skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Launching there does not make sense anymore.

Just curious, but did it ever make sense to launch on Product Hunt? I would assume that the claim that "most users on Product Hunt are developers, designers, or founders" has always been true.
I quit my job to build a 24/7 AI infra engineer
Until recently, I worked for a fintech startup. I enjoyed most of my job, except for the on-call rotations. After 5 years of grueling on-call toil on the fraud team I decided enough was enough.

Despite there being hundreds of observability and testing tools on the market, we still spent countless hours sifting through logs, graphs, and dashboards to root-cause incidents and write reports. Testing didn't do enough to catch bugs before they hit prod, and when they did raise alerts in staging we'd end up pushing to prod anyway. Poor codebase hygiene, stale feature flags, unactionable errors all meant our engineers didn't trust our CI/CD pipelines as much as they should have.

I've had an LLM-based solution cooking in the back of my head for some time, and last month I quit my job to work on it.

Foam is shaping up to be a 24/7 AI infra engineer. The end-goal is to build a tool that, given a trigger (e.g. code deployment), detects, records, and resolves issues across the stack autonomously. It plugs into your CI/CD pipeline, codebase, and observability tools and continuously monitors your dashboards.

I'm starting small with rollbar, grafana, and github integrations. What issues do you run into at your jobs? Let me know what you think of the idea and if you see any issues.
I click "find jobs" and nothing happens. On both firefox 102.6.0esr and 127.0.1.
> "Any editor..."

Yes, if you ignore what I wrote and cut the conditions short, you can change the conclusions. Yet I still don't think you're understanding how even console hardware tends to work.

Busybox hexedit is not drawing pixels. What do you think is drawing those glyphs on the screen? Very few font renderers are pixel based software, even for tiny systems, since that's slow (and font blitters are soooo cheap to embed).

Another way to see it - where in the hexedit code is the font drawing? In busybox? Oh, it relies on something else to do it, and even most of those are hardware accelerated. Here's the hexedit code [1]. Start there, walk back through how it prints, how that is implemented in busybox, how busybox defers that to hardware, back into various supported platforms, look at the chip sets, and voila... Hardware accelerated in most cases (I don't see one offhand that does pixel writes any more).

Pretty much all console hardware now is hardware accelerated. If you log into a device and run SSH from a larger machine, those glyphs are hardware accelerated.

So which combinations do you claim have no hardware acceleration (and if possible, meet other conditions I actually listed, like modern screen resolutions)?

[1] https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/2d4a3d9e6c1493a9520b9...
I'm not afraid of dying, I'm honestly planning on intentional death if specific conditions are met, (dementia or "locked in"). I have DNR on my medical necklace next to my conditions because if they bother to slow down enough to check, im probably in a situation where that fate is worse than death.

I am terrified of not finishing my todo list. I have things i want to make and changes to effect on the universe before i am ok with leaving it.

I take a very utilitarian and brutal view of the future, and inevitable fates don't merit my fear, only my planning. However, I don't think the world would be better should my point of view be universal. I evangelize it only to those I think could benefit.
In The Jailhouse Now VR
I toured the Ludington Pumped Storage Plant when I was a child, in the early 70s, over 50 years ago! It was built on land that is as flat as a pancake, with the only geographical convenience being easy access to Lake Michigan. I am impressed to note that the Wikipedia article lists it sixth in its list of the five largest pump-storage plants in the world.
Yes, your post is down-voted by a logic and rational thought denialists. You are not attacking the view but you are attacking them because they have become believers of the Covidian Church
Indeed, that is why, based on offshoring experience, I see a future where the developers of tomorrow are mostly technical architects, with Star Trek style "Computer do XYZ".

This has been tried before with UML, see Rational, Together or Enterprise Architect, however LLMs bring an additional automation step to the whole thing.
I had a Macintosh Quadra 660AV that had 16MB of RAM and was able to edit multiple-gigabytes of video. Not everything needs to be in memory all of the time to effectively edit video in a non-linear fashion.
The speed of the wing is what causes the air to move around the two faces of the wing. The air has to move around the wing as it is being pulled through it.

Imagine pulling a fixed walled tube though the air, the air will move through the tube at roughly the speed that the tube is pulled through the air.

Now imagine pulling a funnel that starts off large and gets smaller. The same air will now have to move faster to get through the funnel (higher pressure at the mouth of the funnel, lower at the end).
Why do you say it's equally difficult? By limiting network operations of a local application you can indeed prove this, as long as you trust the facilities provided by the operating system.

With web applications doing the same is more difficult, because you need to pass some requests, and some requests need to pass while others could be smuggling data.
Some Apple Intelligence Features Likely to Require Paid Subscription
This sounds like you are using rules for one language game in the context of another. Let's say a cashier asks you "how are you?" then it is just a phrase. The purpose of the phrase is to acknowledge your existence and open the transaction. That's one kind of language game. You are not lying when you say "fine" here, you are playing the game.

If your doctor asks you "how are you?" it's another language game with different expectations. If your mum asks you "how are you?" it is yet another language game with a different context and so on.

I guess, this is just a roundabout way of saying the meaning of words, phrases, sentences change by context, even if they seem 100% identical, and the context determines a great deal what is an acceptable, ie. understandable, answer here. Get context savvy and save yourself and the others confusion and hurt.
“async-signal-safer”

Just this morning was the first time I read the words MT-Safe, AS-Safe, AC-Safe. But I did not know there were “safer” functions as well.

Is there also a “safest” syslog?
ProductHunt creates good SEO, allows investors to discover you, and provides good marketing material if you reach a high spot. I don't think you should expect more than that indeed.

Also the system is now completely rigged by community of makers that exchange upvotes
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40791829 (872 points/369 comments)
I just don't watch them.
It almost always saves me time.
Yeah, this is however the same kind of discussion as back in the day Assembly developers not trusting FORTRAN compilers, so it is a matter of time, and funding.
It's a relatively novel concept, though the problems of replacing open surfaces with stone slabs and asphalt could have been obvious decades ago :(
>Are you saying that GitHub and GitLab.com don't have that kind of volume?

On a single project? Verry much doubt either of them do
It was scary to me how fast even my doctor wanted to medicate my grief to put it behind me. I was seeing her six weeks after my sister and nephew had died, only two weeks after I had returned from their hometown 1500 miles away where I had spent a month trying to help my parents not absolutely collapse. I was having trouble working full-time, and a friend had told me a diagnosis of "adjustment disorder non-specified" was basically code for "situational grief" and should be able to get me some FMLA flexibility for a couple months until I could handle full-time reliably again.

I told the doc I thought the grief I was feeling only six weeks after a sudden and devastating loss was entirely appropriate, and that suppressing it seemed like it would make things worse, not better, but I'd let her know if things changed.

When it had been a year and I was still struggling to function (granted that year had been full of other awful things), I finally did ask for help with an antidepressant, which did provide the boost I needed to start exercising agency in my life again, so it's not like it was altogether the wrong suggestion. It was just much, much too early.

I found that the real friends in that situation were the ones who didn't need me to be someone else or somewhere else (emotionally) to love me.
haha yeah its all glad handing industry people... Countless times Ive see internal slack posts to "upvote my product hunt", and mindless idiots just blindly doing so. I could see that if your customers are tech industry people then maybe- but then again, the promise of social media as marketing is a lie.

You want customers, GTFOO, get the fuck out yer office. Are your customers well defined? how about your tam? If you cant answer these, your strategy is random. Dont be random- define who, find out how that who spends money and target that funnel. The more in person you can do here the higher quality it will all be.

I fucking hate marketing and sales, but it seems like every idiot in these two buckets is just sitting around messaging people online. The internet is dead bro! your are messaging bots! Again, get out there, talk to people!

lol
Show HN: I made a tool to instantly ask 100 real humans to pick between 2 images
Thanks! Yes one 'next step' that I'd like to do (probably around the work on deployment / inference that I'm turning to now) will be to see just how small I can get the model. Spacy have been pushing this kind of workflow (models in the order of tens of MB) for years and it's nice that there's a bit more attention to it. As you say, ideally I'd want lots of these tiny models that were super specialists at what they do, small in size and speedy in inference time. As I hinted towards the end of the post, however, keeping all that updated starts to get unwieldy at a certain point if you don't set it all up in the right way.
This article is just content marketing for a self-hosted budgeting app and has nothing interesting to say about self-hosting itself.
Google Chrome to let Isolated Web App access sensitive USB devices
If they can't get users to pay directly via subscriptions or donations, or indirectly via ads, then it seems reasonable to expect that they just aren't financially viable.
"only" 90 minutes
Nice, but too many animations/chaos on the landing page for my taste. Keep it simple.
OhMyForm discontinued, how can open source projects be sustainable?
Predict how high up the chain of command criminal charges (and convictions) will go?

(This weekend there is talk of a 'sweetheart' plea deal.)
Some weeks back I posted about the system that I developed to distribute small tasks or questions to tons of people very quickly. As a demonstration I have now built this simple website that lets you gather preferences between two images from at least 100 real people in just a few minutes (no AI! I get humans by integrating with a few apps for a little bit of monetization - e.g. like Duolingo).
I built the system to help annotate data for AI, but I thought it would be cool to build a tool that anyone could use to get real human feedback - free, no signup!
Feel free to use it however you like, e.g. to figure out which outfit to wear or which image to post on your social media. You can upload two images, supply a criteria or question to rate them on, and in less than a minute responses will start flowing in. Due to some delays in the system, you are currently likely to see responses coming in also for some while after the first 100.
I am currently working on more audience targeting features. Let me know what kind of features you would think are cool, and let me know how you would like to use the tool!
But if you don't test those, you may break someone's workflow!

https://xkcd.com/1172/
Is it really self-hosting if it's on the cloud and not your own bare metal?
strace was not on my radar. I know it exists, it just never occurred to me to use it. So, I tried it. Here are the results:

4542 open
3041 read
2990 close
2517 epoll_ctl
2478 old_mmap
2475 munmap
2470 fstat64
1509 epoll_wait
1509 clock_gettime
1501 ioctl

ioctl() (that, combined with epoll_ctl() and epoll_wait(), which was the actual problem) does show up in the top 10, but it doesn't scream "I'm the issue!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7JZ4MjIMM 2h video about the game in great details by its creator Tim Barrick (July 2021)
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/293308
As someone who for few years regularly was in position where the correct german term for role I performed included the word Führer... Maybe they are avoided outside of german language, and maybe some of them in more colloquial german, but official/formal terminology? That's the thing with general terms.
Its hard for me, maybe too much of the 'tism to be able to not take people literally. All of the people i have actually talked to about it don't actually feel like it is "just a custom", they aren't operating at that level of abstraction. They think they mean it, or at least lie about it afterwards. It seems fundamental dismissive to their intent to blatantly lie.

I suspect i would have similar issues in other places as you describe them.
Calhoun was CEO during the near-deadly current disaster, and was a chairman during the previous deadly ones. He's also on his way out, kept around to negotiate with the unions and catch all the negative PR that will come out of it, and not to give a bad start to the future CEO.

Both him and Muillenberg (previous CEO and career engineer before someone says "they just have to put engineers back in charge") need to spend a few years in prison for killing and nearly killing people. Hopefully this will provide the necessary boost to Boeing fixing their culture.
Hi HN,
There's a lot of debate around nocode and whether it's a viable option for web development. What's your experience? Is it a trap?
Please explain it, your entire product wraps around the 100 real humans fact. So folks want to understand how you employ 100 real humans. Thanks
GPT models shouldn't be used at temp 1 unless you only care about creative writing. They get much worse at factual stuff and code than with lower temperatures. And yes, 3.5 Turbo is less affected by this, which might be the reason why the models performed for you in reverse.
Gato GraphQL demo: Automatically sending email to subscribers about new post
Not always,

36C3 - A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E9ga-CylWQ
> But lithium ion battery costs will keep falling

I question whether increased demand for grid scale batteries will create so much demand that lithium won't drop significantly any time soon.

I certainly hope i'm wrong.
> Nuclear power's costs eclipses the cost of solar and wind even when it is backed by windgas

We were talking about pumped storage, not "windgas".
Product hunt ranks pretty well on google, and can help connect with more mainstream outlets for farther reach. But yeah, you will likely not find your user base there unless you sell a tool to help people launch their own products. It’s also very cheap to launch there vs contacting lots of companies. So you should really do both, they both have value
Data2vec 2.0
Yeah but do you have an actual instance of "time travel" happening? Without one the issue is merely theoretic discussion of how to understand or implement the standards. If you provide a real instance, the practical impact and possible remedies could be discussed.
Ask HN: Is PocketEarth Abandonware?
Looking to check in on Geomagik and Abe Heckenbach. PocketEarth for me is still the OSM wrapper to beat. But it appears dropped.
> The more interesting story here IMO is the seemingly extreme prevalence of NIH syndrome at Google, and whether or not that was a smart investment for Google compared to, say, contributing to GitLab or something.

this is the perfect HN comment - so confident but with so little thought.

essentially all google code - something like a billion LOC - are in one repository.

there's something like 100 000 people who use source control, plus jillions of systems doing automatic commits all the time.

it's atomic on each commit.

so that's several QPS globally synchronising a huge data store, with the entire dev tooling system hanging off it.

git is ... very very much not suitable for such systems.

gitlab is just a simple web app reading from a bunch of small and rarely changing git repositories.

Piper is also the successor to Perforce, which is a completely different model to git.
And yet batterystorage is about to overtake pumped hydro: https://reneweconomy.com.au/battery-storage-is-about-to-over...

Pumped hydro has been around for decades and was the goto solution for storing excess nuclear power in the sixties. So, there's a lot of it around. But it's barely growing. You can plonk down batteries just about anywhere. Engineering large water reservoirs for storing energy, is a bit more work; and not that cheap typically. And you do need the terrain to have some elevation differences. I.e. mountains.
I downvote comments that are uninteresting. The last thing I want to do is rehash politics that don’t matter anymore. Literally don’t care, stop talking.
Less of a short story than a vignette, perhaps. This work could be summarized in one sentence without losing any significant detail.

I wouldn't say that this piece is particularly satisfying or thought-provoking. To be fair, I've always lacked patience with ghost stories. They always seem to rely heavily on the mindset of the protagonist, like someone telling you about a nightmare they had. Then there tends not to be a moral, a punchline, or a thought-provoking ambiguity. It's always just "ghost spooky! OooOOOooOOOo!"

This attitude never makes me popular with ghost enjoyers, but without an effective and unique hook, I find this kind of storytelling immensely dull.
Ask HN: What's the best quick'n'dirty code you've ever made or seen?
Last week there was the super-popular Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40818809

That question specifically mentioned top-down enforcement of best practices, and the comments chimed in on that.

So what have you seen that was great but at the other end of the spectrum? What was the best shortcut or simplification or cowboy coding you've ever made or seen?
Maybe someday, when the "new shiny" finally comes along, all the financial viability will go chase that and we can get the hobbyist web back?
With the massive price-hike on stamps, buying a 50/100 roll of these many many years ago, this got a great return on investment ;)
Though I'll still have enough stamps to last until I die ;)
> Custom styling should be considered a hostile pattern in most cases

Why? Almost every website has custom styling and yet it doesn't seem to inhibit users from using them.

Good UI/UX patterns seems to be universal. As consistency is part of good UI/UX there are things that should be consistent with the underlying platform. But consistency with the platform is not equally important for all things. For some things, like window management, it's much more crucial, that it is for other things, like roundness of buttons.

> except in highly specialized software with workflows dependent on prior user experience, such as DAWs

It's not just about prior user experience. If a custom control enhances UX for a specialized task, it has a good reason to break some of the consistency. All specialized software (DAWs, graphics applications, IDEs etc.) have such features. Limiting themselves to just native components would lead to a suboptimal user experience.
> Do people still use RSS feeds?

Another data point from me: I recently started unsubscribing from as many newsletters as possible, and have organized them into hierarchical tree structures in my RSS feed reader instead, according to priority and topics. With many hundred sources by now, some of them extremely prolific posters, I rarely make it past the top priority ones, but for the rest, there is the occasional browse, and a full-text search that I can use on specific topics.

This setup allows me to consume newsletters and blogposts much more efficiently, and the mailbox gets mainly used for correspondence, not general stuff. Suits me just fine, and as an added bonus: I now more seldom have the feeling my every move-move is monitored and stored by who knows who, who knows where, for who knows what purpose.
would be nice to have the ability to pick between 2 images, I went to your app but I couldn't choose between any two images..

(I couldn't find any images to pick between)
This is good advice in general, it doesn't have to be criminal in nature. Anything you're ordered to do that you don't want to be blamed for later, get it in writing, have a paper trail.
Check https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356873749_Extractin...
Maybe they charge a few engineers or low-level managers. I doubt anyone C-suite is going to prison.
The current trend for quite some time has been positively in every thing. Prosperity churches, only talk to people that are positive (let’s face it real friends are there when things go bad), … etc

There is a good book about this- Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Did you release the dataset and the code for testing? It would be interesting to check how 3.5 Sonnet performs on this task.
Yep, if a punishment can just get neatly tied up on a balance sheet, explained to shareholders, and dealt with like any old loan balance, is it really a punishment?
Can I export projects to use in other places? Or import projects from other places? Blender comes to mind.

But also, I would like to use motion graphics in an app where the software engineers don't have to re-implement each asset in code.
Doesn't it work like this that if you do it, and you end up a thorn in someone's arse, and somehow the paper/digital trail you build doesn't disappear in time despite hints you receive, an unfortunate accident will happen to you?
Edit: not the site owner.

Just scroll down - the jobs link in an anchor to it, for some reason it doesn't scroll there.
It looks like it is very comprehensive, nice design (I like the sand theme) and includes some things that I also use for my DD.

But I would advise you to make it a bit more open; let the user create a custom screener without sign up, same for watchlist, to see how it works and looks.

Kudos for the tools so far, I'll take a closer look later.
Damn, why get into this in the first place anyway? Seems like looking for trouble. I feel sorry for the guy but still, respect the beliefs of the people you are living with.
Eager and Lazy Caching of Object Storage
It's naive and not naive. The brain is easily exploited mainly due to lack of awareness and education on the matter. It's not inherently exploitable itself. People simply are unaware of it happening. Those who are or become aware, generally get really turned off by it.

I do agree, it's naive in the sense that you say, most people do seem unaware for the large part, atleast of the effect it has on them untill its too late (and they complain about it themselves - it's all subjective ofcourse).

I don't think the next thing is someone sleepwalking into pleasant conversations with people coding etc. - I would love that, but i don't see a company earning billions from it - so it's unlikely.

The reason they get you to sleepwalk into things is because they know you wouldn't consume it when awake. Its not because people naturally sleepwalk all their lives...
*flute

:-)
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Cmon nice write up, but Heroku?