skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is in fact possible to be further from puritanism, because you could not be against porn. There's nothing wrong with sex and there's nothing wrong with filming it or otherwise making money off of it.
Halving a 0.00001% chance that you get some crazy infection from flushing the toilet is definitely neurotic. You're better off saving the 2 seconds and not thinking about it. "But it's still half!" Half of nothing is nothing.
I built a fairly involved mobile application that used Firestore and cloud functions. The criticisms of the two made in the article are very fair. I also think there are even more significant ramifications of the issues touched on which result in horrible problems for developers.

I have a lengthy list of complaints about both firestore and the firabase flavor of cloud functions, however, I will say that the ease of getting started with the firebase suite is unmatched, in my experience. Compared to any product on AWS or raw GCP, it feels like an actual product with people thinking about their users.

There is also a large community around the firebase products, the main example being Invertase.io which provides amazing open source native clients for firebase.

Regarding Convex specifically, the approach of writing queries server side seems great. The docs aren't clear (to me) about whether the queries only send incremental state changes. I would assume and hope that is the case.

In this bit[1] it seems like the function needs to execute the entire query again, which could become a significant performance issue.

[1] https://docs.convex.dev/understanding/convex-fundamentals/fu...
Firestore has better SLO than Confluent's own managed Kafka offering (5 nines [1] vs 4 nines [2]).

If you use it as a system component and not a do everything backend it is the most production ready clientside technologies on the planet.

[1] https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/clusters/cluster-typ...

[2] https://cloud.google.com/firestore/sla
or a mycelium network! :)
that 4/5 of the world’s population doesn’t practice. too bad for them I guess
For reference that is about 3 or 4 times the average rent for an furnished studio apartment in an expensive area according to https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/country/ecuador
Oh, the "Irish Potato Diet".[1]

[1] https://www.irishcentral.com/culture/food-drink/irish-potato...
> BTC and ETH are the interesting and worth putting a small percentage of your holdings into

Extremely no. It's FOMO and no real value all the way down.
I've been working real hard for the past 10+ years and I have very little to show for it yet.

In the meantime a couple of friends who never worked got rich(er) just because they bought a few thousands $ (money borrowed...from their family) worth of crypto at the right moment.

What is this bullshit? Why am I even busting my ass trying to create value, when I could just buy shitcoins and become a millionaire?

I don't think this is healthy for any society. I don't even want to get rich with a fucking lottery. I want to earn it, to provide something to others and get something in return. No, I don't consider "making a market more efficient with my investments" as providing value. It's just speculation.
Huh -- it's the name of a band, too? Never heard of.

All I knew was, it's the original Japanese name of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla#Name
> It sounds like a dumb gimmick that could never work, but there are a surprising number of people out there saying that they tried it, it worked for them, and they kept the weight off for months or even years after.

Losing weight isn't causal to being healthy. In most cases it correlates because gaining weight is usually done through eating unhealthy (excess calories, refined sugars, etc.) so going on a healthy diet means losing weight gained from unhealthy diet.

Also, there are unhealthy diets on which you can lose weight but the effects on your hormones might be even worse than an unhealthy diet that causes you to gain weight.
The price of drugs in US also reflects expensive R&D and sometimes even more expensive approval process. Plus the companies has to account for the possibility of third parties manufacturing without the license which in turn requires higher unit price.
"No dairy": would result in a Vitamin D deficit unless the some other food fortified with vitamin D is used, person is living in a tropical region with little clothing, or the multivitamin option is chosen over the emphasized B12 supplement. It also lacks fiber: https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/potatoes-and-milk-is-t...
Stop spreading misinformation. The budget data is open. You're discussing server costs, but need to also consider hosting and data center costs, as well as employee salaries. Running Wikimedia is a pretty decent percentage of their budget.

Part of the reason for other parts of the budget is attempting to increase editor numbers in a world where direct readership is declining (because of products like Google's knowledge graph), and improving inclusiveness, so that content will better represent the world. They are also building an endowment to be able to weather bad fundraising years.
OBS is an amazing piece of software. I remember when I first dabbled in livestreaming and everything was either pricey or broken.

I am currently using OBS solely as a method to grab screens/windows and use a custom plugin to stream that to multiple WebRTC users to create something like a low latency game streaming for friends. OBS saves me a ton of time since I don't have to implement X11 / Wayland / Mac / Windows DXGI screen capture methods as well as a way to composite several of those into a nice picture.

The development discord is hit or miss though but with a bit of luck and digging (and thanks to other plugins) one can piece together how to write a plugin.
Not sure why this post is perceived with so much negativity here. I totally agree with the original author that the labels are a disaster. Whether the redesign is very much practical on low resolution is debatable, but I find the general idea commendable.

So many comments even straight out dismissing the necessity of the labels altogether, which 1. is not the point at all and 2. would definitely not be the sentiment from those who are actually in charge of the laundry and care about taking care their clothes well over the years.

Maybe HN doesn’t necessarily have the intended audience for this kind of post then.
Low latency hardware encoding and muxing with ffmpeg can be rather tricky depending on your setup. OBS works out of the box on every platform. If you’ve never measured end-to-end latency, your viewers are missing out.
> trying to inhabit all personas at once is exhausting

There's no personas, developers don't have three different brains they keep in the fridge and swap the ones in their head with.

Just admit that sure, interweaving information to get good quality docs is exhausting. And that we invented this "write for an audience" crap to simplify the work of the writers - "we're lazy or we have limited resources for writing docs, that's why we're doying it this way".

It's the same for writers and journalist, the "write for a specific audience" trick is way to lower the effort needed to get reviews / publishers' attention / clicks / views / shares etc. You do it when you're getting started if you ever want to get started I guess. But large scale it produces shallow literature, hard to fact check or contextualize journalism etc.

You do it for yourself (the writer) or to save resources for your companies (sure, interwoven/mixed docs are hard to maintain - I'm not even sure how eg. Pytorch's team manages to do that, but probably being the leading ML frameworks attracts top talent from the whole planet to one open-source project so it's doable for them...). But don't sell the bs that you're doing the reader/consumer any service, keept it hones to yourself and others!
> holding 100s of millions or billions of other people's money, that's enough to hit screw-it money in a few years without the constant fear of things going terribly wrong.

so, you can have that honest 2% per year for several years or you can just take it all almost immediately. History as well as crypto today is pretty clear about what humans prefer. Absent the "take it all immediately" option people do though go for the 2% option. So if you see that they can go for such an option and yet haven't - i.e. they think they have a much better option than to earn easy 2% off somebody's billions (what can be better than that?) - that is a clear sign what option they really chose :)
i consider myself a potato connoisseur. i have been eating and loving potatoes ever since i can remember and even before as far as my family can tell me.

"don't you get bored from eating potatoes"? i am asked on a regular basis. my answer is a standard "potatoes are life, potatoes are my comfort food. now get off my lawn"

edit: i am willing to do an all potato diet but its not like i hate anything else, i just cant hate potatoes.
> This is not a sustainable economic settlement.

Unfortunately it is. For most of human history the rich got richer and the poor just stayed poor. It's truly sad to say, but people will suffer along at a subsistence level pretty much indefinitely.

Without a wartime boom or the threat of an organized Left to force concessions, which were the two major drivers of wealth moving to the lower 90% in the 20th century as far as I can tell, we will continue on our current path.
Sounds like you weren’t as techy through the 90s :-)
I consider myself pretty advanced user of Tabnine, having purchased the first version from Jacob just when it appeared. I haven't used (and don't plan to) its full-function code completion and only briefly evaluated Copilot. Some thoughts:

- Tabnine's local per-repository model shines best when used on big monolithic repos with lots of similar or boilerplate code. By learning on the same code it's used for it IMO does much better job at detecting local patterns. Also local-model means pretty "safe" from security POV for corporate use (I can't imagine big corps like Google and Amazon allowing use of Copilot for proprietary code).

- Back in they free tier of Tabnine was pretty useless compared to Pro because it severely limited model size. If it's still the case now I hope they have a long evaluation period.

- From usability POV, unfortunately it doesn't provide non-intrusive experience out of the box, which is very annoying and I believe is a reason for many users abandoning it pretty quickly. I had to modify both VSCode extension and VSCode itself (!) so that Tabnine's completion suggestions won't interfere with others.
WMF has an endowment and Google's donations don't contribute a high enough percentage to substantially change their budgeting.
You're probably right, but if they're going to mention it as part of the problem, I would want to see it as part of the solution. However, I agree that they certainly shouldn't name names.
This is a really good question and is tangent to attribution in art-generating packages as well. It's a part of the process that gets ignored because nobody wants to deal with the unethical implications.

If software is doing it, it can't be bad, I guess.
Graviton Code Editor – Being Rewritten in Rust and Tauri
Wordnik – Online English Dictionary
I can 100% relate to that. For most of my 12 year long career I wrote, spoke and produced technical documentation exclusively in English.

Now that I work with a bunch of Portuguese speaking people, I find that I have a hard time communicating about anything related to work in an informal manner.

That leads to some awkward (albeit funny) situations in which sometimes I forget non-domain-specific words in Portuguese, and just Google Translate them (back into my own native language!).

In one instance I could not come up with a good enough translation for the word "henceforth", so I translated it and got "doravante", which I obliviously used it when establishing new deploy procedures. I got some laughs from my co-workers because apparently "doravante" is an absolutely archaic word.
Plastic CPUs Will Bend to Your Will
Hi, putils is available. The docs are very new and we've rewritten everything, that's why some pages are still work in progress. For now you can see the putils docs here: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/pterm/pterm/putils
Yep, I know. Wish they went even further but it seems like a good start.
To factors are extremely important:

1. Does the business solve a painful problem that is severe and frequent? If not, the project is doomed.
2. Does the founder <25 years old? Does the founder is a first-timer? Does the founder have experience raising funds? An inexperienced leader will have wet pants with the first obstacles (they will come).
/headbang

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/2007scape/images/7/74/Head...
I don't doubt this works, but I'd rather do e.g. keto where I can eat delicious meals and still feel fully satiated.
The individualistic capitalist greed at the core of Amway is really the underlying fundamental though, and quite far from the message of Christianity- they abused some cherry-picked scriptures to try to align themselves with a cultural psyche. I wonder what methods they use in India?
I was expecting this to be about Reversible Computing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_computing
I've been using Copilot for a few months now and in general it's really impressive. For me it's been a very useful autocomplete for repetitive tasks - writing tests, scaffolding components, utility functions, etc - Copilot feels like magic sometimes, it just knows what I need to do and provides the code template almost instantly.

Will be paying for the public version, absolutely worth the money in a single day's coding alone.
Most of the misleading stuff is pseudo-science, which is built off the facts. Vaccines work, therefore homeopathy works.

A good pseudoscientist builds a chain of facts like a Ponzi scheme. A is surprising but checks out. B is surprising but checks out. C is surprising but checks out. By the time you're at D, you believe whatever this person says.

If a medical journal says that homosexuality is a mental illness, many will believe them because they've published nothing but science facts so far. Or someone who doesn't want to believe it attacks past studies instead of the one they think is inaccurate.
> il

Are you mixing French and Italian articles?

As an addendum wiktionary[0] is always useful when searching other meanings of a word

[0]https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/viola
Why Work Transparency Matters
Read it for yourself: https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8450-21
Also

> a single disorganized pile

Nobody proposes a "single disorganized pile". Sure, it's hard to eg. put bite-sized examples + condesed 'why' explanations into API docs and to maintain such docs, but it's doable - in the ML community some people use notebooks for docs wiriting and sometimes even for development by generating the code from them (sure, this is utterly extremist and I don't like it myself, but it works for some), some kind of renaissance of "literate programming".

I don't say we revive literate programming, but going haf-way between that and "a disorganized pile" is what I meant.
Microsoft promises to tighten access to AI it now deems too risky for some devs
Good for you! Keto doesn't work like that for me. We need many different diets that work for some people, because no diet works for everyone.
> its founders needed to justify achieving funding by being developer-famous.

If I remember my Javascript-of-the-week-drama correctly, didn't Deno become a thing because a couple node/npm devs were upset that there was someone in the core node/npm team who did a bad thing?

Am I remembering this right?
Deno code is really close to browser code. If you have ESM code that runs in the browser and doesn't need access to the DOM then it's a good bet it'll run on Deno, and vice versa. They use web standards for most things, and anything proprietary is put on the Deno global object. For standards that need adapting to work outside the browser, they're working with Cloudflare and others on WinterCG, which is defining a common baseline for these non-browser runtimes.
Have you considered using HTTPS?
thanks for your reply.
I do not disagree with what you said, however I do not understand,i.e., how other folks landed a job as VP of Engineering, in ~20-40 people startups.

Like, is it a critical timing factor?
Do you have to be in a certain circle or know the founders?

As part of my processess I managed to talk to VPs or CTOs and -my fault maybe- I could not really understand what at least half of those people bring to the table both in technical and/or management terms.
> “I find you having to write 3 long paragraphs of bullshit about that to be the truly astonishing thing here”

What I wrote applies. An argument could be yours is diff because of specifying it is bullshit. Yet that’s what most responses are about. A mix of statements like:

“why do you care so much”/“lol you care so much” or “wow you really wrote that much” or “your long writing is all BS and excuses”.

I don’t want to attack you as a person or make you feel bad. No insinuation or implication. I am directly saying stuff. If I did read something that’s not there, I’m up for being shown how I am wrong.
A new homepage for Google Cloud
Interesting comment about singles. Is that because you felt the massive amount of effort you put in to a single substantially increased your chances of injury compared to doing reps?
People are not sufficiently educated about the value of things, vs. pricing, appreciation and so on.

Just the fact that anybody can think that you can get 15% "risk free" over long periods of time means that they are out of touch with reality.

Not to mention people thinking they will get 10x on their investments, without ludicrous amount of risk.
A gas tax holiday sounds fantastic. Why Obama called it a 'gimmick'
The case for turning off your Zoom camera
With the explosion of deep learning, I don't want to say that feature engineering is a lost art - no at all - but many of the benefits of DL, such as automatic feature extraction, is certainly something to be considered before just jumping into a project.

I've seen examples of where good and careful data collection in advance would have solved the problem, but instead, someone decided to transform the (easiest) collected data into a format suitable for DL - and spent months trying to optimize and tweak the DL model. Because their rationale was that it's much easier to just fine tune an out-of-box DL / transfer learning model, than spending ages on extra planning, data collection, feature engineering, and what not.
> those with assets got rich and those that work get poorer

I think this is the take-away of the modern world economy.

If you can somehow get enough money to join the asset-holding class you have a chance, otherwise you have no chance. And even if you can, you're fighting a serious uphill battle against the people who got there earlier and got to that sweet free number-go-up zone while you were still toiling.

Right now a friend of mine is trying to buy a modest house in the Bay Area (not SF) -- and he's worried that the $1.5M he can afford is not going to be enough (for things listed at $1.3M) because people with generational wealth, or people who won the tech lottery, are going to come in with $1.6M cash offers.

It's not that insane yet in most of the world but I see no reason to believe this is not the direction.

So, if you don't have a path from work-work into assets, what are you supposed to do?
The mites in the skin of our faces
I'd love to hear more from your perspective
Sega Nomad Reset Button Mod (2018)
What are your top 2 favorite potatoes?
There is a stream delay setting in OBS — check your settings on the source setup running OBS. 5 seconds sounds like the default, you could potentially set it to 0. This is in place to

a) head off any network dropped frames and allow OBS to backfill the stream buffer. At 0 seconds you may see slightly more quality drop from 1080p to 480p if your stream source upload bandwidth is unreliable than if you left this at 5+ seconds.

b) for game streamers of competitive multiplayer video games, to protect them from "stream cheating" where an opponent recognizes their in-game ID and then looks at their stream to get additional information in the middle of a match (eg: looking at their hand in poker). With many games a 5 second delay nullifies this issue, and many streamers set it to more like 30-45 seconds depending on the game they play.
I've experimented with OBS at well and decided not to use it for this specific reason. The lag is kinda subtle but on the other side of a test call (with someone else at my own desk) I was able to notice it quite well in interactions and it felt kinda annoying. Since I want the whole thing to feel as natural and positive as possible for the lager end, that was a non-starter. I can do without multiple cameras and gimmicky be-right-back screens.
A modern heat pump claims a cop in the 4.8 range

It’s more efficient to burn the gas in a grid power station, convert to electricity, and use the electricity to drive the heat pump, then it is to burn the gas for heat directly.
That's not a fair reply. One of the main benefits of Deno is that they're using existing standards. It's Node that's the outlier.
I would rather have an eRockit with some storage options.
Quite an interesting article.

Shows the problem of taking what seems like a good, maybe naive idea from a top down perspective: "TikTok is gaining popularity. Let's be more like TikTok."

And then pushing it down into actual implementation where it is obvious that fast-moving, pseudonymous, share-everything TikTok is quite a different beast than Facebook.
I’m not sure I understand, what should I use HTTPS for?
Did nobody read The Martian?
Does that make it any better? I’d probably make jokes like this to a very small circle of friends face to face… but here with all the ambiguity of a text based medium all this does is feel like trolling.
Almost any diet with a predominant control can work. It’s the attention to what is being eaten that’s enabled. Vegan? No meat. Carnivore? Just meat. IIFYM? Caloric control.

“Dieting” usually has too broad a set of parameters. You need a control. And if you have a goal and you’re paying attention, you’ll probably see an improvement over not having a control and eating freely.

Health, over the long term, may be more complicated but having a lean body mass makes health easier to achieve than not having a lean body mass.
Yup. One of our products was built on Firestore and I expect 90% of my time on that project is spent trying to turn Firestore into a more featureful product to meet the application's requirements. You can push it pretty far if you have the developer resources, but it often seems ludicrous that someone is willing to spend that much to build what other database solutions provide out of the box for free.
Take a look at The Starch Solution by John McDougall.
Isn't most Vitamin D "absorbed" (generated via sun light) via skin and only very little via diet?
I did this for a year. Its not sustainable, you'll loose muscle mass.

I eat potatoes daily now, but not exclusively - complex carbs are harder to burn, so they are fattening, so I have gained some weight. Maybe I'll eliminate the rice and see how that goes.

I'd recommend against olive oil and for coconut oil, frying potatoes needs a lot of heat. Add parsley, bacon, caraway, onions and serve with pickled white cabbage. Good & simple!
What on earth is an "iHue fill light"? I don't get any hits on Google for this term.
Irccloud is really nice. Best IRC client I’ve ever used.
I would expect recycling (i.e. "growing") of electronic components will become more incentivized as the rare metals become rarer and mining more expensive. Also, agriculture is technological -- since its inception, I would argue. My point being, I think you're initial point is relevant.