skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what the cost difference is for using higher level services but I can easily imagine it 4x-10x'ing your costs again, or worse.

Part of me thinks, man, the engineers not afraid of setting up a p
Postgres or Redis really should be worth a lot more, given how absurd the prices can get. I guess the getting started costs for these services are usually manageable though; by the time the bill is big it's a "nice problem to have" because you have significant load now, and presumably customers & revenue to show for it.

More so, I think orgs are somewhat rightfully afraid of running infra because historically we have been bad at it. It's been every sys-op or devops for themselves in the world. Everyone making their own practices, assembling their own stack of networking setup, init scripts, db procedures, monitoring, alerting, resilience/reliability. This stuff has a lot of dimensions of care to it.

And even when you go the extra mile to document everything, it's still rough to hand-off ownership. A new gal joins; how long does it take to get comfortable? And how much will her style & preferences mesh with whats been string up so far? Or worse, what happens when someone quits? How load bearing were they?

And this is why I'm so humungouely excited about Kubernetes. Fleet was pretty sweet & cool & direct in the past, RIP, but like so many of the "way to run containers" option it was just that: a way to run containers. Having an extensible system, where operators keep networking, storage, databases running, where tasks like backups and migrations and high availability are built in to well tested controllers: it cuts out so so so many things that operators had to discover, socialize, and test test test test test test before. There's such incredibly good load bearing systems-that-maintain-systems (i.g. autonomic) available, that compete very much with the paid for/managed services that have done likewise for us for so long.

And it's a consistent paradigm, for whatever you are up to. Write a manifest with what you want, send it to api-server, wait for operator to make it so. Instead of having different dimensions or concerns have different operational paradigms & styles, there's a unified extensible Desired State Management that does a damn good job.

It felt like running services was in a dark ages for so long, that each.shop was fractured & alone with their infrastructure, and it was obvious why managed services were winning. But today there's a hope that we can run services, well, in a way that will be very clear & explicit if it ever needs to be handed off.
Oh, I remember this project now. I see it still advertises 3x-10x overhead. To me this takes it out of being a contender in the systems programming space.

This can't be dismissed as a mere quality-of-implementation detail. C and C++ are used because they don't have such overheads, so it takes away the primary reason to use these languages. When non-negligible overhead is not a problem, there are plenty of nicer languages to choose from for writing new code.

This leaves Fil-C in a role of a sandbox for legacy code, when there's some unsafe C code that won't be rewritten, but still needs to be contained at any cost. But here you need to compete with WASM and RLBox which have lower-overhead implementations.
There's also this resource from Google, https://morse.withgoogle.com/learn/

You can also set up morse as an Android keyboard.
I suspect the real problem is wind. A last moment gust could push the booster far enough away that it cannot recover.
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It depends on what we think education is for. If the goal is to teach students, it's not so great. If the goal is to signal future employers the intelligence of the student, Maybe that's ok. But maybe the future employers should be paying the tuition instead of the student.
porn parody potential there
Disagree with 40wpm being way to much. You want to learn the 'sounds' of the characters, you don't want to count the individual dits and dahs.

Other posters have mentioned Farnsworth spacing, which increases the gap between characters, but keeps the speed of the individual letters.

https://lcwo.net is a good resource for learning as you start from K and work your way through the alphabet.
> And then you still need to factor in the 14% of the world who can't read.

if you're in a country where you can't read, chances are you're not making enough money to have realistic chances to buy iphones.

generic android low-end stuff? sure. but it's like Lexus worrying if people in shantytowns can figure out how to use their touchscreen dash -- not a demographic they serve.
. . . who all still have CFOs, MBAs, and others reporting to them on the financial viability of the business.
This article isn't very useful because it doesn't distinguish between liability and collision coverage.

It doesn't matter how young the driver is, if you put them in a cheap small used car, you only need liability coverage which is pretty cheap.
In the specific case of a docking-type manoeuvre presumably you only need the highest accuracy when you're getting very close to the target.

No reason you couldn't use RTK GPS for <10cm accuracy for most of the flight, then in the last few meters of landing switch over to to high-precision, short-range tracking - like optically tracking a marker on the grabbing arm.

For other specific cases - like bridge monitoring - there are reports of 2–3 mm precision [1]. Of course, bridge monitoring has quite distinctive requirements; a 5Hz vibration component and a 0.0001 Hz thermal expansion component. So there's a lot of potential to average over lots of readings to reduce noise.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02632...
"missed" might be taken to imply that one or more of them had ever bothered to look.
And of course, you can be the healthiest most diligent person in the world, and if you run into a heavy hitter it'll still take its shots at you. Bryan Johnson who is focused on life extension caught covid and measured that it decreased his lung capacity and that many months later it was still decreased compared to prior.

As the old adage goes, an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.
> And also about the fact that if anyone wants to offer their app on the web, they have literally no choice but to write software using that stack.

If you want to offer your app on Android, you have literally no choice but to use Android Studio. Is that really better? At least it’s possible to write HTML on an old computer without running out of RAM.
Cherry on top that propulsion issues are now problematic for Boeing satellites AND capsules. I wonder if there's a crossover in personnel in either engineering or management.
Is there some naming of Castro that I'm unaware of or is this application named after a murderous dictator just for fun? Might as well name it Stalin.
So you're saying an untraceable ASAT attack is more likely than a micrometeor impact?
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No, the closest is staging documentation changes until the features reach 100% rollout, then manually pressing a button to try to launch the docs at the same time. But when users don't find docs for new features (that are rolled out only to them), they naturally revert back to trying to talk directly to Engineering, which doesn't scale.

An example of this mismatch is when QA isn't testing documentation changes: best-practice QA discovery-testing is for QA to have a production tenant, where the feature flag is enabled only for the QA tenant, but if QA doesn't have documentation for how the feature is supposed to work, then they end up having completely separate infrastructure that nobody else pays attention to, or else QA is talking directly to Product/Engineering, which somewhat defeats the purpose since that's something that customers can't do.
A language that goes from prototype-quality (duck typing, dynamic, and interpreted) to strict static compile checks would be nice.

I can’t think of any in the mainstream, however.
I’m sure you’ll be making your own scenery files very soon!!!
Early primitive stage? Markov chains generators have been around for at least 30 years…

As I said, I'm taking bets…
Dae-mon, ah-ah-aah.
Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (2014) [video]
Solar power from space? it might happen in a couple of years
Show HN: One Million and One Checkboxes. Running on Elixir and Mithril.js
Hello!

As soon as I saw eieio's https://onemillioncheckboxes.com/, I knew I wanted to try it out using Elixir. The original was created using Python and Redis (later Go and Redis) but this one is using just one Elixir server and HAProxy for SSL termination. It's also using S3 to show the overview page where all the checkboxes are drawn on a 1000x1000 canvas.

The whole site is running on a 4 core 8 GB Hetzner VPS so I'm interested to see how it will hold up.

This took an embarrassingly long amount of time to complete (the first commit was on July 23) but it was my first real attempt at coding anything significant in Elixir.

Initially I tried using LiveView but there were performance issues just rendering 2000 checkboxes on screen. I was also unsuccessful in using the new Streams concept in LiveView which is supposed to help with these "more data than you can render" scenarios.

In the end I used LiveView to render the header and have it update on a timer, and the checkboxes are rendered with Mithril.js. The checkbox info is passed via the LiveView websocket connection and any update to a checkbox is passed through that channel as well.

I'm stepping away for the next half an hour to run an errand but I'll be back to answer any questions people might have!

Please try to break my site and invite your friends to do the same
Is it worth the energy spent on it?
Every single thing that isn't in your browser.

App ads, all the trackers from Netflix, Plex, Sonos, etc.
Still, I would say peak Win2k was faster, cleaner and more no nonsense than modern MacOS. I use macs as well, they are not at all as snappy as windows 2000 was.
The bank's trustworthiness doesn't come from their 98 Lighthouse score. It comes from the fact that they have the word "bank" in their name, and people trust banks.
I understand where you're coming from, but not everything speaks HTTP or works on a per-request basis, and PaaS services are still cheaper.

I've seen people shoehorning all sorts of batch processing into HTTP (backed by queues or not) and it has tremendous overhead over just having the cores and RAM there in the same place as the data.

I learned that lesson with Google Apps, and never designed anything to rely solely on HTTP ever again.
Well, name and shame them for a start.
Twitch has resolved the issue affecting both Israeli and Palestinian users per their latest tweet: https://x.com/TwitchSupport/status/1848191418377830708
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As as followup to a post in the last couple of days, here's an open-access book that digs into the concept. For example, they credit the concept in computing to a book by Norbert Wiener, of cybernetics fame, in 1948.

(Always look at the footnotes: Their version of the CTSS story is essentially based on Eric S. Raymond's Jargon File. While the Jargon File is wonderful, no evidence is given.)
Thankyou for that. I will check it out! Maybe one day the decoding project can ingest all the sound content.

Reading through the rules I like these people already. They prefer high quality .wav files as do I. Not sure if I have the skills to edit to their standard but I will try.
I was on the Adobe SVG implementation QA team, focused on the javascript testing. I think that comment got some stuff wrong.

Critically, SVG became a W3C recommendation in 2001, but Macromedia wasn't acquired by Adobe until 2005.

W3C was interested in SVG because they wanted a vector image format. They included some stuff for animation, but it was all key-frame based, not scripted. But Adobe was interested in it because they saw it as a way to challenge Flash. So Adobe pushed for the Javascript stuff hard. This was also long before the current browser implementations. Remember that Google Chrome didn't come out until 2008. SVG was supported via a browser plugin you had to install, so if you want any sort of script interaction is needed to be baked into the SVG file itself.

After SVG launched there wan't a huge amount of uptake. Mostly because it was a plugin you had to install. It was also early days on the web, and I distinctly remember members of the working group being flabbergasted that you could generate SVG on the fly, despite the fact that it is just text. So there was clearly a gap between what it could handle and what people thought it could handle. We had evangelists at Adobe, but they could really only do so much.

Adobe saw three key differences between Flash and SVG that they thought would win:

- Flash was frame-based, SVG is all time based. SVG may drop frames, but it could stay in sync with audio. Flash would slow down, stutter, and de-sync if your PC couldn't handle it.

- Flash was a closed standard that required expensive tools to generate, SVG was an open standard with a text format that anyone could generate. Illustrator was able to export to SVG from day one, and Illustrator was not cheap, but it wasn't required.

- Flash is raster, SVG is vector. The vectors are nice for zooming and all, but people didn't really do that.

There were other benefits, like Flash using a proprietary language while SVG used Javascript.

After a few years Adobe saw that SVG wasn't going to be the Flash killer they had hoped for and opted to purchase Macromedia. Personally I think having to install the plugin was too onerous for users, so Flash just had the first mover / incumbent advantage.

TL;DR - They had to include scripting to make SVG interactive because of browser technology of the time and to challenge Flash.
Intel under Andy Grove, Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes, Boeing under Muilenburg, and Nokia under Kallasvuo had various business issues under an engineer CEO.
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Why do you feel the need to remind people about a poor alternative?
The installer needs admin rights
Classroom time is limited, so if you include cursive writing in your curriculum you have to omit something else. Whatever you dropped to make room for handwriting is almost certainly going to be more useful to the students once they reach adulthood.

At the end of the day cursive writing is a hobby, not a skill. We don't need it anymore. It wastes priceless learning time at a critical juncture in our intellectual development.
0.5cm isn't even well defined, considering that the rocket itself is probably out of round by larger tolerances, not to mention issues of thermal expansion.
One of my professors has started doing that, and I would much rather write an essay. I hate interacting with the chatbot. It feels unnatural, and the chatbot tends to drag out the conversations far longer than they need to go. Ideally, they would have students have conversations with TAs instead, which is what several of my classes have done to great success.
I don't know, man. If a big truck is hurtling towards me, I'd prefer that the person behind the wheel not have the cognitive impairment that prevents them from being able to grok the visual structure of:

(+ (* 3
(+ (* 2 4)
(+ 3 5)))
(+ (- 10 7)
6))

It's just very basic recognition of shapes suggested by incomplete contours.
Distracted driving + expensive new cars = "crazy" premiums.

We all pay the price when new cars are priced in the upper 5-digit and 6-digit range and a fender-bender costs $5K - $10K.
Well, the strains that I listed are in the Sanofi Quadrivalent vaccine that is most popular in Europe (and being administered right now) as far as I know...
No need to apologize. Many of the animals here are fun to interact with. Maybe this upcoming winter I will try to record the deer when it's feeding time. There's usually 2 or 3 fawn that are right on my heels testing each food pile to see which one is the right one not realizing they should just start with the first one to get more time to eat.
Their architecture is not fault-tolerant. If one server goes down and the whole system goes down, then it was not designed to be fault-tolerant.

I have been running fault-tolerant systems spread across multiple dedicated servers (inside system with multiple DB/KV stores distributed/replicated/sharded, Kafka etc). If one server experiences hardware failure, the system will automatically recover within seconds to minutes (depending on which server/part of service failed) without any data loss.

It's not that hard. You need the knowledge, but it's not rocket science.
I interpreted the "spectacular" part of the fail a bit differently.

The author had options to either 1) try for right at 3 hours, and either succeed or fail, or 2) push harder, get a much better time, and perhaps succeed but risk putting himself in a state where he did not finish at all. The failure to finish at all due to the extra reach is the spectacular fail referred to.
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Your co-founder doesn't sound ADHD they just sound incompetent.
I did a "hard" degree and saw classmates who worked half as hard sail by me, because they cheated. Groups that share answer banks, in-class quizzes with answers shared (when they were not supposed to be), group projects that used last year's stuff. All of it, all the way through final exams, which people had answer keys to. I had a few classmates that were formally investigated for cheating by the university; their punishment is to re-take the class -- the cheat's cumulative 3.8 is turned into a 3.75, that's sure to dissuade them from doing it again!

When I tell people that I never cheated, ever, in any class, through my entire degree, I get mostly surprise. You never? Not once?

But I paid for it, I think. Because it was not easy finding a first position out of school -- I certainly got filtered by GPA. It actually enrages me. What is the point of a degree? What exactly is the point of this thing, if most of the signal is false? Why did I work so hard?

Not even to mention -- many of my classmates (about 1 in 5, one in 6 or so?) were granted "accommodations" which granted them twice as much time to take their exams. There are online services: pay $80, get a letter certifying your ADHD, that you can give the school to get these accommodations. It's completely ridiculous.
I completed college with unmanaged ADHD (diagnosed 10 years later; worst result my psych had ever seen on the TOVA lol).

My second and third semesters went exactly as you described for courses where I was exposed to new things and wasn't just repeating high school - mainly because I had no training or coping mechanisms for learning under that type of pedagogy.

After getting my ass kicked in exams and failing a class for the first time in my life, I finally grokked that optional homework assignments were the professor's way of communicating learning milestones to us, and that even though the professor said they weren't graded (unless you asked), you still had to do them or you wouldn't learn the material well enough to pass the exam.

Still had a few bad grades because of the shit foundation I built for myself, but I brought a 2.2 GPA up to a 3.3 by the end.

The point is that it takes is exposure to that style of teaching before it can really be effective.
That was the entire point of the comment thread you are replying to.

Someone mentioned prices should be increased to reduce demand, and here we are.
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oops; forgot to make the connection explicit. Shaping would be low pressure over a long time, and flooding high pressure over a short time, so they could be alternative ways to factor any given amount of Pascal-seconds.
so that’s a “yes, in many cases it requires preprocessing which would occur prior to the scope of this article.”

thank you!
Just a few years ago, it was a huge leap just have a rocket return and land, now we're pushing the actual accuracy of how well it can land?

Anybody else thinking this quite the time to be alive?
It can work (Look up beamforming). However it takes a 3d array of speakers with a lot of elements positioned in specific points in space, as well as very accurate position tracking for both ears. Very very unlikely to ever beat a high end noise cancelling headphone in terms of performance as well.

If the listener can be fixed in space then the problem gets easier but in that case what you have is actually a very large, room sized headphone that you enter and sit down into.

Source: I indirectly consulted a high-end furniture company on this exact project, they decided to pivot after a while.
Cool indeed. Traditional media is so desperate with click bait and riddled with ads. And social media of course.
Automakers charge what the be auto market can support. They can limit supply to keep prices high. Used car market is limited by new car market sales. Structural demographics means there are less workers every year (auto repair labor costs). Costs are unlikely to decline.
The point is that "amateur" means literally "lover" in latin. While "professional" means "for money" today, in latin it meant "to profess a vow to do it with high standards".

For example, you can be a professional, but do things "pro bono" (for free or for public good) or "pro lucro" (for money).
If you have a child on your policy, and you have a collision on your policy, then your child will be required to be included in that policy. Insurance companies don't accept that you can live in a household, but won't be allowed to drive the new car, so they will charge you like the child is driving the new car under any circumstance.
From "Here’s How to Avoid Catching Colds and the Flu": https://time.com/4672626/vitamin-d-cold-flu/
"For the new study, a meta-analysis published in The BMJ, researchers looked at individual data from nearly 11,000 people who had participated in randomized controlled trials in more than a dozen countries. The researchers found that people who took daily or weekly vitamin D supplements were less likely to report acute respiratory infections, like influenza or the common cold, than those who did not. Those who had low vitamin D levels before they started supplementation got the biggest benefit: For people with the most significant vitamin D deficiencies (blood levels below 10 mg/dl), taking a supplement cut their risk of respiratory infection in half. People with higher vitamin D levels also saw a small reduction in risk: about 10%, which is about equal to the protective effect of the injectable flu vaccine, the researchers say. No significant benefits were associated with high doses of vitamin D spaced out over larger periods of time."

So, given this BMJ-published research, why can researchers in the article's paper get away with claiming that flu vaccines are more effective than any other option (including vitamin D supplementation) when the research suggests otherwise?
A million is out of the parameters of the case.

Realistically you won't get enough volunteer-storage to cover one IA. And even if you did, it wouldn't satisfy the mission requirements, which is to store reliably for decades all of the data.
Aww!!! Who's a good little Tardigrade?!