skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe what is being implied is that because Cloudflare Workers operate inside of a much lighter construct, they are able to burst to higher concurrency inside of shorter time windows. Lambda can burst to 3000 and then an additional 500 more per minute after that.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/invocation-scal...

Based on the scale mentioned in the article (hundreds of RPS) it's likely Lambda would also have been able to handle it just fine.

On another note, using non-provisioned infrastructure (aka "serverless") for an expected bursty load (TV campaign) is bordering on negligence. It sounds like lots of potential donations were missed because the Stripe account was not set up to cope with the load. It turned out to be a wash because Stripe donated 100k but if you change the business context of this system from "receiving donations" to "taking credit card payments" ... this outcome would not be considered acceptable.
This is the most I've smiled reading anything on HN in a long time.

The architecture diagram alone is just a gem!

Kudos. :)
Becoming so hated that people want you to fail is arguably "the result of its own failings" regardless of whether the subject is NYC then or SF now.
> you're willfully depriving the company of their revenue

POTENTIAL revenue.

You're working from the assumption that all pirates would purchase desired content if it weren't made available for free (illegally).

The alternative you're ignoring is that a pirate can, and often does, choose different content to consume when initially-sought content isn't available to download.
Disclaimer: I'm super not design focused, statements made below are assumptions, feel free to correct.

> Why tailwind and say not Bootstrap?

From the un-researched outside i don't understand how much of Bootstrap is pure CSS and how much depends on JS. I know when i've used Bootstrap in the past i saw a lot of JS, which turns me off. I primarily want a light CSS framework.

This is coupled with the fact that UI executed logic is handled by WASM in my use case (Rust). So the thought of decoupling JS puts up mental friction that Tailwind doesn't give me the impression of.

Sidenote, i've tried some of the Bootstrap ecosystem in the past and it felt rather messy. I imagine this is partly due to the success of the Bootstrap ecosystem, but it felt messy enough that i'd probably only be interested in a streamlined CSS only Bootstrap offering.

> And can you elaborate on the text heavy pages?

I guess i just mean pages where i want to see more dense information, like Wikipedia, rather than more sparse information which is common these days.

An easy comparison is New vs Old Reddit. A lot of design i see, even from Tailwind, organizes UIs like New Reddit. That might be nice for landing pages and customer navigation - but i loathe it for data. When i'm viewing long for data i want to see things both look good and be densely packed - within reason. New Reddit takes high volume information (lots of links/descriptions/comments) and makes navigating it ~5x less efficient.
I've never been given a design doc to implement (though I prefer to code, so sometimes I wish I had). I've always been expected to do the research and figure out the design for myself. Sometimes I ask people to fill in parts of a design doc that I know they'll be implementing. This ensures they are aware of the design, it's correct, I haven't missed some critical details, and they have essentially written the design for their own work.

Occasionally I've had a design review where a higher-up has said "this is why we aren't going to do it that way". I've always been given a reasonable reason (not always one I agree with, but reasonable). I've always been the one to re-write the design in these cases.
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I agree, this describes most metro areas over 100k people in the US I feel.
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> Creators do have legal rights, but that's a whole other set of issues.

This is the main issue at hand that I've been talking about, while you're treating it as a "whole other set of issues".

When Alice spends her time and energy to produce X AND sell it, and Bob finds a way to get it for free against Alice's will, that is called stealing, no matter how you spin it. This is THE problematic part and what I am talking about. Everything else is a non issue and irrelevant when discussing this issue, like you mentioned.
Hollywood is what Hollywood is largely due to its geography. Within a ~4 hour drive of Hollywood its possible to get to an area of california that looks at least passingly (for the purpose of movie making at least) similar to more or less anywhere in the world.

This isn't the map i was looking for, but gives you the basic idea https://brilliantmaps.com/california-filming-map/. The Geographic diversity around Hollywood is absolutely responsible for its initial success.
I never understood that. Is it really that hard to spell out full variable names? It’s so much more legible, there is autocomplete on virtually any editor (even the ones that aren’t IDEs), and you write code once but read it hundreds of times. Why even try to save 8 bytes at the expense of readability?
Yes, exactly. A $1M mortgage is about $5k/month. Paying that means sacrificing other uses of money like retirement, child's college savings, vacations, etc.

And, as you pointed out, we would be in deep trouble if our income took a hit, or if housing prices tumble. If you buy into the high housing costs, you really need them to continue. It's a bad cycle.
I looked at this page first and assumed that it was all a gag.

https://javascript.info/ninja-code

>Show your original thinking! Let the call of checkPermission return not true/false, but a complex object with the results of the check.

>Those developers who try to write if (checkPermission(..)), will wonder why it doesn’t work. Tell them: “Read the docs!”. And give this article.
just another demonstration of how out of touch Thiel is.

He is genuinely a nut in the John McAfee class.
Would be odd to expect otherwise. In general, companies are going to pay market rate a.k.a. what they must to attract talent. Someone who has a much lower cost of living may be willing to accept much lower compensation to work for the same company. If you expect the company to continue paying you that much despite a change in your situation you're doomed to disappointment.
I have taken the Todo mvc React example. While old, it is still valid, and a syntax that is used in quite a few projects.

If you believe it is obsolete, please do a Todo mvc React example with functional components and I commit to try and use stencil functional component syntax to create a valid comparison.
I agree, i'd also expect more integration of the Afterburner tech with support for multiple codecs beyond the current version.
A design question if I may. Site states "gives developers without a deep understanding of design the ability to build visually gorgeous, modern user interfaces".

I really don't understand this statement. If you are bad/good at design, how does Tailwind change anything? Can anyone please describe what it is/feels like in comparison?
I suspect that's a problem specific to your stove model.

As you visit friend's places, see if they have different brands of inductive stovetop, and try them out if they do.

Also maybe try a pot with a thicker ferrous base?
Pretty annoyed with Typescript too. Mostly because of its popularity.

Before Typescript most compile-to-js languages existed in their own world. You might have not liked them. But you'd never have to deal with them.

Typescript has become so popular that many top javascript libraries use it too. Whatever you think of it, sooner or later you'll be working with Typescript code.
Thank you giving a very responsible response.
That would make them incredibly overpowered, wouldn't it?

A quick look in ifixit's HomePod teardown (2018) reveals an Apple A8 processor, last seen in the iPhone 6 (released 2014): https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/HomePod+Teardown/103133

I wonder how long they manufacture their processor lines for.
Launch HN: Acho (YC S20) – No code data warehouse for big data
Hi HN!

This is Vincent, Chen and Sam here from Acho https://acho.io/. We've built a data warehouse for you to access big data with no code.

As a former financial analyst, I used to spend a lot of time building spreadsheets but always wanted to step up my game and gain more understanding in big data. Then I was faced with a slew of "big data" tools such as Hadoop, Hive, Redshift, Kafka etc. They all seemed useful but I could not possibly learn them all since I'm not a full stack SDE or data scientist. This frustration led me conceiving this idea about building a data warehouse for non-programmer like me. Luckily I met Chen, who's been building big data pipelines for big corporates for years.

This new data warehouse I'd imagined should integrate with data seamlessly, transform/clean data like an Excel, update data maintenance-free, and send data with permission controls all without me having to understand distributed computing, database architecture, schema design, ETL, or SQL on a deep level.

Then we built Acho. Here's how Acho works. First, you can set up an integration with a production system (eg. .CSV, MySQL, Salesforce etc.). Then you can load them into an Acho project. On each project, you can transform, update, and share your tables all without coding. Lastly, you can export data to a reporting UI, or BI tool.

Currently, Acho monetizes through monthly subscription on usage. We keep a free tier so you can test Acho out. When you process data on Acho, all data is encrypted in a batched file accessible to no one but you. We disclose detailed security practices, compliances and policies to our users.

Building a data warehouse for everyone is not easy, but we're constantly adding more services to the product. From additional integrations, transformation widgets, built-in BI tools, to pipeline management, we love to know what you might need and we'll get it built as soon as you need it.

Vincent, Chen, Sam
So much this. We have had pure well-typed functional programming languages for decades, and they are great at forcing clean designs and catching bugs at build time, and yet they're still niche tools for the most part.
Louvre :)
Ask HN: Split keyboard/trackball for use while standing and hands at sides?
My right-fingers feel a little funny after using a keyboard that is in front of my body--sitting and standing at various keyboard-heights produces the same results. I would like to try something that can be described as a side-holstered split keyboard. Has anyone seen anything like that? I'd like to have my hands hang down naturally, but still type and control a cursor.
Not op, but I think the biggest miss in cloud gaming is no one developing cloud first multiplayer games.

Currently in any kind of client-server multiplayer game out there you face n+1 game states (n is the number of players) and a lot of the art is in how to reconcile these. The n+1 is due to most games implementing some degree of client autonomy (e.g. in movement), and the reality of network round trips from each client causing everyone to be slightly out of sync. A concrete example of how this affects players is the experience of being shot after narrowly escaping behind cover in an FPS.

Cloud gaming substitutes reconciling these n+1 simulations with some input latency for each player. I think this could produce some qualitatively better experiences for certain games. In particular, Fall Guys is a recent game that I think would play better as a cloud first experience.

The interaction between players in Fall Guys is grabbing other players who are near to you. Due to the network latency many players have the experience of being grabbed by folks nowhere near them. A cloud first version of the game would eliminate this problem that simply can’t be solved otherwise.
Even more surprising, it's been submitted umpteen times before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=javascript.info

I sometimes wonder what are the dynamics that trigger the snowball on HN.
Most true even with stocks
>The 14 members are Australia, Canada, Chile, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Namibia, Norway, Portugal, and the island nations of Fiji, Jamaica, and Palau.
I'm a bit skeptical of all the positivity here.

Heck if I can't edit mouse acceleration with ease, how hard is it going to be to watch Netflix? Do I need to downgrade chromium to 30.4 just to install some plugin incompatible with the v32 chromium?

These are real issues that you'd expect Ubuntu to have working from defaults.

I'm not asking for every porn website to work, but all FAANG websites to work.
I agree completely. I think HVAC has gotten too complex for a lot of the "hand waving" that HVAC installers have been able to get away with up until now. It actually takes a good amount of pre-planning and research in order to install the proper system that is configured correctly.

Case in point, a few years ago when I was a new homeowner I converted to natural gas from oil and got three quotes from three highly rated companies. All three companies recommended the exact same boiler. A few months ago I started to research the outdoor reset functionality that allows it to change the water temperature based on the outdoor temp. Well, I discovered that the feature is basically useless for me because both of my zones are too small to generate the minimum number of BTUs at lower temperatures. So I have a (up to) 96% efficient boiler that will never be able to reach that efficiency. I either would have needed a smaller boiler and or a buffer tank to be able to work correctly.
It's terrible. The amazing issues that TS can introduce to a codebase are terrifying, and TS has breaking releases on a regular cadence. As someone who has to do maintenance on a legacy TS platform it was miserable and literally involved flipping through TS versions to find one that worked.

My issues are not with strongly typed languages, they're specifically with TS.
Wow, it would be really, really interesting for a blog to offer a Matrix room as a "comment section". If you didn't care about threading, you could probably do something like that even today.
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I don't know, maybe the millions of people who are currently out of work due to covid are experiencing a decrease in wages? Just a guess.
1. The SFBA does not begin and end with San Francisco. You're free to pick and choose among its many, many neighbouring municipalities, none of which happen to be governed by the San Francisco city council.

2. These are fantastic examples of measures that at worst, mildly inconvenience the most affluent members of its society, and at best are harmless social signaling of issues that don't matter.

It speaks more about your priorities when you point out things like happy meal toy bans, while ignoring the insanity of having an entire city that is completely unaffordable to the people working in that McDonalds, or a healthcare system that completely fails the most regular customers[1] to that McDonalds.

As for zoning laws, they are absolutely libertarian, in the sense that the people who have made it are using them to pull the ladder up behind them. What's the point of owning property, and having wealth and political influence if you then don't spend that influence to protect the value of your property?

Land, in large part, derives its value from how difficult it is to acquire. I could hardly think of a more land-owner friendly system than one with extremely onerous zoning and construction requirements. If you're feeling pressured by this, you are one of the have-nots (whose life in a libertarian-paradise-for-the-haves is not that great - see my original post on what being a have-not gets you in the SFBA.)

[1] I'm referring to, of course, poorer people.
I encounter this "article update" problem a lot with Java blogs...
Baeldung instantly comes to mind. Every article I find there was last updated on 2020, but don't seem to have actually changed.
just say es6, though, i guess?
and structuring of the content, i believe.
I’ve told my wife and others this for a while, but my prediction is that we’re going to see two big changes in a post COVID world:

1) Many companies will realize that they can not only survive, but thrive with employees working from home.

2) Satellite internet will open up rural areas to be a viable place for people to live and WFH.

I speculate (and already see evidence) that there will be a shift for many office workers in congested cities to move to rural areas, for a simpler life, where it was not possible before due to both points above.

If this becomes true, I’m curious to see what becomes of both real estate scarcity and prices for large lots of land in rural areas, and the impacts of the economy in these originally less viable areas for people to live and work, as they’re currently only inhabited by people that can earn a living from things like farming.

I could be totally off, but this seems at least possible.
Direct link to the original blog post the new article is referencing: https://googlewalkout.medium.com/setting-the-record-straight...
That headline was wonderful, and it surprised me as I have typically been unimpressed by anything he's had to say. Then I read the rest of the article and was disappointed in its scope.

2020 really is a year of phase change (or in Thiel-like terms, a node point through which a number of trends pass through).

If you can correctly predict which issues will not revert to status quo ante (retail, remote work, delivery, retrograde fear of science, class stratification, or something nobody else yet sees) you can have influence, riches, and/or a lot of fun.
I don't know if I'd say plenty.

Redfin filters:

- Santa Clara

- Sqft Min: 2000

- Property Type: House

- Price Max: $2M

Results: 9

If you set a minimum year built to 2000 (so up to 20 years old)

Results: 0

You're right though that there are houses you can find in less desirable areas on the peninsula for around 2 million (and San Jose is cheaper, east bay is cheaper). Usually though there's some tradeoff (bad schools, long commute, house is really old). These tradeoffs don't exist in the other regions where for a a lot less you can live basically anywhere you'd want in a nicer place.

The places I've been looking (Palo Alto, Cupertino, Mountain View) don't really have anything in the price points you're talking about.

I will admit that my general statement about Santa Clara was wrong though (I was thinking mostly about the cities I mentioned as part of Santa Clara county, not the city of Santa Clara).
Gitlab comes with an easy Mattermost integration. Therefore, we use Mattermost in our team instead of Gitter. What's the status of Mattermost vs. Matrix? I found https://about.mattermost.com/matrix/ but this seems to be ... irony ;-)
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It adds in developer overhead and for someone writing in JS that is often what you are trying to minimize.
Didn’t she gave an ultimatum? Do this or I resign? And they are like we can’t do this so we consider you terminated?
Ahh yes I will surely miss COD and FIFA /s

My bigger concern would be a permanent ban on an indie game.
I wonder if these's a way to deal with these concerns with a different visual approach that's better than files. I haven't seen one, but am still curious. Jetbrains' IDEs code navigation (ctrl+b to go to definition etc) are a step in that direction, but ultimately, the scrollable areas are still separated into files, even though you can navigate between them more directly.
It's analogous, irrational, and nonsensical from our perspective, so I'd agree.

(I think the article I linked later demonstrates some interesting and radically differing cultural assumptions)
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As said above, we have used the Todo mvc React example as is. There are still a lot of projects who are using the "obsolete".

Given a Todo mvc functional component example, will try to use the stencil functional component syntax to build an equivalent
I used to think the same thing, but now I have an induction stove and it is significantly better than the gas range at my previous house. It heats the pan instead of the air/element, and so it is significantly more efficient. A side benefit is significantly reduced exhaust load and a much easier to clean cooktop.

Also, water boils so fast now! You'd be amazed.
> The Beatles, Elvis, even Dylan played a lot of covers of old blues tunes or other songs that had been lost by that current generation and were made popular again.

> I don't see a lot of Beatles songs being sampled, because it costs a lot

These are two different things, from a legal and licensing standpoint. My understanding is that sampling (expensive, no set pricing) and covering (set pricing) are distinct. I think that if you cover a song, you agree to credit the original person as writer and pay them an (industry standard) fraction of the royalties. But sampling requires negotiation for usage rights and can get expensive quite quickly. I suspect people are not sampling the Beatles because it would be expensive, but that's a distinct question from that of whether people are covering the Beatles.

I was curious, and it seems Beatles songs are pretty widely covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cover_versions_of_Beat...
This is pretty much how I feel about Javascript itself.
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The Citus extension is still open-source though, right? Although I think it was a solid strategic move by MSFT to acquihire the Citus devs (probably all these people were given substantial golden handcuffs) to block AWS from hiring experts to integrate this extension into their PG offering.
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Same here. Thanks a lot for making my day! If you ever start a standup career, please let me know!
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I've probably spent 100 hours trying to get Uplay to work on Linux. It's a nightmare and I would recommend just not purchasing Ubisoft games at all. Even if you get it to work, their games seemingly have more problems with wine/proton than most, and multiplayer has never worked at all (again, due to Uplay).

Nearly every other game I've tried has worked great with proton though! Even multiplayer games (through steam) tend to work very well.
Since we're on the subject, here's a link to a beautifully-written 1999 piece on the transitory nature of the 80s East Village scene, from which Basquiat emerged:

https://www.artforum.com/print/199908/crime-and-misdemeanors...

The author, Gary Indiana, was the art critic at the Village Voice for several of those years. His fiction can be off-putting, but he was there for it all and his wised-up nostalgia is perfect for the subject. Here's a similar piece of his, from 2004, that's a little more forgiving:

https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/features/10557/
Yes, chefs I know use this. But I prefer gas because I cook on cast iron.
Depending on the context of the program, both can be more comfortable. Pointers/enumerators? 0-based
Heavy math problem? 1-based

I believe there is a few languages which can let you set it
well you do

https://gitter.im/apps

>The dedicated Android/iOS apps are no longer recommended and may be officially deprecated in the future. For mobile, we recommend using the mobile web version in your browser.Our efforts are focused on the webapp which is the backbone of the mobile/desktop apps but mainly focused on the web experience. There are a number of bugs in these desktop/mobile clients and they spread the Gitter team too thin for us to give them proper attention. The apps are open-source if you want to tackle something particularly annoying to you. (desktop, iOS, Android)
The Woz is a legendary engineer, no one doubts that.

He's a worse-than-average entrepreneur, and I'd wager that without the other Steve, the Apple I would have been one of the many promising microcomputers which fizzled out.