skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glad to see a no-strings attached gift. Being Microsoft, though, I would not mind seeing a higher number.
Does anyone have recent experience with both? I'm in the market, for a startup, and I need to decide. My priorities are the data warehouse (BigQuery vs. Redshift) and ML (Vertex AI vs. SageMaker).

This article is three years old. Vertex did not even exist then.
A New Chapter for Siri: Apple's Leap into Generative AI
Indeed, wasn't until 2011 or so until I saw my first roundabout in the USA.

For my other Americans, read the Australian's post above. Can get across an entire town without stopping as a reason to remake our towns with roundabouts.
It's more like: you have a machine that evaluates whether the peanut butter you're producing is up to spec (right viscosity, right fat content, whatever), and if your machine complains and says your peanut butter isn't coming out right, you need a way to know if the problem is actually with your peanut butter or if it's that your peanut butter testing machine is miscalibrated. If you put the known-acceptable reference peanut butter through it and your machine says that's fine, it's your peanut butter, but if that also produces an error, you know it's your machine.
The greatest thing about roundabouts is that they protect against the idiot that goes through an intersection at full speed. He does that either because he is passed out behind the wheel or because he did not notice a stop sign and thought he had the right of way, or maybe because he just does not care.

Well with a roundabout if you just go straight ahead you hit the center circle. Good roundabouts always have a slight hill and some kind of barrier (a tree or some kind of statue) in the center so that the guy that just goes straight through will hit something in the center and wont come out the other side and will thus be less likely to kill an innocent person.

Single lane roundabouts are usually a good idea if the cost justifies it. Double and more lane roundabouts probably should be avoided in the US; they include rather obscure rules as to which lane you are allowed to drive in at any moment and americans do not like to learn new rules.
Until you do what Cambridge, MA has done twice near my house: put a traffic light just outside the roundabout, so when the light turns red, traffic inevitably backs up through the roundabout, locking it up entirely.

https://www.google.com/maps/@42.3875777,-71.1422076,18z?entr...
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Currently, we support only AWS but do want to support other cloud providers. Technically, you can even have one DB that spans across cloud providers with your tenants, but we have not yet seen many use cases for multi-cloud.

W.r.t replicating data across tenants, could you give an example use case for it?
I find the GCP documentation to be lacking compared to AWS. Specifically while using GCP with Terraform I hit more frustrating nonsense error messages with little to no google hits or undocumented behavior around IAM config compared to my experience doing similar things on AWS.
> can you go a full 8 hour work day without touching the mouse?

What does this have to do with anything? If I felt the need to work this way, I absolutely could set up my Mac + any JetBrains IDE to do it, but to me it is an entirely unnecessary requirement.

> can you easily pipe the entire file through grep or awk, or insert the contents of the output of curl or jq?

Yes, and probably from within my IDE (if I cared to), which I probably won't do and don't need to because there exists other tools and plugins.
safety? bah! try going round the hanger lane gyratory system (west london, uk) in a triumph spitfire, at high speed, driven by a girl (my girlfriend at the time) who was too tiny to reach the pedals.
There is an issue with them though. If there is very unbalance traffic flow in one direction through the roundabout, traffic from the perpendicular direction tends to be perpetually forced to yield. And only being allowed in the roundabout by some graceful soul.

This can happen on routes where there are multiple chained roundabouts, that usually results in traffic coming at an even rate with no gaps in between.
Yeah, that's not how Apple's CVEs work.
The high price of defunding the polce
The US has a very high imprisonment rate. How 'bout we create lots more laws that specify sentences of hard labor... breaking up olivine ?
Using Python with Bazel is fairly common at big SV companies -- they use rules_python with it (https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_python). It does rely on pip for grabbing dependencies but handles building modules and can integrates well with rules_docker/rules_oci for building container images from your code.
Behaves as I expected now!

I went here looking for more info about payperrun https://payperrun.com/%3E/welcome and clicked on the "Spotlight" section and saw 4 popups blocked - I never see popups anywhere these days and have to admit that sends me away pretty quickly.
Why do you say you were suspended for using a different browser, when the message from Reddit says you were suspended for using a different account and evading a ban?
Heh. No sarcasm at all in my comment! (but I like to write in an over the top way...)

Terse notation has nothing to do with manual handwriting. Modern math books and articles are still written by computer using a very terse symbolic notation, which has been developed during the last six centuries. Originally, the symbols +, = were shorthand abbreviations of Latin words.

I guess computer scientists want to re-invent everything from scratch. How long will they need to evolve from "LinearAlgebra.matrixVectorProduct(,)" to the empty string? I hope it's less than six centuries!
Consistency of the peanut butter and pureness.

Let’s say you are a large food producer and you have to make a pb&j sandwich. You are going to do a great deal of measurement, taste tests and other experiments to verify your sandwich is what it says on the box. Also packaging will be highly dependent and also even the nutrition label. Do you want to worry in the design phase that your sandwich has a variable consistency and weight ? No .
They also warned us about cars and oh boy did they hit the nail on the head with that one...
How do you make this work with frameworks like Svelte which, when server side rendering, cast all props to string (!) attributes?
Am I doing mental health right? Do I get an A+?
probably to prevent the oil from coming to the top, like other expensive peanut butters
Here is an example of a successful business bootstrapped that way: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1717183107529576672

Quoted here:

First version was an index.html +
@Stripe
link +
@Typeform
to upload photos, then I manually dl'd the photos and uploaded them to the GPU

Pic 2 is current version as a web app after 1Y: 100% automated, 1850 customers @ $79K MRR, renamed to http://photoai.com
After submitting, I noticed this was submitted a few times without attracting any comments, and it might be because it's a slow burn to get started. It's a neat look at how optimization approaches taken by different databases can lead to very different outcome distributions for the same query.
React is the Spring framework of the frontend world.
in addition to the suggestion of lab food for rodents, presumably allergen testing for peanut allergies, devices or reagents used to detect allergens could be a large (and growing) use case.
For recurring tasks I use cron + ntfy to send myself a notification.

This way I can add a bit more conditional logic before sending myself a notification.
I don't buy the article's argument around the "Fear that GCP may be abandoned by Google". Yes, it is highly unlikely that Google will wake-up one day and announce a deprecation day for GCP, like they did with dozens of other products. What is not unlikely though is that they under-invest in it compared to AWS, and being a 2nd or 3rd player, they would fall behind in products and/or reliability, unable to compete on price or features due to better economies of scale of the competitors.

Before Google kills products, they lose interest in them.
No we don't bounce your mail. If you really did go over, we'd let it slide. However, if it becomes a blatant overage, the sender will be informed the mail cannot be delivered to you because you're over the quota. You will be warned several times before this happens though.
and on the inside of that shell, we're all pretty much the same...
Probably the one linked above by Tom Scott, or this one by Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esQyYGezS7c

The Veritasium one mentions NIST peanut butter specifically, even.
So, it's easy, but people don't want to do it because... they're evil?
Yeah I'm very unclear on this.

I thought the slogan was pay for the "data you use" in which case I'd expect something like no limits on how many in/out per day but e.g. first 1GB in/out is free and $0.10/GB after that with no limits as long as you pay. Or something like that.
Exactly.

This is akin to selling a calibrated 1 kilogram cube of lead, with a precision of 1 nanogram and specified purity, for $1000. You are not just buying an overpriced $3 block of lead, but one that can be precisely used for calibrating machines, equipment, or processes.
FWIW, javascript:// bookmarklets don't work on the standard Chrome home / new tab page, but data URL bookmarklets work everywhere. Here's my bookmarklet for Day Of Year...

data:text/html,<script>now=new Date();alert(`Today is DOY ${1+Math.floor((now.getTime()-new Date(now.getFullYear(),0,1).getTime())/8.64E7)}`);</script>
Generative AI as a category isn't going anywhere and the model interfaces are mostly interchangeable so there isn't much lock-in. If OpenAI were to jump the shark, it's not that hard to switch an app to alternative models.

Plus, OpenAI is making plenty of revenue[1]. Yes, they're operating at a loss to grow faster, but it sounds like their unit economics are positive meaning can likely become profitable in the future without price hikes or user-hostile changes.

1- https://www.maginative.com/article/openais-revenue-skyrocket...
>Not the first time you've seen them since then, then.

the only reason i know about that blog post is because they stickied it on their locked subreddit. i didn't stumble upon it out in the greater internet.
Love seeing cool stuff like this, thank you.
There's no profit in saving the planet.

Dig deep enough into any initiative that claims to be doing that and you'll find that it has far reaching consequences that negate whatever positive impact it has on the planet, and dealing with them would reduce profits.
With even a medium level investment in AWS, I can get actual human people from Amazon on my company Slack on a channel and I can talk to them directly. I can get them to fly to our office to train people or workshop on how to use the resources more effectively.

On GCP I get some AI bot that doesn't answer anything and if I anger it by accident, my account and my business is gone. Then my only option is getting on the HN front page to get some help.
TIO – online interpreters for programming languages
It’s exactly the same peanut butter time after time, which also adds complexity!

It’s easy to make peanut butter. It’s difficult to make each batch “chemically” identical! (Yes, chemically identical is impossible in a product like peanut butter, but identical enough for the purpose)
Hydrogen for birthday balloons is where it's at, and then you get a fun send-off, too.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_RKdWYqgu3Y
Mailerlite, based in the EU, in Lithuania.
It's only negligible if the rock is a negligible amount of extra weight. Otherwise, the energy to transport will still come from somewhere & not be negligible unless all that energy is from a non-carbon fuel source (bulk transportation is nowhere near decarbonized).
> This question is important enough that there have been papers written on it. I suggest you read https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/65/6/501/5300...

This is a physics education journal: its papers are supposed to be interesting and accessible to undergrads, not on the frontier of the field.

What the linked paper amounts to is noticing that the sensitivity of a detector depends on the relative length scales of the arms and the waves you're trying to detect. This is true, and also one of the first things you would consider when figuring out what size your detector should be. It's a good homework problem, but not news to anyone actually working on LIGO.
I’m of the belief that the reason he has so suddenly become hated in the last few years (because it’s really unjustified, if you look purely at his works) is a direct result of engineering by those who would suffer if he continued his ascent without public opinion against him. None of the public narrative about him (especially the Twitter stuff) or the reasons people generally mock him make much sense, or are very relevant to 99% of the things he is actually spending time and resources on. It’s 100% manufactured.

Starship and access to orbit, as well as Starlink (which cheap access to orbit enabled) are indeed insanely powerful geopolitical tools. Many of the existing geopolitical engineers would hate to see him not be firmly subordinate to themselves.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the FAA’s decision is being used as a bargaining chip here. You don’t get to do things like this in the USA unless you play ball 100% with the existing people who control access to orbit.

Nobody is richer or more powerful than the people who presently control the satellite-based weapons and surveillance systems that the US operates. Nobody will be able to be in a position to replace or supplant them without some sort of negotiation with them.

Imagine it: with a working Starship, Musk could replace GPS, Keyhole, and whatever the rods-from-god system is codenamed, in a matter of months (or perhaps weeks, if the payload design work is already underway), for anyone on the Earth who he thinks would benefit his goals. A lot of the leverage that exists against him (and can presently be used to constrain him) would be gone, never to return. It’s already fairly obvious that the geopolitical status quo on Earth is not very important to him.
With lively enough traffic, it’s not rare to see several cars waiting for their turn to enter the roundabout.
Can a model be weighted to disagree, deliberately avoiding matching user beliefs in the current session? That would be interesting, although annoying.
You need an Arc account to use Arc too, don’t you?
> draw parallels with other complex systems

My first thought was how software complexity imitates life.

I remember seeing a reference[1] that about 5-10% of all Windows operating system source code was dedicated to security in one sense or another, such as malware detection, cryptographic libraries, certificates, Defender, Bitlocker, UAC, all the complicated code for file permissions, privileges, authentication, etc.

[1] This is one of those things that is very difficult to Google for, and I haven't been able to find a reference to where I read it.
Yes, further details would be very illuminating !
It's not highly unlikely. Google has so much ad money at hand, anything else hardly matters.
Related:

Many ways where GCP excels over AWS - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23124350 - May 2020 (39 comments)
> Like, for real, why do people buy a domain, configure dns, design a full webpage, setup some server somewhere?

Same can be said for personal blogs. The purpose is showing off. By the way, setting up a server nowadays is ridiculously easy and cheap. If you have done it a few times and you use a simple static site stack with CI then you can have a site live in 15-30 minuted including SSL and hosting for free (GitHub Pages, Cloudflare, or GitLab Pages for example).
> Without human actives the earth is slightly net negative

Source? AFAIK greenhouse warming has the capacity to be a runaway effect. It's not immediately obvious that if you remove all current human carbon emissions, that temperatures would level off & start declining vs continue increasing because of the feedback loop.
Thanks. Good answers.

What are you thinking will happen when a SaaS grows like Salesforce, with a very large number of tenants, where some of the tenants have very large databases? What will Nile do when the database just can't fit in a single Postgres cluster?

Edit: Never mind, I see from your web site that moving tenants between databases is one of the main things you try to address.
For some reason, I've always felt that comments here are ephemeral.
Buffy's Swearing Keyboard

https://www2.b3ta.com/buffyswear/

VRML, MIDI players,
Why are we even thinking of doing this? I am more than a little concerned that it may not be wise to assume the answer to biome engineering is even more biome engineering…
Wow! It is amazing how many languages are supported by this.
You bought a house and now the bank demands you use Windows? What?

Assuming this is about "paying the bills" and using Windows at work; this is your employer/customer causing this issue for you by demanding Windows. Not Microsoft.
Not a big fan of someone being able to spam me and get my email locked out of like this. :/
One of the 2 never deprecate anything and ensure your workload will run untouched for 10y or more.
The other one will force you every 6 months to update sdk, api endpoints or even kill a service you need in weeks.
I let you guess who's who
What are ROMs vs. CHDs vs. extras?
N1 (USSR Lunar mission) rocket had similar engine group design - 30 similar engines (NK-15).

I remember one professor in our university who did post-mortem analysis of the program failure.

He compared that setup with 3-body problem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem) where system exhibits nearly chaotic behavior on small disturbances - not stable. 30+ driving engines just multiply the severity - extremely not stable. Plus parasitic resonances in engines and all such wonders.

N1 had very fat backlink (for that time) to base where control system / computers of the engine pack was located. Sure, computers are better now than when but I suspect problem of controlling such pack is not really solvable due to instability of physical system.

I really want to be mistaken but here is my educated guess - this thing will not fly.

All successful designs so far have one or two main engines, may have additional engines but of significantly lower thirst.
Most people's lives suck and the only thing that they have going for them is consumerism. So it's reasonable that they are unwilling to give up consumerism.

Therefore, the hard part is changing the structure of society so that people's lives don't suck.
Being a mail provider, most of the things we do are to protect users and the servers. The in/out per day are really to prevent spammers and abuse. Also, I don't like charging people for overages. It never sits well.
That’s certainly your prerogative!
This is a bit of a misunderstanding on the part of NileBlue: the NIST materials are not pure; they are produced mostly normally. The only reason they are expensive is that, once prepared, very precise measurements have been done on them, available along the purchase, so that food manufacturers can calibrate their machines.

Here’s a video talking about that: https://youtu.be/YqYAWF7wd9k?si=OeNMVoU66ZvQUts7&t=658
You're probably looking for the fracture energy -- the energy required to create a fracture with a unit surface area.

Take the grain size you're looking to end up with, compute the surface area and mass, combine it with the fracture energy, and you should have a pretty decent estimate for the energy required to grind a particular substance to a particular size.
I'm suddenly getting visions of the Super Mario Bros Movie.

Personally I think we need to start transitioning away from cars altogether. Trains and trams all the way baby!
AWS European Sovereign Cloud
If you are just moving cargo and not passengers, hopefully our world is not so broken that emotional decisions will be of first importance.
You can use crypto to pay eg. notable VPN providers, or to make all sorts of donations, but one of the issues facing crypto for a service like this is that you can't automate monthly payments (at least, not in a standardized and broadly compatible way). You always need to pay a regular invoice, pre-pay for a long period, or (in the best case) regularly top off a custodial wallet that cooperates with registered services and protégés on your behalf (eg. via some standardized smart-contract that hasn't been widely adopted yet). Stripe can just store your info and bill you monthly, but no one hands over their crypo wallet seed in the same way.
I've worked in AWS before and also in a company that uses GCP.

Funnily enough, I would recommend AWS over GCP in every single category except for the two that you mentioned.

Although Snowflake is my choice for DW and it is cloud agnostic
Specifically, the atomic mass of carbon is 12 and oxygen is 16. So for CO2, 12/44 of the mass is carbon, or about 27%. So of that 20 pounds of CO2, about 5 1/2 pounds are carbon, the other 15 pounds is oxygen sucked out of the atmosphere.
- Business: Legit customers sometimes guess e-mails like support@, abuse@, sales@, jobs@, careers@, info@, and other language variants of these words, you may not want to set up mailboxes for all of these.

- Personal: Plus addressing doesn't work with many services but you sometimes want a single-use e-mail address to purchase something from a website and still have the receipt.
Despite them claiming defunding, the public budget clearly shows they've only been getting more money, year over year: https://abc7news.com/where-police-departments-defunded-how-d...
I'm going to generously assume that you're asking a sincere question and not trying some tired political baiting, even though you mentioned climate change out of nowhere.

Yes, rivers are extremely dynamic -- they run dry, flood, and change course over time. Often, those changes are dramatic and oscillatory so the same path may repeatedly run dry or wet over periods of years, decades, centuries, millennia, and longer. This is why we can often predict where droughts and floods are likely to recur, without precise timing of when. None of that has anything to do with climate change.

I hope this answered your question!
Exploring the reasons why we no longer have web designers
Trying to fix a rather large and mostly dysfunctional parliament, Italy recently tried the opposite solution: it slashed the number of representatives. It did not go well.
I completely agree, the value for customers is not a traditional video-game. Far from it.
My biggest challenge with GCP is that I'm still not convinced Google cares that much about this division.

They acquired Looker, fired the customer service staff, and then set it out to crumble. Looker used to be LOVED by its customers but now they were forced to make their semantic layer work with Tableau.

Also, I'm still not convinced Google cares about divisions that aren't linked to advertising. Google Search, Gmail (kinda), Maps, Android, and YouTube are their darlings.

Will GCP be around in 5 years? I honestly am not sure.
Except that almost every cell is somehow related to immunity. Almost every cell in the body has MHC Class I which constantly presents a subset/signature of its proteome to the immune system in case it gets infected by a virus, etc. Cells that don't do this are deleted by Natural Killer cells.

Also, many immune factors that people thought were restricted to particular compartments or cell types have been found in "non-immune" cells. For example, complement protein was thought to be a blood factor that is only made in the liver, but it turns out that it is also made locally by stromal cells of the intestine:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.02.523770v1....

Not to mention the burgeoning field of neuroimmunology - there are neurons in the spleen which are in direct contact with macrophages and we don't know why (or at least didn't know why a few years ago when I learned about it). But avoiding people with disease symptoms could be considered part of the 'immune system.'