skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Any details on this? All I found while searching for this was Gandi explicitly advertising gTLDs designed for adult content...

Do they have that in their terms? Independently of that, do they have a history of doing that?
I don't, actually, expect them to do so. But even if I would, and Gandi, here, were doing backups and replications, no one is immune from errors and catastrophes.

Pretending that the cloud is permanent in infallible is extremely dangerous. I would seriously question the competence of any sysadmin relying on this as a base principle.

Sure, they screwed up, but this stuff happens. We should actually be happy it happens "only" on a "small-ish" provider like Gandi and not an entire AZ at Amazon.

Can't wait for that shoe to drop, I'll bring the popcorn, if there's anything left of civilization then...
That's the price for individuals. Cheapest teams price is $144/user/year.

And besides "$60/yr is nothing" is not how people decide whether to buy something. There are thousands of products we can buy that are worth more than the price.
That is not the industry standard for web hosting. Never has been, never will be.

Backups aren't free. Replication isn't free. DR isn't free. If a customer isn't paying a premium for them, they aren't getting them. Read the terms of service.
culpability isn't zero-sum, everyone can have some. some entities deserve a lot, others deserve just a teeny tiny little bit.

for purposes of keeping your data safe, your cloud provider is just one, single, copy of your data. all of their redundancies and backups and whatnot are for _their_ convenience, not yours, regardless of the marketing copy.

(they can decide to intentionally delete your data because they think you didn't pay. no amount of RAID and georedundant backups on their part will help you then.)
Who Killed the Knapp Family?
This might interest you: https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-physics-behind-colour/ans...
I interpreted this as building a terminal for each of all the various domains out there. Not just 1 Terminal with all the different data you need. That would close to impossible, and impractical to build.

Rather, focus on a specific domain, like startup funding for instance, organize/collect data on that, and allow people to draw correlations and insights from that data.

And to answer your question, does Wolfram Alpha tell me how much funding all food delivery startups had in 2019?
Modern Health co-founder sues company, claims kickbacks
I installed BeOS a long time ago on a PC. It was something ahead of the times.

I still remember how incredible it was the rotating cube demo where you coud drag and drop images and videos on the cube faces... it worked without a glitch on my pentium.

Just found out the demo video shows the application with a GL wave surface playing a video over it: https://youtu.be/BsVydyC8ZGQ?t=1074
Does anyone know what Gandi is using as a “filer”?
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted for this. I thought the same.

I read it as: "This type of incident is extremely rare in the web hosting industry, because apparently the overwhelming majority of our competitors aren't capable of fucking up as badly as we just did."

Doesn't inspire confidence at all, IMO.
I can't believe DOS Navigator [1] is not mentioned - true MDI in TUI using Turbo Vision. Ran circles around Norton Commander. Even had a freaking spreadsheet built-in!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS_Navigator
Having AIDS was stigmatized right from the beginning, because it was obvious right from the beginning that if you had AIDS, you were gay.

(It was also stigmatized because it was a lethal disease that spread by unclear means, but that seems less relevant to the topic at hand.)
Maybe you just do not notice because the water keeps your skin cool?
This is a topic that I have been thinking a lot on recently. I've been working on a typo-tolerant instant search engine for a couple of years now called Typesense (https://github.com/typesense/typesense).

It has not been wildly popular (mostly because I've not really started marketing it) but it's loved by those who use it.

While exploring how to support its development, there were only 2 options: either to offer a hosted version or premium features which will take some features away from the open source version (essentially open core).

A hosted version is essentially ruled out since it's a lot of work and will eventually be bettered by AWS :) Open core will mean crippling the main product in some ways.

Tricky choice. Eventually I ended up with a middle-ground. Offer a premium version but price it so reasonable (in my case 500 USD / year) that it becomes a no-brainer decision. The only downside to this approach is of course you can't probably run a company off it but it certainly can support 2-3 people comfortably IF it succeeds.
I'm not sure that it's always sexual attraction, although it might have been for Asimov. Look at the Joe Biden case, how he used to hug, touch etc. people all the time in a problematic way. It wasn't sexual, but it was still an overstepping of sensible boundaries, intimacy etc. that we intuitively feel as "creepy".

Whatever the context (sexual or not) it's important for people to learn how to go about that sort of implied social negotiation that ultimately might make these contacts non-problematic and perhaps even desirable. Just telling them "it's not okay" is not nearly as effective. Tell them it's not OK, and then ask them why they aren't doing it the right way. Do they feel that entitled to another person's boundaries?
I had this immediate assumption that this was implemented in Rust when I saw the landing page. Didn't know for sure until I checked Github, but lo and behold it was which I think is funny. I sense a trend where new and interesting projects are usually implemented in Rust.
I believe most things received as gifts from foreign governments are treated as suspect until screened (bio, x-ray, etc).
Still no photosynthesis for humans... :(
Is ROS any easier and more reliable than it used to be? I've tried a few times, out of curiosity, to tinker with it, but have never been able to get the thing to work well enough to go through tutorials.
This seems like exactly the kind of controversial statement in which the author wants to provoke people by challenging the notion that moore's law is no longer valid.
It is kinda ironic that most people zealously arguing for the "pure" open source definition and harrassing authors here on HN or even on Github issues are the ones who work for FAANG-tier companies and making 6 figures contributing little to nothing to open source projects or getting paid for their contributions. There must be a way to protect authors and small startups from simply being ripped-off by any lazy for-profit entity. I don't think that 99.99999% of users would mind to use an application that is identical with MIT, Apache, GPL plus a clause that protects the author or company that created it.
Quantum computing claims too good to be true
They put a rude word on their homepage, that makes them edgy and cool and anti-corporation!
Response to Dominic Cummings: The dos and donts of starting a data science team
Satellite surveillance, or spy-planes/drones also might record you in the wilderness.
Until traversing California's Central Valley, I'd have questioned premise of the article. The concepts of "farm" I've held all my life don't apply. Even the industrial farming of the midwest is discontinuous. Industrial hydroponics outdoors at agricultural scale. That's why the premise is plausible: these sound like systemic problems in a hydroponic system. YMMV
Blogger Meta Tag Description Generator
ML is changing the world.
Ask HN: How do you scale with ActiveAdmin
I find that as well. I've also read Book of Why but it's difficult to know when and how to use them. Perhaps it's just more practice of writing causal diagrams, as Pearl seems to do with ease, just due to the years of practice he's had. Something like programming, I guess.
I disagree. At my local Kohls, I can see the displays just fine from a reasonable distance. Up close their legibility is fine.
The medications that change who we are
David Hume: Natural, Comfortable Thinking
Looks like their backups only consisted of in-region backups on systems that were homogeneous. Common pitfall. While technically a 3-node distributed system may provide disaster recovery from one node failing, in practice, an accidental rm -rf from an ansible script targeting all three machines, or a bug in the software that's doing the replication, will leave you without a backup plan.

If you're in such a situation, The easiest is to do filesystem level backups with something like zfs and ship the backups to a third-party system that only has write/append-only semantics (better yet, use a write-once-read-many (WORM) disk to really guarantee it.).While there will still be _some_ data loss, it'll let you recover since the last snapshot.

If you don't have zfs, a database backup that runs the db dump script and scp/sftps it to a server running as a cronjob can also be an immediate remedy while you get your shit together (and by that I mean buy yourself a product with an immaculate reputation like aurora or cockroachdb to manage the db for you)

Harder but better would be to tee the log of the changestream (all distributed systems have such a log) to a third-party system. This is ideal because if it's done synchronously it'll let you recover since the last committed transaction.

And of course, test your backups, because backups are subject to code rot as well.
Uh...the parts he quoted are word for word...
It may seem like a lot of cranes and a lot of construction, but like tigershark notes below, on a relative basis it’s not even close to the amount of construction needed to meet demand (and thereby induce lower prices). Today’s building boom is a pittance relative to population.
A bootstrapped SaaS cost teardown – and the nuance
> Every time I read Ruby code it almost puts a smile on my face, it seems such a joy to write and think in

Compared to Haskell, its performance is not good. Same with J for that matter.
I'm wondering if the second book was straight up just written better.
Hacking USR Sportster 14.4k's to Courier 16.8k's. Good times, good times.
A backup is a replication of the live dataset, although, usually out of sync to be useful when the main dataset goes bad.
> And honestly, if you don't keep data of stuff you host on a server provider like this, you kind of get what you deserve...

While I agree that everyone should have their own off-site backups, this does come across as incredibly crass victim blaming.
Why should you have any say in Brexit if it’s not your country?
There's some really exciting research going on around ageing (and cancer as they are quite related) recently. I'm someone very far outside the field, but as far as I can tell we're starting to understand cancer (and ageing) on a much deeper molecular machinery kind of level.
Combined with epigenetics it really does look quite doable to extend lifespans of humans as well. I mean there have been techniques known for millennia - fasting, exercise, saunas etc.

What's changing now is that we're starting to understand _how_ those things are actually working under the hood, not just spraying chemicals and hoping something changes.

At least that's what I've gathered reading through https://lifespanbook.com/faq/
Show HN: Interactive Organograms
Not everyone subscribes to effective altruism; my reasons for donating to charity don't require maximal efficiency.
Given that our monitors have outrageous resolutions today, I miss pixel-perfect fonts with good size. I'm getting older and the eyes are not getting any better.
>I'll never understand how Python became the more widely appreciated language of the two

NumPy, maybe? Lots of resources make it easy to get small impressive projects off the ground quickly.
The Z80 and its implementation in the ZX Spectrum 48k will always have a place in my heart. So many BASIC games typed out, so many magazine tapes loading strange programs and games.

And the M68K powered my Atari ST, my friends Amigas, and so much more.

Makes me wish I could get a small ZX Spectrum, Atari ST, and Amiga hardware kit that would interface with USB HID stuff and output displayport/hdmi. (rather than software emulation on a Raspberry Pi)
Are they doing it because their customers are demanding it, or because Autodesk's business people are demanding it?

I honestly don't know, so that is an honest question. I would love to hear from Autodesk customers on that topic. The former is possible. But the latter is too. Businesses love subscription revenue for all kinds of reasons, including just that it makes the accounting work out well. They might be willing to even make their customers take a bit of a hit relative to what they want to force something into a subscription model for their own needs.
Insight Partners acquires data management company Veeam for $5B
Same here. Wondering what alternative there is. Heard good things about https://porkbun.com/
Hmm... I wonder what the "incident" was. If it involved something akin to an "rm -rf," then of course their replication link didn't protect them.
Do you think that trying to get everyone to the 70k level (or the equivalent in their region) has made society worse off?
Facebook again declines to limit political ad targeting
I am kind of disturbed by the fact that the samples use "A quick brown fox..." instead of "The quick brown fox...".
I'm shocked when I see some 90yo people. Some of them are not worse mentally than a 40yo. Good genes I suppose (genes that also made the guy want to swim regularly all his life).
In mice
Yeah, that's why prop 13 passed in the first place... "Oh how am I going to retire if my property taxes keep going up on my small 2br apartment in the Castro?"
We are using ActiveAdmin to manage our backoffice since few years, but we are facing some issue, especially in dev env, where the more you have models, the slower will be hot reloading of the code.
Before considering to kill it to create a new backoffice in our rails app from scratch, I wonder if some HN people faced these issue and found some best practice to put AA at scale.
I don't think OP is talking about metaprogramming, but more about syntax and how ergonomic Enumerable chains are, which I can see being really nice in data wrangling.
> Open Source is pretty clear cut: it does not discriminate. If you get the source, you can do with it what you want (within the terms of the license) and no matter who you are (within the terms of the license). However as Open Source is defined — and also how I see it — Open Source comes with no strings attached. The moment we restrict what you can do with it — like not compete — it becomes something else.

I appreciate this distinction. I don't have anything against a company updating its licenses to remain profitable, as long as they're up-front about what they're doing.

My only complaint about licenses of this nature has been when businesses try to use them to argue that they're still Open Source in spirit, or that the restrictions are just technicalities that everyone should ignore, or that Open Source is doomed and they're here to save everyone.

Not everything needs to be Open Source, but Open Source should mean something.
Unfortunately it is blocked in mainland China where it is needed.
Apple - time to fix your subscription management
"Jerry's guide to the world wide web"
"$799.00 (Tax excl.)" it's probably not the for companies buying thousands of them. But what would you expect is the price?

End user products with this display probably are way over 1000 or 2000 USD.
"No bullshit" is up there on my corpro-speak charts right along with "synergy" and "innovation".

Everyone's website says they're "no bullshit". It's all bullshit.
They also work with a number of wall street banks for research, and were chosen for this specifically for their quality and integrity. The Goldman Sachs Teen Vogue millennial market annuals come to mind. Those were great.
> 1Password automatically locks after some predetermined amount of time

only if enabled. Just like any password manager out there.
I like Cloudflare and find them to be a very good value proposition. They have a domain registrar now as well, though I haven't tried that yet. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
Mozilla Firefox Vulnerability
I'm really impressed with that pixel art. Anybody know the process for making something like that?
Isn’t that what stars are for? Not a note, but I wouldn’t Star a repository I didn’t appreciate.
The author has chosen an approach which makes the software available under the Apache 2.0 license after an embargo period. This is quite okay under the "pure" open source definition (at least for those "liberated" releases, if obviously not in the broadest sense), and nobody is harassing him for that. Many crowdfunding models come with this sort of time-limited "exclusivity".
The Castro area has more retail vacancies than most. Many of the vacancies are owned by a single landlord, last name is Natali I think. He kept the Patio Cafe space vacant for something like 15 years. Thanks to Prop 13 it costs him very little to do so and he has plenty of profit from the other buildings.
There is a pattern of landlords raising rents to a level that existing businesses will not be able to afford, and then leaving them vacant. Supposedly there are big brands that will pay these rents, but they are kept out by a San Francisco law against chain stores. Without this law, the Castro would turn into a sort of high end rainbow themed mall. Some of the writing about Greenwich Village in NYC captures this dynamic better - there are national brands that can afford to run a flagship store in a tourist neighborhood, at a loss.
The granolashotgun blogger has pointed out that in much of the US, there is simply more retail-zoned space than is necessary in the delivery age. I don't think that's what's going on in the Castro though. Prop 13 is a massive market distortion and the distortion is only growing, just as it was designed to do. That which is not sustainable must end, preferably before it gets worse.
Seems alright to me.
The NFL Reaches 300M AR Lens Engagements
OP is wrong.
You can still back up to the same providers' different data center. Two data centers failing simultaneously is very unlikely.
Direct Link to report PDF from the page:
https://github.com/Lyrebirds/Cable-Haunt-Report/releases/dow...
How different are the APIs between Azure/AWS/GCP? How easy or difficult would it be to make that switch?
California could launch generic prescription drug label
To be honest, I probably agree more with what you’ve written than what I wrote.
"Note that of course you're not passionate about sheet metal. The entire premise is ridiculous because even the sheet metal people see it as a job."

Limiting yourself to passion projects really limits the markets you can move into because there's a lot of correlations in what we all have passion for. Comedy is at least not in the A-list for programmers (it's not a text editor/IDE, video game, or web framework, etc.), but it's still not sheet metal, logistics, accounting, or something else that can have clear value to customers, who will give you real money.

I have a clear through-line on how a sheet metal software shop will make money, in quantities sufficient to live on, and indeed, to start hiring people from. I've got a much less clear through-line on how a "comedy directory" is going to make that money. I mean, I see one: ads, of course. But it's a much more amorphous and fussy through-line. Heck, the reasonable best case for the comedy site economically, "low-level life-style site", is perilously close to the worst case for industrial software, "$0 in revenue". That's not a lot of daylight there in business terms, partially due to the volatility inherent in an ad-based business.

Not saying you should hate what you work on, but opening things up to things that you're doing to make money broadens your possibilities a lot. You may well find some unexpected passions along the way.
One thing I don't understand is the "their real estate values will tank 80-90%" part. I live in a transforming rural area and one-by-one all the farmers have been selling their land to developers to make planned neighborhoods. They control the supervisors, zoning, and planning boards, and they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to allow these developments. However, their land values have gone up a ton in the last decade: basically a whole order of magnitude from on the order of 10's of thousands per acre to 100's of thousands per acre.

I think the same applies to your single family home next to a 15 story condo building. Instead of selling to a another family, now they're selling to a big developer and can price it waaaaay higher, because the developer will be getting significantly more value out of the land than they were.

And still, they'll not want to do it. There's still farmers holding out, despite single digit million dollar offers for 10-ish acre plots. And it's great if a small number of them do hold out, because it makes it possible to have some green space down the line when the area has fully developed to a single family house level suburb.

But I think the main issue is the culture. Farmers want to maintain their way of life. Single family home people want to maintain their way of life. And so on. People don't like change.
Where does one purchase this e-ink reader? I can't find them anywhere, and their own website link for it seems broken.
Unfortunately no longer maintained. Multiple forks exist though: https://github.com/progschj/ThreadPool/issues/40#issuecommen...
>> This is why you can’t see things in dark; no light means that there is no way that you can channel the information about the surroundings into the person’s eye.

> The issue is obviously humans have not evolved eyes that see "infrared" light like other animals, and similarly the visible light humans emit is below the intensity human eyes evolved to see. However, if human eyes were sensitive enough all humans would appear as shining stars emitting their own light.

In other words, the quote you pulled is completely accurate. It didn't say there was no way to channel the information about the surroundings into any photosensitive device. It says quite clearly that you can't channel the information into a human eye.

> Not sure its a thought experiment, but I always thought to understand human sight look at your hand. Then pretend you saw infrared and imagine what you hand looks like (or google a hand in infrared), then do the same as though you saw x-ray wave length light. Now try to imagine if you could see all 3 spectrum at once...what would that look like?

Probably much like looking at a solid object embedded in colored but not opaque glass. The ability to see things inside other visible things is not foreign to the visible light spectrum.
Screenshotted in case (when) they delete it https://i.imgur.com/s3R1VVc.png

Using memes after permanently losing customer data is extremely disrespectful.
Facebook riles tiny Oregon town with plan for undersea cable
So, you're saying just a little pinch is not that bad?

Next time you're at a conference, try pinching a woman's butt in the middle of a crowded room. Let me know how that works out for you.
You might also be interested in this essay on "proprietary relicensing" from the Software Freedom Conservancy: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...
I strongly disagree with this comment. Many, many people pour massive amounts of time and energy into finding a partner, and often end up dissatisfied with the results. Mechanics that improve the experience and the result of dating really would make life easier and better for many people. If you doubt this, have some conversations with people in their late 20s and 30s who are dating.

Your "find me a wife" portrayal is the least charitable possible interpretation of that section of the article. Was your comment made in good faith?