skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for your comment. I hope that all of this "computing" under restricted and profitable for megalithic corporations trend will end soon. But the problem is that majority of users cannot comprehend the damage. General Users are like kids in a candy store, they will grab everything shiny and sweet without thinking twice. My other concern is cancel culture in new developer/designer/engineer generations. They simply don't care. Critical thinking is something from the past. Apple ideas for future of computing are "give us money". Suddenly everything thats important is iOS and vertical integration. This strategy was evident when they postponed making of Mac Pro for years. As a designer I have only one problem: I don't like Windows at all. I can live happily with Linux desktop but I need graphical software as good at least as Affinity Designer. So I have a big request: If someone here is close to Affinity management, take a note I will pay the price of current Affinity Designer x2 for a chance to run it under Linux. :)
It's a quote straight from the Apple website!
Bush/Gore came down to a paltry number of votes in one state and a dubious court ruling. Perusing some amount of legal action there is not unreasonable.

Trump was claiming election fraud before a single ballot had been counted, repeatedly insisted that the only way he would lose the election is via fraud, and has had multiple cases dismissed due to the simple matter of not presenting any evidence.

That's how Trump is different, since you asked.
I would argue the most important “thing to add” here is a business model and company structure that actually benefits from this complexity. There are indeed businesses and large teams that benefit immensely from well-thought-out architectures such as the one you describe. Most internet businesses, though, just need a single service deployed across two or more availability zones, that talks to a SQL database with one or more hot standbys. Once that basic architecture stops working, you have good problems.
Full disclosure: I co-founded a startup (https://batch.sh) which focuses specifically on solving problems in the event driven space - we do event archive, search and replay. So this space is super interesting to me :)

You are totally right - the CQRS pattern alone is not enough. In my experience, most shops that go down the CQRS path, also tend to make use of other event driven patterns like event sourcing.

As with most things, there's pro's and con's and the most obvious con here is increased complexity in exchange for higher reliability and scale.

Your advice is great, especially deciding on a structured message format such as protobuf. I would 100% avoid JSON schema as it's possible folks will forget to fill out fields. Protobuf has excellent support by now and there is a ton of support tooling for it. I'd be hard pressed to choose Avro at this point (unless you're a Java or Kafka shop that has it already in their ecosystem).

In addition, if you are already on CQRS, I would advise looking into fully embracing event driven - by utilizing an event bus of some sort (rabbit, kafka, eventbridge), you could make message passing completely async (and avoid having to use gRPC, which is another layer of complexity, as you mentioned).

A good friend of mine once said that in order to successfully do event driven arch, you must be OK with eventual consistency and I think that lies at the heart of this. If you are OK with eventual consistency, you understand the burden of complexity you're bringing on.
I think your take on it seems fine. The researchers did the poc, later it goes mainstream. The researcher should not care or be interested in the mainstream practical application anymore, they should be on to the next thing.
You don't even need that. You can filter through a piece of cloth and boil. It may not taste great but it's safe.
> Both Joe and Kamala want gun registration

Actually the majority of the country does.
Why’d they name it PyPy, it sounds phonetically exactly like PyPi. aaaahhh this is going to be so confusing
Nothing. We did this when NPM was having issues and it worked very well for us, we also did this for some non-US team mates who had very poor NPM performance.

It runs well, is easy to keep up and working and generally was awesome.
It's actually amazing how consistent the pattern is for professional creative apps, I did a study of market leaders across various industries[1] (based on the best data I could fine), and every single one supports some form of extension. Just doing a quick eye-ball glance, and I'd guess every single one of the apps I looked at also supports some form of scripting.

(This is only tangentially relevant to this thread, but the iOS App Store doesn't allow extensions or scriptable apps, and I believe those rules will single-handedly assure iPad only ever has marginal impact on creative fields until those rules are removed.)

1: https://blog.robenkleene.com/2019/08/07/apples-app-stores-ha...
Isn’t Vivado entirely proprietary?
Just to be clear, I agree with all that.

Science, in its current institutionalized form, is starting to look pretty broken to me. It's time for something new.
I don't know what it means, but I'm sure it's not good that my initial reaction to your statement was, "nothing can keep you safe from nation state adversaries."
Links: https://info.disco.so

App: https://disco.so
It does help if the shift into never's group are biased in some manner --

For example, if people who don't believe in the institution of marriage stop getting married(say due to lower societal pressure), they become "never"s and improve the average of the pool of married people.
I lust after such a thing. But here only AT&T copper is available, with a max speed of 20 mbps, and apparently they're no longer accepting new accounts:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2020/10/03/att...

This leaves me with zero options for wired broadband.
Optane wasn't part of the sale
https://uk.reuters.com/article/intel-divestiture-sk-hynix/so...
For what it is worth, I have been migrating from AWS to Azure for a few projects over the past year and have had nothing but good things to say about Azure. Documentation is superb, as is support and experience consistency.

AWS is still great, I just happen to like Azure more.
Article title: "Apple Retreats After Threatening Devs of Linux & Unix Shells With App Store Expulsion"
but working-class and poor Americans face more family instability and higher levels of singleness.

As a very poor divorced single mom, I will suggest this is not entirely bad news. Poor people used to marry as their only hope of surviving and this often left them stuck in dysfunctional and unhappy relationships.

I would rather be single than forced into a miserable and possibly abusive relationship as my only hope of survival.

The upper classes have something of a tendency to view all details of lower class life like every single bit of it is terrible and more bad news. There is a tendency to never see any stats in any kind of positive light. If you are poor, well it must suck to be you and you must be a victim every step of the way.

I think that is problematic as a framing. I think discussions of issues impacting poor people really need more nuance than that.
Data poisoning is 1) hard and 2) largely ineffective especially if 3) much of the data- or metadata-stream is cleartext or interpretable by your adversary/ies, meaning actual signal is available.

Cory Doctorow:

https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/j444u4/how_to_dest...
I think you are agreeing with me, but I'm not sure?

I am suggesting that the quoted figures are what you would expect without AI being involved, and perhaps they are even not that good.
This! just set the folder on the phone as send only, and backup on the pc.
> How can anyone take this guy seriously?

In the timeline where flat earthers hold annual conventions, why are you surprised?
Are the guns & ammo not enough so you can acquire the other stuff from your neighbors?

(Putting it more seriously, doesn’t a lot of prepperdom assume there will be warlords and pillaging and all that? And better to pillage than be pillaged?)
So, don't get me wrong. This is a fun project and a neat little device. I don't mean to take away from it in any way.

However it is really important to consider why baby monitors are so primitive: because the cost of a false negative is huge. I didn't see any mention of this in the author's experiments (only a '>98% accuracy' note). So let's talk about this a little bit: is "accuracy" what we want? Probably not---I don't care if I get accidentally notified, but I care very much if I don't get notified when the baby is crying. So you want to weight your classifier's predictions heavily against false negatives (at the price of false positives). It would be good to make an ROC curve to characterize this behavior. More importantly though, any predictive model assumes a stationary distribution; i.e., training conditions accurately reflect test conditions. But will they in real life? What about when your neighbor's house is under construction? Can interference from chainsaws cause the model to fail to detect the baby crying? What about the dude down the street with his super loud motorcycle? What happens then? I bet the training set doesn't have situations like this.

I really, really don't want to come off like a wet blanket here. But I feel obligated to, because this is a model that directly impacts the welfare of a human, and so we should at least talk about or discuss potential drawbacks. (Again, cool weekend project, just, we need to be clear about the implications of outsourcing the decision of whether the baby is crying to a black-box model where we can't interpret what it's doing.)
Not US citizen here. Is that even legal? I was under the impression that lying under oath would be considered a crime in most justice systems
440MW really pushes the bounds of the S in SMR (Small Modular Reactor). Most SMR proposals are a fraction of that.
Apple can say whatever they want about the performance of their chips in their phones, but in my personal experience, their phones are slower than the competition.
Goggle Takeout will give them in a dump.
Show HN: WhatsMyName – Enumerate Usernames across many websites
If you're interested in self hosting and willing to put in a bit of work to collect data from your online presence for archival, take a look at Perkeep (previously known as Calimstore) [1].

[1] https://perkeep.org/
Don't know if recently it changed, but that's how internet in Cuba works (at least until 2014)

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2014/...
Yesterday Facebook release Graph API 9.0. Here's what's new
Meh, at least it downloads one file after the other and not in parallel.
What's a better UI for this? The times when a knob (or slider) are appropriate is when you're adjusting something by eye or ear (e.g., you don't know the exact destination value in advance).
I wonder if this is antitrust related? Offering services for free just because you have excess cash certainly prevents competitors whose only business is photo-related.
What about just saying "entity"?
This is awesome. What would it take to hook up the storage to say block storage (say EBS or GCS) so that we can have more durabality interms of storage instead of having to manage a NAS at home? For me there have been a whole bunch of needs (photos, videos, docs) where storage has been the major stumbling block.
Allowing email addresses to be reused is a huge security and privacy problem. It means that any email which was still being sent to the old address -- including account recovery emails -- becomes accessible to the new owner of the email address.

Deleting data from "dead" accounts is fine and good. But they need to stay dead, not come back to life.
MegaUpload and Plex offer both of those things. Using Plex allows you to control the full storage and interface, then you can sync those to a cloud service or keep on a HDD yourself.
Local news was bought and destroyed by the Sinclair Group. They have editorial notes and forced content guidelines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
10mb per file only if you average videos, multiple sizes/formats and assume some redundancy. The single photo file stored by Google averages 2 megabytes.
Off topic, but just checked out Beekeeper - Seems like a solid SQL IDE! Had been using Postico before, but going to give yours a try.
Apple's revenue has gone from 65.2 billion dollars under the last year under Jobs to 275 billion dollars in 2019. It's easy to say that "Jobs would never!" but Jobs never ran a company almost 5x bigger. It's entirely possible that he would have. It's equally possible that Apple never grows to these heights with him at the helm. It's just an impossible comparison to be making.
You must be young :)

These browsers were born in the era of dialup Internet that had per minute charges and/or long distance charges. At the very least you were tying up your family's phone line.

Basically it's like paying for every minute your cable modem is plugged in.

For the feature itself: Netscape had integration with the modem connectivity for the OS and would initiate a connection when you tried to visit a remote page. Offline mode let you disable automatic dialing of the modem.
> Unlike literally all other to-do lists, you can't even add your own tasks. Not for cheap, anyway.

Does that mean the tasks are chosen at random from, say, a database of common everyday tasks?
If the deep state and central banking system is crushed in the end it won't matter who spent what, it will be a good investment.
Has anyone found a good family friendly alternative? In particular I would really like to:

- Pay for the service (sustainable/trustworthy business model)

- Be able to very tightly control access to albums as I really don't want kid photos ending up on facebook or similar due to crazy aunt kathy (in google photos anyone with access can add anyone else and until recently there was no way to remove people)

- Ability to require a full/proper login for guests (no hard-to-guess urls as security)

- Confirmed and well-tested backup as a feature (sha1 of the backup matches my local, original copy, no stripping of the geo data!)

- Decent ios and android clients that can auto backup all photos on the device
Pub Key
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/lbrs; my proof: https://keybase.io/lbrs/sigs/naClbFlAvN1o1wk5zSJUqvd7L1PF-ZEwhcLO7vs5OFo ]
yeah -- I wonder how DBs will change over the next few years. Their performance advantage is partially code quality, but partially that they can run complex searches 'close to the data'. You could do the latter with a stateful REST server too, and it would support a lot of modern tooling.
> their children will be more likely to grow up with two married parents

Also the number of children to un weds and single moms have risen over time.

So even if the remaining relationships are improving their odds, their representation across the pool (of children) is declining.
I was under the impression it flew too high to be reached by surface to air missiles.
Videos aren't free though and I feel that those 5 GB will start filling up pretty soon, which means you'll have to start paying anyway.
Google takeout.
This is a new class of devices that couples fast SSD storage directly with an FPGA.

The types of computing that can be done in an FPGA require a new style of programming, because in an FPGA, programs get mapped into hardware, such that data flows through the chip, with all of the code running at the same time, instead of in sequence.

There are large differences in the style of programming required to get efficient use out of an FPGA... there are some ways of translating C that work, but they are crude crutches at best.

This is like going back to the early days of computing, when the new machines were expensive, but very fast... and programmer time was relatively cheap. It's going to take a special new breed of programmer to make this really work well. We're at the beginning of a new era.

I hope that makes sense.
Showing Cinema4D front and centre during your reveal without being able to take advantage of high end gpus is strange.
Social media like Instagram has actually shown that people appreciate having to explicitly upload select images to their online persona.

It's simpler and it also removes overhead like "wait, which photos can people see again?" Facebook had to build a complicated "view your profile as X" system early on just to address this trepidation.
The problem is reducible to maximum directed cuts in arbitrary DAGs, which is hardly "low hanging fruit." The OS scheduler is a particularly poor choice of solution and introduces a ton of overhead while solving it suboptimally.

Granted you can use a lot of heuristics to figure out simpler solutions since DAW graphs aren't arbitrary DAGs and you can get clever with how you allow them to be constructed, but it's non obvious. That's why parallel performance varies a lot between daw engines.
There are docs here: https://docs.etebase.com/
Though they mostly focus on how to use rather than how it works (though we are making progress on that section).

As for your specific question: we currently don't solve that, but we plan on doing it in the near future.
Our approach will be to maintain a client-side index that will be synced across devices. Etebase already utilities to maintain consistency, so this can be done safely.

This question, and ones like it, are exactly why we created Etebase. Building encrypted applications is fundamentally different and comes with a lot of challenges. We plan on continue building all of the tools needed to develop using this different paradigm.
Storage isn't free and is finite, therefore it was never unlimited. Nothing that is offered for free but has an underlying cost and finite is ever really unlimited.

This is a welcome step towards realistic marketing.
Nice work! I spent about six months pursuing the exact same idea about five years ago with the hope of building a company around it. I got reasonably far with a prototype, but gave up on the business side of things after doing more extensive market research and interviews.

One of the people I talked to had been involved with a startup called Adrenaline Mobility which did something very similar, but ultimately ran out of runway and was acquired by Twitter. He told an interesting story about how they (over-)built a highly scalable service but had a really hard time selling it. Those who lack the training to know the difference between good security and hand waving didn't see the value, and those who did have the training and skills didn't trust a third party to do it right anyway.

Nonetheless, a lot has changed in the past five years, and end-to-end encryption is more widely appreciated now. I hope you have better luck with the commercial side of things; this looks like a very promising start.
Have you tried using that full 1TB? Many small time hosts oversubscribe and will look for a reason to boot you if you go beyond a reasonable usage %.
Really grateful for your work, Ryan. I'm not happy that this happened to you
The RBMK has a lot of issues that make it really unsuitable for further development:

1. Because of the size of the core, it develops uneven reactivity during operation and requires attention to be paid to this.

2. The measures put in place do not entirely eliminate the chance of a power excursion.

3. The cost of a suitable containment building would make RBMK more expensive than an equivalent VVER installation. Also as far as I can tell no such containment building has ever been designed.

4. No international agency or government would allow the construction of a new RBMK. Edit: to be clear, this is not only because of the safety issues, but also because of the nuclear weapon proliferation issues associated with the design.

Overall, the cost savings of a RBMK depend on not having a large containment structure and the RBMK was on its way out as a design by time the Chernobyl accident happened. The large number of RBMKs under construction at the time was largely because of initiatives to increase the installed nuclear capacity in the Soviet Union during the mid 80s, existing RBMK sites would receive additional reactors and all but one of the new sites were to receive
VVER reactors.
Just FYI Amazon Photos has unlimited photo storage for prime users.
This should be easy to observe. If this process of creation of rich-complex molecules is happening today, we should be able to find some of these "ponds" where bacteria feeds on newly created rich molecules. If this found, then we would know why every bit of life on earth today descends from one single common ancestor (Last universal common ancestor)--The more complex of the first lifeforms to exist simply ate every other that arose afterwards.
Consciousness is mysterious, but I find it even more mysterious that the universe had the capacity for consciousness to even exist in the first place. How does something start with capacity to have first-person awareness of itself? It seems almost magical.
I don't get it. We bought a baby monitor in 2012 that was probably $80 (Philips brand I think). It was based off the DECT standard that was developed for wireless landline phones, so range was around 1200ft line-of-sight, in practice you could go two stories down in our apartment building to visit friends and it would stay connected just fine.

The baby unit was quite bulky and ran off wall power, but the parent unit was significantly smaller than a modern phone and had a loud speaker plus a really strong vibration mode. And if it lost the signal from the baby unit, it made a hell of a racket to let you know you were out of range. It also transmitted temperature. Can't say we ever had trouble with it running out of battery either.

I mean, I get the appeal of hacking just as much as the next guy. But IMO it makes no sense to hack on something like a baby monitor, where there is very little to be gained over off-the-shelf products, and where the consequences of a hardware or software failure can be that your baby is left crying unattended for a long time.

Go grab an ESP32 and some WS2813s to pimp your stroller instead, much more fun.
I'm talking about recycling BlogSpot addresses. Currently, it's common to see a BlogSpot blog with a single post from ten years ago and it means all the best URLs are gone and will never be available.
Google, Heidelberg University and NEC Propose Human Feedback for Real-World RL
Same for me. It was part of the selling point of the 3. I should have known better since it was Google.
The specs that irk me are RAM and SSD, even more since they started soldering them on. CPU & GPU were always kinda on par with the rest of the field.
You can use rclone to copy the files back up to any cloud you want. Timelines are just files and folders.
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CSU-EB posts mega-list of remote-job employment openings
While I agree with the overall sentiment here, it's worth noting that businesses use contracts because trust between two parties can never be assumed—both businesses are purely acting in their own self-interest. On the other hand, with marriage, it's generally (hopefully) safe to assume that both parties trust each other fully before entering into the agreement. Whether and how that plays out in practice is another story, but IME, very few people enter into marriage prepared for the case in which it ends. This is why prenuptial agreements can sometimes be a touchy subject, since it breaks that assumption of complete trust.
The article mentions they have around 2000 engineers, at that scale investing in custom tooling can easily become a significant net gain in productivity and stability, especially when dealing with the JS ecosystem.
Hell, I guess this was doomed to happen, but I did not think of it when I transitioned to Google Photos. Dropbox has been pretty bad for syncing photos from my device, so I started using both, now I'm thinking that maybe I should just use some Apple service for it since I only own Apple devices. What do people use to sync their photos?