skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the context this is most likely in response to DHH’s post [1] where he heavily came down on AWS’s serverless offerings.

He’s been ranting against cloud too.

[1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/even-amazon-can-t-make-sense-of-se...
Are there any compositions incorporating the English horn and the baritone saxophone?
I can't reliably offer a comment on the optics of this device.

But I can say there is some level of amateur-ish marketing going on, and that doesn't bode well for the actual product.

Don't advertise the weight of the product in pounds but use European math notation for all of the other specs. In the west, we use decimal notation for numerical values not commas.

Among the core customer market (astro photography minded people), we understand the metric system. In fact, it's easier to reason about optical devices in metric than imperial.

Yes, I'm an American native who understands the metric system.

Edit:
Plus the naming of this thing. I know short domain names are in short supply these days. But come on.

"Vaonis Hyperia"? Just name it "TwiddlyDoo Big Dick Telescope". At least the random search mis-types will help with marketing and search engine results.
This is not well understood at all - and a lot of frameworks don't really lend to simply splitting a piece off.

I've seen terrible spaghetti code apps where literally nothing can be refactored because of the model / view, God object dependency stuff all over the place.
I don't know why I got downvoted. As I see it, the other party is censoring books and the other party is banning books. Both parties are also attacking academia.
More specifically, it excludes the night club district which is when the 10pm to 5am service time would actually be in demand.
This is really it. You can have everything in a monolith and scalable and modular by following good architectural practices.

If the need arises, you could move into SOA, and break out a couple of your larger domain modules. Continue following these same rules though.

If the need arises still, you could move into micro services, and break out more / all of your domain modules. Truly understand first whether you actually need this first.

But the "let's do micro services this monolith is old junk" trope, abandonwaring the codebase, building out a bunch of services without strong, fundamental domain knowledge, and then complaining when shit is expensive and fragile and broken- it's getting tiring.
> ... requires a full page refresh to use ... isn't good enough for many types of web-app we need to make.

> without the annoying full-page load refresh.

This fixation on the page refresh needs to stop. Nearly every single website which has purportedly "saved" page refreshes has brutalized every other aspect of the UX.

This is a good article, and I agree that Htmx brings sanity back to the frontend, but somewhere along the line frontend folks got it in their head that page refreshes were bad, which is incorrect for essentially all CRUD / REST APIs. Unless you're specifically making a complex application that happens to be served through the web, like Kibana or Metabase, then stop harping on page refreshes.

Even this article calls it the annoying refresh. Not the impediment refresh, or the derisive refresh, or the begrieved refresh. Moreover, what exactly is annoying about page refreshes? That there's a brief flash? That it takes ~0.3 seconds to completely resolve?

Users don't care about page refreshes, and in fact they are an indication of normalcy. Upending the entire stack and simultaneously breaking expected functionally to prevent them is madness.

The killer feature of Htmx is that it doesn't upend the entire stack, and you can optimize page refreshes relatively easily. That's great! But even then I'm still not convinced the tradeoff is worth it.
The article fails to recommend to use re-balancing feature that allows you to run spots in production without worrying too much.

It doesn't mention either that price-capacity-optimized allocation strategy.

If you want to run spots in production, please read about three two.
There is no major drama if you apply them.
Because we can't definitively prove which one is better.

There is no formal theory around system design so you get people complaining about how monoliths are error prone and way too complex and you get people complaining about microservices with the exact same argument.

The result is that with a period of about a decade the industry just oscillates between the two methodologies in an endless flat circle.

Monoliths will come in vogue again in the 2020s.
Very controversial. U.S. as a divided land and government (now) can't pass anything in federal court so N.Y. is banning natural gas where oil companies in Alaska can dig well right next to preservation area and burn the excess gas on site (because app. it is cheap and they don't have infrastructure to transport or store), cooking massive fireballs 24 hours a day.

Is this step from N.Y. a leap too far? definitely. Is it in the right direction, as opposed to drill baby drill? Also definitely. However in actual climate impact, it is more sustainable to ban petrol car, but our battery tech does not allow everyone to buy EV. Either to public transportation or go junk traffic. Those petrol car (and SUV, "light truck") causes a lot more harm than natural gas which burns into water and carbon dioxide, from asthma to smog. Domestic use of natural gas is terribly effective to be ignored.

I don't know right now but I think they should mandate heat pump in every new houses so minimal energy can result in great heat in winter, instead of relying on AC and failed on grid. Also, N.Y. does not have tons of renewables?
Complaining about error messages when using LALR is one thing. Constantly singling out "lex and yacc" (maybe because of some bad experience in a compilers course) is another. Yacc is not the first implementation of LALR, there are others, e.g., the lemon parser used in the SQLite Project. There is nothing LALR-specific about lex.
The styling is pretty similar to the old Apple iSight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISight#/media/File:ISights.jpg

About 10x larger, but the pictures don't have anything for scale comparison!
It feels to me like they have a culture that enables out-of-control sales staff. Probably juicy commissions with a tendency to look the other way.
That actually favors corporations more. I'm a FOSS advocate today because cricket bats costed money but Ruby was free, so I learned that.
I remember reading his book and finding him extremely boisterous. Yes, the mission is amazing but so too is the size of his ego.
> TS, Java, etc. They treat you like a child who can’t be trusted to do things right.

This is totally Java, but TypeScript? Practically every error can be turned off in the config or in a comment, and the type system is a veritable arsenal of powerful footguns.
"Of course, nobody wants to hire a racist. But that’s not what we’re talking about. "

Yeah I'm going to guess that's exactly what they want to be talking about.
>Hyperia is made of Zicral, an alloy used in the aerospace industry for its outstanding mechanical performance and exceptional resistance to extreme conditions.

With my tendency to kick expensive conversation pieces, this is perfect for my next inevitable biweekly meltdown!

(...I think they are)

On a more serious note: This is clearly aimed at... whoever wants to say that they maxed out all possible stats on an object, and not the professional market.
If there's a high cleaning fee I just don't do the "chores"
Suppose the situation: I am going to buy something bad and see the dealer's address is here. What do I supposed to do? Is the address here just because of he sells something bad or because he is a scammer and not a seller?
The video has an interesting in-depth discussion. Especially in regards to some of the other topics posted this week.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35774201
Can AI replace VCs? Three experiments
Not only don’t autonomous cars solve traffic, they will actively make it worse. The marginal cost of operating a car drops dramatically when you remove the human drivers from them (who also suffer from pesky conditions like boredom and drowsiness), and so we can expect these vehicles to drive signficantly more frequently than their human-operated cousins.

Think about uses like DoorDash. Instead of (in a city) walking to nearby restaurants, we now replace a larger share of those dinners with ones where cars are driving back and forth across the city to pick up the food and deliver it. This will only become more common when the cost drops by not having to pay a human being, and so we can expect a much greater volume of traffic from this one example use.

Other currently-marginal use cases will see equivalent growth due to the similar economics.
Isn't socialism in some form or another what like almost the entire world already runs under?
> if you ever need more than just the web-client (i.e. a mobile app, native or otherwise) since you will now have to implement an API anyway, which you could've done in the first place

Unless your new client is a hybrid/webview/electron application, it's a trap. APIs for web, for native and public API have different sets of constraints in terms of authentication, versioning, even features are probably gonna be different.

And it's not like building an API after you built web would be complicated. Unless you put your business logic right into controllers/handlers, making an API would be just making a new endpoint that calls to existing application services. It's not free, it may not be trivial, but like other comment said, if you can afford a new client, you probably can afford an API for it
The answer is rather obvious
I’m impressed.
All good points, but I'll add that "free trial" is a very good hook, "free forever" is not.

So offering free trial periods (like AWS do for a year) is very effective, and very measurable.

Free Forever is clearly not self-sustaining, do one of us will inevitably be disappointed eventually, and i suspect that'll start by being you and end up being me.
Many people would be open to the idea that working from home (WFH) decreases productivity if there was solid evidence and a general consensus, rather than mere speculation and differing reports from various companies.

From our daily experiences in the tech industry, most people would likely observe that WFH has not led to a decrease in productivity. Instead, factors such as low morale have had a much more significant impact. Issues like layoffs, employee turnover, wages not keeping pace with living costs, mismanagement, a global pandemic, economic uncertainty, lack of prospects for homeownership and family-building, and generally declining life satisfaction weigh more heavily on work engagement than the WFH arrangement.

In fact, remote work is often viewed as a perk and is optional—many companies that offer WFH still maintain offices that employees can choose to work from, but few opt to do so. This means that the perk is desired and has a positive effect on morale.

In terms of direct counters to the notion that WFH inherently reduces productivity, consider the following sources:

- https://www.apollotechnical.com/working-from-home-productivi...

- https://timeular.com/blog/remote-working-affects-productivit...

- https://www.business.com/employees/remote-work-productivity/

- https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/intentional-insigh...

- https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2021/09/29/remote-wor...

While these sources provide counterarguments, the broader sentiment seems to be that a lack of trust in employees and mismanagement in WFH environments can hinder productivity, but properly managing remote work can actually enhance it. WFH in itself appears to be a poor predictor of productivity changes within a company when such a policy is implemented. The correlation is weak, with the noise of poorly managed companies struggling with remote work drowning out the success stories of well-managed companies that achieve higher worker effectiveness in a WFH environment.

It shouldn't be funny that people feel protective about the benefit that increases their work satisfaction, morale, and in many cases, productiveness. And if a company fails to implement WFH properly, then I'm sure it's not too difficult to imagine how it would go poorly. But this is c-suites not doing their jobs properly, not employees who struggle to keep morale high as is.
Car centric American infrastructure rears its ugly head once again. A once beautiful view spoiled by the concrete monstrosity
Agree. Absolutely NEVER say 'never.'
Good luck with your defi obsession, and we'll see which of the two of us is more embarrassed in a decade. You've offered no concrete evidence that there is any "there" there in crypto. But you can rattle off a bunch of projects. Yay, I guess?

Since you offered no evidence to counter what I said, I'll give an argument as low quality. Namely an argument from authority. I have about 200x the reputation that you do. I also have a background as a mathematician, a quarter century as a programmer, and used to work on Wall St.

Unless you provide actual EXAMPLES of real world examples of solutions ACTUALLY being solved by crypto, as well as reason to believe that the crypto ecosystem upon which those solutions rest is sustainable, I'm going to believe my knowledge, experience, and professional background over your fly by night content free crypto boosterism.
>Complexity can neither be created nor destroyed, only moved somewhere else.

Not true. I blow.up a car. Complexity is destroyed. I rebuild the car from blown up parts. Complexity is created.

There's no underlying generic philosophical point about microservices and monoliths. What we can say is that microservices are not necessarily less complex than monoliths, but this relationship has no bearing on the nature of complexity itself.
Exactly this. Our group regularly maxes out instance types in a region for some of our simulations. Have to overflow the requests over to other regions in those cases. Unfortunately the load is not consistent enough to pay for the reserved capacity.
> It should be illegal to offer 'free forever' plans and tiers. No company is actually capable of delivering on that promise.

It is perfectly possible if your marginal cost is low/zero. The value of a product has nothing to do with its cost. The paying customers on higher tiers will easily subsidise the free for life plans.

If you have no paying customers, well, then your product is at the end of its life anyway.

I, for example, am a paying customer of JetBrains tools and all I get is to be able to download updates. It would probably cost them a few cents a year if they stopped charging me and provided updates for free, forever.
I don't think this works. Plenty of people where I live bike throughout the frigid snowy winters, other places people bike regulatory even though it often rains.
This definitely falls deep into the pedantry zone. Lots of modern English uſage was once wrong and has become normalized. The language doeſn't have an Académie calling the ſhots. It inevitably evolves, warts and all.
You do realize Tesla makes cars too, or are these 130K people working just on autonomous driving?
It's a funnel. If you don't make any connections, ie don't do anything for step #1, then #2 and #3 are much much harder, if not impossible.
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35837751 upthread. I wanted to give you a solid reply to this, so I put a lot of effort into it. Perhaps it’s still insufficient, but it’s closer.
Well, paperclips are clearly useful, not so sure about ChatGPTs ... so far looks like their effect is net negative - more cheating and more spam of all kinds.
If you are making something as a branding or contract, then you better keep it. People break promise every time and not like all of them are evil, malicious, or should go to jail. But a bank failed to pay back frequently will definitely found themselves doubting where the customers go.

It's not because they are evil persons. It's because when that promise and trust is broken, I need to severely rethink about other thing. If they ever comes out with NPO financial report or even a formal apology, I'm fine - I mean I'm mad a bit, but not angry. They tried something and it doesn't work, like every success story (or failure story that no one asks) things do go south. But if the solution of the company is secretly hiding it or even publicly denying it (not in this case but that kind of stuff did happen before), then they are not getting a penny from me.

As making cloud storage free for everyone without ads forever is not quite possible nor sustainable, unless you farms telemetry for money (GDrive, dropbox with insane telemetry found recently). It is purely understandable and predictable the business model will die some day, and it's definitely not to blame them for not being able to keep this forever. This is not QE4 and money is not printed in house. But apology and even a changelog is free and it definitely cost more to try to hide it then be honest with it. That's a misdemeanor to perjury for me.
https://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392568604/dont-you-dare-use-c...

Every time we avoid saying "comprised of," the pedants win.
The disagreement is on what (sub)systems are even necessary/important. Heck, we usually have trouble agreeing on what goals we are achieving. Once we settle on what truly matters, separating the essential is not that hard.
Recently I begun traveling for work, you can't buy the joy given you by a kid that hugs you when you come home after a 3 days trip.
How does sharing a screen to look over code with a colleague meaningfully change in person? I don't see it.
Factors influencing patients’ experience of communication with the medical team [pdf]
I maintain that in the majority of the tech industry, remote work is a sought-after and highly valued benefit. However, in the long run, the transition to working from any location where one can be most effective may be regarded as a more fundamental aspect of the modern workplace.

Nonetheless, some might point out that in the United States, medical insurance is considered essential to employment, yet it is frequently presented as a benefit. The definition of an employment benefit is pretty loose.

But I understand your sentiment — this could become (or perhaps you already see it becoming) larger than a typical employment benefit.
Imagine a world where both the man and woman needed to take a pill in order to have in pregnancy. No accidental pregnancies.
Please make up our mind. Why can't we just make a decision and stick to it? It's like something comes alone everything 12 month and claims it is 'better'.
After a long time of tracking climate/environmental science I'm totally disillusioned with any effort by anyone in the face of modern politics, corporate dominace and the short sighted or apathetic attitudes in society.

I've found the best thing is to do what you can on your own patch and your own life, where you have the actual power to change and improve things ... and ignore the fact that it's a drop in the ocean and that you are surrounded by people who are bemused or even actively hostile that your lifestyle is actually philosophically opposed to their comforting illusions.

We have a farm. We plant trees and grow food. We do what we can to limit our consumption. We vote for the parties that pledge to do something (and thus never win seats).

That's all you can really do.
We wouldn't care a fig's leaf if it wasn't for the huge carbon footprint of the POW ponzis. If it was just a bunch of gamblers scamming each other over make believe internet bytes without setting the world on fire, we wouldn't mind. But when your little ponzi wastes energy equivalent to a small industrialized nation, the world has to do something about it.
> I have a personal and a work account. I learn something on weekends on the free tier and use it at work.

But have you ever used some free tier, found it to be flaky or buggy and then still continued to upgrade to the enterprise tier because they promise you the paid tier is less flaky than the free tier? I wouldn't believe them.
You must have missed this part if you read the article:

> But Mattermost is breaking the “free forever” promise made to its customers, and without any acknowledgement or apology. The “free forever” note was quietly removed from Mattermost’s website in the month leading up to the announcement, and is never mentioned in the email Mattermost sent to affected customers. Surely, one can expect better than that from a company whose stated principles include “customer obsession” and “earn trust”.
> In the west, we use decimal notation for numerical values not commas.

They're in France. Which is in "the west"? Also where they use commas for the decimal separator.

> Yes, I'm an American native who understands the metric system.

But apparently not the concept of localisation?
Appending Reddit to a search is still undefeated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAstrophotography/comments/l250it...

Some reviews of the $2500 scope and in general of the company. Not great. Does anyone have an example of a real image taken with this model?
Consider rollerblades, way easier.

If you insist on skateboarding, larger diameter wheels go a long way to not crashing on every crack/pebble/uneven surface. A long-board is easier than a street/short-board, and will usually have larger wheels by default.

Beyond that I have no advice for learning in your 40s. I learned to skate street in my childhood and can still effectively get around on one in my 40s. But it's no joke to crash on pavement at our age. Be prepared for some slow-healing fractures and irreparably damaged laptop/phone if you're commuting with a tech job.

Having said all that though, skateboarding is awesome and should get way more respect than it tends to. Super challenging and rewarding, more kids should learn it, character building.
Pedantic, perhaps, but within the purview of an editor of an encyclopedia enforcing a style guideline!
> Many people simply don’t want kids

there's a bit of a gender disparity in that group. three obvious solutions:

1. not care that most of this 1/5 of women are missing out on something they want

2. legalize and normalize polygamy

3. redirect culture to 'man up' and help provide families for the women who want them

other (esoteric?) solutions?
I’m just glad this person is using a program he built to find articles using this specific phrase.
It's supposedly end-to-end encrypted. That's my point.
Lot of false comparisons here.

It’s not “monolith vs distributed”.

It’s “good monolith vs bad monolith or big ball of mud vs domain-driven design”

It depends on what your primary domain is, level of complexity, number and makeup of enterprise integrations, and more.

Some monoliths are very bad.

Some distributed systems are very bad.

My rundown is:

- is it a simple crud system?
—-- monolith

Otherwise:
- model it, identify bounded contexts, proceed accordingly
By the way, all the pictures they show are coloured (if from this telescope): the sensor the use in this device is monochromatic.

And space is not this colorful.
It was indeed my lifetime. Now I have to watch out for ninjas and pianos randomly falling out of the sky, otherwise everyone's "free for lifetime" offer will be converted into paid plans.
Anyone have any thoughts and ideas on how to improve our prompt? I haven't seen profanity filtering using AI used much yet.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" is literally a 40 year old meme.
You absolutely can via third-party services.
Yep:

1. See a competitor forced to drop free tier due to costs and VC landscape.

2. Get an avalanche of free users move to your platform.

3. Observe skyrocketing costs with meager impact on revenue.

4. Boot the free users. But hey, at least we did it with an apology. It changes everything, right?
Amazon: Reduce costs by 90% by moving from microservices to monolith