skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you aren't a hockey fan - naming the bridge after Gordie Howe is perfect. Besides being a great player with nickname "Mr Hockey" he was born in Canada but played most of his career just over the bridge in Detroit. And he was strong like bridge.
There were certainly military applications in the intervening time - the article only refers to the immediate 'balloon craze' period following the Mongolfiers' initial flight, after which the hype died down and they didn't seem to immediately catch on for any practical use. But I know with certainty from family records that one of my ancestors, a British Army officer, was involved in surveying parts of India from the air in the late 19th/early 20th century. Still a far cry from the battle scenarios you are proposing, but it is reasonable to say in fact that the military did find a use for balloons eventually...
Thanks for the feedback! I don't think it's nitpicking, you're right that it's misleadingly phrased - in fact, the only S3 costs I observed weren't storage at all, but rather the API calls.

I updated the phrasing.
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It also happens the other way (but less attention is paid to it) - government bureaucrats will throw roadblocks ahead of attempts to build companies that they feel threaten their jobs. It's usually low-key and less obvious.

You can blame the public, as you always can do in a democracy, but the reality is that there's only a limited amount of attention and outrage available, so if people "don't care" about something, it's easy enough to postpone it indefinitely. Usually some sort of disaster eventually brings it to the forefront and then the issues are solved.

Many major infrastructure projects are this way - it's held up in court and other areas for decades, until a nearby bridge collapses, and then suddenly it's greenlit and moves forward.
It has, especially for non technical users who cannot double check the "automatic" parameters of the change
Yeah wherever I've been, it has worked quite well? Where I've worked at the focus has been on short iteration cycles and delivering value to customers, and retros were used as a tool to identify where we can improve. We didn't have any rigorous process, just added and removed processes where we saw it was needed, didn't have any scrum masters either. Sometimes I've been in teams where we removed standups and grooming, when everything was crystal clear. Then later on, we added them again when we had new people and scope was less clear. I think that is in the spirit of agile, and it has worked decently where I've been.
The Windows Registry is far better than the the INI Hell(tm) that preceded it or the chaos that is assorted text files on Linux.
College, because, in my opinion, we headed for for a worldwide recession/depression triggered by a US depression.
I guess I have trouble seeing it from a profit perspective. I understand where you are coming from for sure, and rather like your position to be honest, but I am, perhaps, too jaded to accept it. I'm not sure we're in the era of great thinkers doing great things for humanity anymore, which makes any hype feel like a salesman making a pitch.

Admittedly, it is depressing.
I asked it to create an icon for an app and there are two Tool entries:

1. DALL-E generation metadata: 1. A stylized chat bubble integrated with an abstract brain design, representing AI and chat. 2. A sleek, modern avatar that looks like a digital assistant, with elements like a clipboard or list to represent organization. 3. A microchip or circuit board pattern in the shape of a speech balloon, merging AI technology and chat. 4. A robotic hand holding a pen or stylus, positioned over a notepad, symbolizing AI's role in organizing chats. 5. An organizer folder or agenda book with digital or futuristic motifs for AI integration. 6. A light bulb with chat bubbles around it, showing the concept of generating and organizing AI conversations.
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2. DALL·E displayed 1 images. The images are already plainly visible, so don't repeat the descriptions in detail. Do not list download links as they are available in the ChatGPT UI already. The user may download the images by clicking on them, but do not mention anything about downloading to the user.
Oh how I wish it had been so. The cloud has been a hard sell all along. Also, 20 years ago S3 and EC2 didn’t exist, so maybe it’s been a little less time than that.
I mean it sure depends on how much you make but this could still easily fall into 'who cares if you pay $500 more for something when you pay half of the taxes'
I tried to like windows Sandbox, but I think it would be a killer if it would be like docker/podman with a proper GUI and desktop: you could snapshot it (no need for branching, and stuff, just persist it), and continue your work in it later. Keeping VMs around and tending them is a nuisance, but I have some software i'd prefer to only use in an isolated persistent sandbox (crapware for industrial control stuff, for example). Having lots of VMs around for this is really cumbersome.

It (Sandbox) worked okay for shady car repair handbook .ISO salvaged from the net for a long EOL'd unsupported model. Hope I'm not in a botnet... but I could find the repair instructions :D
Yes, I share this sentiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38992990

Simply unbanning MDMA with no further action though wouldn't be very productive right now when it still is quite unknown. I hope more research and clinical trials can be done in the future, with all sorts of things and not just MDMA.
If money is important to you, take the US option. Do well in school and you will have a job on graduation. Total lifetime earnings in the US will be higher.

If lifestyle and proximity to South Asia is important, take the Europe option. German work culture has a good work-life balance. Flying back home will be cheaper and faster.
It's hard to avoid. I know I can open the GUI file manager to look at a directory, and sometimes I try to force myself to do that, but way too often I quickly open a terminal and type a "ls" command. It's just what I got used to when I first started using computers back in the 1990s, and habits can be hard to break.
Try building any high-stakes engineering project (say, a bridge, or a production operating system) like that…

With Agile, at best, you will build an amateur treehouse.

Sure, prototypes that test the viability of certain parts and aspects of the system are very useful. But having those prototypes and toy models then be “free-styled” (without a clear design document to be referenced - what exactly is the system supposed to do?) into a repurposed role to deliver the whole system’s functionality and reliability is the recipe to disaster. Or in other words: technical debt.

- Where’s the Systems / Systems Integration perspective?

- Where’s *Repeatability*?

(middle management does like Agile to justify their many times useless positions)

PS: I believe “Agile” explains a lot of the 737 MAX owes…
Derivative, it's less distinct than "fork" would have one believe
E1 (2Mbit/s) lines were used to connect data centers in the early 1990's.. Man, to think what you could at home with such bandwidth. Maybe even video!
> once the wal file you are actively appending to reaches a sufficient size, you "lock" that one

so there might eventually be wal3 and wal4 files and so on?
Not in the demo video published in the author's blog: https://lipkowski.com/etherify3/
Dear lord. Okay I will respond to your own words.

> It's not interest rates or AI.

We agree on the AI part. But high interest rates are definitely chilling business' ability to fund development, make payroll, all the things I talked about.

> It's companies trying to suppress and ultimately lower wages paid to software engineers.

If a business is doing this, it's because their engineers are overpaid relative to the value they generate. The business can react by raising prices (which get passed onto the consumer and, if enough businesses do this, comes back around as additional pressure to increase wages) or they can make workforce cuts that are either not replaced or are replaced with less expensive labor. So, I would say you are technically accurate here. But, by offering none of the "why" that I do, you leave the reader with the assumption that your "why" is that the business is motivated by the cuts themselves, because evil or something. Which of course is ridiculous.

> Unless workers quit companies that are doing multiple rounds of layoffs and working people to death, it's not going to get any better.

Yes, power to the people. I'll quit unless you pay me more money that you don't have, right before you were going to lay me off anyway. And I won't be able to collect unemployment as a result. Sounds like a plan.
Ignore this *itpost. I had the chance to study at better universities, but chose a cheap option that got me work experience as soon as possible. I graduated it whilst also doing a full time job. If I were to do it again, I'd probably take on some debt and take more care whilst studying, but at the time the lack of a steady income (hence I worked 75% of my study time) really drove me anxious. I'd say, plan your life as to not be driven by anxiety - be it due to income or imperfect life choices - it might be perfectly valid to not have a job but knowing a plan to get yourself out of debt and using the time you'd study carefully, instead of wasting it away at parties and the like, are ways to minimize regret and optimize for happiness, I think.
The US is risky in the short run. As a foreigner, your life will get a lot more difficult very quickly if Americans re-elect Trump in 2024, and that is a non-zero risk.

The EU, in spite of having more hot wars nearby geographically, is more stable right now.
The us is the greatest country in earth for risk taking, failing and then succeeding. If you see yourself having that in you, by all means us is the only way.

If you want to just chill and not have high highs but just let the govt take care of you, go to Europe.
It is a problem in other sectors. I don't know about your education level US history, but in highschool (ages 13-17) people are generally taught that private ownership of crucial infrastructure such as oil and railroads ended up having such negative effects that it was actually good the government stepped in and broke them up. It is also why the government mandated several regulations in things like food safety and telephone services.
I am conscious if that is what you want to know. But how can you trust me?
Study in the US JFC. You have an opportunity that most of the world would kill for.
Sorry, but they are right. Fear is what limits us and fear is what drives our decision-making. If you have no fear, decisions are much easier and you don’t regret anything. Having no fear means no you’re going to die one day and all your decisions, end up to a lump of nothing.
That's what a "mixture of experts" has always implied to me - a vast amount of overfitting.
There's always funding available for exceptional students, regardless of where they come from.
Solar is least effective when (in this case) demand is the highest - winter, especially during a big storm.

Cities are also the least effective place (in general) for solar, with lots of obstructions, higher density of demand, etc,
Just as an option you may not have explored — would the US university allow you to defer your scholarship for a year?

If so, you could take on the German job for a year with plans to move to the US after that. Gives you the best of both worlds.

(After a year on-the-job with the German company, they might be willing to let you work remote part-time, or at least you'd have connections if you wanted to make a move back later on)
This bridge is far from a natural monopoly, as the border is considerably long. The justice system however, which allowed the bridge owner to maintain his unnatural monopoly, is publicly owned.
These AI-based translator gadgets caught my attention, but as I read through the reviews it seems like latency makes it borderline unusable.
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> isn't applicable to those on the lower end of the economic scale.

Why not? Immigrants come here with $0. My wife came to America with $50 and didn't speak any english. Most of America was founded on poor groups and families taking all their possessions with no jobs and creating a new life.

Is it easy, hell no. But sure beats staying in the same place and complaining about other people.

There are still cities in the US that will give you land and a house if you just stay and live there. Living in NYC and SF is not a right.
My database was compromised A look at a PostgreSQL and MySQL Ransomware bot
Indeed, I'm sure the answer would heavily rely on someone's personal values, but as barely an adult, I don't think I have developed that many personal values that I bind tightly to.

> got yourself some sort of very disputed scholarship

fwiw, it was a fairly common one that I got solely based on SAT/GPA
Storing even 10% of US electricity usage from summer to winter could be in the tens of trillions of dollars. Spending $10,000 to store $2 of electricity in a battery is not scalable. Other forms of energy storage are the future.
The delivery and operation is P3, but the ownership remains firmly public. It will belong to the Windsor-Detroit Bridge Authority which is a Canadian Crown corporation controlled by Parliament. The consortium will get funding from the tolls, but that is specifically for running the operations and maintenance.
Quick scan of your resume as someone who interviews 20-40 people/year (although not so much lately) ... I couldn't figure what you're actually great at. Strengths, passion and project type gravitation?

FYI, your resume is shallow but still better than a lot I see each year. For someone like me to decide who to interview and spend that 1 hour on, comes down to info presented on resume intended towards the people reading the resume and fit feel to the job description.

Tips:

- Post resume in "doc" format and not "pdf" this is because most recruiters and HR feed resumes to parsing engines that match content of resume to job description for keyword matching.

- Recruiters have a DB of thousands and thousands of resumes, for each job posting, they can only refer top 3. They only get paid if the candidate is hired and bonus if they stay more than a year! So know who your target audience is.

- Interviewers hate doing interviews too! Resume is easiest way to get a feel and reject allocating the interview slot time.
I recently digitized some old family videos, including 20 minutes of watching hovercrafts "starting" and "landing" between Dover and Calais. Crazy machines.

https://youtu.be/NFy0_JzzbrI
> The people reporting falsified shipping times on HN are the data you're asking for

At best they’re an extremely biased sample. More realistically, they’re just anecdotes.
> Has there been any good application of "periodic table" as a visualization method for anything other than chemical elements?

There is The Azure Periodic Table: https://www.azureperiodictable.com/
Many familiar games from js13k, that's nice to see.
I just posted on the forum about it, I didn't do it before because of surgery (I'm still nowhere near 100%).

What changes would you like to see happen?
Thanks. My door is always open to Cunningham. If you're in a pedagogical mood, may I submit further misconceptions?

I've always linked Keynes with the concept of national debt as a lever to pull, so I'm surprised that you mention printing money. AIUI, the Keynesian approach to the 2008 crisis would have been to issue debt in order to finance public spending, and that spending should be on social security and infrastructure projects. The former stimulates the economy at the roots, the latter generates immediate employment and long-term wealth.

I accept your counters, except that we hope to do better than digging holes and filling them in again. That may be peculiar to America.

I grant that public spending doesn't address the cause of 2008. But sandbags are still useful when the river floods, no? Is gate-shutting the only permissible response to bolted horses, or are we allowed to also engage in horse-fetching?

My weak understanding of the Austrian school is summarised as: small government, laissez-faire, and caveat emptor. I understand them to say of 2008: "you're broke, that's because you took part in an economy where Goldman Sachs pulled a fast one and shat in your pension fund. You should have selected a DESOLBA fund (Doesn't Eat Shit Out of a Lying Bastard's Arse). Now cry."

I observe that our rulers selected a stimulus program that big corp used for stock buyback, and conclude that they used the crisis to advance their own agenda. I understood that they vaunted the Austrian school as the authority for this program. You have disabused me. Please, then, what would von Mises do in 2008?
Your ego tells a story that you had a choice. You never did.
When you go online to use a search tool like Zillow, the main categories and features used to search are price, square footage, number of bedrooms, and number of bathrooms.

There are no filters or options for things like proximity to a park or coffee shop, neighborhood demographics, whether the neighborhood has events or a civic organization, or other relevant information. There is no scorecard for whether or not a home is architecturally sound (I.e. symmetrical, built with proper materials for the environment, etc.) either. You actually have to look through dozens or hundreds of homes yourself.

Items like walkability scores which are displayed on websites like Zillow are good, but they don’t really tell you much about how actually walkable an area is. They’re also not a primary feature in the search utilities.
I find this to be a problem with agile, but not so much with Scrum. It's quite proscriptive and there is a set of quite specific rules and processes you can follow.
Do you charge for it? I don't see any info on that
Go get your degree. Immigrating to anywhere else in the Western world basically requires an undergraduate degree and if you don’t get permanent residence and a path to citizenship in Germany you may be locked out completely due to a tough job market. US University scholarships for undergrad are also harder to get once you’ve aged out of the standard path so it may be now or never. What happens after the degree will no doubt be a source of a lot of stress but it’ll be worth it if you use that time wisely (and some time unwisely, just to really live and experience the US).

I say this as someone who got a GC and dropped out of school to go work on my own startup before going back to do undergrad years later. The degree opens up a lot of options internationally and the US “college experience” is worth the time and money if you’ve got a scholarship.
These are the top 10.

I don’t have a problem with them being rich, and using that money to create even better technology. (MSFT, GOOG, TSLA etc)

What we should restrict is how much policy and fixed resources like land they control.

Not only billionaires but housing is a great example of an asset that is mostly owned by the rich that makes them even more rich.

Senators and Congressmen is mostly wealthy (top 1-2 percentile folks) making laws for their need and those who “donate” to their causes.

1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX (Automotive, Aerospace)

2. Jeff Bezos: Amazon (E-commerce, Cloud Computing)

3. Bernard Arnault: LVMH (Luxury Goods)

4. Bill Gates: Microsoft (Technology, Software)

5. Warren Buffett: Berkshire Hathaway (Conglomerate covering insurance, energy, food, and more)

6. Larry Page: Google, Alphabet Inc. (Technology, Internet Services)

7. Sergey Brin: Google, Alphabet Inc. (Technology, Internet Services)

8. Larry Ellison: Oracle Corporation (Technology, Cloud Computing)

9. Steve Ballmer: Formerly Microsoft, LA Clippers owner (Technology, Sports)

10. Mukesh Ambani: Reliance Industries (Conglomerate covering petrochemicals, oil, gas, telecom, retail)
In Portugal we have those, except the government pays for construction and the private companies keep the tolls forever. Fun
Maybe we can play a game to build trust.
For example, RocksDB/LevelDB have done this from the very beginning. If a WAL file gets too long then a new one is created and the old one is sorted and written to an sstable asynchronously.
> work harder

When's the last time you've done manual labor full time?

I'm so tired of this "hard work" meme. The hardest job I've ever had was to stack shampoo bottles in boxes for shipping. After 8 hours of that, I had to curl up in the fetal position. And the job paid crap.

I also don't believe that Elon Musk is smarter than the engineers who work for him and make nearly infinitely less money. In any case he's certainly not orders of magnitude smarter.
I'm rather confused with the use of chat with database. If we don't know what is in the database, how do we know which questions to ask?
> Got a near full-tuition scholarship from a T200 public university to study undergrad in the US

I think this alone is an incredible opportunity that not many people get in their lives.
IMO, you have the rest of your life to focus on your career. And is much better to spend these couple of recession/stagnation years in uni instead of in the professional world.
Irrelevant to your point: some vodkas to my and many others' (generally Eastern European/Russian) tastes do taste good. I drink Stoli the same way I drink whiskey.
There are barely any Rust jobs outside of crypto stuff at the moment. Not sure if this is good advice.

While I agree that getting the basics of machines learning under your belt is a good idea, the "AI" field is pretty hype driven so one should also have plans for another Ai Winter and not solely rely on it. I don't think hype chasing is is good career advice.
We've had this in Ontario for over a couple decades in the form of the 407, which has eye watering tolls that I don't think any Americans can understand (certainly Google maps doesn't, as it suggests navigation routes on it just to save 2 or 3 minutes, but which cost $40, $50 CAD).

It's owned by Spanish consortium, and was sold by a previous conservative gov't for a fraction of what it's made in profit, since.
Despite years of friendly sounding devops philosophy there's times when devs and ops are fundamentally going to be in conflict. it's sort of a proxy war between devs who understandably dislike red tape and management who loves it, with devops caught in the middle and on the hook for both rapid delivery of infrastructure but also some semblance of governance.

An org with actual governance in place really can't deliver infra rapidly, regardless of whether the underlying stuff is cloud or on prem, because whatever form governance takes in practice it tends to be distributed, i.e. everyone wants to be consulted on everything but they also want their own responsibility/accountability to be to be diluted. Bureaucracy 101..

Devs only see ops taking too long to deliver, but ops is generally frozen waiting on infosec, management approving new costs, data stewards approving new copies across ends, architects who haven't yet considered/approved whatever Outlandish new toys the junior devs have requested, etc etc.

Depends on exactly what you're building but with a competent ops team cloud vs on prem shouldn't change that much. Setting aside the org level externalities mentioned above, developer preference for stuff like certain AWS apis or complex services is the next major issue for declouding. From the ops perspective cloud vs on prem is largely gonna be the same toolkit anyway (helm, terraform, ansible, whatever)
For private schools, sure. They should be able to do whatever they want.

But public universities take tax dollars and should be accountable to taxpayers. Given how high tuition has become, I doubt most taxpayers would support academic scholarships for non citizens.
The justice system is publicly owned but lobbied and interfered with (manipulated by?) by private interests.