skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Easily configurable Asset pipelines service

Not for images/videos so much but instead focused on GLTF, Step and other 3d file formats

There is a huge wave of 3d apps/games coming to browsers. WebGPU starting to roll out this year will just further accelerate that trend. Many of them feature user content that will have to be converted and optimized to be used

At https://flux.ai we had to build our own pipeline to optimize geometries, triangle counts, auto correct UVs, convert step and other file formats to gltf.

I wish there would have been a turnkey service to just plug into!
You’re right, I’ll do that tomorrow, thank you
Just out of curiousity, how would someone go about competing with YouTube? Build a prototype, raise a bunch of $$ from investors? Do you need to come in with domain / technical experience? Do you target a niche first?
This is why you shouldn't wholeheartedly give money to people online without even knowing them that well.
Track changes to a number on a webpage (e.g. Zillow home value, price of an item, temperature at a location), over email and RSS, and plot the changes on a graph as a function of time.
>Agile development is massively misinterpreted, but this is on purpose

I dont believe it is. It's just a result of its intrinsic vagueness and everybody integrating it into their belief systems.

Furthermore, I think it was left deliberately vague enough to allow people from the CEO down to the lowliest programmer project their (potentially conflicting) desires on to it because thats how you drum up consulting business.

>Actual agile development promotes bottom-up structure and rejects the types of process that generate metrics that corporate types can use to maintain control.

You could argue that people over process means that but as with all agile principles it's not the only valid interpretation.

It's also the opposite of what scrum does but...apparently most people agree thats agile?

Dont get me wrong i think your view of what agile "should be" and mine are closely aligned I just think it needs its own name "x" to avoid all the baggage (e.g. it should not be possible to consider scrum "x").
We are using Basecamp as a team and have been really happy with it. I think their free tier should work well for a single person and I could see myself using it if I was working solo.
Matter of the capacity though. You could cover half of the Sahara with panels. You can't cover half of the Europe with panels.
I have friends telling me to not have kids. The entire woke narrative is about regressing life standards to that of a third-world nation, instead of aspiring to lift everyone up.

I'll be voting accordingly this next election, and defect for the very first time from the party that I used to vote for.
Can you provide an example of a todo or project management app that does sprints well?
Apologies, I did not see the post from yesterday.
Democratic Switzerland should at least force its bank to only make business with customers from democratic countries. By doing that they would avoid a huge number of highly problematic customers. So basically only make business with countries which have a score of 6.0 or higher in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index#Components
This was Google's decision, though, right? They're a trillion dollar company after all, and they've even released chips before (TPU)
OTOH, there's a lot of renewed advocacy for breaking off the naturally monopolistic "platforms" developed by existing tech firms, and making sure that they're run in the public interest via strong regulation. That's basically a residual argument for centralized collective "planning" in an economic context, even as part of a market-based economy. Based on the observation that, either way, a monopolized "platform" is not really subject to market discipline, so the government needs to step-in as a substitute.
Kubernetes is not quite that easy though. Out of the box, you get basically no isolation between anything, and you still have to deal with security contexts and have processes in place for keeping your container images secure. If you use community Helm charts your services may end up running with essentially random privileges that may easily conflict.

The declarative interface is going on the right direction (as far as yaml can be) but configuration management for it is still unsolved. Backups are also often forgotten; they're very easy with virtual machines.
This looks really cool. I might have to try it for my current project.

Question: The Readme says there's room for massive improvement in performance. What's the performance like right now? Any benchmarks?
I have multiple machines with FreeDOS 1.2, and I am wondering what the upgrade process is.
There is a difference between saying something shouldn't happen, and it should be prevented by any means necessary.

I really shouldn't smoke. I don't endorse SS officers killing me if I do.
In principle I agree, and I support having the GDPR in effect globally, so that these server-side data sharing solutions are illegal without opt-in consent.

Unfortunately there’s a reality gap between “GDPR everywhere” and the United States and other countries, and that gap was being filled previously by anti-tracking lists maintained essentially for free out of the goodwill of people’s hearts. Now that Google is - and has been - using server-side proxies, those tracking lists won’t scale without human caretaking. Any human versus the entire web would burn out in a day.

So the choice is either to pay humans to enforce our anti-tracking beliefs against scummy corps, or to donate to politicians that believe in GDPR so they can try to make it illegal, or to refuse to pay anything and accept the status quo of being tracked. We’ve reached the end game of the “pay nothing until it’s fixed, then continue paying nothing” ethos: Google has outplayed us, and website owners can afford to pay to track us. I don’t like this, and neither do you. I think it’s time to pay money to fight back, and you do not think it's appropriate to pay money to fight back.

If you or anyone have a good idea on how zero-cost effort can somehow solve the tracking problem, share that with others in a useful reply to the post somewhere. You don’t have to convince me that such ideas exist: you have to convince others who share your “at no cost to me” beliefs to invest their time and energy in your zero-cost idea. And, whatever else I’m uncertain, I guarantee they’re not going to see such a reply down here in this thread that started with a pricing question.
You shouldn't hire a real estate agent to sell your home
I never realized this. Does "parenthetical" still have the same meaning?
I think the emperor is wearing no clothes. I want to move that discussion forward. I feel it is inevitable.
What made these battles so special is that the internet in its current form didn't quite exist yet, so you couldn't easily look up guides or YouTube videos. You had to buy the big expensive FF7 strategy guide book and struggle yourself!

The easy access to information these days has made games a very different experience. Struggling for 2 minutes? Look up the answer.
I always had the Apple Watch solution, but I see what you mean. I live in a colder climate so I wear gloves often and the faceid is more convenient there.
Both have their pros and cons.
app.net failed because they copied the most useless social network provider of them all.

Note that I specify provider above. Twitter is somewhat useful, but that is despite of, not because of the interaction design of it.

Edit: IIRC app.net was a bit overpriced and had some weird limitations too, although the latter might just be me remembering that they copied all the design mistakes of Twitter for no good reason.

Edit2: If anyone is in doubt at all: Twitter is popular because of the network effect. Everything else has been solved better by one or more competitors.
I like this. A sort of incentivized professional Stack Overflow / Quora
I've found Kotlin to be a fantastic Java substitute. Fully compatible with Spring and seamless interop with Java.

Though I prefer Clojure where that's possible.
Your point on leverage feels true. I just wish we’d use it to finally move away from the Google model of interviewing. Rather than having people do useless exercises on whiteboards we could do a 30m “are you a jerk” interview and then let the first year of job performance speak for itself.
As far as I'm concerned, the ride stops when the masses realize how easy the profession actually is. You can take any office worker and train them to an entry level competency in 3-5 months, when they will get a job for at least $75k. They are then in a new career path and will soon make 100k. I find it impossible to convince non devs that being a developer is easy. They can't fathom why we get paid so much if it's easy. They think I must be lying, or lucky, or too smart. No! It's fucking easy!

As soon as people catch on to this, and start doing bootcamps with the same frequency that they do weird "side hustles", it's over. The current scarcity is mainly because people don't realize they can become developers.
(Author of the linked article here)

Indeed, JFR is invaluable for performance analysis of JVM based applications. Admittedly, the information about the file format is probably interesting only to a smaller number of people, as it's an implementation detail of JFR. But the lack of readily available information piqued my curiosity, so I decided to take a closer look, hoping it might find some folks who might want to learn more about it.

As far as using JFR is concerned, I have a few other posts which may be useful too, e.g. these:

- https://www.morling.dev/blog/rest-api-monitoring-with-custom...

- https://www.morling.dev/blog/introducing-jfrunit-1-0-0-alpha...
But Samsung, Asus, Sony ... don't. Can you imagine the amount of backlash google would get if their own phone and only their own phone got special treatment for android updates? So it sounds "weird" at first, but not after thinking about the consequences.
> No Android phone maker can even make this guarantee for more than 2 years.

Samsung pledges 4 OS updates, 5 years of patches for 2021 and 2022 flagships

https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_pledges_4_os_updates_5_year...
>With these options for updates available, there’s only one conclusion to draw: Google just doesn’t want to keep updating the Pixel 3. That three-year promise has been satisfied, and it's not making more money from Pixel 3 customers. Why go above and beyond?

To retain if not grow customers. We are looking for a phone for my wife's mom who has a moto G5 plus. For her user profile (calls, texts and video calls using whatsapp), a moto G5 was perfect at that time. We (pixel users ourselves) are lobbying her to use an iphone especially due to this BS EOL policy by google. She is very careful and can easily use a phone for 5+ years if the device lets her. Only iphone fits the bill as of now.
Why do the locals feel entitled to housing over non-locals? Sounds like a lot of entitlement, which goes both ways.

The issue is that locals feel entitled to corral scary outsiders into certain zones, which is a high level of entitlement that exacerbates the problem.

When you realize your argument just boils down to xenophobia and "outsiders bad" it mostly falls apart. Locals don't get special rights because they're locals.
I don't know anyone who is excited about learning C++. The excitement around JS is trying to make it not be like JS.
Predictions (2016)
Perhaps will see the equivalent of the Twitter "blue tick" for stuff posted to YouTube?
I'd pay ~5-10 dollars a month for high quality local grammar checking. I can't use grammarly in many contexts due to corporate security concerns.
Sure, but there are three steps:

1) join the SWE "club"

2) make progress

3) get 6 figures pay

I don't think that they can be "easily" reached, particularly the third one will likely be difficult/stressful/etc.
Infomaniak has a free email service and they are based in Switzerland https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/service-mail/

- 1 free email address
- 20 GB of storage space for emails
- 15 GB of kDrive storage
I'd like an accountability service like beeminder but with an actual human being who helps me not stray for my indiehacking goals.

There was something called bossasaservice or something but don't think they were able to keep up with the demand and closed. Also the suggested $10 might be too low a price point for this.
It's a potted summary and so in some ways hardly worth thinking about or responding to, but ... given that the divorce is roughly in the range of 50%, this sort of presentation appears to completely ignore the implications of that.

My first marriage took place when I was 25 and lasted a bit more than 10 years. I met my second wife when I was 38, and have been in a relationship with her for more than 20 years now.

As a result, my 40s were a high point for me, not a low point. Even though we had children and all the challenges that brings, 40-48 was probably 8 of the best years of my life (and I think my wife feels broadly the same).

Had my first marriage survived, maybe the pattern would have been similar to what is outlined in article (although maybe it wouldn't). Either way, an article that fails to note that many Americans actually start new relationships in their 40s seems to be missing something rather important.
(In addition to what the other comments point out…)

It’s also an extremely lispy language (fundamentally based on term rewriting as a computational model) where it’s very intuitive to do higher order functions and structural manipulations in the spirit of macros. In my experience, makes it an absolute cinch for tackling complicated one off wrangling tasks.

It’s a unique language that is absolutely unparalleled in the directions it’s good at. I’ve had friends (in grad school) tell me that they don’t mind the potential lifelong dependence because paying a few hundred dollars annually for Mathematica is so worth the capability amplification they get.
Doing so would require a vote from all the Swiss (as any real democracy would require), and a successful vote would block them from doing business with customers from almost all other countries (as they wouldn’t qualify as real democracies by Swiss standards).

I’m not sure how such a referendum would be written, but surely it wouldn’t pass (Swiss are fairly conservative in regards to money and business).
don't compare yourself to others
> spirals require liquidity and regular price updates neither of which happen in private markets

They do. They’re just slower and more opaque.

If institutional backers stop letting Tiger et al raise ten- and eleven-figure funds, growth-stage capital could dry up. That means term sheets vanishing, expected funding going away. Some firms will lean up and survive. Many won’t be able to. Those that raise will raise at worse terms. All of which affects the prices at which these companies’ shares trade on the secondary market, which feeds back into the fundraising difficulty (for funds and companies alike), with the added dimension of employee compensation and morale.

For companies with the massive burn and breakneck growth the current environment has encouraged, the snap could come quite fast. That hole in investors’ portfolios could then extend the pain to their more-disciplined peers. As another comment notes, illiquid markets melt down all the time. They just do so more ambiguously and more dramatically, with the bottom falling out as the top deckers keep sunning.
The magic of showing up every day
This is all great and novel looks at improved market efficiency, but it is impossible to separate this from the Fed’s 8 trillion $ balance sheet and the continued speed of which it buys stuff ($100bn per month) to grow that balance sheet

If the Fed stops giving people $100bn/month in new dollars for their bonds and mortgage derivatives, will they still invest in new VC funds? Will the VC funds have capital to pump these startups so fast?

Turn off the Fed spigot and what? Is the confidence in the private market really there?

There just isn’t a history to know!
It's not clear what being 99% among people who play very casually actually gives you. In many cases it's not a lot.

Take chess, for example. By practicing regularly on Lichess, you can achieve a skill level that will beat 99% of casual chess players. However, you'll almost never play against this people. You'll play against other folks on Lichess, who all play regularly, and a top 1% of all chess players can easily be in the bottom 50% of the people you'll play on Lichess. It's not clear what you gain from being better than 99% of people who don't play on Lichess with any regularity, and you'll therefore never encounter.
They do give you around 6 (and that's with full feature updates and for much more than just basic tasks), which is much better than most Android manufacturers. Although Google has promised 5 years for the Pixel 6. You can't easily replace the battery yourself, but it's not expensive to get a shop to do it.
I'd pay money for a service that finds me the best product according to parameters I provide. Like, not the product with the fanciest advertisement, but something that is actually good.

* My phone is broken. I want to buy a new one. I want to find the best one, given it must have at least 48 hour battery life and be able to handle falling to the floor a lot. I don't care about cameras or big screens. Show me what to buy. I don't want the options to be influenced by what other people want out of a phone, like an ultraviolet infrared stereoscopic 3D camera and 0.5g weight, but my parameters.

* I need new hiking shoes. I want something that lasts a while. Which ones do I get?

* I drive a Mazda CX-5 from 2014, maybe time to replace it? I want low mileage and I'm quite tall so I need some leg room. Give me some options. Oh, maybe the answer is I don't need a new car. That's useful to know too.

Currently, this requires a lot of research as most reviews are bought, most product information is unreliable. I'd pay for a service that shows me what is in my best interest as a consumer, not what is in the best interest of the sellers.
It's super aggressive data harvesting and aggregation you need to be worried about. What's the end game when employers, landlords, insurers, creditors etc have a stream of your purchases, browser history, location history, offline friends, etc etc? Social credit much?
Seriously? Do you think working at a McJob is unicorns and rainbows? Getting paid minimum wage, being on your feet all day, entitled customers constantly up your ass, a management team that literally thinks of you as a fully replaceable work unit (and you are !!)…

Yes I’ve done it. It’s not the worst job I’ve had but my current job affords me the opportunity to type this from a vacation house on the beach in Hawaii. When I told the people making my lunch last week that I was headed to Hawaii they said they always wanted to go there and hoped to do it in a couple years, like it was a once in a lifetime trip for them. And it probably is.

People need to actually pay more attention to the world around them and have some conversations to realize how well we’ve got it.
> since Java 9

Sure took them long enough.
But the freezing of accounts wasn't limited to foreign donors, was it?

It wasn't even limited to those who actually broke any laws. Multiple incidents have been reported by Canadians who donated as little as $50 to the protest BEFORE it was declared illegal, having their bank accounts frozen without any formal charges.

Given that they are not even charging these people with crimes, they are denied due process and their economic lives are destroyed for the crime of committing a lawful act that happened to be unpopular with the ruling party.

To portray this as a reasonable step to curtail foreign influence in domestic affairs seems intellectually dishonest. This was government overreach pure and simple.
Once I macro'd `const auto` to `let` in my C++ program. After a few moments of "haha C++ go rust", I got terrified and undid it.
Well, you can't build a Java program that isn't resource hog. It should be ported to something natively compiled instead.
Is there currently any way to:

- have more secure passwords for Storage Boxes? Currently they're 16 characters long which is quite weak. Plus the usernames seem to be predictable/enumerable (e.g. u000000).

- or even disable password logins entirely for boxes where there is ssh-key authentication set up?

Thanks.
Your analogies are not helping your point :) Programmers are not the ones driving the plane or flying the car - they are the mechanics and engineers.
> People with kids who move from the city to the suburbs/exurbs are doing their kids a disservice (all else equal; obviously there are some compensating advantages in moving from say a 1-bedroom apartment to a 3-bedroom house on a large lot). The kids generally end up dependent, immobile, and isolated.

LOL. My kid was incredibly isolated when we lived in DC because there were no other families.
> If it takes ten times as much code as it would to program in Haskell, that is all right, because the IDE will generate half of it for you, and you are still being paid to write the other half.

Well that explains it. For me, I’m not going to touch Java unless I’m being paid to do it. IMO it’s a travesty that Java is the language of the AP test, because it really leaves the impression in young people that all of programming is Java. If that were the case, I’d be as far away from programming and computers as I could get.
He was probably just joking.
I searched duckduckgo for the surface area of the moon and it reports the magnitude for square miles, but gives the units as "m2".
I've met few people with a similar decades of dedication to helping and supporting users, particularly newbies, to work with FOSS. You must have an incredible patience to do that. I never shared that quality, so maybe that made me notice his gift/dedication even more.

After Joerg 'schily' Schilling passing last year, with Sven Guckes another of the "Berlin FOSS old guard" has passed in a rather short amount of time. Both way too young.

RIP, Sven.
Gdpr.eu is not an official EU resource. There is no official guidance saying that IP address in logs falls under "legitimate interest" and every lawyer I asked advised against it "just to be on the safe side".

One actually added: Do you really want to test our government's understanding of "legitimate interest" for your business in court?
> It's a complicated problem to solve at any meaningful degree of scale.

I doubt this is necessarily true. Modern social media is complex engineering specifically because of the demands of the Panopticon department for determining your users' underwear color for your advertisers.

If your software is for political community and/or propaganda purposes and not for the benefit of advertisers, I'd bet anything that your technical complexity drops by an absolutely enormous factor. You're CRUDing text, images, and social graph data, maybe you're storing videos in an s3 bucket. And you're probably doing some basic sharding and caching.
This reminds me of Shaple: https://swag.github.io/shaple
Kicking off projects at a small startup
That is good. Isn't it ?
Not quite - only everything US-based, since they fall under the purview of the cloud act, which is incompatible with the GDPR (on purpose.. this is an entirely self-inflicted wound by the US).
> We examine how land-use change for biomass provision has decreased the ability of soils to regulate the carbon pool and thereby contribute profoundly to climate change, to cycle the nutrients that sustain plant growth and ecosystem health, to protect the soil biodiversity upon which many other functions depend, and to cycle the Earth’s freshwater supplies.