skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're so simple that it's hard to believe they just work. I'm almost surprised that browser vendors haven't pushed the functionality out of existence just because, in favor of ever more complicated solutions.

Similarly, while prototyping an internal company wiki I made bookmarklets to fix some Sharepoint shenanigans and add features that otherwise would've required mucking about with extensions (tough when half the company was forced to use IE) or even worse, Sharepoint apps. The entire IT staff had a major WTF moment after explaining just how simple the whole thing was.
It has to be highly personal, I cannot eat after a gym session, but I feel better than ever. I often train fasted and stay fasted until my evening meal
All of this sounds very appealing, both as a standalone tool and as a complement to some thing like Dbt.

However the following seems like kind of an anti-feature, which I at least would want the option to disable:

> You do not need to worry about the structure of a database or parquet files

> dlt will create a nice, typed schema out of your data and will migrate it when the data changes. You can put some data contracts and Pydantic models on top to keep your data clean.

This is the opposite of what I want in 99% of projects. Most of the time, there is some kind of well-defined schema, even if it changes a little bit over time. If that schema is going to be depended upon by something like a data warehouse ELT pipeline, I want precise control over it. I do not want to hand that off to an opaque library.

Moreover, the work of actually writing out the schema is like 1% of the overall effort in consuming a new data source, and usually it turns out to be a constructive, useful exercise in pinning down assumptions, finding gaps in understanding, etc. So I see a little benefit in hiding it.

A schema essentially forms a business-critical contract between two major sections of the overall data pipeline, and that is absolutely not something I want to be changing dynamically without my explicit understanding and consent.

This reminds me of the temptation I have seen in some developers (several of them ostensibly "senior") to use MongoDB for a straightforward CRUD-like application. The argument that it's schema-less to me is a striking anti-feature, something I explicitly do not want!

The only time I really want this is in the rare and atypical case where I truly have no schema at all, or the schema is changing erratically and frequently in ways that I cannot reasonably anticipate and/or cannot dedicate developer resources to accommodating. That's a niche case that most people flatly do not have. Of course it's nice when a tool supports the niche use case that is very hard to deal with by conventional means (see also: OpenRefine), but it should absolutely not be the default and our tools should not encourage us to lie to ourselves that it's something we want or need.

If you just want to reduce manual grunt work effort, consider something like generating a schema from an OpenAPI specification / JSONSchema.
I don't think the problem is a few minutes of down time but all services going down at the same time. You can't order food (Uber down), your email down, your TV down, maybe even the traffic control?
A "friend of a friend" basically got their car totaled this way. At the time their converter was stolen, there was a several-month waiting list for a new one. They could get a temporary car, but could not afford a second parking spot. They had to buy a new car.
You've probably already seen, levelsio's tweet: https://twitter.com/levelsio/status/1457315274466594817

I also like one of his old posts: https://levels.io/12-startups-12-months/

Yeah, building something people want (and are willing to pay) is pretty hard, and trying to sell early/often is a good way to reduce your market risk. I'm more on the "build something I want", and as soon as I have something "I like", iterate on the communication/go-to-market, more than the product. I think this is more aligned with founders like Brian Chesky that launched (and failed) multiple times, but kept on going because they really believed in their idea (though I'm still on the failing part).

There are many Ask HN posts about launching which you might find useful:
https://payperrun.com/%3E/search?displayParams={%22q%22:%22A...
Very cool project, @MatthausK!

What are your thoughts on reducing LLM cost?

We are also exploring LLM-based data wrangling using EvaDB and cost is an important concern [1, 2, 3].

[1] https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb

[2] https://medium.com/evadb-blog/stargazers-reloaded-llm-powere...

[3] https://github.com/pchunduri6/stargazers-reloaded
It does work if you spray it directly in the nose. It does not work orally. I wonder if they think that CVS will be removing the spray.
I feel this, but also my family needs money and health insurance. So, yeah, live life now, because it’s short. But, also we have to do the things necessary to keep our jobs and keep food on the table.
Isn't the company behind Arc VC funded + the browser itself proprietary?

Both of those things together basically guarantees they'll try to squeeze out as money as possible from their users as soon as the "growth" phase has been completed.
Yeah, from my experience, it's a few thousand dollars, so if you have cash to burn, it's not too bad, but you probably don't need it until you have a stable cash influx
Swift is a great language for the Apple ecosystem, and the use cases desired by Apple, replacing C, C++ and Objective-C on their platforms.

Outside of it, is as good as trying to ship a GNUStep application in Objective-C 1.0, while catching up NeXTSTEP and OS X evolution.
that's what I bought, but it's canceled because it doesn't use their current battery technology called "Ultium." Unfortunately they went all in on big expensive EVs with their first Ultium vehicles so I don't think they will sell that well as hybrid or gas would be my choice for those larger cars.
What can you pick up free off the internet that will help you design, build and support https://www.nokia.com/networks/mobile-networks/reefshark/, https://www.nokia.com/networks/ip-networks/fpcx/ or https://www.nokia.com/networks/technologies/fp5/ ? These hardware products (and their supporting software) are the foundation of what Nokia is selling. There might be Linux running on top (or on the side) of this, but that isn't really the part people are paying for.
This advice is really good, even excellent. The first bullet is very important, and often ignored: "you can't do good work with bad tools". I might prefer to say "use low friction workflows", but it's largely a semantic quibble. The insight here is that what makes a good set of tools for a novice programmers is different from what an expert programmer needs. Specifically, while VSCode is a great editor, it's maze of plugins and configs makes it quite challenging for a novice programmer. Something trivial like Notepad++ or nano is actually more appropriate for a novice. The new crop of web IDEs are also quite good for the novice and should be seriously considered for intro classes. No novice should be forced to manage ssh keys for their first assignment.

A novice student should be able to generate a working "hello, world" program in 10-20 minutes. This typically means leaving a lot of the software engineering aspect out of the workflow. That's all ok for a novice programmer. It is important for them to engage directly with the workflows.

For example, consider this SWIG tutorial: https://www.swig.org/tutorial.html

Assuming you have a basic editor that you can use (nano) and an environment with all the dependencies installed, you can get a working python plugin built by reading 4-6 sentences, copying data into 2 files, and invoking 3 shell commands. This despite the fact that SWIG is a very deep and complex tool.

The debugging information is really important. I've seen classes where they do not discuss this at all with novice students. Kids need tools to troubleshoot their problems, desk checking code is difficult and only gets more difficult as the length of the programs grow.

The advice on avoiding long expressions is likewise golden. Long expressions are difficult to read, shorter ones are easier to read (this actually applies to variable names well - contrary to the advice in the article).

Finally, the advice on adhering to the DRY principle is not really applicable to novice programmers. Refactoring is hard. Writing library quality code is time consuming. Novice programmers should not be shamed for copy pasting 2-5 lines of code throughout their program. The topic of code organization, libraries, and SOLID principles are things to dig into after a novice has written a couple dozen programs.
Can you provide me with an example please? I've seen the ElementInternals api but still don't understand how it should help with the case of being able to submit the form by hitting enter in one of the inputs (which is standard html behavior).

I wasn't able to find working example anywhere and all the discussions around the issue are still open which leads me to an assumption that this is in fact, still unsolved.

https://lit.dev/playground/#project=W3sibmFtZSI6InNpbXBsZS1n...
Ok, and...?

(Edit: Not to be snarky, but really, so what if that happens? Same thing happens if there's a power outage in your neighborhood. Is it a big deal?)
My wife would literally get sick from fishburps. But there's an easy solution, she just switched to special capsules* from Möllers that dissolve in the intestines instead of the stomach, which completely solves fishburps.

I just chug this stuff right from the bottle, but when the price is the same I buy lemon tasting tran, which gives lemon burps instead.

* can't find any special name on the packaging. The info about anti burp system is easy to miss. This is just one of many types of capsules produced by Möllers, anti burps are elongated and slightly cloudy, if it helps.
wow what a perfect service to steal session cookies
Having been homeless and stealth camped extensively I can assure anyone reading that with no car and greater than .25 mi from a road or home you are invisible to 99.99% of population and 100% of local cops. The only guy that ever found me out was a forest ranger who wildly I randomly met on foot several miles away from nearest road in rugged terrain (and that was way too far for him to mess with hauling me to jail).
Lol might need to use that phrase more 'Don't be a taker: be a Preneur'.

Kinda sounds like something Andrew Tate would say tbh.
I see the appeal. I've been fortunate to spend long stretches in the wilderness – once spending 10 weeks walking through Utah deserts – another time walking deep into a permitted (ie: zero other people) region of the Himalaya. The boredom yet majesty – which at first appears to be a contraction – of being immersed in nature is deeply invigorating and fulfilling.

I find it takes about 5-8 days before the contentment and clarity kicks in.
That example looks completely opaque to me. Not only does it obfuscate what's actually happening by using some incomplete code from a chatbot, but it also is an actually relevant to the task at hand, which is to demonstrate your library, not to demonstrate some beginner level API data access. Skimming over it, I couldn't tell where your library actually got involved at all, it just looked like a couple of functions to access data, followed by links to your documentation. I suggest dumping the whole thing and starting with a more coherent demo that focuses on the features of the tool you actually built, not on features of irrelevant systems.
Kiribati is severely overpopulated and drowning in its own trash.

https://www.travelsvenue.com/2018/05/Kiribati-Tarawa.html
A comprehensive guide to building RAG-based LLM applications for production
Can someone explain what the advantage of Nix is over Homebrew? I hear some stories where brew broke something, but I've never had any issues with it.
Depends where you are, if you live in one of the hubs where you have shopping etc nearby it can be workable but still not very convenient. LA is too sprawley so if you used to spend enough time in a car to aggravate you, expect to spend way more time and something like $2k/month on ubers.
Managing OpenAI Rate Limits with Request Prioritization
For an example of prior art, you should look into Astronomer's Cosmos Library to see how they integrate Dbt into Airflow.
I have never had issues with terrible WLB, but I have also never sought out FAANG in SV (and never have been anywhere $1m+). The closest I've been was Biotech. I am not sure that I would trade my WLB for a much more stressful job that pays 2-3x what I make now. It could mean that my spouse "retire" from work and take care of the home and kids, while still maintaining the ability of hiring external help. In that case, the increase in work stress may be compensated by reduced stress of household management
Take a sailboat. Its probably lower carbon impact than driving to your local park.
Same here, a week of at most, after that I feel useless, and the longer you wait the harder it gets to get back into hit.

The best is to keep the momentum, making it part of your routine removes the willpower from the equation
In my experience, company loyalty was useless but personal loyalty was valuable.

In tech, in good companies, most managers are helpful and thoughtful and ambitious themselves and my career was greatly accelerated by developing those personal relationships and playing the long game.
Is there a particular reason for the monthly payment when you already know (and have?) the total for the year? If it were me, I'd rather have money in my hand now instead of later.
wayback machine for current url:

javascript:window.location='https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+document.location
"I don't like how the system works" and "I blame this company for working in the system" aren't really the same point though.

If the real problem is the first one, then implicitly there is a need to propose something that works better. And that is no obvious (but it's obviously not simple).
Google is a friend :)

Looks like there were 2 outages[0], one in June and one in July of 2021.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/technology/websites-airlines-banks-t...
In adjacent news, I love that typeface.
likely scanning the envelope and calculating the volume
I know of a few coops that did active ethernet for future proofing after they got badly bitten by DSL. I doubt they even got that close to paying for the DSL rollout before they ended up ripping it all out for fiber.
It wasn't a video pitching the language and certainly not drawing any explicit parallels to modern practices. Just something that got me thinking about the distributed concurrency system of erlang for the first time in a decade.

Here is a conference talk that is a pitch, if that's what you're looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNICGEwmXLU
Edge is Chromium, with the added trust of Microsoft, is what Microsoft is saying. At least according to the article. Not sure which devil I trust the most, probably have the same level of trust in both of them, almost zero.
I, for one, hope the llama-wearing-tophat LORAS meet the smarmy looking turtle-neck mfers who just HAD to rebind all the sane keybindings on macs in order to 'think different' and build a usability moat around their OS. And I hope they kick butt when they do. But that's just on a personal level.

I love that LLM are getting more accessible and I want that trend to continue.
Did you read the whole thing? She was knocked onto its path. It might be have been physically impossible to avoid hitting her at that point.
Helicopter game! I'd forgotten about that.

Club Penguin. I was so very very happy when that shut down. I - and others - were doing Support at wordpress.com. Kids (I assume) constantly exploiting other kids to get into their accounts. Kids doing anything to get traffic, using popunder scripts and more.
I forgot, we also used word2vec to build an embedding space based on PubMed abstracts. We found lots of variant spellings (including hyphenated, unhyphenated, and space-separated), acronyms and abbreviations for chemical and biochem names. We could probably have built a lexicon of technical terminology from that. Not sure how far we would have gotten with definitions (vectors don't quite work...), but it would be a start. Pretty sure others have done dictionary building using that mechanism too.
And you haven't included some other costs of ownership of car - insurance, maintenance, purchase price/depreciation...
VIGIL?
I'm talking about freedom. Every person's financial situation is a separate thing.
Status page that actually shows the current status, such a rare phenomenon.
That is not true as the state wants the expansion and the state is also providing money for it. Also all the illegally installed p2mp that hasn't been activated while the case was going on will need to be converted and Swisscom isn't going to leave those connections lying around. The expensive part of running the fibers into the home is done and is the same for p2p as p2mp. It is only the fiber on the street that needs to be expanded.
i don't know your experience with polarizing filters, but in photography, they are adjustable by rotating them so that you can align them to achieve the effect you are looking for. this is what was meant my orientation.
Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and Open AI Name First Executive Director of FMF
Which breakages does this fix exactly? The fact that macOS upgrades may overwrite /etc/zshrc, etc? Other than that I haven't encountered any breakages whatsoever.
Support for NPM modules in Edge Functions
Tokyo beats them all and they didn't have an app.
Data isolation, recovery, backups are a big problem in the world of SaaS, especially at huge scale. Companies end up hiring a dedicated infra team to handle such issues.
Writing a Language Server in Bash
> ... start in VSCode... set aside time to do some tutorials...

Read a vim tutorial. Sheesh, I'm an emacs user and I think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread but I don't go around telling newbies that they should use good tools. vim's great. If that's what works for you, stick with it. You'll learn how to work with it eventually.
It can't be a failure when it never was a use case that Apple actually cared about.

The Swift FOSS folks are the ones that have tried to look into it, as there is hardly any other use case outside Apple's ecosystem.
If GPON or XGS ends up being a mistake, it can be fixed pretty easily as long as they didn't do distributed splits. As it stands currently, GPON itself is very much overkill in our deployment.
Why do billionaires have cramped yachts?

Living on a giant airship would be like having the highest penthouse apartment in the world, and the most amazing views. And you can move it when you get bored.
Portable sed -I across macOS and Linux
Configuration driven data pipelines. Here to kill us, or save us?
It should help replenish certain minerals in the soil.
Until passkey systems support key export and import, I predict that they will see limited use.

Who wants to trust your passkeys to a big corporation or third party? Vendor lock-in is a huge issue that cannot be overlooked.

Let me generate, store, and backup MY passkeys where I want them.
Golang demos/samples with Gorm/Xorm please (pretty please)!
I have no knowledge about this game, but I would suspect their core simulation loop running on the CPU would be the limiting factor, not the rendering on the GPU?
What I Tell Employees About Negative Press
But it's for your security! Not joking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21587191
I use vim therefore disagree
Circling back to add some info. From this[0] page:

"But the DMV also said it was not made aware that the Cruise vehicle then tried to pull over while the pedestrian was underneath it."

Kind of proves my point. Stopping completely would have been more ok. The issue the DMV took is that it then pulled over, and that cruise withheld that information.

[0]https://spectrum.ieee.org/lta-airship-faa-clearance
We'll need to remove CO_2 from the atmosphere on a massive scale.

Both the low and intermediate IPCC scenarios, SSP1-2.6 and SSP-
2-4.5, rely on it. It will be essential to keep our planet recognizable by 2100.

Luckily the jittery/cyclic output of renewables is ideal for this. In the grand scheme of things it also solves the storage issue to a large degree, since massive overbuilding of (peak) capacity is necessary.
Brave on iOS can disable Javascript on all web pages except those you trust by opt-in.
They already changed course on this, and have stated they will reintroduce the Bolt and it will actually use the Ultium platform:

https://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/home.detai...
I've been developing in Swift for years and have never looked in Package.swift.

I also would not have known what to do about pretty much any of the problems he encountered.
(Btw, the Ask HN search I shared is part of the search service I launched earlier today. I think the results are better than HN's default search: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Ask+HN%3A+how+to+launch%3F)
For me it's that my dotfiles and packages are consistent across all my envs. 2 Linux machines, 2 Mac machines.

I'm not sure if Homebrew has this - but it takes me a few seconds to spin up a new Mac entirely with everything i want (minus build times lol). With home brew i was fiddling with "oh yea, this package/lib/plugin is missing" for weeks.

edit: Also, all repos i have are also consistent. Ie i build my repos with specific versions of npm, rust, etc - all per repo, all consistent across all machines, all managed by Nix. Think node-env or py-env (or whatever they're called), but Nix and cross-language instead of specific to node or python ecosystems.
I just uninstalled and reinstalled and it gave me 0.13.1 and not 0.14. Did I do something wrong?

edit: tried again and got 0.14. Weird.
You get the same feeling as some of those alone in the high seas. Fear isn't being isolated, it is returning to people.

Unfortunately even once you take on a family and the responsibility of children it's a memory you can't ever shake, and you live with the jarring reality that it's become a far away forbidden dream.

Enjoy the sweet drug of isolation
while you still can, and know you'll always be a recovering addict.
Its not about the environment, its about getting out of the damned house and away from distractions. When I go on walks in my neighborhood, thats when the deep thinking happens. Nothing to distract you, just you and your thoughts. I’m not even thinking about where I’m walking to. I’m thinking about all kinds of things. Sometimes the 20 minute walk turns into an hour and I don’t even realize it if I’ve really been pondering.
> Previous studies have estimated this “enhanced” rock weathering could store 215 billion tons of carbon dioxide over the next 75 years if spread across croplands globally.

This is an average rate of 2.8 Billion tons of CO2 per year. We currently emit over 35 Billion tons of CO2 every year so this could potentially offset about 8% of global emissions. Obviously not enough to get us to net zero but that is very significant in my opinion.

I'm not certain how the economics of this solution would work. Is it easy to source, produce, and distribute this crushed volcanic rock? Would farmers get carbon credits for doing so? Or direct subsidies paid for by taxes on net-positive CO2 generating industries (which ironically is a lot of Ag itself)?
These would be the only ones big enough and long-lasting enough to make the news for non-techies.

Your regular, run-of-the-mill outages aren't reported in Reuters... but are likely much more common than you'd believe.
This is brilliant. Founders are top notch. They truly understand control plane development needed for true regional services. Cant wait to see more of this!
Taking only 3% of California's cars off the road seems way easier.
> Not studying the research on optimally finding a marriage partner

Do you have any material that would help ?