skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more apt description would be, taking money from Insrus pocket and giving it to someone else. Someone who deliberately broke the rules and exploited a system designed to help people in need.

I'd be pissed too if that were to happen to me.
Yep. although my son isn't really into coding, PICO-8 was the only thing we tried where we actually made a mostly functional platform game.

He got really into defining the sprites, levels and sounds, and that took him into coding movement and enemies and different bullets for the character.
>> the effective dynamic range of 16 bit audio reaches 120dB in practice [13], more than fifteen times deeper than the 96dB claim.

> 120dB is greater than the difference between a deserted 'soundproof' room and a sound loud enough to cause hearing damage in seconds.

> 16 bits is enough to store all we can hear, and will be enough forever.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't 16 bit = 120db about the levels of gradations of sound? Even a 4 bit = 16 levels of sound pressure/SPL could go from 20db, 20+12.5=32.5db, 32.5+12.5db and so on until 120db.

Then, the important question is what's the minimum SPL difference perceptable (at a given spl level). That may well not be 1db.
He, She, They: The Pronoun Debate Will Likely Land at the Supreme Court
If you keep posting ideological battle/flamewar comments to HN, we're going to have to ban you. Regardless of which ideology you're for or against, it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this, that would be good.

We've already had to warn you a bunch of times, including recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37561065 (Sept 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35920403 (May 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33014228 (Sept 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30086559 (Jan 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19830614 (May 2019)
If the DevOps "culture shift" didn't solve problems for you, this will not either. You will still have similar problems, now abstracted away into a different team that operate at their own pace. They will also be overbooked, like before, with the difference that now they are serving multiple teams you didn't have to contend with before. They will not share your incentives or priorities for specific features. Their time will still not be taken into account during product planning.

Both the DevOps move, and its current issues, as well as platform engineering are organisational problems. Your organisation needs to be set up around this in order for it to succeed.

Notice that the article paints platform engineering with the same utopia like brush strokes that once painted "DevOps as a culture", only to be mangled in its handling and blamed for the problems that it brought about.
Something that puzzles me: open license, yet so arcane that it usually must be consumed as a service that costs far more than closed DB licenses usually did.

At some point complexity and lack of polish becomes indistinguishable from closed source. An open system I can’t use easily myself is not open even if the source is available.
It’s how people perceive optical illusions. -https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/are-optical-illusi...
People who live in cities have brains that take shortcuts for cubes.
I'm not anti vaccine, no need to out words in my mouth.

My understanding of vaccine is that they use deactivated viruses but not small doses.

My question is about live viruses, and if we can get exposed to small doses enough that will trigger a immunization mechanism without triggering a full blown infection? Or does it work to boost an existing immunity only.
It also depends on the category of the product and what 'value' you hope to get from it.

For example recently I purchased a Lego set, the biggest one I've ever purchased and it cost £565 (titanic) which is the most amount of money I've ever spent on what is essentially a display piece once built.

However I enjoy the process of building Lego and this set is going to take me months to build, just devoting an hour or two a week to completing a section at a time. So the initial outlay is a lot but breaking it down to

1. the enjoyment of building the set

2. the enjoyment of displaying the set once it's complete as a sort of home decor item

3. the amount of time devoted to it (I reckon it'll take me about 35-40 hours to complete, but it'll be months before I see the end because it's just a lil hobby to do at the weekend)

...the cost almost doesn't matter.
Its actually really easy to get into. I managed to make an asteroids like game in only a few hours.
> network of moles to track celebrities

These people don’t care about celebrities. They literally sit and watch planes take off for hours at a time because they enjoy it. Nearly every airport has a field of people doing that regardless of whether celebrities are around.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_spotting
Why would a government monopoly on apps be a better alternative?
"Yes, and?"

It's time we just stopped caring and propagating this doomer scaremongering. Researchers looking for things will certainly find them, not necessarily because they're true, but because the null hypothesis doesn't bring any fame or fortune.
Ah interesting. Don’t think I’ve had it crash ever but I don’t use it all that often relative to e.g. Ableton
It wasn’t too shabby
Given that everyone and their mother has slightly nuanced yet disperate definitions of exactly what devops is, I'm not sure.

DevOps? Oh you mean the developer experience people?

DevOps? Oh, the build pipeline people?

DevOps? Oh, the people who handle the cloud?

DevOps? Ah, you mean those folks who handle our observability!

DevOps? That's Katya, she's a developer but i'm not sure what she does except act stressed out all the time and slow us down.
> the highest btc transaction-fees are public record and have (very rarely) ranged into the 10s of thousands of dollars

That's not representative of the market rate, so is irrelevant to the discussion of whether fees are cost prohibitive.

For example at the same moment in time as the guy who accidentally paid a $500,000 fee (in the same block), you can see a bunch of transactions that went through with $2 and $3 fees. Yes that's still high in a relative sense, but it's not tens of thousands of dollars.

To determine whether corn is cost-prohibitive, you need to go by the market rate, not link to a top-10 list of the most overpriced corn purchases ever made.
I think it very much depends on where you live. Rural America returned to normal a long time ago. Many cities, like San Francisco and Atlanta, have not and are still feeling the effects to varying degrees.
Meh? It’s been on the French health market for at least two decades (Ablatherm).

It’s effective for people that wouldn’t bear anesthesia but it comes with some limitations.

It can’t be used when there are bones, lungs or non-uniform propagation medium in front of the target. And while the tissues are burnt their mechanical properties are evolving and deflecting the beam. The cavitation due to negative alternance of pressure waves puts a limit on the power. Perfusion can take the heat away, etc…

It’s probably not widely used because conventional surgery is often more practical.
I ended up putting this on my TV and ironed some shirts while watching it. I probably would not have had the patience to read through all of it.
Celebrities probably order from Amazon too.
This is really fearful and well off the beaten path. At the very least, what about exposure to some level of germs being good for the development of the immune system?
Last paragraphs of the article:

>They’d been shown example after example of dehumanizing posts and comments calling for mass murder, even explicitly calling for genocide. And David Madden had told Meta staff to their faces that Facebook might well play the role in Myanmar that radio played in Rwanda. Nothing was subtle.

>After all that, Meta decided not to dramatically scale up moderation capacity, to permanently ban the known worst actors, or to make fundamental product-design changes to reliably deviralize posts inciting hatred and violence.

>Instead, in 2016, it was time to get way more people in Myanmar onto Facebook.

>That’s next, in Part II: The Crisis.

These would have been reasonable actions that Meta had a responsibility to take.
It just seems unrelated to the concept, frankly. I'd imagine if you wanted to measure democracy you'd have to measure actual representation somehow. This is at best measuring a proxy of a proxy of representation. I find the conflation of "liberal democracy" and "rule of law" to be pretty disturbing.
Wow. Good thing it hasn't caught on and shows no promise of doing so.
"Results: Patients with post-COVID syndrome scored lower for emotional stability, equanimity, positive mood, and self-control. Extraversion, emotional stability, and openness correlated negatively with anxiety and depression levels. Conscientiousness correlated negatively with anxiety."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8870488/#:~:tex....
> This is a real trade-off. The feature I have here provides strictly less static safety than using sum types. There is a slight performance cost to checking the type tag when accessing case-specific fields. In return, you get simpler, more familiar syntax for working with case-specific fields, including mutable ones.

Interesting post! Nim uses variant/case objects as well. Generally they're pretty handy and more flexible than sum types as you can access non-variant fields as regular objects. Though it means you can't use the same field name twice, however on the other hand you can bring common fields out of the case portion. Also, a single object can have multiple case variants which can be handy.

There's a PR for adding the stricter sum types and pattern matching as well. https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/525
Currently I just use a library for sum type syntax on top of object variants: https://github.com/andreaferretti/patty
Good point, then maybe `form-sizing:auto`
The same old rant, over and over... Communistic rethoric is unable to evolve, it merelly reproduces the same criticism over time, pinpointing the same flaws just changing the target.

Ho, and punching Hayek, 30 years after his death, is really beneath contempt.

Technofeudalism is something you can choose to be a part of or not. You can (and should) pay for email, news and other services and you may or may not choose the cloud, most do not by the way.

So really, who is Varoufakis talking about?
There are heavy restrictions on the number of people you're allowed to kill.
Since its so easy to misrepresent data, it'd be irresponsible not to consider the presenter at all, especially one with a reputation such as Monsanto.

All those ads/studies saying cigarettes were safe, also had evidence

Edit: wont let me reply to you, but evidence can be cherry picked by the presenter to make it lean their way. Again, its irresponsible to not consider who is providing you that evidence. That said, I haven't seen you cite anything
the 3G upgrade that also introduced app store felt positively clunky compared to some phones then in use. Arguably explosion of the App Store quickly turned into major differentiator
Taxes fund many things, but converting carbon dioxide and water back into carbohydrates is usually not one of them.
"Oh, but it doesn't count when I do it."
I can certainly see how some businesses may handle sensitive data that require certifications and on-premises solutions.

I'm curious why that's necessary for you though? Wouldn't a VPS be cheaper anyway?
If you reply to someone else's comment from the discussion tab, it does not start a review of your own PR. In the code tab, I have seen an option to start a review or just make a one off comment. I generally prefer to make them as a review, because I am typically replying to comments in a batch.
I have a tool that I'm about to release soon that you may be interested in. It's a way to configure servers (with bash or whatever you want) in a distributed, decentralized way. You build "patterns" which are signed build and run scripts that the servers can be pushed or pull the patterns from a storage provider (like a storage bucket). The tool exports various prometheus metrics that you'd use to determine the state of it and whether the patterns were successfully applied etc. Best of all, it's stateful by design, so when you add or remove things the pattern will clean up after itself. Message me if you want to be part of the beta.
It's like saying you have a self-service waiter.
I could write my own client for telegram, can’t do the same for whatsapp.

Unless I can see (and run my own build of) the code, it’s all marketing bullshit.

Code or stfu.
According to Pantone, "Researchers estimate that most humans can see around one million different colours". So research says we only need 7 bits.

"Research".. sponsored by corporations, and peer-checked by scientific voting rings. A bunch of incrowd elitists who like to use jargon. Science and politics these days are pretty similar
usebruno.com looks awesome
Typical narcissist. I'll always think of Nate Silver as the bedraggled man with a mid-range stare on election night 2016. Silver's utility is limited to knowing what the establishment talking points are.
Kakeya problem is a beautiful question, and Besicovitch's construction has been really useful in harmonic analysis (Fefferman's The multiplier problem for the ball is a classic example). Still, in the eyes of wider public it must appear uncanny, requiring the Amazon truck analogies, etc.

Reminds me of Vladimir Arnold's comment on the state of modern number theory (presumably talking about density of primes in arithmetic progressions, he says): why would you even want to add primes, they were born to be multiplied?
I'm more appalled by a 30min, 1.2T co2 flight from him..
What do you mean? There's unlimited data plans, e.g. telenor, tele2, tre, chilimobil, etc.
I still haven't figured out why a some Indians support Russia in the invasion and genocide of Ukraine.

Am I missing some part of history? Or it's just resentment towards the West, and Ukrainians genocide would be a "failure of the west"?
> Humane is trying to realize the promise of “ambient computing” — an artificial intelligence-driven computing experience that’s personal and contextual — by building a software platform and hardware line that doesn’t rely on screens.

Sorry, I think that's too many buzz words for me to comprehend and I can't take it seriously. Phones provide us some utility. If you can make some other interface that helps me ask for GPS directions or check my emails, sure. But if you're lumping in all this other crap, I know you're just selling vaporware.

> Based on Chaudhri’s explanation, Humane’s chosen path lies in artificial intelligence. Building experiences around interactions with AI that fit around someone's normal life instead of forcing them to shape theirs around another screen. In Humane’s words, the company is helping to build the “Intelligence Age,” a new paradigm of computing based on journalist Walt Mossberg’s idea of the “disappearing computer.”

What does this mean? I'm bored for the 40 seconds it takes me to catch and take an elevator. So I look at social media. Or I'm riding a bus or train. Or I just want to take a break from work, or get GPS instructions. How does Humane solve my problem (is there a problem)? By showing me a social media feed on my wrist instead of a screen? Sounds like a privacy nightmare to try to use AI and constant feed to estimate my fiber intake and predict when I'm going to need to entertain myself for ten minutes for it to preload my social media feed.
as a software developer, every place I've tried to work that's "you write it, you run it" turns into me just spending all my time running the code as it already existed, with actually trying to improve reliability as kind of a bonus 10% task that no one ever talks about or asks after.
The thing about being or not being able to point out differences in audio quality is that it all boils down to pattern recognition. If you know anything about pattern recognition, you understrnd that you can't have pattern recognition without prior training through provision of tagged samples of such patterns.

If you would give high quality audio experience, to a person that has been listening through 80s general store headphones, to low quality radio rips on magnetic tapes, you might be surprised how few people are going to describe one as "better", without prior description of work and technology required to produce each experience.

And one would be even more surprised by how many people choose the cassette tapes because of nostalgia and a long time satisfying experience.
Politics poisoning is thinking no one has principles or own interests. Or noticed OTR, Signal, Telegram in 10 or 20 years.
To me, DevOps culture just feels like a way for businesses to save money by not staffing a dedicated infrastructure team and pushing all those responsibilities onto application developers.

The amount of time I've spent fiddling with Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, Jenkins configuration, GitHub Actions configuration, AWS IAM, and so on over the past few years is absurd, probably more than the time I've spent writing actual application code.
You still haven't said anything about the actual evidence.

The reason there was no reply button is just that not enough time had elapsed.

Clever of you to try to turn it around, but sorry, no dice: the article you're dismissing IS the evidence. What do you have?
A statement becomes a personal attack when it's intended as an attack, not simply because it's hurtful to the recipient. For instance, (addressing the pg example you mentioned elsewhere) it's not generally a personal attack when an old and/or sick person's doctor says they have a few months left at best, though hearing it will probably upset them. It's likely (though absolutely not certain!) that one middle schooler pointing out another's acne intends for it to be hurtful, but I don't think you could reasonably blame a very small child for pointing out the same—though it would certainly be a teachable moment.

Semantics aside, I understand from experience how difficult it is to moderate situations like this, but as a user-privileged participant in any discussion I reserve the right to defend myself (e.g.) when somebody rolls out some half-baked strawman and then accuses me of going off topic. In this case I find it particularly ironic that in a thread full of completely baseless character attacks against Miculas, the author of the linked article (e.g. he just wants credit so he can put it on his resume), I'm the one who gets threatened with a ban for questioning that narrative and not then meekly rolling over for the ensuing tide of bullshit. If you want to see a real, unequivocal, totally one-sided personal attack, you need look no further than the original comment I replied to^[1], and you can't throw a stone from there without hitting another one. I note that those comments remain largely unflagged, which is not a surprise given how acutely vulnerable users of platforms like HN are to the bandwagon effect and similar biases.

My behavior in this regard is not going to change, but my experience in this thread is certainly raising some questions.

^[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37676623
Have you ever tried making this complaint? In the context of OP's comment about schools and technology, you will only ever get told "well, everyone else wants this". Sadly, this is true.
Thanks for this. What is the management category?
If you continue to post religious flamewar comments* to HN, we will have to ban you. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. It's also quite easy to avoid.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

* (or other flamewar comments such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37594166)
>The relationship here is more complex, as the cloud-serfs are also a source of capital as they buy the items sold by the platforms

Varoufakis makes the point in an interview with Krishnan Guru-Murthy, on this same subject, that this trend towards this 'asset-stripping'/unpaid labor trades off with aggregate demand, so central banks have to print more money to make up for the fact that people have less and less purchasing power.
DevOps is terrible because we want to have a team of fullstack expert engineers that have certs in every tech, but pay them for a single role.

First there are not enough ppl with that huge landscape of knowledge.

Second you would have to pay a salary of 5 ppl i.e. 500k/y to make ppl willing to spend that much time on work.
Your argument applies equally to cars.

For a low price per car we could track all cars and also ensure they don't break a bunch of rules (say speed, acceleration, traffic lights) where drivers endanger others.
I think he's writing to convince himself more than his readers, if he has any.
But the main cost of nuclear isn't the construction of the reactors. It's the management of the fuel, waste and the operation of the plants, the salaries of the people involved in keeping everything safe at all times, the repairs and maintenance, the special transport vehicles, the refineries of the fuel and so on. These costs are partially hidden in general taxes since they are often handled by the government, but they still exist.

The Rancho seco nuclear plant is costing some 10 million per year, 30 years after it closed. The cost of "having made it" is likely to eclipse the cost of actually making it.

Even if your prediction should occur, it won't reduce the total cost of nuclear power by a lot, and it will have to compete with plants that (for example) provide free electricity from the sun, since their costs are basically all paid upfront.
> Prometheus only handle aggregated data, though.

That's not true. You're referring to pull-based approach for metrics collection. It has its tradeoffs (like fixed interval scraping), but has a lot of benefits too (like higher reliability). Check the following link [0] from VictoriaMetrics docs, which supports both push and pull approaches. Prometheus also gained push support this year, though.

However, the main difference between Prometheus-like systems (Thanos, Mimir, VictoriaMetrics) and more traditional DBs for time series like InfluxDB or TimescaleDB is that first are designed to reflect system's state, and last are designed to reflect system's events. That's the main difference in paradigm, data model, and query languages. There is a reason why PromQL is so easy in 99% of cases, and so complex and annoying when users want to express what they get used to in traditional databases.

I'm saying this because I went through creating a Grafana datasource for ClickHouse [1] and I felt how complicated it is to express a most straightforward PromQL query in SQL, and vice versa.

If you'd like to learn more about differences between common queries for plotting time series in PromQL and SQL see my talk here [2].

[0] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyConcepts.html#write-data

[1] https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/vertamedia-clickhouse-da...

[2] https://youtu.be/_zORxrgLtec?t=835
I've been violating just about all of his rules, all my life (and I'm in my 70's) and have never gotten food poisoning as far as I know. Well, except for once at a restaurant, but that dish was brought to me straight out of the kitchen, so I don't know how that happened. Problem solved by never eating at that restaurant again.