skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never thought I'd see a resonance cascade...
Even though I disagree with the point of your parent comment, their argument can also be made for mathematics vs social sciences, and those don't differ on how much budget they require.
Ask HN: Best approach to designing a parser / creating your programming language
I've been writing a parser in Haskell Parsec to parse a subset of Haskell;

I didnt stick to anything like BNF and it turns out to be much more daunting task than expected.

When designing a parser for a (subset of) known language (or creating your own programming language), are things like BNF fundemental to a good design? What toolkits or frameworks can be employed in the planning process?

Any tips or approaches (or readings) on the best way to strike a balance between theoretical formalization v.s. implementing something that actually works and have good performance and easy to debug?
Keep living in your small political world, you guys are just a joke. You know there are ppl don't care about politicians;)
Hmm, I'm clearly not awake enough to SI. But the point still stands. Don't mix units.
You can/should get fired for picking any plan without proper support guarantees for something serious, regardless of provider.
That's one way to do it.

However, the challenge is that when a domain gets blacklisted by Google, every subhuman also goes with it!
> Don't you think the Swiss and French governments wouldn't have thought about safety almost 70 years ago?

This isn't an argument. 70 years ago France was conducting atmospheric nuclear tests that caused people and inhabited land to be exposed radioactive fallout.
I've always been excited about stuff like motorized blinds, and being able to control them remotely would be cool, but I have likewise touched none of the commercial IOT stuff, not even the more generic stuff unless I could put a custom firmware on it.

I also will probably never trust a digital lock until they are known to be the most reliable and hassle-free option, which I assume will be never at this rate.

But, if you did want to play around with some stuff, there are non-corporate devices that don't have privacy issues and there's Home Assistant, a software package/OS if you want it that does all the home stuff. There's a learning curve going that way for sure, but what form of Freedom does not require something from you?
I’m also interested to hear, as I am using Stripe for my Japanese startup.
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It takes heaps of irrefutable facts and very strong moral national character (for the lack of better words) to admit fucking up big time, apologizing for it and making yourself a better version thanx to such experience.

I'd claim in modern history, on large enough scale only Germany went properly through this, and is still source of a lot of guilt in their population. Allied fire bombings of whole cities, turks doing Armenian genocide, Japanese atrocities in China, russians with whatever they did anywhere in past 50 years etc... I see rather ignorance and lies and desperate attempts to look the other way rather than anything else.
> (...) and the practice of Test-Driven Development (TDD) are indicators of a carefully crafted 'love letter'.

I call BS on this one. TDD is usually a sign of a struggling junior and results in the worst code quality possible.

Also, the next developer is in many cases myself, months later, trying to fix something or adding a new feature. I wouldn't care about other developers, because everyone has their own style and niggles, it is enough to cater to my own niggles, can't be bothered about others. And I also don't make a fuss about code written by others, as long as it meets some minimal standards.
Funny, I remember the days when swedish biker gangs pillaged the cold war era reservist weapon depots to wage their gang wars, using weapons of war. No immigartion was needed back then.

But thanks for confirming that most right wing ideology is simply rooted in peoples incapability to cope with change.
They are in trouble, but this post lacks substance and is total clickbait.

There is no need to promote posts from these newsletter grifters.
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If I'm rude to the butcher, they should absolutely be able to deny service. The difference with the big platforms is that denying service has rather more comprehensive effects. This is a core problem that doesn't show up in this situation - these companies have accumulated so much power over individual's lives that their use of that power needs to be regulated due to the possibility of abuse. The EU DMA recognises this in terms of consumer protection, but the problem is much broader.

For example - if Amazon just denied delivery service here, that would be fine. It's the fact that they provide delivery service but also automate the customers home, and also provide their TV service, and also provide servers for them at work that causes the problem.

> People can be denied government benefits if they act abusively toward a case worker. They can also be denied medical treatment and ejected from a hospital if they are abusive to HCPs there.

I don't agree that this should be possible. I know in the UK (because I just asked a doctor friend) that it is unheard of to refuse treatment. It's a theoretical possibility but in practice they get the police and use some combination of medical and physical restraint. For benefits, they should continue to get them and be otherwise punished by the legal system if appropriate.
What’s their reliability been like?

Am I right in thinking the platform got bought a little while ago, and it’s being run by a relatively small outfit?
Also, it's here: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/founders-caslon-font-itc
Your evidence is a movie whose raison d'etre is to elucidate the viewpoints of an American citizen and military leader who is heavily implicated in this decision and in other American war crimes, and even that document does not support your point (McNamara openly admits that US bombing of Japanese population centers was a war crime.)

I'm not sure I would class that as 'heavily under dispute'.
The trick I use for myself is, if all I could see is binary (this is too easy, how hard can it be, or it is impossible), then I'm either too novice or I'm an true expert in this particular subject matter. As Bruce Lee put it, a punch is a punch [1]. I'm still hoping to be the latter

1. https://brucelee.com/podcast-blog/2017/6/21/51-the-three-sta...
Unfortunately PR-speak exists for a reason.
I'm building a smart home currently into the old beat up house i'm fixing up!

Home assistant is great, I bought almost all the sensors and cameras online and they operate over zigbee, Matrix server to act as an alert box and a ghetto "intercom" system... having lots of fun with it and most of that is from me refusing to use google or amazons smart home IoT-phone-home products. I'm sure there are things I'm missing out on but it's been a lot of fun hacking them all together on a little mini-pc I picked up.
That, and I think his ability to recruit experts. It's a lot different when Brin is calling you to recruit and not some unknown Google VP.
but he said a forbidden word!
There is clearly a major problem with this in SV. A lot of people seem to confuse confidence with expertise, and fail to grasp that a scary proportion of the time the individual is so confident because they don’t understand the problems with what they are doing.

Furthermore, modern software management practice doesn’t want this because it wants replaceable cogs. If you can recognize expertise you have to appreciate that teams where everyone is good at everything are nonsensical, and that you need actual balanced mixes of personalities and specialists, which makes hiring a far harder problem. As such recognizing expertise is very much not the order of the day.
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I felt the context was really far down the stack, so services that lots of other services would be depending on was how I read it. The places I want fast, high volume and never failing cause so much depends on a red wheelbarrow.
Did you read that article? It literally says it’s impossible to run Linux without hundreds of megabytes of additional RAM, which Arduinos wouldn’t have and some boards can’t even be upgraded (eg https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/28794/how-to-exp...).

As you said, cLinux exists - so if you want Linux on an embedded device you can have it. Just not on an Arduino (or at least not on any models I’ve used).
I think quite often when we assume 'most want to fair bit of control' is just not true. Enterprises want something that just works, they want control if they can't have something that just works.

If you have a team that is struggling building an internal cloud with all this control (and problems) and all this commodity hardware (and its problems) then maybe they would be happy to switch to something that just works.

> And "enterprise" type companies are going to have issues with certification I would have thought -- will RedHat, Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, etc certify their supported products on top of this hypervisor? Seems like a difficult and expensive process.

If that was the case and nobody running any of these would run their rack, then I wouldn't think they would not have received any funding. But I don't know enough about these certification process to really comment.

> Companies that support their own virtual machine software but don't support their own hypervisor and don't like what's available from vmware or Microsoft or RedHat

Non of these come with a fully integrated rack.

The competition would be somebody willing to buy a rack of Dell servers with VMWare software. Or somebody willing to buy a rack of Dell server and then use RedHat and set up all their own cloud style infrastructure.
"Everything's fine, we're not circling the drain, we'll be able to pay all that interest somehow..."
Sorry to nitpick (I have one of your products and have generally been quite pleased with it), but where do you explain this? I only get one unrelated article in your knowledge base searching for “MQTT” and don’t see anything in a quick web search either.
Instances going down happens sporadically on Hetzner Cloud as well, but often by the time I see the e-mail alert that some instance is unreachable I log into the dashboard to find that it has been restarted or migrated to another host already. I've been running a production system there for more than 4 years now and had zero provider-related downtime (as I have some redundancy for most instances). In terms of features they move way slower than Fly.io and it took them years adding stuff like virtual networking, but everything they add works rock-solid. I guess there are just very different engineering cultures when it comes to building cloud infrastructure provider, and I have to say I prefer the "take your time and do it right" approach.
> Running out of money is how you lose this battle.

True, but I honestly find it hard to conceptualise how that relates to military spending.

You think the Soviet population would be better fed if MIC scientists had paid more attention to food production? Unlikely, it seems if anything in the Soviet Union that has a negative correlation. And the factories are, famously, dual use in capitalist or communist systems, so without the military demand, it seems more likely their population wouldn't have engineered products at all.

By design, they lacked a middle class. I think it's worth stating: any system that can produce a > Mach 2 fighter is incredibly advanced, that that society was serfs < 100 years prior also incredible. But the products - military or civil - were consistently less rounded, more slapdash, than US fare. We could therefore infer - again, since the factories and talent are dual-use - the middle class drove product quality in both the civil market, and ultimately the military one.

They also, of course, didn't trade much with the richest economy in the world - unlike, say, recent China. It certainly seems to be a famous nail in the Soviet coffin that people did know regular civilian life in the West was better, and they couldn't get a slice of that pie.
Downtime but limited downtime since the data is stored with redundantly across multiple machines in the same AZ. So unless the AZ goes down (which is a different failure than what happened here) you can restart the DB on a different instance pretty quickly and I'm guessing AWS will do it automatically for you.

edit: Remove triple as not certain about level of redundancy
I don't think you studied either Klaus Fuchs or the Rosenbergs in much detail then. Whatever the merits of their actions or the cases against them, they were certainly dedicated Communists who did their best for a cause they believed in fervently.
From above: http://alexpoole.info/blog/which-are-more-legible-serif-or-s...

TL;DR: No.

The long-standing debate over serif versus sans-serif for readability is likely less important than we thought. Other factors, like the height of the letter or spacing between them, change how easy a text is to read more than the presence or absence of serifs.
There might be love letters like that but any codebase that has been around for couple of years is not that. I'm yet to see any codebase in the industry that I can describe as a Love letter. I'm starting feel like I'll never find such a thing. Just make do with what you have. They are not paying you for reading love letters. It's mostly for maintaining and putting band aids over shitty code bases.
Color or underline would be a good marker for the variables. Even better than having a prefix "my_" for the visual noise factor.
Eh, yes they do? They have 2-3 satellites they launched themselves way back in 2015 or so.

My point was that a Chinese weather balloon caused diplomatic reactions still not rolled back today and a military operation to shoot it down, and when China launches a rocket it is alway doom and gloom about its path and the debris. You know very well how MSM scream when something is Chinese.
Because we are cheap and disposable and way more generic than even those who are aware of it can conceive.
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> consumers love credit cards - the merchant gets soaked, while they get cash back

It's never the merchant that gets hosed. It's the people not using credit cards.

Because, of course, the merchant just takes his banking expenses and forwards them right back to all customers by increasing prices across the board.

And it's not only the people not using credit cards that get hosed. Even the people with credit cards lose out - because the cash back is practically always smaller than the fee the merchant payed and forwarded to the customer.

As always, the real winner is only the bank. There's a reason for the market cap of MasterCard and Visa...
> Atomic bomb

Mostly foreign Jewish scientists who were neither taught nor started their research in the USA and came because of the situation in Europe. Even Oppenheimer had to go do his PhD in Germany.

> Hollywood

Both the camera, the first films and the foundation of filming come from the Lumieres and their company based in France and the films they made around the world.

> internet

Packet switching is from Batman in the UK. HTML was from a British engineer in Switzerland.

Even the rocket you sent to the moon was built by a German.
"a character in 1 minute, 10 minutes, and 100 minutes" (without quotes) gives acceptable Google results for me.
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Ask HN: What are alternatives to Midjourney with the same level of quality?
YouTube TV is a US-only streaming platform. YouTube Premium is global? offering.
So they are for different audiences.
"Major consequences", and here I was already think a beam of protons flying at near the speed of light was let loose towards the city of Geneva.

But no, just a section of the accelerator that needs fixing.
Realistic alternatives.
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The biker wars had few victims, with 11 total deaths, all Nordic countries combined over multiple years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_Biker_War

Last year alone, Sweden had 60 shot dead.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/sweden-hits-record-with...

“Strommer said Sweden's sixty shooting deaths this year compared to four in Norway, four in Denmark and two in Finland. The deaths are the tip of an iceberg of violence and organised crime that have put down deep roots in parts of society, Strommer said.

Last year, 45 people were shot dead in Sweden. In 2012, the total was 17, according to the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention.”

I cope well with change.
I no longer live in Sweden but I still mourn what happened to my country and what could have been. So much wasted opportunity
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I think this is actually evidence of what the poster above is referring to - the long-term effects of Oppenheimer being unfairly discredited. Fermi has streets, schools and subway stations named after him all over Italy. Oppenheimer doesn't (at least not to anywhere near the same extent), even in the US, because during the period when this might most likely have happened, towards the end of his life and shortly after his death, he was still widely regarded as being a traitor.
This is true if you assume that the abstractions identified by the original author is correct and adequate for the life of that app. Usually, it's not the case. There are slight deviations that makes previous abstractions unusable for new requirements and the new dev has to start from the beginning
They use Crucible on top of ZFS. https://github.com/oxidecomputer/crucible
I don't think they have anything for S3-like service but there are other options for that, e.g. https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr or MinIO.
I am not sure whether they have their own SSDs or use of the shelf SSDs just with their firmware or something.
This is why arguing with people from industry and reading a lot is very useful, because it allows you to build your nomenclature

In software world such a word for me was "modeling"

It no longer was "coding", "programming", I started modeling real world
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The lack of expertise here is confirming the point of the article.

I'm not mixing units.

Milliseconds and microseconds are both measured in units of seconds.

The milli- and micro- prefixes are orders of magnitude. They're scales, not units.

When a scientist starts talking about measurements accurate to attoseconds, I sit up and take notice.

The number in front doesn't make a difference. It's the "atto" that raises my eyebrows.

Back to computing:

I had a debate here with someone who claimed that 128-bit floats are required for some chip layout codes. I questioned that, because a 32-bit number can subdivide the side-length of a chip down to sub-atomic resolution, and a 64-bit float can model the wiggles of the hadrons making up the atomic nuclei!

To some people, 128-bit sounds "twice as good as 64-bit".

To experts, it's... umm... a sign you've made a mistake.
It sounds like you were just telling the CTO "this is wrong" instead of offering an alternative solution?

If that's the case it's not surprising it didn't sink in. You're just giving him another problem.

> I've spent my career performance tuning, but then how do I explain this to people who think a 60-second timeout is a performance problem best solved by buying another million dollars worth of kit?

I'm surprised you've spent your career doing this and you still haven't figured out how to get people to listen to you.

Making your work legible to others feels as important as the work itself.
Is expertise still important in the age of ChatGPT?
Yeah - I meant to agree, emphasize and provide another example.
Render didn't support Docker images last I checked, and the worst part of Heroku and cloning it was not actually having a locally reproducible build image. I want to deploy what I've built locally, not hand my source over to some magical pipeline.