skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We have AppStore for the hundreds of thousands of apps that cannot be implemented using web tech.

These are not disconnected, though. The web COULD be made to support more of these use cases, but Apple wouldn't be able to collect 30% of the profits. Safari was a laggard for many years while the App Store was being entrenched.
I agree with this, there is a reason Python is the king of data.
Yes, but there's a difference between learning the theory and experiencing the practice. When you see a counsellor you need to trust them and know that they understand; if they say "I understand what it's like to have a child like that because I read about it in a book" you will never be able to take them seriously.
That's a good work-around, not really a loophole. I'm glad it worked for you, I have been thinking about doing the same.
> What could be the main cause for things being so hard to cross over from simulation to reality?

Sensor noise? (And/or quality?)

We're decent at building world models that don't permit impossible behaviour. And we're decent at training agents in those world models. What's unpredictable is how a sensor in the real world will map to a world model.
the rabbit hole goes deep, but both GitLab and GitHub reached parity around that time. (initially GitLab CI simply did a lot more, then GHA kind of took over with the ability to run multiple parallel workflows, and by arguably feeling a bit newer and having better "official" steps ... the GitLab auto-magic CI was ... always completely meh, IMHO.)

but GitLab kept adding the good stuff that Actions introduced, and it can do a lot of things, and with the Omnibus package it's very easy to self-host. (and upgrades are well supported, etc.) ... and of course GitHub self-hosting is only for enterprise editions.

sure, you can setup one GHA Runner on one VM (and each one one a new one), but that's it. nothing else is supported officially.
So, the police can't use the cell tower, but they can use Google's location data, which is arguably higher quality anyway? I guess I'll take the small win, but I'd prefer the police don't have access to any type of blanket warrant.
> Why does patreon need its own app?

Notifications. Performance. Responsiveness. Bandwidth. Offline access. And a lot of users simply find apps to be more convenient than browser bookmarks. I use the web interface for Patreon, but I can see why some users would want the app.

Why does Apple themselves have apps for things like maps, news, stocks, weather, video chats, etc? These all rely on web services and could theoretically be handled in the browser. I don't think any of these examples even provide users the ability to buy anything. Clearly Apple recognizes a value in some services being available through native mobile apps.
NetBox Branching – Git-Like Branching Functionality Enters Public Beta
California's Rice Royalty Is Stepping Down
I always found the obsession with location-determined compensation weird. Experienced workers know exactly what their skills are worth regardless of the local labor market, so why even try surpressing their wages?

Besides when you're an aerospace company producing rockets for NASA you are not building a product that the local market pays for, so why should your workers be affected by what the local market is willing to pay for their skills? How can the local labor market accurately value their skills if the product of their labor isn't sold in the same market?
The problem / resistance there is denial, that is, for example your relationship would end (possibly badly) if you actually were honest.
I see the parallels that you're drawing and I agree with you, but I still see major distinctions.

The biggest example I'd like to call out here is that I recently moved from Nintendo Switch to Steam Deck. I was astonished by how much the Steam Deck is just a Linux computer. And I was fully able to install Heroic Launcher, which is compatible with GOG, and install all my GOG games on my Steam Deck and have them work just fine. This is light years away from where Apple is. If Apple had anything remotely like this, I would be a customer quite quickly. But it's the lack of freedom and choice that I find so objectionable.
I couldn't disagree more to be honest, about this post. Animations are good when they provide object permanence, and let you track what's changing and how.

This post linearly interpolates complex functions blindly, which doesn't tell you anything useful, unless the thing being interpolated is an affine or projective transform where that makes sense.

e.g. For complex powers, the most natural animation is to animate the exponent, which will show a continuous folding or unfolding. Here the squaring just looks like the extra 360° appears out of nowhere.

For mobius-like transforms, interpolating the inverse might be better.

One particularly good example is e.g. visualizing equally spaced points on a circle, and their various combinations as roots and poles of complex functions.

The goal of math animation should be to highlight and travel the natural geodesics of the concept space, with natural starts and stops too.

The rest is cargo culting.
https://archive.ph/hNKKD
Not op but what they described is indeed sim annealing coupled with relaxing feedback loops. This approach would in theory result in prevention of stagnation, forced adaptation and over time, creating some form of resiliency. Pretty cool stuff!
> If your web server throws a 500, you have a problem. If your autonomous vehicle throws a 500 and is now blocking a major intersection, everybody has a problem and you can't just hit refresh.

This isn't unique to robots, e.g. Crowdstrike.
Hey - great feedback!!

If you're using tfvars for your envs, its "smart". With easily inferable env names for tfvars, we will generate estimations for each env.

In the video, I give an example where for the prod env, I turn on multi-az and have a larger storage and the price goes up.

Good suggestion about supported clouds, I'll update!
You do need to buy a lot of batteries with go.
The app store is also ridden with scams and crap. But the web is a horrible experience for normal people compared to apps, which the down voters here don't seem to understand, because they have adblockers etc.
I’m really not defending Apple here. I’ve always been pretty vocal against Apple practices, especially with the App Store policies.

But I do think that the situation we are in where any company have to develop an application when the web does it nice enough (and it’s especially true for products such as Patreon) is pretty ridiculous.

Of all the companies around, Patreon is one who could easily avoid this in app fee nonsense just by avoiding having an app in the first place (or at least having an app for subscribers, maybe the app is useful for content creators).

I’d totally prefer a situation where Apple wouldn’t act like dicks but by accepting this situation, Patreon is just legitimizing Apple behavior.
> When did academia stop to even pretend it was independent of commercial interests?

Why is this worse than [rich family] Emeritus?
Long Context RAG Performance of LLMs
In hindsight I should've made some performance improvements and left after a year, but they hired me to rewrite their 60K LOC configuration webapp in a technology stack of my own choosing so I did. After two and a half years I was at 20% or so and there was no outlook on them actually hiring the full team that it needed like I indicated early on.
I love the AGPL. I can't imagine it becoming popular for generic business functionality in library form, but for highly-specialized libraries (in my case scientific with industrial applications) it was everything I was looking for --- not least because automated license scanners flag it and scare potential parasites away. It's also a great choice for complete pieces of software (such as DBs, as in this case) to offer a free tier for communal benefit, provided you're genuinely willing to let the project develop a life of its own if the open source community finds reason to mobilize around it.

For academic use AGPL compliance is a natural part of life anyway, for non-profits it's a little bit of effort but there's no fundamental objection, and when companies get involved it ensures that either my collaborators and I get a payout for SaaS-ification/proprietarization, or that it only gets used in internal tooling, which means that money gets redistributed to labor (often also to us via consulting fees or custom development arrangements anyway, since we know the code best).

It's a model for software development that I can really get behind.

Best of luck to you!
Isn't there own distro an Ubuntu derivative?
It's a cringing read.

Someone points out new rules make it too easy to cancel people over nothing, gets cancelled, seemingly, over this compliant (no idea about everything else).

It's literally a catch-22.

EDIT on further reading, while I agree with the arguments made by Tim Peters, I think he misread the room perhaps. It's clear the people he's talking to don't understand his hypothetical objections, and just won't change their mind. At the point where they start to take his (reasonable) objections personally, it does turn into a bit of a polite food fight.

At some point, I think you cut your losses, if arguing for the right thing does more damage than the wrong thing itself. As is, he's out, presumably the proposal will pass, just without him in board. He could have cut his losses and maybe resigned.

But easier said than done, arguing with people online about things you care about is hard.
I used to give random strings like that. Next time you get asked one on a call, say "Oh I hate those intrusive questions so I just mashed the keyboard." Many support agents will accept that as a valid answer!
Is this a real example? Adam lives in theory, right?
Yes, UEFI is messy, not saying you will never have issues. But on the other hand, in OpenWRT you literally need to build an image for each device, something that you (almost) never have to do with UEFI or BIOS. Or when was the last time you had to build a specific image for a x86_64 laptop? If this happened to you, I am curious, this would probably make a nice blog post.

By the way, I am not saying that UEFI is not complicated, but there is probably a middle ground between "we need to build a specific image for this device because its bootloader is dumb" and "we have a f* operational system as a bootloader that works everywhere but is full of holes".
Google Play Store is one company.
Show HN: Managing links for security research sucks, so I made SecLinks
That's partly because nesrly nobody, including Linux vendors, actually pushes or checks for parameters being passed from BootVar to executable. Just like barely anyone apparently supports BootVar hotkeys.

Nobody uses it so nobody actually bothers with it, and even Linux defsulted to storing the params in files or kernel itself because good luck finding out you can put them in BootVar at all.

It's still miles better than it was with BIOS, or even Unix workstations (including OpenFirmware ones) with their "emergency releases" of updated OS just to make it boot on new gear
That's a bit short-sighted; test whether they are open to change first. A lot of people in this thread are older people who went through therapy and life changing events (that is, change) after ten years, and saved relationships and the like.

That said, "I can fix him/her" isn't a good way to enter a relationship.
Some funny anecdote, my fullname is relatively unique, two or three people have it AFAIK. On my upwork profile, they put the military veteran status because a completely unrelated military guy with the same name shows up in the google/linkedin search. I can't remove the status, I don't even look like the other guy.
I don't think this is a good analogy. It's more like you find that the lock on your stores front door has been broken for a long time and you just hadn't noticed. Nobody has broken in yet, but could at any moment. Also, it's not just your goods and business that are at risk, instead you're responsible for the protection of things that belong to other people.
Show HN: Stipple Effect – a scriptable pixel art editor to make game art faster
This is actually only an option if you qualify under Apple's definition of "reader" apps - ones that are pure content-consumption, nothing interactive etc.

If you don't qualify as a "reader" app, what you're suggesting actually isn't allowed - you're _required_ to offer IAP if you provide access to the service in-app

3.1.3(b) - "may allow users to access content [...] provided those items are also available as in-app purchases within the app"

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#oth...

The app I work on is a content app, but they decided it did not qualify as a "reader" app because we had polls alongside the content, which were interactive and therefore excluded us from the definition.
From Passive Reading to Active Learning: The Blank Sheet Method
Ask HN: State of Timeseries Databases in 2024
Our product stores a lot of (sensoric) time series data. We currently store it using InfluxDB. We started about a decade ago, and back then, InfluxDB was the simplest and best option out there. A big plus was their focus on open source.

However, since then InfluxData seems to have shifted their open source focus more and more to enterprise and cloud (v3 that they are currently working on still afaik does not have an open source version).

As we've been having trouble with InfluxDB randomly simply stalling and not accepting any writes or reads, and also taking into account the painful migration to v2, and now probably another painful migration to v3, we are looking around for alternatives.

Since we started, we've grown so now scalability is more important for us as well.

One option we've been looking at is VictoriaMetrics, which seems quite good.

HN, what time series databases should I certainly look at when trying to find an alternative for InfluxDB?
An experiment to artificially cool Earth was canceled – what we know about why
Got it. Real moral education has never been tried.
It's fine to be opinionated, but he's also very abrasive and you don't have to go far to find people who have had a bad experience with him at some time or another.

That being said, I haven't seen anything egregious for a couple of years, so maybe he's taken some of the honest feedback to heart.
The author ends with the thought that a robot that has a stop button is a failure but his most famous product for consumers, Roomba, has such a button. Does he talk elsewhere about this?

He makes a paragraph about robots that interfere with ordinary people as bad and references autonomous vehicles in San Francisco. He has a whole series starting here https://rodneybrooks.com/autonomous-vehicles-2023-part-i/ or with no comments! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37971352
It not being a backdoor and NSA stealing UEFI keys from MS aren't exclusive.

To the point that it's Microsoft who mandated a deviation from UEFI SecureBoot spec that enables owners to replace root of trust keys (Platform Key) in UEFI systems if the vendors wants that "designed for windows" sticker.
> If fairness were the primary consideration

It is not. They do a great job of getting people to think that it is, however.
Those are actually nice brutalist. I'm sure any communist east-europe city can beat your city in uglyness.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/411375747199903984/
There is a middle ground.

Not getting ruff, uv, django-ninja or diskcache would be just plain waste of productivity and ease of life for me.
Yeah, I know all this, but my question still stands - who apart from desperate with lack of other choice would ever decide to eat there? I get they end up with tons of customers, just that either people I know are ashamed of going there to even mention it (way more than mcdonalds) or I just don't know anybody who ever went there.

Folks I know end up in MCDs all the time when partying, not much else open around midnight, even kebabs close at 10-10:30pm where I live.
I've used 0xc0ffee00 at work, recently even. 0xbec0ffee or 0xd0c0ffee were also in the running.
For modern AMQP back ends, people usually implement a quorum queue based on this paper:

https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

An overview of why this replaced many traditional non-durable queue use-cases in RabbitMQ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuZC7m6dCDA

https://www.rabbitmq.com/docs/quorum-queues

What are Elixir/Erlang channels:

https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/channels.html

What types of problems channels are used to solve:

https://felt.com/blog/pheonix-channel-routing-patterns

Have a great day, =3
> everything was Java, which couldn't make a binary. Then the crowd jumped to JS, where we ditched integers and true parallelism. Python freed us from speed. Go came along, promising to remove generics and exceptions, and to finally give us back our boilerplate.

That paragraph made me chuckle, thanks.

> picture yourself happily doing your day-to-day coding without the existence of nulls

I've seen it, with Elm and Rust, and now I hate go's "zero values" too because it makes everything a bit more like PHP aka failing forward.
There's a GUI on KDE for that. I believe GNOME also has one.

It's not universal though. If I drop down to the TTY, the key mappings don't work (expectedly, but disappointing nonetheless). Some apps also don't respect that key mapping.

macOS is much more integrated and everything seems to obey whatever you config in the OS.
I love that 1 and 2 contradict each other

1. Because you are spending much of your energy and time getting around them.

2. People get so pompous as if they are combatting the behemoth by taking 10 seconds to download a program.
It's worth reading the section of the article that details why this isn't a great solution: https://jakearchibald.com/2024/video-with-transparency/#vp9-...
From experience, a lot of talent security people really just don’t want to be developers, even if they’re good at it. It’s not always as simple as shuffling people around between teams.
You're mostly right. During the post-4770 wasteland years, I found I often couldn't ID mobile chips using my mental desktop crib notes.
Is grandma going to clamber under her car at a battery exchange station and disconnect and remove several hundred pounds of batteries?
We don’t know what they’re telling him. Given how much he overpaid for the service insisting he’d make it incredibly successful by paying people off, it seems like he has invested a significant amount of his ego in the service and I would not trust anything he isn’t saying in a legally-binding context like an SEC filing. Even normal executives hate to admit that they cut too much and he’s far from the median on that score.
Weight-loss drugs like Wegovy may help stave off some cancers
Is Animal Agriculture a bigger emitter than we previsouly thought?
Came across this on webregreen.org and the figures truck me as very high. However the author does make a compelling case on Opportunity Cost and GWP calcs.
Roche-Professor für Infektionsimmunologie
I have the a1000 I learned on as a kid. And the c64 from before that, but I keep saying here that the 32bit microcontrollers are fairly close approximations that use less power and have more processing. You can't get bloat though because they still have ram constraints tied to the mmu that can only do page protection, just like the amiga... Could even use the DACs to spit out s-video maybe?
Roche-Professor für Infektionsimmunologie at Basel.

Credit Suisse Asset Management (Schweiz) AG-Professur für Distributed Ledger Technology/Fintech

Cambridge had a BP Professor of Chemistry until 2019 when BP stopped paying.

Their price list is online: https://www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-cambridge/endowin...

Are three examples sufficient? Taco Bell is a more ethical and apt supporter of higher education than BP, Credit Suisse, or Roche, lol.
I do this at my job.. Disclaimer: I’m a web dev (“architect”) who does some lightweight data engineering tasks to facilitate views in some of my apps.

My pipelines are very simple (no DAG-like dependencies across pipelines). I could just have separate scripts, but instead I have a monorepo of pipelines that implement an interface with Extract, Transform, Load methods. I run this as a single process that runs pipelines on a schedule and has an HTTP API for manually triggering pipelines.

At some point I felt guilty that I am doing something nobody else seems to do, and that I had rolled my own poor-man’s orchestrator. I played around with Dagster and it was pretty nice but I decided it was overkill for my needs (however I definitely think the actual data analysis team at my company should switch from Jenkins to Dagster heh…)

On a separate note, all of my pipelines Load into Elasticsearch, which I’m using as a data warehouse. I’ve realized this is another unconventional decision I’ve made, but it also seems to work well for my use-cases.
I have done the same like your colleagues. Recently I discovered that pandas + jupyter notebook is much better tools. However as gopher that needs occasional data cruncher, I totally relying on LLM chat agent to do my work.

But the rest of the work is still go, so the context switching is there but bare able. Imagine a go crawler dumping csv and a python script crunching the csv.
What should we say? I'm a licensed ham, meshtastic user and z-wave user but I'm not sure exactly what to include in an FCC comment that would be useful, other than "Hey! I use this!".
I’m not offended. It is unprofessional. Talking about sex at a workplace that is not about sex is going to be offputting to many people who are not there to have sex.
> Is being a thousand of a second ahead at a certain point really showing that you are a better or faster runner?

It shows that you won.
A Streamlined Markdown/Git-Based Task Management System for Solo Developers
This post explores a markdown-based task management system designed for solo developers, balancing simplicity with effective project management.
The nice thing about UEFI is that the build-in "UI framework" means you can get UI from oproms this way as well.

It also means you can bypass the mouse driven monstrosities from at least Dell by booting with console on serial port (for example through IPMI) - and all the same options are available, in vt-100 compatible form.

What relief after finding a server where the base bios was fine, but the intel raid card had its own SVGA+PS/2 mouse requiring setup interface... The mad scramble for a mouse to add to crash cart...
They are not and never did commit generated files (as far as I can tell). Their release process used to generate some files and place that into a distribution file, but that file was never committed anywhere.
> for all of the work they're putting into hosting and curating apps and for

More for creating the OS, releasing updates for free to all users, and licensing new and existing developer APIs for free to all iOS developers in perpetuity.

In lieu of their app store fee you get Unreal Engine-style licensing anyways where a percentage of your revenue becomes subject to royalties.