skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are forgiven, no worries. :)

My extended response is because this is something that I see very often.
The blame is put on "the designers" (in the abstract), but it is deeper than that.

> We found that we could not get a single entity to deliver a comprehensive solution.

I can relate to that.
But the problem is more than just the designers. It's a mixture of things. A comprehensive solution should include a comprehensive approach. That's the hard part.

It's hard to prioritize as a designer when user experience is not a priority. Take, for example, "undo". Every usability guideline will recommend you have an undo (a "trash" area in an email UI is an undo, too).

But having that functionality is an architectural decision (like most UX decisions). You can design that without issues if the whole team is on board. But when "design" is merely the "V" in MVC terms, there is a strong push for showing a visual confirmation: easier to develop and design.

When an agency does the design, you also have a monetary incentive: it's better for the agency to hand off the nice-looking design rather than enter into a negotiation with the engineering team about why it's essential to expend a month having the architecture to support that "undo" button.

Also, the "undo" button should be paired with principles applied across the product. You spent a month adding undo to a single part of the product, but another part doesn't have it, and instead of doing things better, it makes it worse.
This piecemeal growth is also common in engineering; the difference is that most users don't see that mess.
I wish to have a simple solution, but there isn't one. It requires a lot of work, from business strategy to process organization.
You can do the same in other dbms. Just use an instead of delete trigger instead of the rule.
You are right that cheap lower layers are a funnel to guide people into expensive higher layers. But if the business model would be to cater only for 10% hardest cases, you don't need the funnel, since people coming to you already have a $100 need, so to say. You can't start with $100 price tag because people are going to ask - why would I pay $100 for just basic stuff? If you cater to top 10% then they answer is obvious - because your stuff is the most complex 10%!

That's a different approach, for sure, but a viable one nevertheless.

> That's not necessarily a huge market.

It's not huge, but our tax system being a byzantine spaghetti mess it is, it's bigger than you think. I have relatively simple taxes, yet I certainly wouldn't want to do it all by myself and I do shell out over $100 each year to do it right now - so I probably would at least consider using such a system. The rest depends on how well it works, of course.

> What about anybody new who wants to enter the market once the dynamics are different?

That's no different from entering any other established market right now. Yes, incumbents have an advantage, this is always so, always have been so and always will remain so. It's hard to deal with incumbents - and yet it's possible, I myself am an evidence for it - despite Google being a giant of an incumbent, I am a paying client of Kagi, who are a startup in the space. I don't know if they will survive long term, but that's nothing new too.
Yet another headline reminding those who forgot that Twitter/X still exists...
>I don't think human optic abilities have deteriorated so much as human culture has shifted.

You are simply wrong. This is a well demonstrated reality: We have more myopia than we used to. It probably (as in, initial studies are showing) that it has to do with getting enough sunlight.
Go 1.21.6 Released
Yep, now our wall act as raidators in the summers - our homes do not cool down during heat waves because they are radaiting heat collected during the day.
That still usually won't make it PIN-preferring. US credit cards request a signature by default; if you request a PIN, that's usually only ever used for cash advances, but not for payments, even in Europe.

In other words, it's effectively impossible to get a PIN-preferring, i.e. more secure, credit card in the US...
Children are now born with plastic in their veins so we'll know soon enough what happens to these children based on their health outcomes.
It needs more bytes to wash faster.
Ubik ..
In my opinion, aesthetics is an important factor when a product has to appeal to the general public: people want to use products that look good and can be shown to other people without embarrassment.

On the other hand, if the product is aimed at a specific sector (e.g., military or space), the choice is dictated only by criteria such as adherence to requirements and cost. In this case, those who choose and select products are usually accountable for their choices, and aesthetics is not an objective criterion that can be used to justify the choice.
Many of the problems with databases that I outlined in that post are about how they create complexity, which is not necessarily related to performance or scale. Complexity kills developer productivity, which reduces iteration speed, which can be the difference between an application succeeding or failing.
Oh, sure. I didn't think it'd be of interest. It's largely just knowing the names of visual components and art styles, but the generative AI takes it pretty far by itself if you're not too picky about what it gives you. But I'll write it up and let you know.
Public opinion isn't a functional way to increase transportation safety anyway. All measurable increases in any form of transportation safety are due to regulatory reasons. The people who matter on this issue aren't going to forget.
I agree fully with you. And I've read Kiss The Ground. Twice.

But certain biomarkers in average are oddly doing ok. It's weird.
I don't know, I've given up on following people across the web. They’ve all got a sickness that compels them to incessantly fidget with their sites: fonts, colors, designs, and About pages change almost weekly. And then they babble on about why they made those decisions.

It’s a garden, a stream, a worry board, a playground. It runs on WordPress, now Jekyll, now Hugo, now Ghost. No no, now it’s “handcrafted” HTML and CSS like the old days.

It's the same psychosis that prevents people from shutting up about their note taking system, their ideal journal setup, whether they should use a Moleskine or Leuchtturm, yellow or white paper, ruled or blank.

I don’t see a “cozy” or “small” web of independent minds on the Internet. I see a group of anxious and nervous and restless people trying in vain to assemble a Self and grasping for meaning where there is none.

If you’ve got a personal website, just leave it the fuck alone.
That was his excuse for eviscerating (not paying for) T&S. Since that decision cannot have been wrong, community notes must be working as intended.
The idea is just a seed. To make it grow, first you must articulate it, and share it, and - this is important - try to approximate it in your own life. Eat your own dogfood, so to speak. It means ignoring paid-for speech in all mediums in your own life. Find out how it feels, what the trade-offs are. It will also highlight the ambiguities of the rule, something to keep in mind when articulating an actual law (which should be short, like the first 10 amendments.)

Changing the law within current bounds will be difficult, because of money. However I believe that the body politic is ready for extreme change, and going against vested interests would be a selling point, rather than a weakness. There should be an organization with a good name, a catch phrase, a logo, a hashtag, akin to, for example, the FSF or EFF, but for speech in general. "Money doesn't speak!" for example. "Hush, money!" is a fun pun. "Get capital out of the capitol!" It's not clear if this could be done at a local level, since opponents can challenge such laws in court and probably win. It may require an actual amendment. Note that, as a happy side-effect, such an amendment would immediately obviate Citizen's United.
What’s micro batch streaming?
> There are no established health effects of microplastics.

It'd be more true to say, "There are no established significant health effects of microplastics on humans." FWIW, the article you linked to doesn't say "no effects", but "limited evidence for significant adverse health impacts".

This seems concerning: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9885170/
This is deliberate. It's the carrot.

The expectation is users will download for the new emojis and in the process get all their security updates.

Before, people would delay updating forever as they would see no noticible benefits and even sometimes decreased performance.

Kinda the same reasoning auto updates are on by default and we have the concept of evergreen browsers etc.
Well, for Python the language reference in the docs[0] is the specification, and many things there are described as CPython implementation details. Like: "CPython implementation detail: For CPython, id(x) is the memory address where x is stored." And as another example, dicts remembering insertion order was CPython's implementation detail in 3.6, but from 3.7 it's part of the language.

[0] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/index.html
At least, if it can be modelled by some type of finite database stored on disk or in memory, then you can store the entire contents of that database as one binary blob.

Now you just need one tuple ("our_system", "the_db", the_binary_blob)

QED :)
If starting from scratch with new tooling, I wonder if they'll consider ternary, which is theoretically more efficient than binary (as it's closer to the optimal encoding: e-ary).
Bit of a strawman isn't it? Donate ten percent of your income now, and increase it as you go up in income is what I seen from some effective altruists.

If you don't save people right now, you might actually save less people in the long run.
If the Samsung heat pump works as well as my Samsung fridge does, I'll definitely look into a German product!
> NTSB literally had a guy at a podium say into the mic last night that there is so far no evidence "the bolts were ever there"

Where are you getting this? Crookshanks said the NTSB had "not yet recovered the four bolts" and "have not determined if they existed there" [1].

Your source, for which I'm genuinely curious, is categorically false in suggesting the NTSB "suspects" the bolts were never there, or that Crookshanks said "there is so far no evidence 'the bolts were ever there'". (The latter being particularly reprehensible, given it involves materially misquoting an aircraft investigator.)

> Good luck with your investments

Wat.

[1] https://airwaysmag.com/ntsb-as1282-exams-all-12-door-plug-st...
Fertility is collapsing in North Korea and Iran. So no, its not about any of those things.
Web: The Good Parts
yes and this is likely twitter overcompensating after that fallout.

Basically what this show is that firing your entire moderation team leads to inconsistent moderation as modern automation simply isn't up to the task of dealing with high-emotion topics.
Box outage – January 9, 2024
This thing of having a screen editor where you could move the cursor and execute any command instead of a linear terminal was a staple of 1970's and 1980's computers. Oberon also is notable for letting you execute code written anywhere (and so allowing code to be used as command palettes or menus)
It is strange to me to see so much talk about all of the places WebAssembly could live, like IoT devices and edge lambdas and cross-architecture binaries, places that don't really need these problems to be solved, and yet so little talk about whether or not it can finally unshackle the web from the mess that is JavaScript. As I understand it, it's not even really possible today to make WebAssembly do anything meaningful in the browser without trampolining back out to JavaScript anyway, which seems like a remarkable missed opportunity.
I really appreciate your answers!

I feel like the tech world could use many more discussions, like this.

Thanks!
This is marketing spiel masquerading as a bad take. Rama may or may not be cool tech, but the idea that they are anywhere close to being able to get rid of structured database systems for complex systems is absolutely laughable to the point that it makes me uninterested in learning more about the tech. Please tone down the hyperbole if you want serious attention.
I think we agree on almost everything about this - which is to say, probably both you and I think the Wolfram Ravenwolf tests are just about useful enough to indicate whether or not a model might be worth downloading, but certainly not enough to justify spending money, say, or planning around. So, yes, I'm with you.

I agree that better ways to evaluate models would be super super useful, and benchmarks like MMLU and whatever's next will continue to be helpful ("real" science). And, it seems like there may even be some benefits for models to training to 'ace the test' more broadly, which is interesting, and ties to some educational theories in teaching humans.

However, one area that open tests can't excel in is in this "fair" evaluation arena -- and I do think that private tests have some value there, to the extent that they can show utility and maintain trust. I don't make any claims about German sex role-play being a good or bad start for these, though.
Agreed. Putting data for all your use cases in a single database is a huge deal. Having different databases for each part of the application bloats so much so easily from a cost, complexity and skill set standpoint. Also, makes it extremely hard to debug issues when you have to chart the path of data through 5 different tools.

There is the challenge of workload separation and scaling each component separately but that can be resolved by pulling out challenging workloads into their own "database" albeit on the same stack.
Since the link is Cloudflare'd (can't see the site) here's a mirror in case you encountered it: https://web.archive.org/web/20240109062934/https://www.ismai...
Ask HN: Should I continue the VC process with my cofounder? equity advice?
Hi folks, I recently launched an open-source project few month ago on GitHub that has got hundreds of stars and was in the on Hacker News front page for few days. Now, I'm considering making it be a product. I have been working on this project alone for several months, but recently I asked a pre-partner who is my former colleague and university classmate to join my startup. We applied for a VC together using my project and received an interview invitation.

I am the CEO, and he is the CTO, but it seems like he wasn't fully passionate with this product yet and hasn't contributed almost anything. we have several meetings and he always thinking of other ideas, but his ideas are seems unproved to be commercially viable. He has committed to dedicating half of his time to the project in the next 1-2 months, but I'm uncertain about how this relationship.

Should I continue with this partnership for the VC process? If not, is it advisable for me as a solo founder to apply for a VC and is it OK to apply VC alone? If I continue work with current pre-cofounder, how should we approach equity distribution given the current situation (he proposed 50% each)?

I would appreciate any insights or experiences you can share.
Oh, but then you don’t have anything to worry about. As far as I understand nothing will change in the US regarding App Store policies. It’s just the EU where this would apply.
I also work on this space, and kind of see the value of this idea.

Having a log store make sense, and having a super-VIEW replacement that can re-compute the data (so I can denormalize o build secondary tables/indexes that could or not be stored) is a common pattern.

That is fine.

What is NOT fine, and that normal DBS avoid, is to add "eventual consistency".

I NEED to get exact counts, sum, avg, and RIGTH NOW, not a second later.

The more "eventual" the data become the worse things are, and that is the major way to add bugs and problems.

One of the reasons FK are important is they eliminate the chance of getting the relationships wrong, but also, to get it right NOW.
Definitely! There are many US banks that don't even have branches.

I've done it myself, both for branchless/online-only banks and for banks that do have branches in my state but didn't require me to show up in person to open a checking account.
SAT can be solved surprisingly quickly via superposed bools on Interaction Nets
It's a chibi jet. Definitely cute.
There is a pretty detailed reference that distinguishes between cpython implementation details and language features at least. There was a jvm python implementation even. The problem is more that a lot of the libraries that everyone wants to use are very dependent on cpython's ffi which bleeds a lot of internals.
The economy of feels
I agreed that I thought SU wouldn't work in today's internet, and I clicked on the cloudhiker link thinking I'd be met with SEO trash, but I ended up on this post: https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier

Which was a great post and now I understand more than I did about how air filters work...more complicated than I'd thought.

Maybe I should give cloudhiker a try.
Sorry, my partner is a carpenter and did a lot of the work her self. She did get an HVAC expert to help with the installation but the price included some bilateral favors, friend discounts, etc, etc. So not only is the price hard to figure out, it is also not gonna be representative outside of our situation.
There are many places that have been using WASM for purposes similar to the ones in the article for quite a while now. For example, Cloudflare workers have been using WASM for a year and a half.
Is that for hydro or water storage though? Surely you want the flow for hydro.
I would think that Rocky's Boots (1982) [0] was a game that was similar to this no?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%27s_Boots
They forgot to throw in a "surging"; that's their favorite hyperbole in recent years: "bans of journalists SURGING on X".
It's absolutely insane how, if humanity disappeared today, we would become really hard to detect in pretty short time scales.
That is not what Musk asserts, while it's an aspirational goal, he has always said twitter is limited by laws of the government they operate in.
> but many successful startups are by people in their 40s.

No, they are made by people who failed since their twenties and learnt a great deal along the way and made the right connections.

There are powerlifters in their 40s - but I suspect you'd damage something if you just marched into a gym and started lifting twice your weight.
American, here. I remember first hearing about this (maybe a couple of years) and just being in complete shock. And not much can shock me nowadays.

And reading this article just...I dont know what to say, honestly.

How could there a complete and total lack of justice? And in the modern western world - it feels like the western world is turning into one big failed state.

Those that have been wronged are owed a great deal. I am not religious, but if I was, I would pray for them.
And what is that guy going to do the rest of the time?

I'm sorry, no company is going to pay someone only to arbitrarily profile their software looking for potential bottlenecks to remove.

The only reason this story is notable is that there was a conclusion. He could have easily found nothing to fix.

It's just a stupid, knee-jerk reaction to call for the heads of everyone remotely responsible and replace them with the guy who happened to find the issue. And of course it looks like a straight shot from noticing the problem to finding the problem. I'm not going to put in every single dead end. Unless they happen to be interesting or relevant.

While the past looks like it obviously leads to the present, it only does that because we've already walked the path.
As much as I would have loved to see some more 'extreme' improvements to python, given how the python community reacted to the relatively minor changes that python 3 brought, anything more extreme would very likely have caused a Perl 6 style situation and quite possibly have killed the language.
> But, we're seeing fatal issues with one specific company over and over again.

We aren't. There were fatal issues with one system (MCAS) on one line of planes. This was addressed, and since then there have been zero fatalities (or injuries) caused by design and/or engineering issues by this manufacturer. Their safety record is not substantially different from that of Airbus (who have their own design issues, IMO, such as non-linked pilot controls which has also contributed toward hull loss and passenger deaths). The MCAS issue was, to be clear, completely inexcusable and both regulator and management heads should have rolled over this. I am not happy with our anemic response to this incident.

And yes, one or two people could have potentially died due to this latest incident. It should be investigated and fixed. Beyond that there are wider aspects of the MBA-ification of Boeing that ought to (and I hope but don't expect will) drive regulatory and business change in this country.

But the fact remains that once the issues with MCAS were resolved, Boeing-designed and -assembled airframes have resumed a track record of safety that eclipses that of any other transportation industry. Again, we can, should, and are expecting that every issue is a learning moment to improve the practices of the industry as a whole.
I find it weird that this comment was downvoted while my comment up two was upvoted. If you agree that a store should be something other than just another app, then you ought to agree that it is unfortunate if this is their plan.

If you agree but downvoted because you think it isn’t their plan, maybe you can show us why the person I responded to here was wrong? That would be reassuring!
Show HN: Run ETL Pipelines and Store Data in GitHub
Hey HN! We built an extension to GitHub that scales repos to handle large files.

One of the side effects of this is that you can use GitHub actions to run data ETL pipelines and store the results in the same repo as your ETL code. No need to manage S3 credentials or setup a bunch of extra tools for many ETL jobs.

I wrote a quick tutorial on how that works here:

https://about.xethub.com/blog/simple-etl-pipelines-git-xet-github-actions

This is our starter repo if you want to try this yourself:

https://github.com/xetdata/easy-etl-template
Birth rates isn’t what motivates people. It’s the act that creates births that people care about. To that end, until it causes impotence.
There is an organizational axis too. The technical capabilities of the GPO went off with BT in 1984. The remaining organisation was anything but a competent customer for IT implementations. Outsourcing has definite limits and potentially catastrophic results - as does the demolition of corporate technical capability.

An empowered technical architecture function could have vetted this system and prevented this all. But gut it and stamp it under the heal of the CFO and you may as well not bother.
Yes, it can work without disabling SIP; however, injecting code into protected processes (e.g. WindowServer) will require disabling SIP.
Instead of Shipping Packets to Computers, We Ship Conversations to Humans
After I opened the link, there was a big chunk of text about AI, then a popup asking me to subscribe appeared, and I closed the tab.
> Apple stock would tank if they were forced to open up the iMessage API.

If I were on the board of Apple, that's precisely why I'd be pushing for it to be open. I would be terrified if my company's value were in a stupid chatting protocol. It's the difference between accidentally driving off a cliff and purposely driving off a cliff with a parachute. I'd choose the parachute and make money/goodwill from the exposure vs. losing everything because the "blue sheeple" woke up.
I'm in Europe, but I can't recall any Airbus planes falling apart in recent history. Could you provide an example?