skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, thanks for reading the article and sharing your thoughts. Totally get where you're coming from.

You're absolutely right that IT can be pretty complex, and just jumping on the latest trends without understanding the real deal isn't the way to go. This was meant to be a primer - a quick intro for those less familiar with the topic.

Indeed, understanding IT at a fairly low level is rare today as is NOT jumping on the next big thing without a clear idea of why you are doing something. This article was really meant to be an introduction to the top and there are so much more things to unpick.
This is likely to be the real answer.
> Most people already type questions into google when they want to know stuff.

I do that because I want Google to search for a webpage where that question (or similar; how Google figures this out I do not know) is asked and hopefully there is an answer.

I’m under no delusions that the search engine can understand me.

Frankly I only use the “ask a question” format when I can’t think of the right set of keywords to get what I want.
Hello everyone, I'm the founder of Checkout X and the original post creator - so flattered to see all the engagement here. Thanks for the kind words and the criticism, I totally respect everyone's opinion on the topic.
I intentionally waited a couple of years before I wrote the post as I just wanted to share the story of Checkout X for people to see it - without any agenda. Checkout X is a closed page for me and I'm looking forward towards the future.

Some updates from me:
- I built another Shopify app ( Vanga AI ) that got acquired this year
- I've summarised my thoughts on the current Shopify ecosystem in another blog post: Why I'm leaving the Shopify apps business ( https://www.leteyski.com/why-i-m-leaving-the-shopify-apps-bu... )
- I've summarised some of the business lessons I've accumulated into a Startup assessment framework called: The Dead Horse Framework ( https://www.leteyski.com/the-dead-horse-framework )
How do I know what? The earlier, the latter, both?
> Before QL, you looked at the .asd and searched cliki for each name.

Only very few libraries are on Cliki, and the links "upstream" just link to the repo that almost always says to just use Quicklisp for installation. Quicklisp has a quicklisp-projects repo where the project sources are all in one place, but it's not very helpful for what I've been talking about.

> Your original comment reads like there used to be all these awesome package managers

Sorry I don't want to engage with flamebait... I commented on this thread to raise awareness for issues and interesting things that I think people here might find useful, because there's still a lot of interest in lisp.

If you really think I'm wrong, do a writeup and share it on HN with everyone. You can go to the awesome-cl repo to find the most popular libraries in the ecosystem, and show how easy it is to avoid using Quicklisp to install/build/find the deps/run tests for all those repos. It would really help and I think it would save a lot of people time. For something like the Nodejs ecosystem, for example, such a writeup would probably only take like an hour tops because of the maturity of the npm package manager.
A mathematical transformation of the data is not enough to qualify as a transformative work. Saving a copy-written work in a lossy compression does not negate the copywrite.
> I keep seeing insinuations […]

It’s not an insinuation, it’s a straight fact direct from the founder.

That you don’t understand data replication problems—or know the inner workings of a private company’s codebase & data funnel—doesn’t make it some conspiracy.

It just means you’re uninformed.
Just a little bugreport – in Firefox, the "insert image" invisible file input covers buttons to the right: https://i.vgy.me/q1sYHX.gif

Setting its width to 100% (of the parent button) fixes it. Doens't happen at all in Chrome.

I would create an issue on github, but just the "grid" component is there and this is outside of it…
My question too - a lot of names but not seeing actual implementation
Why wouldn't the host and client be attested to be safe without letting arbitrary virtualization?
Gene therapy eyedrops restored a boy's sight. Treatments could help millions
I was about to give some feedback and quote my favourite author Jorge Luis Borges, but then I realised Martin has already done something similar:

George Box neatly quipped: "all models are wrong, some are useful". Thus Team Topologies is wrong: complex organizations cannot be simply broken down into just four kinds of teams and three kinds of interactions. But constraints like this are what makes a model useful. Team Topologies is a tool that impels people to evolve their organization into a more effective way of operating, one that allows stream-aligned teams to maximize their flow by lightening their cognitive load.

So I am thankful that there are people like Martin Fowler who are willing to write up and remind some of us, who have perhaps forgotten more than others have learnt, that we may continue to avoid the consequences of that aphorism: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
That you don’t understand how it applies, and that your comment is mostly nonsensical, is not MY failure
> A wavy wall with a wave amplitude of X has the same toppling resistance as a straight wall with buttresses on both sides of length x/2.

Where did you get that number from, and how does it change as you vary the distance between buttresses?
Wouldn't it be easier to just block/autocorrect the domain on the MTA?

I don't think many people would be legitimately sending mail to .ml domains, especially not to domains that match a top level domain in .mil
At the first sight this sounds like a very simple problem. Give away 2-3 sets for free to your favorite places (even for a few months, if you can't afford giving away as a gift), and as an exchange only ask for feedback (from the perspective of a target user) and gather KPI numbers. Win for everyone.

(Of course don't forget to record the initial state before your gadget, whatever that is: drink/person, tip spent/hour, etc... so you can show a before/after state to your prospects)
> I will not respect an authority that forces me to rent digital content.

They are very obviously asking you to respect the individual artists.
kitty icat works with tmux, as of kitty 0.28.0 just FYI.
the livestream (as of 10:25pm PST) was not super interesting, because there is no sound, and the camera was just staring at a furnace at relatively stable temperature. Might help if there was a timer or something
Every large company I've worked at on implementing the ideas from this book that was successful put a lot of effort into supporting the chapters/guilds/communities of practice or whatever you want to call them that encouraged this cross-team collaboration. Sure every team had their DevSecOps person, but that person was also a member of the chapter that met regularly and maintained an active channel on Slack or similar to help each other out. Along with a standard framework for picking new things to minimise the sprawl of tooling where possible.
It seems to be bad. I have applied to 600 software dev jobs in 2/3 months and have had around 8 interviews but still no dice.
This and "Security Engineering as Caring-For" [0] have been the guideposts in my security career, helping me think about what I should work on (or not) and reminding me why I keep working on bad days.

Essays like these aren't just moral admonishments; they offer a way to find deeper meaning in your work or figure out what work would have meaning for you. Personally and politically, there can be so much more to your tech career than just "puzzles and math."

[0] https://noncombatant.org/2016/03/27/security-as-caring-for/
Yeah exactly… I guess there might be some waviness/height/length ratio where the extra length and the absence of posts evens out.
I explain it by directing you to take a basic course of data replication—-please for the love of god—-so you can educate yourself on this topic rather than come up with uninformed hot takes that veer into conspiracy territory.

Because god know a you’re not the only one that’s managed to turn “I don’t know why” into “I’m sure this is what is happening”…
And Siskel & Ebert, feuding columnists from rival Chicago newspapers, popularized movie reviews.
I'll stick with the underground toxic dragon hypothesis.
Most require programming skills (and then you are the one that need to make it secure) or use a CMS plugin (WordPress) and then you are back where Shopify fish for customers.

I use to run our businesses webshop with my own code but having less time to keep up on it I gave up and switched to OSS CMS instead. Not Shopify though as they take (at least back when I checked) a huge chunk of money for the service. I can't remember the amount but it was something like 3%? For a medium business that's enough to hire developers to create your own! Now I use a payment provider (bank) instead and it costs nothing except the payment processor fee I already had to pay.
FED is finished . i would suggest moving into something with higher barrier to entry.

last 4 FED my company hired are ex-sales/ex-whatever bootcampers (yes my company is cheap).

remote working is the final nail.

still few good FED jobs but you have 10,000s expert leetcoders fired by faang to compete.
> ...held together with chewing gum and duct tape

> ..not everything has to change to continue to work...

That was sort of my argument; you could make do without changing the software but the cost keeps increasing and the user base keeps shrinking. At some point it'll be down to that one customer who refuses to budge and will be asked to make a tough choice; upgrade to the latest version or hire developers yourself to support...and even that may become impossible if h/w guys stop manufacturing that old machine configuration.
BitKeeper (GitHub Repository)
StarOne Credit Union in the Bay Area, I heard on reddit, offers p2p using Fednow.
It's not or, its and.

and make healthcare accessible.
Yes, and?

Massive factory farms are not a law of physics. Their existence is entirely at our discretion.
I have accounts with WellsFargo and Chase. They don't offer Fednow for customers.
Bad stuff? Like what?
https://www.thecheesecakefactory.com/sites/default/files/202...

what's scary is 1250 of that comes from fat. That's more fat than 1.5 stick of butter...

I don't know if people realize that.

Can you imagine eating 1.5 stick of butter?
I would add rather soon GIS stuff there like ArcGIS and Geopackage support you could find really good niche at GIS world becouse how powerfull Postgis is and there is that many tools that support ETL in Postgis.
Fabricated though, like the falling cup. The story as told by Schreiber in his memo on the accident is here:

https://www.halflifeofgenius.com/slotin
Stephanie Chin and her husband should tag themselves as well. The AirTags (two apiece, as with their child) can be hung from strings worn around their necks or on bands around their waists, under their clothing. Then, the adults could track each other and their child could track each of them.
Foldgate challenges existing file storage solutions
Hahaha as evaluated by Sweep
I'm surprised to see 3d v-cache on mobile. I would have thought the power efficiency hit would be too large to justify on mobile. Traditionally AMD has not even been using chiplets on mobile, and the reason cited has always been power dissipation.
Why does that title here and on YouTube say 1956 when the video itself says 1955?
I find all such literature vague and hard to parse. The channels used to convey information are typically verbal descriptions and diagrams.

It is never clear what exactly is meant by a topology, whether the description is covering all important aspects and, importantly, how we could recognize and have some assurance about the "optimality" of a pattern and why there isn't a better one just nearby.

More formal descriptions are not necessarily the solution. They would need to be both concise and faithful to the system being modelled.
Sounds really useful!

It seems like this is cheaper than a full transcript. Is it because it skips stuff like diarization and aligning time stamps?
Yes, DevOps is first culture & values. Without a mindset/value shift, the best tools won't help. Teams need to spend more time on articulating and communicating the purpose before getting caught in the implementation bits.
it really seems like a "can we get people to believe in/falsely claim replication of a miraculous scientific breakthrough" study. Red Mercury, if you will.

I realize this is probably a geopolitical can of worms but if it exists and they've produced samples of it, send it to switzerland (CERN?) or someone and let them look at it. That's significant even in the absence of reproducibility of the manufacturing process itself, and if they have something, that's an easy way to prove it. The scientific world would love to look at a sample of a very unusual material.

but yes, it would always be nice if the world was reproducibly quite different than our current models imply, and if there's something novel here then this may just be the first in a family of materials that may behave similarly, once the effect is understood. 97C is a wildly high superconducting temperature, having hot superconductors would be world-changing, there's all kinds of places that would be applicable - you don't even need cryocooling at that point.
In high school through about 2010 I helped organize LAN parties. It was an underground thing. We had our own caching servers and networking equipment so two dozen rigs wouldn't overwhelm our hosts' internet. It was as much about sharing warez, helping each other with tech, trading parts for our rigs and hanging out as it was about the games. We'd go thirty hours straight then sleep it off for a whole day. Fantastic memories and some of the people from that scene were later my professional colleagues.
Kind of surprised no one's mentioned English ivy in the Northeast U.S.
Personally, I don't care what the dude thinks or does. I care about the usefulness of the browser.
I have about a half second of lag every time I press alt-tab.

Killing explorer.exe makes alt-tab instant.
Why can’t they raise the rate directly or shut off these older plans? Am I missing some contractual issue?
Eh, I think your definition leans too much on the particulars of human communication.

Take, for example, a scrub jay initiating a red tailed hawk to scare other birds away from a food source. It's a pretty common occurrence. There's no common language per se, but creating the illusion of a hawk is a kind of propositional statement that there is a predator nearby.

The nearby animals believe that there is a predator, so they leave - that's a belief formed by the deception.

It's worth checking out Carl Safina's 'beyond words', which is about animal minds and communication. You can definitely overdo anti-anthropomorphization - an huge amount of the hormonal signaling systems underlying many of our feelings match across an incredible array of animals. For a long time scientists denied that animals experience pain, which is just incredibly wrong - in addition to observing behavior, we also know now that the chemical signals are the same ones we use. One still needs to be a very careful observer and formulate and test alternative hypotheses, but the days of treating animals as unfeeling unthinking machines are thankfully behind us.

(Well, except for the industrial meat system... But that's another conversation.)
An grammar so no because no rules yes Have. then its they're simple she Great understand your of problem in yes?

Or did I break some rules there?

We're not talking Oxford commas here. There are fundamental structures.

For instance, If I made that "are there fundamental structures" then it's a question.

Basic grammar is very real and not some subjective ephemeral thoughtstuff with wildly different opinions. It's so obvious that you don't even question it.

That's the way most things are - how to operate a faucet, close a window, put on a shirt, open a cabinet, use a fork... Most things in life aren't controversial.

Even the controversial ones like what's art and what's music, it's just a small periphery that's questioned. A symphony played by an orchestra is music, a painting in a museum is art - even these subjective categories substantially have extremely wide agreement.

True controversy is an outlier. (Ie, is 4'33" by John Cage music?)

You can claim whatever you want but with just things that's just exercising the freedom to be wrong.
Cheesecake Factory is actually pretty good, though. My go-to is the spicy cashew chicken, which is really tasty, and big enough that I always take some home.

A tip if you ever do go: When the bread arrives, eschew the butter and ask for a side of ranch dressing to dip the bread in. It sounds weird (I don’t even like ranch normally) and everybody I’ve ever told about it looks at me skeptically, but once they try it they instantly become a convert.
You're describing freeware. Open source means the source code is available.
blind is the most obnoxiously insufferable community. i'm glad they're not employable!

TC 0. how's that.
Yeah, because the correct url is https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/ - but wouldn't say that it was worth the effort figuring it out.
With all due respect, if I am interacting with your chatbot it's usually because your website provides zero ways to reach an actual human. I have lost count of the amount of times I had a specific problem not addressed in the FAQs, looked for a contact form for 10 minutes then reluctantly clicked on a chat button, only for the bot to continue to try to direct me to the answers I have already indicated did not help me. If I get lucky there's one option buried below a dozen other questions that lets me talk to a person (or, hell, even a sufficiently annealed language kernel) who can demonstrate a knowledge of the system outside of the two or three most likely footguns to avoid.

The problem (and I don't even know that the article adequately addresses it) is not that your bot is insufficiently good. It's that the bot is substituting for a support agent that wouldn't be sufficiently useful, because the support agent would also be made to operate according to a script, because the whole goddamn system is designed to make human interaction into an API. Because that's what businesses want. It's "scalable". And it only has the perverse incentive of making it hard enough to solve moderately complex problems that the user gives up.
Not a big FastAPI fan eh? Or MongoDB? What about BigQuery? So many bad names!
How about adding a arXiv Atom feed viewer for LK-99?

It should be easy to implement: https://export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=all:LK+AND+9... is the Atom feed I am using to track all current replications (ie none) - and it may be exciting (suspense) and useful.

Assuming that the livestream is using OBS - there have been many forum and reddit posts suggesting ways to add RSS feeds to OBS livestreams:

- https://obsproject.com/forum/threads/rss-feed-solution-for-o...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/obs/comments/g23rqr/can_i_put_in_a_...

- https://www.reddit.com/r/obs/comments/mvrkaj/rss_live_ticker...
Without diving into the weeds on this specific video it's quite common for film footage to show copyright | filmed on | final edit | etc dates that relate to production that don't match IMDB, library of record, etc dates that refer to the date of first public airing, the publishing date if you wish.

A difference of year (as here) is quite common.
> We've never owned a gas vehicle that met it's EPA range and the Tesla is no different

Car and Driver's EPA range versus real world highway tests:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a43657072/evs-fall-short-e...

EVs are quite different to ICE when it comes to EPA range ratings.
Was a bit of humor actually, thanks for being fun at parties :)
Niche in GIS world is a very good idea. 100% agreed on how powerful (and mature) postgis is. Worked with many customers for whom postgis was critical to their app. Thanks for taking the time to share this input. Very useful! We will iterate and explore this further.
I've spent the last few days messing with Linux in both VirtualBox and VMWare and I found that disabling 3D acceleration leads to ~2x faster boot, and disabling desktop compositing (in the Linux guest) leads to 5x less lag when moving things around on screen.

I was surprised, because I thought using 3D acceleration and compositing would be faster.

Also, I run the VM at half res and used DPI workaround (.manifest file) to let Windows scale the VM instead of VirtualBox (VirtualBox scaling is very slow for some reason).
The simple solution is to run your own LLM.
Same, there was a "sit down and share" family atmosphere to it. I think the popularity of home delivered pizza killed in the UK, and they became dust chains
Aye. I naively thought that classified messages from one Western defence ministry to another would be transmitted in something a bit more secure than an ordinary MTA.
As most other commenters have similarly said, this blog post should be a single word: "Don't".

The book "Eloquent Ruby" has several chapters on how to use "method_missing". None of those chapters say the only valid use of method_missing: "Never use it."

Lots of languages have deep flaws. Javascript, Python, Java, Perl, C obviously, all let you do some pretty horrific stuff if you really want to. Ruby is the only language where the horror is embraced by the ecosystem and its users.

There's a reason most engineers are adamant you shouldn't use this. It's why learning Ruby as your first language is probably a bad idea, since it normalizes what every other language has agreed is bad practice.

Don't!
The Bates 4000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2yjjHzifL8
You're misunderstanding me.

First off, I almost never get screen tearing. The only times I get screen tearing is if a program renders faster than my monitor can refresh, and my monitor (a Dell S2522HG) refreshes at 240Hz; screen tearing simply isn't happening. As for input lag, if there is any it's insignificant enough that I don't care.

Second of all, my problem is with the the way variable refresh rate works and not with anything on the software side or the monitor itself. Variable refresh rate is exactly what it says on the tin, the refresh rate varies.

My problem is because the refresh rate varies, the difference in refresh rate becomes very distracting. One moment my monitor is at 240Hz, the next at 135Hz, then 170Hz, then 70Hz, then 200Hz, and so on for an exaggerated example. Anything that's moving (eg: my mouse cursor) leaves more ghosts the lower the refresh rate becomes, and vice versa. This is very distracting because it's not consistent.

Imagine you're listening to music, and the pitch goes up and down arbitrarily. You will probably agree that it's distracting, and that's basically what I find variable refresh rate to be. It is distracting to a fault, and I would rather deal with my monitor going at full speed and limiting my software as appropriate to prevent tearing for a consistent experience that isn't distracting.
The era of cheap money is over and without it we wont see another startup boom.
UI nit:

The floating icon for cookie settings in the bottom left obscures the play/pause button for the audio track in playground.
Not sure if this is exactly related, since it's beyond my understanding, but it seems game devs have been struggling to get things drawn on the screen at the expected time. (The speaker says things were much more straightforward on the Amiga. Progress works in funny ways!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0zT8YSSFzw
I hope this is sarcasm? Pretend Shell or Ford switched to crypto only. How much do you think they would sell?
So basically the same experience one gets in some countries, where the taxi driver or tourist guide, bring people into some friends shop, and one only gets out after buying half of the store, unless they are good at standing by their opinion no matter what.