skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, I like the frankness :)

To take it a step further. I never left the "comfort" of bash-build and bash-deploy scripts.

In most of my projects (pro and personal) there is a deploy-aws-prod.sh and deploy-aws-dev.sh (or some variation)

None is longer than a 10-20 bash commands.

These "projects" are webservice, ml-models, batch-processing(think distributed clusters)

It's ugly and perfect-enough at the same time.

YMMV
Orinoco cards were also great for wardriving, I paid a premium to get one over here in the UK (where they were way less common) with an external antenna connector on it.
> We are still in the phase where concepts are settling.

Yes of course concepts are still settling, and they always will be.

> Pretty sure nobody in a 100 years will think that Monads are a good idea.

Why? I for one am pretty sure monads will be a useful concept a hundred years from now.

What about functors, will that concept also be obsolete?
Thanks, I'd heard these terms lately while researching but didn't know if useful or not. Thank you for pointing me towards! :)
Does that include ESXi?
I honestly believe crossover design is overrated these days (for DIY). It was a necessity in the past, but today we have cheap amps and great DSPs. "The age of the active speaker" I'd call it. The smallest ADAU145x can do the crossover (and corrections) for a 2-way speaker. If necessary even as a FIR. Products I have are the freeDSP-aurora (8 channel DSP, 300€) and a Beocreate (4 channel DSP+amp, 170€). Both use the ADAU145x family, but the aurora is more powerful.

Of course this only applies to DIY. Though I wonder what's the cheapest commercial speaker one can get with an ADAU145x in a crossover-less design.
Can you summarize what the problems were?
"At the time of his death, he was estranged from most of his friends and family, except his second wife, the former Emmy Lanning (1913–2007). His children reportedly learned of his death by reading his obituary in the newspaper."

Well, that says a lot.
Please excuse the length of this post.

Art reflects Life - Life imitates Art - The quote is from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) between King Arthur and Dennis.

ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!

WOMAN: Order, eh -- who does he think he is?

ARTHUR: I am your king!

WOMAN: Well, I didn't vote for you.

ARTHUR: You don't vote for kings.

WOMAN: Well, 'ow did you become king then?

ARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite,

held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur.

[singing stops] That is why I am your king!

DENNIS: Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.

Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

ARTHUR: Be quiet!

DENNIS: Well you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: I mean, if I went around sayin' I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me they'd put me away!

ARTHUR: Shut up! Will you shut up!

DENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.

ARTHUR: Shut up!

DENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! HELP! HELP! I'm being repressed!

ARTHUR: Bloody peasant!

DENNIS: Oh, what a give away. Did you here that, did you here that, eh?

That's what I'm on about -- did you see him repressing me, you saw it didn't you?
Aha! This is done in https://github.com/uktrade/mbtiles-s3-server, but using an alternative library to query SQLite on S3, https://github.com/michalc/sqlite-s3-query

(Full disclosure: I wrote most of both of these)
This sounds very cool but I'm having trouble seeing the main advantages. The page says:

> You may ask yourself: "Web applications can already use third-party services through remote API calls, how is Qworum better?". The answer is that currently third-party services can only provide business logic through their APIs (whether they are REST-based or not), whereas Qworum services can also bring the UI that goes along with the business logic. This lightens the workload of Web application developers.

Can't services already provide UI? Eg a server sending React components to the client.

If I were to guess, the whole "service web" idea seems to imply that services can run within a client browser, and talk to other services in other user browsers. I admit that could be quite cool, and enable easier development of p2p apps
Basically pro-remote work with offices available for talking to each other. Seems optimal to me, nice contrast to "well we can't just leave the expensive office block empty, get back here" strategy.
OT but related to tire pressure.

There was this gem [1] posted in reddit the other day and I guess it is partly a failure of UI and inexperience.

A junior mechanic tried to fill the tires to "100%". https://i.redd.it/eu73w8earfn91.jpg

Edit: fixed, old reddit. App doesn't make old reddit links.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/comments/xcdv...
There is a lot of talk about DIY here, which sounds cool, but I'm also pretty lazy and I have started way too many projects. What are some really underestimated systems that you can buy?
1. I don't understand how you can merge/deploy quickly without good test coverage. Unless you don't mind breaking things in production.

2. Feature flagging is pretty key to make the described process possible, and about halfway down it turns out of course this post is really an ad for a feature flagging SaaS product. Nothing wrong with that necessarily, but worth knowing that the motive behind this is to sell you a product.
Yes, but it’s not what I want to do with my life. The journey is the destination.
>No migration plan whatsoever.
Not 100% true, there were a lot of workarounds and documentation how to upgrade.

Sure it wasn't great, but the few projects I did with Angular 6,7,8 was kinda nice. I still have an AngularJS project in production which is also nice :)

Of course any new JS project is now done in Svelte (nothing simpler) or as nice

PS. It's nice to be nice :D
For a 500 page version of this analysis with correspondingly more rigor (including an acknowledgment of S-curves), see Growth by Vaclav Smil. Although this is just a tiny, flawed snapshot of the argument, the conclusions are the same.
Do you mean will the robots walk out?

It is good to know the failure modes of your AI.

Also the cost to develop, deploy, and maintain your robots.

BTW, most fast food does use robots as far as possible; these are highly automated processes. The robot might not look like you'd expect, but that aint a problem with the robot.
I mean was there anything wrong about the makefile? Did your product need reproducible builds?

This is becoming more and more of a pet peeve of mine, about to become an outright annoyance; the adding or changing of tools without things actually improving, or the purported improvement not actually being relevant or even close to the most important thing that time should be spent on.

https://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology is a good starting point for moving away from this mindset.

I had a Go project up until earlier this year, I could set it up myself. I picked makefiles to build it (not bazel, that would be overkill; not mage, that would mean more coding), and it worked just fine. I never had a compelling reason to move away from it.

Actually it was more than fine, it was a relief; my previous experience with tools like that had been Maven (where everything is XML and you need a plugin to do basic things like move or remove a file) and the Javascript ecosystem, from before everything was merged into package.json / nodejs-style. Dependency management too.
Yep,same in France, and they have to be geographically limited.
I said using both of them as a balancers/rewriter (aka proxy) in the same architecture. nginx as a webserver behind haproxy is perfectly fine obviously.
From my experience with Bootstrap I can tell you the only thing you really need is the grid part of it and there are so many lightweight "frameworks" that have just that and its only 250 lines of css in the example of simple grid: https://simplegrid.io/

Everything else, buttons, modals, sliders, chords are super simple anyway you can just make them yourself or use a way more featurerich separate slider or modal framework and still be on less junk code than with using bootstrap.

tl;dr if you know html and css, you no longer need a css framework for most cases.
In jail they won't come to work either. That sounds more like a scare tactic
Does anyone know how Basecamp is doing since it had its moment in the news?
E.G. China.

tang ping
Looks pretty cool. I wish I had something like this when I was moving to Seattle for my job. Anyway, because this looks like a ‘product’, here’s some constructive criticism:

- Consider adding ability to find places with low rent. This is one of the most important things people want.
- Please consider extending this to atleast the entirety of the United States.

- I couldn’t find a filter for good schools. For many of my friends that’d be a major dealbreaker when buying or renting a place to live in. Quality of high schools nearby has a pretty strong effect on home prices.

- Try to use the ‘Show HN’ prefix in the post title if you want to demo something you personally made.
GPT-3 Armed with Python
Well, the 'c' stands for "see", and the 'f' stands for the same thing as in "RTFM".
Notice the most.
The price he quoted was for how Twitter billed itself - # of users, in compliance with the FTC, etc. As it becomes clear that they aren't all that their value naturally goes down.

It would be wrong if Musk tried to get out of the purchase simply because the market has moved since his offer but that's not what happened. This is Twitter's malfeasance, they reported untrue things (and failed to report other true thing) to the SEC and therefore to stockholders.

What ride, except fact-checking their statements, did he take them on? And to be fair, didn't they put themselves on that ride in the first place?
no scrum mumbo:jumbo in daily meetings; only engineers
Countersteering
Of course it is.

It's just that you and I aren't big enough fish for the banks to look the other way, if we do it.

Gotta be a Mexican drug cartel, or a Russian oligarch to succeed in money laundering.
The Autopian is a great car site. It was set up by some Jalopnik writers (david tracy and jason torchinsky). As well as "normal" car articles they love techy/offbeat/unusual aspects of cars and aren't afraid to publish it.
For most consumers I'm not sure COGS is something that they are aware of.

The big takeaway from understanding COGS is using that to understand fast moving and disposable goods and merchandise.

In the UK a recent (last decade) thing has been fast fashion, Primark and the like are leaders at this. It is possible to purchase a pair of straight leg jeans for GBP 12. Understanding COGS means you can quickly realise that the absolute maximum amount spent on materials and manufacturing is GBP 4.

An awareness of COGS reveals to buyers unethical manufacturing, low quality, and essentially planet damaging goods and merchandise.

On a more individual level, i.e. the Beats headphone example in the article, it can also reveal when you're being ripped off. Where what you're buying isn't the goods as much as it is the sticker on the side and the status.

COGS may not be a secret to most people on HN, but they're an unknown part of the magic of how global commerce works to the majority of people.
Any business at scale has that issue
Really fun and smooth!
The Reality of Urban Am Radio
I admire people for their inventiveness, however surely attempting to square-peg-round-hole something like this into AWS S3 is only going to end up biting them in the backside ?

S3 is delivered over a stateless protocol (http) and AWS makes no promises about any given request being fulfilled (the user is merely invited to retry). The safety of your data is then further dependent on what storage tier you chose.

There just seem to be so many footgun opportunities here. Why not just use the right tool for the job ? (i.e. hosted DB or compute).
The UX of Porn Tube Sites Are Designed for the Ultimate Money Shot
> You know what makes money laundering super easy... a banking API so you can split the million dollars you want to launder into 1 million 1 dollar payments.

Technically known as smurfing, and (as you learned) quickly leads to account bans.

Governments take AML/KYC pretty seriously. Just ask TornadoCash.
My father’s family kept slaves – and he defended it. Acknowledging it matters
the villains lair
AFAIC a higher rubber shell slightly helps with suspension.

Thin wheels help with aquaplaning/hydroplaning (strongly) and slightly with reducing consumption.

Most wide wheels available to consumers are thick, so that is a tradeoff that happens with the new design, although I might mix up physical ratio, price and street legality, due to having only looked at one car.
I'm sorry but your ageism offends me. Are we just going to exclude teens and children? Can a 15 year old not operate a laptop? "Man" and "Woman" imply adults, and ageism is not okay.

Do you see how fast this type of cultural revolution bullshit goes downhill? Someone else can always be more sanctimonious.

I of course used "man" in place of "person" as has been common (and correct) for thousands of years. Man can mean "mankind" or "a person", and does not exclusively mean "male", and never has. Sort of like how "guys" now means "people".

In fact, "man" meant person before it meant "male", it literally predates the English language. It's so old it predates writing. It's one of the oldest words we have.

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=man

Next time, don't assume the worst in people, and don't be so sanctimonious. Not every turn of phrase is an act of malice.
Aren’t there people who use both nix and bazel?
In case it saves anyone a click, this is not about the painting or book series of that name, but about the choreographer Martha Graham.
This is not from a fortune 500 company, but I know the CEO in a BIG oil & gas company and that CEO do in fact know a lot about IT & computer science. He is in fact a big fan of Neo4j, and gets really frustrated when he talk to software architects/developers that have never heard about neo4j or graph databases.

He also knows about Linux and license free virtualization. But making a move requires people, and people with Linux knowledge are very rare.
Peter File from the IT Crowd.
what is an attention span...
Not really, other than having discussed this issue several times with the union people throughout the years, and knowing for sure that in countries like Portugal, this is definitly not a thing, given how we jump between companies.
I had a recent issue on windows with build times increasing 10X, turned out the Unix approach of spawning lots of processes was triggering the corporate antivirus. Didn't cause the build to fail but the result was the antivirus was scanning everything the process touched or wrote to disk. And make + gcc opens and closes a huge number of files.
Yes, but by 1990 Byte had already degenerated into useless "application" reviews and mostly uncool ads. Something that happened to nearly all the magazines after some years (including e.g. Personal Computer World). And when that happened, long-time subscribers like myself just left.
Because I do not believe in the almighty influence of Twitter, I honestly don't understand why it would matter if one or a hundred Chinese spies worked for Twitter, because Twitter employees don't create Twitter content; users do. And I think Twitter content was recently declassified by former President Trump, so where is the danger? What is China's strategic benefit in learning these[1] things?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-liked_tweets
This is correct. Nolan Bushnell sold the brand to WMS Industries in 1996.
Interesting, as given most of my clarification talks with Betriebsrat, I thought it wouldn't be valid in court, unless they can prove you are doing some kind of industrial spionage like working in exactly 1:1 competing product.
China became big business for Twitter
And let’s not forget that the great Woz and Jobs were once Atari employees who left to start a new company called Apple.
I think that this approach would cut down the amount of JS dependencies significantly. Things like is-even and is-odd come to mind. You don't want another leftpad or colors.js to happen to you and minimising dependencies is the most effective strategy to accomplish that.

So many leaf dependencies I've looked into are no more than a Stackoverflow answer in a JS file accompanied by six or seven metadata files (package.json + typescript files + linter config + readme + git config + ...). This file: https://github.com/i-voted-for-trump/is-odd/blob/master/inde... is downloaded over 400000 times per week (https://www.npmjs.com/package/is-odd) and while I don't have anythimg against the author for publishing a helpers function, I don't see why I would expose my project to risking a supply chain attack for something so minor. Here's another, with millions of downloads: https://github.com/inspect-js/is-date-object/blob/main/index...

I know that these are all downloaded so ofyen because theyre dependencies of dependencies but I'd appreciate it if bigger libraries would provide a vendored version of their packages that just collects these microdependencies instead of wasting npm's time by making it manage these tiny helper files. Don't vendor stuff like React or Vue or whatever framework you prefer but for the love of God don't add a dependency for 50 lines of code. Sometimes copy/paste is the right solution.
I laughed pretty hard because currently there is again a discussion about the big bang happening or not. I didn't look into this but I would not be surprised if someone disappointingly discovers that God was a sampling error in the end.
Yes, I'm talking about 2015.

The first two Playstation only MoH games were not exactly failures, but they were little more than Goldeneye clones with WW2 themes.

The first PC game is really the start of what we think of as the Medal of Honor franchise proper.

The team that bailed founded Infinity Ward, which was the origin of Call of Duty, or at least the first like 8 games in the franchise.

So yes, my story does in fact check out. Which is because I lived it. My friend tried to get me to join the team for 2 years because he knew they were onto something, but I'd fled a childhood in Kansas to build a life on the west coast and wasn't looking to move back to Tulsa of all places. That proved to be a bad career decision but I'm ok with it as a life decision.

Can you have some self awareness of how annoying it is for you to adopt this skeptical fact checker tone when you have so little familiarity with the events and people involved you don't even really understand what to google for and which wikipedia articles to read?

Edit: I'm annoyed because if you tell someone their story doesn't check out, calling me a lair in this case as the story is direct personal experience, you probably need more of a basis for that claim than googling a wikipedia article about a story you'd never heard of 5 minutes ago.
Yes, but more then that pressure is okay for just standing around, says the reddit thread. Also, why not old.reddit?

Are the official consumption ratings not based on this kind of overinflation, removing all seats but the driver's?

So everyone is expected to do both these things by the car manufacturer, if that is 'realistic use'. /s
KubeVirt is the upstream. Essentially so there is common management/operational model between virtualization and containers rather than having a Kubernetes-based one and a largely independent virtualization one.
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> VMWare had a price hike in August and is going to a very aggressive subscription model so that may play a role here.

Sounds like CEOs trying to gain leverage in negotiating with VMWare.
One year on, El Salvador’s Bitcoin experiment has proven a failure
>functions that take sets as input and produce arbitrarily different sets as output

It is possible to return arbitrary sets from functions in many systems-- recent versions of the SQL standard even specify table functions (with syntax "RETURNS TABLE(columns)")[0] as well as polymorphic table functions (PTFs)[1]. And in addition to implementations of those standards, extensions like PL/[pg]SQL also have a few other ways of effecting table-like returns (parameter modes, composite type returns).

>function overloading

Not standard, but some systems support it[2].

[0] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/xfunc-sql.html#XFUNC...

[1] https://share.ansi.org/Shared%20Documents/News%20and%20Publi...

[2] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/xfunc-overload.html
All of your critiques come with the benefit of historical hindsight, and being completely detached from the dire circumstances that allowed demagogues or populist movements to flourish. You are seeing things through the lens of over a century of world history with which you shape your views; but this is the opposite of myopia, you see the big picture so largely you are unable to consider localized views in context.

To whit, Mussolini, who incidentally was a socialist before he became a fascist, rose to power in a time when Italy was in a state of crisis and discontent. This was a decade full of national revanchist ressentiment compounded by the economic devastation of the Great Depression. In that era, strongmen of not only far left or far right, but liberal center- consider FDR being the only American president to break the two-term precedence and be reelected to four terms- rose to power. Surely that should tell you people in the era had very different worldviews, concerns, and knowledge from yourself?
They are illegal for pretty much all but the board members, and even then the salaries must be paid to enforce it.
> “Ethical” [...] is not a synonym for “good”

I think it's generally accepted that these days it is a synonym for, if not "good" per se, at least "morally acceptable".
There are close to 0 Fortune 500 CEOs who would be DIRECTLY reaching out to Linux virtualization companies. There could easily be a CEO who convenes a meeting with the CIO and COO to "Find 10% savings on operational software costs" but the idea that they are directly reaching out to vendors is one of those "tell me you've never worked with a Fortune 500 C-suite without telling me that you've never worked with a Fortune 500 C-suite" memes.
Don't they accommodate you knowing that you are deaf?

Granted, I don't know where you're situated, and from what I hear the hiring process in the US is sketchy, but this sounds like an easy problem to fix, if it's even a problem at all.
That's only true for systems where the principle of explosion actually holds though, isn't it? So it wouldn't apply to paraconsistent systems.

In the end, Gödel is actually giving us a choice: Either accept incompleteness or accept inconsistency. Of course it's true that historically incompleteness has been perceived as the only viable choice, but at least a few paraconsistent logicians like Graham Priest have argued for (non-explosive) inconsistency instead.
I posted it. Didn't get any traction though. Maybe you should try. I think it would be a great thread. Just a matter of timing and luck.
It seems rather odd to be upset that a television programme might teach one’s children to enunciate properly?

One is genuinely rather confused as to exactly what it is with which you take umbrage.