skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some time with a computer refurber back in the day. He used to buy old computers from mining operations these things were literally filled to the brim with dust and weird shit.

Computers are amazingly resilient if you don't need them for much more than office work.
Even better, we're listening to someone who has accomplished less than Martin Fowler.
Descentralized Google Drive using Blockchain (Rinkeby Ethereum Testnet)
I realize it creates a legal quagmire to have abandoned works and I think registration should be required to solve that.

That being said, what in reality would happen if you release that sheet music? If it's abandoned, there wouldn't be anyone to come after you for it. You could just put it up online for free and then honor DMCA takedowns from people who can prove they are the rights holder.
Nvidia’s deal for ARM is dead – how long until CEO Jensen Huang admits it?
Ah okay, I see. I was using NA as my example because it's what I know the most about, and I think it has the most obvious suburban form. There are other countries around the world that exhibit similar patterns.

My point about single-family being cheapest to build is indeed a US political problem, because through law/taxation we have incentivized it to be. By cheapest to build, I mean including municipal development charges and the land cost. The external costs of these developments (increased carbon emissions, less efficient land use) are not being paid for by the developer, so taxpayers/local governments are not being forced to pay for that burden.
You and GP are making the same assumption that my DevOps engineers _aren't_ as experienced as AWS' are. There are plenty of engineers capable of maintaining an in-house infrastructure running X 9s because, again, the complexity comes from the scale AWS operates at. So we're both arguing with an a priori assumption that the grass is greener on our side.

To be fair, I'm not saying never use cloud providers. If your systems require the complexity cloud providers simplify, and you operate at a scale where it would be prohibitively expensive to maintain yourself, by all means go with a cloud provider. But it's clear that not many companies are prepared for this type of failure, and protecting against it is not trivial to accomplish. Not to mention the conceptual overhead and knowledge required with dealing with the provider's specific products, APIs, etc. Whereas maintaining these systems yourself is transferrable across any datacenter.
Bayes filter - yes.
Now do cryptocurrency.
Bullets are loud and require you to transport a gun into the area and find a spot where you can snipe at your target, both of which could be very difficult in, for instance, an urban environment. You probably would get caught.

The poison warp bubble is much cooler and stealthier. And as someone else mentioned, you aren't restricted by the lightcone.
collecting science?
The Law of Small Numbers: Overestimating the Representativeness of Small Samples
Now if only the Docks and Laptops / other devices being docked mentioned modes they were capable of working in.
npm automatically does a "security audit" when you install packages. it's not a panacea, but a pretty big help.
>Dealing with conflicts between neighbors is ancient.

But society previously couldn't afford to indulge in wasting resources (either directly on process or implicitly by preventing people from doing what's economically optimal) mediating these disputes to the same extent they do now. That's why I think it's a wealth thing.
Remembering what you did and what you wanted to do next takes a lot of notes! It's really amazing controlling the drones on Mars, with all the traffic routed through a constellation of satellites, where the rotation even affects the latency.
And the US government does not choose to what extent to honor you?

What is inflation targeting then, and why is inflation targeted instead of deflation?

The answer: so its debt is inflated away.
Seems like it's doing an exemplary job of indicating their experience, then.
It might be reflecting the fact that it's easier to talk about something if you know it well.
OT, but considering the audience...

I have a side project / website that I want to work on. I have over a decade experience with PHP and JS in various forms, but am willing to try something new.

The idea of compiled languages don't appeal to me, so am not really interested in Go, Rust or Dart. It looks like either Django, Elixir, or PHP - but am open to other ideas.

Anyone with enough experience to tell me confidently that it is worth Django or Elixir? Anyone can give a five line overview of the differences vs PHP or Node?

And along the way, am I the only one who is confused by what seems too many environments and package managers? (from venv/virtualenv[1] to pip/easy_install to wheels/eggs)

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/q/41573587/87520
> Isn't the joke that they'll respond "_____ is good for Bitcoin" in response to pretty much anything, good or bad?

I filled in the best and worst things I could think of and the result is "false" for the best but "true" for the worst. I picked post-scarcity for "best". I'll leave "worst" as an exercise for the reader.
Right, this is really what's meant by the phrase "fake it until you make it" -- not that you should make claims that aren't true (even though they may be someday) but that you should simulate automating processes in a similar fashion to your anecdote before actually spending the time and money to automate them, even though up front you're likely to lose money on having humans do what you eventually want computers (or robots, in the case of Amazon warehouses) to do.
During the Facebook outage FB wrote something along the lines of "We noticed that some users are experiencing issues with our apps" eventhough nothing worked anymore
Gamasutra Rebranding to “Game Developer”
Finally a post in which I understand absolutely nothing, with the feeble exception of the word ‘warp’. I can lay off all pretense, skip the attempt to incorporate this into my model of the world, and blissfully skate right past.
The earth IS the anchor :)
Hehe, nice.

\m/
Yes several navies are working on torpedo interceptors.

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2019/04/16/navies-...
The post isn't bad or anything, its just that coming from Fowler (or a partner) who sells software services and books on software for a living, it is as biased as it gets.

I would love to read more on this particular topic but from the point of view of someone who needed to get the job done and tried no/low code tools and building his own thing and learned the pros and cons of each approach. Everything else looks like salespeople talking.
Open Dynamic Robot Initiative (2020)
I’ve seen some people calling for Apple to take AirTags off the market and recall them… I don’t think that would be great. What does HN think?
I agree. I already watched the video and was surprised that I couldn't find a link from this page. The fact that the header image is clickable is very non-intuitive. At the very least the cursor should change on hover.
Fixed expectations from before Google bought them/it was stand-alone profitable perhaps? Although people got over the image of Amazon not making any money.
Investigation fails to replicate most cancer biology lab findings
That does not strike me as the right direction of progression. We should become better at in-space assembly, not creating larger payload fairing.
But all of this has to be fairly expensive for Wright, too...
What tech stack do you work with where you don't need to Google how to do things at least occasionally? This seems unfathomable to me, but I'm open to reinforcing my imposter syndrome.
By fantasy scenario I refer to those people who comment one thing and one thing only: the idea that the government wants to force bad hires, as some kind of attack against white people.

While in reality, all that's being asked is to recognize that there's something systemic going on here.

But enough people comment this, some people pick it up and actually start doing it...
Completely agree. I'll also add the "do you stand out?" didn't really speak to me. It doesn't really give me an idea of what you're doing, what does "stand out" mean? Stand out from whom? Why?

As a contrast, our tagline - which my co-founder hates, and also isn't great - says "want better sleep?". It's clear what we're bringing to the table, what area we're working in.
If only he’d hosted it on AWS he too could be offline
Saw the video on YouTube and thought about posting in on HN, but somehow I felt Video content generally dont belong to HN, so I am glad there is blog version and getting some attention.

I am much more interested though to know why it was already 4 years behind schedule.
Stories like this are why I'm really glad I stopped talking to that Walmart Technology recruiter a few years ago. I love working for places where senior leadership constantly repeat war stories about "that time I broke the flagship product" to reinforce the importance of blameless postmortems. You can't fix the process if the people who report to you feel the need to lie about why things go wrong.
Longitudinal Analysis of an Amygdalocentric Structural Network using Mixed Effects Multivariate Distance Matrix Regression with Multiple Fractionated Polynomials

A working title for a manuscript I am shopping out to the various neuroscience journals right now. I feel like I'm finally the esoteric person I've always wanted to be.
Does it have freaking linewrap?
This is awesome looking. It would be very cool to see various cellular automaton rules play out on it, treating each side of the cub as an extended screen. Both 2D automata like Game of Life and also 1D ones like Wolfram’s rule 30 would look awesome.
Most subduction zones are quite far underwater, so... the trash would probably just bob to the surface and float.
Like when zoom causes text lengths to appear inconsistently?

Or when page resize based on different printers breaks page appearances?
You're trying really hard to ascribe ill motives to the actual strategy of "let's build a cool thing and figure out how to monetize it later, and I'm not sure why. Doing so makes you do weird things like insist that product strategy isn't strategy, and that real strategy is "be anticompetitive". I don't get it.
Like chaff [0] or flares?

I wonder if you could triangulate the launch point though.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaff_(countermeasure)
The problem is difficult due to the inability to use radar as a guidance mechanism for the "anti-torpedo torpedo."
Yup. The bench at Accenture is basically a limbo.
It's not crazy. We don't live in age of physical distribution.

When fix or feature is ready, it's moment to distribute it.

It's way better than Apple style feature hoarding to pad yearly OS release changelog with application fluff.
It depends on your definition of "works". When averaged and aggregated, they show repeatable results and correlations looking at a population level (don't they?)

I agree they are probably too "noisy" to be of much use in a clinical setting to draw definitive conclusions about an individual (other than probabilistic risk estimation type things)
Some of those roads are too narrow to turn around.
My only feedback is that the demo GIFs on the marketing page are small and hard to read on a phone, I wonder if that could be adjusted?

Oh, also…if you’re starting to get serious about this product, get yourself a custom domain email provider instead of Gmail.
If an engineer causes an outage by mistake and then ensures that would never happen again, he has made a positive impact.
Oh no... I think you may be in for a rough time, because I purchased something this morning and it only popped up in my orders list a few minutes ago.
Do you track anything other than Spotify (eg: Bandcamp or YouTube)? And is there a way to submit labels?
IMHO, Elixir & Phoenix are such a breath of fresh air, plus power, plus adaptability, and I love the functional capabilties. On the other hand, if your want lots of numeric computation tooling, AI/ML, stats, etc. then Python & Django have better/more math-adjancent integrations.
I think the ability to create and animate objects in a 3D space would really set this app apart. I say this as a frequent user of Hype. It's a great app, but limited to 2D animation as what it creates is entirely in CSS3, SVG and JS.

The examples on the website are nice, however from what I saw, they can be done in Hype as well. As you mentioned, Hype is more mature and has a sizable community, many of whom contribute towards extending its functionality by creating custom modules in JS for things like dynamic data imported w/ JSON.

For 3D animation I've also used Spline, which is in beta. It's interesting, but on my 2014 MBP, it runs slowly and the fans are constantly on, which makes it less appealing for my use.
Not as pretty but https://www.passwordstore.org/ is good. It has a Firefox extension
So it becomes "minutiae" when the facts don't support your argument.

I showed in another post how "parking requirements" are a bogus issue, in reality. I can walk (and do so every day with the dog) to a corner mall with two Chinese restaurants, Japanese restaurant, water store, sandwich shop, nail salon, barber shop, florist, watch repair business, dental office, tea business, pizza place, health food store, bike shop, post office, Safeway, IHOP, and Chase bank branch. Plus a very large Chinese restaurant going up where the Rite Aid used to be.

All sharing the same parking lot.

Is it paradise? No, but some people prefer it to urban squalor.
What does the CIA do?
Regarding visual diffing: "The delta between source code commits can only be represented textually; graphical palettes are not designed to represent change over time."

I would think visual systems might be in a better spot to visualize change over time. Some of Tufte's diagrams have interesting ideas of how this could be represented statically, but turning static code diffs into illustrated animations might even be better than code diffing...
Can we hire based on whether the applicant rents or owns?
Hotline was such a great moment in time. I downloaded my first mp3 from hotline, and remember chatting with people and browsing files and making connections being one of my first “the internet is incredible!” moments. I can still hear the _sounds_ of that app.

I hope Adam is well, whatever he’s up to.
Also, Windows 10 removed the window borders so now you have to resize windows by grabbing their shadow. Years later I still regularly misclick.
The most bizarre economic occurrence of the last decade is Bitcoin forking and the copy and the original both maintaining value.
> We’ve added a User Agent override for Slack.com, which allows Firefox users to use more Call features and have access to Huddles.

So now `window.navigator.vendor` returns "Google Inc." if your URL matches `://app.slack.com/`. LOL.

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev/blob/eea0fac2cb8cae1e5a...
Making a guess based on my knowledge of photography: probably not. It's taking vast starscapes with a wide lens with a focus range (or fixed focus) made for shooting at infinity. That means the closer something is, the less in focus it'll be. Try looking at something right in front of your face. At its furthest, JWST will be at a proportional distance relative to what Hubble is equipped to focus on. Even stitching images together, it's always going to have similar focus. No amount of resolution will get past the physics of optics.

Just a guess. I could be wrong!
Have a listen to this episode:
https://hubermanlab.com/the-science-of-vision-eye-health-and...

I shared it with one of our developers who was having eyesight issues and he found it helpful.

Things which help:
- Exercise
- Morning walks facing direction of light
- Keeping screen eye level and posture
- Other “protocols” mentioned in this episode

“Dr. Andrew Huberman is a tenured professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford University School of Medicine.”
Yes, the portfolio cost minimization is not currently included in the main objective. Because of this it can produce a wide variety of portfolios for the same amount of the income. This allows one to explore a wider solution space and then gradually tune the portfolio as needed.
I have it in my todo list to add a minimization as an additional objective and will start working on it shortly.

Issuer is basically just one record in a portfolio, like one company or ETF, potentially with multiple shares. This allows you to express conditions like - "I don't want more than 30 entries/issuers in my portfolio", or "it should consist of at least 20 ones" and stuff like that.
Is "staged" the right description here? I was worried we were looking at a Nikola type event, but that's not what this is.

Just because the route was mapped with lidar, etc. doesn't make this a non-self-driving car. It drove itself under the supplied conditions. It wasn't like they had plotted the route with the stops and starts, etc. From what I understand the system just had prior knowledge of the route. This is in comparison to any other self-driving which MUST have prior understanding of the route, vs Tesla's current product which apparently can make all decisions on the fly.
Rootfinding and optimization are so closely related!
Agreed - in my line of work regulators want everything in the country we operate from but of course CloudFront has to be different.
I consider myself moderate power user and I'm not going to upgrade until there's a native way of restoring the taskbar to what it used to be on the previous releases. And by that I mean left aligned tabs with text labels. It used to be that way for about 30 years and I can't stand the grouping icons (both the grouping and the icons).
I also rarely find anything useful on StackOverflow, but that's not never.

I bet the real reason for the response level here is the difference between "Do you require StackOverflow to do your job?" and "Are you OK with your internet access being censored?". I would guess that most are replying to the latter interpretation, even though StackOverflow was probably attempting to gauge their own importance.
You're right to point out the difference between conversational and writing skills. However, generally engineers tend to overvalue technical skills and undervalue soft skills.

IMO engineering orgs tend to set the bar really high for tech skills and really low for communication skills. Tech skills are easier to test and they feel more "objective" so they get more focus.
It’s not the back and forth, it’s that a migration in b that requires the post migrate step from a will fail if both migrations are run in one shot, (say, because you’re bootstrapping a new dev or test db) but it will work when done incrementally (such as during development or deployment).
You're literally trying to portray Life360 as the victim.

If Life360's mission is to keep children safe, exposing their location data simply cannot be part of that. These two activities cannot coexist without undue risk.

No parent is ever going to be okay with sharing thier kids location with countless 3rd parties. Pretending otherwise is just disingenuous.

> This is the most twisted reporting that has ever happened to us.

You're being obtuse and confusing "twisted reporting" with reporting a twisted business.
John Kerry is counting on the private sector to help solve climate change
I just shared it around, it's hilarious. Well done.
Kubernetes wraps several layers of abstraction around the old way of doing things. There is no world in which the operation of the site is in any way clarified by involving Kubernetes. Kubernetes also adds performance overhead. There are things which are easier with Kubernetes. But only after you've climbed a long learning curve.

From what I've seen, even people without "decades of experiment" find the non-abstracted system easier to understand and reason about than the Kubernetes version. And the difference in ease is dramatic.

Examples where it makes sense include:

1. You need to deploy multiple independent systems with similar configurations. (Even then, consider ansible.)

2. You have to deploy different clusters of connected systems with related, but different, components.

3. You need to scale up and down what needs to be deployed. (Except don't try to use autoscale. That only works in marketing blurbs.)

4. Somebody else has set it up and you never need to actually understand it. (Good luck if you need to debug.)

But there is no reason to introduce Kubernetes because you need a database, a few webservers, front end proxy, failover, etc. And if you are using Kubernetes for that, odds are that you'll save yourself a world of headaches (and potential security holes!) by migrating away. No matter how much the "chief architect" may claim otherwise. I've seen how this plays out in practice.
Here's a more relevant one:

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
Calvin: This is so cool!

Hobbes: This is so stupid.

https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1995/01/01
Zig seems more complex than V due to its "compile time" execution, so I'm not surprised that it takes longer to write a "self-hosted" compiler.

V seems more general purpose, Zig is focused on embedded which makes it more difficult to use IMHO: any V function can allocate but in Zig you have to pass around the allocator..
Don't forget 10% for the big guy.
Also check out https://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=36 . That has plenty of US hosts at around that price range too
Show HN: Directus 9 – Open-Source Instant App and API for Any SQL Database
Bitwarden. The free tier is sufficient for personal use in my experience, although I choose to pay the small fee for “premium” (I forget what they cal it).

I switched from lastpass after they removed their free tier and have never looked back.

It is free and open-source software, it looks good and works well across all the platforms I use.
Some of us were never lucky enough to spend any time on the bench! Although a number of people in my "start group" were on the bench for months. It was a really bizarre scenario. My project could be drowning in the amount of work we had to do, while the company had people twiddling their thumbs with nothing to do.
Had this exact thing happen in production when we turned off an audit DB replication slot. We got lucky and caught it before our entire app went down. It’s one of the many foot-guns we have found with Postgres.
Late Bloomers: Why do we equate genius with precocity? (2008)