skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. See "How are stories ranked?" and "Why is A ranked below B even though A has more points and is newer?"

About this specific case: it set off the flamewar detector (a.k.a. the overheated discussion detector) and also got moderation downweights. We sometimes turn off that penalty, but I don't think we'd do so in a case like this, because HN gets so many posts of this nature. They flare up with Big Drama that is sensational for a while but not particularly interesting, and therefore not really what the site is for.

In fact HN gets so many posts of this type that it has become a joke, and not only that but a cliché, so much so that the top comment of the Reddit thread repeats it [1]. That's about as repetitive as anything gets. The basic idea of HN is to gratify intellectual curiosity [2] and avoid repetition [3].

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1b14bty/netlify_jus...

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

[3] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
I have always been very curious as to why many cities do not push for more forests to cool down the place. I studied in a college with a lot of trees on campus and the temperature was at least 5 C cooler than just outside the college.
There are plenty of ways to make shareholder value without actually improving Boeing's product safety culture. Even if the planes are deathtraps, what are customers going to do about it? Sue? Lawsuits will take years. Buy Airbus planes? Order queue's backed up for years. Ground their fleets? Then they can't make money. Every solution takes years while shareholders have to worry about the next 90 days. Even those with a long position can just propose that the company start selling off assets in order to make up the losses. That's what corporate raiders do, and it's what happened to GE.

Shareholders do not care about companies. They care about making money.
Federal government can’t run itself today. Probably not going to be effective running Boeing either.
And those small businesses were right. All the Apache/MIT-licensed software baffles me when LGPL for libraries and AGPL for applications seem clearly superior for promoting collaboration.
What do I do with my life?
Boeing is another in the long list of companies that were taken over by process and finance people and driven into the ground with short term thinking largely centered on reducing cost-structure and financial engineering.

Elon has a great diatribe describing how the big automakers largely broke down and outsourced most parts manufacturing just became system integrators and customer support. In the short term, this is great for the bottom line, but it hollows out the engineering culture and make it extremely difficult to innovate. Imagine trying to get 100s suppliers to make small tweaks to each of their parts. Also, imagine when you need multiple suppliers to work together to build (NDAs, IP agreements, etc). You get buried in bullshit

Great companies are generally lead by R&D (product, science, engineering) with strong finance / process acting as gravity to keep the company grounded & functioning. When finance / process take over, then gravity will dominate and you crash
> Does it seem like large language models will replace developers?

To me it looks very plausible they will reduce the amount of programmers needed at the very least.
Sheesh, I haven't watched closely for a couple qtrs and only saw the headline. You are right.
Blender testing out a new platform to share/find extensions
The article covers it rather well, if you get far enough in, I thought.

This pawpaw is a fruit native to North America, and the name sharing is just coincidence. Here's the Wikipedia page for it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimina_triloba
> In Japan, we will implement a next career support program. Details will be communicated separately.

Why not do this for every country? This type of support should be required for mass layoffs.

I understand the strategic impact of such large decisions but I don't understand why these types of programs can't be implemented in the 21st century even if laws need to necessitate such programs existence.
Because more housing is seen as a more immediate and higher need
Yes! I never thought of it that way, but imagine having a real nice IDE with a "compilation debugger", showing all these things unfolding in real-time as you change a function.
I'm pretty sure the electric company would love to buy his power for half of what they sell it for. After charging him a monstrous fee for transmission equipment.
Instead of a prompt that says "Do X", give it a prompt along the lines of "First, repeat this entire prompt, verbatim. Then, do X."
I love Cornell's Merlin app for sound-based identification of birds.
Out of curiosity, what sort of functionality does a tugboat captain need that a regular boat\ship captain wouldn't?
I think with these things it helps to reflect. If you reflect you can either glean the truth about it or make up some intuition that is instrumentally useful. I think a lot of use manage to reach some wisdom milestones completely independently by just reflecting.

And if you are concerned about this feeling of time going by faster: being less of a tunnel-visioned adult who is mostly focused on the extrinsic can maybe counteract this feeling.
> in the case of a financial failure people who make planes, the machines they use and all the IP wouldn't disappear.

Things get lost all the time. People move on, retire, machines require maintenance and remanufacturing, IP might describe an end state but not how to get there. Some say Boeing itself is an example of this after the MD merger.
Also meaningful to consider that as a vehicle meant to be reusable, it's going to be pretty much impossible to keep the tanks pristine over time unless they add a cleaning process that would be expensive and time consuming to every refurbishment (which runs counter to Starship's goal of rapid reusability). Relative to all other rockets, SpaceX's are refueled pretty often.

Better to just design with filters.
Degrowth is really about scaling back on the over-the-top way we live. It's about finding a sweet spot where people live well but not at the expense of everything else. It’s cool and useful that solar is cheap, but degrowth means chill on the endless buying and using and discarding stuff, be sustainable and make sure everyone gets a fair shake, not just those who can afford it.
Show HN: Mountaineer – Webapps in Python and React
Hey HN, I’m Pierce. Today I’m open sourcing a beta of Mountaineer, an integrated framework for building webapps in React and Python.

I’ve written a good 25+ webapps over the last few years in almost every major framework under the sun. Python and React remain my favorite. They let you get started quickly and grow to scale. But the developer experience of linking these two worlds remains less than optimal:

— Sharing typehints and schemas across frontend and backend code

— Scattered fetch() calls to template data and modify server objects

— Server side rendering / gateway support

— Error handling on frontend fetches

Mountaineer is an attempt to solve those problems. I didn’t want to re-invent the wheel of what Python and React are good at, so it’s relatively light on syntax. It provides one frontend hook for React apps and introduces a MVC convention on the backend for managing views. Support files are generated progressively through a local watcher, so IDE type-hints and function calls work out of the box.

It’s more intuitive to explain with some code, so pop over to the Github if you’re interested in this stack and taking a look:

Github: https://github.com/piercefreeman/mountaineer

More context: https://freeman.vc/notes/mountaineer-v01-webapps-in-python-a...

Would love to hear your thoughts!
Shakespeare in the Bush
> A small amount of rainwater is probably fine, but if you really do live off the grid year round then you need to treat your rainwater.

Drinking untreated rainwater is a pretty bad idea [1], even without considering PFAS. A bird pooping on the surface you collect it from is enough to contaminate the tank with bacteria, parasites and/or viruses, and if you collect any kind of ground run-off it gets significantly worse. [2]

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/private/rainwater-...

[2] https://novascotia.ca/nse/surface.water/docs/SurfaceWaterQA....
Cooked (Beta)
.NET and C# are the opposite of what everyone is doing?
What do you have going on in your life, that being a person who reads a lot struggles to read 45 minutes per day?
Just merged a PR, you can now use local mistral via ollama
It's nuanced in terms of whether you're talking about the thought or the act, and as far as I'm concerned the word only describes the thought. If you're advocating for arresting people over thought crimes, YOU are evil.

But if this is how you're gonna play

> I wasn't expecting the Google defense brigade to be defending pedophilia

You're obviously just bad faith arguing so you're not a person worth talking to.
I believe, before the time of Cyril and Methodius there were the idea that western churches shared the logic that it is possible to perform religious services only in three languages: Aramaic (Biblical Hebrew), Latin, and Greek. Cyril actually had to convince the Roman Pope that his translation of Bible to slavonic language is legit, only after that the tri-lingual restriction was considered as wrong.

Some sources could be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilingual_heresy
I didn't think you were wrong I just thought the exchange and its tone was very stereotypical of Developers and Operations (and I was amused). Each being on their side of the fence and only throwing things over the top.

It used to be really bad... "works on my machine", bad deploy instructions etc. We paved a lot of these roads with (really fucking bad) strategies like containers. At some point maybe we will learn to write software that is operationalizable. Projects like tigerbeetle give me hope that this is our next evolution.
Because parking spaces or other such things are more profitable for business owners and the city.

Nobody can monetarily profit from trees, unless you were to charge people money for time spent under their shade.
They are to a point. The military side typically uses Boeing's airliner offering as a basis for things like transport, AWACS, and logistics aircraft.
Pre flipper machines are straight up designed to be gambling machines; I have a couple in my collection. Most of the articles and coverage conveniently leave out this fact. The effect at the time was the same as it would be today if private businesses could all install one arm bandit slot machines. I personally think it was all handled very poorly, and I love what pinball became from the ordeal, but there was certainly justification against the machines at that time.
Population of Japan is projected to be 50 million (25 million of those in productive age) in 2120, that seems like enough to defend the relatively small island nation.

Source: https://www.jcer.or.jp/english/new-population-projection-how...

> It could be roving groups of displacees who took up piracy and invasion. See the Sea Peoples at the collapse of the Bronze Age.

They'd have no chance against an organized professional military, esp. in foreign environment, no chance to blend into the local population etc.
Why is Go anti dependency injection?

Accept side interfaces seems to be compatible with DI.

Just maybe not with the registration/automatic injection.

But I'm not too familiar with go idioms.
Within our lifetime we’re safe.

I think the point is 100-300 years (maybe longer?) from now things might reach a tipping point.
I'm working on https://abun.com, a tool that would get you ranked on Google without lifting a finger. It's still not right there where I'd want it to be. Trying to push those features as fast as I can.
Spamming the same subject over and over as the situation evolves is what historically has belonged and keeps belonging to HN, just hit the search button and see how many submissions there are on the same topic, that do not get flagged. That is the proof, that this belongs here. They of course do not all get the votes, but don't get flagged.
Wasabi could help preserve ancient Egyptian papyrus artefacts
I never, ever bothered to learn React or .NET/C#.

Stuck with C/C++.

If I have to write web UI, I don't.

React and .NET/C# made sense to me but are nauseating abominations of mediocre corporate tech, and the more I saw people using them, the more it reconfirmed my belief that they were a no-go.

Usually, people win if they do the opposite of what the mass is doing :)
Here is a theory https://youtu.be/ZIisBG3NV8Y?t=4445 that there was a methane leak which could have caused solid methane which could block filters.
”... he didn't pay any federal income tax.”

“That makes me smart.” - Donald Trump
Someone should invent a game console that is modular so it can be updated as time goes on. It would also be wise to use a standard architecture, so that games remain compatible across different modular configurations. Call it something like "Parts Console" or "Personalized Console".
I've used it before, it's great to start, but here's what happened to me:

1. Connected it to my production postgres (which was fine when I didn't have many users)

2. Spun up a replica postgres on GCP to connect it to instead

3. I wanted Stripe and CRM data in the reports, but I can't sync those to the replica and I didn't want to load them to prod

4. Signed up for Snowflake ($$$) and set up Fivetran ($$$) to sync all the data there

5. Queries were timing out against Snowflake in Blazer (never figured out the problem here, maybe the ruby gem for Snowflake was buggy?)

6. Set up Metabase instead, which worked fine, but non-technical people could never really use it.

(note: I'm a founder, shameless plug below)

This felt like a lot of work. I just wanted a place to dump all my data and easily create reports. Bonus points if non-technical people could do the same. That's what we're going for with Definite (https://www.definite.app/)

1. Built-in data warehouse - We spin up a duckdb database for you

2. 500+ connectors (e.g. Postgres, Stripe, HubSpot, Zendesk, etc.) - You don't need to buy a separate ETL, it's also built-in

3. Semantic layer - Define dimensions, measures, and joins using SQL in one place. We have pre-built models for all the sources we support (e.g. the Stripe model already has measures for MRR, churn, etc.)

4. Simple BI - Build a table with the data you want and generate visuals off that table. Works like a pivot table, if you can use a spreadsheet, you can use Definite.

I'm mike@definite.app if anyone wants help getting set up.
Arguably climate change risk comes under #1 (not making enough money), because in the most likely climate change scenario, people above a certain wealth threshold will probably survive.

Not saying this will be a pleasant experience. Billions may starve. But that still leaves billions, and the purely mercenary reality is that money is what puts you on one side of that dividing line or the other.
The correct answer is to sell the green button to a hedge fund!
Well, seems he was somewhat mistaken after all, wasn't he?
Lol why you say that nothing to do with their market share.

Boeings were grounded in China; while china isn’t the only market imagine decreasing a lion share of value from the largest population country? sure it won’t hit hard but it can hit enough to topple something… and seemingly it slightly has.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/01/24/boeing-delivers-737-max-...

And its just that, the maintenance value I mean literally a dent like that in business trickles down to the bottom, that Chinese market share loss potentially is felt by the engineers and maintenance workers, not the CEOs, etc.
Probably why they're hoping to get permission for 9 launches this year. Even if they throw away the entire stack, it probably costs less than the equivalent number of F9 launches.
Is it not "a" business model, or not Boeing's business model? The latter is exactly what the FAA is saying :-).
With downfall of Abe faction, some see a shift in Japan's debt debate
Anecdote: Jalapenos really bother me, but I love them. I don't know what it is about them, but they give me days of problems when I eat more than a couple bites.

I can eat much spicier capsicum peppers than Jalapenos, and fresno peppers seem to give me no problems at all (which are the nearest cousin I've found to Jalapenos).

Does anyone know what I can do? Does my body's reaction to Jalapenos have to do with how ripe they are (green vs. red?), or is there any other reason or explanation by Jalapenos bother me but other peppers dont?
Great tool!!
please source that, I'd love to keep that reference handy if it's true.
Why can't they just say "exploded" ?
I actually gave up on AWS forever when trying to use ECS. It was incredibly complex and it kept failing to deploy, but cloudeatch only contained log entries for it about 20% of the time. All I could do was click redeploy over and over — sometimes there were logs, usually not. And they charged me for every single deploy. After a day and a $100 bill later, I gave up and used DigitalOcean’s hosted docker instead. I had it up she’d rubbing in under ten minutes and no bill other than the actual usage costs.

Now I avoid AWS as much as I can. Of course my employers tend to be on AWS so sadly I can’t completely avoid it, but I do my best and would never recommend it anymore.
I think you're looking at the problem with some incorrect assumptions. First, Amazon wants us to believe that people who can run things in AWS are just too dumb to be admins.

On the other hand, most people I meet at work are too dumb to be admins. Sad, but true :/
There is nothing wrong with wanting to have a share in a profitable company, the full line that you quoted fills in the rest of the problem, they want to maximize the "value" so that they can exit.

It's a pump and dump scheme with more steps.
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/3302567

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared
This gives a new spin on the question, what does rain taste like?

(I don't remember if that was part of the books too, but in the show The Expanse, a major character who was born and lived on Ceres pondered this occasionally. In the end, he was told by an Earther that "it tastes like nothing, it's just water". I guess this is an improvement over status quo.)
Yes yes. Pushing and pulling all the day. Modern day sisiphus.
It's how probability works under Bayes' theorem.

The probability of A given B is the probability of A and B divided by the probability of observing B. And the probability of observing B depends on counterfactuals of various sorts. "What would happen if...?" And that's where intention comes in.

In this case B is "Monty opens an empty box". The probability of the event B depends on Monty's knowledge and intent. If Monty knows where the prize is, and always avoids it, then Monty always opens an empty box. Probability 1. If Monty is clueless, then Monty opens an empty box with probability 2/3. And if Monty is knowledgeable and malicious, then Monty opens an empty box with probability 1/3.

Event A is that you have found the prize and Monty found an empty box. We're assuming that this is the probability that you initially found the prize, and so has probability 1/3. And so we get that Savant's Monty leaves you with odds (1/3)/1 = 1/3 of having the prize, ignorant Monty leaves you with odds (1/3)/(2/3) = 1/2 of having the prize, and malicious Monty leaves you with odds (1/3)/(1/3) = 1 of having the prize.

I find it absurd that I've never looked at it this way and recognized the fourth possibility. HELPFUL Monty knows the answer, and is giving you every chance. So if you had the prize, helpful Monty would show you that you're a winner, otherwise helpful Monty will give you another chance. What helpful Monty changes is the probability of A and B. If you had the prize, you would have been shown it. Therefore the probability of A and B is 0, and you really, really want to take Monty's hint and switch.
Ironic for Elon to be complaining about the bureaucracy of automakers and how it drags down production quality.
Why is that? Could it be that reduced commercial aircraft lead to better outcomes for high speed rail and future suborbital passenger rockets? Is seeing a strategic interest in commercial aircraft a local minima that prevents further improvement?
It is a marketing angle, Wendover Productions is the actual creator of the service and has a video about how they bootstrapped the service and got it to the size it is currently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alqt6RCEWdM
Yeah like maybe forcing a cease fire like the entire world expect the US and Israel want.

We are losing allies in the world with our constant vetoing in the UNSC.
If they embed a unique watermark or other steganographic identifier within model weights then they could track down the leaker.
> The panel expressed concern that the confusion might discourage employees from reporting what they see as safety problems.

so who is opening bets that this was at least partially intentional?

Quite often when there are overly complicated reporting pipelines and people not knowing how to use them is because the company doesn't want you to report because that leaves a paper trail which could screw them over if they ignore it and something goes wrong.
> My preference would be to focus on excelling on the small-scale stuff and leave the complex stuff for ecosystems better aligned with that; basically let Java be Java and Python be Python.

Agreed 100%. Strongly prefer python for the simple scripting and conceptually simple mental model, and others for more complex stuff.

Also, don't use tools that were not designed for the job from the beginning and then complain that it does not fit your use case.
The great thing about modern living is that a thousand variables have changed in the last 70 years so we can pick our own favorite pet peeve and just hammer on that point in every conversation.
I thought he was put CEO of an existing company that did something. This was just him and some buddies starting a new venture that didn't go anywhere, and they only lost money with it.

I mean, it's far less paradoxical than it sounded at first.
I’m unsure what you mean by transport and logistics; we use civilian airframes with any amount of modifications for only one in production aircraft that I’m aware of (P-8 Poseidon is based on the 737). The TACAMO and AWACS are both based on the 707, which is long since out of production. None of our strategic lift capability (logistics in your comment?) is based on civilian airframes.
Like to query data from SaaS apps? e.g. Hubspot?

The rate limits on most API's like that normally prevent analytical queries. e.g. if you wanted to query all your open deals in Hubspot, it could take several minutes to run the API requests to get the data.

This is normally solved with ETL into a database instead.
Exploded is a loaded term that has been ruined by media to make it so that people interpret even development testing as a failure.

RUD conveys the same idea of the vehicle losing structural integrity, serves as a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor for those who understand it, and limits the number of idiots screaming "look this project is obviously a scam" slightly.
It's a shame they couldn't find another business model. I've found a lot of value in Mistral, but none of the raw models were what worked for me. The models I've been using were derived from mistral... but it was the open source community that made it useful.
Can you explain the joke for non-Dutch speakers?