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Ask HN: What happened to grafana quality? Good alternatives?
Over the last 4 years or so, Grafana has degraded to the point where it is unusable. It was seriously one of my favorite pieces of software. What was once a simple, sleek product that did one thing and did it well, has now turned into a bloated, rage inducing amalgamation of half broken features that is nearly impossible to use.

A UI that has 5 layers of nested scrollbars, overriding of the right click, a query language that is a mashup of many different half baked filter languages, alerting in which 80% of the alerts are 5xx errors or timeouts from grafana itself, rather than errors in my application, the list goes on and on. The final nail in the coffin was waking up and all of a sudden my metrics are gone when my app hasn't changed at all. I'm tired of debugging it.

Sorry for the rant but it is upsetting that dumping a pile of VC cash onto a product that was good has made it such a steaming dumpster fire.

Prefer OSS solutions with the ability to self host, but other alternatives are also welcome.
Well I'll be damned! That sounds very much like what I want Nova to eventually be :) We don't have fields split apart at present, mostly because Rust doesn't make that quite as easy as I would want to. Otherwise it sounds like it's very much all the same, in a good way.

I'll definitely be taking a look at wisp, thank you very much for the link! If you ever have the time, I'd love seeing a comparison of this sort of engine design against a more traditional one.

Sorry, what is "CDR" in this context though?
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The slant of the article is that there's brain drain from Bhutan. But the meat is more interesting. Apparently, Bhutan is building a charter-like city:

"A Bhutanese team is collaborating with experts around the world, seeking investors to help build the city, the cost of which is likely to run in the billions. The city will have its own legal framework modeled on Singapore's and will run on clean hydroelectric power, with the hope of drawing technology companies, especially AI."

I like this sentence in particular, which showcases an admirable pragmatism:

"When we say we follow the principles of Gross National Happiness, we do not mean we are happy with less… We also want to be rich. We also want to be technologically high standard."

There has been some buzz around charter cities lately, particularly Prospera in Honduras which has been seized by the government. Bhutan seems like the perfect place for this kind of experiment because it is peaceful, politically stable, and English is taught in schools.

There's a chance that we see more city-states like Singapore, Dubai, etc. These places offer something the US can't: social orderliness. Bhutan seems intent on preserving its national identity, which is also draw. Conversely, Dubai (and Neom, if it actually gets built) strike me as a bit soulless.
I wish type constraints had a different Golang type than actual interfaces. "Is one of" and "Implements" seem like different enough concepts to warrant divergence there.
Matlab users certainly exist, though they are much rarer than 15-20 years ago (before python was a suitable alternative). For signal processing, matlab still has has advantages over e.g. scipy.signal, which has not yet reimplemented all matlab functionality.

I didn't realize Overleaf was open source (or at least open core...)

And FreeCAD can't yet even effectively render many of the parts for my experiments :(
That's the same type of rhetoric used to diss Trump and it did not work to keep him from gaining popularity. The same goes for Putin, he might not be everyone's idea of a great leader but he has proven to be capable of gaining and keeping power.

For those who wonder, no I am not comparing Trump to Putin, they are two totally different people with different personalities. I am referring to the ineffective rhetoric used by their opponents.
I think the point is that "memory safety", understood broadly, goes beyond that. You still have the notion of dangling pointers and such with indices, and while it doesn't allow for e.g. stack corruption, it still exposes many similar classes of bugs - for example, a "dangling" index to a deallocated object can potentially allow the code to read or write into a completely different object than it was originally pointing to. Hence, silent logic errors, potentially exploitable as well.
Cookie banners are just one more reason why it's so painful to use the web. They are nothing but required pop-ups! Making it painful to visit sites hurts the internet ecosystem. Might as well stay in walled-gardens, where ads are occasional, but less intrusive.
YMMV but I had a 4 year old project whose only dependencies were socketio and express and it booted right up. So stick to stable, mature projects and you're likely to be fine.
In ublock origin, go to "Filter lists" (second tabs), check all under:
- Cookie notices
- Annoyances

Ignoring the popup doesn't consent cookies.
I think this is a great insight, and something that I think about often. The challenge that I see is that the scientist archetype (whether it's data science, AI researcher, or anything else) isn't really interested in doing software development for these kinds of things. They just want the data to be there, and it's super nice to be able to click through the S3 console to be able to see and share the data their using. I think that what you're doing is a great idea for folks who are accessing their data primarily through Python programs!
If you are looking for hosted version, Mailsnag.com does it and more for pretty cheap (or free).
Yeah, I'm quite envious of the MultiArrayList or whatever it was that Zig has: If only Rust had that sort of a type built-in <3
I have read reams of rhetoric regarding relations with Russia rehashed as "don't poke the bear".

No one ever seems to want to discuss what to do about the bear going around poking everyone else.
@dang may I ask if this submission and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42174404 is receiving many downvotes, or just not seeing attention? Just bad luck, no suspicious downvotes at play? A wild guess... Sorry to bother
Nah, but it sounded like a very stressful situation that they even had to.
> CEF has financed and developed 6.9MW (~$16M) of low-income-accessible community solar arrays that ... offsets the utility bills of over 700 Minnesota households for the next 25 years

$16M for 700 homes = $22,857.14/home

That's not an investment, it's just charity by other means.
I actually agree. If having copies of your files is important, subscribe to SolidWorks. It's inexpensive and better than Fusion 360. Most of what I use Fusion 360 for is ephemeral stuff that I print once and never need the design again.
*shtick
Inner Sindh, but not the worst parts of it, or the best. They did not report any law and order situation. Had access to the nearest city with a well built road. I think the biggest problem was poor quality drinking water and sewage treatment.
Even some of my Rust projects end up in this state, where updating one library ends up with needing to update interacting libraries.
Thanks for sharing this! I've always wondered why the browsers themselves can't implement this type of feature to improve the web. I assume it's some legal factor.
IMO also a good exploration of the ethnic cleansing of Lhotsampa and the subsequent hardships faced by the refugees is The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan, edited by Venkat Pulla.
Goodrx is helpful for price comparisons, I use independent pharmacies when able to. Costco (you don’t have to be a member to use them for prescriptions) and https://costplusdrugs.com/ might also be options. If your local grocer has a pharmacy, also check with them (Publix, Meijer, JewelOsco, etc).

Avoid CVS or Walgreens whenever possible. They’re failing systems.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/16/nx-s1-5154129/cvs-and-walgree...
99% of which don't need to be there
The Administration creates the budget and submits it to congress.

... who promptly pronounces it "dead on arrival".

Which isn't actually true. They still use the executive branch proposal as a baseline. They, too, are supposed to authorize payment for the programs that they've passed laws to create. Usually, there's somebody in the room whose constituents benefit, and they can insist that it continue to be funded.

And of course this time around, the President will have a Congress who is controlled by his own party, so the relationship will be less hostile. In all likelihood they will end up putting back some programs instead.
layperson with no industry knowledge, but it seems like nvidia's CUDA moat will fall in the next 2-5 years. It seems impossible to sustain those margins without competition coming in and getting a decent slice of the pie
Recent Japanese and Chinese automotive plants have gone up in the more stable countries on the continent such as Ghana, Egypt, and Kenya, but I assume this production will all be for local consumption.
> attempt to reform their societies along European grounds

well, yeah, they had their land forcibly taken away from them so had to change their way of life

it's also unclear how much some of the social structural changes by the Cherokee was by choice or pressure from invaders to become "civilized" (i.e., pyramidical government structures, individual land ownership, etc.)

there's no indication that, generally speaking, Native Americans saw European societies as a "better life" -- in fact, quite the contrary. More powerful technologically and militarily, yes, but that's a separate matter altogether.
> The image of slaves being from nomadic hunter gatherer tribes is a false narrative put into place by racists centuries ago.

This argument is a straw man and irrelevant. Everyone knows Africa is a huge continent and the civilizations on the coast that sold slaves captured them from a variety of other cultures more inland. It would be interesting to see a breakdown of their levels of development starting in 1500 until the 19th century. You aren't implying that before the Atlantic slave trade, Africa was a monolithic culture, would you? No, that would be absurdly ignorant

> US's short history is absurdly violent,

Compared to what? The Great Leap Forward? The reign of Alexander the Great? The last twenty years of Costa Rican history?

Bud I think you just don't like the US and maybe that's a personal problem.
pnacl was an example of Google throwing away their homebrewed solution in favour of a common standard (Web Assembly). That seems like a strong argument that they don't push proprietary extensions.
So what is the answer to "Who is Scrooge?" and is it different / better than another approach?

( Like whole thing in contenxt window for instance? )

Is this approach just for cost savings or does it help get better answers and how so?

Could you share a specific example?
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>The violent crime rate in the US is a fraction of what it was 30 years ago. The only difference is that now every crime is getting blasted from the rooftops by the news media as propaganda to generate clicks on ads.

How about all the mass shootings that we read about, happening every few weeks or even more frequently, sometimes back-to-back, on average, in the US? That's not violent crime? Of course it is.

>a fraction of what it was 30 years ago

And statistics don't paint the full picture, not by a long chalk, unless all you are is a bean counter. What about the personal and family and friends' trauma of all the victims and their circles? We can dismiss that as negligible, right? /s

Check these:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...

There were so many that I got tired of scrolling.

JFC.
"well we can't possibly stop tracking everyone"
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Firefox has the ability to send the "do not track" header iirc, but websites chose to ignore this. They'll rather nag the users.
Can you provide an example or link?

I'm not so confident that humans reason in a fundamentally different way than pattern matching. Perhaps paradigms focused on predicting the next token is too limiting. Reasoning plausibly involves pattern matching relevant schema representations, then executing along that schema. The ability to intuit that an existing schema is applicable to a certain situation is a good measure of intelligence, IMO. Could even make a good llm metric.
> I don’t need to finetune on five hundred pictures of rabbits to know one. I need one look and then I’ll know for life and can use this in unimaginable and endless variety.

So if you do use in-context learning and give chatGPT a few images of your novel class, then it will correctly classify usually. Finetuning is so you an save on token cost.

Moreover, you don't typically need that many pictures to fine tune. The studies show that the models successfully extrapolate once they've been 'pre-trained'. This is similar to how my toddler insists that a kangaroo is a dog. She's not been exposed to enough data to know otherwise. Dog is a much more fluid category for her than in real life. If you talk with her for a while about it, she will eventually figure out kangaroo is kangaroo and dog is dog. But if you ask her again next week, she'll go back to saying they're dogs. Eventually she'll learn.

> All these models stumble over simple reasoning unless specifically trained for those specific types of problems. Planning is one particularly famous example.

We have extremely expensive programs called schools and universities designed to teach little humans how to plan and execute. If you look at cultures without American/Western biases (and there's not very many left, so we really have to look to history), we see that the idea of planning the way we do it is not universal.
I'd bet that's exactly what happened.
There is filter by date and sort by date. The former works. The latter, when enabled, even adds a banner on top of the page (in large but gray type) that says “Articles added in the last year, sorted by date”, and resets any filter you might have set before.
You now have a much fuller understanding of how disruptive the tracking industry is
So how do you enforce an armistice when the standing order is "never to surrender"? I.e. not "enemy propaganda" but government orders. You would have units disregarding it left and right.

I don't think it is a good idea to give the soldiers the impression that they will fight to the last man, since that encourages killing their officers at an earlier stage than they would otherwise. Preferably, you want to lure with some peace agreement that is just around the corner, such that the soldiers believe that there is hope for them.
I could see importing some exotic hardwood from Cambodia (if they have any), but why is is cost effective to make shitty plywood with anything other than cheap locally sourced timber ?!
Elon did not say that. Tesla The Company said that.

Ask yourself this: I bet you a thousand dollars that Tesla will release either a lower cost model or a lower cost trim of an existing model before the end of 2026. Would you take the other side of that bet?

That's directionality. Deadlines might get missed. I'm talking about directionality.
This is a common misunderstanding. Cookie banners are not required. It is your[0] active choice to invade your website visitor's privacy which leads to this degradation of usability. Stop with the cookie nonsense and you don't need a cookie banner.

[0] Royal you, speaking to a significant fraction of the HN audience.
> The wealth of the West is build on colonialism.

It's built on rule of law, stability, low corruption, and good governance. Most countries lack these factors, making them stay poor.

Signed: Someone from a poor, developing country (Nigeria).
Well yeah, obviously? Why would anyone ever respect the "do not track" header? The whole point is to get people to click "accept all" out of fatigue or apathy!
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...and I want to connect them all through the power of semantic matching via LLMs! Someone wanna build the tech stack for a world of holistic pleasure with me? I'm serious.
> The US's short history is absurdly violent, but it also includes the US getting some of the best minds from basically all over the world to move here and build up a century's worth of IP.

Don't forget that US has some of the most prime agricultural land in the world, which they only got for the small price of genociding vastly less developed Native American tribes (with disease doing a large chunk of the work)

Given the violent European history several centuries prior, it would be absolutely unfathomable to just come across so much land with so little competition as the US colonies did.

This resource richness (and isolation via Atlantic) is very much responsible for US wealth today, perhaps as much as the brain drain of the 20th century, if not more.
> they produce higher tire and brake particulates which are known to cause health issues

Interesting you mention tire particulates, because there is nothing worse for this than - brace yourself - electric vehicles.

https://grist.org/transportation/electric-vehicles-are-a-cli...
Indeed, what a shitty take in this day and age.
However it raises in me a very interesting point, if privacy was default, it would increase productivity.
Food has improved dramatically. Quality and availability. We now have fresh produce year round, not seasonally. Meat consumption is up something like 30-40lbs a year. For is also vastly more interesting (unless various jello molds are your thing).

Houses are much more comfortable, energy efficient, and larger. Air-conditioned in summer, heated to a reasonable temp in winter.

Healthcare while it has become unaffordable has greatly improved.

Car reliability/safety has improved insanely. The average car now has A/C unlike the 70s.

Compute power. The average person has the knowledge of the ENTIRE world at their fingertips. But totally no progress has been made???

We have weather satellites to prepare for meteorological disasters/storms saving so many lives.

We can talk to family whenever we want, not a 5 minute conversation the first Sunday of the month.

We have vastly more free time. My family made most of their close in the 1970s. Washed by hand. Hang out to dry. Now we have a washer and dryer, a dishwasher, a microwave, an air cooker, all freeing up time to do other things.

Your comment is like the people that watch American movies white eating pop-corn, wear blue jeans and sneakers, and say 'America doesn't have a culture'.
Your points about skilled slaves leave me puzzled. If they were agricultural and engineering geniuses, surely we should find thriving civilizations in Central Africa from around the time when they were abducted into slavery?

To ascribe America's economic and technological success to the slaves is not an argument that will convince anyone, or win your side any votes.

> The US's short history is absurdly violent,

Are you sure? Have you read much history from the formative years in other countries?

> but it also includes the US getting some of the best minds from basically all over the world to move here and build up a century's worth of IP.

They moved to the US for a reason. It is a shining beacon for nerds who would like to be rich.
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Was it? He concludes that LLMs will never write Shakespeare, or create original work of that caliber, or animate an actor the way Ben Guinness could have done it. I'm paraphrasing but isn't this confirmaation bias from a guy now heavily vested in making movies? Move 37 was so astonishing the world champiion Go player, hardly known for theatrics, got up and left the table. It was considered an insanely "original" move. In every field we don't consider deeply "human," Ai has jumped light years ahead, in astonishing ways. Affleck is entitled to his opinion and seems like he's trying to understand things, but I think poetry, acting, music, they're all on the table until they aren't, for better or worse.
Brave does this for about two years now: https://brave.com/privacy-updates/21-blocking-cookie-notices...
So if I find illegal wood used in my house, I shouldn’t report it because I’ll be in big trouble? Yeah, okay. I’ll play dumb.
That used to be ReiserFS's claim to fame - tail packing small files. Doesn't seem like any FS has really optimized small file handling since then.
But how will AMD or anyone else push in? CUDA is actually a whole virtualization layer on top of the hardware and isn't easily replicable, Nvidia has been at it for 17 years.

You are right, eventually something's gotta give. The path for this next leg isn't yet apparent to me.

P.s. how much is an exaflop or petaflop, and how significant is it? The numbers thrown around in this article don't mean anything to me. Is this new cluster way more powerful than the last top?
Our department uses GScholar as a great research-focused CV generator. Not used formally except that faculty pages have a link to their GS pages.
Fun fact: Justine Bateman of Family Ties, once the most famous TV actress in the world, holds a degree in computer science from UCLA.
Getting the exact dependencies it had at release is a solved problem in Node and most other languages with lock files too.

It's just no guarantee that those old versions work on the new system, or with the outside world as it exists by time of installation - which can be as true for Go as any other language. If the XYZ service API client still gets you version 1.2.37, that's not actually any help if 1.2.37 calls endpoints that the XYZ service has removed. Or a cgo package that binds to a version of OpenSSL that is no longer installed on your system, etc.
This will age like a dead fish out in the Sun.

He even contradicts his whole premise of "actors will always be necessary" with his example of a custom generated series episode.

Also,

>implying the non-AI content we have nowadays is highly creative and unique

*facepalm*
Not sure if I'd call out Jekyll as a paragon of stability. The last time I touched it, I made sure to write up detailed notes. In fairness, it's the only time I interact w/ Ruby.

https://jeberle.github.io/jekyll-setup
Cookie popups are not required, it is just how companies who were already on course of shitifying the internet decide to implement consent required by EU laws.
Most of which don't even properly comply with the law... but I always delight in clicking one and getting to refuse needless tracking cookies.
And what is the EU populace or government going to do about it?

Tracking should have been “opt in” and inferred from browser/device settings. I can see why big tech is dragging their ass to make the UX much better, but government should kick them into overdrive by demanding tracking/cookies be opt-in.

Companies should ultimately set up a system which incentivizes the tracking, rather than stealing it behind the scenes