skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen many people describe frameworks like this - you know, first you have the slow back-end event-driven master database that you don't query live against, then you've got eventual-consistency flows against the various data-warehouses and data-stores and partitioned sharded databases in useful query-friendly layouts that you actually read live from... and I never see it clearly explained: how do you read a change back to the user literally just after they made the change? How do you say "other views eventual-consistency is fine but for this view of this bit of info we need it updated now".

This write-up is very detailed but I couldn't find that explanation.
Recipe sites seem to think so, as they include a multi-page backstory about how the recipe was handed down from someone's grandmother and all the notable people she prepared it for. Oh and please buy our kitchen gadgets.
Minor gripe, but there's a misspelling in the title: it should read Mastodon not Mastadon.
That's what I do BTW, for example I say: "these are the things you've learned about the user in the past: ..." but I couldn't get it to use these things in the output object so that the list can only grow.

It'd be cool if the API of LLMs would also allow for structured state like lists
As a huge Oxide fan, thank you for the support!
Building a Blog in Django
This cites the "analytics India" article that was on here the other day and appeared to just be made up, and then includes some speculation. Is there anything remotely credible that supports this theory? Isn't one of their biggest (or their biggest) investor, Microsoft building hard on top of them? The idea seems ridiculous.

Edit: this article was discussed the other day (I think the other Analytics India one was killed) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37109394
Strange. I deleted my first submit because the link was wrong, and then resubmitted with the correct link. But it's still wrong.
The Stupidity... The Stupidity...
This is what I'm calling load test:

> The instance has 100M bots posting 3,500 times per second at 403 average fanout to demonstrate its scale.
> Penn’s “interactive” segment — consisting largely though not exclusively of its “online sports betting and casino app called Barstool Sportsbook and Casino” and its in-casino Barstool-branded retail sportsbooks — went from $121 million in revenue in 2020 to $663 million in 2022, and was up another 66% year-over-year in the first half of 2023, for a run rate of almost $1 billion.

Capturing market share != driving billions in sales. Especially in a highly competitive market.

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-08-09/barsto...
Simplifying conventions a bit here couldn’t hurt is another way of looking at it. Maybe instead of the long src directories it could be simplified to app and tests top level directories for example.
Also: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/26/the-rise-of-ba...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/20/the-last-gener...
> LLMs do not have the ability to reason with numbers

Interestingly I get good results when I say "ask me 10 trivia questions"

> Give it a role of tutor and describe the instructions what the tutor should do.

I did do that, it never worked
Very cool. Would be interesting to train a model on images with alpha channels so outputs would be automatically masked and more easily composable. But maybe masking is so good these days that would be futile?

When a user does img-2-img on a layer does it use the context from other visible layers in the generation?
> trash literature

From a business perspective, maybe it should be trash literature. (Edit: I mean in the "It was morning and the sun came up, which made it less cold." sense.) When I code, I try to write all of the comments first, then fill in the implementation that matches the comments. It's typically very dry prose, and you get things like "Walk through the collection and pick out all of the orange widgets", but at the end of the day you're not trying to stir emotions with this stuff, you're trying to make the next person have less of a headache understanding it.
Hey dang, I think you have a typo in the title.. says Mastadon instead of Mastodon!
I also saw that parallel with Chef. I think its the story of all VC funded software that attempts to be "Open Source". For them, Open Source means "You can read the source code, and potentially fix a bug", for us, it means community, transparency, and fixing bugs beyond those your paying customer has.

I looked at github /chef/chef and github /inspec/inspec and its the same as it was shortly after I left. The only changes are from the one person who carried over after the sale to Progress, and the contracting team out of India, with dozens are unanswered queries and pull requests from the community.

What really ruffles my feathers was when they had us define oss-practices (https://github.com/chef/chef-oss-practices), clearly nobody outside our small team read (or understood) those words and goals. It feels like it was work to make us look better in OSS in order to bolster the company sale.
> I'm honestly shocked that the technical implementation of a simplified, coherent platform took a full 9 person-months.

To be fair they developed this whole new platform to build this app with. I guess that's where the effort went.
Good civil engineering is invisible deterrence. Cities insist on putting overbuilt 4+ lane stroads in neighborhoods with speed limits set far lower than they're designed for. This is what causes people to speed. Speeding seems safe and ok until they run over a pedestrian and/or miss a stop or yield sign that is far out of the field of view of the driver. Stroads are also bad for pedestrian safety in general even if nobody is speeding because of the long crosswalks. A proper street would feel narrow for the driver and discourage speeding. Neither cameras nor speed bumps work as well as just reducing the lanes. One solution is road dividers, but they look ugly and are frequently damaged.

Good government shouldn't backseat drive civil engineers to make dumb decisions that hurt public safety.
Isn't it in the US's interest to some degree to have a stable China rather than desperate and poor? Currently the course seems to be escalation on the economic side, with ever stricter sanctions and so on.

Not to say that China doesn't have agency to correct its own mistakes or that their internal problems are on the US. Certainly a lot of their problems are on them and self-inflicted, from what I've read. But I still feel an escalatory mood from us in the west as well, which makes me uneasy.

(I'm also of course aware that Chinese hardliners are very dangerous and seem to want to escalate and may want to deflect from their mistakes with Taiwan and so on. Not minimizing this, but this is nothing we can control.)
Ask HN: Do you successfully manage the browser tabs? If so, how?
I used to be happy around "tabs" while using Nyxt browser in a linux machine (even though Nyxt works with buffers, closer to the Emacs definition, not conventional browser tabs). Now, I am using macOS and Brave/Chrome for professional reasons most of the time. Holy cow, I really miss Nyxt's UX.
Hashicorp enterprise support is rock solid for Nomad, Consul, Vault. If there is a P0 problem, they will root cause, and usually have a fix identified in < 48 hours. All three of those products are taken very seriously - running 10,000+ servers in a single cluster.
Truthfully I think you'll find with a thorough review of most SaaS SLAs that they are more expensive than the toil they say they replace. Otherwise how would the company make money? It's still engineers doing X work. There really aren't that many opportunities for economies of scale with enterprise SaaS when you have SLAs and data sovereignty unless you're cutting corners.
I agree -- many tech companies would be happy to buy OpenAI.
JSOP_SUNSPIDER was apparently a running joke back in the day inside SM.
That's not the title of the article and also not what the article says. I would be really pissed if you editorialized the title of my article like that.
> allow arbitrary directories and such

OH PLEASE NO.

You generally don't write Java using bash/cd/vim; the IDE presents classes and package paths and puts files where they need to be. "Where is my code" is not something you need to explicitly think about.

In contrast, javascript/typescript files are often poorly organized and it's frequently necessary to look for code via grep-like tools. Yes sure, someone could organize js/ts files well, but it actually takes mental effort and coordination among the whole team.

Java was heavily inspired by smalltalk, which IIRC didn't give you a "filesystem" view of your project - it was an integrated environment with a proprietary storage format. Also IIRC early versions of IBM's VisualAge for Java maintained this paradigm. I think the "everything is individual files, but the IDE maintains them" was actually a pretty good compromise.
They do at least credit HN.

> The Post’s analysis found that links to most other sites were unaffected — including those to The Washington Post, Fox News and social media services such as Mastodon and YouTube — with the shortened links being routed to their final destination in a second or less. A user first flagged the delays early Tuesday on the technology discussion forum Hacker News.
Mastodon and Twitter don't do the same amount of work per post. Mastodon doesn't have a recommendation engine, they don't have an advertising engine, they don't scan every post for CSAM, there's no global search, etc. (Some of these things are good not to have, but they still drastically change the scope.)

Claiming to have enabled significant scaling of a Mastodon/ActivityPub-compatible instance is fine. Claiming to have replicated Twitter on the cheap is, from the post, not accurate.
Russia warned repeatedly for decades that it would not tolerate NATO on its borders. It was promised that NATO would not expand. All of this was very predictable, as Hersh and Mearsheimer have said. They were not proved wrong whatsoever outside of your colorful imagination. What is unhinged is the way that people like you will defend the blatant hostility and warmongering that led to all of this. And there are plenty of people in Ukraine who have pointed out the same, some now rotting in Zelensky's prisons. Most stay quiet or leave to avoid the same fate.

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/7/headlines/ukrainian_au...
Oh I know this one. It's because of the default transition animations, right?
A 60 year history of credit cards in US: consumers, retailers and regulator
It was never a public good.
On a per capita basis, China's GDP is relatively low. If you look at periods where the US was at those levels (it's been a long time), the US was certainly growing at that rate and higher.
That's like saying that the only harm of a drug war is to the street dealers. All things being equal, I'd rather not live in a town where organized groups of people have a strong profit motive to pop their competition off.
I do not think that is a charitable view of the article or most people's comments. We all knew what was gained. We just bemoan what was lost, much of which has been found to be largely unknown to more recent entrants into the field.

Folks aren't against solving problems. I think the main concern is the amnesia regarding problems that had already be solved and are now be solved again only not as well.
> Because I haven't see anyone despising Java's backward compatibility.

I'm happy to have beers, just so that you get the chance to see someone like that. :-)
Sounds like great advice when working on the bleeding edge, but kinda terrible for general use. If you are constantly undermining your own self confidence in routine tasks be prepared for a depressive episode.
A new biography, “The Man Who Organized Nature” (Princeton), written by Gunnar Broberg and translated from the Swedish by Anna Paterson, attempts to provide the fullest possible account of his life yet fails to grapple with the fundamental question it raises: if categorization is crucial to making sense of the world, how should we classify Carl Linnaeus?
> Isn't it in the US's interest to some degree to have a stable China rather than desperate and poor?

Yes. Nothing America is currently doing is actively de-stabilising (we’ve mostly dropped the Uyghur issue, for example), just anti growth. Xi’s regime, meanwhile, is doubling down on destabilising policies both domestically and abroad. Hopefully China’s elites are smarter than Russia’s and grab the reins soon—it makes no sense for China to implode because one man wants to reach for a dubious legacy.
The "cosy warm light makes us sleepy" meme seems to originate in the use of candles for nocturnal lighting prior to the availability of electricity. Their colour temperature wasn't a scientific choice.
You can just say "Fox News", no need to be less than transparent about it. As far as why that site is considered to be contrary to the basic tenets of "intellectualism" and "curiosity"... well...
You're missing the point. Rama is a generic platform that provides a new baseline for how expensive it is to build applications at scale. There's nothing about Rama specific to social networks. What we're showing is that Rama creates a new era in software engineering where the cost of building applications at scale is radically reduced. With Rama, anyone embarking on a new application today has a radically different economic outlook for the end-to-end cost of developing that application from prototype through large scale.
Memoization is saving things in memory, it's a tradeoff of memory for fewer function calls. It doesn't work with all possible callback functions (because they need to be pure based on their inputs and dependencies for the saved values to still make sense), and also you don't always want to spend the memory on it (some smart memory use is going to be more performant than the function calls, too much memory use is its own performance problem).

The two hooks have different names because they make different trade-offs.
Yes, and psychiatrists never believed it was "low serotonin" at all, or at least claim to have never believed it.

For ADHD, stimulants actually do treat it by fixing "low dopamine"… in specific areas of the brain. But "low dopamine" is also a description of Parkinson's disease.

But SSRIs don't work like stimulants do; they take a lot more than half an hour to take effect. We don't actually know how SSRIs work in the people where they do work.
I made this argument in response to people who called him out for calling Twitter employees back to the office. It is interesting, the response to the "well he owns it" argument seems to be correlated almost entirely with whether you agree with the substance of the action, independent of the righteousness.
I am DEFINITELY being sarcastic! That last one was the most famous piece of sarcasm ever written, "A modest proposal" by Dr. Jonathan Swift!

I can understand the limits of text to convey subtle meaning but if you're that far removed from culture that you cannot pick up when someone... I am loathe to say "alludes" (more like beats you over the head) to the most famous piece of satire in all of history then maybe you should consider getting off the internet and picking up a book.
And you know what governments do when unemployment in this demographic becomes too high? Start wars.

Expect some ratcheting up of tensions with Taiwan, India, Japan, etc. Followed by picking on a perceived weak adversary and a short conflict.
Have you tried pystemd?
I’d always attributed the lofi music videos as a post demarco thing, diy indie from the 2010s
Lived in the nwt for many years as a kid. Highlights? A lot:

- good schools. I miss Ms. Carter

- travel extensively through Yukon

- great shape: shoveled a lot of snow and frozen Canadian ice cream. Lots of cross country skiing

- maple walnut icecream is awesome. Hard to find in the usa

- had a decent fossil collection for a while

- got into a lot of trouble (having fun). Still know k-6 principal name (Ms. Wind and her paddle. She might remember me too).

- awesome/epic snowball fights. I should have pitched for the Yankees

- appreciation for beauty of land nature

- caught my first fish in the keele River. Smoked it

- cold nights makes well read kids

- a piece of sputnik fell to earth not too far from us

- as ref almost all Canadians live very close to us border. The nwt capital (yellowknife) is on great slave lake about 40 degree north. You live there because you are a native, geologist, government worker. Named after local tribe

- great bear lake is one lake up from great slave

- Unofficial national dessert? Strawberry short cake or rhubarb pie.
I don't really think it's fair to extrapolate github contributors into FTE employees paid by Google, let alone to throw out a '3-5x' number on top.
Just went with Elastic cloud after evaluating both Elasticsearch and OpenSearch. It was an easy choice to stick with the incumbent/creator that I was familiar with. No complaints so far.
I wonder if pilots will be the model for how jobs will be trained for and done in the face of increasing automation.

On the other hand, higher stakes than most jobs, and much more rigorous regulations and feedback loops might mean it’s not feasible in other industries.
Notes on Stormtrooper Syndrome
In the year of our lord 2023, people are still launching immature products with "we built a clone of a tiny subset of Twitter" as their use case? Come on. Twitter is huge because they have to support a huge number of use cases. Using this proprietary framework won't magically make complex use cases go away.
The comparisons to Twitter are completely goofy, but the architecture is nothing short of enlightened. Nice work.
Could this be explained by the UA derived redirect behaviour described in this other comment on the thread? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130982
What are the factors that lead to ClickOps not scaling? Company size? When should a company know that it’s time to move to IaC?
I did have a slight chuckle at the news just a few days after I made this statement.
The objective way of doing it is free speech is only if government[1]. Anything else goes. I do think that companies which are essentially infrastructure/utilitity providers (cloudflare, aws, etc.) should also be considered government in this case.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1357/
Back when I first started listening to hip hop music (around 1982; i'm old), it wasn't easy to get your hands on it if you lived in the suburbs. Record stores in the suburbs didn't stock hip hop until the Beastie Boys' "Licensed to Ill" and Run DMC's "Raising Hell". I had a circle of friends that could get me bootlegs - basically, mixtapes from people with hip hop records. I threw all of them away years ago. And I've been kicking myself ever since. I miss those old mixtapes so much. One of them was Afrika Bambaataa's "Perfect beat", over and over, both sides of the cassette, for 60 minutes. I loved it, listened to it constantly, never got tired of it. Another was entirely "Roxanne" songs - "Roxanne's doctor", "Roxanne's a man", etc.
Not quite to your specs, but have you tried https://www.room-assistant.io/?
This is not testing?

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/plan
EU unavailable.. https://web.archive.org/web/20230815144722/https://www.dalla...
Tons of organizations run vault and consul as part of their k8s ecosystem so they don't directly compete. The vault CSI driver might be the single most installed CSI driver across all the orgs I've worked for
We changed the license[1] of a project which had 10 contributors, and we got every single one of them to do an Acked-by (by email) which took some weeks. That was on the advice of our lawyers. Can't imagine the impossible hassle of doing the same for something like Linux.

[1] https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/952ffe0fc7685ea775...
Also unlike for Ukrainians, where you leave to might be incredibly important.

How many Western countries are CCP-infiltrated to the point where a VIP Taiwanese could be at risk even there? Canada for example seems to be completely beholden to the CCP, from the Prime Minister's Office down to city-level CCP police stations. Also, Canada is famously lax on violent crime so a quick car accident or getting one of the persons with extraordinary judicial privilege to kill you is all it takes.
Not from the perspective of this being a demo application to sell Rama. The pitch is that if you use Rama, you can achieve similar results.
I consider "DSL" as something that's its own language with it's own lexer and parser, like SQL. The Rama API is just Java – classes, interfaces, methods, etc. Everything you do in Rama, from defining indexes, performing queries, or writing dataflow ETLs, is done in Java.
I think it’s also worth noting what makes a „bad programmer“. It’s not just people just being stupid or deciding to be that way. It’s, as you said, bad training, lack of motivation and stuff like this. People usually do not want to do a bad job.
I had to look this up: the Northwest Territories are a part of Canada. It's only mentioned about half way through the article.
She received some honors from math competitions. And he was in math camps and such. Both have degrees either in math or physics. So yeah, they are above average for sure.
This statement is like a microcosmic embodiment of the “both sides are the same” fallacy.

Elon is the instigator and the childish one in this situation in every way.

If you take away the money Zuck is doing and saying exactly what any well-adjusted in person in this situation would do: calling a bully on his bluff.
For composing this approach works pretty well, maybe the author should consider making a UI for it

https://multidiffusion.github.io/
"Common sense" is just your own personal bias. This is why we have science!
That is true. Are we seeing a repeat or is this a new level?
People can travel now, they can shop in person, they can eat out and drink at bars, they can attend shows.. there are a lot more things competing for their dollar. Combined with the ending of government largesse, this isn't really all that surprising.
What is the X% of your product you're willing to outsource? What % of margin are you willing to give up for that capability? Because the hope/dream of every parasitic SaaS is to grow with their customers...
Well it's currently 4th and on a trend down.
At least that's true!
Oops! Fixed now. Thanks to you, Fabricio20, and riffic.
So the things that make it difficult are all things you shouldn’t be doing in the first place? Well that certainly helps.

You shouldn’t be handling PII/raw CC’s anyways (assuming FinTech is not your core business)

Secretly scanning your customers private messages against an illegal and immoral hash table from a pseudo-government entity? Are you law enforcement? No? Then fucking stop.

Copyright claims? Fuck ‘em. Only do what you are absolutely, positively, no way-out legally bound to do. No more no less. Require formal, written requests and comply in the maximum amount of time allowed.

Audits? What kind of audit? If they’re non-financial you’re probably doing something wrong.

Corporate squares have ruined the tech scene, and it’s time to resist.
Tell HN: Creditkarma.com Is Using Analytics.tiktok.com
In India, if you try to open Creditkarma.com, it'd not. Because, they are using analytics.tiktok.com . Tiktok is banned in India, if you don't recall. Quite strange for a serious money company like Intuit, to use analytics from such a controversial company.