skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hear this core competency stuff a lot and it’s just not so. I need organizations as small as teams of video editors run their own “datacenters” which may consist of as little as a Jellyfin server. A waste of resources? Is centralization into cloud datacenters or even CDNs all the way to the last mile a more efficient use of resources than plugging a 10gig connection into a NAS? Why haven’t all restaurants been destroyed by Taco Bell when Taco Bell has economies of scale and efficiency most restaurants couldn’t dream of?

Plenty of mid sized data centres make sense too. Something I see in common with many of these businesses is either the requirement to store a lot of stateful data or to have data locality and to not be concerned with things like being able to serve international customers or being a plodding business which will predict at a steady predictable rate. Some people run businesses that run headfirst into cloud companies entire pricing strategy because their business doesn’t work like a VC funded tech startup.

The “but somebody can figure all this stuff out for you” cuts both ways. Why can’t a skilled company make it easier to staff and operate an on premise data centre? Running a datacenter only gets less labour intensive for what you get every year. You know that you can hire people for pretty much any aspect of building or maintaining a datacenter that you can imagine? The datacenter is commodified so why is it special that the cloud is?

I just feel this analysis is a spurious oversimplification and what you’re far more likely to see is a sort of Pareto distribution of datacenters and the cloud is never going to swallow the whole market.
I rebuilt the iOS version of OneBusAway, an open source, real-time bus tracking app used heavily in Seattle, Washington DC, Tampa, and San Diego, entirely in Swift between 2018 and 2021. I have a few bug fixes I'm hoping to take care of for it this week: https://github.com/onebusAway/onebusaway-ios/

(n.b. I'm the current maintainer of the iOS app, and also a member of the board of the non-profit that technically owns OneBusAway.)
If you translate this article you’ll see that they didn’t just do 20 million in revenue, they made 18 million in profit with 18 employees, 11 of them being devs:
https://archive.ph/Abxqp
> I am Catholic and I am entirely aware of what it is about to us.

Well, can you enlighten the rest of us?
I've found iPhone to be weirdly inconsistent. Like sometimes, autocorrect will recognize my name and autofill it, other times it won't. Also true with OTP recognition from text messages - sometimes it will detect automatically, sometimes it won't.
IM PRAYING THIS FIXES IT. I really cannot express how annoyed I’ve been at the search bar keyboard in Safari. This has been such a huge sticking point.
> the fact that jellyfish was banned for consumption in the EU was mindblowing.

To me it's mind blowing that people would eat them. I had no idea you can do that or that you'd want to do that, as they're super gross.

They look like a bowl of jizz had intercourse with a bowl of snot. Who would look at those and think "yummy!"?
Glad I'm not alone
Question 1: is it possible to run AWS / Google cloud with a fixed pre-paid monthly rate? Like e.g. "give me the most webservers for 1000$ / Month plus a Database".

Question 2: does exist some kind of optimization-per-usecase service for such a fixed cost scenario? E.g. "Optimize for Website" or "Optimize for Database" and you can download a Terraform file?
Looks like it uploads the results to Google Cloud Storage. If you want to stay filterless, I'm not sure if that's the best choice.
Try tapping with three fingers to bring up a set of editing operations including undo & redo.
I'm probably in the minority here, but this is pretty much why I unsubscribed. I know I could probably find something interesting to watch, but everything interesting will cost me at least 5 hours of my time. I would rather watch 10-30 minute youtube videos and spread my time across a wider variety of topics
Super neat, but it seems like this should have been a Github repo that takes pull requests.
The Sipeed Tang series seems like it should qualify for this list.
I stopped typing altogether and use voice dictation for any messages longer than one word.
Wanted to add a reference here to the wikipedia, which claims this is a myth[1]:

> Despite popular belief,[2] there is no clear evidence that this was a deliberate design feature. When the original patent application was filed in 1933, the inventors described the key objectives as providing a screw head recess that (a) may be produced by a simple punching operation and which (b) is adapted for firm engagement with a driving tool with "no tendency of the driver to cam out".[3]

> Nevertheless, the property of the Phillips screw to easily cam out was found to be an advantage when driven by power tools of that time that had relatively unreliable slipping clutches, as cam-out protected the screw, threads, and driving bit from damage due to excessive torque. A follow-up patent refining the Phillips screw design in 1942 describes this feature

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam_out
More details here, but the article is in Dutch: https://archive.ph/Abxqp
As Musk likes to put it, his companies specialize in 'converting things from impossible to late'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7xksVPFzQ
The keepAlive change here is huge.
Yes! This does my head in. The number of times I've sent 'We'll done!'
It costs more to self manage services than to use a managed cloud provider in most non trivial setups.
You are a godsend.

Will see how it goes, but it does seem to be better now.

This crap should be disabled by default and iphone needs to request signing 20 agreements before it gets enabled
Thank you austin, I appreciate the feedback!

I am using Google directly through their paid API, so it is official and legitimate. Not scraping. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview

I understand infinite scroll isn't for everyone. I will add a pagination option later. We have been using and optimizing infinite scroll on my other website picclick.com for many years. People usually like it if implemented well. I understand it isn't for you though, that is valid.

Yes Instagram is done by an instagram embed, and sometimes Instagram blocks aggressively. What browser are you using. I could test it some and try to figure out why it isn't working for you. Is your browser blocking Instagram embeds?

Great to hear that you think the UX is good. It is pretty different, so I am really wanting to know if people find it comfortable and understandable. The idea is in the future the amount of different columns and content in the columns would get better and support more search types. We do have reddit, stackoverflow, and others right now. But we could add a bunch more in the future for shopping, travel, coding.

https://swurl.com/?q=dogpile

I remember dogpile and using it. I think I was more on Altavista at that time.
In the Steve Jobs era, their marketing was extremely clever. In those times, Apple did not claim something objectively false, like in this case; they only oh-so-subtly suggested that their technology was superior to everything else.

Apple's copy since Jobs left has become wordy and unfocused. I can't stand it.
I’d like to have my cake and eat it too. If everything is a priority nothing is a priority.
Guess its up to taste. Skype is bad but teams is... well.
Interesting idea. I suggest you put a numpad on it with no Q on the 7. I will invent a companion product, the Scrolladex.
>Machine learning is powerful in many domains, but it's giving engineers license to be lazy.

The problem is that if you do machine learning, you just throw data at it to correct wrong behaviors. It's difficult to marry this with a logical approach, like dictionary frequency. Which one do you weight how much? 50:50? What if the user dislikes one of the two models more often, do you add another layer of machine learning here?
Many make decent cars, even good cars (Hyundai) but they don't make better EVs than Tesla. Hyundai might be there in terms of value IFF the non-Tesla charging network wasn't so abysmal. I drove multiple manufacturers and currently own a Tesla and a Hyundai EV.
It's a file browser implemented in JavaScript, so you'll need to turn JS on to see anything.
I'm just like you, I have so many memories as a kid playing with my parents (mostly my dad) and my sister. From the age of 3-4, I remember my dad coming home with a new PC (didn't know what a PC was back then), "helping" him set it up, trying out games (mostly MS Paint) with him, etc. I remember playing "teaching" my dad to play with pokemon cards. I remember a lot of evenings we spent together playing Doom II, Monkey Island, Tomb Raider, and a lot of other computer games (I remember my sister would press the "shoot" key, my dad the arrow keys to move around, and I was in charge of pressing numbers 1-9 to swap weapons in Doom).
KDE: On hiring, and fundraising to make it more biggerer
Stable Diffusion creator Stability AI accelerates open-source AI, raises $101M
The beauty of heuristics / expert-rules based AI. Understandable, easy, fast.
'Unbelievably big' Shandong vegetables inspire regional superstitions
Ask HN: How can a fundamental particle decompose?
Reading about the muon [1]: "... the muon is not thought to be composed of any simpler particles; that is, it is a fundamental particle ... Muon decay almost always produces at least three particles, which must include an electron of the same charge as the muon and two types of neutrinos".

If the muon is not composed of other particles, how can it end up as a set of other particles?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon
> I still strive to treat others with kindness and respect and have largely been successful at this.

Recall that you wrote this in a comment recently, and then reconsider what you wrote above, regardless of how you might feel about what the parent wrote.
I'm no expert but it seems from the comments and the Wikipedia article you link to that OPs position isn't that far from the truth, certainly not so blatantly false that it warrants editing or deleting. The article you linked to says gain of function research is "medical research that genetically alters an organism in a way that may enhance the biological functions of gene products", which seems like a more technical way of saying what OP said.

The example Wikipedia gives explicitly states specifies, and I quote, a "situation would be considered a gain-of-function experiment, as the virus did not previously have that function."

The journal Nature states that gain of function is "GOF is a classic genetics term to describe mutations that give a gene, RNA or protein new abilities". Not much different from what OP stated, unless there is a nuance you wish to point out:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02903-x

NIH's website states gain of function (as well as loss of function) research is any selection process involving the alteration of a genotype in order to produce a corresponding change in phenotype:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK285579

That is a much more technical way of saying gain of function research is what happens when you modify genes to produce a change in phenotype, which is the technical term for the observable behavior and characteristics of an organism, ie. function.

So anyhow, it's possible OP is wrong, Wikipedia is wrong, and a host of comments/sources are wrong, in fact it may very well be likely, but without a better source available it does seem like gain of function research is fairly open-ended research that attempts to modify an organism's genetics so as to add additional functions that it did not otherwise have.
Found the guy working in my sector. MS?
> I made this for fun, I'm showing it to you so
> you can laugh,

You can add +1 to your laugh counter, the "marketing" copy is what I wish every SaaS homepage looked like.

Out of curiosity, what does the user count look like? $4/month buys a lot of CloudFront.
Not sure how you did it but I've worked for a company that enabled you to tag resources with operating hours and stuff got shut down outside of the those operating hours - pretty handy way to cut down on usage because most non-live environments don't need everything running 24x7.
Please don't follow what Polar did to their project. I hadn't used it for a year or so, went back to use it, they had upgraded to a SaaS model (online account required) so I couldn't access my highlighted notes. I swear they were open source from the get-go, but the community has seemed to die down now.
It’s not r2 or ghidra, but binary ninja has signature libraries: “The matching algorithm is inspired by FLIRT, which was designed with similar requirements in mind.”

https://binary.ninja/2020/03/11/signature-libraries.html
A bit unrealistic no?
Thank you for letting me know. I think it is now fixed. Please try again now.

https://swurl.com/?q=firefox
Going on from all of the comments here about the iPad not being able to replace a computer: it’s true. The I/O is not as good and the OS is lacking in terms of being able to do ‘what I want’ with it. It’s just not a computer. It’s a big phone. With that out of the way, I think it still kicks arse. I grab it when:

+ I just want to watch something (yt, streaming)

+ I want to play some music (great speakers)

+ I want to use a computer in a dangerous place (bath, kitchen bench)

+ I don’t want to lug my laptop around

+ I just want to sketch something

+ Want to read/markup a pdf

+ read a long article on the couch

+ play a game on the bus (Papers Please)

It’s great for these quick sessions. It’s more of a ‘life’ computer, where I don’t have to worry so much about it and it sort of ‘gets out of the way’.

It definitely compliments my laptop but cannot ever replace it.
I see. So would there still be anything to get from this newsletter for childless remote workers?

Even though I'm not part of the targeted audience, I find it a great initiative. Kudos for launching!
Semantic versioning would be just fine here I’d say; e.g. they could have named this USB 4.1 to indicate compatibility.

Alas, I suspect there are many conflicting desires here, and marketing may have something to do with it — the ability to convince customers into buying new hardware by confusing them may have something to do with it.
for metal screw threads and nuts I'm with you.

for other materials there has been more innovation later for threads, and for special uses of metal screws as well, for example self-tapping screws and coating of screws.

side question: why do you prefix years with a leading zero?

edit "long now", saw it in a sibling comment. TIL
I cannot edit my original post but your comment and others have gotten me to clarify one thing. The graphical style is reminiscent of 90s CGI rendered images. Example: https://i.imgur.com/YknNA31.png

Honestly I cannot remember scenes correctly. It was super unique to me at the time but the constant crashes prevented me from playing it throughly even though it remained in my mind.

Another thing I can add was that there was FMV scenes with humans I think. I also think there were cyberpunk elements but not sure. I specifically chose the above CGI image because it reminds me of the game.

When I say point and click I mean a game like how Myst operates.

My hope is that if I ever find it, with my tech skills that I didn't have as a kid, I can hopefully repair the game so it does not crash(or at least research if someone else has fixed it)

EDIT: Others have kindly gotten me to think of more details of this game. I am collecting them here:

1) The game shipped on a CD, I think the CD had a lot of "Blue" on it. As in the label had a lot of the color Blue. Sorry, I'm trying to dig deep into my head as much as I can.

2) The game was a point and click in the style of Myst. Specifically pre-rendered CGI Images where you would click to progress through the level. Occasional FMVs with real humans would appear.

3) It has a similar setting to Blade Runner (1997): https://youtu.be/9KSqIDxtB4U?t=2427 but again the game didn't operate like Blade Runner, it operated like Myst.

4) This was definitely some sort of Win32 application (ie. runs on Windows 95/98 and not DOS) and so the graphics imitate a game like Myst and not those old VGA DOS games.
I did an extensive cost analysis of a 1MW datacenter vs Cloud 10 years or so ago, so this stale data but take it as an anecdote. Accounting for the lease, facillity equipment (UPS, STS, CRACs, generator, fuel, raised flooring, cabinets, BMS, etc), compute equipment (PDUs, servers, spare parts), facilities and technical staff, the costs for AWS were substantially cheaper.

The trick is you need skills, most of which are not in demand anymore and difficult to fill. If you pretend like you can hire and manage: the results are clear.

There are opex/capex aspects which I don't understand, I amortized servers with an average server lifetime of 3 years.

It's easier for most people to spend money with one vendor, though, and that's where AWS/GCP makes sense.
AWS has provisioned versions of many services, which cost less upfront, but are longer term contracts.
Not that I know of for either (at least for AWS).

AWS lets you provision some service though (I think DynamoDB has three different ways to be provisioned now) but it's not per use-case, it's based on what you think your needs are.
> Why does it need a citation?

Because a lot of stuff you read online is made up, misleading, wrong, or even all three. Either on purpose or not. The most insidious stuff is what "seems plausible" but isn't, it's how you get stuff like common myths and misconceptions[0]. Shouting "source?" at every article is not pleasant and may sound annoying, but I think we should respect people who question things (or simply want to dig more) rather than pushing back asking for "why". The pursuit of (true) knowledge in and on itself is something that shouldn't be questioned, especially in this technological age.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
Related:

Welcome to C-- (2008) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30006215 - Jan 2022 (23 comments)

The C-- Language Specification (2005) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19429522 - March 2019 (27 comments)

C--: A Portable Assembly Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17966114 - Sept 2018 (1 comment)

C-- - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6621679 - Oct 2013 (72 comments)

Pretty sure there have been other threads. Anyone?
I'm working on the second part of my Nerf Dart Missile Defense system project [0].

Building a robot that can track nerf darts and shoot them out of the air has a lot of interesting technical challenges so it's a fun project :) I also get to learn a lot about the process of making videos.

The second part was almost ready a few months ago, but then I had to redo a lot of stuff and I lost steam for a bit.

Hopefully I'll have a second (more well-put-together) video out soon!

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF-f_AdCxl0
Now imagine if all education were like this.

What if there was a market that incentivized the creation of top-quality educational content like this? Create it for one topic, usable forever.
I think that is a reasonable limit.

It prevents you from having forever tokens floating around, somewhere left and forgotten many years ago and perhaps getting leaked one day through some vulnerability in that particular system.

Just automate the recycling of your tokens if you can't be bothered to review it once a year and generate a new one yourself. If security to your own repos is not worth of a one time 20 minute effort to automate this then I wonder what is.
I agree, considering how many words get typed on iOS a day, it really ought to be better.

Getting into the weeds here a bit but you can create a Text Replacement so that “i” gets expanded to “I”. That said, I don’t use it, when I first changed it took me a few painful weeks to get used to a new dumber keyboard, but in the end it is just so much less frustrating not using a “smart” input device. I can stand making a typo, I mean I even make them on a proper keyboard! But I am absolutely infuriated by having my correct word get replaced with the wrong one.
That was his point…
https://www.chemeo.com

A database with chemical properties of compounds and mixtures.

It is a non profit side project of my company. I created it because I was not able to get access to such data during my PhD.

I used it as a playground to learn assembly, CI/CD, etc.
For me, this is yhe best part of the non-profit, you do not try to make money, this is a license to experiment, try new stuff and do the right way without time constraints.
> Every cloud I've worked with has been terrible at billing in a way that could be reasonable investigated.

Terrible for who? You or the cloud provider? I'm a bit of a worrier (and not a perfect coder), so infinite scalability with utility billing combined with a mistake on my part could result in an epic bill. All I'll say is that I won't practice cloud development on my own credit card.
Reminds me of Jony Ive's reflections on how focused Steve Jobs used to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSo_2tDETt4
(Australian) Defence investigates RAAF pilots lured to work for Chinese military
And you can use mobile networks/airport wifi there.
Depends on the type of proxy you are using, but yes, I should have pointed that out that many proxies do not access encrypted contents. Doesn't change the fact that such traffic is way more dangerous if the tokens are in the clear.

For ssh you also have multiple types of proxying, some which send your keys to the proxy server (very bad), others which base on encrypted tunnels and don't do that. HTTPS is I think similar to that.

> at that point they could just MITM passwords and everything else sent through the session.

For proxy servers you are right. but any read only vulnerability can be turned into a write vulnerability. e.g. that attacker who has read-only access to logs of github traffic can turn use that for an attack where they push commits, etc.
> Right, but it was never meant to specialize in user-directed filtering and discovery

We agree:

> Instagram's ontology is designed to not make this possible, because everything about it is meant to facilitate tube-feeding

So as the user-directed ontology component of the IG ecosystem, it's trash, and I will die mad about it.

> every social context that gets 'cool' eventually gets LCDed into mediocrity (even HN)

I want to distinguish my complaint here from a gatekeeper's lament. This isn't about, say, nu-goth showing up and coming to eat the fashion scene, as Tumblr did indeed instigate. I'm talking about pictures being tagged with "goth" that no one looking for "goth" content would consider relevant (a closeup of coral red lipstick, say), but which would show up as "top #goth posts" because they were highly engaged with in the other contexts people saw them. (To a lesser extent, also Etsy spam in #gothgoth, but this is more what you're talking about)
But how does it take a over week to answer the question?

In my experience it takes azure support over a week to answer any question. Unless the question happens to be which person without a substantial update is taking over the case. You’ll get lots and lots of those answers.
"The Source of Truth" - what harmful notion. Truth simply is, there is no source. Speak for Source of Lies.

Never trust any centralized agency - even if it did honestly represent what was true at some point it cannot hope to be what is true.
The statistics exist though, and they point to real differences on a bell curve. Would you deny that men are more likely to commit physical violent crimes, or is that evenly spread?