skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I tend to see missing is clear explanations of, "What problems does this solve?" Usually you see a lot of, "What does it do?" which isn't quite the same thing. The framing is critical because it's a lot easier for people to decide whether or not they have a particular problem. If you frame it as, "Do we need this?" though, well, humans are really bad at distinguishing need from want.

Take Hadoop. I wasted a lot of time and money on distributed computing once, almost entirely because of this mistake. I focused on the cool scale-out features, and of course I want to be able to scale out. Scale out is an incredibly useful thing!

If, on the other hand, I had focused on the problem - "If your storage can sustain a transfer rate of X MB/s, then your theoretical minimum time to chew through Y MB of data is Y/X seconds, and, if Y is big enough, then Y/X becomes unacceptable" - then I could easily have said, "Well my Y/X is 1/10,000 of the acceptable limit and it's only growing at 20% per year, so I guess I don't really need to spend any more time thinking about this right now."
Where does this work?
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Delegated signatures in Bitcoin within existing rules, no fork required
I maintain something much smaller and I'm trying to understand the various use cases, so please bear with me.

What's the problem with the #custom_page selector? If inline styles have oddities, why not keep it in separate css files, one per custom page? That would seem to precisely match the cascading style CSS is supposed to handle in the first place.

That's a lot of files if you've got 200 related-but-slightly-customized pages, but it tracks the organization of the project as a whole, no?
No we're modelling the internet after US customs, which is why boobs are banned from mainstream Internet services and have to hide in the porn.

I'm not sure we're better off.
It will probably take only a few Youtube and Twitter replies before they nope out of wanting to understand us.
This [1] is by far the best answer I have ever seen to that question / request. Since it is quite long, I will attempt to summarize: that is what I start from. I am more certain of the existence of God than I am of my own existence - the first one is an axiom, the second one is a theorem ("I think, therefore I am").

"The answer is that a reasonable person is a person who believes what Augustine believes and who, like Augustine, can only hear assertions contrary to that belief as absurd."

I genuinely see opinions different from mine as absurd. As in, "you cannot possibly believe this, which means you are lying" absurd. It's why I generally dismiss the common saying "do not attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence". NOBODY is that incompetent, and therefore whatever I disagree with is in fact malice.

I realize it's a minority opinion. I am fine with that situation, though I continue to be surprised when people disagree :)

[1] https://www.firstthings.com/article/1996/02/001-why-we-cant-...
Does HackRF require soldering an RF shield to it? Apparently it comes without it by default.
Most people keep themselves from recognizing the problems with what they are doing if they are making lots of money off it, they convince themselves what they are doing is worthwhile after all.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

I don't think (I hope?) anyone is celebrating "cheating the rubes". But I respect GP's ability to be honest about it -- it's super useful to the rest of us. For instance if we've been skeptical of k8, seeing someone who's an expert in it say that makes us think ok maybe we're on to something.

Most people in that position would keep their mouths shut, and probably keep themselves from admitting to themselves what's up.
You can also sell and rent or get a reverse mortgage. Your speaking from a place of relative wealth compared to most Americans when you say a 400k house isn't all that great.
Available on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323869829071
https://founderpath.com by Nathan Latka also does this.
It doesn't do anything for me. Can you point to a doc?
How likely is the possibility of sdr freeing us from wifi chips or cell modems that need proprietary firmware?
I dunno if I'm doing it wrong or what, but that illusion doesn't work for me.
This just gives piracy yet another advantage.

The article clearly mentions that credentials sharing is currently used as a mitigation to the balkanization of streaming services, allowing the cost of all major subscriptions to be spread across several people, essentially bringing down the per-person cost to a reasonable, single subscription's cost.

Cracking down on this doesn't mean people will start paying, they will just go back to illicit means of watching the content.
This is cool. I've been thinking this should exist for a while. Glad someone is doing this.

What's the cost from a cloud provider for this if a site has no traffic or very very small amount of traffic i.e. for a small personal site?
That's recent though. I'm saying they scaled up quite a long way before doing anything like that. From the outside it looks like they didn't really branch out into things like this until 2008 or so.
I don't use a smart home system from a company, just my own scripts for different systems and to glue them together. Was it worth my time? No, not at all, but it was a good excuse to play with languages I wasn't familiar with and learn some new things.

Time spent just configuring a pre-built system, that, in my opinion, is time wasted because it isn't likely that I can apply it to anything else.
I live in Berlin and don't find anything wrong with Plattenbau (Soviet-style blocks). It can be done cheap or good, but even cheap is durable in this case. Many buildings are only now being refurbished, many decades after construction. What I like about former East Berlin is the walkability. Wide open pedestrian walkways, focus on public transport and plazas for people to gather. Contrast that to wide open roads, focus on the private automobile and malls elsewhere.
Are you really comparing making knockoff products with stealing their consumers data?
I don't believe in Imaginary Property (aka Intellectual Property). It's not what I was talking about.

Someone bought the right to use a specific domain from a specific domain name provider. It was a private transaction between two parties, freely agreed to between them.
> * a database that reliably preserves all of your customers' data when any one of your servers goes down (this unfortunately excludes many databases and makes the usual "just use Postgres" a poor choice, now flame me to high heaven)

What do you suggest instead? My understanding was that Postgres, when properly set up with backups and replication, is the most reliable open-source database.
> Your goal, when launching a product, is to build a product that solves a problem for your users.

This is the main takeaway, in my opinion. I've been at small companies who were under-architected "because we can" and large companies who were over-architected because someone in the leadership chain was enamored with a particular technical choice.

In the end it's a cost curve and depends heavily on the nature of your business. I can say personally if the business is even mildly complex (not necessarily large, this could mean a web app + a mobile app + a single RDBMS) I'd sleep better having some AWS (or other cloud) alerts set up to monitor uptime/etc. Others have mentioned CI/CD, but again, heavily depends on your needs. I worked at one place that survived uploading .zip files to Elastic Beanstalk for _years_ to update our PHP website.

For some of the other data compliance/up-time/service availability stuff, I'd expect to have the revenue to cover the sort of overhead that introduces (otherwise you're just not charging enough, or the business isn't really as viable as you think).
It's amazing how conservatives write love letters about the "free market" but despise absolutely anyone in this "free market" who do not follow conservative orthodoxy.

It's a PRIVATE SCHOOL! Send your kids elsewhere if they don't teach the kids enough Ayn Rand and Michelle Malkin!

None of these conservatives seemed to give a shit 15 years ago when rural PUBLIC schools like mine were teaching anti-science creationism, or historical revisionism in the Lost Cause/Civil War apologia. Many were shrieking their heads off if their kids weren't taught such utter bullshit.
"ancient history starts from the beginning of writing or recorded history"

Perhaps an unconscious bias of literate cultures. In the Canadian high arctic years ago, scientists discovered evidence of "paleo-eskimo" (bad name) peoples in the soil. These included more primitive hunting tools than were used by the Inuit people who were there when Europeans arrived.

They took to the tools to the village elders excited to show what they had found. The news story reported that the elders said (paraphrase) "Yes we know. These are the Tuliit people. We have songs about them" :-0
I think this is going to have the exact opposite effect of what they're going for. I know plenty of people who split the cost of an account because they can't justify the full price. The continual price hikes, and now this?

I'm sure the bean counters have done the math and they'll come out ahead, but losing content + raising prices and now killing off people sharing accounts is just a bad look. This is yet another category of business where I think they'd be far better off being private, so in theory there isn't constant pressure to continue increasing revenue. Once you have market penetration, the only way you're increasing revenue is through customer hostile actions (like increasing the price of the service while decreasing the cost to provide it).
Following the recent events, wait until multinational corporation x comes, repackages your software as a managed solution, hosted on their infrastructure and resells it through their channels.
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Firstly - congrats on making great income by providing valuable skills to a hot market.

When you say "none of my customers need kubernetes" is that because they are not using any of its benefits, or because they could do it another way and kubernetes was one of the options rather than the only option?

In my experience very few people are fully exploiting everything k8s has to offer, but many people are getting side benefits from greater standardisation of deployments, consistency for implementation of logging, tracing and telemetry, reproducibility of environments and to an extend talent retention and development.

I'm very interested to understand where the line is for genuinely getting zero benefits of using k8s.
I have no doubt it can be learned, and I've tried to get over the hump multiple times, but still don't feel as comfortable with Rust as I do with every other language I've worked in, even those I've only spent a few hours in.

It's all about tradeoffs, and at a certain point you have to question whether the academic assurances offered by Rust are worth the complexity, given the problem at hand. As I said, it's obviously worth it for some problems, but I don't think it is for all problems. Which is great! I think the world would be boring if there was one language to rule them all.
This feels closely related Plain Language [1]. An editor I worked with pointed me to this concept. We were writing documentation for a framework my company was building.

[1] https://www.plainlanguage.gov/guidelines/
No, it's impractical to use civilian reactors for generating materials for a nuclear bomb (I don't count "dirty" bombs as nuclear). Also usually spent fuel rods are returned to the country of production.
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>my plan is to run macOS under a thin hypervisor built on m1n1 that can log hardware accesses

The fact that people like you exist in this world really makes me happy.
What is more, the Nord Stream I and II pipes were put under the Baltic Sea to bypass Poland and Ukraine and avoid extending existing pipes, not because it was economically viable.

This is a political decision that hits Ukraine geopolitically.

It increased German and European dependency on Russian natural gas and decreases political costs of Russian hostility against Ukraine significantly.
That is to prevent phishing with latin characters that look identical to normal ones.
Absolutely. Building nuclear power plants is quite different from pursuing nuclear weapons.

30 some nations use nuclear power, or are building nuclear plants. Only nine countries have nuclear weapons.

Pursuing nuclear weapons is obviously a choice, it's not automatic with nuclear power. It requires an immense, concerted effort to build nuclear weapons.

The US has begrudgingly learned to live with North Korea and Pakistan having nuclear weapons, it'll learn to live with Iran having nuclear weapons as well (and shortly after that, Saudi Arabia). Will Israel accept that outcome? I guess we'll find out, there is no scenario where Iran doesn't acquire nuclear weapons at this point. It's guaranteed.
> Heat and transport are the dominant areas, and both are still mostly fossil-based.

Nuclear is not used for any of those either. And to use nuclear for heat and transport the easiest way is to just turn it into electricity and use EVs and heat pumps. So we're back to how to clean up electricity.

Cleaning up the grid isn't just useful for the immediate emissions benefit, it's also because if you concentrate the clean technology there you can decouple the problem and clean up everything else by electrifying. There are things like fertilizers and steel where we have more than just the energy input to clean up and even those have solutions based on electrification.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Thorium reactors yet. My understanding is that the fuel is more abundant and that meltdown is impossible, however the technology is still in its infancy.
It's not hostile. It's ensuring you properly authenticate the request, and that you own the target endpoint. :)
On-the-spot gene expression readouts provide new clues to how cells work
What Can We Learn from the Demise of RxJava?
Aspirational Infrastructure!
Convoluted prose is the natural language equivalent of spaghetti code.
I find this trend of despising emojis quite pretentious and annoying. They are very useful in some circumstances. Acting like anyone using them is a dumb teenager, or they will automatically ruin a community, is completely absurd.
I'm not sure they understood the problem they were trying to solve let alone understood Postgres.
Vaccine Nationalists Are Not Immune
I've heard the Kubernetes vs VPS a lot now. I think it's the wrong way to think about it.

It's more about a learning curve of best practices.

- Building your application with a CI pipeline is a best practice. It helps to ensure your code builds from the repo and your tests run.

- Building your app into a container is a best practice. The Dockerfile tracks your dependencies as code, and you can version control it.

I can tell you from bitter experience these 2 are essential.

Once your app is containerized you have many choices in the way you deploy it. You can use PaaS i.e. heroku or azure web apps.

This is orchestration.

If your service has a few containers and maybe some jobs then Kubernetes starts to look like a good option. K8 is $50 a month on digital ocean, you can run a few projects on that.

Continuous deployment/delivery is a best practice. It takes the stress out of releases.

Infrastructure as Code is a best practice. It's immutable infrastructure and once you have it gives you so many options in the way you manage failover etc.

If you are concerned about uptime during deployments then Blue/Green is a great option too.

We're not overcomplicating things, these skills will transfer from a side project to a billion dollar corp concerned with safety critical software.

So you have to hit a few learning curves, but after that your a better developer.
A ton of services kindly ask me if my personal domain on .me TLD is correct one, but at least they don't block me from using it.
Does Digital Advertising Have Traditional Promotions Down for the Count?
You could also argue that going into law enforcement or military is an above-and-beyond commitment that people of faith excel in. Conservatism is a focus on whatever may be conserved. Mormons are generally raised to commit themselves to the world around them in an act of faith.

People are talking a lot about "neoliberalism", which is interesting to me; sometimes it seems like a reversal to the British definition of liberal, where in the US we typically say conservative to mean "less programs", but in some ways "more federated power".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-war_consensus

wait, what's conservatism??

Neoliberals in the US are now saying we can have a deregulated cake that is also able to make social guarantees. This is compelling to me, because it's clear that businesses have an overwhelming amount of influence in the US; if there's too much distance from their accountability, it's difficult to measure it. If it is also a business's responsibility to do shit right and make favorable agreements with the government and the US as a whole, maybe they're onto something.

The LDS church seems exceptionally "neoliberal", by some definitions. "Owned and operated", "disaster-recovery-by-default".
When we switched to WFH people dropped WebEx immediately in favor of Google Meet

Out of curiosity did they "just do it" or was this an official decision?

The "new normal" has really turned a lot of stuff on its head and brought "shadow IT" into the mainstream like never before. It's one thing to replace a video calling app but I wonder if we will ever see employees self-organise to boot out incumbents like SAP as well, that like Webex and Teams are sold on the golf course.
The article is what communicates facts. The headline is just an advertisement to draw the user in to read it. Optimizing the headline means the article is able to inform more people; in line with the mission of the organization. NYT wants to increase subscribers, not ad revenue, so it's incentivized to not confuse and disappoint readers with clickbait headlines.
I think most of us have done something along these lines, whether out of boredom or just curiosity.
Serverless compute in your favorite cloud provider IMO.

Been using serverless framework for over a year now, handles my deployments, load balancers, API gateway and obviously Lambda.

A proper CI/CD setup is only about 8 hours of work with a monolith app.
It amazes me how people on HN can handwave away these huge concerns. Have you met human beings? The users just sees "email" and thinks it's exactly like gmail except with a funky emoji in it. It's only a matter of time before someone tries to pay their taxes with this.
auDA really doesn't do much enforcement of this, at all. The policy might aswell not exist.

Not surprising, considering there are at least 4 auDA accredited registrars who specialise in domain parking[1], which is (allegedly) against the rules.

[1] https://www.auda.org.au/accredited-registrars - see drop.com.au, terrific.com.au, yexa.com.au, fabulous.com.au

Here are a few examples, all definitely parked domains - but auDA allows it:

television.com.au

bank.com.au

remotecontrols.com.au

modem.com.au

tweet.com.au

homephone.com.au

homepage.com.au (This domain is for sale, $80k)

It would be great if auDA enforced their policy...
Agreed, but citations needed:

http://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/docume...

http://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documen...

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/docu...

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/docu...

http://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/encyclicals/documen...

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/do...

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/do...

http://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/do...

http://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/encyclicals/do...

http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/docum...

http://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortation...

These are just a few examples. Besides that, there is all the work that Catholic, Christian and other religious organizations due in charity work and providing the only functioning schools in a community.

There is also a more libertarian-leaning (i.e., people who don't like being called "conservative") approach that points out (1) capitalism has done more to lift people from poverty than any other human invention, and (2) too often, government regulations actually get in the way of social justice (see, e.g., housing regulations).

It strikes me as stunningly ignorant that someone can believe that there is no "conservative position on social justice."
Since when are random tweets grounds for discussion on HN?
> zig has a huge leg up in this area because it does first class cross compilation of C source code to binary form.

What's the advantage of this? Compilation speed?

Doesn't that then mean that zig can't gain compiler improvements the way using an external compiler can? For example, if C is the intermediate language for $HIGH-LEVEL-LANGUAGE, then $HLL benefits every time that the specific C compiler being used is upgraded.
I wrote a post about that: https://www.simonjunod.ch/projets/webtld/

It's in French, but it's easy to understand the gist of it
I think it is system-wide. At least I've not encountered any input field where it doesn't work. Even Microsoft Office, which uses its own input routines, supports it.
I think much of the hate towards Prometheus was unwarranted and overblown although it was flawed. You could easily point to plot holes and dumb decisions by characters in Star Wars or any other classic sci fi.

And it was still better than 95% of films released that year or since.
As a non native speaker, the only times I have ever seen people using the word outside of its dictionary definitions when I was reading a bit of MAGA/Q sites out of boredom last year. I took it to just mean something based on US style christian/conservative values.

But usage seems to be broader according to what you wrote. I reckon the most common usage will be, that something is based, when it is unpopular or contentious, but you happen to agree with it.
Yes, I agree! However, I think move semantics and standardization of RVO/Copy Elission have been crucial to make value-semantics work at scale.
Use a PineCone board to check for packets transmitted by a long range sensor
That seems unlikely. If, for example, you run at a loss 50% for the time, then you need to have extra expensive rates during the other 50% of the time. Based on typical construction costs of nuclear power plants, those high rates are extremely attractive for competition from wind and solar. Which will reduce the amount of power that can be sold at premium rates, which requires even higher rates to compensate, etc.

Basically, in a free market, nuclear power is competing with power from batteries, hydrogen, and other ways of storing electricity.

This is an extremely unattractive market for nuclear.
Yeah but the genre seems to matter.

Fiction and poetry vs whatever type of writing blogging is.
>From the outside it looks like they didn't really branch out into things like this until 2008 or so.

No, even before the Newsfeed feature rollout of September 2006, they already had crazy complexity orchestrating multiple servers for many schools. They were only a "simple PHP+MySql" website when it was February 2004 with only Harvard students on it. Dustin said he was the one in charge of spinning up new servers for each new school and he said it was a nightmare of engineering effort.