skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They want to move the customers to a new AWS service (that will be this product rebranded with AWS) and tie into AWS infrastructure instead of using a special system for sign in.

By preventing sign ups, they fix the number of accounts that will need to be migrated in future.
For an aviation history enthusiast like me, a site like this is always worth another look.

I live on the San Francisco Peninsula. I'd heard that there had been little airports up and down the peninsula, but I didn't know much about them. This page brought them to life:

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanFran.htm

I used to live in Los Gatos, and I had no idea there was a little airport in the hills just out of town!

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_SanJose.htm
> Shake Shack serves delicious food.

See, you lost me there already.

Point is, even if you like it, it is still crappy food. It is just another example of how a product that is objectively bad for its customers, can succeed in the market.

Tesla quality control is quantitatively worse than of more traditional brands like Honda. Finishes in Tesla cars are also quite a bit worse than other cars in the same category.

I’m glad that you are enjoying your Tesla, but reality is what it is.
> Four hours of engineering time (very roughly $1000)

In my proximity I don't know anyone who is doing any sort of Engineering work, be it dev/sysadmin/ML/datascience/whatever. I'm so astonished by the numbers of 250$/hour of fulltime job (consulting likely a different story).

I'm very much curious, what kind of Engineering role that could be, in which industry/country/company, if you can name a few and/or share some other info.
I am very skeptical about this. The title makes it look like it's all about Elixir, but there seems to have been a fair amount of re-architecturing.

"One of the systems that ran on 200 Python servers now runs on four Elixir servers"

This alone is a major telltale.
Pretty much unnecessary rhetoric black-white argumentation though there are many shades in between? There are a lot of compromises that can be made without resorting to "am I supposed to stop existing" nonsense, come on!
I am confident enterprise users will find ways to make elixir $4 less productive.
I do the same and I wish, too, that we lived in a world without Microsoft: I'd take only Linux and Mac machines any day over having to live in a world where that turd that Windows is exists. But sadly it's not the world we live in: in the world we live in MSFT has a freaking 2.4 trillion USD market cap. so work like in TFA is needed.

At least Apple and Linux did make a big dent and the billions of Linux devices shall keep powering the real world for a very long time and it seems unlikely Mac users are going to trade their MacOS laptops for Windows turds, so all hope is not lost.

And thankfully, so far, Microsoft phones have all been miserable failures.

I do my part to fight Microsoft: I confiscated my mother-in-law's Windows laptop after she got malwared and fell for a scam and I bought her a Chromebook. My wife is more of a poweruser so I wiped her Windows system and installed her Ubuntu. I made my brothers switch to Mac computer a very long time ago: was tired of supporting their Windows never failing to get slow, catch malware etc. and simply told them: "You buy Mac computers or I'm not helping you anymore".

Microsoft is a mediocre company making the world a shittier place, but they're here to stay.
There’s plenty of bad leadership, but there’re also some great leaders.
Managing 200 Python servers/nodes certainly sounds operationally challenging.
If all you're doing is text processing that Perl can do out of the box, you probably only need the Python stdlib.
I remember checking that out a long time ago but will have to give it another look, thanks.
Indian artists take government to court over 'chilling' tech laws
How bored are you to register an account just to post that formulaic comment?
Right, but D burned some of its very valuable growth time stagnating, and probably turned a lot of people off from D. It's a nice language now, but how many people never did (and will never now) give it a chance because of the "standard" library?
PHP is fast these days raw-speed wise. Concurrency and parallelism matter more than speed as they translate directly to utilisation.
Fiction reading is back in trend?
Interesting! How does this <<feature

Eppie can use conventional email as a name service: so you send a message to Gmail address, but it never lands on the server and goes straight to the decentralized network.

feature
work without a central name managing server?
Start buying reusable and BIFL goods and avoid everything disposable. It's expensive, but worth it for more than the planet. We need to have a lot more focus on the reduce and reuse components of the solution. Most of what we Americans buy is cheap disposable nonsense that shouldn't exist.
So the scenarios should include:

- static electricity

- lightning

- flame

- puncture

- midair collision

- birds, flying fish

- acts of war: projectiles, flames, jeers

- solar flares; Carrington events; EMP

- meteors, meteorites

- combinations thereof; static + puncture,

- chance presence of combustible gases and particulates; [grain dust,] + spark/static
Pgvector vs. Qdrant
>This guy is on state television all the time.

I wasn't talking about right wing nutjobs getting screen time, I was talking about having sane right leaning discussion with people, which you can't because you're automatically pointed to the Afd nutjobs on TV as being representative for what you're trying to say, even though you have no connection to those people.
Google are returning results for image search without the overhead cost. This is the only logical reason I can think of why Pinterest still exists.
The new GC is not concurrent, it is still a stop-the-world collector. The improvement is that it can do the collection and compaction work in parallel on a multi-core machine.

As such, it will greatly increase throughput if given multiple cores, and will lead to lower pause times based on this improvement in throughput.
Though I think the original comment was in reference to teen-aged girls and not the world at large.
I work in an industry where there's critical Windows-only software. Since WSL it's so much less painful since we can do everything except the specialist software under WSL (including git, SSH etc) and access the files seamlessly from both. I guess there is some unfortunate reason why they can't do the same here, it doesn't give specifics.
Challenge accepted, any preference for the 10 word bash script?
A related tidbit of trivia: some highways around the world are intended as emergency airfields. It doesn't mean you can just stop traffic and land, you need to prepare the area, e.g. remove dividers, but it can be done relatively fast if needed.

Wikipedia has some info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_strip

At least here in Germany many were abandoned/removed, but you can still see traces around. The German Wikipedia on this topic has a list.
These articles leave you wanting some kind of substance.

Instead of a bland he said, she said, is there a bit more reporting work they can do here? Hidden camera on the job site, better testimonials from more than spokesmen who really say meaningless bland things like “we are deeply committed” where I stopped reading.

How about examples where things weren’t built to code?

How about more details of why Union negotiations broke down? Or what the cost difference is?
A stable energy market in Germany is safe for Europe. What we have now is less safe.

American gas has the blood of millions of innocents on its hands too, you know ..
There is the element of the unknown with LLMs etc.

There is a legal difference between learning from something and truly making your own version and simply copying.

It's vague of course - take plagiarism in a university science essay - the student has no original data and very likely no original thought - but still there is a difference between simply copying a textbook and writing it in your own words.

Bottom line - how do we know the output of the LLM isn't a verbatim copy of something with the license stripped off?
it hurt
No, it simply means that it can better utilize multiple cores to do the GC work faster, so pauses will be proportionally shorter. With the current SBCL collector (or the old one, since this one is already released), even if you ran on a 16-core system, the GC would still only use a single core to reclaim memory (in practice, to move some of/all your live objects to a different address, as it was a copying collector).
Elixir / Erlang does open up a lot of paradigms. However it'll be interesting to see how Java fairs with its new virtual threads. There was already Akka so it should happen fairly quickly.

Still I'd prefer Elixir. The BEAM VM just runs lighter.
FreeBSD 15 System Calls Table – Alfonso Siciliano
vitriolic comment voicing your own little issues that adds nothing to the conversation about the topic at hand
>> Most of these companies are the result of somebody (or some friends) being good at something, starting in his shed and scaling that operation up over time.

You’re using the wrong tense here. Germany used to be a bit more innovative, the „Mittelstand“ is a leftover of that.

Innovation and impact require risk.
>These are stable companies, often lead by families in the nth generation, concentrating on making good products. Most of these companies are the result of somebody (or some friends) being good at something, starting in his shed and scaling that operation up over time.

...on inherited wealth from WW2 salve labor and war profiteering[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WX5zOdMprc
Joyful Quarkus Application Development Using Testcontainers Desktop
the EU Digital Services Act also has provisions which enable governments to demand removal of content from online platforms. US Gov method is more implicit, through embedding 'ex'-employees into online safety teams and demanding backdoor surveillance on messaging.

Seems like we are all marching toward the same future, via slightly different routes
> Is there garbage collection?

March 2019

> No. V's memory management is similar to Rust but much easier to use. More information about it will be posted in the near future.

May 2019

> No. V manages memory at compilation time (like Rust). Right now only basic cases are handled. For others, manual memory management is required for now. The right approach to solve this will be figured out in the near future.

April 2020

> No. V manages memory at compilation, like Rust:
vlang.io/docs#memory

August 2023

> You can look up vlang.io on web archive and see that it never said GC-less autofree
I also wonder what the carbon emission reduction would be from this change.
Has anyone expericenes with this service so far? (asking for a friend (: )
I’m a bit surprised to see a single geodata theme packaged as a whole “thing.” And goodness the marketing fluff is quite repetitive given they have so little to talk about.

Call me jaded but it feels like someone’s really announcing, “I shipped something! Give me my promotion!”

> Our Pollen API is based on a model that calculates the seasonality and daily amount of pollen grains on a 1x1 km2 grid in over 65 countries worldwide, supporting an up to 5-day forecast, 3 plant types, and 15 different plant species. The model uses various inputs like land cover, climatological data, annual pollen production per plant, and more to deliver reliable output predictions of the local pollen level and exposure risk.

The maps look like what you get when you throw Ordinary Kriging at a dataset of very limited coverage. I’d be skeptical of this model without thorough analysis.
It more than just server costs. They reduced the complexity of their services by a lot.

Having to maintain 95% less servers is worth it even if they didn't save any money IMO.

This also could lead to them reducing their engineering team that maintains these services which would reduce costs even more.
> Currently, participants are slowly and randomly being accepted, but eventually the plan is to let in anyone who fits the criteria. Once you are accepted, you can at first participate in rating existing notes, and once you've made enough good ratings *(measured by seeing which ratings match with the final outcome for that note)*, you can also write notes of your own.

I think twitter is especially fortunate to have the audience diversity it has to make this work - there seems to be a good mix of both left and right wing leaning users. A consensus model with such diversity encourages compromise.

I feel like the strength of using this model is that it's low stakes - at the end of the day it's a tweet. People are willing to make concessions, because it's a tweet. As soon as, say, money is involved, I think that willingness to find a middle ground goes away.
tangential, but what happens to worker-owner who leaves. Does he have to sell his share in business? When you employ a new worked does he have to buy part of the business to start working?
I would love to hear more about those "sane right leaning opinions" for which you get attributed to afd.
Most desktop computers are able to do this, pretty sure. I've used this on an old Dell plus a UPS with outlets that only activate when the PC is on to build an over complicated timer for a lamp before
That doesn’t answer my question at all.

What exactly is so hard about porting the existing GTK app? That work already exists, anything in Tauri is reinventing the wheel.
Erlang and Elixir are famous for maintaining very low latency under load - it's due to the way the Erlang scheduler works.
Fancy terminal emulators (Warp?), browsers (Orion, Arc), some machine learning stuff (that Whisper GUI and ollama front-end) immediately come to my mind.

Anecdotally any single-platform launch on HN will be on macOS.
I was never sure where all the hate is coming from. Pinterest is actually one of my favourite apps, that I use regularly – and I use very few apps. I actually really love it and after years I still find new uses for it. As far as I can tell, they have a pretty loyal user base.
QA needs to be paid as does programming. I imagine some people have a passion for it and could build automated qa tools around open source products. Say a gui tool that automates clicks on kde or gnome widgets. That would be quite a challenge in itself.

As for ux, open source is not a job. Ux folks are told my product managers to enshitify things on daily basis.

I imagine open source can provide a safe haven form all that and let people run wild beautiful ux and uis. Imagine someone working on the ux of a linux distro aimed at making onboarding of casual users easier.

Imagine a group of people putting together a nice set of guidelines for ui and ux similar to how apple has guidelines.

I think these are two areas where linux (distros) have gaps.
Is this available as an OSM layer? I'm more interested in the ecoregions than the bioregions but both would be great.
> You just cited two of the most pro consumer laws in the world.

i guess you don't live in europe.

> I guess I know which industry you work for…

your guess is wrong.
Hailing from a coal-heavy EU member state(Poland), the least carbon allowances did was to dissuade investors from financing new coal projects.

There's also a shift to renewables - the public at large especially jumped on it because fossil-genereated electricity simply became expensive and there are government subsidies in place to to further sweeten the deal.

There's a law coming into force soon which will allow apartment blocks to produce more solar energy than they consume and sell it, which wasn't the case to date.

Overall the system is working as intended and the share of renewables went from a low point of 11% in 2018 to 20% in 2022 and the trend is likely to continue considering how many new solar projects are in the pipeline.
And if you look at lots of paintings, and create a new painting which is in a very similar style to an existing painting?

Is that a forgery? Have you infringed on the copyright on all the paintings you looked at?
Yes, calling something Fast can mean many different things. Erlang/Elixir are not 'fast' at number crunching, but they are very good at concurrency.
Thank you!

What are the exclamation points for though? In a *nix shell they'll expand to a command from history - copy-pasters beware!
because you can sell your house and leave california whenever you want, and keep the money!
Instead of "files", they should have called it "objects".

Unix is an object-oriented OS.

(The nomenclature is quite backwards. It would be like building a database of employees, companies, etc. then saying "everything is an employee", companies are just a special kind of employees.)
Right, my bad, I misunderstood.
It's actually one of my favourite apps, after using it for years. I'm not even joking. Their feed is incredibly good.
Why does the USA use 110V and UK use 230-240V? (2014)
It does not have any pictures which is disappointing. I am not a fan of watches but seeing them while clicking nodes would have made the lineage more visible.
Anecdotally, I am beginning to hear more and more about organisations moving away from high level cloud infrastructure (such as lambda and cloud gateway) and going back to plain old virtual servers (like EC2), or even on-prem. Often the cost of supposedly "cheap" cloud environments is WAY more than you might expect and all booked as operational rather than capital expenditure (the latter being often preferable to shareholders).
You don't get the sort of uncanny valley I'm describing that way but indeed it's better for the reasons you cited.
But what to do if you really love what you do and can achieve really good results in your work, better than anyone else? It's a source of pride and recognition, no wonder it becomes part of your identity. Now imagine working out instead -everyone can do that, you won't achieve anything interesting this way. Same with bike riding or hobby woodworking - want some results you have to work long hours for that. No point in feeling guilty because you love your job, just don't neglect other responsibilities in life.
The story without video: https://www-users.cse.umn.edu/~arnold/disasters/patriot.html
If we had more OS diversity, tools wouldn't try to see UNIX everywhere.
> You can’t

You can, but as long as the user owns the domain they are sending with.

If the domain owner authorizes you as a delegated sender using SPF and DKIM, then you can send email as anyone@domain.tld.

However, I recommend the OP learns about how email works before diving into such venture.
DebugMail vs. Google SMTP
I'd add a couple of points:

1. Nature isn't an 'equilibrium' and doesn't have 'stable states'. It's a constantly changing complex system that can produce catastrophic changes without any external triggers.

2. What people view as 'nature' is often itself a situation that humans have created. For example in this post the preexisting situation was vultures feeding on livestock, but the vultures weren't doing that before humans were around.
Pretty much like the big law firms work?
Many great ideas have been invented/solved at night to mostly be forgotten by the morning
Yeah, that's definitely true. Today I see lots of backend devs who don't even know how to setup deployment in AWS using any of their services, let alone how to deploy to another cloud service or VPS/dedicated server.

I remember this changing around 2015 or so, when I started getting the first batch of devs that only knew how to deploy using the one single way they learned, and never updated that. I specifically remember one dev that was coding for 3, 4 years saying his dream was to make and deploy his own website. He never had a personal project.

Which is perfectly fine, don't get me wrong. The part I'm not a fan of is the culture against people who can do multiple things well. Which, funny enough, I am required to do in my job (I have to do most DevOps, plus mentor frontend and backend devs).
Yes, it does work without central name managing server. Sign up for early access to try it among the first.
If you mention the word "enlightenment" then I can only relate it to what I learnt from my religion, Buddhism, since that is where the term has been taken from. I'm aware of no other form of enlightenment than Buddhist enlightenment. I'm not sure how you want me to relate to the word outside of a Buddhist context.

> I like buddhists in their original countries a lot, shiny glowing people regardless of their often hard lives, westerns lost wannabes eternally looking for salvation usually not so much.

You are too ignorant to comment on such things. All Buddhist are "wannabes eternally looking for salvation", that's the whole point of Buddhism, that we want to become a Buddha and save ourselves and others from suffering. Most Buddhists in the world are Pure Land Buddhists, so they pray to Amida Buddha so they can be reborn in his Western Pure Land.

I recommend to just use a different word than enlightenment and avoid getting so involved in something you clearly know very little about.
> The reality is that what homeschooling parents think is "right" is often extremely noxious and damaging

Yeah, which is why it’s bad in aggregate. But that generally isn’t the case for parents that send their kids to normal school first and then pull them out when things aren’t working out for whichever reason.
I got prefill: 26.9719 tokens/sec, decoding: 18.8827 tokens/sec on M1 Max 32GB laptop for llama 2 7b chat f32. Not bad.
The advantages of Elixir are not performance-related.

There is a lot of focus on raw performance on web-related services, when in reality most of their running time is spent waiting for IO. If there are two things the BEAM excels at, is IO and turning almost any problem into half a dozen processes that are scheduled and run in parallel, if not geographically-distributed, with 1/50th the effort of any other language.

We live in a world with 32+ core CPUs. If your load is not spread uniformly all over those cores, you're losing a ton of performance. Handling requests over separate threads, like 99% of languages do, still isn't enough if all the business logic runs on the same thread.

I'm currently writing a web crawler in Elixir, and it is easier to design it so every request is done and processed in parallel, than to write a naive sequential one you'd do in any other language in half a day.
The Reasons Not to Use Scrum
What about Nim? That seems to be very close.
While Elixir is technically a compiled language, it's only compiled in the same sense that Python compiles to byte codes.
Companies are very toxic, houses very expensive, schools are useless but yeah people are to blame.
> But if it turns out that all the bananas in wall mart were stolen from cosco you’re not as a customer liable for theft.

Actually, that would be fencing stolen goods and customers could have obligations.

Cases of bananas is a bit silly as returning bananas would be not possible and value is too small to bother.

But imagine reputable car dealer selling stolen cars, repossession is far more likely here.
Show HN: Dtlspipe – Like Stunnel, but for UDP
You must build it yourself with Tauri (https://tauri.app) or use pre-built releases, which you can download here: https://github.com/btpf/Alexandria/releases
Because astigmatism or other refractive vision errors.

Think about how astigmatism affects vision, then take into account the effect on pupil size based on incoming brightness, and how this affects the depth of field, and you may understand why.
The guardian is a misinformation rag much like the dailymail. Not surprised they’d exaggerate on this.
I remember when we had more OS diversity. It was hell.
My problem with Elixir is that the syntax is too noisy:

defmodule Math do
def sum(a, b) do
a+b
end
end

Compare that with Python:

def sum(a, b):
return a+b

Having the name of the file be the name of the module and whitespace defining the blocks is the perfect approach for me.