skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Backend is hard like building a beautiful and complex watch mechanism.

Frontend is hard like training a dozen cats to perform a dance to a song played on half-broken 8-track player.

They’re both hard, but one makes you question your own sanity more often.
Yes, you can set up a budget alert. I have it set up for one of my work accounts.
Problem with that is that it's an email, and there's usually some delay in it going out. It's not a great solution for accidental traffic spikes (surprise HN post, or someone finding and abusing a public S3 object you have hosted, etc).

So you get an email saying your $10/mo site is now $1000 for this month, and climbing.

In general I wouldn't recommend using AWS and expecting the free tier for anything that's going to be public facing or autoscaling.
> The 3 dose mRNA + booster is all the same exact vaccine

Yes, currently it is. But that may change at any time.
You can't win with US dollars ;p
I've seen Cloudflare Enterprise accounts for two clients, the current one is paying the equivalent of $0.035/GB, the other was substantially higher although I've forgotten the numbers. Equivalent pricing from another vendor for the same service with enterprise support was $0.0021/GB. Their free bandwidth promises are grossly overstated, and possibly even a marketing fabrication, given previous reports here and elsewhere of high bandwidth users being cajoled into upgrades.

For an honest bandwidth offer, I'd much sooner consider Fly.io rather than Cloudflare. At least with Fly their true pricing is transparent

edit: speaking of transparency, https://imgur.com/HnlWFUe
No let’s poo poo Oracle.

I worked there. Engineering is vastly different than anywhere else; it’s about Oracle; not open source, not simplifying software and technology… it truly is about daddy Larry being rich enough to afford a fighter jet so he has enough to trickle down on the plebs.

Their traditional business side hates the cloud side because it’s taking over priority; legacy process is foisted on greenfield effort. It’s a shit show culture by MBAs for MBAs.

There is no technical competition or innovation coming out of there, just bean counters looking to collect beans.
Sure, but those videos were taken deliberately for purpose A: to establish a public record of something related to official actions/accountability. I don't think they can be put under "random videographer".
>And correct me if I'm wrong, but I also don't think that C++ has its own - sanctioned - community fora like Rust does.

That seems to be the rub of it, yes. Rust has aspirations of being its own social network in addition to being a programming language.
Nah, large companies will continue to buy up all the dying boomers' homes like they do today. The companies will then jack up the rent on all property in the area. Small kids today will never know ownership unless its through their daddy's company.
And how is fiat not a Ponzi scheme?
Indeed, the maximum bandwidth I've gotten out of anything is around 420 MB/sec from a single NVMe drive. Add in more devices and you basically divide the bandwidth proportionally. Round trips can even slow things down a bit more.
> - The only applications anyone is implementing on progcoins are exchanges and/or gambling. So far, dApps are a circular argument.

There's an argument that that's okay for now - the finance applications are effectively capitalizing infrastructure construction, which will make future applications easier to build, more scalable, etc. The amount of $ in these applications incentivizes bad actors to help expose the failure modes of the infrastructure - which again would be nice to know and document before it becomes widely useful.

^ that's a prediction - I'll be the first to admit that this crypto stuff may go nowhere. But it might go to some interesting places.
I would guess at least 50% of jobs are working on some internal facing app at a large boring company. You don't need to do animations, or pixel perfect layouts for most of those. Most places don't need responsive layouts, but they aren't that bad. Es6 is for the most part a big step up. Meh idk, this seems like perfectionism. If you want to be a great frontend developer you need those, but most people are average and many are below average. They are still getting jobs.
I don't understand "new cities are not built anymore". Villages become towns and towns become cities all over the place. There isn't likely to be new planned cities in the middle of nowhere. Cities need infrastructure like power, roads, water, airports, etc. These things happen organically except in state created cities like in China or Saudi Arabia.
The church mention reminded me of this article on the pre-Soviet Russian intelligentsia:

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2020/10/suicide-of-the-l...

They lived in meat Twitter a hundred years ago.
The best way to keep China from invading Taiwan is by upholding the One China Policy. With that policy in place, China has plenty of reasons to avoid a war. Unfortunately the US and many other parties are increasingly tearing this policy down, not seldomly without fully understanding why that policy was invented in the first place.
Plus they hired away a ton of AWS engineers to build their competitor right down the street from AWS headquarters. I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand.
These GCs have a 1GB overhead when working with a 16GB heap. That’s 6% of your available memory. I was expecting modern GCs to be way more efficient so I’m kinda shocked this is what state of the art is.

I also wonder how much of the progress to “Sub (200) millisecond” latency target is due us just having faster machines. I honestly have no model to tie this to actual performance of my code. I guess it translates but not really sure how.

Not bagging on Java —— I am just surprised how inefficient an industrial strength GC can be. I understand why manual memory management still holds its own now.
Feature wise, when the business asks for it, it is not over engineering, but when the dev team tries to out think the business team then it is.

Design wise, I know it when I see it but other people may see different things.
My (admittedly strange) meditation practice is like this but also includes reading and writing. All mental states are welcome: ingesting external input, taking notes on the input, reviewing notes, rewriting notes, writing fresh thoughts, pondering with a goal, pondering without one, and pondering nothing, just sensing my environment.
Lowering the tax rate on improvements would probably have the side effect of having more remodeling work be inspected. Much of the avoidance of building permits (and associated inspections) is about avoiding increased assessments and associated taxes. This in turn would likely lead to less totally slipshod remodeling work, at least by people who weren’t aiming for that outcome.
What an obnoxious piece of drivel.

"Any application that could be done on a blockchain could be better done on a centralized database. Except crime."

The HN California tech-bros could be forgiven for not "getting it" 2 years ago. However, when leaving your own damn house became a crime, this lack of understanding is beginning to become infuriating.

The value proposition of cryptocurrencies is not only in shielding you from the whims of bureaucrats that are in charge of monetary policies, but of idiotic changes to all policies.

When my country was in a full insane-mode covid lockdown, no centralized database helped me to get a haircut. That haircut guy took only cash or crypto.

When the next insane demand is inevitably decreed upon you, maybe cash won't do anymore either.
hah, more than 1 byte for sure, I missed that detail ...

EDIT: I develop on unix systems, not windows, so I'm rusty here ... looking up RegQueryValueExW() the `length` ("lpcbData") is in bytes so everything goes fine until `value[length]` which is indexing by wchar_t (16-bit on windows I guess, 32-bit on linux systems) so it's double the byte offset intended, that's way out.
Or we might have a commensurate number of immigrants/refugees fleeing the effects of climate change caused by western consumption.
rust-analyzer highlights everything, I have an empty vs code theme for it somewhere. But yeah, in general LSP highlighting is specified in augmentative way.
True. But you can do it on forecasted costs.
Cats aren't Turing complete because they don't have intentionality. Everything it was doing was a result of instinct.
I've never quite understood why the .NET runtime didn't ship with Windows. And Microsoft presumably controls Windows Update too, right? :thinking:
NFT Is the Collins Dictionary Word of the Year
No it's an idea and never concretely proposed.

And governments already have full control over an individual's money.
Enter the Progressive Web App
> This sounds like just a more expensive, difficult, and resource intensive way of running a lambda function...

It definitely would be for some applications - but probably not all. It's all about engineering trade-offs.

There's a possibility that tools with different trade-offs will make new niches feasible.
Quite a bit of it also comes from the fact that people are tired from the fed printing money at will, devaluing people's hard work they put in for years to save some money.

Secondly, people in the EU are also excited about bitcoin regardless of the fact that they have what you mentioned.
For sure it's just a simple script. But I really like to play with news data in my personal NLP projects. So I had the idea to scrape the data by myself.

Some months ago I've implemented the same script with the requests library and complete synchron and the script took around 1 minute to complete. Now, after first time implementing HTTP requests with async it's finished instantly in around 1-2 seconds.
> and then it was a sudden flip into "everyone should get them". I don't even know what data would suggest that I should get a booster shot

There's some evidence of waning immunity and reduced antibody titers, and greater incidence of breakthrough infections for people who have been vaccinated a long time. There's also just a lot of evidence that 3 is better than 2 for likelihood of breakthrough infection.

Waning immunity isn't enough to make overall death rates increase: even at current slow incremental rates of vaccination the effect from increased vaccination "beats" waning immunity. But this can't hold up forever.

> I do not see death rates climbing

Waiting for death rates to climb is way too late. It'll take a long time to move them in the opposite direction. Also, a lot of this is preventative: more doses doesn't mean just "more immune response" but "broader immune response and better protection against future variants".

> and I have fatigue from doing the research I wish the nation-state which sets my laws would simply have done correctly and before recommending my action.

There's no way the dose schedule is ideal steady-state. Doses a few weeks apart isn't what will maximize response. The vaccine doses themselves are probably too high. But we had to do something while supplies were lacking, the pandemic raging, and with partial information.
Phoenix has some location advantages (large rivers flow into the valley, warmer climate, better soil for agriculture) than northern Nevada that makes it more desirable and spurred growth.
If PayPal would have realized the vision of Elon Musk, there would be no banks anymore. In that scenario, it would be really hard for crypto to emerge.

But right now, that market is fully open.
Germany will legalize marijuana and promote drug harm reduction
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-4
China's growth has been mostly due to the liberalization of their markets. You're proving me right.
This is the second time this week I've seen an article from Diehl on the front page that is critical of cryptocurrency but has next to zero substance. Weird that people regard him as a crypto expert, he doesn't seem to understand the space very well.

- Comparing Bitcoin to doge and shiba is laughable

- Re progcoins, he says "After twelve years of these technologies existing" - Ethereum is only 6 years old...

- Like most other crypto skeptics, this author doesn't understand the value of decentralized value transfer, so his analysis entirely misses the pro's of these technologies. It's like someone trying to understand why candy is popular by only looking at the nutritional information - never tasting it.

I'd bet 1000 SHIBA that one of Diehl's friends tried to convince him to buy in years ago, and now the cognitive dissonance of that rejection costing him hundreds of thousands of dollars in potential gains is forcing him to double down: his ego cannot tolerate crypto success - or else he'd have to admit to himself he was naive and short sided by discounting it years ago.

The majority of coins will eventually fail, and it's even possible all the currently popular ones will be included in that. The road to maturity has been and will continue to be bumpy. But the writing is on the wall that crypto is going to be a major force in global finance for decades to come. Pandora's box is open, anyone who thinks it will entirely flame out and disappear doesn't understand what has happened over the past decade.
The sRGB color #ffffff should never mean "the brightest white on this monitor", unless you're using an average CRT.

Just imagine you're using an HDR display, where the brightest white is as bright as the sun.
Greg's Brass History Page
> were it not for the antivax population

There's always someone to scapegoat. Instead of blaming politicians for being wrong, you're blaming the skeptics who knew that vaccines aren't going to change anything.
That's true, but you (well at least I) can also commit the sunk cost fallacy, brute forcing my way through a problem when if I had stepped back i would have found a more elegant, easier way.
The Worst Programming Language Ever [video]
Couldn't you make the same argument for pets.com stock in early 2000? "Diversification" is a conveniently vague reason to invest in something when there are no "fundamentals" that can be evaluated. At the very least pets.com had some assets that could be sold off after the company went under. Bitcoin can't even claim to have that.
I think so
https://nitter.eu/shiffman/status/788180917424644096
>>"Don't think voters will continue voting for those policies now that repercussions being seen and lived."

- I really hope you are right, but I am not expecting this. Unfortunately, average voter (both on the left and right) seems to be willing to reject realities of cause->effects if they conflict with their identity.
First Real Flutter Unit Tests
> in the middle of nowhere in the desert centered around a man made lake that needs to get refilled periodically.

How is that refilling paid for? What source of water does it draw from?
1.) Don't be a jackass.

2.) I know what reactive programming is, I make extensive use of RxJS at work. And I obviously know what an event listener is. I was asking why is it wrong to have the button have functionality and only emit events. And I did google that, but nothing from your comment you posted that I googled lead to anything about reactive programming.
Nothing on Lightsail CDN and Object Store egress?
https://archive.md/a8JZU
I think this has already happened in China. They provided digital RMB as a stimulus that expired if you didn’t use it. We’re all Mario now.
you are priced out of specific locations, not the whole housing market and those people who are pricing you out of those locations, they themselves are also priced out from other certain high priced locations.
At $100/week you can trivially have have chicken every dinner. You made it $30/week to justify rice and beans as the sole meal. Which makes it harder to purchase addons. Especially if that works out to $7.50/person/week for a family of 4. Just over $1.07/person/day doesn't leave a lot of extra money.
Sooooo fourth dose in May?
From reading the linked article it seems fairly easy to use. Do you have some concrete examples why your solution would be "lighter"? I'd actually say it's heavier since you have to pay and end up in a "custom pricing scheme" (whatever that means) for 10k+ users as it says on your website. And it's also only available as a cloud service, with all the vendor lock in shenanigans everyone hates.

By the way people usually disclaim upfront on HN (see FusionAuth folks here) when they are involved in a project. Seems like you are the "CTO at Clerk". Frankly it's dishonest to talk bad about open source without claims to back it up while also being in a competitive space and plugging your solution in their "Show HN" moment.

tl;dr no thanks I'll look somewhere else...
Zillow lost money because they weren't willing to lose money
Woof, most places I've ever worked has a script that I curl and then I'm set up.

That said, I can't speak for the Mac users of the world. I've watched people make $30 an hour hunting down DMGs online...
> automated market makers

Are you claiming that this is an innovation associated with crypto? Can you elaborate or clarify, as the case may be?
Bear in mind that premier support is included for free for cloud customers. So for example ksplice and dtrace are included. Ksplice is fantastic and it's really worth it.
CA has prop 13 and we currently have incredibly low mortgage interest rates. SF has an amplified effect, but housing is going up faster than wages pretty much everywhere. Prices are up more than 40% in the desirable cities and town outside of SF (Austin, TX for example).

I don't see any simple ways to fix this, interest rate hikes will slow price growth, but payments will still go up. Some incremental changes (additional taxes on empty houses, rezoning, etc.) may have small changes, but do not seem likely to bring down affordability. Any small dip in affordability in the desirable places will likely see more migration there, unless we hit a huge recession, which based on my experience in 2008, still means most of us will miss out, as the price won't dip enough and the major asset holders just get to buy at a discount.
The case for it is the denominator increasing.
> since it worries about people of the wrong race learning too much.

It doesn't. It worries about the students being warehoused in sub-par schools while claiming to give everyone the same education.
I feel your pain. So many developers are so quick to make concessions citing "premature optimization" or some stuff like that. Then again, modern hardware can simply brute force its way through inefficiencies, and it does save the developer a bunch of time.
thanks for the well-written primer. Just one observation. You write:

>Over time, Ethereum has proven to be sub-optimal for the incredible demand DeFi services have seen. The network has diseconomies of scale and, given its low throughput capability, gas fees (the cost of executing a transaction on the Ethereum network) have recently been over $150. This makes executing simple low-value transactions, such as swaps on Uniswap, prohibitively expensive! Since the emergence of DeFi, there are several other L1 chains (like Solana and Avalanche) that have become a popular place for DeFi developers to build with transaction fees. Ethereum itself is also in the midst of the infamous “ETH2” transition, which aims to solve this problem on the Ethereum network itself.

This is not correct in the sense that a) 'ETH2.0' is now deprecated term, and b) does not solve the gas fee issue by itself. Ethereum has pivoted to a modular rollup centric roadmap that solves the high costs of transactions already now (cf StarkWare and MatterLabs zkSync) while still keeping the secuirty and decentralisation of the main Ethereum settlement layer. This is in contrast to other L1s such as Solana which have sacrificed decentralisation for higher speed and throughput.

Check out this wonderful resource by @epolynya for the most comprehensive summary of this new roadmap

https://polynya.medium.com/rollups-data-availability-layers-...
Manual memory management can also have overhead due to e.g. fragmentation. I don't know if it approaches 6% in realistic scenarios.
I have not tried it. I just saw the commits (it was 5 months ago), so I had assumed it was merged.
Phoenix was not just some random place in the desert that was as good as any other, it was founded because of a pre-existing canal system that the founders expanded upon that gave it much better access to water

http://www.azheritagewaters.nau.edu/loc_hohokam.html
pngcrush -brute 10355kb
cjxl -q 100 -e 9 8413kb
> Maybe it's like somebody mining for diamonds under my house - they've found some value in something I didn't know I had, but I now want my share.

And this is one of the harder parts of assigning value to something like this... What is a person's share when someone exploits a resource that the first party had some kind of nominal claim to (i.e. "my land," even though really you live above that 3D region of space, not within it) but zero ability / opportunity / inclination to exploit?

There's volumes and volumes of legal precedent on this topic for tangibles, let alone the increasingly-intangibles that we can monetize online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus

Imagine something like ISA but 32 bits wide, with a GPIB-like arbitration scheme. On a backplane that you plug CPU cards and peripheral cards into.
There's a comment highlighting this at the bottom of the gist, and apparently an updated version.
The internet is only half the problem. The few iot devices I have all hang out on a separate vlan.
There's something odd about an abstract that says "...females preferred..." instead of "...the majority of females preferred...".

By that same standard, humans are heterosexual, monogamous, and date within their own skin color. And apparently, anyone who deviates from that is "creepy".
One of the goals of PCIe when they were designing it was to avoid the “bus” architecture classic PCI had as that forced every device on the bus to run at the speed of the slowest device. PCIe, OTOH, takes a “star” network topology (more a "tree" though) with point to point connections. Thanks to the use of switches, each point can run at the maximum speed they support (limited by the switches speed).

Basically, it’s like USB (as @dragontamer said). Just as you can turn a single USB port into 7 more downstream ports through a USB switch, you can do the same with a PCIe switch.
>this author doesn't understand the value of decentralized value transfer, so his analysis entirely misses the pro's of these technologies

came here to say the same thing, with one addition: unregulated decentralized transfer

the author seems to brush this off as only appealing to criminals
It isn't. I still use it once in a while on an old netbook with a couple of gigs of memory, and it flies for any editing task. In comparison, no IDE can even hope to run on that unit.

HOWEVER, a heavily and naively reconfigured emacs, possibly with uncompiled elisp code and copy-pasted invocations that wait for network responses could take ages to open.

If you are finding emacs to be slow, try it vanilla first ("--no-init-file") before deciding it's the program and not your configuration.
It's easy to complain and dismiss, but bitcoin literally made me rich
Rice and beans is a basis. There's also a lot of corn. But it's not that those people are different, it's that preparation takes a real amount of time.
I was excited 4 years ago when I first discovered these crypto concepts. As time has gone on and I've learned more about them, they are less interesting and come with a ton of baggage. There are interesting things like formal verification, but I expect that these types of things will be taken without the blockchain.

You shouldn't dismiss HN attitudes as jealousy or asleep, that is derogatory.