skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If this is a serious project and your first deployment, consider Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and a managed database (DBaaS). If it's a hobby project and you're interested in learning about infrastructure you could run your app, database, and reverse proxy on a single Linux VM, which any cloud will offer.

So, I'm currently dealing with this (like, today.) I containerized my web app. I started out with a $4 Droplet on DO. SSH'd into it, installed all the Docker stuff and cloned my repo. Could not even run npm ci with the resources available.

I kept having to resize the VM. First up to the $6 then I was running into different stuff. I ended up going up to the $24 / mo option just to get the image building. I didn't step up to every price point, because I just wanted to get the thing working, but I was really surprised at this. I don't think my Docker container is particularly resource intensive. I dialed it back to the $12 / mo option and will see how it goes.

But at least I have my whole app in a Dockerfile and the remaining infrastructure in a Docker Compose file. I like having that level of control.

Personally, my issue with PaaS is on top of being more expensive and potential vendor lock in, it often has its own little gotchas that end up not making it more convenient than the "hard way." I tried to use Digital Ocean's App Platform to build my image instead before and it was giving me Vite issues. It literally wouldn't compile even though it was compiling just fine locally and on the VM.

I think about other services like Cloudinary too. Compared to just using Sharp to do things like image transcoding. I just don't see the value there.

Overall, devops is not my area. I used to consider myself a front-end developer. But I'm glad I have been learning these skills. I don't think these "value added" services are worth the squeeze.
the problem is you will draw a lot of attention to yourself, and finding parking spots
I mean it tried to run a red light on a livestream, so if they faked it they either did a terrible job or deliberately added a life threatening mistake.
Yeah with that revelation I would never feel at ease owning a Tesla. It's so insanely creepy and inappropriate.
Fly.io! Your instance auto-sleeps and saves you money compared to other static VPS. Also no vendor lock-in as it's based on Docker containers.
but then people get greedy and stay short for too long
The cybertruck was announced in a different world, there’s no longevity to the novelty of something so “weird”. The high-like feeling of “oh my god that’s so weird I need one” eventually wears off and Tesla’s half-decade delays have let the moment slip through their fingers long ago.

The electric F150 and the Rivian are already delivering on the promise of a great electric truck. All the cybertruck has going for it now is novelty and with Musk’s cultural standing worsening day by day, it’s hard to imagine which ordinary people are going to ever buy the thing.
> a scientist who went to MIT for undergrad and Princeton for a Phd, and then taught at Cornell and Caltech

Hmm, you left out his work for the Manhattan Project. I get the impression he learned a lot there from the other people he worked with.
I'd say a type which doesn't have both a significand and an exponent isn't a float at all. How can you have a floating point with no ability to move the point?

To have something IEEE754-like you'd need a sign, significand, and exponent. That gets you +/-(0, 1, Inf, Nan). Add another bit to the exponent if you want non-integer values. That's the minimum for what I'd call a float.

If you really want to strip it down to one bit, you should choose which of those bits to keep. Significand gives you (0,1), which is the same as a uint1_t. Exponent arguably gives you (0, Inf). Sign gives you (-1,1).

Of those, I'd say the sign-bit, giving -1 and 1, is maybe the most practical, but it's not a complete float.
Christ, no one goddamn cares if it's open source or not! It's an app sourly needed right now.
Is that really true? As far as I can tell Mozilla is saying that car manufacturers typically give bad/no opt-outs or data controls (which is a very legitimate thing to highlight!)… but you can still buy new cars (at least a couple years ago when I last looked) that aren’t really equipped for gathering mass quantities of personal data. It’s not that hard to find a car that doesn’t have an always-active internet connection or internal cameras or whatnot. Buy one of those and you’re essentially in the same place as if you had bought an older car - the manufacturer gets no data unless you physically bring them the car, and even then what they can realistically get is pretty limited.
This was the point that founder friend was making.

It's hard to look someone in the eye and say they're done
Python and any other popular language will try hard to stay backward compatible, so that shouldn't be a problem. I have encountered in the other direction where a library wants to use new language features but the app's runtime doesn't support it yet. That can be considered a downside.
New webcrawler for bug-hunters and data-miners
Thinking about my own usage patterns, when I'm working from home my laptop is VPNed to somewhere reasonably close lag-wise, but certainly not within 50 miles of my house. Meanwhile my phone is studiously checking my inbox using either the local cell tower or my home WiFi.

So if I go look at my personal access logs, I see myself flitting back and forth across the country constantly. I wonder how they plan to filter out these incredibly common false positives without also clobbering detection of thoroughly-owned (consistently-flitting) accounts.
When I desperately needed to clean my keyboard, I was searching for how best to clean a MacBook keyboard. Your app kept coming up and I kept laughing it off thinking, “yeah, how can an app clean the keyboard, will it fake shake it until it’s clean?”

It wasn’t until about 10 searches later I found a decent article about the best way to clean your keyboard, with a shout out to your app for being able to lock the keyboard.

Finally, it clicked and I downloaded it - quite useful for a “useless” app - thanks for making it and maintaining it!
Wouldn’t folks just charge at home? How many miles per day do you drive? I own an EV and I charge at home except on 300+ mile road trips
That's fair. Israel's parliamentary system is famously dysfunctional (perhaps because they don't have a solid constitution) and systems like the UK and Japan are also moribund in many important respects, partly by design.
Well this is without a doubt a good move, I still take the cynical stance that using any sort of Google software and hoping for privacy is pointless.
I would imagine Wyoming and Montana pickup buyers aren’t particularly representative.
For managing large property, absolutely. As long as we play sports outside near falling leaves we need leaf blowers for safety. Good luck clearing leaves off a baseball or a football field with a rake, it would probably take an entire weekend of labor instead of a couple of hours.
yup, the uni-party (that has always been there) may come out of the shadows.

Although that will break the illusion of team red vs. team blue that has maintained power for 30+ years.
There are actually some fairly high quality translations of things nowadays. Much better than even 20 years ago. If you are still inclined to the occult, now is a better time than pretty much ever.

Science doesn't negate an interest in the arcane, esoteric, or occult. You can still find this stuff fascinating, and in fact there are practitioners who are actively involved in scientific circles simultaneously. It is not always mutually exclusive.
do people in the west really say petrol? east coaster here and never heard that outside of britain
> Prohibition-era mobsters

The whole noir thing was way overdone in Star Trek. Seems like there was one in every season of every show.
The others suggested broom technology and advanced taking shoes off technique.

I would like to humbly offer two additional contributions to this field.

Robot vacuums are getting cheaper and better at a surprising rate. I can track all manner of chaos and debris into my home, and my robovac keeps my floors very clean.

As an alternative, there are welcome mats (also known as doormat). As a bonus they can be configured to greet or repel visitors.
Forget the pans, well, okay, they are cool, but where is Pike getting fresh, non-replicated ingredients to use?
Would you mind articulating the elements that make this particular story and setting uniquely good?
You can fork Replit's FastAPI template and edit it and deploy from the online editor https://replit.com/@replit/FastAPI?v=1

It uses uvicorn as recommended by the FastAPI docs.
If an engineer can't receive criticism of their work without getting their feelings hurt, then other engineers they work with will be inclined to softball criticism of the work to preserve that engineer's feelings. Letting inter-personal considerations get in the way of engineering is a liability to the process. Engineers need to have thick skin and remember that they are not their work.
Are you sure you actually have it "turned off"?

If I go to youtube activity controls and click "turn off" then my history stops being saved (checked by watching a video) then when I click "turn on" then the history starts working again.
You're kidding right?
The F150 is an actual work truck. Designed as such with parts readily available when it brakes.
> Or Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, etc. These people are all geniuses as evidenced by their very early, unambiguous competence in highly advanced, technical fields.

You really don't think Zuckerberg was simply someone who got lucky by building the right thing at the right time and tripping onto gold? Even if you want to credit him as a business or product genius, and not merely of luck, he certainly wasn't highly competent in some bleeding edge section of tech.

I think a lot of us have the same problem you are describing, but you're thinking is warped in many ways, so you seem to be experiencing it to a greater degree.

> I remember the OpenAI application question: "Please provide an example or evidence of your exceptional ability."

I don't apply to jobs that ask that kind of question. Absolute douchebaggery.
When they tried enforcing the leaf blower ban in LA, the landscapers went on a hunger strike that lasted 7 days until city officials backed off.
Doubtless there are but they're not in my cache.

Edit: well, there's /topcomments - but I'm going to recycle that name for /bestcomments, since those aren't the best comments, just the most-upvoted ones
This is a very broad power to be granted so casually. Local cops (and people impersonating local cops) shouldn't be able to go fishing for evidence like this.

Searching for abortion clinics could be the next thing targeted.
At the end of the day, technology does little to nothing. It's the people who use it for good or ill, and the people who organize economic, political and other social systems to capture markets, enhance or suppress wages, create or remove regulation, compete or stifle competition. This essay doesn't really address the people side, just that "we" (he and some others) believe that tech is enough.

This is so ignorant:
> We are told that technology takes our jobs, reduces our wages, increases inequality, threatens our health, ruins the environment, degrades our society, corrupts our children, impairs our humanity, threatens our future, and is ever on the verge of ruining everything.

PFOAs are tech. Unexploded cluster bomblets are tech. Fracking fluids are tech. Plastics in the guts of ocean life are tech. Ransomware and doxxing trucks are tech. There's a lot of tech that pmarca wishes would be far away from his gated home.

Then there are dental anesthetics, Polartec, electric cars, power tools, elevators, and snowplows. Lots of tech does good. No one complains much about power tools or elevators.

Minority viewpoints are set up as a strawman. A piece like this should be more thoughtful to be taken seriously.
Monal 6.0 released (XMPP instant messaging client for macOS and iOS)
or a genius by getting more conservatives to buy electric vehicles.
"Hoping for privacy" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. There are degrees of difference between collecting search, web history, telemetry and other usage data and between using the microphone / camera to record all the time to analyze it.
I hear you, but that's an orthogonal point, in the sense that you should have expressed this without saying something that would land as a swipe with readers.
It's HTTP/2, so has headers and trailers. That's where most people put the metadata.
A while back I used Anki to learn a bunch of French vocab. At the time it was great and I learned a lot. I eventually stopped and I've probably forgotten most of it.
I’m not even sure humanity wants them.

I lived in socal for years in a home where the property management paid for landscaping. Every week, they would come and use leaf blowers to blow my dust onto my neighbor’s lawn.

The next day the neighbor’s landscaper would come and blow their dust onto my home.

The SoCal desert has a reputation for being dusty, but I think it is just a result of leaf blowers being used on unpaved driveways and an unintentional war between neighbors who haven’t even consented to the hostilities.
I don’t think most people would put those on similar levels of hideousness. Model 3 just looked like a budget car, not an avant garde statement piece.
It's a bit late for that, isn't it? 2019 was the last time that this was a practical option, at this point they're in a ride or die situation. None of the moderates are willing to declare themselves independent or split off as a bloc - they might get corporate donations but experience has shown that voters would punish them for their betrayal, even to the point of electing Democrats for one cycle.
This is fucking insane
You don't have Dacia available in the US?

I know that small cars like C3 are too small for the average US consumer and probably won't be available there, but i'm pretty sure most new Dacia models still don't have screen and while the sandero is a bit small the Duster is a SUV and thus should be enough (my childhood friend is a car mechanic and keep trying to sell me Dacia saying they're the easiest to repair, so I'm adding that here, although I like the C3)
They have the most to lose by their being a standard that they don’t participate in, though, yes, no standard at all is better for them than a standard they do participate in.
What's inside Apple's $129 Thunderbolt cable? We CT scanned one to find out
> Who pays in the long run?

People who only use cash for in-person transactions for privacy reasons. :(
I know data engineers who know just Python and SQL who make $500k at Netflix
I imagine the majority non-Apple App Store hosted apps are installed independently of any app store.
Well, it's definitely very useful device and it also seems to have cable resistance which is rare in this. I had some other FNRSI devices and they generally feel pretty solid, if UI/UX crippled a bit.

And maybe it won't just stop working like the one I bought did...

Which makes me sad because it was somewhat of an unique product because outside of the "chinese USB tester functions" (paging thru what negotiation succeeded and monitored voltage) it also had little buck-boost converter so I could use it as power supply (for example connect to bog standard 5V USB and boost it to 12V or current limit it).
Meta is so much worse. I honestly have no idea what those intermediate layers do. I mean, concretely, what do those people do all day?
> Can't the maintainers simply ignore shitty code?

Giving honest feedback is infinitely more useful to any engineer who's skin is thick enough to receive it.
Can't it be clicking the ad?
After some adjustment period, most people won't care. I find 6 weeks generally beds in a behaviour change.
It still requires getting people's IBAN numbers, which they usually don't remember.
Inside each country you can usually send money with just an email account, like Venmo or Zelle, but internationally it's just cumbersome.
I grew up in Arizona around plenty of macho truck people and never heard “petrol.” I suspect an expat.
It wasnt useless, it was their way of telling ‘not suitable for average user because they can lock themselves in and were gonna take the heat’
I mean, I understood most of it from just hobbyist-level interest in anabolic steroids. Many of those (testosterone, nandrolone, masteron, trenbolone, trestolone) also interact with prolactin and there’s occasional discussion about pregnenolone as well.

So I was able to validate at a surface level that ChatGPT at least didn't completely mangle the meaning, intention, and facts.

But the truth is that the GP shouldnt be viewed as being “so well versed in the topic”. Most of these hormones (even pregnenolone) havent been studied well enough to understand the full effects of manipulating them in otherwise “healthy-ish” people. We know their most powerful effects in niche, extreme situations - so if someone has a true medical issue/emergency related to them we know to raise/lower them to get certain desired effects.

But we really don’t know the vast majority of the effects that subtle changes in these hormones might have. Supplementing pregnenolone seems to cause temporary depression in many of the folks I’ve talked with in the bodybuilding community - myself included (until supplementation is ceased). For me that effect greatly outweighs its potential contribution to Alzheimer’s later in life.
To make an "official" scramble, first they create a random state, which basically means random permutation and random orientation. Then they find a sequence of twists to arrive at the random state.

On the contrary, applying random twists will not give you a truly random state. Some states are more likely than others to be achieved when applying random twists.
Under this argument wouldn't any type of paid labor be coercive? Hell, it seems like any interpersonal activity in a capitalistic society be considered coercive since every activity is just X number of steps away from 'survival'.
What the heck do you mean can I cite it??? I LIVED there so I don't need to cite anything.
My open mic was cancelled so I'll leave this here, it's apparently a previously unpublished poem from the Caltech archives by Feynman on wine.

(Which seemed weird since all the people I know who did "nuclear stuff" stuck to beer or hard liquor when getting drunk enough to attempt poetry -- you can't do it all, pick a lane.)

I will go back and edit if the formatting is messed up, and if anyone wants the .ODT I made reproducing his strikethroughs, capitalizations, and underlines, email DJBRUTAL@PROTON.ME

(You can have the original PDF scan too, if you desire.)

Feynam’s Wine Poem

Box 39, Folder 9

[page 1]

A poet once said,
“The whole universe
is in a glass of wine.”
We shall never know
in what sense *he* meant it
for poets do not write to be understood,
but it *is* true that if you look at a glass of wine closely enough
you will see the entire universe.
There, are the things of physics
the twisting liquid, the reflection in the glass
and our imagination adds the atoms.
It evaporates depending on the wind and weather.
The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks.
And in its composition, is
as we has seen,
the secret of the universe’s age -
and a story of the evolution of the star.
What strange array of chemicals
*are* in the wine. How did *they* come to be?
There are the ferments, enzymes, the substantial and the products
and there in the wine was found

[page 2]

the great question:
“all life is fermentation”
Now you can discover the chemistry of wine
without discovering, as did Pasteur
the cause of much disease.
How vivid is the claret,
pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it.
And if our small minds, for some convenience
divides this glass of wine, this universe
into parts – to purpose, biology, geology, astronomy psychology and all
Remember nature doesn’t know it
so we should put it back together
and not forget, at last, what it is in for.
let it give one final pleasure more
drink it up and forget about it all.

Edit 1: Ok no bold, underline, or strikethrough? Womp womp

Edit 2: Ok... removed soon forget it prior to "put it back together" and "go to sleep" prior to "forget about it all" -- both were struck out in the original.
No you don't. You just need to provide a luxurious experience at a good price.
The fact that there is so much potential for the use of that information yet we haven't even started putting mechanisms in place to utilize it is what scares the hell out of me. If the threat model is 'to be determined' then especially when the data is being used commercially, for somewhat trivial reasons and without any substantial legal protections then the way to act is 'from my cold, dead, hands'.

Just remember that no matter who in charge you think is neutral or bad or great, things change, attitudes change, shit happens (remember the Patriot Act?)...

It isn't paranoid to say 'I don't trust the future, let's act cautiously instead of frivolously with things that have the potential to be extremely valuable to me, extremely impactful to society, and in which currently sits the greatest unexplored potential of this generation'.
What's particularly cool about this project is that since the game is fully open source, it's just available as a package in standard Linux distros. Like, in Fedora, just do 'dnf install uqm' and you've got it.
You might not have been a suspect otherwise. If they found DNA of an unknown person at the scene but you hadn't put yours in a database, how would they know who to look for?
The sanctions were already ineffective, but that’s neither here nor there because none of my examples involve actual, official sanctions. Most of my examples involved people working around their own domestic governments. Even when it comes to Visa and MasterCard locking out Russians, that was, officially at least, purely on the initiative of those two companies rather than any formal economic sanction.
Make it a permission like with audio recording etc and maybe add a whitelist for known sites.
Sheesh, Steven Vaughn-Nichols really hates Red Hat, doesn't he? There's no attempt to be objective, with article titles like "Red Hat's New Rule: Open Source Betrayal", and pumping up Alma Linux and talking of how they're bravely defending their distro against threats that even they don't think will happen (but he does). He's even decided that RHEL's licensing won't hold up in court (Rocky and Oracle and others can tell they're legal to stop looking, I guess).

I entirely get the disagreements with Red Hat's decision and direction, but his many articles on this topic are opinion pieces masquerading as journalism.

Disclaimer: I used to work at Red Hat, but in a completely different business unit from RHEL.
That's never going to be popular because the majority of people are coming home from work at 6PM. They want to be able to cook, shower, and relax. It's a minority of people (mainly those that are better off) who are able to shift their usage away from peak hours.

At some point when the prices are too much, it becomes a tax on the poor, who need to use public electricity, to pay for the rich's private batteries. It would be better to take that incentive money and spend it on public utility batteries instead.
> The wrinkle here is that the cyber truck starts delivery in November

Nah, they will find way to delay it again.
Gotcha, very much appreciate the feedback