skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a pricing comparison guide at https://fly.io/docs/rails/getting-started/migrate-from-herok...

What’s important is that pricing isn’t the same and the free plan is really a way for you to try Fly before deciding to dial up the resources. You can use it for really small apps, but trying to squeeze a Rails app into 256Mb RAM on 3 servers is tough.

I moved few of my Heroku apps over to Fly and pay about half much for about 4x what I was getting on Heroku. When v2 of the Fly app platform goes out, I expect that price to go down even more since apps can sleep when they’re not serving up requests.
But in this case are you really reaping any benefit of io_uring, if your existing code is still synchronous (except your io_uring layer)?

It seems to me to see any substantial benefit, you'd have to propagate async throughout your codebase, which would require rewriting your existing code to use some async primitive. I guess something like Java Loom does help you mask this, however.
Seriously? Why does Besos own a media conglomerate? Why does Bill Gates "donate" to media organizations? For influence, to launder their reputation, for power... Look behind the curtain, see the emperor has no clothes.
I’m so surprised because I assumed you were arguing the opposite. It’s nightmare fuel to be trapped consciously in my body.
Ask HN: How do you deal with the end of globalization?
With China and Russia trying to isolate themselves from the world....Cold War 2.0 is coming

I believe the era of growth is over. What are your preparation for low growth era?
To be honest, I've spent many hours in PD and Max and didn't realize that Miller Puckette was behind both. Super cool!

Next week, I travel to Bali to focus on developing a data flow based visual music synth. I can't understate how big an influence that Puckette's work has been on my thinking.
You've got this, it's never too late. Pick any language you can get installed, and then learn how to do these things:

lvl 0

- Make a program that prompts you for your name, and greets you.

- Now make your program write that name to a file.

- Now make your program read from that file.

lvl 1

- Put the file with your word or name on a server somewhere, like Github, it's free.

- Make your program read that file with an "HTTP Request"

- Just about any language can store to a SQlite database, write a program to create a table called 'stuff', with a column for strings, and store your name as an entry in a row.

- Combine the HTTP Request program and the DB program

lvl 2

- Learn another language, repeat this process, reflect on the differences between the process in both languages.

After this, you'll have an intuitive knowledge of where to go next, and how to find solutions and basic structures to accomplish the things you want to do.

I believe in you!
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Nice, but, do you really need Next.js and React for that? What about just taking screenshots and linking them to the sites in simple HTML? Wouldn't that serve the purpose?

I guess you wouldn't really call that an 'app', just a page. But it'd be pretty quick and simple. And if you really want to get away from over-engineering and getting lost in the code details, doing it without any code at all is a good exercise.

Perhaps from there a simple script to take a list of URLs and generate the page's HTML, but still no libraries or frameworks. Scripts like that can live for many years, just being run as needed, serving their purpose with no maintenance or dependency or deprecation issues. Some scripts that I wrote are still running perfectly fine on their own, untouched after 7+ years, while the main application requires a whole team of people constantly maintaining it.

It's good sometimes to get back to basics to put things in perspective.

Things like the leftpad debacle of 2016 should make us think about how we build complex, fragile ecosystems that are constantly changing, and need constant maintenance, often to just do something simple that doesn't need all that complexity in the first place. How simple and quick can you do it? Do you really need code to dynamically scroll down to thing X, or could you just put that thing at the top to start with and not need any code or dependencies?

You're on a good track. We over-complicate things a lot.
opensecrets.org indicates the opposite.
I think the important practical distinction is whether or not these stalls imply a context switch. Software that avoids blocking calls is largely trying to minimize context switches, with measurable adverse effects being increasingly common due to improvements in hardware. Stalls that do not imply context switches, such as filling a cache line, are not "blocking" as a matter of practical semantics because there is no context switch that has to be accounted for. Of course, this gets into a gray area with things like hyper-threading that have some of the side-effects of a context switch without an actual context switch.
Correct, though generally you’d have region constraints on your workload. We do see a lot of value in going cross-region for expensive tasks that aren’t latency or data transfer sensitive, such as running machine learning model training in cheaper regions.
That’s the argument to kill live C-SPAN coverage.

We know politicians play to the cameras constantly. It’s obvious. Politicians have made their entire careers by becoming famous for their speeches on the floor.

Do they really make a lot of those ridiculous charts and pictures for other politicians?

I remember hearing from reporters and maybe even ex-representatives that things changed once the cameras came in. Things got worse. You couldn’t look weak by talking to/compromising with the other side. Bombast worked. It made polarization worse. It wasn’t a big club anymore, it was “us” and “them”.

It won’t fix the rest of the media, but maybe C-SPAN is a failed experiment. The observer effect took over and changed the outcome.
A new paper claims SARS-CoV-2 bears signs of genetic engineering
Thanks for sharing, my own experience with poetry seems a similar once: once I am older it seems to make it more sense.

Reading "Understanding Poetry" by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks was also a big influence.

Also collecting anthologies has helped.
Well, it does completely ignore the cultural identity of African-descendant people who don’t have slaves as ancestors (some of which were actually facilitators of said transportations, as well, but I suppose that’s tangential).
It’s just life. The ups and downs. There is nothing wrong with you. You are aware of the situation (better than most people) so you just need to change one thing at a time. Literally doing something that you were putting off for 10 minutes is a start.
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Disclaimer: Depression is real and multifaceted. Some seek medical help. Some get over it on their own.
That's why I only subscribe to journalists I don't like.
It seems like you might have a history of applying adaptive behaviors, that is good.

How have you avoided maladaptive behaviors, perhaps such as procrastinating or distracting oneself with substance?

Do you believe that nature or nurture has played a larger role in your healthy response to environmental pressures?
Using a Chromebook at Work
Various similar examples of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterozygote_advantage
The whole line of argument is junk
I’m a few months pre 40 and currently going through CS50x, it does feel like finally things are clicking after years of dabbling into various attempts like the author, and more recently having done a ton with no code and low code tools.
You don’t have to worry. There are physiological responses to pain and trauma that the anesthesiologist can observe, even if you are unconscious. Things as simple as heart rate and respiration all the way up to brain wave monitoring. This is part of the anesthesiologists job.
True. But, in the minds of the BBC article's target audience, I really doubt that the vehicle would qualify as a tank. Hence my accusation of "misleading".

(I expected the article to be about M551 Sheridans dropping from C-130's.)
Here's a quick run down of the tool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NdaNGe4GVE
My experience and every person I know who has had positive experience with police in America. This is a progressive narrative to destroy law and order and institute a desolate, dystopian and rotting policies that we see in cities like LA and SF. I am sorry, I don't buy your narrative or the mainstream progressive one.
Ooh, thank you for the correction. I thought “Bezos bought WaPo” equated to “Amazon bought WaPo” back when I read those headlines, but your comment made me realize it’s a separate entity rather than a subsidiary.

I don’t think it changes my point too much, but it’s absolutely a worthwhile amendment.
I'm interested in this! Do you have some sources/links?
I had a look at automationism, but don't really like how it imposes the CV concept in an environment where it doesn't make much sense (to me) - but is still fun to fiddle with. I came across a toolkit[1] yesterday which is similar but doesn't impose analogue concepts on the workflow in the same manner. Also not as polished in the GUI sense either mind you, but the guy who wrote it makes really good occasional pd tutorials on youtube as well[2]

[1] https://github.com/algomusic/Live-Coding-Toolkit-for-Pure-Da...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/user/QCGInteractiveMusic
Yep: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIM_card>
I have a strong hunch it is an activity that might delay or decrease the severity of neurodegenerative disease.
It does not matter whether the OS is involved. Consider a spinlock; if it is spinning, waiting on the lock to be released, then it is blocking.

What matters is whether control returns to the process before the operation is complete. If the process waits, it is blocking (aka synchronous); if the process does not wait, it is non-blocking (and possibly also asynchronous if it checks later to see if the operation succeeded).
More like Democratic communities that ban building housing and then wonder why housing is expensive.
I was already dating someone.

Oddly enough she married someone from my hometown. The college was 3.5 hours away from that town of ~2,000 and he didn't go to our college. If I ever bump in to one of them I'm going to need to ask how that came about.
MuseScore 4: Beta
This is super cool, I'd love a purchasability index or benchmark for these too
Journalism, to be useful to society, must be read. Pissing your readers off too badly is counterproductive to informing them, even if they don't pay your salary.
For those watching who want to move over a Rails app, I wrote the guide at https://fly.io/docs/rails/getting-started/migrate-from-herok...

Sorry to hear Django was a pain. There’s a guide in the works for launching Django apps, but I can’t remember the exact status of that. https://community.fly.io/ is a good place to search for others who migrated or ask for help on there.
Right now listening to Spotify through my hifi, with ProjectM visualisations via Android TV and have thought the same thing about Spotify's crappy 10s video loops for only a select few songs - gotta be something, anything, better than that.
Pukette got the shits with the conditions of his grant from the french government that allowed the development of Max, because it disallowed him to use the same techniques to do visual synthesis. So he quit and reimplemented the whole thing. Except this time he used an open source license.

The other advantage is because these things were implemented in the 80s when real time audio was a really big ask for computers, they are very computationally efficient.
As a Tesla owner does the Musk stigma bother you at all?
0. The handler even immediately asked if we had tulip bulbs - though I'm guessing that was just because she knew where we came from.
Yea, this is assuming OP it isn’t in a constant state of pain.

What if - being in a conscious coma is worse than dying? What if it isn’t a dream-like wonder of your own world? What if you lay there and you can’t dream? You can’t sleep, you can’t move, you feel everything, you can’t focus or meditate, you just lie there is permanent torture that you can’t stop.

I don’t know why people imagine the cleanest possible scenario for their fantasy play throughs.

At least imagine the dirty murky ones if you refuse to imagine the worst case.

Something I teach with self-defense is ”Ok, you have made peace with yourself that if a 6’4 meth addled line backer breaks in to your house in a rage, you are morally checked out to end them - now what about a pregnant 14yo girl and you can’t see her hands? Maybe, consider your best first move to be asking them to leave?” … don’t be absolute with anything that you plan for.
It isn't enough to run free software, all your contacts need to do that as well. It is the old gmail problem highlighted by Mako Hill:

https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...
i bought a standalome usb numpad to make it easier to not have the numoad on the keyboard. ymmv
In my public school, the SAT was never discussed during school. Not once, until the test was announced, the week before. No other information, besides “The SAT is next week”. This was after a long stretch of standardized testing that happens in CA schools. It’s definitely something you had to know/find out about, outside of everything. This was in a well off community in California, US.
That's pretty ridiculous way to frame things IMO.

Maybe it's just a case of what he is doing is a dramatically more difficult and challenging than what the majority of us can remotely understand. And that would mean things don't go the way he planned a significant amount of the time (perfectly normal).
And that includes the whole spectrum of business operations -> investors, funding/finance, marketing, technology, distribution, supply chains etc.

I know from the comfort of our desk chair (with no risk taken, no relevant experience, no nothing really) and with perfect 20/20 hindsight we can make these criticisms but really they dont mean much.
Good points, but most CEO's don't really earn that much, and even net worth generally several million.

And I don't mean to discount your experience, but even a lot of 'big time' CEO's are not worth 'hundred's of millions'. Maybe 10's. Not 100's.

Also, CEO's are interesting and different people, it's actually hard to know if they are 'sociopaths' from just being in a meeting with them. In fact, even knowing them for some time it's hard to tell. Remember they are living in an identity, all the time. They have to be not just 'on' but 'really on' - so it just feels kind of otherworldly with them, that doesn't mean 'sociopath'. I think looking at actions, particularly layoffs, how they are handled, the kind of marketing, growth, underhanded tactics is more helpful.
I don't think she was nervous about it as we got them in the airport, though she was confused as to whether or not we needed to declare them.
> Cold War 2.0 is coming

This would be a blessing. I think we can trace most of our problems back to the end of the cold war. If we have some common thing to fight against we stop fighting each other (see Watchmen- ironically though it was about ending the cold war but a level down it works)

More realistic is a 1984 style "continuous but meaningless war" that lets the various parties pursue their ideological aims without fear of revolt from inside. Though I have no idea how to prepare for this
No one is really "building" anything when they run their server though; it's all built by hardware vendors, you get the software from software vendors, etc. You're just operating it.

I don't really like using analogies for this sort of thing as I think it muddles things more than it clarifies, and quickly leads to discussions about the analogy rather than the topic at hand, but if we must use one I'd say it's more analogous to a business deciding to purchase a company van or lorry. For a lot of businesses, this clearly isn't needed and renting one when you do is fine, but at some point it just becomes easier and more cost-effective to have your own (depending on what you do with it, nature of your business, etc.) in spite of the extra hassle of having to maintain, clean, etc. your vehicles.
A bit tangential but HUGE shout-out to PBS for their science shows on YouTube. I follow PBS Eons and PBS Space Time, both are fantastic and highly educational.
At first I could not see the point of this article. Just his own personal experience. That is well… personal.

Then I compared to my own personal experience.
Which is probably as weird and totally random.

I started « programming » with VHDL and then XSLT ;). And after similar completely random professional/own experiences, aka trials/errors (doing mostly Java. For GUIs, Eclipse plugins, Hibernate, pure functional framework, highly parallel data treatment, …), I switched to Javascript (thanks god, it was after ES6, and just when hooks arrived in React).
While, in parallel, always trying to understand that book « Learn you a haskell for great good ».

Nowadays (46 years old here), I am now at ease with programming. I do all the things that amazed me when younger: reading code first (mild confidence in colleagues talks, or in documentation), organising projects ahead of time, no fear to PoC things/break things/repair things, refactoring as a foundation, testing all the time, choosing the right tools (Git-bash/ IntelliJ/Obsidian for the win!).

I now connect with younger programmers, trying to exchange knowledge and methods. I realize what they do wrong or think wrong, and help them shorten the path towards simplicity.
cloud = someone else's computer

that's it at the end of the day, they can and do do whatever they like
While I've seen roaming dogs in airports this was in customs and she passed by everyone. I'd certainly tell those friends to not try that on an international flight judging by that experience.
> I'd study for any test that was consequential to my future.

This makes the very large assumption that you’re aware the SAT has anything to do with your future, and that’s it’s not another one of the half dozen standardized tests that you take every year, neither of which was communicated in my public school. I’ve heard from many that my school was not unique.
I was just searching for a contact form last spring and was researching this area.

My Wordpress site is for a non-profit, and I am volunteer, but they were willing to give some cash for it. In the end, I went with Contact7, a free Wordpress Plugin and Flamingo (another plugin) that lets you export the data that people enter into the forms, as an excel file.

My use case was that we wanted to have people register, and we knew we would only have 10 people register, per year! So immediately, paying a fee for this was not really worth it since the volume is not there, and my client said there were happy not paying, and just making the people print a PDF to email back. I said let's just do these as forms.

As for feedback, I echo what some people said about adding what happens to the information once it's submitted, and can it be exported into a friendly CSV. Even for someone like me that only had 10 entries, it was helpful. If you are hitting 100s and 1000s, you definitely want to track all of that.

You should also have a look at the pricing of WPForms (https://wpforms.com/pricing/), which is a paid Wordpress Plugin, obviously with a crazy amount of features, but it's still good to look at them to see how they differentiate.

In addition, is your $15 just for one site, or can I use your service on say, 2 sites if I run 2 (or more). I would add that to the front page.
When I got into journalism a little less than two decades ago it was common to see “firewalls” between different departments at major publications like newspapers and magazines, which protected the coverage.

That is, the advertiser had no influence on the editorial coverage, and opinion doesn’t bleed into the content.

I think in the digital age, the complicating factor is that the decision-makers have winnowed down this work so much that the firewalls just don’t hold up as well as they used to. Owners with an agenda may not care about church-state arguments. In the case of small publications, the writer or the editor is also the ad-seller. And in publications that lean more ideological, opinion-oriented content can prove deeply influential on the editorial coverage. (See what’s happened to cable TV over the last quarter-century.)

All of which is to say that the reason this point of view is prevalent is because we haven’t done enough to invest in these institutions to ensure that firewall exists in the first place. To do it right, you need:

- An owner that actually cares about having a firewall

- Strong ethical rules for the journalists

- Advertising standards that help ad-buyers understand where the wall is

For newspapers, a key element of show a limit of ad influence is the front page. If there’s a deeply integrated ad of some kind, that reflects a negative influence on the coverage. But in the online world, we have native ads and tracking, and both of these can be deeply integrated into the experience.

I think what we’re seeing is that there aren’t strong enough firewalls—and if I were to blame anyone, I would blame the ad department. They allowed their standards to lower to the point where publications simply gave advertisers too much. We need to get back to more magazine-style advertising in publications where a single sponsor buys a premium spot and it pays for a good chunk of the coverage.
I made https://web3forms.com/ which solves the same problem. No signup needed. It just works.

Good luck with yours.
If you can receive information from alternative universes, experiments can be devised to prove this, and would indeed answer a great many questions in quantum physics. Physicists and others interested in the field would be extremely grateful. As would cogitative scientists and statisticians, who would need to adjust their experimentally demonstrated explanations for instinct, "guardian angels", premonitions, deja-vue etc.
I like being able to build things myself

all the lucrative stuff requires a software engineer, other people have to go raise capital just to pay them for that person's one idea

if you are the software engineer, you are six figures worth of value already and you just need to dedicate your own time to your idea

its also totally fine if you don't have any entreprenurial aspiration and just want to go to work, the compensation package's value is geared towards you being content having no aspiration to build something lucrative for yourself
This is a huge part of why I stopped watching “the news”.

“Representative X said A. When asked about it, representative Y said they were wrong so B. Now sports.”

Huh? Who was right? Was it a matter of fact you can judge? If so why don’t you? Even on opinions there is usually good contextual facts you can add.

But when you just repeat crazy or dangerous or factually incorrect you normalize it. And by never calling anyone out on things you signal it’s all equally correct.

“The president said F. We said no, G. He said but F, H, and I are all true, I said them. Sunny tomorrow…”

Soundbites without analysts are horrible. Repeatedly letting people get away with lying about objective facts and continuing to give them airtime to say it is useless.

Reporting “science” that comes from press releases on non-reviewed pre-release papers in journals no one has heard of that contradicts what you said was real last week destroys trust in science.

And telling me feel good stories about kids who started lemonade stands to pay for their own chemo completely misses the point.

And I don’t care about Kanye. It doesn’t matter other than the fact that at this point people appear to be taking advantage of his mental illness. But no one is covering that that I’ve seen.
Who was holding his beer.
PBS doesn't seem too bad from my limited exposure but NPR has more than "skewed."