skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'd like to automate this! We've made it nearly transparent for Rails apps, and almost as transparent for Phoenix apps, but there's a lot of work to do. Right now with Rails you:

1. Provision your DB

2. Add regions

3. Add our Ruby gem to your Rails app

4. Deploy Rails

5. Set the same regions for the Rails app

And it just works. Phoenix is close but we haven't quite polished up the Hex library yet.

I think being transparent about regions is a feature! We can definitely automate most of those steps away, but the region you're running in will never be obfuscated. CDNs are _notorious_ for placing content and features where it's cheapest for them and I think that's gross.

Whether we can make it free or not is an open question. Ultimately there's a cost to storing a bunch of redundant data. We have ideas for suspending and resuming read replicas, it's just complicated!

At the moment we're a pretty good place to deploy your full stack app for free. And we're a very good place to cheaply run a full stack app in multiple regions.
I absolutely consider plenty of conversations with friends and loved ones absolutely private.

What your argument misses is that end-to-end encryption has a very important role - keeping information safe from hacks of the messaging platform. If a messaging service is hacked, and the database dumped, I’d prefer that what they get was encrypted by keys on my device, not keys that are able to be stolen by the hack (or not being encrypted at rest at all). Extremely personal, private and intimate conversations, photos and videos have been leaked that way. End to end encryption prevents that.

Secondly, it protects my messages from being able to be snooped on by bad actors at the messaging service (like a nosy sysadmin). Somebody could easily be physically stalked using information gleaned in this scenario, or a bad actor could use the information gathered from reading their messages to groom a minor for example! I’ve read stories of cyber-stalking happening in this way, like a Google Hangouts SRE who was reading a woman’s messages, messaging her inappropriately, and when she would block him, unblocking himself through the backend (luckily he was eventually found out and fired). End to end encryption would help from these people being able to see messages or steal photos an pod images.

There are even more scenarios and circumstances when it’s important. So I’d say your comment is not as much a ‘devil’s advocate view’ as a ‘haven’t thought hard enough about possible threats’ view.
Very sad. The truth is everyone who wants to get vaccinated has got the jab already. Time to stop doubling down on mandates and remember we're all humans.
I go with Samsung because their flagship phones are powerful and tend to last me a few years at least. They make great screens and hardware. Their OS can be hit or miss but often they make solid updates outside of Android. One of my old favorites was samsung pay where you could pay using a simulated magnetic swipe of a credit card. They took out the feature once everyone went to chip, but it made samsung pay work literally anywhere that had a credit card swipe reader. Their phone switching migration tool was leagues better than Google's though I'm not sure if that's the case in 2021. They put out the biggest batteries of all flagship Android phones. There's a lot left to be desired in Samsung Androids including their flagrant use of ads in places where there shouldn't be ads, but they're a fantastic Android phone otherwise.
Good point. Overall the user experience of crypto.com is really nice though.

I mean the app is tons better then Coinbase and I think a big reason that crypto.com is growing tremendously. Users like it.
Curious to know if anything exists like this for Go?

I've been finding myself writing more and more CLI programs in Go (used to use python, but it's a bit harder to distribute python bundles around...), and so far I've just been starting with Cobra and going from there.
Yeah I think it’s reasonable that even the self-reported mentally a-ok people may have some latent depression, anxiety etc. just from the impacts of literally every aspect of life being dominated by one thing for the past 2 years.
I want to see one of these written in Javascript

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm

what is particularly cool is that it builds an optimized database to store partially matched antecedents and update the database as new facts are added, triggering rules that cause side effects and change the facts. Facts that can no longer match rules get unlinked and reclaimed by the garbage collector. It seems like an answer to the problem of "maintaining the state of a javascript application that gets updated from asynchronous data sources" but I have not seen it done.
A lot of this can also be mitigated by going all in on API gateway + Lambda, like we have at Arist. We only need to worry about DB scaling and a few considerations with S3 (that are themselves mitigated by using CloudFront).
Thanks!

> I think the one major difference between the last 10 years and the.com era was the lack of viable business models in that time

In quite a few cases, yes -- I agree. In many other cases, though, I think it was the sudden unavailability of capital that did in some companies that otherwise could have been viable. Given enough time and money, poster-child dot-com failures like Pets.com, WebVan, and Kozmo.com might have well become a Chewy, Instacart, and Doordash.

> Also, the interest rates within the last 10 years are going to be most similar to the ones that the FED is contemplating implementing over the next couple of years. The rates in the early 2000s were significantly higher in the 3-6% range.

Maybe. I for one wouldn't dare make any predictions as to what will happen to rates. I mean, in 1972, when the 10-year treasury was ~5%, no one -- no one -- even imagined that it would increase persistently for a decade until it ~16% in 1982. In 2000, when the 10-year rate was ~6%, no one -- no one -- even imagined it would decline persistently over the next two decades, hitting ~0% in 2020. Today, no one -- including me -- can imagine how or why rates would go all the way up to 6%, let alone 16%... but I'm sure the future will find a way to surprise us.

> Last, the third trend that's important is just the volume of dollars going into venture Capital which is 20 times what it was during that period of time

It depends on whether that large flow would be impacted in the face a persistent bear market -- e.g., could a large proportion of LPs default on capital calls due to losses in other markets? Keep in mind, VC funding declined by a factor of ~10x in 2000-2002. Could it decline by a factor of 10x this time around? I think that's unlikely, but we can't rule it out simply because the amounts are larger.
> the clinical trial

This is one of your many points of confusion; it is completely normal for even long approved interventions to have many clinical trials in varying stages. There are currently 92 trials for the Pfizer vaccine listed on clinicaltrials.gov, in stages from “not yet recruiting” to “completed”.

And also 1,761 between “Not Yet Recruiting” and “Active” for the notorious untested drug aspirin.

> many of those benefits and risks are, in fact, unknown

That's kind of expected with an EUA more than a fully approved intervention (but even for the latter it's always the case), and why disclosure of potential unlnown risks is required with EUAs.

You unsupported assertion that this requirement is routinely ignored would be a problem if it was true, but you offer exactly zero reason to believe it is true, surrounded by a lot of irrelevancies that show you don't understand the context.
https://supabase.com/pricing - 500MB, 2GB download/month (can be used as plain PostgreSQL)

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/pricing - 5GB, 250M "request units"/month (distributed, PostgreSQL-ish https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/postgresql-compati...)

I was not aware of the other portions of the free compute tier from Fly.io, was looking into Oracle Cloud. (Ask HN: What cool stuff do you run free-tier? Sep 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28652736)
Yeah musical taste is not objective fact. I'm happy you also rank Paul's Boutique first, what a great album, I don't think it gets enough attention.

Maybe its just the newer songs that got radio play that didnt click for me. I'll listen to Hello Nasty again tomorrow with an open mind.
> Well, it depends on how much you smoke and how much you travel.

I find it hard to believe that smoking could be less dangerous than flying even for people who work as airline pilots or flight attendants.
Cool concept! It's kinda like NFT royalty model for auctions.

I just signed up and got a referral code that looks like it will give anyone 225 Buy Such Wow tokens on sign up:

https://buymuchwow.com/?r=0x672cFE62ba532F8862C0BbE1Fdd6E33F...
Their comment implies "are totally fine with stale data".

Their argument is that the membership set for a service (especially on-prem) doesn't change all that frequently, and even if it's out of date, it's likely that most of the endpoints are still actually servicing the thing you were looking for. That plus client retries and you're often pretty good.
I'm sad this bug burned you. We had some brittle infrastructure for talking into a Postgres cluster, and it was a bit of a fire drill to rip it out and simplify. You would have a better experience if you tried today!

We know this because we have metrics on how many people created and then destroyed Postgres DBs without successfully connecting an app to them. When we show this to investors we'll explain that the improvement was a big win for our "go to market efforts". But you should know it was really just a bug fix for something we disappointed you with.
I confess, I'm not sure what's terribly impressive about this either. Flight isn't exactly something new. Was there some kind of time limit or maximum number of stops?
My favorite thing about air travel is the opportunities it takes away. Destroying the planet is so important to the future of humanity
No, that's where you're at with your inability to see the difference.
SICP in Python - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22994976

You can see there's more negativity in this thread compared to the Python one. HN crowd is pretty hostile toward JavaScript.

Yet JavaScript is obviously a better choice than Python in terms of SICP Scheme substitute. For example:

- JavaScript is arguably a Scheme descendant, or at least have closer blood ties with Scheme than Python.

- The Lambda in Python is just awkward, and SICP is a book about lambdas.

- The Chapter 2: JavaScript use more anonymous object which makes it a better choice, although there are dictionaries in Python it's more favored to use Classes.

- Chapter 3, the Object-oriented Programming part: Use lexical closure to simulate object is just day to day JavaScript. So does dispatch and pattern matching messages.

- Chapter 3, the stream part: In JavaScript world the "functional" streams approach is also very popular.

- As for symbolic programming and such, they're both not particularly good. But that's a problem for all mainstream languages. At least JavaScript has programmable string template.

As you can see many SICP stuff are just day-to-day JavaScript, but not so much in idiomatic Python. Let alone JavaScript is more approachable in almost every platform, and much easier to make interactive tutorials.
So this was Apollo 1 at 3.3v: I think it was less than 3 milliwatts at full power, but easily below 1 microwatt when sleeping. For our design, I kept it mostly asleep. I also used Apollo 2, not quite as low power, but faster, better UART and it had more RAM and flash. For the UART: they added a timer to give you an interrupt when no more bytes were received (otherwise there was no interrupt because the Rx FIFO was not full).

What I liked is that all peripherals were "low power"- all of them could work when the CPU was off and all could wake the CPU (well it woke on any pending interrupt). So it means it's more likely that the CPU is asleep. With STM32L, only peripherals designated low power would work while the CPU was off.
Me too. I liked the smell. And the bars used to be less 'clear' due to the smoke. They had more atmosphere.

I did hate the way my clothes smelled afterwards but anyway that's what a washing machine is for.
So then where is your badge? Are you not doing the exact same thing, by making it your job to tell people to move out of the left lane?

> pass you on the right (which is dangerous)

What's dangerous about it? And don't say "the left lane is for slow cars", because speeders are WAY more dangerous, yet you are not criticizing them.

> you're disrupting the normal flow of traffic (also dangerous)

I don't see any disruption to the normal flow. Set your cruise control to the speed limit, and just drive smoothly. There is zero reason to constantly weave in and out of traffic as speeding "pass on the left" drivers do.

Speeders disrupt the normal flow though, so why are you OK with them?

There seems to be large lack of symmetry in your arguments. (Although I do appreciate you at least answering, I've heard these answers before, and yet I never gotten a reply when I bring up the lack of symmetry in the answer.)
For database schema versioning, you may try bytebase.com, it also can work seamlessly with gitlab.
You don't need bars or luck to make friends with European expats.
Do you think TPG has never logged into AA during the development of this tool?
I take it you mean summer of 2000?
Thank you for being the first to provide links to unprocessed songs to make your point. I appreciate it.

BTW, autotune can and certainly is used in live concerts. Musicians have personally told me they use it! They also pump their vocals through effects pedals. What else are they using?

I don't know about competitions.

> You haven't even bothered to provide any evidence to the contrary.

I can't prove a negative. But I've provided many links to popular songs of old, and compared them to popular songs of today.

> absolutely insane

Cool your jets, dude! This is a friendly discussion. I actually want to be wrong here. I listen to popular music all the time, on the radio, Pandora, various streaming stations, and of course I hear it in the movie soundtracks. I want to hear a singer that sounds like an angel, not a Cylon.
My use of "literally" is only intended to convey the literal meaning of the word.

And thank you for providing some excellent example of why tradition, precedent, checks & balances, voting rights, and institutional trust are important.
This was in reply to OP who said deploying to a new region is insanely complicated. In general it is not. For Roblox, if they are manually doing stuff in EC2, it could be quite complicated.
Are you using any kind of practice exams? If so, how are you doing on those ahead of the actual exam? In my experience with certification tests (and I have a few, including A+, Network+, Security+, SCJP, AWS Certified Solution Architect, etc.) the practice questions are usually easier than the real exam. I like to study and practice until I can basically score 100% (or very close) on the practice exams, multiple times. Only then will I go sit for the real exam.

Just to illustrate, when I took that AWS exam about 2 years ago, even studying to that level, the actual exam felt hard. I was honestly unsure if I'd passed or not, right up until the moment I clicked the "submit" button. It turns out I did pass comfortably, but if I'd slacked off on my studying at all, compared to what I actually did, I would likely have failed.

So yeah... my take is, make sure you have access to some quality practice tests (lots of certifications have plenty of practice exams on Udemy), take them over and over again, and don't go for the real test until the practice tests are downright easy. If you do that and still fail... erm, I dunno. Maybe visit a doctor and see if you have an underlying medical condition like ADHD or something else that could affect your test taking?
The issue is, honestly, the free-rider effect. It's too difficult for an entrepreneur to get paid unless they resolve a specific problem in such a way that they can demonstrate value to a customer. The only thing that will generally make money is impact mitigation, because they can sell it to an affected buyer. At least, as a general rule.

With government-driven carbon reduction requirements feeding into a trading market it might get to the point that there's enough money to warrant huge investments in sequestration. But I'm not optimistic that capitalism-driven countries will want to impose a high enough cost to spur that kind of investment. At least, they haven't up until this point.
> Psychosomatic illness is a real problem.

I wouldn't even take the step to psychosomatic.

Viruses period, Covid or not, apparently do a lot more damage and require a lot longer to recover from than we expected.

People dismissing "Long Covid" in non-Covid patients are being blind to the fact that we had a LOT of people who had "weird" symptoms even before Covid that we allocated to "hysteria", "psychosomatic", "chronic", "Lyme disease", etc. that are going to turn out to be "Long General Virus Recovery".

Epstein-Barr has some huge correlation to multiple sclerosis. HPV vaccines have almost eliminated certain cervical cancers. Chicken pox necessitates a shingles vaccine because its so horrible.

Viruses are a lot worse than we realized, and the medical system is going to be coming to grips with this for decades.
I can't describe how much I hate the "internet" control in the shade, or the lack of a switch for the cell radio specifically.
That's what our immune system is for.

Covid is a problem at the moment but bacteria really aren't. Your chance to die from a bacterial infection randomly caught from someone in the street is minimal, and exposure boosts your immunity. And they are everywhere anyway.

You might get a cold for a few days but that's life.
If you enjoy Shackleton’s story, the you might enjoy “Alone on the Ice” about Mawson’s expedition. I found both to be compelling stories but Mawson’s is the one that just keeps coming back to me. I won’t ruin it for the prospective reader, but it is absolutely stunning what was endured.
I mean if there's a big change like that, then we are all kinds of screwed anyway.
A dataset that Pfizer spends a ton of money redacting before releasing might not address concerns that Pfizer could be hiding something.
They used to say "Serbo-Croatian" before the war.
I agree that any good PR firm could use the meme to its advantage.

I put about a 10% probability that the slogan was chosen because it is so bad and easily subverted.

A backlash to a backlash is worth a few extra days of free coverage.

RE: 4chan. I think you might be projecting. I actually think the Anne Frank thing would cut through in the real world.
oh shiet. that explains so much when it comes to their elixir support.

Fly.io was still very beta when My startup was launching. if we were creating out deployment now, fly.io would be top of my list.
For arguments that God wrote it all in Lisp see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-OjTPj7K54
So what. I have to die of something. Let me have my glass of wine or beer.
You can squeeze a hell of a lot more perf out of general purpose compute that is maybe an extra 15 ms away than one-shot workers lacking any in-RAM persistence, or ability to do much more than limited local k/v lookups. The equation is totally different.

Many workers I've seen (or written) start by reaching out over the Internet to another backend. There goes most of your edge benefit almost immediately.
Those are still new costs, though.
Have you ever been to an asian city? I can assure you, there are (100s of millions of) people that rely on vehicles/driving for their livelihood.

To equate the necessity of drinking alcohol with that of mobility is absurd.
It's worth noting that our 3GB free is a quirk of our infrastructure.

We want people to try a read replica. We only provision volumes down to 1GB. 3GB sounds better than 2GB.

Sometime soon we'll cross the threshold of relevance and you'll just use Supabase or Cockroach on Fly. They're great f'n products.
May be it should be renamed "CIA Syndrome"?
Ryan here from YC.

There are certainly companies looking for talent that is only time-zone friendly. Having run an engineering team co-located in SF & Beijing, I know how hard it is myself to be working odd hours for standups, product syncs, etc.

That said, there are other companies that are hiring truly global. I know OneSignal is one such YC startup, having hired somebody during the pandemic in the Netherlands.

Last year alone, YC startups hired across over 40 countries. I can dig into more data re: how many were US-based companies hiring abroad -- that's a good distinction.
It would make a great munitions warehouse.
I also like the frankness and simplicity of their communication style.

No fancy buzzwords, to the point and speaks to things we all know are true but are typically not addressed or are wrapped up in spin. The first and last paragraphs are great examples.

The authenticity of it leaves me with a strong sense of trust and respect.
Hmm, my first thought was, "Wow, 3000 microwatts is pretty disappointing; that's in the same ballpark as STM32L or even AVR8, though presumably the Apollo 1 was several times faster than the STM32L. I wonder if their newer chips are better; the datasheets sure claim they are."

But actually that number is totally in keeping with what I'd gotten from the Apollo3 datasheet: 33 pJ per Dhrystone "instruction" at 48 MHz and 1.25 DMIPS/MHz is 1.98 mW, and then there's 0.22 mW overhead, so we'd expect about 2.2 mW. 3 is close enough, especially for an earlier-generation chip. You might get an STM32L or an ATMega328 down to a milliwatt or two in run mode, but what (theoretically!) distinguishes the Ambiq chips is not their maximum power draw, but their efficiency per instruction and their deep power down load, which is what determines their power draw at a given computational load.

Limited low-power peripherals can be a huge headache, yeah.

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge!
Just speculating here, but doesn't it have something to do with accumulation in the body? Your body obviously can't accumulate radiations. It also does process and eliminate the like of ethanol and many other substances. That's not the case, I believe, for heavy metals like mercury, lead or arsenic, that are eliminated much more slowly (if at all?).

That's why you can enjoy lychees by eating a few everyday if you fancy it, and will only poison yourself if you eat a lot at once. But you can poison someone by exposing them to a little bit of arsenic everyday (at least in the movies, not sure how true it is...)

I think tar from smoke accumulates, and there is a lot of it in second-hand smoke.

Obviously not a doctor, so I'm probably completely wrong...
Or, you know, just let your employees choose
> We could tell you we want to prevent crypto mining because we care about the planet, and that would be true. We also have a capitalism nerve that hurts when people spend our money gambling. Your credit card number is the thin plastic line between us and chaos.

Could a payments platform like Stripe build a one-click "Freemium powered by Stripe" button ala OpenID, so that these services may free-tier in a friction-free way?
Correlation doesn't equate to causation. Perhaps the people that sit down with a glass of wine at night are the ones simply taking a slower pace in life and have less stress as a result.

However be that as it may I'm not giving up alcohol lol. I only drink occasionally and I enjoy it and I simply don't care if it's bad for me. Lots of things are bad for us.
All the Rec Mono fonts are great. I've been using Rec Mono Casual myself, both on VS Code and the terminal.