skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve worked on two 100+ weekly committer monoliths and two similar sized MFE architectures. I think the article hits good points though I’d add some acutely painful ones it misses[1]. I’m someone who is by gut now squarely in the pro-monolith camp, but I think that in the comment thread of a similarity anti-MFE article it’s worth steel manning the pro-MFE arguments rather than characterize it simplistically as cargo-culting or resume-boosting.

First, MFEs solve organizational issues by cheaply offering release independence. An example is when teams that do not overlap in working hours. Triaging and resolving binary release blockers is hard to do correctly and onerous on oncall WLB. Another example is when new products want to move quickly without triggering global binary rollbacks or forcing too fast a release cadence for mature products with lower tolerance for outages or older test pyramids.

Second, MFEs are a pragmatic choice because they can proceed independently from the mono/microrepo decision and any modularization investment, both of which are more costly by several multiples in the cases I've seen. Most infra teams are not ivory towers and MFEs are high bang-for-buck.

Finally, MFEs are a tool to solve fundamental scaling issues with continuous development. At a certain level of commits, race conditions cause bugs or build breakages or test failures, and flaky tests cause inability to (cheaply) certify last known good commit at cut time. You can greatly push out both of these scaling limits with good feature flag/health-mediated releases and mature CI, but having an additional tool in the kit allows you to pick which to invest in based on ROI.

Advocating for modularity is nice but I've never met an MFE advocate who didn't also want a more tree-shakeable modular codebase. We should not jump to the conclusion the MFE as bad or a "last resort" because there exists another solution that better solves an partially overlapping set of problems, especially if the other solution doesn't solve many problems that MFEs do or requires significant more work to solve them.

[1] Runtime JS isolation (e.g. of globals set by third party libraries) is hard and existing methods are leaky abstractions like module federation or require significant infra work like iframing with DOM shims. CSS encapsulation is very hard on complex systems, and workarounds like shadow DOM have a11y and library/tooling interop issues. Runtime state sharing (so not every MFE makes its own fetch/subscriptions for common data) is hard and prone to binary skew bugs. Runtime dynamic linking of shared common code is hard to reason around and static linking of common code can result in the same transition of a lazy loaded module to go from taking 10kB to 1MB+ over the wire.
I find dignity in being alive for my family.
> that alone will drive it's price up

Wrong; you need people buying the roughly $25M worth of daily new bitcoins just to maintain the current price.
> The weird thing, IMO, is that Amazon doesn’t see this as a big problem that they need to solve.

Not so weird I think. They pretty much have a monopoly so what do they care. The more Amazon is used as the sales-channel the more money Amazon makes. And most users don't have a way of testing their cables. If a cable stops working it is easy to assume the user somehow broke the cable or its connectors themselves.
> We decided that "reasonable" was roughly the speed of sound.

I wonder whether they'll remember to bump this up once commercial flights on the Boom Overture start.
Interesting/juicy details here.
Okay but my question is still the same - is that step itself possibly illegal? I would think only the final step is what could be illegal.
> and have killed any chance of normal people adopting it as a regular form of payment.

To be honest, it's not just the grifters that put me off using cryptocurrency as a regular form of payment. It's other considerations such as volatility, the inability to undo payments, etc.

Although it's true that the the fact the cryptocurrency tends to be used, or at least advocated, mostly by certain subcultures (not just criminals) is very off-putting to me as well.

Plus, at least for the sorts of commerce I engage in, cryptocurrency is very inconvenient and doesn't give me any benefits that justify the inconvenience.
I'm not convinced that crypto is much worse than the rest of tech. Your average VC tech company is run as a pump and dump scheme. They take a crazy idea, get a ton of funding for it, go public and sell the shares to uninformed investors who are left holding the bag when it all comes crashing down.
I second the 3.5mm

My iPhone 13 pro has intermittent charging issues because of headphone usage.
I agree with a lot of this - MFE are much harder to pull off than the backend services, and I have yet to see a successful solution based on how they are often presented at the bleeding edge. We have had moderate success with pretty rudimentary implementations (think: iframes) but it is definitely not pain free.
I'd highly recommend you look for this sort of architecture to STOP contributing to the monolith before you look to fix it, which I think aligns with the author's recommendation to get your sh!t in order before you distribute your monolith, which will be a Vietnam for your team.
I'd have gone with a few different ones :)

https://youtu.be/vyeYjw3zjSc The world according to nordlicht

https://youtu.be/1hvFiv2hpYE Sea of color

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPkKiLturF8 Dark side of the spoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yexNdSLEpIY What if demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZVgOtWiH2M Atari game tools (ST as well as STE)
The first time I contracted COVID, the other symptoms were wild, and I gave myself even odds on dying. However I did not lose my sense of smell or taste.

The second time I contracted COVID, it was mostly just a miserable fever but I lost my smell and taste, and they still have not come back completely almost a year later.

My theory is that COVID does a random walk when eating away the brain from wherever it enters.
On the apple cable... That circuit looks like a lot more than an e-marker. Why do we have a massive 105 pin BGA chip in there?

Does this cable run iOS or something?
None of the examples you mentioned are even world-wide, given that you can't use UPI in Japan, or FedNow can't be used outside of the US or PIX outside of Brazil so are totally useless for users outside of those countries.

These 'rails' are just meant for the introduction of a CBDC in their respective countries which will just have the same issues that Nigeria's eNaira 'CBDC' had which once that was tried, it was a complete failure. [0] [1] which UPI and PIX will have the same problems and will be no different.

[0] https://business.cornell.edu/hub/2023/04/28/nigerias-enaira-...

[1] https://www.pymnts.com/cbdc/2022/nigeria-cuts-atm-cash-withd...
ComfyUI or fooocus handle SDXL way better than A1111 with 10gb VRAM or under. While I really like A1111, it just isnt usable with XL for me.
yup! we can support both consumer & business borrowers. "pay-later" solution is a quite popular application of our product!

one callout here - it sounds like you're looking for someone to take on the balance sheet/collection risk, which is not something we do. we're saas only. our customers keep upside from offering credit (additional revenue, interest income, higher LTV, greater GMV etc) and also the balance sheet
Font.Skin – No more average CSS text effects, time for awesome GPU ones!
Until now such rich text effects required manual animation in programs like After Effects and exporting to videos.

Font.skin connects GPU shaders with webfonts to allow creating real-time, browser-based animated text effects never seen before on the web.

Global uniforms are compatible with Shadertoy i.e. iTime, iResolution etc. to allow pasting parts of shaders from ST.

Font skins can be exported to pure HTML or React and have no dependencies. Text transitions are scriptable in GLSL which is transpiled to JS. This is to allow exporting to game engines in the nearest future as transpiling from GLSL to other strongly typed languages is simpler than from arbitrary JS. The resulting code together with all required glyphs, gzipped often takes less space than a screenshot of itself or the font it's based on i.e. 30KB
Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
What's the $ in your remark?

Hint: Its not USD. For an exchange like Binance, its USDT, or Tethers. Its not so hard for them to print USDT and pretend that they're dollars.
Just needs 44 billion new users to sign up! /s
If I were a broad tools vendor, I'd very much want an internal team to ship something real using the new hotness to make sure we find ways to support it. How else can they understand the needs of a new market?
BTC was around $65,000 a couple years back, no? I wonder how much of the current price of $28,000 is propped up by lost thumb drives , or wallets seized by authorities - limited supply rather than continued speculation.
Mistral 7B Finetuned for 32k Context by AWS
It seems to perform best with 16K context, but works well with up to 32K context.

This is interesting, especially coming from Amazon, as vanilla Mistral-Instruct is much better than llamav2 7B, and extremely fast on modest hardware.
Pebble time
> As for the final result, well, FBR's first outdoor test build as shown in the video below might result in some harsh words from an employer – take a look around the 1:08 mark, where the lighting shows some clear inaccuracies in brick placement. But given that this was literally the first testing and calibration run for the next-gen robot, we'll assume that's not likely to remain a problem for long.

That's a bit too fawning for my taste. A more level-headed analysis might be "it might improve over time". NewAtlas tends to spooge over any new tech. That's their bread and butter.
How do you manage hiring and firing from the team?

That's ultimately why Managers wind up "on top", they can make choices about who to bring on, and who to let go.

And since they are "on top", they say they deserve more money and more control, etc.
Some of the only spam messages I receive are ads for cannabis shops. I've never even touched a plant.
So the big use case of crypto is evading and violating international sanctions?
I've been using the same Hue lightbulbs for at least 8 years now and never had any of the issues you describe. When you have a home with children and a fair number of rooms, you'll find that turning off the lights at night is not just a simple matter of "getting off the couch and flicking a switch." Also, I've rarely encountered smart lighting that didn't have a physical switch as a fallback option (for example, my Lutron Caseta switches have buttons on them that will work just fine if the network goes down, and my Hue bulbs are all connected to dumb switches), so the idea it doesn't work "100% of the time" is a strawman argument.
It means the interfaces become important and you can work on the internals in parallel.
That's conjecture and based on intermediate metrics such as report cards / SAT scores
> No business on earth will give Debit Card users a discount

IKEA has had a debit card discount for at least 10 years.
> To love a product means to pay money for it.

We need a word for these kind of randian sociopathies.
My wife uses an XR and I have an XS. Neither of us have any complaints, though I remember trying an app mentioned on HN that didn't work because it needed ... a newer version of neural engine, or something. We also got a MBP 5 years ago and it still runs great as well.

I frequently see people rag on the cost of Apple stuff, but I'm pretty happy with the length of time they remain usable without annoyance. We generally buy used as well, so that helps lower the sting.
Please tell me smart beds gracefully degrade to dumb beds

That's not a given in today's world
I second all the questions here, having worked in consumer lending alongside Risk teams as well. The big questions alongside these that come to my mind are:

1. Who has the lending licenses? Given the website footer disclaimer says Pier isn't the lender. I would guess it's either a banking partnership or a license arrangement carried over from Stilt/JG Wentworth?

2. How does Pier think of itself in relation to someone like LoanPro (who from my industry conversations has had a lot of positive momentum as the best origination software) and the other origination/servicing platforms? I gather the idea is a bundled "origination + decision + servicing" platform.

LoanPro doesn't do the decision engine piece itself, but from what I gathered it was partially due to the precisely the complexity and compliance risks parent commenter noted.

Definitely best of luck to the team, as the space can always use better software than what I've seen at older institutions.
I don't see that OPs take as cynical, just realistic. Time and time again, companies, especially major ones have shown that they will always prioritize making money over everything else. The sooner people accept this, the better.

People have ideals, companies do not. The people employed by those companies have ideals but its beyond foolish to think that those ideals would be prioritized over profit.

Businesses don't have a conscience, people do, but that doesn't mean that the business will do the right thing. Sure, the ideals of the person and the ones the company reports can match up, but it's only through luck and not out of a sense of the greater good.
New version, dropped macron, added macaron :) . https://www.ionspin.com/images/illustrations/ImprovedMemento...
Main issue for most people is legacy peripheral support. There was never a good reason for the iMac to be glued together over just using screws.
I would if the new ceo quartered the old one.
Likely your body had built up immunity. It's unclear if later strains had less of an effect on taste or people were just better prepared.
Speaking of USB-C 10 Gbit/s cables, I've noticed something odd about the iPhone 15 Pro:

I have a USB-C cable that has been yielding 10 Gbit/s speeds (i.e. USB 3 Gen 2x1 or possibly but very unlikely 1x2) when used at my Mac with various devices (mostly SSDs).

However, that same cable only gets USB 2 speeds when connecting the iPhone to my Mac. The iPhone itself also seems to only get USB 2 speeds using the SSD and that cable. Yet with another, newer USB-C 10 Gbit/s cable, I get 10 Gbit/s throughout all scenarios.

What's going on here? Is the iPhone overly strict about supporting USB 3 speeds over USB-C cables, i.e. is my old cable possibly not electronically marked properly, and the Mac is just more tolerant of that?

And something else I've noticed: The iPhone also does not get 10 Gbit/s using a somewhat monstrous adapter construction (USB-C to USB-A adapter, USB-A to USB-C cable) that should however be fully standards-compliant without any active e-markers (i.e. a resistor-marked A-to-C cable and a resistor-marked C-to-A adapter).

I really wish there was an easy way to dump the cable's SOP' communication on macOS and look into whether a given cable is actually e-marked, and if so, with what capabilities. Alternatively, just showing this in "System Information" would really help, i.e. indicating whether a connection is only using USB 2 speeds due to the cable or the device not supporting more.
Cars, like smartphones, don't really need an upgrade every year, but the manufacturers feel the need to come up with a new lineup each year, even when the changes are minimal at best and cosmetic at worst. Most cars are already very good enough at their job and don't need an upgrade.

its not about getting you to upgrade. if you are happy with your current desktop/laptop then don't upgrade. its targeting people who either love to play with the "newest" cpu or people who is looking to upgrade because their desktop/laptop is really old just like car
At the low, low cost of the entirety of their privacy in their digital life.
Did you compile accuracy, F1 numbers, or anything like that? Do you have quantitative comparisons of results you got w/ different models?
But does it require a herd of consultants to install and maintain like all other oracle technologies?
There are success stories in tech at least.

Crypto only has "Bitcoin has above market returns" in terms of success.

There was some neat smart contract stuff but some of that technically breaks trading rules (aka is questionable legality) and others are a coin flip as to whether a vulnerability will let someone drain the entire fund.
One of a Kind Business Cards
I think the word "support" is a tricky one. We've got a leadership vacuum. I hope that the downfall of Netanyahu will make an opening for someone decent to rise.
This really highlights one of the disadvantages of everything going to the same physical port - it's not easy to tell what the capabilities of the port and cable are.
Not just T-Mobile; Twilio is also (selectively) hostile to cannabis. T-Mobile blocks (or tags as spam) 100s of legitimate, licensed businesses. From the FCC: "Universal service is the principle that all Americans should have access to communications services" -- and Twilio, T-Mobile (and other providers) make selective choices which are against that policy.
Isn't that just shifting the user's misunderstanding to whoever is developing the application?

I guess my argument is that if the type of behaviour described in the article causes problems, perhaps the technology was chosen incorrectly.

Edit: Or maybe I just have a problem with the vocabulary. Obviously, it's useful information.
> If you don't like the law, lobby politicians to change it.

Some laws are unjust and it's your duty as a human being with free will to disobey them.
Panasonic inverter microwave.

It lasted 10 years. I was able to get the same model online.

Sony LCD projection tv, got it in 2005 from CircuitCity, still going strong

TI-85 calculator from mid 1990s, still going strong
Ah finally, my daily required dose of thinking about the Roman Empire.
I think microfrontends are the ultimate extension of what I call "the myth of code reuse".

Everyone thinks because they can create "small reusable slices" of full frontend code that this comes for free without a load of problems that get in the way of the mythical land. The only issue is everyone who has tried microfrontends is universally full of regret.

Other attempts at this are:

1) having an enforced centralised library of components (this just about works) - how this is managed and the engagement with other teams is critical.

2) turn everything into an npm package and create version hell at the end of a sprint as hundreds of devs try to version bump everything and the main package.json all at the same time.

3) free for all with moving people regularly between teams. This is the best solution because best practices automatically filter their way through each team through the people and everyone learns and gets on with each other in a human way that allows real collaboration.

4) splitting vertically rather than by components so one team does the search UI another does the homepage another does the product detail etc. but hopefully in the same technology!

Or you could probably just reduce the number of people adding pointless features to your ecommerce site... Ah there is five of you and you did microfrontends didn't you, I can't and won't help you then :-/
I'm a bit annoyed that the only comparisons in the article are Apple's gold plated cable and then three random Amazon fly by night cables. I wish they had tested a more reputable cable that was maybe only 1/4 of the price of the Apple cable.
Same here,

> However, I still want units in meters, Celsius, dates written sensibly, time in 24h format etc.

but also sensible sorting. I'm currently mixing en_DK, en_IE, en_US, C and cs_CZ (my native language) locales for various LC_*, but it's still not perfect and some apps (such as Thunderbird) ignore this anyway and others (Slack) have only one language setting, so I can select either US with 12-hour time or UK with UK spelling. Does anyone have a solution? Should a write a new locale?
BTC seized by authorities is regularly sold for market value.
Government agencies exist because congress is lazy and writing good regulation on every topic under the sun is hard. Congress describes what they want to happen, get their brownie points either from constituents or from rich donors, and move on. Regulators are then left with the actual work of creating the rules and implementing the systems that carry out that will.

The amount and degree of interpretation they are allowed to do is obviously up for debate (and has been litigated thoroughly and repeatedly) but its really silly to say "just do what congress says" as if congress doesn't constantly defer its responsibility for creating regulations to the executive.
Do you believe your own personal experience with those two English-speaking countries can be extrapolated to every other country in the world?
Did we really land on the moon?!?
Fooocus MRE for SDXL. The quality is just so much better than a1111 or vlad's fork. And its stable, with a good UI:

https://github.com/MoonRide303/Fooocus-MRE/commits/moonride-...

I use VoltaML for SD 1.5: https://github.com/VoltaML/voltaML-fast-stable-diffusion/tre...

Next on my todo list is trying ComfyUI with AIT: https://github.com/FizzleDorf/ComfyUI-AIT
It's more alive than it has been in years.
"Microfrontends" is a new term for me. Are there specific frameworks that embody the concept (and if so, where on GitHub would I look)? Is it more of a broad architectural pattern?
The Orion “iPad as a HDMI” app itself was discussed previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37812691
> Really still unclear what utility it provides that fiat currencies do not. Not theoretical utility, like real world utility.

Because it gets you away from the fiat aspect of it.

I'm not talking about the arguments over monetary economics and whether we should just trust central banks not to print too much money; I'm talking about the other type of fiat. If you contribute money to the wrong protesters, "liberal" "democratic" Western governments can and will freeze your bank account. If you live in the wrong country, Visa and Mastercard will cut off your access to your own money as collective punishment for the actions of a government you didn't even freely elect. If you want to trade in goods the government doesn't like, they have ways of making that difficult for you.

Crypto got sold to finance bros as some sort of respectable financial instrument, which it clearly is not. If you're a respectable normal person in a Western country, crypto probably just isn't for you.
Wow, I had no idea the fees were so high
Medium format film cameras like Rolleiflex or Mamiya C.

Well, considering the price of used Fuji GFX50S (or SII) is gradually decreasing, perhaps one day I'm done with film.
I discussed this in the rest of the thread. Notice that during those years the PLO was still a terrorist organization and Hamas existed as the Muslim Brotherhood.

A few years after the PLO laid down its arms Rabin was elected and the Oslo accord took place.
I have started answering the phone with, "Thanks for calling the Labor Organizing Hotline, how can we help you unionize your workplace today?"

The hope is that it results in some self-reflection for the caller, though it hasn't reduced the number of calls.
Why is a Microsoft Azure team now using "Radius" to mean something different from what another Microsoft Azure team documented as recently as last week?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/aut...
You seem to be very pro crypto, so I don't believe we're going to find middle ground. Appreciate the debate regardless!