skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think Airbyte requires a data warehouse either. Both managed and self-hosted Airbyte are standalone platforms. A source or destination can be a data warehouse, but it can directly sync data from HubSpot to Google Sheet or elsewhere without any DWH in the middle.

I think a major difference is that MovingLake seems to be managed-only with no self-hosted version currently.

Other differences I'm seeing is in the number of connectors and quality of documentation.
I agree. An intern experience entirely remote sounds like doing grunt work with extra steps.
Why is Microsoft so clunky?
Hi all,

There are many articles around where they talk about some of the oddities of JavaScript, but this time I took a different perspective by actually telling a story.

The story is a parody of the first season of Stranger Things, chapter by chapter, as our nerdy characters resolve JavaScript puzzles and challenges.

It is fun, and hope you enjoy it!
You don't want your invoices or messages from other companies scanned so it is important to cut that connection.

Friends and family or companies who use gmail they will have those messages. Those don't translate into products as easily. "Fun weekend with grandma say hi to sister" vs "purchased 3 day abortion pill from Walmart Pharmacy".

You may want to protect those personal messages between family/friends but in reality the valuable (profitable) information is in the boring what products are you buying/looking at, what segments can we group you into.
Pumped hydro does not, in fact, need "lots of depth". 10m is typical, for which cheap earthen dikes suffice.

It does not, in fact, need "very favourable natural geography". It needs an elevation difference, something found almost everywhere, Holland and Kansas excepted. Kansas has deep underground cavities, which also suffice.

Building dikes is cheap and low tech. Dikes predate written language.
it's not about distance for me, it's about the corner of the keyboard being an obvious anchor point.

Of course on other people's laptops I get used to it... But I'd rather have it in the corner!
Oh, man - Jeff is a giant in the raspberry pi and adjacent homelab and NAS spaces. I met him at events in the Drupal space, where he was a maintainer at the time, just showing off his first "bramble" (pi based kubernetes cluster). He is my favorite kind of open sourcer: genuinely curious with a love for explaining/helping people. Oh, and he's often on HN. Hi, Jeff!
> Almost all global food production has large fossil fuel based inputs, land clearing is the unfortunate reality of growing population and consumption

Well no it's not. Said population (which we should be stabilizing) can be sustained on a fraction of the land used today by eliminating the inefficient uses such as ethanol, cattle and almonds.

> but at least the market allocates it somewhat efficiently,

Nice slight of hand. Markets optimise for the goals of the people with capital. Efficiency is only meaningful once an objective is selected, and wellbeing of the majority is a different objective to increase in wealth of the already wealthy.

> And in the western world at least animal farming and the meat industry is held to some basic environmental and animal welfare standards.

This is patently untrue. The penalties for even recording or photographing factory farm operations are much bigger and more consistently enforced than the penalties for violating what scant animal welfare laws there are.

> I don't know or care about your fantasy world, but I am quite welcome to eat meat that is available in the world I find myself living in. Just like you are quite welcome to buy a new iphone ever year or go on frivolous vacations to ski or sight-see.

So we're back to you having no accountability for your personal actions and no change to the system that enables and subsidizes them being permissable. This is just a reframing of you getting to do whatever you want if you are powerful enough to do it.

So I guess I am asserting the moral high ground after all. Because I'm not lying and gasghting and demanding you subsidize my lifestyle while I and the systems I support destroy the lives of everyone around you.
> Are you or anyone impressed by this?

absolutely, and so should you. he made all the shareholders a massive amount of money. not just that but he got them the best outcome possible. he should be celebrated
"When you get attacked in the forest by a guy in a clown costume with an axe you don't need to add that as a training input first before you make a run for it."

Sure, because it's already a training input. We'd run because we recognize the axe, the signs of aggression, the horror movie trope of an evil clown, and so forth. We have to teach "stranger danger" to children.

"There's no agency, liveliness, autonomy or learning in a dynamic real-time way to any of the systems we have, they're for the most part just static, 'flat', machines."

Well, that's at least in part because we design them that way. It's more convenient to separate out the "learning" and "doing" parts so we have control over how the network is trained.
A few of things.

1. ARM is most certainly retaliating at Qualcomm for lobbying governments to cancel the Nvidia deal.

2. Qualcomm's Nuvia is a direct threat to ARM's business. If Nuvia is much better than stock ARM cores, it will take away ARM's more lucrative business of licensing their designs. For example, Qualcomm currently uses stock ARM core designs in their top tier Snapdragon SoCs. They want to switch to Nuvia core designs to better compete with Apple and to enter the laptop/server markets.

3. ARM is making peanuts in revenue compared to Qualcomm. ARM wants a bigger piece of the pie.
On related note inspired by this submission I tried to open my invoice excel sheet in LibreOffice Calc and it was unusably slow and mind that's only 0.5MB document just with lots of equations. Meanwhile everything works instantly with no delays in Excel 2019, so LO it's making it really hard for me to witch if it can't deal even swith simple document.
Also have a pair of 1210's I've had now for 22 years - they still work as good as the day I first took them out of the box, even though they've been dragged all over the place.

If looked after, they're almost bomb-proof.
> This seems like you either didn't understand what pumped storage is, or you've confused several related technologies.

What adds to the confusion is that Germans - OP used a common typo that hints at his native language - casually use "water power" ("Wasserkraft") both for hydroelectric dams ("Wasserkraftwerk") and pumped storage ("Pumpspeicherkraftwerk"). It's one of these fascinating little insights in how different languages form different train of thoughts.
Nuclear was perfectly affordable until laws were passed to make it unaffordable (specifically: if nuclear power happened to be cheaper than other energy sources for any reason, then it was considered to be not spending enough on safety, so it was required to spend money on marginal safety measures until it cost the same as other forms of energy).
Another failed miner who is rather well known: Mark Twain. His comic memoir about trying to get rich as a young man in the Nevada and California mines is called "Roughing It."
You can record and play cast files offline easily. You can also embed an asciinema js player [1] on your own site to play casts.

[1]: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player
That’s really cool! But let’s have a technical discussion about the hiccups some commenters mention.

I’ve experimented with Web Audio stuff in the past, and wasn’t happy with it. It seems to be mainly intended to play back premade music files, not seamlessly playing dynamically generated samples.

Normal audio APIs issue a callback whenever their buffer gets low. This is done in a high-priority thread and has a high chance to work seamlessly even on a very busy system — think computer games. You get called, generate a few more bytes and everything is fine.

Web Audio, unless something changed, requires you to actively, manually schedule sending little audio snippets to the playback queue. You have to use timers for that, which are nondeterministic, and you’re competing with everything else that the JavaScript thread is doing. Any tiny hiccup is an audible artifact, and I had found no completely reliable way to avoid them.

Why is Web Audio like this? Are improvements on the horizon that would make this better?
I would say that data defines as something that might convey information, might in the sense that there are one or more interpretations of it that are meaningful to something. This sentence has plenty of open ended terms, however.

Code is data that can be executed, provided that there is a something that offers an interpretation of it. It think we must claim that this interpretation is meaningful to something.

Executability is a semantic in the context of interpretation, which ties it all back into what data is again. Something something Apply/Eval.

So more open ended terms.
Minified Genetic Algorithm: Microbial GA (2009) [pdf]
I'd say deno, because they've already established a proper ecosystem since day one, has a working usage such as Deno Deploy[0] and Fresh[1], and already addresses some issues about distribution issue on Node, while bun still acts like a replacement for Node.

[0]:https://deno.com/deploy

[1]:https://fresh.deno.dev/
Children are natural intelligences. An existing artificial example would be corporations or governments, although it's not a singular/individual kind of intelligence, but rather an organizational one.
Who knows what will happen, but AR/VR/MR seems like a sensible big bet to me.

People don't get it because the headsets are big and uncomfortable and the graphics aren't very impressive or realistic. But they are getting better.

I think that is someone comes along in the next few years with something like the new Spectacles but with a 90 degree field of view and less than $500, it could become extremely popular.

Or suppose next year an Apple headset has an application with very realistic graphics for mixed reality or VR "teleporting" where realistic faces and bodies appear in your house. Or you go to some club or something and it looks completely realistic.

To me this stuff will take off when the graphics and software get a bit better, better field of view, cheaper. But it's a matter degrees at this point.

What could very well happen is that AR/MR completely blows up in the next three years, but with some other company making a slightly better and cheaper glasses or whatever and a totally open metaverse platform. That will prove that he was going in the right direction, but no one will admit they misjudged the goal.
I would give Musk a fighting chance to make the platform less toxic while making it an open square. He does have a track record of brilliant engineering skills and thinking out of the box. Musks twitter will be something different than today’s twitter, I think.
Android (and iOS) has nothing I want on my camera.

I don't want or need an app store, I don't want or need messaging, and for god's sake please don't put an internet connection with a cell baseband chip in my camera. I need that battery life already.

Better integration? Sure. I'd like to see it. Snapbridge works acceptably but is slow.

But at the end of the day taking the picture is usually step one before culling, cropping, and editing so while it's a small irritation it's far less important than things like being able to get the shot in the first place (so autofocus, IBIS, etc.).
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Apple makes the best phone hardware, in best class of cameras, best battery life, best update policy. I can totally see why anyone would buy one.

But I just can't stand using the thing. So, I'm an Android user.
But you'd have to be really misinformed to not be able to admit on paper, they are superior devices.
What do you mean by crazy cheap debt? If you have a loanable funds model where all money that is not being spent is being saved then the interest rate is 0%.

The fact that people don't save the money they don't spend has more to do with how cash works and how it makes it pointless to save.
Subtitles, in addition to letting me watch content in many languages I don't speak, liberates me from poor audiomixing decisions, which seem to be getting ever more common.
There's no reason to think it's close this time, just like there's little reason to think this time automation is going to put everyone out of work.
As they say, history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes: more than a hundred years ago, fortune seekers went into those mines to dig for gold, wearing jeans. Today, fortune seekers go into the mines looking for the jeans...
I'm not in the yearly upgrade cycle, but I do tend to replace mine every few years.

In terms of speed, ever since the OnePlus One I bought back in like ~2014, I can't think of a time I have been unhappy with the raw performance of a phone by the time I go to upgrade.

Battery life is also not something I usually use as justification for a replacement, as I am fine going with a third-party place or doing it myself, depending on the complexity—the one exception was when I woke up to such a swollen battery while I was traveling in Russia that the screen fell out; it was such a mess and at such an inconvenient moment that I just bought another phone for the time being.

Rather, there is usually some sort of other nicety that is finally compelling, or circumstances force it upon me.

My example will seem silly given the fact that the solution is one to a bit of a manufactured problem in the first place. But despite the fact that Vivo, Xiaomi, etc., launched the first in-display fingerprint sensors almost five years ago, Apple still insists on Face ID. Normally, this works fairly well and doesn't bother me too much, so I keep my absurdly long and inconvenient iPhone password as I am rarely entering it when I have it on me.

However, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and everyone began masking, good lord, it made me stop wanting to use my phone at all outside. It was so ridiculously inconvenient entering 30 characters each and every time I wanted to check anything at all, especially since I have my boomer-esque 45 wpm typing speed when I am using my phone.

Apple, multiple years late, finally released their feature to unlock your phone while wearing a mask. But it requires an iPhone 12 or newer.

This is an example of a scenario where even though I'd probably have been happy with an iPhone X, XS or 11 otherwise, the newer device still becomes very compelling.

(also yes, I know they let you unlock your phone while wearing an Apple Watch, but I don't want to have to have one just to use Google for 30 seconds while outside)

Of course, the true solution there is probably not to buy yet another iPhone but rather a device that respects you, but everything is a tradeoff, and at times, I need an iOS device specifically, etc. It is what it is, but I am locked into this ecosystem for the time being ;-)
Pumped-hydro need not, in fact be any sort of "massive infrastructure project".
You mean other than the time where he harassed someone, called them a pedophile and hired a detective to investigate and try to dig up dirt on them because they got under his skin? That guy, who now has everything anyone has ever said in private messages on Twitter?
Half of land surface?
And the market is free to consider this an unwise investment and tank the stock. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Also, since FB is a publicly traded company, it's not actually "his money". It's the shareholders' money (of which he is but one), and thus he has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of those shareholders.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fiduciary_duty
Ask HN: What Is Happening at TigerGraph?
I'm reading on LinkedIn that there are massive layoffs at TigerGraph but I can't find any news outlets covering it. What is happening at TigerGraph? What prompted these layoffs?
One destroys an ecosystem and fishery. The other moves water between ponds.
Have a look at the AI -generated art Wikipedia page - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_art specifically the “References” section which cites all of the research papers about AI-generated art that used to write the Wiki page. It’s pretty extensive imo.

edit: forgot to add a word
Interchangeable lense cameras already have their "Apple", Leica. Maybe Apple could just buy them...
(Two proposals, in reverse order)

> we still have 0 standardization or agreed-upon APIs

As a former Unity Technologies employee on the in-app purchase abstraction layer, I can say that the Unity runtime abstracts dozens of platforms' (mac, windows, etc) various APIs, today. And alternatively Godot supports a different set of platforms.

So, focusing on Unity, that problem has _a_ solution, however it is another privately managed API rather than one agreed upon presumably democratically by all developers, as I knowingly naively interpret is an aspiration here.

Therefore a free open platform-API standard can be created, trivially based upon Unity's IP. [IANAL so someone else check this plz]

> software distribution

Yeah distribution does not have a technical solution. In my experience it has been handled by agencies, each with proprietary partial automation and a lot of human handholding.

TBH there are 2 big app stores, and 400+ smaller app stores of varying sizes - Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung being larger western-mindshare stores, plus hundreds of global stores with lesser centralization than e.g. the tightly controlled Apple App Store. On top of that is the "no store" model of direct installation which relies on e.g. readme's for comprehensive installation.

So, I suspect a web-driver could be built that abstracts these sites. There exists APIs for many app-stores' publishing pipelines. Note, initial publisher-registration however typically requires manual work often involving real-world bank accounts.

Therefore, from that, a publishing standard could be put out there. Something that would identify app versions, publishing tracks, app high-level service features, permissions, user-facing metadata, publishing schedules, and store-review-status workflows.
The people didn't vote him in the first time. We just have weird rules that enable our minority party to win the presidency. This is often claimed to prevent tyranny of the majority, but it's not a boon for democracy, rather a way to limit the extreme outcomes of democracy.

It's never good when someone denies the legitimacy of the very system that brought them into power. This is the part that makes him "terrible for democracy".
Thanks for sharing. I think that I am not becoming an early adopter and wait for the boring iterations where safety standards are introduced.
One trick is to play with fake monopoly money until you stop losing to the Wall Street wolf reporting.
Bad person according to whom, though? What makes eating meat wrong? That some people decide it is? There's no consensus or laws that make it so, unlike the case with eating humans. You decided you didn't want to be miserable, but I guess you feel guilty because you decided it was wrong? I've decided it's not wrong, and I don't see that anyone can make me think otherwise.
Yes.

It would not have to be a public-facing destination (for downloads / marketing info). I would encourage this: it could operate instead like a repository, from which it could republish to other app-stores. So that way one would avoid the varying security and cost differences of each app store destination.
You missed the whole storing and showing and appending to time lines part along with inserting a relevant ad into it.
It's not! In NZ at least. 57% of our electricity is hydro.
You don't have to think about the physical image sensors as just an array of sensors with 1:1 correspondence in the final picture. There was always a lot of computation in between - bayer filters with more green pixels, different grid patterns, multiple sensors per pixel, more pixels on the sensor than in the actual photo and so on.

Recent sensors have AF phase-detect sensors built into the image sensor, by splitting one "pixel" into two sensors (and having lots of them; sometimes in Canon sensors more than half of the pixels have this functionality; on some cameras you can extract the raw image including the different data on those pixels for bigger resolution). The difference between phase detect and contrast being that a phase-detect sensor will give exact values on how to adjust the focus, whilst contrast detection needs focus hunting in small adjustments, so it's slower.
Can they be worn (if they are cleaned)?
About as much as anyone else at SpaceX: none at all.
The Mused jobs link points at the blog, is that intentional?
I actually like that Apple completely obliterates the fiction that people don't want a walled garden.

It's such a minority as to be utterly irrelevant. These insane numbers prove it.
I thought this was going to be a conspiracy theory, but it was an interesting read about a simple (yet intriguing) idea. Thank you for sharing.

As a side note, what's the blog architecture? I seem to remember seeing an XML error when I hit a link that does not exist (like at [1]) but I can't remember where :).

[1] https://javarants.com/hn-error
Heh... and it was just a few weeks ago I was assured that all of the platform internals were fully open sourced. ;-)
>the standard model for the underlying process is a normal distribution.

I don't think it is, though?
Not because they are less damaging, but because Big Ag has enough influence to keep them in place.
Fuji uses Sony sensors (custom ones but still Sony).
Stabilization in Rust provides much greater guarantees than stabilization in, say, Python. Once stable, the feature will never change.
I see I was wrong. That does present a possible conflict of interest.
I love the "can I call" texts he sends. It's neat to see boomers all act the same about texting.
There is no karma system in economics. There is no such thing as having to do a "bust" as if it is some backlog of tasks you have forgotten to work on or a divine punishment from God you must endure. A bust just means the interest rate is above the return on investment in the actual economy. That's it.

"Taming the business cycle" is an empty phrase.
Do you get any value from Twitter? Really? Or is it just something to do? I doubt you will miss anything important if you ignore Twitter. No one has to join any social media platform. If you have to ask if you should leave Twitter based on who owns it, ask yourself what you get out of it now.
I wonder if F-Droid can be a basis re-distribution to e.g commercial and other-managed app stores, today? IDK enough about F-Droid.
my first reaction to this was "cmon, wow, y'all, we need to stop, this is too good". And then immediately after my second reaction was "we need to bake this into ALL the games!" :)
Exactly! The thing is about trust. And I would even add that in this case here, due to ideological differences between both Elon and Twitter employees, there is more space for distrust to happen and it justifies even more Musk calling people he knows and who have a general idea of what is going on the code and notice some weird red flag.
If you don't like the app, you should try Tutanota.

Tutanota is encrypted, FOSS, and doesn't even use Google Push. IMO it's like Proton, but a step ahead as it has a stronger focus on security and open source; plus it's much cheaper.
I suppose this shows how Google prioritizes its $ stream..?

Do big-earners on the app store get higher quality service?
Yep. This is the only buyers guide you need. If you're serious about dj turntables, just get the Technics. Nothing else comes close.
For Japan, many pumped storages have been built to store energy generated by nuclear plant mainly at night. Now few nuclear plants running but many PVs are deployed, so it stores energy at noon. It's reversed but anyway it's useful!