the first mRNA vaccine candidates were developed within days. It then took months to both assess those vaccines and ramp up production.[1]

The other side of pandemic response related to public health and isolation measures, which remain the most effective means to control infectious disease. Initial presumptions about low airborne transmissibility proved false and guidelines rapidly changed. Effective masks were among the prophylactics which were in limited supply, and for which caregiver and first-responder access was prioritised. As understanding, supply, and manufacturing capacity evolved, mask mandates were extended.

And yet ... public response, in numerous countries and for numerous reasons, often directly rejected or attacked these highly-effective measures. Some countries, most notably to my mind New Zealand, fared exceedingly well. Others were and remain global embarrassments.

But diligent caregivers and policy leaders around the world were making good-faith best-effort consequence-balanced guidance as to how best to respond, and changed advice rapidly given changing circumstances.

The fact that this record continues to be distorted and mistated is utterly disappointing.

________________________________

Notes:

1. Wikipedia has a good history: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_COVID-19_vaccine_de...>.
The real problem is that the company doing the rescue is SpaceX, and that's owned by Elon. And HN does not like Elon.
(1979), discussions in:

2016 (69 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12682624

2019 (78 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20373168
When did they ship it? It was never shipped out to consumers iirc.
Many people within niches have discord servers for researching and discussing specific things. There is a large wealth of information locked away behind them that can be lost pretty much whenever discord decides to start pursuing different monetization strategies.
Easy. You mess up the antenna or put a big lump of metal on it.
> There is no requirement for companies like WP Engine to contribute to Wordpress

And given MM's behavior, at this point there's also zero incentive.
Giving these people in isolation $1,000/month, probably no.

Giving everyone $1,000/mo, you could expect that money to be captured as economic rents, if not literal rents.

If you currently spend $2,000/mo on your apartment, which is probably low for many areas (such as the California Bay Area), then people currently living further away to pay only $1,000/mo can now afford your $2,000/mo apartment. So the price has to go up.

I say all of this as a somewhat proponent of UBI. In particular, I like the idea that UBI could replace many assistance programs, would be destigmatized, would not have the administrative overhead of those programs, would not be a welfare trap, and would be fundamentally fair.

But giving it to everyone would also tend to be inflationary, and would likely be captured by rent-seekers, unless such rents are controlled somehow. But rent controls are also distorting.

It's all very theoretically problematic, and a small scale study just can't be predictive of the distortionary effects that full scale UBI would have.
Yes, a corollary can be just the contrapositive of something you just proved. Sometimes it's even more trivial, like a special case of a general theorem you proved.

A very common use is to re-state something so it's in the exact form of something you said you'd prove. Another common case is to highlight a nice incidental result that's a bit outside the path towards the main result -- for example, it immediately follows (perhaps logically equivalent to) something that's been proven, but it's dressed in a way that catches the attention of someone who's just skimming.
Sorry, but these are pretty much some of the falsehoods that have been effective in fooling voters and putting the supply limits in place.

The bureaucratic red tape is one of the artificial restrictions.

Public works are impeded by the same mechanisms and for the exact same reason.

People do go into the trades for the right salaries. Their salaries did rise. They are among the prices of goods that must be provided locally ("non-tradables") and are therefore determined by local rents. There are also union rules in many cities that require that only local labor be used - another one of said restrictions.
Problem is to watch all the things you want to watch you may need 5 or 6 subs, so you could add a few more hard drives I'd say.
> For $1/mo you get 10 pages (color included), and overages are 10 cents/pg.

The math works out when I think about it but for some reason I’m still floored by the fact that $12 only gets you 10 pages of paper for an entire year.
yep they are definitely rolling out ads. my evals show a clear increase in number of products mentioned in search, but I can't share more
It would require the reader to actively insert additional meaning into a mundane summary that isn’t disputed in order to arrive at name-calling here.

I an not familiar with all of the minutiae of dang’s moderation philosophy, but taking a comment, attributing the least charitable possible interpretation to it, and then accusing someone of name-calling based off nothing but your claim to a deeper knowledge about how he thinks seems like unproductive conversation.
And that's why the US is such a terrible place right now; more than 150 million people voted in the 2020 presidential election, a stark decline from the days of 1776 when the entire country had about 2.5 million people in total, many of whom were ineligible to vote, as God intended.
As a funders to almost of these research studies, we also need to introduce some mechanisms which will impart a compounding fear in minds of these criminals as year passes.

Basically a wrong study results over the years may ended up affecting millions (if not billions) of people. Someone(at every level of the chain) should pay a compounding punishment for a verified fraud.

At the same time, this shouldn't prevent a Nobel upcoming scientist being bold. After all, science is all about pushing the boundaries of understanding or doing.
Even FOSS communities. shame on the devs who decide to do so.
Deterrence + democracy.

Deterrence + autocracy is pretty unstable, because eventually the generalissimo gets to thinking that if he already has military capability sitting around...
Ask HN: Tech Stack Behind the Claude App?
What's the tech stack behind the claude app and why does it feel like a chrome/browser running the website?
ScyllaDB scales horizontally on a shard-per-core architecture with a ballpark throughput of 12,500 Reads and 12,500 Writes per second per shard. If you're running Scylla across a total of 64 cores (maybe on 4 VMs with 16 vCPUs each), you can get up to 800k Reads 800k Writes per sec of throughput with P99 writes of <500us and p99 reads of <2ms.

You will not be able to get that performance out of Postgres and the write scaling will also be impossible on a non-sharded DB.

If you're a company like Discord and are running dozens (70-something?) of ScyllaDB nodes, likely each with 32 or 64 vCPUs, you've got capacity for 50M+ reads/writes per second across the cluster assuming your read/write workloads are evenly balanced across shards.
I used the parser inconsistencies myself. I created the first web app template that worked in IE 3/4 and Netscape 3/4 for a Fortune 500 back in the day.
I don't see anything here that looks untoward. They increased their data storage by 3 orders of magnitude and decided to use a different DB system. Fair enough, maybe they've learned more about the nature of their data.

But that logic isn't sound. When dealing with huge amounts of data there are going to be trade-offs. Picking a system that makes different trade-offs to an existing system is not automatically helpful. Yes you don't have the old problems. However, you are about to discover new problems. There is always something of a gamble around which will be more of a problem to your business.
>>The spacecraft type they flew up will almost certainly never fly again because of how badly the shakedown went.

I haven't seen this in the reporting. Can you share any context for it?
Sssh. You'll remind the Jira feature team that Confluence exists!
"Pay upfront, lease product X and purchase accompanying recurring services provided for product X", maybe?
GPT4o is unrealistic at scale. OpenAI isn't making a profit running it.
Right, of course, extending the franchise of voting to women and non-white, non-landholding men devalued the franchise, lol.
Hmmmm. Then let's try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaseous_fission_reactor instead!1!! :)
Ask HN: Longest running infinite loop in history?
What would be the oldest code still in production today with an infinite loop, making it the longest-running infinite loop in history (so far)?
Competition drives prices up. Individuals and investors are both competing for the same inventory, but with dramatically different incentives. Remove, or dramatically reduce, the ability of investors to access that inventory and it removes competition.
I kill my desire to work on a lot of side projects by trying to over optimize the parts I’m not going to like doing. I should just do the yucky parts and get past them. But at least nobody is paying me to spiral.
It should say "rent product and purchase accompanying one-time and recurring services".
Yeah, "education" was not the right word. My own gripe is more about something like critical analysis in the context of our larger system. Continuing with the example, the commenters in the article were likely spurred on by the reactionary media constantly taking the very real issue of inflation and then fallaciously pinning it on the current administration. But instead of defending themselves, sticking with the topic, and directing blame where it belongs (massive monetary creation hidden while monetary velocity was very low), the democratic party seemingly reacts something like "oh no, not inflation again. did we cause it this time? we can't even remember. best to stay quiet.", and then goes on talking about their own disjoint narratives, with that same setup of a core of truth but the conclusions running amok.

And sorry, but your initial point was very much partisan. You didn't name a specific party, but you certainly directed people to focus on one of them. Even if different people focused on different parties, that's still driving partisanship. Personally I see the effects we're each describing playing out for the immediate benefit of both political teams, with the loser being any sort of shared discourse.
> I grew up with the story that Hong Kong was just as off limits to China as Taiwan was

Not sure when you grew up but that has been obviously false for at least 40 years
If Nationalism weren’t a factor, there is essentially zero reason for the PRC to ever invade Taiwan.

Nationalism is a factor and the PRC is a totalitarian dictatorship. They’re going to go after what they consider their “rogue province” sooner or later, and whether it benefits them economically or not is a footnote.
It's amazing how people think Project Management = Issues (and only issues).

Release Management is a fundamental part of IT Project Management. So of course companies use Jira to track releases. And of course you can tie milestones and OKRs to releases. And of course tickets can have small amounts of text content associated with them. How else would you describe the ticket without them ?

But the idea of Jira being remotely like a Confluence style wiki is just ridiculous.

And your comment is out of some parallel universe where Jira is Confluence.
Did you guys end up redesigning the partitioning scheme to fit within Scylla's recommended partition sizes? I assume the tombstone issue didn't disappear with a move to Scylla but incremental compaction and/or SCTS might have helped a bunch?
From February - discussion (491 points, 339 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39248649
My reason to close the landingpage was the horrific scroll hijacking. Unusable like this for me.

Just let users scroll the way they are used to instead of this snapping.
Your Prototype Is Ugly – GryffdDavid 2024
With Microsoft promising to fix their shit and promising no bad user patterns in only some cases where there has been enough backlash, it's an even worse situation than being outright bad. It makes them more unpredictable.

I bet it would also ensnare more well-wishing sysadmins and non-tech consumers who take singular instances of apologizing/fixing at face value.
2019 MacBook Airs are not supported by Sequoia
in an actual great power conflict, it will be more about cruise missiles and drones - at least initially
The "from" address in email is in no way authenticated. There's nothing stopping anyone from using any email address to register using this proposed scheme.

The reason services send emails to users is to verify they can receive email, which does require a password to the account at that email address.
The problem is that people who agree to a task being low priority still expect it to be done in nine months and all of a sudden they become high priority if that doesn’t happen.

So you’re fixing the micro economics of the queue but not the macro. Queues still suck when they fill up, even if they fill with last minute jobs.
Coming from the Best Coast I’d call it the Mideast if that wasn’t already taken. I begrudgingly accept calling it the Midwest for only that reason.
Solution: everything is a P0!
Interesting. My gut reaction is that this is true in reverse: infinite wait time leads to 100% utilization. However, I feel like you can also have 100% utilization with any queue length if input=output. Is that theory just a result of a first order approximation or am I missing something?
This is the same author as the awesome flutter rust bridge:
https://github.com/fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge

Thanks for everything you've done for the dart community!
My phone is faster.
Suppose I want to have a Wordpress site, and am considering the following options.

1. I create an Amazon Lightsail server set up using the Wordpress image as described here [1].

2. I get a virtual server somewhere, install Debian, do "apt install wordpress curl apache2 mariadb-server", and configure things as described here [2].

3. I get a shared hosting account at some place that includes cPanel or something similar, and install Wordpress through that.

4. I get a server, maybe virtual or maybe physical, install a Linux distribution, and install Wordpress by downloading the zip file from https://wordpress.org/download/ and following the install instructions linked that page.

5. I get an account at WP Engine and use their hosting service.

How much variation is there between these different ways I might set up a Wordpress site when it comes to how much load my site places on the Wordpress autoupdates infrastructure?

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/hands-on/launch-a-wor...

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/WordPress
'Three New York Cities' Worth of Power: AI Is Stressing the Grid
> Sure, but money doesn't grow on trees.

You know, it is funny that this slogan is only ever used in this context. For all other things no one ever talks about where money comes from.

It's created out of thin air, mostly by private corporations. It is no more than a unit of accounting. You can create as much of it as you want as long as something of equal value is created. This may be for example a signature for a lone if one is credit worthy or on the larger scale a disaster or war effort. If quality of life or employability is worth something to a nation they would want to spend on it.

We could also ask where the tax is coming from if people cant figure out how to find or hold a job.
All the evidence revealed so far indicates that Khelif is male. Regardless of the IBA's other issues, there are two blood tests from independent labs showing XY karyotype, and a member of Khelif's coaching team described problems with chromosomes and hormones such that Khelif has been on medication to adjust testosterone levels to bring this closer to the female range.

This implies that Khelif went through male puberty and has the male physical advantage in sport that is caused by male sexual development. Most likely, Khelif was assigned female at birth due to having a difference of sex development (DSD) conferring an external genital appearance that at first glance may seem female.

I don't know where this oft-repeated idea that Khelif has Swyer syndrome came from, but it's nonsensical. Swyer comes with bone defects due to hormone deficiency, and suffering from osteopenia and osteoporesis is not compatible with an elite athletic career, particularly not boxing. Anyone with Swyer would be getting fractures from all the punching and being punched. Nothing about Khelif's situation aligns with this.

However, there was previously in the Olympics a very similar situation with Caster Semenya, a male runner whose penis didn't develop properly due to having the DSD 5-ARD, and was therefore erroneously assumed to be female, and given identity documents to match. Semenya was eventually disqualified from track events due to having internal testes that produce male levels of testosterone and have done since puberty. Probably Khelif has the same or similar condition.
No, I’m gonna do what I want to do. If you hire good people “what they want to do” is going to be what they think is right. Which may or may not be.
hashgraph seems like snake-oil, and marketed in similar ways. Couldn't find any good paper with enough details to make a production ready implementation.
reddit and tv says mars man BAD

ergo mars man BAD
ISS Baby [video]
In PDFs you'll have visual memory of the position on the page, but not how many pages into the book you are.

It wouldn't seem hard to add to a PDF reader ...
Sure, and I do agree we should tax more if people owns 3, 4 or 5 homes.

But in most cases those investors are just renting out again. So they don’t reduce the pool of housing. So they might increase the purchase price, but they contribute to more rental being available. At the end of the day the same amount of housing is available. So investors aren’t the cause of housing shortage.
I heard this as one of the early sales pitches for Bitcoin. “Digital cash.”

That all seemed to go out the window when companies developed wallets to simplify the process for the average user, and when the prices surged, some started requiring account verification to tie it to a real identity. At that point, it’s just a bank with a currency that isn’t broadly accepted. The idea of digital cash was effectively dead, at least for the masses who aren’t going to take the time to figure out how to use Bitcoin without a 3rd party involved. Cash is simple.
Actually, apparently not yet:

> According to an unnamed source cited by Variety, this could be a negotiating tactic by YouTube because, they say, “the previous deal actually does not expire until next week.”

EDIT: Also if this is just a negotiating tactic, this is fucking stupid. I just pulled up the YouTube Downloads on my phone and a bunch of them are marked as unplayable for exactly this reason:

“This video contains content from SESAC. It is not available in your country.”

This is just making me pissed off at YouTube. YouTube as like the premier host for music and playlists that can’t be found anywhere else is the primary reason I use and pay for YouTube. Everything else is just a bonus.
To his defense, that is how it’s marketed. That this new model can reason.
This page would be 100x more effective if figure 1 filled the layout width (on desktop).