skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I used to rent the $5/month VPS, and it worked well. In fact, it had much nicer developer experience than EC2 for many reasons. But my provider (digitalocean) raised the price, and I don't really need a lot of CPU resources to serve mostly static files plus a couple of tiny server processes that get very very low traffic. So I downsized to a tiny EC2 instance.

I would go back to the 5/mo VPS if it became clearly better than the alternative. I don't really need an IPv4 for what I use it for, though, as long as someone else wants to provide an inexpensive (or free tier) proxy service.
United Airlines to consider alternatives to Boeing's next airplane
It is an article from the bmj “Christmas issue”[0] which is meant to be light hearted or satirical. My personal favorite was about the efficacy of parachutes when jumping out of a plane[1] - which fails to clearly describe that the plane was on the ground. Their point was about replication and clear thorough explanation of methodology in science.

The Christmas issue has been critiqued for exactly the reason you made this comment - indexers don’t pickup on the differences of the Christmas edition making it functionally invisible if you see it in pumped unless you know about it

[0] https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-authors/article-type...

[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C11&q=bmj...
But why are they up off the floor? I read the article... did I miss that part?
[dupe]

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39097356
Basically to use code they provide under MIT you also need to couple it with a proprietary SDK from Nintendo. If you post any proprietary bits on internet Nintendo will eat you alive.
I forgo Kubernetes because of my hate for YAML.
Or require the government to give a proportion of the fine to the whistleblower, like the SEC has. We find out about a lot of shady finance through that program.
While I love supertall buildings, I don’t think height or size necessarily equates with notoriety, especially in a place like London.
It doesn’t happen often, until you make e.g. a ticketing system with a pool of ticket handlers that claim a ticket to work on it, instead of a sole ticket handling responsible, and now it happens dozens of times a day and the customer is irate at such incompetent software.

I may at an earlier part of my career, when I knew far less about building robust software, have stumbled into such an experience.
"If you have rapid generalization you don’t need scale" As of right now, you do need scale for rapid generalization. The technology for NLP generalization without scale (both model and data) does not exist. Not saying it won't in the future, just not right now
It also has a great soundtrack, I wholly recommend it!
Agree, why does it always have to be a religious object if an object doesn't have a clear and distinct purpose attached to it.

I guess when future archeologist dig up our junk they'd believe we were an extremely religious society, with many superstitions and strange beliefs. /s
It’s start date is still a religious event, so I’m not sure it’s more neutral as much as it’s more obfuscating.
I'm looking forward to mine (batch 13, no clue how long that means I'll be waiting) but I'm a bit disappointed in it based on LTT's review. Needs to be modded with some thermal pads behind the keyboard to cut down on flex. And somehow the screen on their unit is partially obscured by the bezel and has obvious uniformity issues. For the price I expect better and the only reason I'm still going through with the purchase is because I really love the idea of a properly modular laptop. I've been hoping for their success since I first heard of them and I continue to hope they grow and improve.
> It's fascinating to me that the complexity of life always goes up.

A lot of lifeforms evolve to be more simple, not more complex -- I think what you have is sort of a distribution of complexity, and as life continues to evolve, the upper bound keeps getting pushed up as some organisms push the boundary of complexity, but I don't think it's at all true that in general life involves to be more complex.
I'll chime in and say that I love my FW13. It's a great machine. I got the DIY kit and had my 7yo put it together. It was straightforward with a little help from dad (even installing Ubuntu!). Now we fight over who gets to use it.
It will probably go that way due to friction and cost but not a great development.

AI generated images in a news article or long form essay are incredibly distracting and do not add value. Not a fan of experiencing the uncanny valley when I just want to read text.
Metacontroller is actually quite easy to learn. It comes with good examples too. Including a re-implementation of the Stateful Set controller, all done with iterations of an otherwise pure computation. The trick is obviously that the state lives in the k8s api server, from which the inputs of the subsequent invocation of your pure function come.
That's called body language, dude. It's a different kind of communication, brother!

/hulkhogan
> Node.js sounds like a liability in this case.

that depends on what types of dependencies you're talking about

if you're talking about upstream servers/services, yep absolutely

but node.js dependencies (as in, libraries and packages), don't magically update by themselves. there's no reason node.js is a liability here unless you coordinate updating your service and status page dependencies at exactly the same time (which seems.. idiotic?)
"Alternatives" being really just Airbus.
More like a take home project.
To be able to actually ride, it took me about two weeks, practicing 30 minutes per day. But then I was still pretty wobbly for a month or so.
This seems harsh considering they're still making the only true user-agent in the world. Which maintainer are you trusting so much, and what anti-features are they removing?
I am assuming this is a bug, otherwise it would be a very weird move on apple's part. While they're usually pushy about updates etc. for anyone who uses defaults they usually respect user decisions.

I've dealt with the apple auth chain quite a bit and from the reports it looks like the earliest this started happening was Jan 10th with this notification "macOSInstallerNotification_RC" getting pushed to everyone on Ventura. Very likely the bug then make this appear as a required security update and auto installs it despite user input (I am not sure how many people without the install security updates toggle have also been upgraded).

Also if you have a firmware password on that is still needed for security upgrades so that's probably why there's a difference between password less updates and non-passwordless upgrades but that's just a guess.
What good are "runtime policies" if you're in a single thread that you can't interrupt (which is what async is)?
Do you want to lose elections? Because this is how you lose elections.
Candles have been used as timers (stick a nail in a correctly sized candle and it’ll fall at the right time). But I heard of that in regards to the colonial era US, no idea how far back it goes.

Edit:

> The candle clock is an ancient technology. The first recorded reference was in 520 CE in a Chinese poem by You Jiangu. He described six uniform candles of equal weight and thickness—each 12 inches tall.

https://mymodernmet.com/candle-clock-alarm/#
So... friendliness scales with wheels?
Geez. The German people are lost if their state ever turns full on fascist against their own.
Time to learn a trade.
But how do you know who pushed a given commit? I don't think it is recorded in the Git repository.

I agree that "to the extent that you trust GitHub and its lack of bugs" is a big caveat. But it sill seems better to have this information than not to have it.
It's really sad that so many would. The whole point of "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer" and "in good times and in bad" in the marriage vows is to cover exactly this kind of thing.
Debugging Go compiler performance in a large codebase – incident.io
> It makes sense for a lot of situations purely out of practicality. If a good portion of your customers use tools that break spec, your choices are to accept the brokenness or lose the customer.

Practical? So the adage is just “be liberal because you have to out of practical necessity”? Are you sure that’s the history behind it?
The anti-features that I'm aware of are runtime configuration flags and profile settings.

Having an official build from Mozilla makes a supply chain attack harder.

Additionally, they claim to compile with PGO, which random builds may not have.
>He developed notable concepts, such as "unintended consequences", the "reference group", and "role strain", but is perhaps best known for the terms "role model" and "self-fulfilling prophecy".
That too I guess.
sms is terrible for security for this reason.

i also hate how social media companies use your number to build a social graph and show you other people who have your number. huge privacy risk
Weird that the fact that this is in Oklahoma City specifically is left out. Yes, sure, that'd be the obvious choice, and I know most folks in the world and even the US would stop processing at "Oklahoma" anyway. But this is such a ludicrous project for OKC; why wouldn't it be in Tulsa or Muskogee or Bartlesville instead?

Regardless, the money going into this would be so much better spent across a wider area of the city, where it could actually contribute to other development and revitalization. Take a look at the Renaissance Center in Detroit for a great example of a block of high-intensity development in a crumbling city that did nothing to help the city's overall state, and probably made things worse in the short to medium term.
I don't really know what people expect with status pages. Having it change automatically based on metrics can result in inaccurate status. Having it behind a manual gate can be inaccurate since that takes time with approvals and such.

So, what exactly is the expectation and how can you implement a perfect status system?
We should also have the ability to delete included Apps I don't use. Chess, Freeform, News, Stickies, Stocks, Podcasts, Etc. I have never used these Apps yet I must have them installed on my machine.
> I'm a fan of either using a full-blown programming language or ini files

How do you persist complex multi-object state? Think nested lists of objects with references to one another.

If your answer is still "ini files", I'm sure it can be done, but only with a lot of custom-rolled code...xml/json(even yaml) for all their issues provided a code-free way of persisting this all - either through use of marshalling (xml) or json/yaml.load().
Can private companies carry NASA back to the Moon?
I just received a Moka Pot for Christmas. After spending a few weeks taking notes and adjusting the grind size and amount I am very happy with it. I found that the 7 setting on my Induction stove leads to very little bitterness.

I think that the Moka pot on the induction range to be a nice demo of induction's benefits over gas or electric(resistant) ranges. Extremely accurate and reproducible heating, decently fast, and basically no waste heat. Instant off as well without needing to move the pot.
Sunlight driven freshwater production: salt-resisting solar distillation (2023)
What theory were the people observing the 1769 transit of Venus trying to falsify? If they weren't doing science, what were they doing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1769_transit_of_Venus_observed...
New medicine can create a new life for diabetes patients – without needles
Unity and Unreal still have more brand recognition, I'm sure there are project managers and creative managers that hadn't heard of Godot yet (though that is diminishing, I'm sure).

More importantly, there is institutionalized knowledge and established tooling in place at a lot of dev studios. The expertise in one engine takes at least a year or more to acquire before you can really make the engine purr. But it also affects the whole toolchain, not just the part inside the IDE -- assets created elsewhere (models, animations, audio) typically go through some massaging to be compatible in Unity or Unreal, or the particulars of the scene/project and this often done through some automation, that automation would likely have to be rewritten for a Godot workflow, or even if it didn't, that's certainly what a PM or other decision maker would anticipate.

There's also the asset store full of plugins, or in-house developed plugins, which extend the engine and would also likely need at least some part of it rewritten or replaced.
Show HN: Data Apps for Everyone
I'm Tevon, founder of Bruinen. I started Bruinen because at a previous company I found myself constantly building out internal apps that were essentially a wrapper around a database table, they had some permissions, some actions that could be taken, a couple charts, and a database.

With Bruinen, we've made creating data apps like this simple, and useable by non-engineers as well as engineers.

We model everything as an object, so that each "Object Blueprint" contains all the information needed to properly permission, display, and provide actions on that object.

We just launched our self-service product and would love to get your thoughts!
On the other hand there might be great views of distant storms from the top floors.
How would you distribute that over the Switch in the first place to the daughter and/or friends if you don't have the licenses to the assets you're using?
All day on HN I hear the same song and dance, we need more housing density to combat high real estate prices. And then you see a city being proactive and doing something about it and you criticize it. Good on OKC to get ahead of the issue and make more housing stock available.
The plain English is “in the year of our Lord”, if anyone else is confused with the dripping sarcasm.
>life grows in complexity in order to dissipate heat

This seems silly on the level of the anthropic principle.

It's like claiming a calculator exists to use up electricity.

We're eddies in the flow of energy from high to low entropy because it's free energy.

We create more entropy in capturing energy than we capture because it's impossible not to.

There's no purpose for life there. It's just where life lives.
> Do non-executives care more

On average, executive priorities are different from non-executives.

If one hires a plane engineer, one’s filter will be: person who is capable and motivated to engineer a plane.

If one hires an executive, return on investment is the metric in focus.

So it is safe to say that, on average, non-executives will care slightly more about the safety of the plane. (please notice words “on average” and “slightly”).
This is another reason why I'm happy using ECS. You just reference the keys in the task definition, and secrets from Parameter Store (or Secrets Manager, if you want the added cost and advantages like secrets rotation) are injected when the task starts.
I use a type-writer, but otherwise: yes. Does it get any easier?
> being angry about cyclists just existing.

I don't like some cyclists because of their blatant and unsafe disregard for the rules.

It's not uncommon to see:

- Cyclists ignoring red lights

- Cyclists ignoring stop signs

- Cyclists riding on a busy sidewalk

- Cyclists yelling at pedestrians to move rather than stopping at an intersection as required

- Cyclists taking up the entire lane and not permitting cars to pass

- Cyclists going the wrong way down a one-way street

Some of the worst offenders are e-bike users, who can move very fast and in unexpected ways. It's no fun to have someone silently fly by you from behind, inches away, at 20mph while they are riding what's basically a motorcycle on the sidewalk.

I frequently walk in the city, and scooters/bicycles are far more of a hazard than cars. They often can't decide whether they want to be pedestrians or cars, and they often don't follow the rules for either, putting everyone (including themselves) at risk.
Protip: Make sure hibernation works then enable suspend-then-hibernate in logind.conf
I had a tough time travelling "with" almost any people. Travel alone and don't let people fuck your brain. If you get lonely, get on Tinder, in a new place it's always easy in the beginning.
I assure you, if my subcompact economy car decided to drive itself to a service center regardless of whether I was using it at the moment I would have feelings about that.

It's also a bad analogy because MS makes the "I know what I'm doing car" but refuses to sell it to anyone who isn't a business.
Exactly because anyone can do it.
Even if they limit it to $3, which is much better, you can still do slimy things like process the large transaction first (say, a mortgage payment), then process all the little transactions afterwards, stacking overdraft fees for each one. This is what BofA got sued for. Can turn a $3 charge into $45 pretty quickly.
Yep. All of my answers are GUIDs that I keep track of in 1Password.
Think big cat, tiger toy! Perhaps there was a bell inside or marble to make a sound...
it's a bit strange since you can remove these from iOS. I assume this is a SIP thing.
I've been riding an electric unicycle for years and I don't think I've gotten a single negative comment, aside from riding somewhere (they thought) I shouldn't have. But those same comments would have been directed at a scooter or bike.

Typically when people marvel at my wheel, I tell them if they give me a few bowling pins I can juggle as well.
For tools that allow configuration in either JSON or Javascript (like eslint), I prefer the JS version. The syntax is similar but has much more flexibility, like being able to use environment variables or add comments.

Pulumi was also a good tool when I was doing kubernetes deployments.
Hightouch (YC S19) is hiring a lead front end engineer
Some background on Hightouch - our mission is to help companies leverage their customer data to grow. We started with the problem of “Reverse ETL” or helping companies sync data from their data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) to 200+ SaaS tools (Salesforce, Marketo, Facebook Ads, etc.) without coding. Since then, we’ve evolved into a suite of tools around the warehouse (identity resolution, data enrichment, event streaming, etc.). We’ve raised a Series B and scaled to 600+ customers including Fortune 500 co’s like Spotify, the NBA, PetSmart, etc.

We are looking for a senior frontend engineer with the ability to develop production-ready applications and a passion for building a great user experience. This role will be the primary owner on the frontend for several new products we’ve launched recently, giving it significant ownership and room for impact.

As a key member of the frontend team, you will also play a crucial role in shaping best practices within our engineering organization. You will have the opportunity to mentor other frontend engineers, make important technical decisions, and establish the standard for our user experience.

https://boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/4981337004
YAML is fine if you don't do weird stuff with it. (And some stupidity like the Norway problem) A good example is OpenAPI schemas, which are quite legible in the YAML.

TOML has some nasty edge cases like top level arrays, arrays of objects under a key, etc.
"Implerative" - thank you for this, this is the term I've been searching for to describe the weird blending of the two things.. I immediately Googled it and saw that it has previous uses as well, I would love to know who originated the concept. I see so many times, confusion and arguing about what is imperative and declarative, to the point where I question the value of the terms any longer.

FWIW, I have flirted with my own DSL implementations in a few cases. Certainly, language design is much more complex, but I also felt that once you understand enough of EBNF/parser generators (and some of the simpler alternatives), this is a very powerful option as well.
Wonder if power generation in emissionless on the islands. I think sailboat handily beats this thing environmentally.
This, start with an S corp. It is easy to turn into a C corp if/when the time is right and is much easier for all the legal/accounting things early on
The tar.gz build has exactly the same problem (it just doesn't complain about it): it needs to close the files from the old package and open the ones from the new package. Hence the restart. You can minimize the downtime by just restarting the browser and then using History | Restore previous session.

The flatpak build avoids this problem by keeping both versions on the disk, up until you stop the app. Only at this time, the old version is removed, and the next start will be the new version.
This will go even better than prohibition did!
Yes... Rust!

I don't know if you can toggle it from the front-end, but the Polonius borrow checker includes a "location insensitive" mode which is faster but accepts fewer programs.
Cliffs: it won’t
The Sun outputs 3.9 x 10^26W, but it weighs ~10^30kg, so that would mean 10^-4W/kg.

Human beings are closer to 1W/kg at rest.
I can only assume that you are not a cyclist? I've just ridden down the road safely and legally and had people shout, swear and swerve their cars at me.

Believe me, people ARE angry at cyclists - it might be for the reasons you suggest, but their anger is directed at the humans on the bikes.
Baloney. That's literally not how academic papers work in any part of the world. At some point you need to be able to trust your co-authors aren't lying. For example, co-authors of Francesca Gino (the Harvard Biz School prof accused of falsifying data) had to start a project, https://manycoauthors.org/, to essentially compare notes. I'd also consider some of these co-authors victims here.

To be clear, I'm not saying any of the authors get a free pass, but different authors have vastly different levels of culpability.
The maximum complexity increases, but the average complexity? Bacteria outnumber us.

It's more that it diffuses evenly rather than having a specific direction.
Show HN: Queries – Natural Language Data Analysis from Structured
Hello HN community,

We’re excited to share our latest feature at Structured, called Queries. We've focused on making data analysis as intuitive as possible, and are eager to hear your feedback.

Key Features:

- Natural Language Understanding: Imagine querying your data with simple questions like, "Show recent error logs" or "Summarize last month's sales." Queries translates these into actionable data insights, bypassing traditional query complexities.

- Direct Data Connectivity: Connect your datasets easily, whether they're in S3 buckets or uploaded directly. Queries handles various data formats, making it a versatile tool for any data source.

- Instant Data Insights: Get real-time answers without the need for intricate database queries. It's about making data exploration quick and accessible, even for non-technical users.

- Customizable Output: Tailor your data presentation to suit your specific requirements. Whether it's sorting, filtering, or visualizing, Queries adapts to your needs.

Potential Benefits:

- Enhance Productivity: By simplifying data interrogation, Queries can significantly speed up data analysis and decision-making processes.

- Democratize Data Analysis: It's not just for developers or data scientists. Queries opens up data exploration to a broader range of users, fostering a more inclusive data-driven culture.

- Reduce Reliance on Technical Teams: Empower users across your organization to answer their own data questions, freeing up your technical staff for more complex tasks.

We believe Queries can be valuable, whether for troubleshooting, reporting, or gaining business insights. It’s aiming to make data analysis more intuitive and less time-consuming.

Curious about your thoughts, potential use cases, or any feedback you might have.

For those interested, more info here: app.structuredlabs.io

Thanks!
The thing posted on Mozilla's website (the OP) is official. The PPA posted at the root of this comment thread isn't.