skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep. And the management of these companies are dabbing their misty eyes as they grieve over all the "impromptu" "serendipitous" "water cooler" innovation sessions that have been lost.

You can just see the visuals in their minds. Stock images of their lowly, loyal drones clad in business casual, smiling, scurrying about with manila folders in hand, shaking hands. Not a single human being that they actually know or have observed in the workplace.

These people wouldn't be caught dead near a humble IC, and yet they have the gall to tell us how best to get our work done.
I think if a candidate said they worked at Volkswagen between 2009 to 2015, followed by a 3-year gap in their resume I'd likely not hire them. Regardless of your position in a company, your existence there does endorse it, and some responsibility (to varying extents obviously) must be acknowledged.

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-41053740
No need for despair, your new dawn is at hand: There are myriad ways of programming computers without reference to NPM at all! There are whole other languages and ecosystems! some of which have been around for many years now, and look to last at least a few more.

If you really want longevity, see COBOL. If you're looking for quicker fun that's closer to your current sand castles, try PHP and Python.
The golden rule for organising conference outings
> Of course everybody's factors are different.

I'm glad you acknowledge it; with rising cost of living, housing prices, and (in my case) medical expenses (the part not covered by insurance, like physical therapy; we're still trying to get a diagnosis so it will be covered), I can't afford a 20% pay cut.

Even pre-pandemic, I rejected an offer from a company literally across the street from where I live, because their offer was >30% lower than what I was earning at the time. I just flat out told them I wouldn't be able to afford to live there - and I live in some of the cheapest houses in this area.
To you, it's obvious that free speech does not lead to truth-seeking. Well, most of the arguments for free speech from Socrates to Mill are based on the idea that it does.

You say that government censorship is bad but I wonder why. Why is the first amendment a good thing? I gave two possible reasons: people have a natural right to say what they think, consequences be damned or free speech is necessary for truth-seeking. You rejected the latter.

What concerns me is not social media moderation (though I'm generally against it) but that people like you, who have rejected the standard arguments for free speech, actually have no rationale for supporting free speech at all.
We actually still don't pass Acid2 :^)

Acid1 and Acid3 are good now, but Acid2 still needs some work on CSS tables and miscellaneous little things.
Where does the Republican angle come in to it?
The Pac-Man Rule at Conferences (2017)
The mental model for this state is known as "flow" or atheletes sometimes call it "the zone"
"I'm a "change it" sort of personality by nature - a reformer."

One of the things I've learned is that authority is a real thing. If you don't have the authority to change something, don't try. You will fail, and it will do nothing but cost you. I've jousted with this many times, and it was a failure every time. (More technical type stuff, but the same holds for this sort of thing too.)

Authority doesn't have to be given from on high; there is also some distributed authority that arises from the unofficial de facto org chart that every organization has. I've managed to push some things through with that (and relevant amounts of consensus) when I was more careful to ensure I had the authority.

But if you don't have at least some authority, you will fail.

This comment is is, not ought. You are welcome to feel about it however you like. But when it comes time to determine your own actions, you should work in the space of is and not ought.

That doesn't mean the only option is to give up. One may attempt to acquire the authority. This can either be by direct appeal, or in some cases, through the long-term acquisition of authority called "respect". One may attempt to convince an existing authority to help with whatever your issue is. Though in this specific case if the problem is specifically fighting existing authority that may not help. There are other options.

But it is a total wishful thinking myth that if you're just smart enough and good enough and just take charge, by golly, you can get anything done! In fact, after a while, when you see someone and on day 3 you see them charging around just trying to change things, you start to see someone who isn't going to be there long.

(Now, I actually like fresh perspectives on my team and don't squash people if they have new ideas, but at the same time, I ask them to take a couple of weeks and be sure they fully understand the changes they are proposing before we consider their suggestions. The end result is better suggestions, and we have taken many of them. This is why I'm specific about it being "day 3"; on day 3, you may know enough to have identified a problem, but you don't know the solution yet.)

But if you can't acquire some authority somehow, your options are reduced to deal with it or leave it. There is no "just bull through and change things anyhow". The entire political structure built into our very genes will not permit it. You're fighting not just your current organization but millions of years of evolution. You will not win.
What social network does Amazon own?
There's the xkcd 10000, and then there's this.
There's a pretty big difference between comparing the cool Justin Long and nerdy John Hodgman (I would argue those character roles are backwards from what they should be) and a massively cynical scare theater campaign about how a Chinese company is stealing your children's data, negatively impacting their mental health, and causing destruction of property from a company that makes money using your children's data and negatively impacting everyone's mental health.
It’s a centralised multi-tenant store, supporting the Prometheus query API. So you can point clients directly at Mimir, they send in PromQL and they get data back in Json.

(Note I work on Mimir)
I don't know how old your kids are, but I'm going to keep these PG-13ish and lower. There's a lot of personal bias in here since I grew up loving games. I'll admit that I like a mindless shooter here and there, but I'll keep these in line with your criteria.

* Portal 2 - Great story and puzzle game. The first one is fantastic too and is between 1-3 hours in length on the first time.

* Zelda games - Decent story, good world building, heavy puzzle. I have a history with these games and have loved them for literally as long as I can remember. Some of my earliest memories are playing these games with my dad.

* Firewatch - Very heavy story, simple game play. I loved the story for this game and the art style was fantastic. This was the first game I saw in 4k and I was blown away by how crisp it was.

* Chrono Trigger - Heavy story, classic SNES RPG. Square absolutely killed it in the 90s and this is a fantastic example of that.

* Final Fantasy 7 - Heavy story. Such a great game for so many reasons. Fairly long (40-55ish hours) and requires some strategy.

RPGs in general have a decent track record of good stories. There's a lot of good stuff out there, and playing games with your kids is great. My dad did it with me and those are some fantastic memories. Definitely one of the things that made us so close and we still talk about games on our weekly calls.
Modern American cities are downright bleak. There are no small businesses anymore because they have been priced out by insane rents so they have very little character. Most of the space is taken up by insanely noisy motor traffic on 6 lane roads that are absolutely packed. Public transit is slow and poorly maintained. Pedestrian spaces are narrow, noisy, hot, polluted strips.

I'm sure there are a few out there that aren't a total wash at this point, but why would you want to live in downtown LA or SF? Commuting is almost as bad. Unless you have an excellent income and few personal expenses it's untenable.

There have been some recent changes to make cities more livable and financially viable, but it's going to take some huge efforts.
VW emissions scandal is small potatoes compared to what Facebook is doing to the world. Working for a war machine company (Lockheed, GD, etc) would be a much better analogy, and I think the question is a valid one for employees of those companies, too.
I think that's because there is no real "open signup" for starting a company here, either. It's not like people here are legally allowed to try out a business before officially starting it - that would be highly illegal. In the US, you can spin up and spin down businesses the way you would an AWS VM.

That, and Germans value contracts/stability over many other things - including the customers themselves.
Upvoting just because Google's (and Apple's) app store processes are so horrible, and this is probably the best way the case gets noticed by someone human in a normal timeframe (according to the post, they've been going through it for 2 months already).
Yeah, if it's already off-the-grid, just combine batteries with a DC microgrid if you're aiming for cheap and efficient.

If you have the charging top voltage at/below the peak of 240V mains (which is sqrt(2) higher than the rms of 240V), you can get away with using the load's voltage-adaptive power supply to handle the varying battery voltage. This will work with resistive heaters (no simple thermostats, though; "electronic trailing edge phase cut dimmer" is the technology needed, but with adapted control to work like a normal PWM), but resistive light bulbs would burn out.

There are plug standards similar to the ones used on computer power supplies that are rated as DC variants.

Feel free to stay in contact; I am looking for making use of local solar power for electronic loads that make up most of my electricity usage once I can spend the appropriate money on it, and combining it with UPS functionality as that's rather cheap to add.
> who is a competitor

It is? In which markets?
Both. The greeting is a separate entity and despite ending in a comma or semicolon is not part of the first sentence of the body of the email. This is inherited from English standards for writing letters on actual paper. Unless it's being graded for a class in school, is part of some official communication, or is going to a copy editor, though, it probably doesn't actually bother anyone if this convention is flouted.
Facebook market place...? Not really sure either
CashApp Tax is Credit Karma Tax that was bought by Square. Everything transferred from previous years and Square/Block Inc is publicly traded corporation with a ~$85 billion market cap so I’m not sure what you mean by “whichever way the startup winds blow.”

Furthermore — it’s your tax records. As soon as the government receives them they enter the permanent records of surveillance valley.
You cannot conclude that because someone has been held in contempt for intentionally failing to respond to a records production request because they simply didn’t want to do it, that someone would also be held in contempt for delaying production for a few hours while they make a good-faith attempt to verify the authenticity of a request. Judges take all the facts and circumstances into account—including intent—when making these kinds of decisions, especially those that involve depriving someone of their liberty.
It might be useful in situ. I.e., maybe you don't need to bring it back.

In the distant future, most civilization will be in and beyond the Kuiper belt, because while energy is as cheap as a supply of 2H and 3He (and eventually H and 11B), cold is hard to get in substantial quantity except far enough from a star. We will need a lot of cold.
Is there an example of running mimir without prometheus?
More engineering effort going into reinventing things that already exist to upsell people on Grafana cloud.

What about focusing on the core value that Grafana provides, dashboards?

Grafana 8 alerting is still in my opinion at a beta level. Dashboards as code has made no meaningful progress outside of community attempts in the past 3 years. The documentation for Grafana 8 alerts is still subpar.

All of these things as a paid offering are more interesting than migrating my logging system or metrics system. Developers don't want to migrate their observability.
So does it produce more energy than it takes? From what I've read that's extremely unlikely.
A pot of big corps have Hackathon weeks for doing just this. A free-for-all to build something you want and that you think will be helpful to the org from your perspective.
Mimir exposes both remote write API and Prometheus compatible API. The typical setup is that you configure Prometheus (or Grafana Agent) to remote write to Mimir and then you configure Grafana (or your preferred query tool) to query metrics from Mimir.

You may also be interested into looking at a 5 minutes introduction video, where I cover the overall architecture too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej9y3KILV8g
Why should they explain anything? They're not writing a research paper, right?
Functional Ear Trainer
> When we add !important to the end of our declaration, it jumps to this level of the Cascade. Ideally, you reserve this level for Hail Marys, which are needed to override styles from third-party libraries

Or when you write Stylus[0] themes to create custom skins for your favorite sites. Sometimes the Stylus theme doesn't honor what you've coded, and you have to manually over-ride with an !important

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us/
(Tom here; I started the Cortex project on which Mimir is based and lead the team behind Mimir)

Thanos is an awesome piece of software, and the Thanos team have done a great job building an vibrant community. I'm a big fan - so much so we used Thanos' storage in Cortex.

Mimir builds on this and makes it even more scalable and performance (with a sharded compactor and query engine). Mimir is multitenant from day 1, whereas this is a relatively new thing in Thanos I believe. Mimir has a slightly different deployment model to Thanos, but honestly even this is converging.

Generally: choosing Thanos is always going to be a good choice, but IMO choosing Mimir is an even better one :-p
- Writing as form of (or tool for) thinking; Leslie Lamport said (maybe quoting someone) that if you're thinking, but not writing, you only think that you're thinking;

- High tolerance for feeling ignorant, confused, silly, inadequate, a novice: none of these states should phase you: you should not have a comfort zone: let your mind feel at ease in not understanding something: go to the eye of the storm and weather it: you'll come out being more capable;

- Formal specification (maybe TLA+) when doing something unintuitive, like non-trivial concurrency; or, simpler put, think before you do;

- Functional programming, immutability, state machines, reactive programming: whatever you can do to make your systems more declarative and their state easier to reason about;

- I'm a geek for tools, and I know that not everyone is like me, but for me choosing the right stack for the job is a big deal, and when saying stack, I mean every tool I'll be using, from the programming languages, to deployment tech, to testing setup; a good tool can effortlessly solve a host of problems.
This is a lot of words to say that you are a homophobe.
This.

How is it that I paid for Windows (begrudgingly) and yet it's constantly undermining my efforts to control it? Microsoft has at least a dozen shitty apps that no matter how many times you disable or uninstall them, always seem to come slinking back into RAM. What the actual fuck?!
Yeah, exactly. This article and its survey questions seem to completely skip over the _why_ of wanting to move out of cities. And the big reason of course is that it became unaffordable for most people and isn't getting better.
> Indeed, we've started to notice that many newer developers aren't even aware of an alternative approach, as they've spent their entire career in a framework like React

This is exactly why it's often best to use React even if it's overkill. It makes recruiting and onboarding new devs to the codebase much easier. Given the rate of turnover for frontend devs, this is a significant advantage.
That doesn't necessarily mean that this exact arc was the only possible one that could turn out well, or even that it's the best one. Just as any number of small things could have derailed things and led to them being an obscure trivia answer, surely small things could also have made things even better or last longer.
You were making a broader point about expertise in governing many people, which I would consider as a general positive quality. When you then reduce that expertise to what happens behind closed doors, it (to my mind) becomes explicitly about bribery and corruption. Perhaps folks with experience have more experience with that as well, but it's not germane to their general competence in dealing with groups of people.

Unless of course you think both are intertwined in a way that cannot be separated. In that case we just disagree.
You can almost always reliably get City Name from Zip as well. Allow user overrides of your lookup, tho; cuz neither is 100% and sometimes people just want to be ornery.
Unbundling Airbnb
I wonder how much of that is due to not having alternatives to compare it to other than the kind of cities that parent is talking about.
In general I kind of agree with this, but this move isn't anything specific to Apple. Every company designing ML accelerators is doing it. None of them expose anything but the most high level framework they can get away with to users.

I honestly don't know of a single company offering custom machine learning accelerators that let you do anything except use Tensorflow/PyTorch to interface with them, not a chance in hell any they actually will give you the underlying ISA specifics. Maybe the closest is, like, the Xilinx Versal devices or GPUs, but I don't quite put them in the same category as something like Habana, Groq, GraphCore, where the architecture is bespoke for exactly this use case, and the high level tools are there to insulate you from architectural changes.

If there are any actual productionized, in-use accelerators with low level details available that weren't RE'd from the source components, I'd be very interested in seeing it. But the trend here is very clear unless I'm missing something.
Sibling.
Much of the architecture is similar; a number of components are shared in https://github.com/grafana/dskit.
>There are a lot of factors that went into FB’s meteoric rise in the 2006-2014 range

The main factor was MySpace being a mess, something like Twitter is today but nobody bothered to get it right except Zuckerberg.
Show HN: Find out how long products last, where they break, and how to fix them
Cool! Personally I don't like watching videos, preferring to read prose or code or see an arch diagram. But good that it's available.
What about people who suffer from allergies to things like plant pollen?
Receiptline: Markdown for receipts. Printable digital receipts
IOKit in the kernel is a C++ API; the userspace version is C.
This remembers me old history of fail redundant space computers, which appearing first lead to less failures, but in some short time things got much worse, because people give up on software reliability.

Most expensive documented example - failed first launch of Ariane-5, where it's 3 fail redundant computers all stopped to work on same exception - costs 1 billion Euros.

Used inherited software from Ariane-4, which is just have too much different design, so in some flight modes Ariane-5 could achieve much higher speeds than Ariane-4.
And over time these things where written in Ariane-4 software as constraints and trigger exception if reached.
So it was not the question, how redundant where computers and how many computers working in parallel as hot replacement - even if where 100s, all will become non working.
Why Wildcraft?
But who does the scraping of the prometheus agents? Mimir or still prometheus server?
Amazon owns twitch and Facebook runs Facebook gaming which is a direct competitor.

Amazon Prime video is also an indirect competitor to other time wasting products like social media apps / video sharing etc.

edit: Also don't forget data collection / AI / advertising.
is there like a tutorial that walks though the process, step by step, to get like a hello world project hosted some where?
It takes 15s on my workstation and 5 minutes on a fileserver with about 17 million files (on a mix of fast and slow disks, and too old a kernel for io_uring).

Database sizes are 30MB and 200MB respectively.
me too but apparently the world does not care about case
On iOS it depends. For example, if you are typing in a password-tagged field a screen recording will not display the content+keyboard. I would assume screen sharing follow the same behavior. So basically, it depends..
And that resulted in fire/sparks?
Manual Memory Management with Go
Does Coding in Pythonic Zen Peak Performance?
PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.14484.pdf

Code: https://zenodo.org/record/5712349
We tried to address this question on the Q&A blog post: https://grafana.com/blog/2022/03/30/qa-with-our-ceo-about-gr...

It doesn't have to mean the end for Cortex, but others will have to step up to lead the project. We've tried to put other maintainers in place to kick start this.
This is an awesome view into the implementation details of python. Can anyone recommend other resources that go into the lower level python implementation?
stop using windows lol
Alzheimer's runs in my family, so I should probably start using somethiing like this.
Choose a better set of keys.
FTA:

"The firm is one of the biggest recipients of Republican campaign spending, earning more than $237 million in 2020, according to data compiled by OpenSecrets. Its biggest payments came from national GOP congressional committees and America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC."
Hmm, seems HN strips out query strings. Can't seem to update the URL manually either.

Thanks!
>A common example of a harmful abstraction, in C and C++, is a typedef of a pointer to an opaque name. The typedef conceals, when you read code using it, that the type is really a pointer, and so subject to all the excess operations provided for pointers in those languages. But one thing every C and C++ programmer always needs to know about a type they are working with is whether it is a pointer.

Nah, I don't agree at all. Renamed generic pointers are actually an extremely useful signal. They say "you should not concern yourself with what this pointer points to. You should only be using it through the library's functions. Do anything else with it at your own peril". Also, no, C and C++ programmers don't really care whether a value of some novel type is actually a pointer or not (C++ programmers much less so). They only care about what size it is to know how to pass it around and whether it needs to be cleaned up in some specific way. If I tell you that when you're done with a fluor_t you should pass it to release_fluor(), do you need to know whether fluor_t is a pointer or a struct, or whether release_fluor() is a function or a macro?
I always thought it was an ironic pun, Beatles -> beat less

As if the biggest rock band of all time didn't have any beat!

Whenever I try to tell anyone how I like the joke, they look at me like I'm crazy and tell me I made it up myself

I'm not sure if it was actually intended or not, but it's a pretty good pun regardless!
I think a world without drunk driving would probably make them more equivalent. It's hard to overstate the cost to society drunk driving costs.
ASP.NET not supported? Been looking for a way to self-host my asp app.net based app ... guess Imma go cry in the corner ...