skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just advertising copy. It isn't giving unbiased advice, there is an obvious conflict of interest here.

I was hoping to learn some things to help me avoid common airflow problems, but it only talks about database sync jobs for the most part and jumps into pitching Airbyte over and over, the last 2/3 of the article being a sales pitch, right out of a marketing class.

Hi to the author and other Airbyte employees pushing this to the frontpage! I hope you didn't have to get up too early to coordinate your voting. Make sure to give this comment a downvote so we know you are out there!
Ask HN: Are there any, good, website builders out there?
In the name of getting stuff done, presumably a website builder would be the go-to tool to quickly create and edit websites.

Having had opportunity to work with Elementor, Divi and atm. Subbly's website builder I've not been impressed yet. It honestly seems stupidly difficult to not constantly bud heads with the builder.

Have any of you found good website builders that beat building websites by hand?
I made an archive of the site as it currently is https://archive.is/97NXJ

2 days ago I noticed the site loading slow, and eventually an error message started popping up

> Sorry for the inconvenience but this website is currently undergoing maintenance and will be hopefully back online shortly.

I don't think this was announced/planned. I'm curious what caused it.
At most private schools donations are a way to ensure your children have a better chance of getting into the same school. Legacy students at Harvard for example have about 33% chance of being admitted vs the overall acceptance rate of 4.6%.
This is moreso a failing of states to capitalize on remote workers. Plenty of people would just get a visa if possible. But it's very complex for most countries, and especially the USA.

Absolutely agree. I'm not anti-nomad - I'd love to do it myself. But, the hurdles of doing are too high to make the leap. Hell, even doing it within the US isn't easy because of state taxes. And I'd want to visit places for more than the typical 90-day tourist visa - probably more like a year at a time.
I’m not sure I’d want to accept payments on Algorand since they have centralized relay nodes that can shut down the chain.
I am curious to hear from any programmer types here have done one of these elite MBAs. If so, what was your experience like? How difficult were they? This [1] is the only real-life experience in-thread I have seen so far, but that's from the spouse of a student.

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28799646
> After listening into their earnings call,

People should really listen to earning calls, it shows the company's true character. From Nvidia, Intel, AMD or Apple. I have yet to see any media does a decent job and translating it to mainstream news. Mostly because Tech news (site) aren't really focused on Finance and only cares about the tech, while Finance / Investors doesn't care or known enough about about Tech and wouldn't cover it in the Finance news.

> and prefers long-term stability and keeping their existing clients happy.

That is why people partner with TSMC. As Morris Chang calls it the Grand Alliance. Unlike Samsung and Intel, TSMC is Pure Play, which means they dont have chips that compete with their clients. They are also transparent about their progress. TSMC originally put GAA on 3nm, but it was clear the tech isn't going to be mature enough in time. So they changed it to something else. Let their customer knows, let them decide if they should move on to a more mainstream node like a cost reduced 4nm, or stick to leading edge on 3nm FinFET.

Unlike Intel which lied to all of their Custom Foundry partners leaving some of them with a two years 5G delayed rollout. Or Samsung which despite having the cheapest per wafer, the cost advantage doesn't translate well when you dont have enough of them for your inventory needs.
In practice, how is that different from not having the capacity to serve others?
> that can mean as little as "pay us a few thousand dollars and we'll ignore you."

This is simply not the case. Most, if not all, state money transfer regulations mandate financial reporting to the state, and place limitations on the permissible investments that a licensed entity may hold as backing for customer obligations held in trust. Any failure to comply will result in fines and/or loss of the license (which effectively results in the closure of the money transmission business).

A number of states (California and New York among them) also conduct on-site examinations of licensees' businesses (paid for by the licensed entity). As someone who was has served as a senior executive at a company that undergoes these examinations regularly, I can assure you that they tend to be rigorous and all-encompassing.

> This regulatory framework was created as a way of side-stepping the more onerous regulations that apply to real depository institutions.

This regulatory framework was not created as a way of sidestepping anything. It was created as a way to proactively regulate money transmission.

Money transmitters are not depository institutions; they serve a different, more narrow economic function, and existing regulations are properly tailored to that economic function. In practice that means that money transmitters are required to maintain 100% reserves backing any and all customer obligations, they must hold their reserves only in certain permissible investments (i.e. government debt and bank deposits), and they are required to obtain surety bonds to further insure those obligations.

Venmo, PayPal, Western Union, Money Gram and dozens of other companies are all subject to these requirements, and there has never been any instance that I am aware of where this regulatory arrangement has resulted in consumer funds being lost, in the twenty years since this regulatory regime began to be fully implemented after passage of the USA PATRIOT Act.

Furthermore, I am not seeing what the material difference is between the outstanding obligation represented by USDC and the outstanding obligation represented by a PayPal or a Venmo account. The fact that the law treats them the same is entirely appropriate.

Tether is a problem precisely because it is unlicensed and has thus far illegally evaded these regulations. The fact that Tether is operating illegally in the US should not impugn its competitors that are in fact operating legally.
I would have been diagnosed with ADD and medicated if I hadn't been put on a faster track. Luckily the teacher correctly observed to my parents that I was just bored. I don't know what would have happened to me in a system without that track. I probably would have been a much less happy child.
For many years I've really wanted to buy (and hold) SpaceX shares. Such a shame it's not on the public market...
I have used Hugo for an internal docs site for a few years until I saw a gem that is https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/

Now, even my personal website runs off of mkdocs + material. Such a pleasant software.
Tried it for a small non-profit and shared your finding that a well-made spreadsheet is just as good if not better. But a larger company would've quickly hit a regulatory wall as well, not just a technical one. For accounting software to be legal under our tax laws it needs to prevent you from doing things that are illegal (back-dating, editing, deleting...) and it needs to have a technical study done to prove that. Such a study is of course expensive and must be commissioned by the vendor. You can imagine how that just isn't possible for GNU Cash and similar community-built programs.
"Kagi - Better Web for our Children"

Well... It's a pass from me. Anything claiming something is "think of the children" is at best facetious.
to play devils advocate, humans have been the most intelligent species for a long time, but haven't always been the dominant one.

further, we shouldn't assume the "most intelligent" rise to the top in terms of hegemony and leadership ex. Trump and our world governments in general.
I've found a number of systems on Amazon intended for adding CO2 to aquariums but never got around to buying any of those.

Anyone tried using those for mosquitoes?
I see your point about using shared libraries to fix problems in multiple applications at once, but there is a flip side to that: what you're running isn't what you built so you may not be able to predict what your software will do when installed on different users computers.
Pros:

* Supports both Chrome and Firefox extensions, vs. Brave supporting Chrome only.

* Not so much with the skeezy crypto emphasis.

Cons:

* Brave has a multi-year head start, and has worked all the kinks out. Sync works, etc.

* This is Apple-only. Brave works on every major device.

I won’t be leaving Brave anytime soon. But competition is a good thing, and this beta is worth keeping an eye on.
Lovely work. I am always intrigued by the power of shaders. For scientific visualization, the typical paths for data presentation are very utilitarian, and we never progress very far from that. No time, I suppose.. but the tools should encourage more satisfying results; mostly science is communication.
> So I have a dedicated hard-drive that I boot into that is strictly for coding. Another is strictly for news & social media. This way if I'm coding, I am less likely to slide into Hackernews/Reddit/Twitter/Whatever. Friction is good and more people need to leverage it.

But then you're also less likely to get back to work once you are in social media, aren't you?
Oh christ, no.
This is akin to language learning. A child can take foreign language courses from kindergarten through high school (~20 years), but in the end they will only learn a stilted academic version of that language. They would be better off spending a single year fully immersed in that foreign country, learning the actual language and associated culture, with all its idiosyncrasies and subtleties.

Anything short of full immersion with actual human-to-human interaction is doomed to be a lesser than alternative.
+1... Title is misleading / clickbaity
Thanks for answering :)

I could do all that, it's just that nothing "clicks" in the sense that I really want to do it, instead of doing it to pass time.

That sounds like depression and maybe it is, but I feel it's got more to do with the "I have achieved all I wanted in life, wife, kids, wealth, whoops, now what?" thing. When I was younger, every item of that list seemed like a challenge, and now that they are behind me, I realize I never planned for it.

Also when I was younger, I was just day dreaming when I wasn't busy and I was content. Now that I feel that I only have a couple of decades left, I feel the need to no longer waste my time. That kinda clashes with the lack of ambition.

Work helps in the sense that I have social interaction outside the family and some problems to solve, but I also feel I am just papering over a void.
The linked article, as well as the article it's linking to, are just thin wrappers around this Ant Lab video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQL25_hoQ1k
Not to mention that a single bank fee can wipe out a decade of interest.
You're right. Cooking takes a lot of time, and cooking good healthy food that isn't boring can be expensive. I'm sorry, I can't live on vegetables and be happy. I cook plenty of chicken, fish and red meat as well. Although my appreciation for vegetables have gone up considerably in the past couple decades. The first lesson I learned is that canned vegetables are awful. Frozen is much better. Now I feel that frozen is awful (well, for things like spinach, broccoli, carrots and cauliflower anyway, corn and beans are fine). Now I only like fresh veggies (except for corn, frozen corn is fine). But fresh veggies don't keep long. There's a Lotte about 20 minutes away that has about twice as many different kinds of produce as most markets, and at about half the price, but that's a long way to go for every day shopping. I'll get fresh veggies at Giant or Target, but I don't like paying so much more.

I happen to love cooking, so to me it's relaxing. My wife doesn't like to cook, so I do most of it. But even still, as much as I like doing it, there are definitely days when I don't feel like all the work. And if I'm going to put the effort into making stuff, I want to make something good, and often something new, and that takes a lot of time.

And while brown rice is much better than white rice. If you want white rice, go with basmati. It tastes much better, cooks faster, and is hard to screw up. I don't understand why people use any other white rice. There are tons of other kinds of rice that are worth exploring too. They all have much more interesting flavors and textures than plain old generic long-grain white rice.
Perhaps to figure out why Facebook was down?
I think this concept would work in the elderly population. Including patients with severe dementia. An interesting way to improve quality of life for this population.
Very solid article. Even with where it’s published, it’s jolly sensible.

I would like to jump in and say use Beam instead of DBT, but tbh that’s bad advice. What the world needs is something open source with the incremental model of beam, a fast incremental backend (thinking htap storage that mixes columns and rows automagically) and the ease and maintainability of DBT. There is just this massive hole. If some combination of tools could fill it, that would be the new LAMP stack for data.
Just to clarify, xterm.js is not a Microsoft project and tries to remain neutral, but MS is essentially sponsoring it through my work. Also, a good deal of my time spent working on it particularly early on was for the love/fun of it in my spare time. The WebGL renderer for example was a pure fun personal exercise.
A solar powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline
Of course it is. In most cases you do not have any sort of guarantees regarding the browser (which it self usually is more complex piece of software than all your operating system and it's accessories calculated together - difficult to audit - known to collect metrics etc etc). In addition one can sandbox their local terminal pretty effectively - With Tomoyo or some other MAC technology. It's not so bad idea to actually isolate your browser too (with Mandatory Access Control) - It usually has no business for a global view on your filesystem or local network resources.
Bain is way too big to only take HBS. I went to michigan and they were hiring 50+ undergrads a year. The MBA grads seemed to mostly be going into consulting with Bain one of the main recruiters. Maybe you won't make partner unless you have the Harvard MBA though.
Common misconception — fiduciary duty does not necessarily mean a duty to maximize profits. In Musk’s case, he has repeatedly stated that Mars is the goal, and that shareholders who aren’t interested in that goal should get off the ride.
Most people mostly care about his/her own opinions, and others opinions only insofar as they reflect on himself/herself (even though of course the others are also thinking about themselves mostly), we're hopelessly self-involved creatures like that. Nonetheless there is inertia and subtle shifts that can come from sharing them, and though it may often feel like coming up against a brick wall if you look in the right way you'll see the bricks may be aligned a bit differently, and you can trace some of those differences to opinions you may have expressed.

As always the wise approach is probably somewhere in the middle, in this case choosing your battles. You don't have to voice every opinion, but you shouldn't be silent if you have a strong and well-formed opinion about something important.
In many cases, it was entirely possible to ask for reassignment without getting shot by a superior officer, so your accusation of cartoonish oversimplification cuts both ways...
When I moved, I found my new pizza places (all local restaurants really, plus my mechanic, where I get my hair done, etc.) by walking around, word of mouth from my neighbors and guys putting menus around my mailbox. Whether these places are on the web anywhere, let alone Facebook, probably has just a small effect of people being able to find them. I mean, if Facebook didn't exist, people would still be able to find them.
I for one look forward to OP's submissions, and I am perfectly capable of forming my own opinion on the quality and content of each one.
I mean, based on the complaints outlined in your comment above it kind of sounds like vim _is_ a tool of your trade (albeit one that you don't use very often). The basics are probably worth learning just so you don't have to care when you run into vim (opening files, inserting text, save and exit). Learn it once and you're good to go.

Or you can keep resetting the default editor to nano. You do you, friend.
Webflow has been a great experience
> I have this intense 25-lines "qemu" script for invoking qemu-system properly. It was enlightening but I'm not sure how much I was enriched by the process of actually figuring all this out.

Do you have your script posted publicly somewhere?
That's really great! Glad to hear you'd heard about this prior to the experience and were able to successfully utilize it.
Is there really a 1-1 mapping between SQL and T?

What about use cases where the data lives in an object store? How does dbt deal with that?
Oh, that’s good news. I’ll have to follow along when there’s more progress.

I am surprised, at least somewhat (and as someone with very little Haskell experience,) to hear Haskell may not be a good fit for the compositing bits. That’s a bit disappointing because the stability of Xmonad is probably a big selling point, and even more important with a Wayland compositor, but most of the Wayland compositors have quite a lot of C code. Maybe the same will wind up being true of the compositing bits of the Wayland equivalent of Xmonad.
Alpha Paw Raises 8M the Next Pet Wellness Chewey?
Alpha Paw a wellness pet product business recently announced on Techrcunch a fundraising round of $8 million to continue their phenomenal growth into 2022.
I enjoy VS Code.
I think I agree with every point on that post.

Only thing that I would add to the context:

If someone is a junior developer and has position where he has to "just write code" don't worry much about that advice. Yes you should understand what this advice is and look for ways to grow into that mindset but as junior dev such person still has privilege to fully focus on coding stuff as quickly as possible to learn have their movements worked out.

Then as such junior gets to 2 or more years of experience this advice should sink in and such person should start working as those points guide. After 2 years of being code monkey and having the feel for the code one can start looking at bigger picture.
Starlink is presumed to be the main moneymaker which could justify a much higher valuation than 100B if their plans pan out
I think he's beating up a straw man, here.

> The idea that someone can produce in 1 day what another competent, hard working, similarly experienced programmer can produce in 2 weeks is silly.

Over such short time scales, maybe, but the idea that someone could contribute in 1 year what another programmer wouldn't accomplish in 10 years is highly plausible, to me.
There are a few places where it's obvious VS Code isn't a native Mac app. For example drag & drop between apps doesn't work as it should.

(When initiating a drag, VS Code steals active app focus and brings its windows to front. It should stay in the background so that you can drag content into another app. This is a behaviour that views in Cocoa applications just inherit automatically.)
Have you ever seen the bit in a show (or, hell, been caught by a street hustler) where someone asks for help breaking a large bill, and then after a few rounds of confusion and money being handed back and forth walks away with everything?
You fantasize about a scene where you have a cool comeback when you overhear someone railing against a state you live in?

Then you think about it again and comment on a public forum about it. Yeah that's totally not caring at all.
Same goes for Emacs, nobody points you to the Info system, which is absolutely amazing.

Perhaps this is because both vimtutor and the Emacs tutor do refer to their respective help systems, but given the sad state of most help systems beginners are familiar with I think they can be forgiven for not taking the recomendation seriously. Its worth really emphasizing to beginners that there is a follow up to the simple vimtutor/TUTORIAL built right into the editor.
To expand on (1). Preemptive multitasking is the one that doesn’t work very well because it interrupts your flow and the cost of context switching is high. Cooperative multitasking is fantastic since you only task switch when you’re blocked.
2018 at the earliest:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerabilit...

It's not a browser vulnerability per se, but it's still mitigated by having a separate address space.
But there's potentially an enormous amount of money along the way - first via taking satellites up and contracting with the US to take astronauts, then potentially providing infrastructure for space mining and heavy industry. There's also orbital tourism.

One way or another, space is going to end up being a valuable industry if only by virtue of the fact that access to space will be a critical national security issue - imagine if China monopolized access to space and could take down satellites at will.
That is not how capacity planning works. You dont built it and hope for them to come.

If others were willing to paid, take the risk and book in advance they will have the capacity the need. But rarely anyone was will to pay the price premium. They wait for it to become a little more mainstream.
At age of 50s and not working, I am just pounding away at the keyboard for the next greatest idea of the internet.

about 750,000 lines of codes in, 3/4th for testing.
Building a website or app is easy. Getting people to use it is another.

Every time I order food the restaurant puts a flyer in there begging me to use their own site.

Meanwhile "Just Eat Takeaway confirms it’s gobbling up Grubhub in a $7.3B deal".
Show HN: Trash-d: A near drop-in replacement for rm that uses the trash bin
Will those features transfer to iOS though? Last time I checked truly custom browsers are not allowed there and extensions could be easily interpreted as running downloaded third party code, which is also a common excuse for Apple to throw apps off the store.
I'm still wrapping my head around the concept of Coin Mixing, but I wonder how helpful that would be - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coinjoin.asp
I haven't left my home in what feels like 1000 years
… and sourced from the same Bloomberg article under discussion.
Is that really that bad of a problem? In the worst case, you use the underlying hooks to create a custom operator and in the worst worst case you do something like have a Spark/Dataflow/k8s pod/whatever other single threaded or distributed task runner act as that custom operator.

I'm running into the "incremental load" problem now trying to batch intervals of Avro files into BigQuery, but Airflow doesn't seem to complain much about 10 minute intervals (less than that and I'd be a bit worried). One workaround we're considering to having 144 dag runs/dag/day for 10 minute intervals is to just define it as a daily dag and periodically clear it throughout the day.

I have heard of newer companies who don't need to deal with legacy ETL going the ELT route which is interesting to me. I'm curious who owns the transformation in that case. Do you just hire more data scientists or maybe a bunch of junior devs/analysts/DSs to own data cleaning and transformation? The way our transformation works is that the engineering team that owns the application data owns the transformation so they can document exactly what the data going into the BI tool is. It adds overhead on the engineering side, but not nearly as much as throwing the data in a lake and hoping someone downstream knows what to do with it.