skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was annoyed when composer (PHP package manager) output, along with a lot of other stuff got clogged by colorful "Stand with Ukraine" messages (which, ironically, turns out to be orange in my terminal, instead of yellow). Now all this seems pretty mundane, though. Software is written by humans, after all, so all worst human behaviors will be projected onto it as well.
I took high school AP physics without the prerequisites, and managed to do well in it. An underclassman took it after I graduated, and apparently the teacher would goad him on by saying that exactly, but compared to me rather than Einstein. Years later on the other side of the country, I was walking down the hallway at the rocket factory I worked at. I saw that guy sitting alone in a conference room, and he was interviewing for a job! On sight, he shook his fist and cursed my name, declaring me his nemesis! I took him out to lunch, but made him pick up the check...
My guess: If you are implementing any type of software, you usually see an UI, input and output. For SAP and ERP you can also have this.

But it's really ugly, messy, and you might have to implement 5 corner cases of what the german government has thought of to complicate the lives' of everyone in regards to capital gains taxes in combination with church taxes, in a year in which you got married but one of the two left the church the same year. Oh, and what if you also got a kid that year and moved cities? And during implementation there is another law passed to change stuff?

In other words: So out of the world that noone finds it interesting anymore :D
> “… ramming tank for SWAT-like break and enter operations. I'm not sure I want my police owning a literal tank when they already have me outgunned…”

I have a family member in law enforcement. I asked them this very question. What do you need this monster vehicle for?

Their answer was they can approach a target house and communicate with the occupant without putting officers in harms way (as much as a bullet-proof ramming armored vehicle keeps its passengers safe ). The alternative is officers are much closer to the threat/danger, which makes for a situation which can escalate very quickly to deadly force.
Ask HN: What challenges does your company face when developing digital products?
I'm trying to understand better what challenges companies face when developing digital products. From my current research speed of execution is one of the medium and big companies seem to move very slow in developing new components or products. Is there anything else?
Here's the big negative things I can come up with quickly:

1. It's not clear the market case closes, because while there are customers who would greatly benefit from their systems, those same customers are also very averse to change, meaning that most of them will probably sit out for the first few generations to see if they have staying power. If everyone does that, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

2. ... but this would have been fine, a few years ago. It's not fine in the current market situation, where there is much less easy money looking for a place to go. I sure hope they are sitting on a long runway.

3. Speaking of, they are very late in their execution. A SM4 platform that only shipped in 2023 is not great. I really hope they are far along on their SP5 development. (... But this also dampens current sales. I bet a lot of potential customers are thinking that a SP5 Oxide Rack seems a much more appealing than a SP4 one, so why not wait?)

But the reason they are not discussed that much is that people who understand the market are all really, really hoping that they pull it off. Because the current situation in server hardware is dire. In every thread people who don't know much about servers ask why not get a similar system from Dell or Supermicro or whoever. The answer is that the commodity servers are pieces of shit that requires significant local engineering resources to manage. Software quality of firmware is generally horrendous, and when this is pointed out to the vendors, their answer is that they know, but everyone else is just as bad, wontfix. A significant draw of the cloud is that all that pain goes away, because the hyperscalers realized how shit everything was and fixed it in their systems. It just never trickled down to the market below them.
A microwave is a tool, and like all tools, sometimes it's a good fit for the job and sometimes not.

I also prefer home cooking, but resent the implication that my cooking is inferior because I sometimes use a microwave.
The candy-shop on my street use Adyen, I'd be very surprised if they had $50M ARR
This is similar to telling that paying taxes and filling the reports take away from the innovative things.
Would love to see some comparison against Mint, YNAB, etc. But congrats on launch!
They filled the Slicehost vacuum nicely in this area. That's where I got my start in running my own servers about 15 years ago and the tutorials were the driving factor.
There's room for conflicting viewpoints of course, but Shakespeare is enjoyed in the original by English speakers in the 21st century, and academic consensus calls his language "Modern English" - as opposed to Middle English, which is a struggle to understand, or Old English, which very few people can grok today.

So no, it requires no translation.

I disagree completely that the humour is lost. There may be jokes I don't get, but that's more true for Futurama with all its 90s American telly references.

Perhaps Chaucer would be a better example?
It genuinely amazes me as to how some people (Musk, Spez, etc.) are able to take so much hate. I'm not talking about whether they brought it on themselves, or whether it was deserved or not - I'm just astounded at how they manage to face all the hate they receive.

On a darker note, I've read of people committing suicide when they were doxxed. The hate these guys (Elon, Spez, etc.) receive is orders of magnitude more than what causes other people to break.
Ask HN: Do we need a GraphQL CRUD generator library?
I am talking about offering hasura type of features, but as a library (targeting typescript ecosystem).

Also similar to postgraphile, but a bit more customizable and integrated to a standard graphql stack.

I was thinking of generating customizable schema and resolvers from drizzle schema, and let user merge it with their otherwise custom graphql server. Nexus used to do something like this but I don't know if they are still pushing it.

Is that maybe because this class of tools is actually not needed anymore ?
And, how did things turn out?
How long did it all last?
I agree, American subjects have a much harder time to escape with foreign accounts, but where there's a will there's a way. The US also has some interesting domestic solutions, since it's a union of states.
Look, if you have N items related to X, at insert time, you store them in an array and have X point to that array, instead of foreign keys.

For example, when a user has 7 articles. Do you want to just point to where the articles are stored? Or do you want to do O(log n) lookup for each article?

And if you have many-to-many, do you want to join an Intermediate Table for even more processing, or just follow a pointer to a range of an intermediate node directly and traverse?
Country flags are inherently political. They are a symbol of a political entity. If you don't want politics in "git" (or in code in general), then don't put it in.

That said, this particular issue should not have been turned into a state-politics issue. The element in question seems to be a language selection rather than a country selection, so the very first argument ("TaiWan flag should not be placed along with other REAL country flags") is a bad one regardless of how you think of Taiwan's political status.

I also agree with another commenter that said the maintainer dealt with this really well. Kudos to them!
Exactly my concern, I'm basically looking to get a service provider that is as close to card networks or banks as possible. Not looking at which one is "pretty" at all. Willing to work with that provider to integrate them with my website
Thanks for publicly responding to the criticism, that can't be taken for granted. I hope you'll manage to actually address them.
> Maybe not with Aurora

If a read replica fails, I'd expect no downtime (possibly a few errors as connections get cut off abruptly). Although there's always the risk that the remaining instances aren't able to handle the additional load.

If the master fails, you'll get a ~2min downtime
Imagine wasting time on cloning the repo, making a change, pushing it, creating a PR, all that time wasted because of hate. He could use that time to fix one of the 38 issues reported by other users...
They would have written "Unforeseen Consequences" in that case ;-)

(https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Unforeseen_Conseque...)
Taiwan is indeed not a country under international law, this was approved by ~everyone including the US. Not long ago we had a very interesting post here with a transcript of the famous Mao/Kissinger meeting. But, yes the flags are just visual indicators, they do not confirm that something is or isn't a country.
Also https://github.com/lihaoyi/Metascala for a JVM implemented in Scala running on the JVM.
For real? Why? Are you thinking of JS and Mongo from 15 years ago?
Thanks, one of those HN moments where I didn't read the original.
May not be 3x but it is replicated so even a total instance failure would not make you lose data:

>Amazon EBS volumes are designed to be highly available, reliable, and durable. At no additional charge to you, Amazon EBS volume data is replicated across multiple servers in an Availability Zone to prevent the loss of data from the failure of any single component. For more details, see the Amazon EBS Service Level Agreement.

https://aws.amazon.com/ebs/features/#Amazon_EBS_availability...
It's not biting today, but instead looks incredibly silly in hindsight. The investment in the moon landing was a massive success and had that money been spent on social programs it would've accomplished almost nothing due to structural and cultural issues
Perhaps the most interesting part is:

"Microsoft Comic Chat installed a custom font, Comic Sans MS, that users could use in other applications and documents."
I think the reason for this is that this behavior is self-perpetuating, in the sense that "a gang of crooks" is much more likely to assemble than "a gang of good people".

Whenever "a gang of crooks" takes hold of a Uni, it is extremely difficult to take them out, and people who don't want to comply with their modus operandi get pushed away and removed.

The only time "a gang of crooks" is dethroned is when someone (usually, worse) seizes their power to instill their own.

>People get randomly fired from academia for the smallest of things.

Only those on the outgroup, :^).
I'd put Twitch up there.

The idea that a huge number of people will watch other people play video games and you can sustain an economy by donations and subscriptions was probably crazy at the time.

I'm not even talking about watching professional gaming tournaments. Starcraft already set the precedent for e-Sports watching. I'm talking about someone with a webcam in a basement type of content that garners a massive number of viewers.
Great response that flags correlate to regions too and not 1:1 country usage, so this would be an exception to the standard. Also that the iso standard is that for zh_tw, so using that standard is within spec. Also the comment that no flag is visually not aligned with other lines having flags. All logical and rational reasons not to omit unrelated to politics.
Glass chips and breaks. "Tupperware" can take punishment for years. Decades even. Our household started replacing plastic containers with glass last year and we've already cracked 3 and smashed 1. The plastics, used for pet food now, are unchanged.
Matter. There's a significant shift in progress to Matter from smart home device manufacturers.

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/smart-home/matte...
I use apt, and one for every bloody language I code in (except C)
Hence, crypto.
> On the other hand "write obvious code" makes it sound as if there's
> an easy way to do it, and everyone who doesn't write "obvious code"
> is just deluded, showing off, or something like that.

There is nothing easy about writing code that is obvious to other people. After all, the point of the exercise is how you communicate ideas clearly to people with the goal of amplifying their productivity. That takes time, empathy, and a willingness to study how other people understand things and accepting when you are not getting through to them.

Most programmers are not good at this. Worse yet, most programmers won't try to be good at this and instead go looking for simple truths. At best, most programmers obsess over "best practices" without really asking themselves if these are the best way to communicate a given idea or if there is a clearer way. To dare to do what's better, yet respect when "better" isn't necessarily better for other people.

(Erik Spiekermann, a designer of typefaces, made an observation that is useful with regard to the last statement. Erik has no love for the font Arial. He doesn't think it is a very readable font. However, he also points out that it is a font most people are so familiar with that even though he thinks its design is poor, it is actually a good functional choice because so many people are used to it that their familiarity makes it easy to read text typeset in Arial).

If your attitude is that it isn't worth trying because it isn't easy to do, then I'm sorry for you, but I think your value to an employer will be limited to only the output you can produce yourself. The biggest potential for a programmer is in their ability to amplify other programmers. And that starts with being able to communicate clearly. Both at the micro level, in code, and at the macro level, in terms of clear structure, abstraction and architecture.

The best way to ensure you don't evolve into a programmer who is able to amplify other programmers, and provide value beyond your own immediate output, is to not even try.
I haven't said it does. Frankly, that's my main gripe with all the XaaS. You're always risking that the service provider switched you off. That's my main fear with all these autonomous car businesses. Anyway... But the consumer has the choice.

These cloud providers should be regulated like utilities.
The ambitions of the EU to weaken encryption aren't different to that of the UK. So that isn't a relevant factor at all.
I got one:

If you've used internet scrapes or items under copyright, then you get protection so long as you publicly publish the weights and sufficient code to run it.
This is why I try to put everything behind NGINX with basic auth. Unfortunately not everything works well that way but in this case I suspect that this is made unexploitable by anyone without the password.
Strange language in the press release (emphasis added):

> Unacceptable risk AI systems are systems considered a threat to people and will be banned. They include:

> - Cognitive behavioural manipulation of people or specific vulnerable groups [...]

I'm fairly certain that "specific vulnerable groups" are made up of people. But people have already been mentioned. So why this redundancy? Is this supposed to hint at an understanding that regular people (i.e., those who are not members of "specific vulnerable groups") will receive a lesser degree of protection either by law or in practice?
I'd absolutely love to switch to Paddle, the product seems great. Unfortunately, my business is a marketplace which I don't believe Paddle supports. Happy to be wrong on that though!

Are there any plans to have a marketplace offering?
I'm also amazed that the Github profile of the OP was not newly created just for this purpose. Instead he looks like a legit developer... just obv a hardcore nationalist ...
Aren’t we all doing HumanGPT right now, pre-trained to some extent, reading prompts and writing answers?
Tantacrul's channel is exactly that, for music software. Thats how he got the job at musescore actually. He made a video critiquing the software, and the devs probably went "hey, that dude is right, how about we hire him?"
The atomic bomb is a good example, a massive endeavour (130,000 people and 2.2 Billion), and some of the initial insights came off the back of the work of the Maud committee in the UK who did some of the early running in this area.

The US is exceptional in many ways and can solve problems no other nation could, of that there is no doubt, but I would agree that the exceptionalism does extend to marketing itself as well.
Curious: you must have done a lot of groundwork to provide the whole stack as a solution, would love to hear from you how you internally select the processors you work with. Or are you directly integrated with banks and card networks?
Well there was the one time I took Uber to the outskirts of Puerto Rico to go horseback riding and there was no service to get home and I ended up paying $200 to get back to San Juan to taxi service.
also related is Marvin Minsky's idea of negative expertise

https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/NegExp.mss.txt
I wonder what the impact on energy expenditure would be for a widely used font.
People come in different shapes and forms. Some are more vulnerable than others, in a democracy, those have the right to be protected.

Pretty easy, when you think about it.
This has a lot to do with the oligopoly in pharmacy benefit managers. top 3 PBMs account for 79% of all prescriptions dispensed in 2020.
These companies in turn negotiate hard with generic manufacturers that often they sell at a loss and aren't motivated to produce for America.
You didn't say where in the world you are.

This is of paramount importance.

After 40, which unfortunately for me coincided with the credit crunch, my tech career withered and nearly died. I lived in London and was too old to find work in IT, and I had no more luck across Western Europe, where ageism is endemic and entrenched.

Luckily for me I came across a role in Central Europe, relocated there, and never looked back.

But it very much depends where in the world you are, and the English-speaking world is particularly bad for this in my experience.
Wrong dating of this article.

> "Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) premieres at the Sundance film festival on Friday, and is in cinemas and on-demand from 14 July."

It really premiered at Telluride 5.Sep 2022, then went on to Sundance Spotlights
and is now released.
https://cannes-ratings.tk/Sundance?t=158#158
"Ok, it failed to find abc.h. apt install libabc-dev? No, doesn't exist. apt search abc. Oh, of course, it's libalphabet5-dev."
Data breach exposes personal information of 4k Roblox developers
While the 'open box by default' ideal is admirable, I wonder how much this would practically aid understanding of the underlying system among users/regulators today, or when faced with even larger models down the line.

Don't get me wrong, I'm pro sharing training data, but I'm questioning our current ability to wade through and understand large model parameter complexities when there are some many bespoke features and use-case specific designs.

I'm hopeful we see more innovation in this space once we're able to access training data more easily, which this regulation might enable more broadly. But then, how do we prevent nefarious actors from doing the same? Who is to say a 'low risk model' today is not a high risk one tomorrow?
Many models are based on public and private datasets that are kept around for future reference and retraining. Maybe some data sets have been deleted, which would be a problem, but I don't think it applies to most models.
One of the things that vegans do that turn off the general public is just how hostile they are. I get why they're so passionate. But to r/vegan, if you're not participating in animal rights protests and not using leather, you're just as bad as meat eaters. Quite honestly, it felt like a cult.

This sort of behavior is counter productive in my opinion. It makes the general public hate vegans and think of them as lunatics. Most Redditors who go on a vegan diet will go to r/vegan first and that's where they will encounter a ton of hostility.

I quickly left r/vegan and went to r/PlantBasedDiet where I was far more welcomed.
In other words, relative point of view.
Status pages are usually for marketing purposes.

Why would anyone want to become a new customer if all they see is jumble of green, yellow and red?

Green status pages attract business.
Interesting, have you also tried online payments (card not present) with them? If so how is the reliability in that case?
Starred this as I've been working on a similar but maybe more broader scoped approach, but I think some of your ideas are really slick!
Problem is it's a network effect. If you can't overcome it quickly it's basically dead. Sure people could slowly switch over, but why would they? Seems like there's no content there to switch over too. Looks just like Google +. Massive quick sign ups driven by existing platform, but no real activity.
An experienced hiker on pressing SOS on a Garmin InReach
It would be nice to know if this vulnerability affects people who never made their Metabase installations publicly accessible.

Aka if I am running Metabase locally.
> I'm not sure I'd put geology on the same level as say physics

Physics can explain the geology, just like geology can explain biology.

> I think one of the biggest leaps our species will make will happen when we reach post scarcity.

I can see why some people consider google a Manhattan project, when you consider the oversight of us humans it has online, there is no privacy with browser fingerprinting, so it can flag up people to watch and then make their same discoveries.

However if people built and ran their own search engine, with the same oversight google and microsoft (via their OS) have carved out for themselves, then you might just have an edge or be at the front of the pack in terms of discoveries. How do you achieve that? Well countries with oversight of their telecoms networks could all do it by legal force, or find some other form of collaboration, forced or otherwise like universities, or company R&D, and thats the trick, there's lots of ways to learn.

>I hereby invite every curious human to do science and post it on the internet.

The price can be high, it could cost you your life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
> is this also applicable to other ML models

Yes. The law is not concerned with technological details, but what the technology is used for.

You ask a lot of “does it apply” questions, and the answer to each of them is “yes”. But that answer alone might be misleading. If the tech is used in a low risk application then there are different requirements than if it is used in a high risk application.
Federation has many flaws, but this is not one of them. It makes sense when the service is new to focus mostly on one big instance instead of many instances with 10 people each.
Case in point:

- The Mastodon flagship instance has 25% monthly active users of the total network https://fedidb.org/software/mastodon

- Lemmy flaghsip* (which is newer than Mastodon) has 38% https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

As time goes by people will distribute over the other instance. And even now it's not so bad as you make it seem.

* Not even the actual flagship maintained by the developers, but one created by the community
Doesn't that reinforce the point though? Europe had all these brilliant, well educated people and didn't manage to rise above shooting each other until the civilisation on the continent was more or less reduced to rubble.

That isn't a result that makes Europe look clever. The major intellectual innovation out of that era was communism. The US approach outperformed Europe's by such a margin that it isn't worth comparing them.