skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For reference, most of your link is about their time-limited Free Trial when OP is trying to use their Always Free offering - two separate things, and as noted at the top of your link, the Always Free offerings do not have a time limit.

Confusing these two offerings is entirely understandable. But coupling that confusion with insulting me, overlooking or condescendingly mischaracterizing most of my arguments, making unsubstantiated statements about what Oracle would do that are either overconfidently overgeneralized or coming from inside knowledge without proper disclosure, and claiming that your link somehow ends our discussion - now that, all of that taken together is what ends our discussion.

I don't intend to reply further to this sub-thread.
No way. The initial loading into a dataframe takes way too long to make it useful for exploratory work. Load it into a database is done once and forget it. In the long run, the time wasted loading things into dataframes over and over and over again just isn't worth it. Keep in mind that we're talking about large datasets that may or may not fit into memory.

"Oops, messed up my import slightly. Gotta run it again and wait ages.... again"

"Oops, loaded the dataframe twice on accident and had OOM. Gotta restart from the beginning... again"

"Oops, forgot to .head(5) my dataframe and jupyter's crashed... again..."

Doing everything in SQL solves so many problems. And OOM is practically a non-issue.
I would say PHP takes effort to make maintainable projects, and allowed some of the most heinous code I have ever seen in production. It was likely the years of spiral development that made it so problematic.. and pear finished the job.

The good parts were a small memory footprint, fast soap/xml parser, and stateless finite execution. Unlike the 200MiB+ "hello world!" async nodejs standard popular today... one can run small php cms/wiki sites on budget servers.
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Yeah, but in the words of xkcd 1782, I have my IRC client set up just the way I want :) so I wouldn't switch just for this reason.
Can you share some pain points?
Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming – A.P. Ershov (1972)
In much the same way that a solar panel is more efficient than a tree at capturing energy from the Sun.

Or a jet is more efficient than a blackpoll warbler at migrating across the Atlantic.

Or a knife is more effective than a claw at cutting through things.

In a world full of examples, why should carbon capture be any different?

Trees weren't designed to capture carbon, so there's every reason to think something which is can do a better job.
So it simply manages both multitasking and power management?
Asking people addicted to sugary drinks to forego straws entirely would result in serious dental issues.
I still remember a HN article, might have been a Paul Graham article, from 15 years ago about “Why are all of Trump’s buildings so poorly designed when he can afford the best designers?” It came down the the fact the he personally has bad taste and therefore cannot pick good designers or approve good designs.

That aside, a great use of these tools is to generate N spit-takes of wildly varying styles that you can present to the customer very quickly and very cheaply. Once you pin them down to a particular range of styles you can get down to the carving out the details by hand.
Yeah probably.
* Ens domains: so it's sort of a DNS for cypto resources? Cool I guess, but it has no use outside of the crypto space.

* PoolTogether: that's literally a lottery. Hardly an innovation.

* Aave: oh, _another_ crypto lending platform. Aside from the fact that most of these are Ponzi/scams that have collapsed in spectacular fashion recently (see Anchor, Celsius, etc), this is another app that only exists within crypto to earn more crypto.

Those 3 examples illustrate the problem of "dApps". There may be a vibrant ecosystem of idea and apps, but when you try to unwind them you realize most of them are entirely self-referential within the crypto ecosystem and there's no utility connecting them to the real world. That's because the few apps that do try to connect to the real world quickly realize that the space of problems that can actually be solved by crypto there is ridiculously small.
That's a non-sequitur, there should be only once voice in a room at a time and everyone should know how to request to speak next, for example by raising a hand. If people are choosing to not make contributions when they can, it's on them.
We'll invent evil cyberpunk tech to serve more relevant ads then governments will use it to create the panopticon.
> If you're in charge of managing 121k people - 10x the average salary seems like a minimum. 100x seems in the realm of reasonable.

Except, that’s not a CEO’s job. Even remotely. At best they “manage” a few department heads who each manage a few middle managers who each manage a few direct managers who then manage the workforce.

Even then, that’s a misrepresentation however. They are in charge of managing and directing overall company strategy in the interests of the board. The COO (and, sometimes, the CTO; in tech firms) is usually (indirectly) in charge of managing people.

I think it’s a valid point that they bring large value to a corporation, but it would be very difficult to quantify that value to be anywhere near 100x any other non-Csuite employee.
Do you want it to be very hard to fire people? If you make it that way, then companies become much more reluctant to hire people, and tend to start hiring on contracts instead of full time. My understanding is that that's been the effect in France, at least. And if you think about it, it's a completely rational response to essentially making it riskier to hire.
I had a bit of a laugh as I read this. I realized that PHP is my go to language for very simple side projects. I have one that is left alive. It runs the scheduling of greeters for a group I'm part of. Every week we have two people stand at the door to greet new people and help them find their way in. We used to have a spreadsheet that managed it but I kept forgetting to update it and send it out. There were also some rules that made it tricky. Like you don't want people to repeat too often, you want spouses to be on the door together and a few other boring details that made the spreadsheet a chore.

One weekend I got sick of that and threw together a tiny website that automates the entire process. My tool of choice was PHP because it takes no effort to get started. TBH it was a great choice for such a simple tool. It's been running for five years and has easily paid off the time it took to build.

I guess I agree with you more than I realized.
12 in ACT, lazy buggers.
fml thanks for this though
Ubuntu for surfing. Although I don’t like their bundled Firefox I uninstalled the Firefox preinstall and got the proper one from Mozilla as you get real-time updates. (The Linux compatible one).

As for search: Kagi (paid) and Qwant are pretty sound and don’t track you.
> a former AWS engineer who abused her access

Nowhere in the criminal complaint[1] does it say this happened. Instead it says that Paige wrote a script that scanned web application firewalls (WAFs) for a specific vulnerability. Anyone could have done this. The problem was only possible because after abusing the vulnerability Paige discovered that the IAM Role used by the WAF was granted permissions it shouldn't have.

1. https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/press-release/file/1188626...
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That's just one data point though, and the issue is whether or not things would stick for the population as a whole.

In a related sense, Peleton did really well during the pandemic and now they're doing really poorly.
> At what point can we say things like “turn off the bedroom light in 5 minutes”

I often get ready to leave the house and say "start the robovac in five minutes" and it just works. The Google home gadget confirms and states that it will start robovac "at $time-of-day". I've not got too many things connected but I assumed that it's generic among those things that can be turned on/off.
The current economy is not "shedding jobs". The current unemployment rate is around historic lows.
Doesn’t Y Combinator get 7% of every business for only $125,000? How are they not flush with cash?
It's more difficult to justify to shareholders paying less, tbh.

The risks of a bad CEO are enormous.
How many "normies" know what a cold wallet is?
I'm sorry you had such an adverse reply from so many here. Your post seemed pretty clear about how you were using your server, which is to say "not much that should have drawn any attention."

There have been a lot of similar reports about Hetzner competitors, so it seems one just has to maintain off-site backups and be prepared to randomly jump ship. There are lots of reports of this in the DigitalOcean sub-reddit.

As to the cause, I've gotten caught up in things like this before... no so much from cloud providers but from other e-commerce vendors and even on-line banks. I've had some luck writing paper letters, not going away without an answer on Twitter, and filing government complaints.

The general gist is that like like spam is a problem for email, other types of fraud are a problem for cloud providers and merchants. They're turning to some of the same kinds of tools that are used against spam... with the same mediocre results. I've taken a lot of time to get under their skin and get to the root cause. I've been successful about half the time, and the reasons are usually lackluster:

- You used a VPN when you signed up years ago
- The bank the issued your credit card (the first 8 digits) matches a lot of other fraud events (this is particularly the case with gift cards, over the counter debit cards, and virtual cards... though I've had the same problem with major brick and mortar banks.)
- You had account activity that doesn't match normal hours for your time zone.
- I ran an ad blocker, which also messed up some CAPTCHA/JavaScript thing
- I have "load images" disabled on my email client, so it looked like I wasn't opening mail from them.
- Other fraud occurred from a similar IP address.

Often they use plugins from commercial anti-fraud companies, much like Facebook or Google ad plug-ins. These companies look at information from lots of places and try to identify patterns among accounts that later are reported as fraudulent. We use one of them where I work. It's about as effective as a spam filter, meaning it catches most but has both false positives and false negatives. You can tune it to be more or less aggressive.

Depending on where you are in the world, you may have more rights to dig into it than Americans do. Also, if you used a promo code, you might ping the advertiser and let them know as this hurts their brand as well.

I hope this helps.
React gets an equivalent amount of disdain as PHP. Like 60% negative, 40% positive. (lots of preferences for server-side templating, htmx, Vue, Svelte, and Phoenix LiveView)
YAAAS If we can accelerate income equality we can reduce consumption. We need the 99% (better yet the 99.9%) to be as poor as possible. Income is related to consumption, and consumption is related to emissions and pollution.
Whether you are BTC bull or bear, MicroStrategy needs to unwind its BTC position. Being a BTC holding co. at this scale is an insult to its workers and customers. If a bull, unwind slowly. If a bear, faster.
WhatsApp. Rick Reed’s “That’s Billion with a B” presentation is a good glimpse into their own view of it https://youtu.be/c12cYAUTXXs
Ask HN: Late Stage Cofounder Equity
Cofounder A: PhD in field, researched this exact project.
Cofounder B: Previous VP of Sales.

Progress:
(Rough) app is built and being sold. Up to 70k ARR.
Bootstrapped, but angels are knocking.

Me: Previous CTO of seed stage vc-backed startup

Their offer: 5-8% for CTO cofounder. Immediate (low) salary.

Does this sound about fair?
He's personally lost hundreds of millions of dollars in equity value from this production issue. So I'd say he's "given up some pay".
Everything you say is well and good, but the businesses with the legacy codebase (PHP or Javascript) are still trying to pay someone to work on their systems, and quite frankly, their money is the same shade of green.
Being a hermit.
While deep-diving into the Apple II recently, I came across a really nice set of work by Andy Fadden- a fast hires graphics library (an obsession of my youth)- https://github.com/fadden/fdraw

When I read https://github.com/fadden/fdraw/blob/master/docs/personal-no... I knew I had met a kindred spirit.

See also: https://fadden.com/apple2/index.html

Unfortunately, this challenge is APPLESOFT based.
If this interests you, then I highly recommend The Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives by Turner and Anton [1]. The illustrations of ancient cat species are almost forensic in style and realism, showing details of muscle and tissue placement, and the text relates a number of fascinating fossil stories, for example a sinkhole into which a sabertooth cat and its prey tumbled, presumably while wrestling to the death, to be entombed together for megayears.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Big-Cats-Their-Fossil-Relatives/dp/02...
Like many others, it seems, I have also been blown away by DALL-E 2.

When I got access on Sunday, I first tried a lot of different prompts and got some interesting results. One semirandom one, “A photograph of a professor playing a grand piano on a rainy night in Tokyo,” produced some very atmospheric images. I then went down a rabbit hole of variations on that prompt (“A painting of...,” “A line drawing of...,” “A painting in the style of Rembrandt of...,” etc.).

I put most of the results into the following video, if anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/rdT4ZESQWco
I was hired by SONY at one point to help optimize a piece of video editing software that the outsourced team had created and could not figure out how to make it a) go faster and b) use less RAM. This is back when 16GB was on the upper end of what workstation class machines could handle.

The desktop application, written in an early 2004-ish version of C# and .NET regularly brought the workstations to their knees and thrashed memory and pegged the CPU when large 1080p images were being loaded in or moved around.

Each RGBA image, stored as a PNG on the HDD, was loaded in, each RGBA 32-bit unsigned integer was unpacked into its attendant R, G, B, and alpha components into 32-bit unsigned integers themselves, which were then stored in an Int (boxed the native to a non-native type) which were then appended to a dynamically allocated at read time ArrayList. Deep copies were made of each image any time one of them was resized or manipulated, keeping the original untouched image in RAM in case it was needed. A copy of the image before transformation was stored on the Undo stack. And the 1080p working surface of the screen was super-sampled at 8x resolution to support defringing of images when layered. All stored as 8-bit RGBA components in boxed 32-bit integers in a dynamically allocated ArrayList.
I agree with you on the anti-PHP cult, but it's become fairly "cool" to criticize React now (and JavaScript stuff in general).
> Do you mean to say the compiler will insert locks?

I think you're right, it's the compiler that'll insert the locks according to the semantics of the language.

> For an out-of-order superscalar machine, mutability has nothing to do with it;

Yes it does, because it creates data dependencies. If a piece of code B loads the contents of memory where a piece of code A writes that's before B, then you can never execute B before or in parallel with A.
Yes, this a thousand times over!

Why would I spend 100x the cost to buy an internally developed solution that is barely an MVP product when I could buy a market leading, polished, SaaS product from a vendor who takes me out to dinner and ballgames? They also have implementation and professional service teams to help install said product quickly and efficiently, and many third party consulting firms if I need even more help (they take me out to dinner too!).

Oh, also the vendor doesn't yell at me like the internal IT teams do :)

Quite the conundrum for sure!

Would love to know which execs approved this at Capital One and what happens when they leave and everyone's air cover is gone?
Yeah you could but it hasn't been done. I've struggled with jupyter/ipython for a decade. CRDTs like automerge and OTs exist, but they're not in jupyter.

It's simply put, not that easy to manage distributed live state in a sane fashion with python (see openstack), the programming model of the underlying language puts obstacles in your way. Meanwhile Erlang was created by a physicist who understood that the speed of light is a thing and consistency of data across distances is a real issue.
I abuse the crap out of PHP "arrays" between mapping to JSON rather well and allowing you to really put some strange data, functions and objects into them you can really get some work done with data processing.
The initial version of your comment essentially stated that rebuttals are not welcome (still kinda does, since the stated goal is to avoid rehashing old discussions).

But just to give you some kind of rebuttal (or mention some unmentioned points by you): IRC has native clients for many more operating systems than any alternatives (many don't even have any native clients at all!). IRC will still work when everything is very broken (DNS on fire, AWS having a moment, ..) and I think a fair few still use it for that reliability aspect. UX is very much in the eye of the beholder. Chatops is very much a thing in IRC as well as adding commands to it (just with ! instead of /).
How did you handle characters of different lengths? Was each extended grapheme cluster its own array?
I think it's the fact there are no compile times (those runtime tools you are talking about are at your fingertips) that people historically have not worried as much about types in PHP and JS. In many cases it does just feel like verbose boilerplate rather than a useful tool. Type checking is just one of the many things you can test by hitting ctrl+R, and you will be doing that anyways to test everything else. (Obviously, the bigger the project, the less that is true, but that argument is well-known). Personally, I spend exponentially more time correcting my typos than my types, and auto-completion of previous used variables and functions is worth a lot more than a type system to me in my day to day.

I will never argue against types, but unless I am working with somebody else, I don't need them.
I actually respect he French attitude and willingness to stand up for their rights and way of life. We can endlessly debate whether they take it too far but in the backdrop of the rest of the world doing fuck all, I see it as a positive.
It didn't crash I keep checking.
I'm trying to understand your point of view.

Are you saying executive compensation should be orthogonal to company performance?

Overpaid executives failed, so workers lost their jobs, but the executives get to keep theirs all the while saying things like "I take responsibility for this" when it is objectively false that they are taking responsibility.

Does that seem right to you? Is that a good way to run a business, to keep failed leadership?
I feel like you look at this too much as a creator rather than the customer. The logo may be not optimal for every medium, not have a great palette, not have the feel you would give it... But the author is happy with the result, so who are we to say it's bad/good? Paraphrasing @mipsytipsy "colour harmony doesn't matter if the user isn't happy".
(yes, I get the nuance where it's part of the designers job to explain why certain design elements are more beneficial, but the general point stands for "i want a logo for my small project" case)
That's a hilarious way to put it, thanks.
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Supposedly they were originally encased in limestone blocks shaped to give a smooth outside surface, but those blocks have been hauled off over the years to make other things. So, a pile of rocks is only stable over long time periods in the presence of humans to the extent that the materials are economically worthless.

Piles of dirt are also surprisingly stable. Around Stonehenge are mounds that are presumably 4 or 5 thousand years old.
For exploratory work, perhaps you should random sample some of the dataset (say 1k) and see the effect on them? After getting good result, you then switch to dealing with the whole dataset.
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I have a couple of psychiatric diagnoses so I am not unaware of the concerns of the mentally ill. People like me know to be very cautious with medicine, prescribed or otherwise. It should have a say in whether I should be locked up or what substances I feel I can safely use.

I think there's a problem that we can agree on and that is early detection and treatment of mental illness in teens before they get their hands on an AR-15 or LSD. As a culture, America is very neglectful in this regard.
Is this any different to any other technology? One could easily point to the rapidly diminishing advantage of AC over DC for power. ICE over electric cars. I'm sure I could extend this list.
I love Python as a language, and all its packages, and have been using it since the late 90's, but Python's legacy decisions are one step away from causing the language to being found face down in a dirty ditch after an all night bender.
Sounds low to me but I gave my Co founder so much equity he keeps trying to give it back.

Should probably be based on 4 to 5 year vest, but YC wouldn't let you join in SF if you are on less that 10%.
This! I use it as a mix of web applications and back end code, like you would with python. More and more my scripts I'm writing in PHP never see a web browser but the power of PHP Data processing has allowed me to really glue APIs together that have no official support in anything. I really do love it for being able to bash out a program in a afternoon and have it do amazing things.
a better title-ization for this tweet is "C-level executives are the best fakers"
re #4 - tiny UX improvement: could you add a retry button? I keep waiting a minute, clicking return to homepage, retyping the zip, etc.

edit: One other thing, it showed "Loading property 6 of undefined..." then back to "We did not get any results" which seems quirky.
I've been consulting with Ambrook (https://ambrook.com/) who are working on this problem. Great team and worth checking out if you're looking at the space.
Good luck with this. Scraping may be legal, but redistributing the data probably isn't. I expect the real estate cartel protects their MLS data pretty aggressively, otherwise there would be dozens of sites like this already. https://apnews.com/article/technology-lifestyle-business-pro...
Distributed means different things in different contexts.

CDN = good distribution.

Microservices = bad distribution.