skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the other commenters; I honestly don't think you've figured out how to productize this or even how to communicate it. The database market is saturated with all sorts of solutions, and you don't seem to have found any kind of sweet spot.

As a fairly seasoned database application developer, I'm perplexed by your web site. It's very sparse and requires the reader to watch a bunch of videos. Even then, there's a lack of clarity about what the product does. Apparently this is some kind of Windows-specific desktop application that can load data and let you query it? Is that the only way? Is there a CLI version I can run on Mac or Linux? Is there a server version? What kind of data can it deal with? How many columns and rows does it scale to? And so on.

On the surface, a slick tool to quickly explore data "ad hoc" — as opposed to being the backend for an application running many types of queries — would be useful, but what exactly is the value proposition? It can't be the GUI, which seems rudimentary. You focus a lot on performance, but if I load a bunch of data into SQLite, it doesn't really matter to me if one query takes 100ms or 2000ms to run a query. That's a "one sip of coffee" level of annoyance that is not going to drive me to investigate alternatives. On the other hand, if I have gigabytes — or even terabytes or petabytes — then the problem becomes less tractable, but there are good solutions (PostgreSQL, BigQuery) that I can use to run complex queries in seconds, using my full set of SQL skills. Your web site gives me zero confidence that it's built for that kind of scale and that I would be productive using it in such a case. So what kind of sweet spot does it fill?

Honestly, I think you would get more traction by making it open source and spending more time just describing its possible utility, rather than complaining that people don't understand. The hacker community tends to judge by merit alone, not claims. It is your job to convince people; it's not people's job to convince themselves. As a developer, I'm mildly piqued by the prformance claims, and I would love to learn more about how it organizes and queries data, but I get really suspicious when all that's offered is a magical black box. Even commercial, closed-source databases like Oracle and SQL Server describe their internals in a fair amount of technical detail.

With all due respect, you also come across as combative and even somewhat rude here on Hacker News. If you're not getting the responses you want, maybe there's a reason for that.
If you're curious about the design considerations and construction techniques for large aquaria, the standard reference is Stachiw's Handbook of Acrylics for Submersibles, Hyperbaric Chambers, and Aquaria: https://www.bestpub.com/books/product/cid-151.html

Plastics are weird, and examining the wreckage will give a lot of information about the failure mode.
Correct. https://www.bestpub.com/books/product/cid-151.html
'price improvement' compared to lit venues with no retail flow is already a meaningless concept.
Any fish that got flushed out will be lost, they need things to be 'just so'. I once helped clean up at a friends place who had 30 aquariums with thousands of fish after the power went out longer than his UPS could provide it. The mess was sickening. He never had another tank after that and it was his life's passion.
>Well, first, let's note that you can do all of those things now, legally. It's MIT licensed. If your argument is that without a strong intellectual property discipline in place, this would inevitably happen, your burden is to explain why this isn't happening.

Because you cherry-picked an example. This (separate publishing profiting from the same work) has been happening time and again to musicians and authors - even to those under copyright protection -- the only difference is that those have some legal recourse, and have been shutting down those alternate editions.
Carbon impacts of different food proteins
Eon's ago I found the same bug in a security library that we were using. A signature was fully verified, except to verify that it corresponded to the text being signed. You could copy any old signature, cut and paste it under a new text and the library would happily accept it.
According to the industry, my laptop is slow. I, however, think that my laptop is actually very fast. It's just that everyone gets new stuff every year and the threshold for "usable computer" goes up accordingly.

VS Code is unusable on my laptop. I tried it, it's way too slow to be usable. I've used vim with a few plugins that got it to the same feature set as VS Code and it's actually usable. At some point I tried Lite XL, and it was incredibly fast with the same features. More recently, I tried helix and I can say that I've never used such a fast editor with auto complete and all that.

Most electron applications waste me time and energy (both human and electricity), and if software keeps going this way it'll start wasting me money. I'm not thrilled, but like you said, what are you gonna do?
Let's see SE1 drama
I would never read a book with any such incipit – How the heck somebody can even think publishing one!
> You "counterpoint" isn't even a counterpoint, but just reinforces the original comment.

This sleight of hand is not going to work.

> Literally not a standard shipped in Chrome, literally is something Chrome came up with and implemented on its own, literally only shipped in Chrome without any consensus or input from other browser implementers

... and literally hasn't gotten "someone to type up something that describes the Chromium implementation into the standard". Your choice to ignore this does not bode well for whether you should be taken seriously on matters of intellectual honesty.

The fact that other browser vendors have not been forced to implement it by now contradicts what you are arguing to be true.

All of the Chrome-proprietary APIs that shipped once upon a time in Chrome but were later removed from Chrome (incl. no remaining signs in subsequent draft standards) also contradicts it.

Does Chrome ship non-standard stuff? Yes. So has Gecko. Webkit, too. Has Mozilla in particular been forced to implement some things for no reason other than it because became unavoidable at some point after it started shipping in Chrome? Yes. Does the standardization process merely consist of Chrome doing whatever it wants and the eventual result is a new standard (with nobody else being able to influence this or contribute anything of their own)? No.

> And yet "no, this isn't true, this isn't how Chrome works at all".

Nice strawman. The moment where you resort to putting words in someone else's mouth is the moment you forfeit. Goodbye.
We've had a bunch of VMWare clusters consisting of 5-6 servers each, maybe something like 2x16 cores or 2x32 cores for each server and 384 to 768Go of RAM, I'm not sure about the specifics.

We had VMs running a few Oracle databases, nothing much more than 2 cores 16Gb or 4 cores 32Gb, the vast majority (90%+) of our databases were running Sybase, and half the resources were for the app, so something like 5% of those clusters were Oracle dbs.

We were paying Sybase maybe 100k a year for the entire datacenter, and so we expected to pay something between 10k and 100k for Oracle (remember, for 1/20th of the compute and with a developer license because we were not hosting client production).

We asked for a quote to Oracle, they came back a week later with a 520 million dollar bill, more than the revenue of our entire company. It was never paid of course but this shows how absolutely ridiculous their template is for billing. The reasoning is well known now, a 2 core database can run on potentially 6 servers * 32 cores * 2 threads per core = 384 possible cores, so if you have 2 or 3 databases you can potentially get billed a license for 1000 cores (and actually running 6 non-production database = 0 service on their part because if it breaks you just redeploy it, it's faster than opening a support ticket).
People and companies want to move to existing cities, not new planned cities that don't exist yet. Cities grow organically and not in a planned fashion.

What is the definition of "overbuilt," anyway? There is no reason why SF couldn't be built to a high density in the same way that NYC is. You may not like it, and consider it "overbuilt" but there is no issue with the underlying infrastructure that couldn't be solved just like it was with NC.
It is what they call "hero image" these days. Who even comes up with these terms? I dislike it. An unrelated "hero image" of Javascript code plugged into a COBOL article (and the article is pretty good, to be fair) is why I don't like these trends. These trends contribute anything to the article but add distractions.
GitLab team member here, thanks for your feedback.

This blog post about the future of the Web IDE [0] provides insights on the evaluation and plans, published in May 2022. The remote development direction page [1] dives into all plans, challenges, etc. and also links engineering and product resources (issues, epics) to subscribe to. I'd suggest commenting on the epic with thoughts and ideas [2] - thanks!

[0] https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2022/05/23/the-future-of-the-g...

[1] https://about.gitlab.com/direction/create/editor/remote_deve...

[2] https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/7419
I used to be apathetic to Autodesk, until they swallowed up Eagle and destroyed that product for hobbyists. Now all of my old designs are locked on old systems or behind their subscription model. I hope they rot in hell for that. In the meantime, long live KiKad and other open alternatives.
>When mankind made a pact with the devil, the burden we got was that we had to earn our bread though sweat and hard labor. This story has survived millennia, there is something to it.

This sounds mystical and mysterious; it would be a mistake to project one mode of production as being the brand all humans must live with until we go extinct.
Humans are horrible creatures.
I have about 40 Zigbee devices connected to Zigbee2mqtt. Everything has worked since I started 3 years ago. Its only gone wrong when I mess an upgrade up (once).

I like that my smart home is not a full time job. It's nice being set it and forget it. Heck I've spent more weekends stopping Windows breaking my NVR recording system then Zigbee. It's great.
> Public policy >> tech solutions

You can't heat your home with public policy
Except the model 3 and model Y are still 2 of the 3 best selling EVs in the world.

And the stock in Tesla dropping directly correlates with the stock in the SV bubble economy dropping, mass layoffs, and overall economical downturn.
Imagining a 10m cube gives a good idea of the amount.
Shit happens with my wife All. The. Time.

We're rational enough to mostly chalk it up to coincidence or selection bias, but not calculating enough to take advantage of gullible people

(Edited to mention selection bias)
The source of most of complaining about Electron and companies/developers choosing to use it is that it's not just an ordinary trade-off. The gains - being cross-platform - accrue mostly to the producer side (cheaper to develop and maintain). The costs - resource use at runtime - happens entirely on the consumer side.

In other words, it's a typical case of costs being externalized, making the supposed trade-off be a "free win" instead. Since software resists commoditization, consumers don't even have a way to pass those costs back onto the vendor (by e.g. leaving for a competitor).
Excellent summation. Majority of the software developers work on crud based frontend or backend development. When this thing's attention goes beyond the 4k tokens its limited to, there will be very less number of developers needed in general. Same way less number of artists or illustrators will be needed for making run of the mill marketing brochures.

I think majority wouldn't know what hit them when the time comes. My experience with chatgpt has been highly positive changing me from a skeptic to a believer. It takes a bit of skill to tune the prompts but I got it to write frontend, backend, unit test cases, automation test cases, generate test data flawlessly. I have seen and worked with much worse developers than what this current iteration is.
The stylesheets for CSS Zen Garden examples are more tightly coupled to the HTML than any other CSS I've ever seen in my life. They literally have no use against any other block of HTML than that one page.
Looks like they have 4 different tokenizers. Besides gpt2, does anyone know which models correspond to which tokenizers? One of them is probably Codex.

"gpt2": gpt2,
"r50k_base": r50k_base,
"p50k_base": p50k_base,
"cl100k_base": cl100k_base,
Workers in Germany, Romanian and Vietnam doing the same job at similar productivity are paid very different wages. You can see this quite clearly in German companies that open factories in poorer countries to extract higher profits.

Capitalists pay the lowest wages they can get away with. While they exploit all workers (by appropriating as profits much of the value created by those workers), they exploit the workers in the poorer countries far more than those in the rich countries.

They can get away with this largely because the poor countries are underdeveloped (and are often kept that way on purpose). Workers in those countries have fewer options, thus can be exploited more.
> VSCode is one of the greatest pieces of engineering of our time

I feel this is a slight overestimation of VSCode’s design.
Levine is entitled to his opinion, but I don't think he has argued that retail investors receive better prices compared to a condition where all of their orders are sent to lit venues and makers who want retail flow have to get it by having top-of-book (or midpoint peg or whatever) orders at lit venues.
A Linux Evening
Private platform, can do what they want. Wasn't that the mindless retort you'd scrawl in comment sections under previous ownership?
>It is almost impossible for them to make a UI for the rest of us.

Have you considered that their tool is not necessarily made for you? You'd shudder at emacs yet there's still people there that really want it over vim and are more productive with it than most vim and vscode users.

>I'm sure your average vim wizard can see no wrong in forcing new users to learn how to engage edit mode by pressing 12 keys simultaneously.

it's 1 key. It's not intuitive by default tho that's very much true.

>They simply dont get that our brains are like bookshelves that take only n books. If you push more than that onto the shelve other books are falling off on the other side.

If you use a tool every day you're often expected to know a bit about it regardless of which one you use.
The previous poster compared it to a hammer and someone else mentioned a nailgun.
Similarly a an ax is simple but a chainsaw used more plenty by my father...but he knows how to replace and fix the chain, And even beyond that a nailgun and chainsaw are simple simple machines compared to the tooling you'll find in many workshops.
If you processed wood professionally you'd use room filling machinery instead to make boatloads of planks and whatnot in no time.

The thing is. Much of these issues one would encounter with em and things to know them are relatively simple and easy on their own... But seem difficult if you don't know. They're pretty easy to forget if you do it once. But if you've done it dozens of times you just know. Knowing these things doesn't impact the person's ability to learn other related things much. How a new kind of wood to cut behaves or whatever in the same way that remembering that new face and name doesn't obviously directly makes me forget my existing coworkers.
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This was note elsewhere on HN but at least three of these - from MSNBC, Mashable, and CNN - aren't truly journalists. Yes, the produce a lot of editorial-ish content doesn't default them up to (what is supposed to be) journalism's higher standard.

The fact the NYT doesn't understand that make their employee suspect as well.

For the sake of discussion, this list is a solid lens for identifying journalistic activity, or the lack there of.

https://kottke.org/20/01/jim-lehrers-rules-of-journalism-1
From the IPA, it's soft like “yo”. (And the “e” is not silent, so the word has three syllables.)
Worms. Get ready for them. Now you can downvote me.
I read 'cheerleaders' as musk fanbois. Or at the least we should be charitable in interpreting it as that.

Yes well unreasonable men change the world and all that. I don't think it's impossible to not be an arse hole and successful in business, but the 2 tend to go together, and even after you tend to get surrounded by yes men so even if you weren't an arse hole to start with, the situation runs the risk of turning you into one.
Not deserving any credit and not giving him more than is actually due are two different things.

Musk is not talentless. His abilities allowed him to make the best of his opportunities of the time and his own circumstances. But this is a story of a fortunate business person, not some inspiring role model in any professional field or just as a person.
On the whole he isn't even unique, just very public and the richest one.

>It’s important not to make any issue an “I align with X so you’re against me” conflict.

Ethics aren't some opinion you may or should just keep to yourself while lack of reason in public discourse does not need to be tolerated either.

Of course, that applies to the rest of us as well. There is definitely a subconscious wish within the hivemind of the public to see a bad guy fail, so a lot of people are willing stretch the truth a little bit.
Maybe not but Facebooker, Facebooked, Facebocker, and Facebooken all sound like they do.
> I think calling anyone defending Musk at any level a “cheerleader” isn’t a helpful framing of the debate.

What would be? When I see replies on Twitter that say things like “why are you arguing with literally the smartest person in the world?” in reference to someone challenging or critiquing Musk and other such hyperbolic comments coming out of nowhere, what do you call this other than cheerleading?

> Musk has achieved great, incredible things. That’s just indisputable fact.

That is more than disputable. What great things has he done?

Musk has acted like a child and bully his entire career. People like me have called this out to downvotes, criticism, and almost ostracization and finally others are becoming aware of it. The sort of outpouring of hate of Musk is coming from this because people are more than weary of putting up with cult of personality and unbridled and misplaced worship of Musk.
I think your comment is interesting even though I disagree, so I upvoted.

It's perhaps important though I didn't state it, that the strength of my impetus to upvote interesting comments or comments that add value to the discussion is stronger than the strength of the impetus to downvote on disagreement, so when the too clash it's an upvote or no action.

So I don't feel like your worry is a practical issue for hoe I use the voting buttons.

After reading these comments, if something is mediocre and I think it's wrong that still seems like a good reason to use downvote on disagreement (where I don't go around downvoting every mediocre comment, though I could see the argument for doing so).
How do they make such a huge cylinder?
Brief comment + total noob question here:

I've been using atom for several years now to main a few sites. I have always found it a pleasure to work in, but then admittedly I am probably using a small percentage of the features that it offer.

What does it mean that the project (or any project) is archived? Does it mean that it no longer has maintainers? Should we stop using it because security will worsen due to lack of updates?

If I should stop using it - what should I try instead (apart from Vi / Emacs / VS Code, which are already well represented in the discussion)?

Thanks
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Serious question: Can someone explain to me why would someone still be using Oracle in 2022 when we have equally capable or even superior open source alternatives like PostgreSQL, which have none of these shenanigans? Maybe legacy software that would be expensive to rewrite?

I'm a backend developer and I regularly kickstart systems (and get to choose which components we are going to use in the stack) and I fail to grasp in what kind of project I'd need to be to even consider "this might need us to bring Oracle to the table". Again, honest to goodness question, looking to learn. Is there some edge to Oracle compared to the FOSS stuff that I'm not aware?