skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right. My point is there's a cohort of people here who are like "dont bother me, I only check email/slack in the morning, need extended focus time". At least some of those people are the ones who might know a thing or too, but they breed a culture of discouraging even bringing an issue up.
Thats what they do, but better. Example they have their own CDN and put the nodes in your ISP facility.

Using per-title-encoding, allows you to have less renditions for a given video, having better cache hits.

Another example is pre-fetching data to the CDN nodes(when a new episode or season of a popular show comes out).

Its just extra optimizations that come up and are worth it at scale.
Wow, I have accounts there as early as when they started and last year was almost going to pull the trigger and migrate there, glad I never did, which is a reminder for everyone to use your own domain so all your email/s are valid even if you change the service.
I have spent perhaps thousands on all sorts of fancy pens, but now I've realized that all I need is a Pilot G2 0.5mm.

What a waste...
This feels like it could be learned in an hour and looks so nice. Wonder if it can be used with inline code to process line by line stdin.
To validate your point, I think you need to modify my test and create a 1M elements array with 99% of zeros - then your sparse class will be way more efficient, also hiding the complexity of creating a compact sparse representation at the native level.
It can fly in the same way a newborn foal knows how to walk and even run if it has to.
Related story from today:

Dax – Cross-platform shell for Node.js

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39315689 (12 comments)
We banned them in New Zealand.

Total bullshit without any cost/benefit analysis.

Like many, I now buy plastic bags for bin-liners. Total number of plastic bags used is the same!

Even worse: so many people I know need bags when shopping: they buy them and throw them away. The cost of the substitutes (one time paper, or multi-use plastic) is fucking mental.

Apart from the wasted time, and wasted purchases from dropping an unbagged bottle on the ground.

I'm certain the environmental cost of the policy is way higher than the environmental cost of plastic bags.

Yet I suspect the policy is very popular, with a bunch of people that don't seem to understand reasonable compromise.
> The mold issue is overblown and not an issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reusable_shopping_bag#Food_saf...

Here's 8ish citations that seem to disagree. I guess they could be wrong, I'd love to see your evidence to the contrary. All I've read says it's dirty and common sense seems to agree: you don't wash something, it gets dirty. Stick dirty stuff in it, it gets dirty.

And yes, I don't use reusable bags, down right unsanitary. The insides of product shipping containers are disgusting. That's what's rubbing on the insides of your bags.

Totally agree with the use of plastic at all. I think paper is a great. It does have a problem with permeability so some places need another solution, cellulose? But damn the plastic, and the damn plastic bags, I ask for paper. Trees are a great renewable resource. And you can make cool hats for kids when you're done, let's see you do that with a plastic bag!

Try testing your bags to see how dirty they are and if you want your food rubbing up against all that. Do a white paper towel test at least.
You aren't even Canadian?

Why are you commenting on things you know nothing about and arguing about this with Canadians who actually know what's going on up here? This isn't worth engaging anymore, go to google.com and search for "Canada assault style gun ban" to learn more.
> With the Notion acquisition, what happens to my Skiff accounts?

And then 5 paragraphs with corporate blabber, a 6th with the important instructions (or a link to it; telling you it's not that bad to loose your account) and a 7nd with corporate blabber.

They really got bought from corporate.
Salesforce owns an online office suite?
> History Of The Starter? In the mid 1800's the Oregon Trail was the main route west for settlers, farmers, lumbermen and prospectors. The Trail started in the state of Missouri in about the center of the continental US and meandered WNW for about 2000 miles to the Oregon Territory. Other trails branched off of the main trail, SW to Santa Fe and west to California and elsewhere. The Starter came West in 1847 with one of Carl's ancestors who traveled the Oregon Trail to Oregon by wagon train.
This is a nice project, but I like the simplicity and portability of a google docs file that is just a running log. I can just give that file over to a new owner.
Related story from today:

Google ZX – A tool for writing better scripts

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39323986 (8 comments)
Newer ARM chips already have opcodes to speed up Javascript's handing of numbers.

https://developer.arm.com/documentation/dui0801/h/A64-Floati...
So they're going to pay back the subsidies they took from the various governments that they received in exchange for opening those stations.....right?
I lost a court case several years ago in Utah because the judge decided I was not a person. I was merely an individual.
The more I learned about H2 the less excited I became.

The stuff literally boils out of the tank when your car is stationary. The refueling process is a weird process of suck and blow and it takes 5-10 minutes.
I disagree I guess. Multiple companies I’ve worked at have broken up their shared db into many dbs that individual teams own the operations of, and it works just fine. At significant scale in traffic and # of eng. No central dbas needed - smaller databases require much less skills to manage. The teams that own them learn enough.
> The NCV (Noisy Cross-Validation) method (Chen et al. 2019) divides the dataset into half at random, and then identifies data samples as “clean” if its label matches the predicted label provided by the model that is only trained on the other half of the dataset.

I was doing this trick in 2018, didn't write anything up. If you repeat this process a few times, it provides more fine-grained example difficulty signal so you can validate only the hard part by hand, or just skip it.
It was directly mentioned in the post:

> I attempted to withdraw the bitcoin balance into my own wallet, and hit the limit that Mt Gox has, preventing you from withdrawing more than $1000 USD worth of bitcoins (at the current market value) in a day. This transferred 643.27 bitcoins to my personal bitcoin account before hitting that limit. It was pretty well known that the limit for transferring bitcoins was actually broken in Mt Gox. It stopped you from moving more than that in one withdrawal, but you could immediately ask for more and get another $1000 USD worth, over and over. I decided against this, since it was exploiting a bug, and I definitely didn't want to do anything suspicious looking or improper.
I don't have a work GitHub account and I keep personal stuff out of my work computer. The number of times I've wanted to search an open source codebase without cloning it yet is significantly nonzero.

I've also wanted to do code search on my phone, where I have no need to be logged in so I'm not.
That’s just not true though, I’ve worked at decent sized companies without shared RDBMs, so you don’t have to.

You DO have to share data in other ways, usually datawarehouse or services, but that is not the same thing.
Maybe the example doesn't do justice but it looks more complicated than simply using "&" and "wait".
They work for everything, including distress and fatigue associated with cancer or severe injury. It doesn't imply a significant psychological component, it just means humans are always extremely highly influenced by therapy-like approaches as social creatures.
Fuel cells are not a good solution for small vehicles now, but I think there's an argument to be made fr their use in trucking, where electric vehicles don't make economic sense due to battery weight, poor range, long recharge times, and currently poor towing capacity.

While hydrogen is expensive to produce, difficult to store, and less efficient in transfer than electrochemical batteries, I suspect they'd be a good technology for large fleets of trucks due to weight and range.

Fuel cells can also be made to run on natural gas, which might end up being a good stop-gap, as we already have a strong natural gas production infrastructure and despite its downsides, it's far easier to store than hydrogen.
Yes, a DBMS may be servicing many requests at once, which is why individual stalls don't matter. Other threads will be making progress.

That works if you have a thread per request. Not all servers are structured this way; thread-per-CPU with non-blocking I/O is increasingly popular.

DBMS engineers always make this BS claim and that's what it is, BS. You may know exactly what information you need for a single given query. But you don't know what the next query will be.

Let me rephrase that: A database doesn't know which data is most likely to be used again, but if does know which pages are guaranteed to not be used again because they're not reachable in the b+tree.

Find any system that gets anywhere close to LMDB's read performance and scalability under heavy concurrent load [...]

I would be interested to see how LMDB compares to Kivaloo. In my benchmarking (40 byte keys, 40 byte values, single core on my laptop, highly parallel workload, in core) I get 10^6 reads per second over the network; if I understand correctly LMDB doesn't serve a network protocol but is at a similar level of performance?
What's the best non serial option for PKs in your view? Or do you prefer dual PK approach?
Lots of languages handle it just fine and don’t need the mess of C++ ctors.

GP is pointing out that go specifically makes it an issue.
I nearly did, but the write-up was getting pretty long.

I'll try to find something for the planned range/interference tests. Morse Micro is also an Australian company so I'll probably look into their parts first unless there's any recommendation?
These articles all miss the point.

If you are a DBMS kernel developer, the most urgent need is how to control memory more precisely to prevent out-of-memory (OOM) situations. Clearly, MMAP cannot achieve this, which is also why most databases still use their own memory pool + direct-IO.
Welcome to healthcare science, pretty much all of it is like this while the actual groundbreaking papers get 2-3 citations and no replications each.
Advertises local-first on top of their page. Immediate account creation requirement on iOS, not even a demo mode.
Also love them, love the simpler ones I have from pilot etc. I also deeply cherish the vintage Monte Blancs given to me by my loved ones, and I bought one of the retracting boehms for myself.

In any case, it's a great thing to get into, you meet some great people, and get to enjoy them in every day life.

If you haven't been to a pen show, I highly recommend you go.
Your argument boils down to Apple being the first one to use "App", which is an abbreviation for "Application".

But as fas as I know, that's exactly the same case for OpenAI GPT, they were first to use that abbreviation.
Please don’t make me install Node.js to run your shell script.
Government-led economic redirection on the scale of WWII is appropriate, given the threat.

However, at this time it seems much more likely that the ideologues will just drive us all into the ditch because they believe that their bunkers will work, and well, they have uncompromising ideologies.
Over a decade later, climate scientist prevails in libel case
Crypto people were never using as many 4090s as they were 4060s and 4070s. Their price has gone up because of the AI craze, not crypto, as they are one of the few consumer nvidia cards with enough ram and compute to run decent local LLMs.
I find fpuntain pens to be smoother, it's a big reason I love them so much
Pick a date, any date.
I'll be honest, I did not pass the word Javascript.
And I don't think I could be convinced to.

Didn't expect people to be so hurt by the truth. Sorry. I just don't trust JS running on my machines.
This isn’t a failure though. Getting bought out by a larger company is literally the aim of most startups
Gregory Benford made a similar statement about technology, where humans are in constant war with AI and often don't know how the tech they use work. IIRC there was a spaceship in Great Sky River[0] that could only be operated by humans because they did the tutorials. (Humanity's lack of knowledge was less a permanent regression and more a side-effect of constantly fighting, and losing, the war against the machines. Hard to study and learn when you're fighting all the time).

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sky_River_(novel)
You can scale to any valuation with any architecture. Whether or not you need sophisticated scaling solutions depends on the characteristics of your product, mostly how pure of a software play it is. Pure software means you will run into scaling challenges quicker, since likely part of your value add is in fact managing the complexity of scaling.

If you are running a marketplace app and collect fees you're going to be able go much further on simpler architectures than if you're trying to generate 10,000 AI images per second.
It's always a lot of fun to see stuff like this on HN. It's a reminder that there are still a lot of fun and amusing things on the internet.

I also love seeing stupid simple HTML sites like this. It's hideous to look at but it serves exactly the purpose it's there to do. It's also really fast.
It has already started.
https://docs.rs/pgx/latest/pgx/

Not hard to see path ahead of us similar to Linux's gradual step towards Rust in the kernel.
Everyone's Talking About Shifting Left – Here's Why I'm Shifting Right
What's the name of the keyboard? I cannot visit this particular page, as the item is not shipped to Germany.
Here's an anecdote to help your gut. I'm a platform engineer who's favorite language is Typescript. I LIVE in the terminal. The only reason I use vscode is cause it's easier to put him into vscode than it is to put vscode into vim. Otherwise I'd be in the terminal for everything but browsing.
The same could bCalligrapher? ruler. But we need them to measure things. Just because some people had a bad experience with them?

Whan about master penman and women? Calligraphers?
The American Spring?
Just use nix-shell
That's interesting. In Victoria Australia (Melbourne to me more specific). LPG (liquid petroleum gas) cars were more very successful. Throughout the 80s and 90s almost every taxi was LPG, basically every petrol station also had (and many still do) have LPG. And it was super common if you bought a Ford Falcon or Holden Commodore, two of the most popular cars of the 90s and 00s here that you would convert them to LPG. Typically by installing an additional smaller tank in the boot (trunk as Americans call it) and have a switch in the cabin to switch between the fuels. Maybe the smaller tank might only get a couple hundred kilometres but it was quick, cheap and easy to fill up, simple to swap back to petrol if you needed the range etc. It was so common, I know Ford (and possibly Holden) were offering the factory ready for LPG without a petrol tank.
Well yes. It is clear that it is possible to do something about it if we make a concerted effort to reduce our emissions. But we all collectively agree that sounds kind of annoying and would rather go out in a blaze of confusion and inaction.
They can't legally claim to care about something besides money (even this I'm unsure about), but if the leadership cares, they can steer the company a certain way.
Yeah that wouldn't be great.

But:

This feels to me like it might be a really useful tool to do systems-integration work around an app that is built in Node.js. For example, to integrate with incrond or cron, or get a supervisor task into JS. The smallest sensible "shell-ish" wrapper that gets you access to your codebase in JS and stops the coding effort being divided so much between technologies.
Deforestation, Displacement: How Sustainable Turns Unsustainable with Lithium
I can't seem to find where the actual tool is
I have the same experience, just in some rural school in France (ZEP, meaning supposedly with more "difficult" population than average) in the 90s.

I still like fountain pens but I almost never write by hand anymore. Most of my classmates seem to have stopped with them as soon as they were allowed to though, which I never understood.
In practice, we seem to be electing people whose main difference is which country we're going to bomb next year. It would sure be nice to vote for someone who'd use all that money for something actually useful, and who could credibly win. But so far I haven't seen any such. Which is not surprising, since the people who get elected through the current system have a vested interest in maintaining it, no matter which side of the aisle they're on other issues.
ZX?

Is there a rainbow bar over the bottom right corner?

Do words appear when you press each key?
Animals that are ready to go shortly after birth are called precocial. This includes chickens and most of the equines.

If you've ever seen a newborn foal stand up for the first time, it's clear that's a built-in behavior. Standing up on those long spindly legs usually works the first time. So does walking, and within hours, running.

Lying down, however, is not built-in. I've seen a foal try to get back down on the ground, which is clearly trial and error, often ending in a fall. There's no evolutionary pressure to have that work right the first time.
"[For writing complex scripts] JavaScript is a perfect choice".

Not sold on that. Why should I choose it over Python, PHP or others?
You might start to hate the influencers you once loved
> No one wants to say "RDS is a good choice . . . because I don't know how nor have I ever self managed a database."

I don't think that's accurate. I've self-managed databases, and I still think that RDS is compelling for small engineering teams.

There's a lot to get right when managing a database, and it's easy to screw something up. Perhaps none of the individual parts are super-complicated, but the cost of failure is high. Outsourcing that cost to AWS is pretty compelling.

At a certain team size, you'll end up with a section of the team that's dedicated to these sorts of careful processes. But the first place these issues come up is with the database, and if you can put off that bit of organizational scaling until later, then that's a great path to choose.
> people are living in small places in NY not because they prefer small places

Right, who said otherwise?
acquisition and merger culture is so incredibly destructive. It doesnt have to be this way either, with much stricter regulations. It's an enormous waste of resources and that's the point half the time, just buy companies to delete their services.
I'll check again Anytype in maybe a year or so, because currently their whole "typing" thing just isn't up to snuff (I wrote about it here before so you can check my comments history of you are curious and find a lengthy post about it and why I think only Trilium notes is sound -as in enforcing type consistency- in this space).
Most likely anti-scraping measure. So they can detect and shut down bots or really anyone they feel like if activity looks nonstandard. Not suggesting it’s good, but it’s consistent with the in vogue trend to lock down recipient public APIs nowadays.
Yes - https://quip.com/
> There are far more JavaScript developers in the world than there are even Python developers

I don’t think that’s true. Anecdotally when I was interviewing at a recruiting company (and we let candidates pick any language to be assessed in), Python was by far the most popular choice, chosen by about 60% of candidates or something like that. Java and JavaScript came after, followed by a long tail of languages like C# and go.

I assumed JavaScript would be the most popular too - but that didn't seem to be the case. I have no idea where the demand for all this Python programming is coming from, but it seems Python programmers are everywhere. Maybe it’s just popular in schools.
This [pun very much intended]
Fighting the smartphone invasion: French village voted to ban public scrolling
So… novelty single-file libraries? I’m not sure that “it works if you only have one file” truly supports your argument.
> There are no great FaaS options for running GPU workloads

This hits hard. Someone please take my (client's) money and provide sane GPU FaaS. Banana.dev is cool but not really enterprise ready. I wish there was a AWS/GCP/Azure analogue that the penny pinchers and MBAs in charge of procurement can get behind.
> Do we ever seek simplicity in software engineering products?

Doubtfully. Simplicity of work breakdown structure - maybe. Legibility for management layers, possibly. Structural integrity of your CYA armor? 100%.

The half-life of a software project is what now, a few years at most these days? Months, in webdev? Why build something that is robust, durable, efficient, make all the correct engineering choices, where you can instead race ahead with a series of "nobody ever got fired for using ${current hot cloud thing}" choices, not worrying at all about rapidly expanding pile of tech and organizational debt? If you push the repayment time far back enough, your project will likely be dead by then anyway (win), or acquired by a greater fool (BIG WIN) - either way, you're not cleaning up anything.

Nobody wants to stay attached to a project these days anyway.

/s

Maybe.
Ha, I did just the same thing - and also optimized for an extremely fast per-thread CPU (which you never get from managed service providers).

The query times are incredible.
I like fiddling with databases, but I totally agree with this. Unless you really need a big database and are going to save 100k+ per year by going self managed then RDS or similar just saves you so much stress. We've been using it for the best part of 10 years and uptime and latency have consistently been excellent, and functionality is all rock solid. I never have to think about it, which is just what I want from something so core to the business.
Thanks, I hate it.

* I love the idea, and I'm interested to see more progress in this direction.

* I'm not a huge fan of the syntax - for me, the commands are the star of the show, while the async/await is a glue. This syntax emphasizes the async/await while the important stuff get shuffled into quotes.

* Don't make me install node - and especially not system/user-wide packages - to run a script.

Having said all that, this is a neat idea and a cool hack on top of javascript language features.
There’s no wrong with crypto if you understand it’s simply a ponzi.

I wish I’d realized it early then I could have approached it correctly instead of paying attention to the question of whether it represents anything real.
Huge fan of Valclav Smil’s work. Note that the significant amount of water required to frack those wells is in the order of 1 million galls or more. Both sides of that is impacting the Edwards Aquifer[1]. Wastewater from wells is finally being treated, but it doesn’t seem to be a widespread practice, yet. It’s also possible that production declines after each subsequent refracking process.

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1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Aquifer
Are you talking about the main image of the California license? He says further down in the post that he didn't test that one as the website doesn't accept US IDs. He used a passport from the UK to verify, photo is in the first reply though I think you have to log in to see if.