skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can't deliver the political power of a billionaire to everyone but we can deliver the material prosperity

No we can't. There are so many signs that all point to that not happening https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/09/can-modernity-last/
Paris seems to be absolutely on fire when it comes to producing new fintech startups.
This reminds me of RSS.
It's unfortunately a very common anecdote over the last 10 years (and a similar experience to my own). And to be honest, it's a red flag with how this critical system component is being developed.
The trite response is "get better at maths". I honestly don't mean that facetiously - the whole understanding that underpins "neat tricks" and how to use them is "maths". Once you can use said neat tricks, you are better at maths.

So, I would suggest a better question is: where can I find an introduction to this stuff that is better aligned with my current understanding and knowledge. To that end, here's a great intro book: https://www.dspguide.com/

I read that cover to cover when I was 17 and I would not have been described as particularly mathematically gifted.
Yeah, it often seems like in trying to eliminate the main single point of failure we end up with many more single points of failure.
I'm honestly not sure. I recognize the complexity of the issue, and for what it's worth I used to be totally in favour of legalizing euthanasia until I saw what it looks like in practice in countries that have done it. But my current feeling is that the limiting principle should be we don't do anything in any way to normalise suicide, to tell anyone that suicide is a reasonable solution to their problems, or to give the state the power to end anyone's life. Anything else opens Pandora's box and is sure to lead us down a very dark path.
I have no idea what you tried to say. Your comment sounds like machine-generated garbage.
Need to build more large condo/apartment, just like NYC. SFH can't use land efficiently.

Bureaucracy also contributes to house price significantly to the issue, but this is what you guys voted for, so enjoy it.
If they really wanted to promote competition, Google will give an option on incorporation results from the price scanner service/airline of customer's choice in their search results.

Their should be an open API standard and if airlines support that standard then any search service should be able to integrate any airline/intermediary service for pricing information. Then you get all the benefits of Google flights but it's not market dominance any more. And customers should be able add the sources they trust in their search configuration.
In a very short-sighted way, sure. It doesn’t even take that much galaxy-brain thinking to see how housing inequality can be detrimental to one’s finances.
On that note, I found Orwell's posthumously-published Such, Such Were the Joys (about his boarding school days) suggests the inspirations behind large swaths of 1984.
Why should it get worse? It is a separate product and works standalone, no? I for one always go directly to google.com/flights

I don’t see the need to have this embedded in Google SERPs. This way, Google Flights can still link directly to airlines while having saner competition for flight aggregators.
Right, and to do what any of the services above do, you’re doing this in a HA setup on a per region basis and writing your own cross region consistency code.

Users are not noticing the difference between 5ms lookups and 20ms lookups. They are noticing outages, data loss, and inconsistency.
The thing that is special about Nix the language is everything it doesn't have (no side effects[1], no state, no mutability). It's a very small and simple language.

Those constraints are really important for the rest of the Nix ecosystem to work.

[1]: technically there is one side effect - putting a derivation (i.e. a recipe for how to build a package) into the nix store.
I had quite brutal vertigo my whole life, 4-5m on some roof was enough to make me clamp railing like there was no tomorrow.

So what did I do? Grabbed my chance when friend was organizing small trip to nearby via ferrata. He had trust I could do it, and I've tried small bouldering efforts before. So we went, in few minutes we were >100m above ground on properly vertical cliff, just holding bits of metal drilled into rock, he was belaying my girlfriend with additional rope but I climbed on my own. I was focusing on what was ahead/above and only briefly checking the abyss below.

Suffice to say this changed my life. Within 2 years, I was climbing longer multi pitch routes basically every weekend, did all ferratas I could drive to, started alpinism, ski touring, paragliding... fear is gone, 1000m exposed cliffs dont make me even wink.

But the journey, which I stumbled upon completely by accident and without any goals, has had much more profound effect on my personality. A close colleague who witnessed this period just said : "you have changed during that time..." with some envy in his voice. I no longer obsess and stress about stuff that aint important in life. I dont fear death at all. I quickly recognize toxic people and push them away (this may have come also from my interest in psychology, who knows). As I get older these are invaluable tools, seeing otherwise smart folks around me being stunned in life due to these.

What I want to say - our fears can end up being our great advantage that can make us much better people, just try challenging yourself. If the proverbial hills you have to climb in life are bigger than other's it can mean you end up being much stronger than folks who have it easy in life. And stay the hell away from life's comfort zone - you owe it to yourself and your closest ones.
Article (Apr 3, 2018).

[Pilot Charles] was best-known for his unwilling role in a 1988 prison break. In that incident, allegedly at gunpoint by an inmate's girlfriend, he landed the same chopper flown in "Rambo III" in a prison in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

Cowboys and choppers are always a heady mix .. I was raised with two former WWII Commonwealth WAAF aunts who flew spitfires, heavy bombers and jets before shifting hemispheres to assist bombing Japanese controlled fuelling assets out of Truscott (Mungalalu) airbase and then "retired" to cattle country running air transport routes and playing silly buggers with choppers - pre Vietnam rappelling and mid 70's heli mustering.

Years later the area is still somewhat insane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B-zWxDJOZU
I tried to use it it few weeks ago on a btrfs hard drive. But i couldn't make it work. Then i used wsl to access it. Worked for a few run but then things just started to fail. It wouldn't even get mounted. Then I realized i can just boot a live iso of linux and copy/move files to windows drive and to the btrfs drive. That what i am doing now, using Fedora Workstation live iso on USB drive with ventoy.
It's possible that you will need a couple more generations to get there
> supposedly superior security model of Google Play Store

Let's never forget that the google play store requires giving google the ability to modify your app code in any way they want before making it available for download. Oh sure, that backdoor will never be abused.
To my mind this it a step back from HN in two respects. One you have to enable JavaScript to view it; Two I need to worry about cloudflare insights getting hold of my data/browsing habits.

I like the idea though.
My first house was built in the 40s. It was framed of 2x4s just as today, and had asbestos siding to boot.

People like to hate on our building methods, but they hold up really well for the most part.
There are plenty of things that have departed from cost-based pricing into supply and demand territory. That’s how things very often tend to go. Housing is just…special.
Wat? If the site is down I’ll probably wont be back, and if I am
paying for a service I am angry and might unsubscribe. Let alone lost revenue for the company from new sign ups or readers.
Yeah, might be an idea to move this site to S3 so it works.
Show HN: Generate landing pages wih email collection in minutes
The goal of this project is to provide a simple way to generate landing pages with email collection to validate ideas early.

Instead of just jumping into a new side-project, create the landing page first and check if it gets traction. Without writing a single line of code.

And if it looks promising and you develop your project, you will already have a list of people interested on it to reach out to.

The landing pages are generated from a single configuration file (YAML).

Several pages can be defined, by just providing their texts and other settings. The pages are then rendered from the template during the Docker container startup.

The email collection is done with a simple form that sends the email to the backend, which stores it in a CSV file for each site.

Both the frontend and the backend are served by the same container, just with one process per worker.
address: https://quxiaowei.github.io/3-body/
> measuring performance always seemed to be a very hard task

It's not hard: it's either easy, or impossible, depending on the culture at your shop.

At the basic level it's trivial - you instrument code and interpret the results against the HW and lower level machine counters.

Depending on $lang you have many good libraries for this kicking around, the hard part is working with a corp that values performance (99% do not) so none of the required mindset and surrounding infra will be setup to permit this in any useful capacity.
I haven’t ever worked for a business where this was true, including AWS. I’m sure they exist, but I think your experience is an outlier
Right Lago could be used as replacement to Stripe Billing. And one attractive feature is that it decouples your tech stack from Stripe (could use another payment processor and still handle the subscription lifecycle the same way). This is going to be more and more interesting to businesses who are getting increasingly wary of Stripe account bans.
I've been using names of chemical elements. They're nice since they come with abbreviations and associated numbers. So if there's host 'gallium', you know that it can also be referenced as 'ga' and that it's local IP address is going to be something like 192.168.1.31.
I have a mixed feeling about this. One one hand when I search for something google directs me to content farma, not directly to place I want to visit. For example if I search for pearl I would like to see Perl site, not 'best languages of 2024'. This has not yet been do, it just illustrates my point.
One thing that I've never understood, is why is there a huge preference for SFH in the US, compared to other countries? Where I live, India, most people prefer Apartments because of how many amenities you can get with it along with the added advantage of things like security. Seems like it is opposite in the US.

Because if area is a concern, then apartments can house a lot more people compared to a row of SFH houses
Hi -- Namespace's CEO here; if you have a chance, please drop me a note at hugo-at-namespacelabs.com; I'd love to hear what we could be doing better in the UI, and product overall. Thank you!

Hugo @ Namespace (https://namespace.so)
Seconded. Start with a single box. You're not Facebook. The success of your startup won't depend on whether you have an unplanned downtime of 15 minutes once a month during your first year. If your product is any good people will retry after an hour and not switch to your competitor. If you hit scalability issues go for a hybrid model where you make the resource intensive part scalable.

But hey if you think you need to start out with webscale, have two dozen micro services and an exploding number of failure states between them and blow through your VC money with an AWS bill before the first customer signs up, more power to you.
have anyone using this encounter any legal issues, as this project use AGPL?
Kind of. A house built in, say, 2024 would have to be quite significantly less costly before I’d consider it over a house from, say, ~30 years ago. Construction is making a terrible name for itself. I am far from alone in this mentality.
> But then again, he's a multi millionaire now and I'm a rando nobody living paycheck to paycheck, so I'm in no place to judge lol.

If he had not made such a big mess, you might not be getting this paycheck to clean it up. I think they call this “creating scope for other people” at big companies, real staff engineer stuff. =)
> banning foreign property ownership

Don't you worry, a completely local conglomerate will gladly buy all those houses and that conglomerate may be owned by foreign citizens, but the company would be 100% American.

I know this is very pessimistic but we've all seen how lenient we get with corporations and I don't expect this to be an exception.
"We'll (just) overhaul these incredibly complex regulations!" are famous last words for some, and somewhat reminiscent of the paradox in the classic "we have too many competing standards, so let's solve that by... creating a new one" xkcd.

Codes and regulations can't wisely be quickly slash-and-burned, because some are based upon solid reasoning - so the article's solution of overnight zoning and building code changes may be optimistic as a one-shot vision.

We take so much for granted. Do we like our new fences being in exactly the right place? Do we want our new roof, or bathroom, to develop a leak in 3 years? Do we want the electricity to be safe, sharing the walls with our water pipes? Do we mind if a sewage composting facility sets up in the cheap suburb, next to the school? Is lead in the paint ok? Asbestos? Is it ok for workers in certain industries to get sick at a certain age because of what they've been exposed to? We could go on a long time.

In the end, do the members of any densely-populated species gain their exclusive territory cheaply?
With AWS you also buy a scapegoat because it's much easier to explain to superiors or investors when a large cloud service has downtime than it is to explain the same cumulative downtime caused by human error in your team.
Everyone uses stripe though which is already 10000x easier than anything out there.

The fact that even Amazon has switched to Stripe shows this.

And that is not even getting into the PCI, PCI DSS, SOC, I and II, etc compliance soup of self hosting.
Yeah agree - if a website doesn’t respond I immediately open google in another tab; if google doesn’t respond I blame my internet and swap to my phone.

We’re all on redundant internet connections now.
Usually you would go with a dedicated server provider like Hertzner or OVH and they host your instance in their DC locations in various countries like Germany and France
The “problem” I have is Digital Ocean gives me a bunch of conveniences like CDN, CI, HA, Git Deploys for $5 a month. Thats where I start. Running my own metal is a later problem not a now one. By the time $1m AWS bill vs. big fat box is the choice, I’m not reading blog posts to decide. I am running tests.
> Can you share the list of your go to optimizers outside of the Adam family?

Sure! It depends a bit on what I'm doing.

If I want to optimize someone else's model, I start with Adam, because that's most-likely what the hyperparameters have been optimized for. Once I've verified that Adam works, I'll try other optimizers.

If I have very few parameters and don't care about overfitting, I try LBFGS, which usually gets to the local optimum the fastest. Note that this will likely find a sharp local optimum. For better generalization performance, you often prefer a wide optimum, so the model still works if there is a bit of drift in the data.

If I do not want to mess around with learning rates, I use Adafactor, which is a bit slower, but usually works okay without any tuning.

If I had very little memory available, I'd use SGD, but in my opinion it's not worth the hassle of tuning learning rate, momentum, dampening and weight decay. I'd rather use a smaller model if possible.

I usually do not train with extremely large batch sizes, but if I did, I'd try the optimizers which claim to work well for large batch sizes.

All in all, it probably does not matter too much which optimizer you are using, as long as you tuned it a little bit. Same goes for the model, loss functions, activation functions and all that other fluff.

What /is/ important is that you design your problem in such a way that it is as easy as possible to solve. For example, it is very difficult to read arbitrary hand-written text from an image. If you have control over where the data comes from, it would be better to write the text character by character into a printed grid with additional optical markers for image registration. Or even better, replace it with a multiple choice list. If there are not too many exceptional cases, an "other" option for manual review could be added. Often, automating 99 % of the work is more than good enough and it is better to keep a human in the loop to handle edge cases.

Secondly, control the data capture as strictly as possible. For example, use uniform lightning, place the object to recognize at exactly the same position, exclude disruptive elements, etc.

Lastly, data is king. If your training data does not match the test data, you can train all you want and still get garbage results. Either collect enough training data to cover all test cases or, if that is not possible from the start, retrain with new data regularly. Data augmentation might help to some degree, but it is impossible to predict everything.
1-2 days work is 20k a month? This place hiring?? Even Google wanted me to work minimum 3 days a month...
I took a detailed look at Docker's caching mechanism (actually: BuildKit) in this article https://www.augmentedmind.de/2023/11/19/advanced-buildkit-ca...

There I also explain that IF you use a registry cache import/export, you should use the same registry to which you are also pushing your actual image, and use the "image-manifest=true" option (especially if you are targeting GHCR - on DockerHub "image-manifest=true" would not be necessary).
Like many others, folks around here are often blind to nostalgia's impact on their perception of 'good ol days' tech. Just because something was simpler to write or administer does't man it was better for users, and there are a lot more users.
> is clownshoes by comparison

The quality of work you attract in part depends on how much you pay. Go check out how much is paid for a persistent iOS exploit, compared to a Linux user space exploit. From that, you may draw conclusions about their relative perceived difficulty and desirability. This will explain why iOS exploits are done more professionally. They are rarer, much better paid, and thus attract a better audience and more work on guarding them from discovery.
There are a couple of things wrong with the numbers.

1. Traffic is not evenly spread. The figures from the article (400M page loads per month) are subject to recursive 80/20 rule. 80% of the requests (320M) are served within 20% of the time (6 days). Within those high-volume days, 80% of the requests (256M) are served in 20% of the time (~29h). And if you're serving particularly spiky traffic patterns, then 80% of the those requests (~205M) come in during just 20% of the time window (5.8h) -- 5.8h is a little shy of 21000 seconds. 205M / 21k is about 9.7k requests per second.

That's still doable on a single system, but it's no longer trivial. Especially if you want to run off a single DB with no read replicas. And while the total amount of traffic served remains the same, the necessary bandwidth cap for peak loads gets far above the optimistically averaged 11MB/sec.

2. Unidirectional end-to-end latency only applies to streaming data. A cold start in the real world (no HTTP/3) requires first to establish the underlying TCP connection which is three trips, then the TLS connection which is a minimum of two more trips, and then you get to send the actual HTTP request... which still needs to send the response back.

If you want to serve real humans, everything observable has to happen in less than one second[0]. After that there's a steep drop-off as users assume your system is broken and just close the tab.

Disclosure: in previous life I helped to run a betting exchange. The traffic patterns are extremely spiky, latency requirements are demanding and trading volume is highly concentrated in just a tiny fraction of the overall event window. For any activity involving live trades, we had to get the results on their screen within 100ms from the moment they initiated the action. That means their network roundtrip latency ate into our event processing budget.

0: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-...
Twitter is a much wilder size category.

If you want to handle 10x spikes over 11MB/s, then you need a single gigabit port. That's not hard to get, nor hard to feed.
Similarly there is https://hyperswitch.io open source written in Rust.

Lago is written in Ruby.

I found few other open source billing systems written in Java.

Anyone knows anything written in nodeJS?
In my corner of the world zoning is much more relaxed and where it isn't - circumvented by housing developers on a regular basis, yet prices still went up at the same (or even worse) cadence than in the rest of the world.

The problems you've mentioned, while real, are dwarfed by the seemingly infinite appetite for real estate as a store of value - housecoin if you will.

The first step out of this is to recognize that this isn't a uniquely American problem.
I get a strange flickering ? On the title bar, makes it impossible for me to enjoy/use to be honest
In the US they're separate - kindergarten corresponds to grade zero, and preschool is a year before that. Preschool is the optional one, and kindergarten is required in the vast majority of states.
At first I thought this was drawio: https://www.drawio.com/ with which you can generate a schema diagram from SQL. Is this the other way around.
Your sentence ANDs together an overlap of a bunch of improbable scenarios:

- if the site is down for more than a few seconds

- if you attempt to access the site during its downtime

- if you pay an ongoing subscription (this could very well be a non-profit site, or one that doesn't primarily drive its revenue from subscriptions)

- if you feel like unsubscribing

How much does this *really* affect a non-moonshot business?
In a separate occasion, I also got that issue (but worse). I once marked a NTFS folder as case-sensitive to help root out all case mismatch bugs (to get a C++ project eventually building on Linux), but then Visual Studio and CMake started spitting out "file not found" errors even for the correct case! I had somehow produced a "cursed" folder that could not be used for building code until I copied (not moved) its contents to a regular case-insensitive NTFS folder.
> Why is it not a good thing if insurance is more accurately priced?

Another poster here, Scoundreller, recently responded to one of my comments on another topic with this insight:

> The funny thing about insurance is that as it becomes perfect at assessing risk, it becomes worthless.

> Oh, you’re about to have a $x claim this year, your premium is $x + y% admin fee.

> Just self insure and save yourself the y%.

There's likely a point where the more accurately priced a policy is the less worthwhile that policy is to purchase, which really wouldn't be a good thing for the insurance industry. The use of aerial photography probably isn't enough to put them over that threshold, but the closer they get, the less attractive their offerings will be. Considering that the insurance companies mentioned in the article have billions in revenue and assets I'm not sure they have a compelling need to resort to this level of surveillance in order to make good money. None of them appear to be going broke due to rogue trampolines anyway.