skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue indeed is that "workflow orchestration" is a broad problem space. I would argue that the solution is not this:

> I don't think that you can just spin up a startup to deliver this as a "solution". This needs to be solved with an open source ecosystem of good pluggable modular components.

But rather more specialized tools that solve specific issues.

What you describe just sounds like a better implemented version of Airflow or the over 100 other systems that are actively trying to be this today (Flyte, Dagster, Prefect, Argo Workflows, Kubeflow, Nifi, Oozie, Conductor, Cadence, Temporal, Step Functions, Logic Apps, your CI system of choice has their own, need I continue, that is not even scratching the surface). Most of those have some sort of "plugin" ecosystem for custom code, in varying degrees of robustness.

For what it is worth, everyone and their mom thinks they can make and wants to be this orchestrator. It's a problem that is just so generic and such a wide net that you end up with annoying-to-use building blocks because everyone wants to architecture astronaut themselves into being the generic workflow orchestration engine. The ultimate system design trap: Something so fundamentally easy to grok and conceptualize that you can PoC one in hours or days, but near infinite possibilities of what you can do with it, resulting in near infinite edge cases.

Instead, I'd rather companies just focus on the problem space that it lends itself to. Instead of Dagster saying "Automate any workflow" and try to capture that space, just make building blocks for data engineering workflows and get really good at that. Instead of Github Actions being a generic "workflow engine" just have it really good at making CI workflow building blocks.

But we can't have it that way. Because then some architecture astronaut will come around and design a generic workflow engine for orchestrating your domain specific workflow engines and say that you no longer need those.

Actually I think I just convinced myself that what you are suggesting actually IS the right way. If companies just said "we will provide an Airflow plugin" instead of building their own damn Airflow this would be easy. But we won't ever have that either. What we really need is some standards around that. Like if CNCF got together and got tired of this and said "This is THE canonical and supported engine for Kube workflows, bring your plugins here if you want us to pump you up". That might work. They've usually had better luck with putting people in lockstep in the Kube ecosystem at least than Apache has historically for more general FOSS stuff. Probably because the problem space there is more limited.
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As I get it, this guy is not making any money from owning the domain, and doesn't seem to be actively trying to. What would you tax then ?
Curious what do you mean by "I ran a bot"? Like, you programmed and/or operated a bot that played on real money sites?
Not so, if Milk.com was actually suddenly worth 50 million dollars, they would most likely receive multiple 10 million dollar offers in less than the time it would take for them to close on the first, leading to them likely moving to auction it or try listing it for a higher price.

Otherwise, the tactic of listing houses for less than the desired selling price in the name of attracting attention and relying on bidding wars to drive the price higher would never work.
UBI represented as a progressive tax system would be so wildly different from our current brackets it would be qualitatively different. Some brackets would be negative.
I keep forgetting that I have volume mapped to my rotary encoder. I still use it as a button, albeit one that requires comparatively large amounts of force to depress and register as compared to standard switches.
Ask HN: How did the CrowdStrike glitch cause flights to be affected?
I understand the technical details of the issue, but would a single airline's machines running the fix on their end not solve it?

Would the fix have to be deployed on every computer that existed, or just on cloud?

Also, did it affect downstream systems or individual computers?

As I understand, air traffic systems are not dependent on software so they would not be affected.

My understanding is that if the airline uses Microsoft's workspace and also Azure for cloud, all of those things would have been affected and several other dependent systems would also have been compromised.

Is my understanding correct?
To add to this, the Tsar Bomba was so large, it created a shock wave that circled the globe _3_ times.
I know that you shouldn't, but I'm curious if anyone did.

I don't think it is impossible to use Clickhouse as a backend to a CRUD app, if you didn't particularly care about things like transactional guarantees or read performance. You still can write rows to it, and read rows from it.

I've also worked in the business long enough to know that people make all kinds of suboptimal engineering decisions all the time.
Show HN: Human Simulation for City Optimization
We launched The Human Simulation Lab, a research collective of students modeling & simulating human interactions with AI. Our first case study, Skyline, shares our approach to RL & agent-based transit optimization.
There are a lot of people commenting assuming that this guy actually wants to sell the domain for $10 million some day. I don't read this that way at all— it sounds to me like he's very content owning the domain but has set a really high number for which he'd realistically be unable to say no and publicized that number to try to get people to stop contacting him.

Unlike domain squatters he's actually using this domain actively, with an update this year. This is a charming and fun bit of the early internet that's still maintained and has a silly anti-sales pitch for the domain name to try to stem the flood of emails, not a greedy speculator sitting on a good property to maybe earn a profit.
And nothing to do with russia invading its neighbors and threatening to nuke anyone helping them.
You're right about that. The wealthy have pretty much always had fewer kids than everyone else. If only the rich can afford to have kids, we're not going to be getting very many kids.
My lastname.com was nabbed a month before I tried to get it, then I had to watch for decades while they didn’t use it.
Publishing a record of rejections and reasons is a very interesting idea! I will be adding that to my "deserves more thought" pile!
The third and fourth columns of the table are only a single bit apart from each other. If you mentally swap the first two columns, you get a Gray code ordering of the most significant bits, which is pretty close to what you're looking for.
This was also a year before Mad Libs was invented in 1953, using the same template-filling style.
Agreed. Afraid a lot of threads here are talking about different things. Casually dating for a while shouldn't carry a lot of responsibilities from either party. Yet as things deepen or carry on for extended periods, it's reasonable to expect a more equal division of labor.
Does this mean that Google may be able to acquire the company for less money on the public markets if they just wait a bit?
Generally the people who want UBI "as promised, no compromises" also don't see why we can't just print money to make the shortfall
This is great news !

I use wiz for my home lighting and automation, I'm so glad that google did not buy it due to its habit of killing things that I find useful.

I want my hardware to last longer than the current decision makers employment.

Edit: hah, the site becomes available AFTER i submit so now I can read it.
You may have an advantage that big competitors don’t: The ability to focus on a small segment of the market. I don’t know your category, so don’t know if it’s viable for you, but competitors who have taken lots of capital have to go after the wide play. If you can find a high value segment they are under-optimizing for, and focus all your customer discovery, marketing and product effort, you can outcompete them!
Slurm: Open-source cluster resource management and job scheduling system
I've been experimenting with a project I'm calling guish, a bidirectional command line editor for writing bash pipelines with GUI modules. The best way to explain it is that text written in the CLI prompt updates the GUI and changes to the GUI updates the CLI prompt in turn. It operates by working on the bash AST and has step-by-step outputs so you can see the result of each step in the pipeline's output.

Plenty of screenshots, a demo video, and more at https://github.com/williamcotton/guish

I'd love feedback, positive or negative!
When I had my ISP back in the early 90s, everyone in the office registered all those "generic" domains (along with trademarked ones too). My ex-business partner originally registered beer.com, his sister did game.com (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuQgUe-CME), our billing manager did subway.com and someone even did wallstreet.com.

Those were the days.
> if it's true that a Hugo Award for Best Novel generates a thousand or so additional sales, it's hard to make the economics of buying a Hugo make sense.

$22,000 is cheap in the world of literature award purchasing.

Authors will often hire services to buy their books by the thousands to get on to best seller lists. The cost can be on the order of $100,000.

I know one author who had purchased many boxes of his own book with the intention of getting them back into his publisher's system somehow and recouping some money. Apparently he didn't plan it out fully, because not only did the book not sell well but he was stuck with boxes and boxes of his own book. He couldn't even give them away after a while.
Honestly I feel like milk.com is more valuable. Because the US milk industry is commoditized, while beer isn't. An individual beer company doesn't want beer.com, they want budweiser.com—at most, I could see a redirect. You can't sell alcohol efficiently online, and beer review sites don't make very much money.
> So if nuclear war ever breaks out it's not going to be countries using their nukes to target isolated (and nuclear fortified) launch silos and bunkers in the middle of nowhere - they're going to try to destroy the other country (targeting things like population, economic, health, agriculture), so that they can completely eliminate the threat.

There are at least two falsehoods here. Of course missile silos will be targeted if it's possible to do so. If you're the Russians you might need to make an honest assessment of whether your weapons are accurate enough to destroy a hardened silo, but the US believes they can target silos (and has since at least the eighties).

And prioritizing destruction of enemy population over destruction of the enemy's nuclear weapons and other military assets would just be dumb.
I think “puzzle storms” on lichess can be considered a way of fiddling with chess instinctively. I found it also helps with not giving pieces for free when playing full games and also seeing the blunders your opponent makes way faster
A lot of people like cigarettes. The idea that no one would work in a cigarette factory because everyone would see it as morally objectionable and they could afford not to is preposterous.
Yeah, this is exactly my takeaway, as well. Whole bunch of folk in these comments are taking this way too seriously lol.

Relax, enjoy it for what it is. I chuckled.
Not to be morbid, but I wonder what will happen to the domain when he dies. And more generally what happens to this sort of domain going forward.

Basically the domain becomes part of the estate, but its super easy for it just to expire and be claimed by either a legit company or more likely a professional squatter. It'll then go on the market for a "fair" price (which I guess is < 10 mil). The estate gets nothing.

Or, knowing the value, the executor / heirs bother to renew the domain and seek a buyer. Which again < 10 mil, cause presumably they just want to sell it. The 10mil anchor may be a psychological hindrance there; if the real value is say 100k, it's going to sound a LOT less than 10 mil. But frankly we know it's-not- worth 10 mil.

My heirs would have no idea what domains I own, how to renew them, or if they're worth any money. (Hint - they're worth nothing.) But if you own a domain that does have value, you might want to make an information pack about it and stash that with your important "when I die" papers.
... it's tongue-in-cheek. Yikes.
Brew makes me cringe. Apt just installs what you need and then it's done. Brew makes a thing about updating everything - I'm always reluctant about it. It does make having multiple versions of python fairly easy.
I also wrote a chat novel about ASCII: https://www.lostlanguageofthemachines.com/chapter2/chat
It was at some point looking at a chart like that where it also dawned on me where the control codes like ^D, ^H, ^[ etc came from
I haven't been on traditional social media for about 6 years and so the way people keep up with me is via my blog. This way they get an update maybe once a month about what it is I've been doing/thinking about, then they reach out to me via email.

Even the IRL people know I have a blog, but I guess it kinda comes up since I also run a blogging platform.
Where you on your smartphone or bigger display? On a smartphone display without zooming in it really takes a while.
Could it be that the source of your skepticism is the fact that you have over the last 2 years seen many comments here on HN asserting that Russia's military is probably incapable of maintaining an effective strategic nuclear capability whereas my comment is the first one you've seen that takes the opposite position?

According to one comment I saw here a few weeks ago, Russia's nukes are probably made of wood.

I suggest searching the web for "Russian nuclear weapons modernization", restricting yourself to credible news outlets.
>People who don't care about source, don't care if it's available.

Presuming the customer is a single person. Plenty of business software is sold as proprietary with some source available pieces -- where the business doesn't care about the license, but IT wants to maintain/adjust/integrate the customizable parts.
Their sensors have batteries, I would think they'd want to eliminate that power source as a potential cause of oxygen production first. High pressure water has a way of getting into things. Also the sensor devices may have metals in them exposed to the sea water.
Their shadow banning system is and always has been just completely broken. It's probably the single most broken part of the site.

A major problem with it is that the site is organized by user, so if you reply to someone then it's disproportionately their followers who see it. The quickest way to get shadow banned, then, is to try to debate zealots, because by doing it where they congregate they'll mass report you for contradicting their dogma and then you get shadow banned.

It's not about what the dogma is, which is why everybody thinks the site is biased against them. They see reasonable people they agree with getting shadow banned, and yet tons of buttheads don't because they are mostly congregating with people who agree with them and the feed then showing their posts to random people doesn't get them shadow banned because most random people aren't zealots who report non-abusive posts just because they disagree with them. The algorithm is just asinine.
The r is silent in Slurm.
Are there specific instances or issues? I am curious if you mean cheating, collusion, fraud, etc...
> They're also the same architecture so code compiled for a particular architecture will run on either core set and can be moved from one to the other as the scheduler dictates.

I don't know if that has done more good than harm, since they ripped AVX-512 out for multiple generations to ensure parity.
I ask you too.

Is there a us sales tax software development documentation somewhere ?

We are looking to expand an open source accounting software into usa but without sales tax, it wont be usable for businesses I suppose.
It seems pretty obvious that messing with a substantial source of oxygen could be far more dangerous to our collective continuity than adding carbon dioxide, or is that not so?
Ask HN: How did Wiz.io grow so fast?
I am an operator in the startup space growing at what I think is fast (200%/year), but then I see companies like wiz.io get to 100M revenue in 18 months? Even with VC money, that is incredible. Does anyone have any inside story as to how this happened?
If information-theoretical and statistical mechanics entropies are NOT the same (or at least, deeply connected) then what stops us from having a little guy[0] sort all the particles in a gas to extract more energy from them?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon
Red Lobster announces next owner
"Red Lobster Management LLC on July 22 filed its "designation of successful bidder" paperwork with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida in Orlando.

The seafood chain's new owner will be RL Purchaser LLC, a stalking horse bidder made up of Red Lobster’s lenders, which proposed a $376 million bid.

If the restaurant company's July 19 reorganization plan holds firm, the transaction will involve an equity transfer where the buyer receives equity in the reorganized company, instead of buying the company’s assets outright."
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> What do you do if you have a record that includes a record separator character?

You use the ASCII escape character (0x1B), which is designed for exactly that purpose.
You got the joke!
Filled for bankruptcy:

(22 points, 1 month ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40714863

(18 points, 1 month ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40721756

Other:

Fisker Went Bankrupt. What Do Its EV Owners Do Next? (26 points, 21 days ago, 34 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40848108

Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months (83 points, 4 months ago, 70 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39843315

Fisker Trading Suspended by NYSE (43 points, 4 months ago, 9 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39821335
This is not the same Wiz.
I mean, if they think they can get to 1bn ARR reasonably soon and get, say, 30x on the public markets that's already a better outcome (plus they don't have to work at Google) -- and given their growth rate, an even better multiple might be expected.
How are you using a cyber security platform for home lighting/automation?
>The problem here...

... is that there is no problem. They're just being silly.
Biden was polling over 50% since the start of the race. The idea that Warren supporters owed Bernie their support is ridiculous (bernie and warren supporters hated each other), and the idea that everyone dropped out to save biden is a braindead conspiracy theory
Depends on how much of the stock is actually available to purchase. If the owners of the company keep 51% (or 50% + 1 share? Whatever it is), then no.
Many years ago I bought an Intel processor. It came with a sticker inside a book that was several pages of terms and conditions on what the sticker can be stuck on. Mentioned as something not to do was applying the sticker to a computing device that did not contain an Intel processor, so I immediately stuck it on my Switch.

Still not in prison.
California's Freedom-Loving, Bible-Thumping Hub of Hard Tech
I can't imagine any sort of sabotage that would make SSBNs easier to locate without also being obvious to the crew. As for technical advancements, what are you thinking of there within the current laws of physics? No other country has the economic resources to blanket the ocean with detection platforms. Some researchers have proposed using satellites to detect submarine wakes but that would take a huge constellation and could only even potentially work if the sub was moving fast at a shallow depth.
The Cloudstrike error took out Delta's crew management system; without being able to organize crews to man the airplanes, the airplanes could not fly.

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/airlines-except-reco...
Brilliant. Currently dealing with webs of microservices myself. It's truly wild to watch something akin to the cambrian explosion with these things.
This, if confirmed (I can’t reach the article at the moment) is what we call progress! :(
Now... where did I leave my wallet?
I think that Russians are now in a unique position, having learned this lesson almost universally due to sanctions. Any foreign vendor of self-updating software can, in theory, be ordered to kill your system remotely or to deliberately introduce a backdoor.

P.S. I do realize that the same applies to domestic products, especially to the ones mandatory to install, like Russian software that is required to be present on new smartphones sold in Russia. But my point is about people learning a lesson.
Looking at sales of other domains I don’t think 10M is insane for the right buyer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_domain_..., Beer.com sold for 7M in 2004.
https://archive.ph/NXLzO
30x arr (not cash flow) is unbelievably high multiple in the current environment
People are having trouble following Harris's campaign X Twitter account
Just figured it out was not loading because of my antivirus (malwarebytes).. while virustotal doesn't flag the domain name, the ip it is hosted on is flagged as malicious/a trojan[0]. The IP is on Namecheap's ASN so evidently at some point the ip was used by someone to host malicious files.

[0]: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/8d8ed17d3e28dc16fc10b6d76...
I don't think that domains are worth nearly as much as they were 15-25 years ago. Back at the start of the web a lot of people would go to sites by typing in the URL directly, which made it worth something to have the perfect domain for your business sector - people heard the name of the brand and went to [whatever].com. Since search engines took off, most people would go to Google first and then type in the brand. Also, most .com domains got taken off the market, and people started to realise that you don't need a perfect domain, it can be a bit off. Valve's Steam is the biggest PC game store in the world, and it's still on store.steampowered.com, not steam.com. Now, domains are more like vanity licence plates or NFTs.

The most expensive domain sale was CarInsurance.com for about $50m, and that was back in 2010, even though the tech sector has grown so much since then.

Maybe in the future they'll make a comeback with how much worse Google has been getting - who knows?
I'm not affected by this (we don't use Windows) but something that's confused me: most of the various clouds have published advisories/status page updates for this.

Are they (e.g., MS) shipping VMs in their cloud (e.g., Azure) with CrowdStrike pre-installed? In which case I think people have a right to be upset with MS, as they've chosen an apparently poor quality vendor, and the EU argument seems like a complete distraction.

Or is the market of "audit checkbox checking security software" just such a monoculture that nigh every Windows VM out there was running this thing, but that it was installed by the owners of the VM (i.e., not by the cloud vendor), and now we see what happens when unfettered updates hit a monoculture? In which case, … I don't see how MS is to blame here; seems like you, the buyer of CrowdStrike, chose poorly. (And the EU thing is even more of a distraction.) (And I guess the cloud status page updates are just out of the goodness of the cloud vendors' hearts, or we don't think Windows sysadmins are competent enough to not blame their cloud, or both.)
Anyone have a recommendation for a workflow orchestrator for single server deployments? Looking at running a project at home and for certain pieces think it would be easiest to orchestrate with a tool like Maestro or Airflow but they’re basically set up to run in clusters with admins to manage them.
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People are saying their VCs encouraged other portcos to buy from Wiz.