skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you expand? People get their accounts locked for no reason?
I recently split a restaurant bill with 7 other early-twenty-somethings. I think 5 of us had Monzo (making things much easier). They have been immensely successful among the younger demographic. Monzo have been doing a lot of advertising on public transport in my city (can't speak about online ads because I don't see them).

I know one person who uses N26 but he's from Germany, where I believe it's a lot more popular.

Starling, Monzo, Revolut and N26 seem to basically be at feature parity with each other and their apps are incredibly similar.
Brexit makes for a convenient scapegoat when your business isn’t compelling to U.K. customers.
How is this any different from current Airbus planes? They are all fly by wire. If you turn off the computer in them you will lose all control. This is why they have a bunch of redundancy built in.
Worth noting that N26 was touted for a while as a grim reaper that would come to the UK with its vast capitalisation (at the time about 2-3x as a much as any UK mobile bank) and blow Monzo and Revolut away.

A good lesson that a well-funded incumbent in another market can't always make the hop to a different geography with assured success.
Generally I would say this is a good measure for companies that serve individuals. Person A shops around and buys a car that most meets their needs/budget. This goes out the window once you enter the world of government contracts, especially large scale ones. You currently have a few large companies; Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, etc. that land all the major contracts. The landing of these contracts though is for the most part based on government lobbying, the assurance of a nice private sector job post government retirement and a large helping of 'this is the way we have always done it'. This has recently led to debacle after debacle where the end user (the US taxpayer) is left holding the bag for massive global corporations that continue to profit. When there is an incident large enough to cause people to sit up and take notice, the ceo of the company gets a massive golden parachute and the company says 'see we took care of it. wink wink'. Look at the F-35, Littoral Battleship, and the subject of this article.

If the government started bidding out smaller real hardware contracts to new companies, we would see a rise in new competitors and an accompanying rise in quality and roi. To do that though lobbying would have to be severely curtailed. Probably not going to happen.
I remember seeing and acoustic coupler used for the first time in, I believe, Mission Impossible. Ethan Hunt takes out an adhesive pad and sticks it to a payphone and "dials in" to a mainframe or something.

Seemed incredible at the time!
Yes, but it's so likely that your work is somehow wrong (in that it was misimplemented), that hueristics are employed to fail it early. If you can't easily point out why your work comes to a different conclusion than prior work, then it's likely you've failed to actually look into the prior work effectively.

And it's very unlikely you've managed to upend a body of work you didn't even know existed, and has probably run into several errors before (which you probably didn't avoid, because you didn't look into it).

If you did read through the previous literature, it shouldn't be difficult to specify and compare.

It's possible for you to come from no background and upend everything.. but the chances are simply (and largely) in favor of a mistake being made. The onus is really on you to double-check and triple check your radical conclusions
Yes, we are at the primitive end of history, even the first transistor is still within living memory. What these breaches do is normalize the loss of privacy, the protection of which eats into the profits that fuel the growth of the companies that collect it, and threaten their foundational roles in this early history. That this is early in the game is also why protective laws need to be passed for people to retain the power over their own information. Data is not as cheap as the law treats it, Google makes almost $100MM every week.

Furthermore, how much time do these breaches steal in lost productivity, or in diminished free time, for all of us? Quite a bit, but the only time you hear about that metric is when management is complaining about employees talking to each other in the hallway.

Protections not established early become harder to impose later, which is why the companies and lawmakers to which they donate downplay the severity of these breaches via pittances of penalties, 30min of revenues or something. Fines should be $1000 per individual exfiltrated, or a year of revenues (at last year's number), or other figure that would be actually effective...and with strict liability.
State scripts: A powerful tool for customizing your OTA software updates
The point is to "Huffman encode" the API for expressing near-boilerplate. Like unix command names and flags.

The problem is that there is no simple logically coherent API to use when you haven't memorized all the shortcuts. And the author only allows "tax form" APIs (what he calls "Pythobic/Pandonic" where every parameter is a single atomic step, so it's laborious to express things like tree-structured queries that are more complex than parameter dictionaries.
I agree. I still think NixOS is a fantastic and didn't mean to make it sound otherwise. I just don't think the time I'd need to invest to be as comfortable with it as I am with my current setup is worth it, and hope that can change in the future, either through the software itself or me getting more time to devote to it.

As a side note, it's funny that you mentioned Rust. I gave up on Nix when I couldn't for the life of me to get Rust to compile one of my dependencies that needed something to be installed on the OS (it's been a while, I don't remember exactly what it was).
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. --Mill
This is an ongoing struggle for the graphics teams involved with both browsers, and the behavior will be different depending on OS. It really helps if you file bug reports for text quality issues that provide an example of the scenario that looks wrong. I've had multiple text/transform quality issues fixed in both Firefox and Chrome by providing examples of corner cases that perform badly.

The CSS + HTML specs (and the general nature of the primitives involved) make it very very difficult to get this right in every case.

Your issue is almost certainly not a question of 'high quality scaling' and instead a question of how the heuristics are selecting the source resolution to rasterize the text at.

fwiw in the long run it would be possible to solve many quality issues specifically for transformed text by using variable-rate shading (like Slug, maybe Pathfinder) but this is still effectively a research area, I'm not aware of it being shipped in real software.
some (most?) of the casinos have free parking for nevada residents
> do modern diplomats/negotiators automatically assume their comms are compromised?

Post wikileaks Diplomatic cable leaks - I think they assume their comms may eventually be compromised, but I don't think they assume their comms can decrypted in a matter of seconds.
Again you've missed my point. I'm saying where the money comes from is irrelevant if left in the hands of the folks in each state to create and showcase what they consider is their culture. The problem you identify is based more on how it's spent not where it comes from. It's much more interesting to tweak the former than throw it all out.
Ebird may have larger reach than any other but species sightings databases are usually mainly local / national. There are more records stored in these local databases than in Ebird. So I would answer, "it depends where you live".
Indeed the OP and the article on not in conflict. For families that are functional but poor money can help, and a broad study will show this even if some students are not helped because of the other factors. We need more detail.
At some point I wrote a barebones scripting system using roslyn for a project of mine. At runtime I got a piece of code compiled to a DLL in memory and then executed this DLL; Worked well; But at that time there was no support for destroying AppDomains or something, don't remember the exact name. Still pretty fun; But yeah, there's no real complete documentation anywhere; And the DLL hell was real. Dozens of DLL's just to support this; But now with .NET Core 3+ things must have improved a lot;
You will never see, "DOS booted from 2000-year-old floppy". That is some amazing staying power and a great outcome. I wonder what else we can bring back.
Physically Based Rendering is basically a complete guide to building a modern physically based rendering engine (it even won an Academy Award)

https://pbrt.org/
Try alcohol abstinence for a prolonged period of time. I am 6 weeks in and it is awesome.
Ah I was about to suggest neon as it’s been very stable here. There is still that bug with X11 and scaling, but Wayland worked for me so I stuck with it.
Back then, the government were still talking about keeping the same benefits of membership after we leave.
I don't. Although I can easily fill up a terabyte drive, little of that is my own personal files that I need to keep if the drive blows up. Most of my stuff is source code, documents/notes and some photos (with photos being the only thing that takes up significant space). Almost everything else I can re-download or rebuild from the original source as and when I need it.
Well it definitely doesn't work on Linux, at least not automatically.
I use Ynab now. I used to use Hledger. Both are good but Ynab is easier for my wife to use. But the key idea is that you try to allocate your money before its spent. That way you know how much to spend.
I’ve often wondered why BO hasn’t achieved orbit despite it being public knowledge that Bezos spends a billion / year on it. Other than space being hard, why do think that is?
> As somebody who lives in the UK (London area), I've never even heard of this company N26, let alone aware that they had UK operations.

They've had ads plastered all over central London tube stops.
You cannot get a better compliment than this.
Maybe. However, that yields art in the private interest. The people shouldn't have to hope for the scraps of the upper class to showcase their culture.

Ultimately, this leads to exactly what the parent is worried about: a culture of the coast for the coast. I doubt that the "coastal elites" are out in Louisiana and Nebraska paying for art galleries, or even interested in showcasing rural work in urban galleries. That's solved via broad-based social contributions.
I love Backblaze, but their log package in my Library folder has grown to something like 10 gigs. Wish there was a way around that.
Since HDDs have, for the most part, been relegated to being external drives on laptops, I'm still looking forward to SSDs becoming way cheaper and reaching current HDD prices per GB. Internal storage on laptops has reduced or stayed the same while our datasets have grown exponentially over the years (with photos and videos). Since SSDs also perform much better when there's always a good amount of free space (for wear leveling and maintenance), it's all the more painful to live with lower capacity SSDs on laptops.
i suspect this is being used as an excuse to leave the UK.
NoSQL is popular because it's untyped/dynamically-typed. You don't need to do a schema migration every time you insert a new data type.
iPerf is usually enough for me though it probably isn't suitable for constant measuring if that's what you are looking for.
Seconding the underappreciated hiking and wilderness access that Vegas provides. This excellent site is a huge portal to all natural areas, trails, etc. in the area: www.birdandhike.com
> What’s the thought process behind closing them?

- Why keep a site open when you are done with it?

- Too many tabs and it gets difficult and irritating to find and open the site you want.

- Have never needed to keep many, many sites open in the first place.
Understanding Modern Cloud Architecture on AWS: Docker and Containers
At what framerate? With 30 fps, a 60mph vehicle advances about 5 feet per frame. Every incorrectly labeled frame delays the reaction by a nontrivial amount.

My intuition is that your trained accuracy will not exceed the accuracy of the training set. This is literally a matter of life and death; every frame matters.
Notice that a fork doesn’t have to maintain the whole code base, only your tweaks on top. Cases I know like Oculus Browser, Samsung Internet, Brave or Supermedium (I’m co-founder) have very small teams. They start with Chromium and have total freedom to modify privacy policies, ship remove any APIs or standards. At the same time they can take all Web compatibility for granted that I agree is not tenable by a small org.
Out-competed by Monzo/Starling/Revolut and co. and blaming Brexit.

Not the first to use that excuse, and certainly not the last.
It's important to specify your test scenario here and the behavior you expect, as it's a known issue in general that Linux behaves poorly under OOM conditions. It's not necessarily Firefox specific.

If all of my memory is "in use" but half of it is cached file pages, should Firefox compact its heap and evict cached images? What if all of my memory is spoken for but a bunch of it isn't actually committed, due to overcommit?
They don't use traditional RAID setups there. My understanding is they use a proprietary data encoding and distribution, which is more accepting of individual drive failures and reduces rebuild times. I believe I've heard they use something more like erasure coding rather than RAID-5.
Another good pair of binoculars to start with are those in the Celestron Nature DX family. About $100 for 8x42 or about $110 for 10x42.

These have a close focus distance of 2 m, as opposed to 5 m for the Nikon Aculon family.

Probably not a big deal for looking at birds while out on a stroll, but it could matter at home. I put food out on the rail of my deck and then have a nice parade of birds and squirrels visiting throughout the day, often much closer than 5m. For example, this squirrel [1] that was staring at me through the window--some seem to have learned that this might cause me to come out with peanuts.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/yJRsQoa.png
It's all in my brain. It's not a good idea and I know I should be keeping a budget, but every time I try, I end up ending reaching the conclusion that I should just focus on making more money instead. I have reasonable rent, no debt outside of a small car note and state-school student loans, and have good credit. I live a simple life, and I max out my 401k match + a personal IRA. There's not a large amount left over that matters all that much, and fiddling with Excel won't change that.
Things like dwm / i3 handle this much better since there isnt any UI to scale. You just set the right font size and you are good to go.
I use Tab Mix Plus. (I'm on Waterfox just for that one extension.)

Back when Firefox switched to the new UI backend and broke approximately all of the addons, it was promised that the missing APIs they'd ditched would be re-added post release as JS APIs. This is now many years overdue.

Frnakly, I disagree that it should be their choice, and will not donate until they give me an avenue to donate to Firefox Browser specifically.
Useful info, thanks.
Sources on this?
I have read similar stories about revolut, but haven't heard about n26.
I live well enough within my means that I don't have to bother with any kind of accounting. On a typical tech salary living in a relatively cheap COL area, I bought a house about half of the price I could afford. I exclusively purchase used vehicles (partly because I am am enthusiast and enjoy working on them, but even a 10 year old low mileage modern vehicle is pretty reliable and cheap to maintain), and I don't shop for the fun of shopping.

The result is a guaranteed growing savings which I periodically invest in various assets while trivially maintaining a buffer for emergencies.

The trick is to live modestly even if you have money. Also, stocks are basically equivalent to savings, since with modern tech liquidating funds and transferring them to your bank in an emergency can take as little as minutes.

There's so much uncertainty in money management that you're probably IMO wasting your time micromanaging. Pick a couple decent assets, or even an index fund, diversify with a little bit of gold or alternative market hedges, and leave the funds alone. There's no reason to overthink money management if you plan everything with a healthy buffer - but that requires self control. Less stress this way though.
Ask HN: Source of truth for Devops, because GitHub is just not enough
Hi guys,

I’m trying to understand what’s the best way to improve the RCA (root cause analysis) process in a distributed system, both technical (microservices) and organizational (devops, devs, analysts).

No matter where I worked (as a Devops/SRE/Backend) I noticed a recurring problem - there are just too many moving pieces and not enough visibility to monitor them.

Detecting that there is a problem becomes easier by using tools like APM (datadog) + Exception management (Sentry) + Logs (Kibanha). But from my experience even when you know something is broken, it’s hard to find out why. It becomes even more prominent when working with multiple teams (dev, devops, infra, analysts) who use various systems & tools.

While debugging a problem I find myself forced to open several tools (Kibanha + Datadog + AWS + Github + Sentry + Slack) and use different techniques in order to pinpoint the real root cause.

I know Github should be the single source of truth, but from my experience this is not the case for most problems. For example: infra changes that were done via the AWS console, manual schema changes, recent deploy/rollback, Cron runs that we forgot about, an undocumented DB change, etc.

The RCA tends to lead me away from Github and into the dark corners of the system. To mitigate this pain, I’ve found several solutions that helped us. For example:

Important Cron runs status (start/end) are sent to Kibana

Asked people to write about infra config changes in a dedicated Slack channel (but sometime people just forgot)

Some questions that I find interesting:

Do you also feel this pain? Or is it just me?

What are the best practices for tracking all of these changes?

Did you implement some in-house solutions in order to solve this?

How to reduce the time it takes to find the root cause?

Is it just me or slack become a super important tool in the process of tracking changes?

Would be happy to get any advice or feedback.
Firefox Preview (early release of next generation Firefox on Android) has been improving fairly rapidly. Extension support landed in nightly a week or so ago, for those who have been holding off on checking it out.
There's nothing ironic, weird, or surprising about the US wanting to stop other countries from doing to them what they do to other countries. It's hypocritical in some sense, mostly because the US tries to project itself as the good guys, but it's just basic international relations. That's how every country has always operated and will always operate.
One thing I did to help it "make it stick" when I made the switch was I made a FF Color theme that matches chrome's colors. https://color.firefox.com/?theme=XQAAAAIWAQAAAAAAAABBKYhm849...
Another Firefox release means yet again my browser's going to quit working while I'm busy in the middle of the workday. It'll offer to restart, but it won't work, and then I'll have to reload all my pages manually.

I've been using Firefox since it was Phoenix. I never switched to Chrome at any point. This behavior is so damn annoying that it might be the one thing that actually gets me to switch.
N26 is also very successful in France, whose banking industry is--I can confirm--very much slow, difficult, and _very_ manually run. They can charge fees for accounts because their fees are still so much lower than the incumbents they're displacing. (And you can do stuff without having to talk to your bank counsellor, at your one specific branch, in person... how novel!)

So I can see how their model wouldn't be very good, or very disruptive, in places with more consumer-friendly banking options.
Red Rock's campground is not "great." It's a patch of dirt with pit toilets, little scenery, and is cold and windy. At $20 night, you can find Airbnb rooms that cost the same.
Sizes, yes, speeds, no. 600 MB/s of data transferred, and only for linear accesses.
Yeah, new Edgium is just as slick as Chrome was when it started. I'm now using only Edgium exclusively; Super fast; No lagging anywhere. Super smooth scrolling etc; I hope it stays like that;
I consider Firefox to be slightly slicker and leaner so it's now probably well into subjective territory.
I fail to see the distinction or the point you are trying to make with it.

Boeing was awarded 50% more than SpaceX. If Boeing had to start from scratch why would NASA even bother?
Can you expand? I'm an atheist as well and that aligns pretty well with what I remember from when my parents would take me to the church as a teenager. For context, they're catholics.
> From my perspective, religious traditions that have offered social support, but only with strings attached, resorting to shunning when those expectations weren’t met, have caused so much trauma to people I love that I am, at least in unguarded moments, quite happy to acknowledge that I want to break down the economic foundations of those groups.

I think this often is true, and its unfortunate. At the same time, I think people overlook the effect on other people. What about the people who fit into church culture and weren't excluded in the past? Are they doing better or worse under a culture that embraces permissiveness? Put differently, in an effort to minimize the harm that a religious society imposed on one group of people, are we disregarding the benefits it provided to other people, and to social stability and cohesion generally?
This has been my experience. I've never worked at a place where the wiki was up to date, or where institutional knowledge was managed in a way that wasn't "ask this person about this, ask that person about that". I think attempts to document things "so we don't forget them" are basically a waste of time for an organization.

Keeping notes for yourself can be handy, though.
Well there was probably a reason but they weren't told it and with N26 being online-only had noone to turn to, you can do a google/twitter search for someone getting police called on them for showing up at their Berlin HQ/Backoffice trying to get some answers.
I've started using Webase [1] for this. Just create a simple data model to structure anything you want to retain and everything is stored in one easy place.

[1] https://www.webase.com
Another anecdata from a Swedish native:

"Actually" is sometimes used purely for effect (affect?) without any reflection on the meaning of it, similar to how "ducking" is used.

I'm imagining "git" wasn't his first try at finding a unique TLA, and the actually is there to signal effort spent.
Flat design is way too simple.

I liked the 3Dness of the buttons in Windows 95-98.

You knew if something was clickable right away.
Agree, though it's kind of an odd way to express the idea. Looking at it another way, make sure your expenses always remain so low that you can simply walk away from any job. That's the only way to remain free.
Can you elaborate on which strategies you use for forecasting from IWTYTBR?
In Firefox, if you go to about:memory and click on "Measure", you can get some kind of breakdown of where the memory is being used. I don't know how useful it will be to understand why it is using more memory, but it can be interesting.