MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jayd16 | 2025-05-08 15:49:26+00:00
it's weird that the your quote and your own explanation offer technical reasons for separate services but then you say it's not a technical pattern.

You'll need services. They're hard. If something is hard but it needs to be done, you should get good at it.

Like every fad, there a backlash from people seeing the fad fall apart when used poorly.

Services are a good pattern with trade offs. Weigh the trade offs, just don't do things to do them.
by lmeyerov | 2025-05-08 15:49:38+00:00
Yes, by default things should be sandboxed - no network, no repo writes, ... - and should be easy to add extra caps (ex: safelist dockerhub)

Likewise, similar to modern smart phones asking if they should remove excess unused privs granted to certain apps, GHAs should likewise detect these super common overprovisionings and make it easy for maintainers to flip those configs, e.g., "yes" button
by gambiting | 2025-05-08 15:49:49+00:00
So I googled exactly that, and what comes up is mostly about Epstein trying to extort gates:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/21/jeffrey-epst...

Gates addressing their relationship:

https://people.com/bill-gates-addresses-jeffrey-epstein-frie... https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/05/business/bill-gates-regrets-j...

Articles saying that they met "sometimes for a few hours":

https://pagesix.com/2025/04/15/celebrity-news/melinda-gates-...

Etc etc.

Nothing (as far as I can see, and tbh I'm not going to read past the first page of google results) suggesting that they were close friends in any meaning of the word.

Like, I don't know what kind of conclusion OP wants people to draw out of this. A lot of people were "friends" with Epstein, since he knew pretty much everyone, there are pictures of him smiling and shaking hands with lots of well known VIPs.

Which is why I asked OP for a source so we can just read about this - the whole "do your whole research" thing is just such an easy cop out because like you said "just google" doesn't really confirm anything, it's just a bunch of news articles from more or less reputable sources.
by 7402 | 2025-05-08 15:50:12+00:00
Well, they weren't just making things up; there clearly was information that they had, that I wanted, but that they were initially reluctant to give me. At that point ultimate survival did not seem to be the issue, but I had no idea whether the answer to "how long" was going to be hours or months! Even if the statistics they had was something like N=5, that was still (mathematically) infinitely more than the N=0 that I had.
by fragmede | 2025-05-08 15:50:12+00:00
In the abstract, fixing the root problem >>> maintaining a shitty internal wrapper that has to get reworked every time upstream gets fixed. Not fixing the wrapper repeated is absolutely business value, because not having a half assed fix of an implementation means fewer bugs in terraform plan and apply, which means less time messing about with CI because the stupid thing broke again.

This is of course in the abstract. I know neither the quality of the wrapper you wrote, nor how long it would take you to do clone a repo and write some code for any upstream fix, given all of your competing priorities.

My underlying point is that not fixing things properly has a cost all its own, and wasting time with a half assed solution can cost more than is immediately obvious.

It's impossible to say in the abstract if it is more efficient to actually fix the root problem and be of more business value vs shitting out some wrapper script, it depends on the downstream effects of said wrapper. But I've definitely avoided doing an upstream fix and wasted countless company resources getting a wrapper working when I could have rolled up my sleeves, done said upstream fix a year or two earlier and overall saved the company money.
by ChocolateGod | 2025-05-08 15:50:14+00:00
I find it interesting not only that HarmonyOS is using a microkernel but also that its userland application language is compiled TypeScript.

https://developer.huawei.com/consumer/en/doc/harmonyos-guide...

I'd certainly be interested in benchmarks of running TypeScript via ArkTS vs transpiled JS in in V8.
by npodbielski | 2025-05-08 15:50:27+00:00
Hey mate is it your post? I did glanced at it and it does not stop because server is not notified that client is not there.

Or at least that is my guess, since I stopped working with WCF about 2016 probably.

Anyway in newer version of .net you CancellationToken everywhere what would do exactly that: tell your server that client disconnected. That would be my first try on fixing it.

Use token that is sent via HTTP implementation to the endpoint, pass it to your stream and when it is cancelled, end the stream. Stream ends, endpoint finishes, not CPU load.
by Johanx64 | 2025-05-08 15:50:28+00:00
Pretty much everything you named is simply first-to-the-market horror-show from design perspective.

Javascript? Check.

Android? Check.

Windows? Again, capturing market via transitioning from DOS.

They did focus on many important things like having exceptional backwards compatibility (transitioning from DOS, etc), and kernel team does a decent job usually, but none of this is necessarily attributable to Gates and it's simply what you have to do to capture a market/platform.

I don't know if this is genuine sentiment you're expressing or just naivety, but people that can glaze this hard this easily usually go very far in life. I'll give you that, I wish I could do this.
by gilleain | 2025-05-08 15:50:41+00:00
An interesting fact I learned from this [1] youtube video was that the 'Malleus Maleficarum' (The Hammer of Witches) book was very concerned (among other things) with witches casting spells that caused male genitalia to vanish.

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIdcjeeYjaE
Show HN: Cutting the Fat from Stream Processing: Meet ZephFlow (Open Source)
by pinkfluffymochi | 2025-05-08 15:50:52+00:00
Hey HN,

Apache Flink is a beast for heavy-duty stream processing – no doubt about it. We've used it, admired its power, and it heavily influenced our thinking. But let's be honest: for a lot of common, everyday stream processing tasks, Flink (and similar frameworks) can feel like bringing a bazooka to a knife fight. The operational overhead and complexity for simpler, stateless jobs often outweigh the benefits.

That's why we built ZephFlow.

What is ZephFlow?

ZephFlow is a stream processing framework built for lightweight operations and simplicity. It distills the core principles of high-performance, low-latency data processing but specifically targets stateless or simpler stateful workloads. This focus allows ZephFlow to be significantly more lightweight and easier to operate compared to more comprehensive platforms like Apache Flink. A single ZephFlow job can run as a lean, efficient process, making it highly versatile.

Why We Think ZephFlow Hits the Mark Today (and in 2025):

- Stop Overspending on Resources: Run your streaming tasks efficiently, whether on modest cloud instances or even edge devices, without paying for idle complexity. - Slash Operational Headaches: Deploying and managing ZephFlow is refreshingly simple. Spend your time on logic, not on wrestling with the infrastructure. - Ship Faster: If you need to get a streaming pipeline from idea to production quickly, ZephFlow's lean nature makes for rapid iteration. - Actually Versatile: It's proven great for us on real-time ETL, transforming logs and telemetry on the fly, prepping data for ML models, and even as a responsive backend for APIs.

Our Philosophy: Simplicity Scales (Development, if Not Yet a Cluster).

Many common real-time data tasks don't require distributed state management across a massive cluster from day one. ZephFlow lets you build and test your pipelines on a single instance with remarkable ease. While Flink is the go-to for truly complex distributed state, ZephFlow offers a nimble, focused alternative for a wide array of everyday streaming needs.

We've been dogfooding ZephFlow for our own log and telemetry processing, and the sheer speed from coding to live has been a breath of fresh air.

What's Next? We Need Your Brain.

We're now sketching out how to scale ZephFlow deployments horizontally while obsessively preserving that core simplicity. For the kind of stateless or less-complex stateful streaming you do, what distributed features would genuinely make your life easier (and which ones are just noise)?

We'd love your feedback in the comments.

And if this sounds interesting, check out the project and maybe star it if you like where we're headed: https://github.com/fleaktech/zephflow-core

Thanks for reading!
by tobir | 2025-05-08 15:51:03+00:00
IDK Man. There was no institutional power in the US that seemed to make a serious effort when a known international pe*o peddler mysteriously unalived himeself. Somone with direct personal relationships with British Royalty, US Presidents (among other Gov Officials), and some of the richest men in the western world (eg Bill Gates). Apparently terabytes of video tapes gone.

Also note his island has a full on Egyptian Temple on it, and no-one has any idea what's underground.

None of these things are disputed. Sounds pretty Satanic and International to me.
by crossroadsguy | 2025-05-08 15:51:17+00:00
> irrelevant to a level of stupidity

Is that ever?

I am not saying Gates is a monster. So I am not commenting on him. I am commenting on your logic of doing supposed good and hence they becoming good.

When you look at the history of most colonial monsters you will notice is an often repeated trend. Those despicable monster amassing wealth literally on the bodies of natives and then going back home (including some to USA) and buying a "good name" (sometimes literally in the form of those fancy titles and peerages etc).

Oh by the way, Musk and Ellison from your example are benign non-beings compared to pretty much all those "monsters".

I don't know where you are from or where you are now but a lot of world sees "good deeds of good people" with great suspicion.
by cosmicgadget | 2025-05-08 15:51:21+00:00
> The short version is that, in the 1970s, tax law was much simpler – there was less tax legislation, and fewer statutory anti-avoidance rules. The courts also had a generally forgiving attitude to tax avoidance.

So basically taxing the 1% isn't why everyone could afford college and a house back then. But we are better at closing avoidance loopholes these days. With some very obvious exceptions.
by miragecraft | 2025-05-08 15:51:26+00:00
The logic is simple, as soon as you collected and/or processed IP addresses, you need user consent as it is personal data.

You don’t get to “undo” this requirement by discarding the IP address afterwards, the law doesn’t care.

Others have come to the same conclusion: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/1963
by wongarsu | 2025-05-08 15:51:54+00:00
There is a time component to it. I don't think anybody would give a second thought to a Blackbeard animatronic. In the 60s Lincoln would have been dead about 100 years. His great-grandchildren were still alive. Today, Walt Disney has been dead 58 years. His daughter died a decade ago, his grandchildren are still alive
by JadeNB | 2025-05-08 15:52:22+00:00
> I think you’ve have a bad experience because writing a proof is explaining deep understanding.

I think your wording is the key—coming up with a proof is creating deep understanding, but writing a proof very much need not be explaining or creating deep understanding. Writing a proof can be done mechanically, by both instructor and student, and, if done so, neither demonstrates nor creates understanding.

(Also, in statistics more than in almost any other mathematically based subject, while the rigorous mathematical foundations are important, a complete theoretical understanding of those foundations need not shed any light on the actual practice of statistics.)
by dkarl | 2025-05-08 15:52:25+00:00
> Stating this implies that minimizing risks and maximizing benefit is not a need of most customers?

Honestly, I'd rather them explicitly commit to minimizing risks than say, "We're going to address the needs of our customers, and that probably includes minimizing risks, at least in most cases, right? Product will let us know when they've done the research."

It's better that they say these things than that they don't say them. The real problem is not that they say them, but that we can't be confident they'll live up to them.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-05-08 15:52:53+00:00
Problem is that, come recruiting time, interview gatekeepers are filtering out candidates who don't have the shiny words of the season, see micro services, unit tests, lots of abstractions, etc. It's like a dating app game. Everyone knows is overblown but they are still playing the game. The idea that not every company needs to make the same architectural and technological decisions is a concept way too complex for interview gatekeepers.
by wat10000 | 2025-05-08 15:52:55+00:00
It’s easy to forget how far apart the low and and high end used to be. When the 8-bit Apple ][ was the hot home computer, you could buy machines with 32-bit CPUs with megabytes of RAM, virtual memory, and floating point, running a multitasking, multiuser OS. But such a thing cost more than a luxury car, maybe more than a nice house.

Cost was the innovation for those early home computers. They weren’t doing anything remarkable, except for doing it at a price ordinary people could actually afford. If you were willing to spend more (because the computer ran your payroll, or because the computer got people to drop quarters into it all day long) you could get much more capable stuff.

These days you can drop a few hundred bucks and get something that’s not too far off from the best that money can buy. The main difference between a cheap PC and what passes for a “supercomputer” these days is that the supercomputer has much better interconnects and there’s just a lot more of it.
by nashashmi | 2025-05-08 15:53:34+00:00
I feel great about a competing OS to further the imagination of developers and service providers to make their offerings more platform independent.

I feel great about a third platform pushing the UI space to something newer (like iOS created touch centric UI).

I feel great about a new approach to kernel science. (Like ChromeOS did).

But I am afraid of a bill-gates era move to crush competitors. (Let’s credit BG for making the innovation space un-innovative deeply linear and unifying!)

And I am afraid of the interfaces I have come to love be destroyed and brought to ruin by “copying” upcoming platforms (like in Windows 8/10/11).

And I am afraid that consumers and developers will be segmented and overwhelmed with new styles of doing things that they will give up entirely.
by abhisek | 2025-05-08 15:53:47+00:00
Totally agree. Micro services unnecessarily makes thing complicated for small teams. IMHO it solves the problem of velocity ONLY when a large engineering team is slowed down due to too much release & cross cutting dependencies on a monolith. Although I see people solving with modular monoliths, merge queues and CODEOWNERS effectively.

Few cases where microservices makes sense probably when we have a small and well bounded use-case like webhooks management, notifications or may be read scaling on some master dataset
by zsoltkacsandi | 2025-05-08 15:53:59+00:00
Most “benefits” assumed from separation can be achieved with clear interfaces and modular monoliths, without the cognitive and operational tax microservices impose.

> It also adds enough intentional friction that we don't accidentally put logic where it doesn't belong as part of the user authentication process.

Preventing misplaced logic is a matter of good code structure, well defined software development processes and team discipline - not something that requires splitting into a separate microservice, and definitely not something that you want to solve on system architecture level.
by dekrg | 2025-05-08 15:54:21+00:00
You mean aside his wife divorcing him over his relationship with Epstein and it being widely reported in the news? I guess we will never know if Epstein and Gates even knew each other.

For anyone actually curious and unaware there are plenty of new articles that talk about Gates and Epstein, it's not some hidden secret. However it's a topic those who like Gates philanthropy like to ignore and pretend it doesn't exist as can be seen in this thread.
by simion314 | 2025-05-08 15:54:34+00:00
Go back to the start of the thread, I gave example of censorship either beeing buggy or just stupidly setup so it makes happy both USA extremes.

I give you examples, I do not ask you to fix it. YOu just need to have the mental strength to admit that other people hit the censorship in day to day, in work related circumstances instead of defending the Big Tech by pretending that nobody normal would hit this issues.
by doublerabbit | 2025-05-08 15:54:38+00:00
What happens in such case were a reactor was to blow. What then? Or are you saying we just deal with it when it occurs?

I am not fully detesting nuclear, but I do disagree it a cure to the environment crisis as Solar is plenty and free; as are Wind and Water too.

The risks of what if; and that now we live in such a volatile world. How are you going to convince me it's safe?

How do I know a drone won't strike it in the next war? Some sponsored hack?

Stuxnet was an organised hack that was created to aid destruction to nuclear hardware.

Chernobyl is still unsafe and that's many years ago and was recently damaged again by a drone.
by ok123456 | 2025-05-08 15:54:44+00:00
He's not curing polio, though. His polio program is spreading it because they use a live virus, and a low percentage of the population is getting it. People are now getting paralytic polio from others who got the vaccine.

This is just one example of the Kreuger-Dunning that permeates all aspects of the Gates Foundation. His interventions have been mainly disasters, distorted public policy, and gobbled up biotech IP in the process. He controls the money spicket and is very petty and cocksure about what is "right." Researchers and public policy experts who disagree with his ideas get cut off.

Governments should set public health policy and manage the needs of their people, not billionaires, biotech companies, or NGOs.
by cptcobalt | 2025-05-08 15:54:59+00:00
Perhaps this is a reactionary question, but: shouldn't this be recall worthy? Or is it inherent to Lidar itself?

This has the potential to damage safety-critical sensors used in backup cameras or autonomous vehicles—and, obviously, inflicts damage on personal property like smartphones.

Volvo even states online that their sensors can damage cameras: https://www.volvocars.com/uk/support/car/ex90/article/47d2c9...
by crazygringo | 2025-05-08 15:55:06+00:00
That is not a helpful reply.

Lots of browsers don't have reader mode, or it sucks. Chrome, for example, puts it in a tiny narrow sidebar where it is ironically difficult to read. Images are removed or mangled. It's a mess. And you don't always have a choice of which browser you get to use anyways.

The responsibility to ensure text is readable lies with websites, not with browser features that a user may or may not have.
by prox | 2025-05-08 15:55:35+00:00
As individuals: group up. Start figuring out your local, state and federal political people you need to support. Build community is probably your best bet as individuals. Even if you donate a few hours here and there, or a small donation here and there, it can make the difference.

This last election was mostly decided by the people who didn’t vote. The apathetic, the cynics and so on.
by oulipo | 2025-05-08 15:55:42+00:00
I'm not sure he's actually the philanthropist with the "highest positive impact", when looking at the "net value"

he's "extorted" a lot of money from various states by locking and price-gouging, money that would have otherwise been spent on social projects

basically he has done

Gates -> extort money -> fantastic personal wealth -> gave back to organization *he* decides to give too

while the normal path would be

Governments and people have lower spending because they don't need to give Microsoft too much cash -> governments and people decide by themselves how to spend extra money -> there are more, and more diversified, humanitarian actions
by 999900000999 | 2025-05-08 15:56:05+00:00
I don't see computers being widely adapted without Microsoft deciding to essentially give Windows away to OEMs.

Of course this was anti competitive, but it was a massive net good.

The point is computers became extremely cheap. We're at the point where you can get a used laptop for 100$, install Linux on it and write code to your hearts content. The only thing limiting you is your own skill set.

I don't think computers become affordable without Microsoft
by footlose_3815 | 2025-05-08 15:56:43+00:00
Speculation is value now I guess. Also, it helps when every bad actor on earth is laundering money through it.

I hope for, and anticipate that crypto will be reigned-in and we will go back to more predictable currency. The spikes and drops of it make it much less of a currency, and more of a speculation market where everyone is going to lose big one day.
by craftkiller | 2025-05-08 15:56:44+00:00
The OpenBSD project at least believes that the US restrictions on the export of cryptography would have impacted them. Its why they banned US developers working on cryptography long ago.

> Of course, our project needs people to work on these systems. If any non-American cryptographer who meets the constraints listed earlier is interested in helping out with embedded cryptography in OpenBSD, please contact us.

https://www.openbsd.org/crypto.html
by Kareemnofal | 2025-05-08 15:56:44+00:00
We recently hired a comedian to help us create fun YouTube content about automation.

It’s been wild watching him learn how to use Activepieces and come up with interesting automation use cases.

check out his last attempt trying to automation going viral on LinkedIn. spoiler: it didn't work well

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/r9MBM1ZiptU
by os2warpman | 2025-05-08 15:56:49+00:00
>if not zero and practically no government

The only thing keeping the billionaire class from extruding you through a nozzle, drying out the paste, and then distributing what used to be you in powdered form as a daily ration to their indentured servants is the government.

A bad government can also enable this, but examples of bad governments are far outweighed by good or at least mediocre examples to the point of absurdity.

Whenever I talk to libertarians about this they respond "we'd just band together to make rules against this to protect ourselves" -- that's a fucking government.

(or they have some fetishistic fantasy about guns and shit)
by gambiting | 2025-05-08 15:57:27+00:00
>>You mean aside his wife divorcing him over his relationship with Epstein

She divorced him over Gates cheating, not over the relationship with Epstein - if I'm wrong please correct me.

>>like to ignore and pretend it doesn't exist

I honestly don't want to, like the other commented said "just google" - so I "just googled" and none of the articles I found suggest they had anything beyond a very superficial relationship where they met a few times. Again, if I'm wrong please correct me.