skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> his fantastic universe is pervaded by an overwhelming force of goodness that seeks to bring events to their right conclusion through divine providence.

That is, in fact, explicitly stated in The Silmarillion.

"Then Ilúvatar (the God/Yahweh creator spirit) spoke, and he said: 'Mighty are the Ainur (the angels), and mightiest among them is Melkor (Satan / the fallen angel); but that he may know, and all the Ainur, that I am Ilúvatar, those things that ye have sung, I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."
It seems as though larger companies are typically those who fall prey to FOMO strategies, but many of them do successfully usurp smaller companies' markets simply by copying features. Sure, some of those features flop, but that doesn't make FOMO disastrous. Ex - after Snapchat launched stories, every tech company tested a copy. For Instagram, the copy was wildly successful, even if it was a relative failure for FB, LinkedIn, etc.
That's probably better grammar. I think it works as is though, as their training is "always wash your hands."
In so many instances the priority seems to be cutting back on spending at the expense of all else
I tried it and it didn't even work on seriouseats, a very well known recipe site with (IMO) way too much text before the recipes.
>This trip is not necessarily a bad thing to have done, and more likely than not a good thing. You need your sales team properly motivated.

You need the rest of your team motivated, too. Optics are a thing. I understand your point and don't wholly disagree, but send them to something within the country or even within the same state. If you weather the layoffs and right yourself as a company, then send them to the Virgin Islands again.

Instead, now you've got a company whose sales team is motivated, but every other department is confused, nervous and anxious. Hell, there's probably even some animosity being built up towards the sales team, which will add to the interdepartmental bickering that you alluded to.

Edit: In the context of the article/DataRobot specifically, I'd argue that the trip only adds to DataRobot's existing pile of shit in a way that overshadows any potential benefits. Morale seems to have been really low pre-trip.
> Worth noting that the role of arbiter of recessions for NBER only came into being in the 1960s, long after that incident.

So? The NBER business cycle dating work covers back into the 19th century, even if some of it was done retrospectively. If anything, the fact that it applied it's methodology this way to times when there could not possibly have been any policy impact to its decisions just further undermines the idea that exceptions to the 2-consecutive-down-quarter rule are about current political convenience.

> And 1947 marked the first year the US produced a quarterly GDP report.

NBER was doing income and product reports before the government did, the government actually directly was motivated by NBER’s prior work in starting to do them.
I love AlphaFold, but this is a big misconception. The biggest cost bottle neck in drug development and design, by orders of magnitude, is associated with assaying (and potentially reducing) off-target binding or toxicity and assaying (and potentially increasing) efficacy. Determining a protein structure empirically with cryoEM, NMR, or crystallography will generally cost less than $1M (sometimes far less), which is tiny compared to the many millions or billions of dollars that get poured into clinical trials for a single drug. AF2 is useful in some basic research cases but isn't really that useful for traditional drug design and development.

A machine learning approach for predicting toxicity would have a far greater impact on public health than AF2 does.
This already happens at YT. It's pretty common knowledge that after 300 views, the handling of a video changes a lot, including moving from a cheap storage medium to the media used for popular content.
No idea now. I usually look to BackBlaze's periodic drive performance reports when I'm shopping, but even that's been a while for me.
Merriam-Webster is reporting that the first attested usage of BOGO was from 1983, but I had never encountered the term until last night when my wife used it in conversation! It confused me so much she had to finally say "buy one..."

Then I got to explain bogo as a prefix in computing and chess before picking nits like "shouldn't it be BOGOF" (typical HN commentor that I am)?
I can just go buy a meta headset on their store, it's been that way a while I dunno if I would say there's a shortage there lol

Other headsets are more difficult to buy yea but the meta one is very much available
I should point out that places like Germany do vote for the party, not the person for positions like Parliament. In each region the parties submit slates of people they would put into the positions if they got all of the votes, and then once people vote they get a proportionate number of their slate into actual offices. There are lots of details here, but it is a system that works.
Meta (the company) too, maybe. They have a pretty big datacenter footprint.
Because they can't say, "Look, this might not be the best thing right now, but we do recognize that this is typically viewed as a performance incentive, so we're making it up this year by..."?
samsung or intel would be strongly preferable in my opinion
For the healthy food you just need to train them to eat vegetable, and that is easy if you start young. My kids have no issue with vegetables at all, with food in general actually, they are not fussy. But I will not disallow junk food, anyway they are not so fond of it.

>Now replace food with drugs, how would you feel? coz TBH some food out there borderlines on being drug-like in terms of addictiveness, both when ingested and how they're being advertised.

Well, I also have a big one, nearly 18, and I don't understand him at all. He is spending his free time at the gym, he tells me he goes with his friends. At his age I was trying drugs and binge drinking. I'm in total disconnect here...
Nail on the head. The amount of times I've seen way overcomplicated redundancy setups which fail in weird and wonderful ways, causing way more downtime than just a simplier setup is pretty silly.
Yes, well done on the landing page.

For myself, the thing that impresses me most about the LocalXpose service, is that it is plug-n-play. I did not have to configure the ISP's router to open any ports, didn't have to turn off or limit the macOS firewall, didn't have to open Mullvad VPN to local traffic or configure it in any other way, didn't have to approve more than 3 connections in Little Snitch. These are the "pain points" that I've encountered in the past with apps of this nature. These simple benefits/capabilities of LocalXpose could be expressed on the landing page, as I'm sure others have experienced similar pain as well.

Another feature is one can install LocalXpose using Homebrew. It is my preferred app/command manager, as I am sure also with other macOS users. The fact that you can install/setup LocalXpose and have a tunnel serving https, file browser, and many other services simultaneously in mere seconds/minutes is a benefit that could be expressed also.

I will be signing up for the "PRO" plan as I've already seen the potential usefulness for my business, study and personal needs.

Well done, indeed!
I rather have something completely new to replace the web. It's actually stupid to fix something when 100000s of different places depend on the bad behavior. Especially when one of them is the author of the most popular browser
In firing squads, one rifle holds a blank to preserve the possibility in the hearts of the shooters that theirs was not the shot that killed.

I imagine blind voting would also serve to assuage the worries of legislators. If only we knew what each worried about.
Can you name the library?

I’ve found most don’t have access.
Isn't EdgeDB a python program? I fear python packaging - especially inside a browser or Android device.
yes lol but most of those just have to invest like 20% of their assets in esg or smth. esg is also more commonly exclude oil companies so they aren't the shareholders pushing that. it's kinda funny some of the big esg funds literally have energy companies as their top performing picks rn.
This!

Fixing problems on windows means watching youtube videos and trying to replicate clicks which sometimes break the version is not the same. On linux, you google the problem, find the fix on stackoverflow and just type a few commands.

Beware that copy-pasting from websites may not be safe!
Nothing is inherently simple.

Depending on the size of the company it can be simple or hard. Most companies that need this are not huge. Things like RDS, Elasticache, ECR and Secrets have multi AZ integrated so not hard to do it. If you operate on ECS or EKS it's pretty straightforward to boot up nodes and load balancers in another AZ.

Maybe you have a system that requires more hands on work and want to explain your point of view? I don't appreciate the snarky responses tho.
TikTok's Attempts to 'Downplay the China Association'
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at a large enough scale, almost everything backblaze uses is sufficiently reliable as measured by percentage of any pool of 100 drives that fails in a year, as they have a large amount of parity / data duplication across multiple pods, hot spares, etc.

I haven't seen any drives that really stood out as terrible in their reports in the last couple of years for 12TB+ spinning disks, although the HGST product do seem to be the most reliable.
> We can't all just get tired of working and quit.

Yes, we can.
Which democracy? The US is barely democratic. To be truly democratic in my book, the people need to rule. Voting on one of 2 evils every few years while having "your representatives" raped by lobbyists 24/7 is not people ruling: it's a facade for a system in which money rules.

Pieces like this merely serve as a pretext for your fake-democracy to get more powers to sensor the, in this case, "social" media.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fHfgU8oMSo
Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data and Computation
So when can I start building on top of webcontainers myself? You seem to be present it as some sort of new browser api, or a library, but from the looks of it it's only the proprietary technology that underpins the stackblitz product.
>The lowest earner earned $60k.

And was probably fired in a year or two for not making their numbers. Whereas assuming a reasonably financially stable company, the lower end of band engineer is probably trundling along.
I use news aggregators for such tasks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator

Daily Rotation allows you to configure which monitored sites it presents for your regular inspection. https://www.dailyrotation.com/
would be interesting to see the setup of the artist Jon Rafman, he has an old photo with his messy setup (but maybe the photo is staged): https://www.monopol-magazin.de/sites/default/files/styles/mi...
I was thinking earlier today how my Org may benefit from having a developer advocate/evangelist - but still don’t quite know what that role entails. Is their role to function mostly internally or proxy with external parties? I’m sure it varies from Org to individual.
Kind of a misleading title as it seems quite absolute but then OP says “I’m not saying all advocates are untrustworthy”.
Does this have to do with the Company they represent (a la “anyone would advocate for anything” if paid enough)? Or the way in which they represent it?
Apple Watch is only what it is because Apple shut off the ability for anyone else to have that level of integration. Hope the EU forces them to open it up.
Can’t find it. But there was an old article where some young guy at a conference was explaining to Netflix why SSDs weren’t going to work due to drive failure cost.

Response was epic.

Everything you say is true.

But we don’t care, we rent the servers.
You and me both. He seems like a copy/paste from some children's book Tolkien had lying around, which he then threw in as filler for LOTR. Of course, hardcore fans come up with more or less tortured explanations for the glaring inconsistencies.

I say that as someone who has held up LOTR as some of my favorite books my whole life. I started re-reading them recently after 20 years and had to quit after Tom Bombadil.
How do we know these "MSA-less" models aren't cheating (i.e. learning all MSAs implicitly from their training data)? If they are, they would similarly fail on any "novel" AA sequence (i.e. one without known/learned MSAs)
Look at all those edits in the past day!

I'm sure its just a coincidence that the White House is trying to change the definition of recession now that we're officially in one.
HTML is no longer a programming language
Not sure which part. You quoted an implication. Do you find my description in the antecedent arrogant (i.e. my characterization of the beginning of the article), or the implication itself?

If the former, I spent quite some time to argue in favor of my opinion in my original comment. You are welcome to argue the opposite. Just calling it "irony" is not much of an argument though.

If the latter, then I'd like to understand why. Do you argue that no matter how nonsensical some text, you need to read it fully before expressing any thought about it? Or do you mean something else?
> been a while since I've been in the hardware-level

Well yeah that’s probably why you see “SanDisk” and think of consumer SD cards.
There are likely a lot of downsides to their PSC system, but Meta is way more rigorous than this. They take performance reviews written by the employee themselves, reports, peers, managers, and calibrate them in meetings involving peer managers and several levels of managers above.

It's probably one of the more rigorous systems in the tech industry that at least avoids this kind of bias, though there are certainly ways it can be gamed.
This.

This publication also seems to have a habit of sensationalism. Just read another of their articles.

> Fauci conceded that the cloth masks that most people were required to wear indoors throughout the pandemic do not substantially prevent the transmission of COVID-19.

Infact quoted is him actually saying :

> "Right now, we are very, very clear that masks do work in prevention of acquisition and transmission," said Fauci. "But you've got to get a well-fitted mask that is of a high quality. And the two we know are high quality are N95 and KN95."

No mention of the surgical masks at all there, but 'reason' wrote an assumption as fact. So grain of salt for me personally.
Did you hear about Alice and Bob? They decided to move when they heard that 85% of accidents occurred within 2 miles of home.
Google’s new Play Store rules target annoying ads and copycat crypto apps
It's a mix of Python, C, Rust, Cython, etc. It's fully safe-contained though, the fact that there's some Python inside is an implementation detail, you'll never know that as a user.
1919 Raid on Kronstadt (English Speedboats Attack Russian Fleet)
I come to the exact same conclusion every time I manage not to go read Hacker News instead.
I think you're seeing too much into this.

What matters is user, in this case developer experience.

Having reproducible environments shareable with a link is a statement to how far we are heading with web technologies and what can be achieved.

The browser is the last lingua franca of computing we have, and that's a reason for cherishing such advances, not bring back 40 years old debates of different OSs having different APIs and capabilities.
Yet another thing Democrats fight against and Republicans support
The manufacturers whose drives they use provide a good basis for my consideration. I don't see certain names on their lists sometimes, so my search usually is narrowed down by that.
> THis is capitalism, and everyone looks out to himself only.

Absolutely not, Capitalism required democracy a system of justice and many other attributes of modern state. 'Law of the jungle' is niot capitalism and does not produce functional society.
There is something a little ironic to the last headline in an article that says "keep it simple" when the css rules are anything but.

Not disagreeing entirely with the premise, but compared to basic html ...
> What is actually left is a tiny group of people compared to all the computer population.

Certainly not on HN. You could say the same about assistive technologies, for example.

Also, the current "computer population" still is a distortion. A lot of people started using computers to access the internet and have some entertainment. This is being replaced by smartphones, tablets and smart tv's. So, the advanced users share on "computer population" is (I think) increasing.

You can see some evidence of people using less the "computer" and more other devices: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share#monthly-200901-20...
Keep the rest in the dark. They dont want it to be advertised, it already attracts more people than it can handle.

Try Burning Man, some say it has similar vibes minus the radical socialism.
I can tell you from experience that the cloud architects are world class and it's actually the data techs that are the problem. Amazon doesn't value data center techs, they don't pay competitively and hire techs that barely have enough skill so they can pay them nothing. Then they metric the fuck out of the teams so that everyone focuses on quick fixes instead of taking the time to troubleshoot long-term persistent issues. Couple this with the fact that management is only concerned with creating new capacity instead of fixing existing capacity.
I am going from memory. I can anchor the memories as September 2005 till early 2006 as it was a memorable time for me. I spent that time working out of a Palo Alto garage working on a "web 2.0" web browser, Flock, with a small group of people that included a few who had previously been at Eazel and were still passionate GNOME participants.

Thinking further on it now, unrelated to that work, Jeff Waugh @jdub would be person I'd go to for receipts.

If I was searching the web, I'd be looking for references to Gnome ToPaZ with topaz being a play on ThreePointZero:

"When the prospect of GNOME 3 was first discussed by developers in 2005, the concept took on a life of its own among the users who imagined that it would be an audacious reinvention of the desktop with completely new interaction paradigms and a new kind of user interface. This pie-in-the-sky vision was referred to as ToPaZ, word play on the phrase three-point-zero. "
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/07/gnome...
Control over the definition of words is actual mind control.
Yes, my headline might not be the best, because this chart definitely goes outside the bounds of consumer product lines.

.NET is in there, just above Azure, but as with many of the more technical pieces of this puzzle, I did my best research while also being a little out of my league to make super-consistent calls.

While some aren't consumer options, I consider them a heads-up to the average consumer, as a reminder of how much they don’t know, or to spark connections like looking up Body Labs and then thinking about Amazon Go. Or with the ads, it’s just a reminder that those ads are part of the business.

And then there’s probably a class of them that are "things I’ve seen discussed on Hacker News and know are important without complete understanding them” like AlphaFold on the front page today… as I'm an average lay-consumer too… but in this book, I try to stick with making points well within reach.

It's all about calling out how low the bar seems on consumer technical knowledge.

Thanks for the question and for taking a look!
The Richer They Get, the More They Eat
> As an example, AFAIK windows still hides extensions by default.

I'll bite on this one, it was always a weird choice as IIRC it was always there before back in 3.1 - xp!
They are actually renting the street and are paying the city for it. Sure there are guerilla film crews that just show up and do stuff, but that tends to be very lightweight, in and out quick, or using a location with so little traffic that it won't really impinge.

However, it's really the city's responsibility to notify everyone, unless otherwise negotiated; when film crews do all that it's generally a courtesy thing. Sometimes the crew wants to do that in advance but the city will ding them for taking the initiative.

Film shoots are a big kickback to the police department. Hiring cops for security is required contractually and it's a sweet assignment because overtime is inevitable. Those jobs go to cops who are close to retirement because pensions are usually calculated as a % of final 2 years' pay. Smart crews also hire or plan their own security because the cops just show up to eat and flirt with the actresses and can't be relied on to watch gear.

Location scouts get paid the big bucks to not only know where to shot but how and to grease all the appropriate wheels.
I like to think of myself as a history buff, but the Post WWI Russia is almost a blank slate for me - and yet this raid is so ridiculously unlikely that you would reject it if it was on a Hollywood script

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Agar
Off Grid Micro Hydro – The Dream System?
It could have been checked once, it just wasn't checked N times in a row.
Well, we now know the lifetime for those SSDs is 40k hours. At least we don't have to wonder.
Possibly, but if you don’t think that’s common you may be grossly overestimating how thorough even the best testing process can be.

Engineering processes are systems with their own bugs, and the people/systems that implement them can’t deliver perfectly either.

There are always going to be things that slip through, and some of them are bound to look embarrassingly sloppy.
Yes. I'm writing Scala in the frontend, which transpiles to javascript. And to be able to use existing Typescript libraries, I transpile Typescript type definitions to Scala type definitions. It works very well.

https://www.scala-js.org/
https://scalablytyped.org/docs/readme.html
EdgeDB is very particular about how the underlying data is organized, so you can't put it in front of an existing database. Importing schemas and data is another story which we're working on.
Experience trumps school, especially for running a business.
Start as small of a business as you can, so you can gain experience. You’ll learn more about the real world than any school can teach you.
Possibly because so much of what happens in the tech industry has been abstracted away.

The vast majority of the people responsible for the servers on the billion-dollar company I work for have never physically touched a server, a rack, or an Ethernet cable.

There's a whole generation of "point and click" admins quickly gaining prominence. I suspect cloud services have contributed to this lack of knowledge, because if all you know is cloud, you don't need to know things like this.
No worries, been exactly there on a real emotional level. Wishing you personally the best of luck too, and proud of you for meeting the anxiety-head on with therapy. :)
> This publication also seems to have a habit of sensationalism.

Reason is to American libertarianism as Jacobin is to American socialism.
All good points. Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
Tom is perhaps silly, but just the fact that he can is seemingly immune to all the Ring can do (with it being implied to be the most powerful artifact in all of Middle Earth, strong enough to even influence Maia like Gandalf) makes him have enough gravitas. If anything, his silly antics make him even more intriguing: how did he gain that power and is it because or despite his silliness?