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KyleBrandt

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Dev at Grafana http://blog.kbrandt.com
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KyleBrandt··on Magical Realism: “Northern Exposure” 25 Years Later (2015)
One of my favorite shows, was happy to see it finally come to streaming a few years ago, came later than a lot of other older shows from the same time period.
KyleBrandt··on Show HN: Sheet Music in Smart Glasses
A full orchestra on stage playing with no music stands sure would be make for a nice sight (assuming the glasses looked like regular old glasses -- (or maybe blues brothers shades)).
KyleBrandt··on Anatomy of a SQL Engine
Using dolthub's go-mysql-server for Grafana's upcoming SQL expressions feature (private preview in Grafana 12, but in the OSS version with a feature toggle).

GMS lets you provide your own table and database implementations, so we use GMS to perform SQL queries against Grafana's dataframes - so users can join or manipulate different data source queires, but we don't have to insert the data into SQL to do this thanks to GMS.

KyleBrandt··on The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgeman_Art_Library_v._Cor....

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reuse_of_PD-Art...

KyleBrandt··on Schwab users are unable to log in
More widespread than just Schwab, multiple platforms including vanguard https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41161502
KyleBrandt··on Seiji Ozawa 1935-2024
Here he was on "What's my line?", this is while he was young enough not to be a celebrity guest https://youtu.be/K8u6MoA7fv0?si=McDOrCqNad5zv2vM
KyleBrandt··on Harmonics Explorer
It might be interesting if there is more fine tuning towards the lower end of the volume. So the higher harmonics can be present but much softer.
KyleBrandt··on Wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
That are other taxable areas besides income, for example property and sales taxes.
KyleBrandt··on Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis–Until Now
Phys.org had an article on this a few weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35606682
KyleBrandt··on Read “Gravity’s Rainbow” fifty years later
If reading, I would recommend a companion book, makes it easy to check references if you feel like you are missing too many things while reading. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0820328073/ref=tmm_pap_swatch...
KyleBrandt··on The FBI Has Been Buying Bulk Internet Data from This Florida Company
"This Florida Company" is Team Cymru

Would be nice to remove that vauge clickbait part from the title

KyleBrandt··on Global warming has begun to make Norway warmer and wetter (2019)
Are there title rules for HN that would apply here? "Something is happening to [Someplace]" is pretty much meaningless since it is always true.
KyleBrandt··on Infinite Canvas
Don't have it in front of me to verify, but would NodeRed make the list?

https://nodered.org/

KyleBrandt··on Almost everything on Amazon is becoming an ad
"Amazon has turned shill results into its next big thing. After selling $31 billion in ads last year, Amazon became the third-largest online ad company in the United States, trailing only Google and Facebook".

Got my attention more than than anything else. Seems to really be pushing antitrust to new heights?

KyleBrandt··on Duck Chess
Also for nostalgia - Archon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon:_The_Light_and_the_Da...
KyleBrandt··on Grafana Incident: Smart incident management for your teams
Hoping to see cleaner ways to integrate across data sources, but developing that contract is going to take some time I think. In the meantime, should be able to get this supported with prometheus data source in a Grafana managed alert: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/pull/44865
KyleBrandt··on Solana Pay
Seems pretty hard to connect those claims to the docs https://docs.solanapay.com/spec

"A standard protocol to encode Solana transaction requests within URLs to enable payments and other use cases"

KyleBrandt··on The Vanishing Climate Archives
In terms of visuals and design this is one of most gorgeous links I have ever clicked on.
KyleBrandt··on New details on silicon, subatomic particles and possible ‘fifth force’
Pardon the comment noise, but I can't help but highlight that "Fifth Force of Nature" is an excellent name for a band.
KyleBrandt··on Plans for a new city in the American desert
Emphasis on "plans":

"Now, he just needs somewhere to build it -- and $400 billion in funding"

KyleBrandt··on Miami building collapse: Letter in April warned of worsening damage
I figure it is safe as long as you use the products outside of CA's borders.
KyleBrandt··on ‘Great Resignation’ gains steam as return-to-work plans take effect
I think from a fanicial perspective this is because salaried (or salary like) positions are sort of illiquid. Kind of like houses, moving is a pain so people often do not want to sell unless the profit is significant.
KyleBrandt··on Miami building collapse: Letter in April warned of worsening damage
It seems the 40 year inspection is required by Miami-Dade county, and this is all work in preparation for that.

The letter the county sends out http://www.miamidade.gov/permits/library/recertification-bui... says: "Failure to submit the required Recertification Report will result in the issuance of a Civil Violation Notice or ticket without further notice to you and referral of this matter to the Unsafe Structures Unit for the initiation of condemnation proceedings"

So to me this makes it seem like some government checks are in place. But curious if there were more recent government backed inspections for safety.

KyleBrandt··on Surfside official told residents building was safe, despite engineer's warning
https://www.townofsurfsidefl.gov/docs/default-source/default...
KyleBrandt··on Fun and dystopia with AI-based code generation using GPT-J-6B
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adversarial_machine_learning

Adversarial Machine learning, or maybe dataset poisoning

KyleBrandt··on Federal Reserve Now Projects Rate Increases in 2023 as Economy Heals
My current understanding is that the reserve rate is now 0% https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/reservereq.htm , so it can all be loaned out.
KyleBrandt··on Grafana 8.0
It does not support template variables because alerts have been moved out of Dashboards so that would not really fit.

However, it does now support queries like `host=*` with multiple alerts instances per host from one rule/query. E.g. https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/7832#issuecomment-...

KyleBrandt··on Irish webapp to recreate pub atmosphere at home
Disney ride was soarin' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soarin%27
KyleBrandt··on Show HN: Are you playing your violin (viola, guitar, etc.) in tune?
It might be worth exploring some consistency measurements. So for example if a tune is in the key of C major, people can have fun arguing about what pitch E should exactly be. But if the note is repeated in the melody but played with changing pitch then generally it will sound out of tune.

So something like a variance of pitch per note measured at the end.

In particular, something like Bach's cello suites tend to highlight these sort of intonation issues.

KyleBrandt··on When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages (2016)
Past convos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230287
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