skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost 2 years ago my cofounder and I started building Digger. It took us a year, and last summer we have finally shown it to the world. We launched Digger quite successfully on ProductHunt as well as here on HackerNews. But it wasn’t instant product-market fit we hoped for. More like, different people were using Digger for different reasons.

Then we launched a few follow-up products with more focused value propositions like UI (Lemon), or multi-cloud (Alicorn), or databases (Hippobase). We learned a lot from the early adopters (thank you!!). The biggest learning was that we were trying to solve too many problems at once, and that confused our users a great deal.

So we went back to the drawing board. We have radically simplified the UI, especially onboarding. We asked ourselves - what is the one thing our users care about most? And we started launching what we thought were features as separate products. Some of them flopped (remember Serverful?) - and so we killed the feature. Others succeeded, like one-click sample app setup (AWS Bootstrap) and most recently Terragen that automatically generates infrastructure-as-code.

And then we wondered: is there something in common with the products that were received warmly? Turns out, there is - speed. In hindsight it is obvious that speed matters a great deal. Because it is not uncommon to spend more time on setting up AWS infrastructure for your app than building the app itself.

Then we thought, what would the fastest developer experience with AWS infrastructure look like? Making each step as fast as possible seemed like a good start:

- the fastest way to get the code

- the fastest way to determine what infrastructure is needed

- the fastest way to provision that infrastructure on AWS

#1 can be solved by one-click Github repository connection, like in Vercel. It doesn’t get much faster than that

#3 can be solved by generating and running Terraform (this is what Terragen does)

#2 presents the biggest challenge. How do we know what kind of infrastructure is needed?

After a great deal of not making much progress we realised something: all the information is already in the code! Because if you show your app to a DevOps engineer they wouldn’t need to ask many questions, they would just see the code and instantly know whether it’s a front-end (then it would require an S3 bucket and a CDN) or a back-end or a lambda function. We can easily detect the language and the framework, Dockerfile, lambda handler, read package.json, things like that. Then we can feed it into the Terraform generator, then run terraform apply on our servers against user’s AWS account. This makes the entire flow completely seamless: connect your github repo → connect your AWS account → click “Deploy”. As simple as that.

And this is Flywheel. Give it a try!
Shoot for 1 step and 0$ in fees.
The post is from 2011, so i would expect them to have entered much wider circulation now.
> Is “hoarding” just a synonym for “owning”?

hoarding is owning way more than you need to the detriment of other people.

> Sounds like, “Do what zosima says with your stuff, otherwise you’re BAD!”

Generally using life-or-death situations to run a huge profit is at best considered impolite. Zosima is not alone in thinking so.
The full study that the article links to has a more in-depth look on the processes in several cities: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Barriers-to-Busine...
No idea what you are talking about. Did you reply to the right comment?
Open App Markets Act: Reducing the AppStore Monopoly
I'm not based on the US, but as an app developer I really really hope this bill goes through
Godot 4.0 Alpha 10 Brings Temporal anti-aliasing
They didn't specify if it was five U.S. Dollars or five New American Dollars.
I'm normally pretty open minded about alien detection. I expect there to be many out there - but this is premature. I don't believe they have even re-observed the sources. Then they need to publish and the community needs to pull it apart and mull it over for a while. A genuine detection will probably take many years to reach consensus, even if the source is beaming out prime numbers.
This doesn't even cover all the neat assembly tricks with self-modifying code that you would actually use on a 6502 to speed up memory transfer.
Make sure that a note to that effect is placed in your grave.
Minimal, systemd-free Alpine Linux releases version 3.16
> I don't know any build system that doesn't.

Sure you do. Any build system which has a "clean" command that you'd use for anything other than freeing up space.
Blame Democrats for the college educated urban-dominated coalition they’ve deliberately chosen. I recall some activist types talking a few years ago about whether pro life Dems like Manchin should be kicked out of the party. Though it’s the House not the Senate, Dems just lost a longtime majority-Hispanic seat in south Texas: https://www.texastribune.org/2022/06/14/texas-special-electi.... To give you an idea of the temperature of that room, the Dem candidate had run as “a ‘conservative Democrat’ and ‘pro-life’ Catholic.” National Dems are making a deliberate choice to abandon those Dem voters, just as they did with working class white people in the Midwest. Remember when Dems had 60 Senate seats, including in states like South Dakota? It wasn’t ancient history it was 2008.
Man, I'm tired of clickbait headlines and the whole news industry in general. I think I'm getting old.

This hasn't been confirmed by anyone else yet. The most likely explanation is that it's radio interference from ourselves. Last time people got excited about this it was satellites, another time it was a microwave oven.

They have tourists at this location in China, to try and make some extra money. The tourists aren't allowed to bring their cellphones - how well do you suppose that's enforced?
There's also more to it than just the webview windows:

- Cross-platform auto-updating

- Desktop tray features

- System notifications

- Menu stuff

These are some of the "extra" things that also made Electron nice.

You have a point about browser API compatibility, though. That's the big downside to using the system-provided webview widget.
Hooray for Whitby!

Bernie Sanders should be asked for his opinion on the matter.
LibreOffice 7.4 Beta Now Available with Performance Improvements, WebP Support
Maybe it is due to hardware supply chain shortages, since they make their money from the game sales anyways.
did they put the Medicare for all on vote? if not, you can't just assume that if they didn't want more reckless government spending(thank God they stpped at that, the damage is already immense) they also don't want medicare for all.
A number of pharmacies in Sweden also sent a bunch of data (IIRC for example contents of shopping carts) to facebook via the pixel. All of them are now under investigation by our data protection agency.
> I'm sorry, what? Why would a build not work deterministically?

Because they don't and never did?

Do you understand build systems and individual tools were not designed to ensure deterministic behavior?

https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/deterministic-build-sys...

Anyone with any professional experience developing software can tell you countless war stories involving bugs that popped up when building the exact same project separate times. What leads you to believe that translations are any different? In fact, more often than not we see unexpected changes during translation update steps.

> If your build is non-deterministic, how can you have any faith in the binaries it produces?

First of all, all builds are not deterministic by default.

To start to come close to get a deterministic build, you need to do all your own legwork after doing all your homework.

Did you ever did any sort of this work? You didn't, didn't you? You're not looking and are instead just placing blind faith on stuff continuing to work by coincidence, aren't you?

> You probably don't want to do that (...)

Yes, I do. Anyone with their head on their shoulders wants to do that. It's either that or waste time tracking bugs that you allowed to go to production. Do you want to waste your time hunting down easily avoidable and hard to track bugs? Most of the professional world doesn't.
well, I don't want to get downvoted but I have to say...Blockchain fixes this.
There are 48 Democrat Sentors and 2 Independents who caucus with the Democrats, one of whom has sought the Democratic nomination for President. That’s 50 votes, plus the Democratic VP to break any tie. While it might be correct to say the Democrats do not have a majority in the Senate, its not incorrect to say they do control the Senate.
The x86 Competitor which could have been: Centaur CNS x86 8-core CPU Review
What do people compare with when they complain about 20 second build times? That doesn't seem like anything for a thing that one doesn't need to do very often. You can still do cargo check without taking so much time, right?
"Piss off! I'm only resting."
you dont need 10 years to build a nuclear plant, most of delays are due to " political limitations" and construction/design inexpertise. South Korea build them on 56 months on average. Scale matter
The 65816's MVP/MVN opcodes can do bulk transfers a teeny bit faster.
IIRC you could do something similar with Action Replay, you would load into the Action Replay UI, swap out the disc and then boot into a pirated game
I didn't know that! Interesting.
Spoiler: it's never aliens.
While I'm sure many will argue about government control vs entrepreneurial freedom, what fascinates me most is the inefficiency. Reading that it takes '77 steps' or '63 steps' or whatever doesn't bother me. My programs have thousands of steps, but the wall-clock step time makes them disappear. No it's the inefficient parts, in-person visits, lack of consolidation, processing delays. All the things that computers are supposed to have solved by now.

I'd reframe this movement not as 'business vs government' but 'everyone vs inefficiency.'
so 30% of the country's population has medical debt.. what the hell
I'm being tongue in cheek here, but to support your point a little, if Bitcoin was not generally anonymous in nature, we'd know who Satoshi is.. no? :-)
Fun fact: George Washington wasn't one of the signatories of the Declaration.
Fat's the best for satiety, yes. I find it much easier to overeat when I'm mainly eating protein.

I'd guess you kept the mental benefits because you were still in ketosis. While I'm sure being leaner (if you were overweight) contributes to some mental benefits (body image, feeling healthier), perhaps most are simply from running on ketones.
On the original ZX Spectrum, you could measure the write bandwidth visually, because on startup it would write the value 2 into each byte in memory (which included the graphics RAM). It would then re-read and decrease the value of each byte twice, to check for any faulty memory.

You could see these patterns on-screen as the reads and writes took place (I think it took about a couple of seconds to do this to 48k of RAM)
If this resonates with you, Victor W. Hwang is also the founder of Right to Start https://www.righttostart.org/mission

> Right to Start fights to expand entrepreneurial opportunity for all. We drive civic change through: grassroots organizing and mobilizing, policy advocacy and engagement, and lifting the voices of entrepreneurs through media and storytelling. Our campaign is based in two affiliated nonprofits: Right to Start is a 501(c)3 and Right to Start Fund is a 501(c)4.
Remember that the fees get approved by people who ran on "small efficient government must pay for itself" platforms.
Is anyone else seeing a countdown anywhere they stare at?
I think the judge was referring to artistic choices made in Ulysses; that JJ's choice of season was spring and choice of locale was "Celtic", just as "his setting", in Ulysses, was Dublin. "His season was spring" is a shorthand was of saying "his chosen season was spring".
Mutually assured destruction is unlikely to happen. It is game theory advantageous to make other party believe you are an irrational agent while being the opposite. If non-nuclear systems require human input to arm and engage them, rest assured nuclear systems would be even more so.

That said, if people actually looked at the numbers, the military help provided by US to Ukraine is spare change compared to the cost of economic and political consequences of not providing it.
What is the system webview on Linux, where such a thing doesn't exactly universally exist?
A Warming Arctic Emerges as a Route for Subsea Cables
> By taking lessons learned from the infrastructure-as-code movement and upgrading the dotfiles pattern into full blown Docker images then utilising products such as Gitpod to consume, build and execute the Dockerfile then I no longer need to worry about the security of my endpoint when playing with open-source software created by complete internet randoms.

Bingo!
So we're back to the original question: without an Internet connection, this blockchain-controlled door won't open, even if you're the legitimate owner.

Or if it does open without Internet, then you can buy the house NFT, but the seller disabled the Internet connection in the house so the door doesn't know about the transaction. Now you're locked out even though you theoretically own the house on the blockchain.

Turns out the blockchain doesn't solve ownership of physical objects. You still need intermediaries like the police and courts to decide who owns the house.
I would say both are over-regulated, but maybe not as overregulated as Europe.

An interesting thing to note is that European countries tend to make rules to outlaw risky behavior in the first place, but have limited fines in case the risk materializes, whereas the United States tends to allow more risk taking, but imposes exorbitant fines if something goes wrong.

Both systems have their advantages.
It seems like the problem here is government over-regulation, so unless businesses operating on the chain were exempt from normal laws, why would blockchain help?
Canada is regulated to death. My city is complaining about being forced to approve building permits in 2 months. Local government officials are using permits and regulations to limit the housing supply in a city with a housing affordability and homelessness crisis. The bureaucrats in charge all own homes…
Good point. I wrote about that recently:

https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/06/heliosng/

Very interesting OS that is FOSS now. By v3 it ran on multiple CPU architectures. With some of the manycore CPUs appearing in recent years, this is crying out for a revival.
Unfortunate editorial choice for the title, as this is really about how noise and light pollution disrupt the natural world. As these topics seem to be popular here, probably the original title would have been a better choice:

> It appears in the July/August 2022 print edition with the headline “Our Blinding, Blaring World.”

It’s an important article too. Some of the documented effects are startling. For example, how noise affects scrub-jays which affects the distribution of piñon pines which affects everything else. I wish we had a more examples and a better understanding of how the effects of these pollutants ripple through entire ecosystems, as I imagine the effects are even more extensive than we realize.

The article only briefly touches on an aspect I think is under-appreciated, that we are part of the natural world, and sensory pollution deeply affects us as well.

> By then, about 83 percent of people—including more than 99 percent of Americans and Europeans—were under light-polluted skies. More than a third of humanity, and almost 80 percent of North Americans, can no longer see the Milky Way.

And we are well aware of the deleterious effects of noise pollution on our health, both physical and mental. Imagine if we didn’t live in such a polluted sensory environment and had more of a connection with the natural world we so rely on. Maybe then we would be more motivated to really address the climate, environmental, and biodiversity crises we are living through.

> Sensory pollution is the pollution of disconnection. It detaches us from the cosmos.
Hey, I took @tomxor's script, modified it and published it as an extension. Credit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30668137
"I'm pining for the fjords!"
> Not really. Just because neighbors grass is greener, doesn't mean Linux grass isn't a black wilting mess.

Linux's grass was a much darker green in the past, but wasn't black, neither back then, nor now.

> Multi monitor support

Just plugged a secondary monitor into one of my colleagues Linux box a week ago, a second desktop appeared three seconds later. Used two monitors for 6 years, until 6 years ago. It was working fine, then.

> HDR

Don't have an HDR panel, can't say a word about it, but VLC handles HDR-SDR conversion just fine.

> DE bricking after update.

My current MacBook Pro bricked after an OS update, because of a bug in an OpenVPN client's OS integration. No, the tool is paid, and no, macOS has no OpenVPN client embedded in it. Maybe I shouldn't have installed a paid, premium OpenVPN client, who knows. Anyway, I wiped and reinstalled the thing as a result.

The symptom? A frozen progress bar under the Apple logo. No time remaining, no error, nothing. Can I have the logs please? "Haha, of course not, you peasant."

And I only wiped and re-installed a Linux distro once, 15 years ago, because I did something the tool warned me to not to do.

And Windows somehow succeeds to corrupt my older computer's BIOS after installing updates and reboots. Sometimes it hangs all fans blazing during the restart. No, it's not the battery. That also never happened with Linux.

So, I arguably have a much better experience with Linux w.r.t. macOS and Windows in the last 15 years.
This is by design. Most of the laws are supposed to be state/local in the US and the federal government is only supposed to help coordinate/defend them.
Milton Friedman famously said: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output.”
The Democrats control the one spending bill a year subject to the Byrd rule. All other bills require 60 senators.
It's a fraction, yes, but it's also delayed a lot. For a while the challenge has not been to remove heat from the general area, but to keep small spots from overheating within milliseconds. Cooling on the other side of the building does not play a big enough role for it to matter.

(For enthusiasts, lowering environmental temperature would have the same effect.)
I personally liked that I could use whatever I wanted for the backend, but I’m kind of inclined to switch to Tauri anyway since the build story seems a bit better (ultimately I want native desktop builds for every platform).
Show HN: An open source web crawler for the Mwmbl non-profit search engine
A public facing append only database fixes this how?
They don't, as you are probably aware.
They create barriers to entry for existing businesses that have the cash to issue bribes (or 'lobby' as some may euphemistically call it).

This is one of the major reasons for the stagnation of all empires.
Speaking from experience, the "not earn profits" part isn't actually true anymore in many places.
To be really pedantic, there's a big difference between 'memory bandwidth' and 'memory transfer speed'. The former is just reading (or writing) to a block of memory, and the latter is copying data from one location to another. So a 'memory transfer speed' is going to be slower.
Ask HN: Why do companies offer severance?
In municipalities where severance isn't a legal requirement, what incentive do the employers have to offer severance? Are they really doing it because it's the right thing to do, or are there other economic incentives that I'm not aware of?
Death by bureaucracy. This is a sign of an extermely sick society.
I can fully agree that green groups have opposed nuclear.

I call bullshit on the absurd idea that the global failure of nuclear is due to these groups.
> How about you just shut the fuck up and we'll keep saving in Bitcoin and you can keep your infinitely inflating dollars.

bitcoin is losing value. It's really not a hedge against inflation as you propose. As more people need what little money they have leftover from losing it in bitcoin, they'll pull the remaining fraction of their savings out and reduce the price of bitcoin. The price is just barely above $20,000 now. Most miners are running on fossil fuels consuming electricity greater than that of countries. You need to get a grip because your ponzi scheme is collapsing.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/bitcoin-falls-fresh-18-m...
Oh man, I saw systemd and Alpine Linux on the same headline and for a while got my hopes up that they had ported systemd finally into musl. But nope.
Sorry, there is a quote from the article:
"Kudos to other members of the Source Control team — Alex Sadleir, Wesley Li, Adam Murray, Matthew Chhoeu — who work on improving git performance at Canva"

So I assume 5 people working specifically on Git performance ;-P
OOF. Starting a software business in Indiana only cost me $90 with 0 visits and I recall maybe 2 forms to fill out.
I see what you mean, but I don't think GDPR is really a valid example, because data-protection became at that moment a global concern, so quite a lot of companies were ready for it, there was an expectation that many jurisdictions will folow the suit anyway, and generally it wouldn't be bon ton to resist it. There are lots of very visible cases when it doesn't work like that: search, app markets, availability of news sources, medical information - what you see is dependent on your location, and sometimes even on your passport color, and as I see it it's more often restricting you as a user, than protecting.
Isn’t that because windows webview (with edge now) is chromium?
Most people in developed countries don't know what a real war is. With some exceptions, most "wars" in the last decades were mostly TV shows about NATO/US bombing some unfortunate army to smithereens. The possibility of deadly retaliation resides in the same part of viewer's brain as Terminator movie

This, and the positive view of being a hardliner lead to insane statements
This gets a nod in the last paragraph

> …a mantis shrimp will never smell the way a dog can, and a dog will never understand what it is like to be a bat.
Koreans and Russians (political refugees) have still the skills to build reactors at time and "costs"
Whatever happened to “Hey, I have some apples, would you like to buy them?” “Yes, thank you!” That’s as complicated as it should be to open a business in this country.

- Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation
In Boston and San Francisco?

I don't think so, dude.
Exactly. I guess you can't write when you share a link on Hacker News. So I wrote it in the comments section of the post.
This read like “get off my lawn you damn kids!”

Also, I don’t think people would want to waste all that time making 12 trips a day whether they care about the price of gas or not.

Source: kid from the 80’s.
In the context of voting for taxpayer funded healthcare, or any other broad population wide benefit program / tax increase, it would be inaccurate to label Manchin and Sinema as Democrats.

Same as when Affordable Care Act was being molded, a couple of “Democrat” senators like Leiberman sank any chance a taxpayer funded option. Just like Manchin and Sinema sank Biden’s universal preschool/daycare and paid parental leave proposal last year.
Actually I’ve noticed this strange thing — since Monday all photos taken with my iPhone seem to have some weird digits in them.
I don't understand. If anything I would guess that our (human) perception of "weirdness" is not a good measure of the (dis)advantages of a particular attribute. Octopuses and angler fish are weird as hell (to me at least) but they fit their biological niche pretty well. (Of course we could say that any attribute has advantages and disadvantages but at that point the claim becomes vacuous.)