skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did anyone not try some form of S3 hackery back in 2007?

We did for streaming media, due to a much better ratio of overhead to blocks for the content. And actually, we didn’t use blocks so much as multi-part byte ranges (RANGE header in GET request).

Importantly, we were also able to skip the OS, put a shim directly in the media server that would retrieve blocks or byte ranges prior to the server needing to send them. This way, our distributed edges didn’t need to use local disk for anything but the “hot” content, while “cold” content could source from S3 — while still supporting arbitrary seek by the viewer.

To an extent, think of the media server plus S3 byte range shim as “CloudFront for Streaming Video”, back in 2007. (Later, HLS would make this all much easier, enabling traditional CDNs to take on video delivery as well.)

While it worked a treat, didn’t take long to deprecate for most content, as we needed to be able to sell petabytes VOD media storage for less than AWS charged for S3. We ended up using it as a pre-warm tier, such as for a VOD movie launch, to relieve work from hub data centers.
I've been a heavy user of all 3, and pandas syntax is a nightmare compared to dplyR or data.table in R. That being said, I still use pandas because I prefer python for non-analysis.
A case can be made that it's still a step in the right direction, even if there are still some unaccounted externalities.
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> Why not use the excess to create hydrogen and store it?

This is a very popular idea, but it doesn't work out as well as it sounds. The reason is that electrolyseurs aren't free, the capital costs are high. Not saying this is impossible, but it's challenging to make this economically feasible.

One more thought is that you can basically adapt all industry production to excess energy. I think the reason people want to do this with hydrogen electrolysis is because a) it's new and b) they associate both with energy transition. But neither means it's the best option.
Art. A good chunk of value of a work of art is in its provenance.

That said, I can't imagine a terrestrial economy - much less interstellar one - built on trade of paintings and sculptures.
That's why they wrote Introduction to Statistical Learning[0] and also a video series for the same book[1]. Both books and the video classes are a must for anyone working with Machine Learning and/or Statistics.

[0] http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N9V07EIfIg&list=PLOg0ngHtcq...
Yes! They are just like the Bible. Concise, applicable, on the point, and you can learn so many useful (and true!) things from them.
This got me to thinking about the possible shift to a much more remote work force triggered by the pandemic. Obviously information workers are largely remote right now, but we still don't know how many companies will insist on going back to physical offices when they can.

The reason I'm thinking about this is because unless another comment above, I've seen non-competes pretty often. And I also had to negotiate redlines. I didn't think about this early in my career, but then I changed employers... and ended up sued. The new employer paid for a lawyer and it was largely non-issue, though at my age, I found it a very harrowing experience (and an education.) Many hopefully won't get that same experience, but they may also lack the education or wisdom to negotiate around non-competes. In the physical world, some non-competes would essentially require you to pack up and move if you want to remain in the same line of work. That's great for a company, and terrible for talent. Remote work would eliminate that particular effect - assuming non-competes were still worded around physical geography. But a well-worded non-compete that applies universally could very well tie someones hands - either leave your line of work, or stay with the employer that now owns you.

All "free market" theories emphasize individual choice, and they all rely on individuals having the ability and information to make those choices. But non-compete (basically the exact phrase meaning to eliminate competition and therefore choice) agreements tend to be giving companies the power to remove choice from individual employees. So while theoretically a "perfect" market would result in all employees mindfully rejecting non-compete and choosing incentives wisely, this would seem to fall into a similar category as other "big business, big lawyer team" situations, where the advantage lies clearly with those in power, not individuals trying to have and make choices.

Laws against monopolies, and attempts to prevent propaganda and misinformation that take choice away from individuals exist as a check against power imbalances that remove freedom from markets.
Yet if you had to put a server on an unsecured network, his advice would be sound.

You would spend less time responding to CVEs and more time home playing with your kids (or trying to make some)
I saw that page too, and the author seems to, uhm, have very strong opinions.

The author has this to say about the Linux kernel:

> The kernel is also very lacking in security. It is a monolithic kernel, meaning it contains a colossal amount of code all within the most privileged part of the operating system. The kernel has huge attack surface and is constantly adding new and dangerous features.

And then goes on about how insecure eBPF and user namespaces are, before concluding with this:

> Other kernels such as the Windows and macOS kernels are somewhat similar too in that they are also large and bloated monolithic kernels with huge attack surface but they at least realise that these issues exist and take further steps to mitigate them.

This person is clearly bending over backwards in his quest to prove how insecure Linux is compared to the competition. Some of his points are true, but there are so many glaring inaccuracies that I don't even know where to begin with. For instance, many links in that article are bogus. Multiple links that's supposed to showcase vulnerabilities in eBPF and user namespaces are just someone ranting about these features instead of it being an actual bug report. Links to a Debian commit disabling user namespaces are explained as a direct result of security bugs, when it's clear from the code comments that it was disabled only as a preventative measure because it was deemed premature by the maintainers. Actual eBPF vulnerabilities linked in the article requires eBPF JIT, a feature disabled by default but not stated as such. And so much more...
For a more digestible alternative, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25592296
62% of people have “useful” dreams, 9% use them for “important” life decisions
Study: In social media safety messages, the pictures should match the words
Yeah, I think for users of Google Photos, the ML was a big part of it. Lots of other options without, I’ve used and like Lychee (1).

(1) https://lychee.electerious.com/
PhotoPrism uses TensorFlow for the image classification / ML stuff (to add labels to your images), but it can be completely disabled via a flag (or toggle under advanced settings) before you begin indexing if you don't need it.

PhotoPrism's ML object detection is no doubt not as powerful as Google's, but it seems to work pretty well based on the demo, and I know the devs are working on improving it frequently.
All anti trust against Google is going to to is strengthen Apple and accelerate the migration to proprietary app silos. It’s not going to drive a Firefox renaissance.

Most likely it will be executed so ineptly it will end up strengthening Google too.
Define "level." Is there the same caliber of talent? Absolutely. Are there an equal number? Not even close. Is the ratio of tech to non tech in the ATX area the same as the bay area? Probably not but it's growing. More and more of the people I've met here are in tech. This has continued to go up as more subdivisions are completed. The new tax laws that screwed over CA residents have definitely increased the number of CA migrants, as has the the increase in remote work from COVID. We have fast internet, no state tax and cheaper property. (What you get for half million here vs CA is amazing and it's nowhere near as nice as it was just five years ago).

Added bonus and what nobody here will tell you (and TX natives don't see) is that the Hill Country is absolutely beautiful. I was shocked when I moves here. I didn't know it but it's a huge wedding destination because it's so pretty. (Being in CA leaves an ignorant taste in your mouth about TX).

So no, it's not the bay area and we don't have parity right noq. As a bay area native, I would never go back. (Full disclosure: TX will get better than it is now but not that I'm a parent of a toddler, we're probably leaving and headed to New England. That's a discussion for a different topic though.)
>since they tolerate it in the leaders that align with their views.

Which one?
Is this a bigger priority than increasing traffic?
It really does, read section 3 carefully. As for why they work so well, that's still an open question.
The hype cycle is completely out of sync with the underlying tech. All the puppets are ready for the end of the hype cycle and the next big thing. But, you see, this time the tech is actually revolutionary and just getting going, but all the puppets are so disconnected from reality that they don't have clue.
It's quite possible to use a Chrome/Edge/Brave PWA while still using FF for your regular browsing.
> You won't stop criminals using drones by forcing hobbyists to register

No, if criminals are going to steal drones because of registration requirements, what that does is add another crime, that will often be detected earlier than the major crime they intend to commit and which adds to the probability that there will be sufficient evidence to convict them of at least one crime.
He literally just explained why it's not a step in the right direction.
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Hello! I run an ecommerce store that has approximately 10 products. I am looking for a platform which is _fast_ - I should think that most pages should be able to load in 200ms. Are there good options to achieve this? Open source or proprietary? Searching for ecomm platforms is tough, as google search results are dominated by SEO, but perhaps you have experiences?
I only did one Gulp project and read it was a drastic improvement over Grunt, which I didn't use.

But most of my projects were done with Webpack and NPM scripts.
Regulators at some point defer to voters. It’s going to matter much more what voters are led to believe than what the numbers say.
I think its good that there are rules in place.
When I was visiting a bird nature reserve someone started flying a drone to film the birds. That obviously disturbers the birds since it was a nesting area. I think we should not trust self policing or regulation here and manufacturers should geo fence off such nature reserve areas as no fly zones. And I will be straight either they geo fence or they do not get to sell their products on the market and I think that there should be a hefty fine if you ignore the rules.

Our public spaces and the environment and nature is a shared space, and you cannot do whatever you feel like in a space we share if its disturbing, neither should and can I.
> If you access many machines, how will you know when one is compromised? How will you prevent an attacker from logging in as you?

Even better is to use SSH certificates. That way you don't have to deal with authorized (usually permanent) keys.

Once the SSH CA is installed in the host, the client can generate temporary asymmetric keys and sign them with the CA key before every connection.

There are a few ways to set up this scenario, here's one using Vault:

https://www.vaultproject.io/docs/secrets/ssh/signed-ssh-cert...
This is anecdotal but I have certainly heard my fair share of criticism of the cold as well. It likely depends on where you live, but while living in Texas I met many people who had moved there from Midwest/Northeast states who said their favorite thing about Texas was that it never snowed. They are the opposite of me in that what drew them to Texas was the heat!
PyPy already supports ARM64. This is additional work needed to support macOS 11 on M1. Apple changed some things that impact PyPy, like the register uses and ffi calling conventions. They updated clang to handle this, but PyPy's JIT emits assembler directly and so requires work to support M1.
Content purchases like podcasts with high loyalty and high NPS are smart buys. Anything to make the average consumer look favourably upon their brand and add yet another factor for lock-in. With such cheap capital it will be interesting to see how large these content purchases get.
Awww, does anyone remember the Linux Administrator's Security Guide (https://seifried.org/lasg/)?

It was such a valuable resource in 2001.
Fantastic comment! Thank you so much for this.
Yes, they also should consider what part they had in browning the pasture they are leaving.
Figma is written in C++, compiled to WebAssembly. Probably the most advanced web-based design tool in the world.

I think they have like 4-5M users, and a $2B valuation.

https://madewithwebassembly.com/showcase/figma/
A blip between 2 ethernal nothingness.
Curious why the distinction between tier 1 and tier 2 targets is testing. Is testing that burdensome? Why can't the tests be run on them?
> due diligence on anyone you might go into business with.
> importance of operating agreements and vesting cliffs

I'd argue it's more important to work with someone you've worked with in the past and know you can trust and will work hard. The operating agreements and due diligence are there for the worst case scenario, but from your story it seems pretty clear they were questionable co-founders to start with.
I promise I'm not trying to be cutesy and meta here, but I read this comment itself as participating in "turn[ing] every conflict to 11". Unless you're focusing on certain parts of the internet, I do not see most discourse as "a nihilist Manichean arms race of immediately having both sides of an argument declare the other as an absolute evil".
Mythical Man-Month?
> Also, neither allows arbitrary third party items onto their platform. Their buyers choose the items they sell.

What’s this then?

https://www.target.com/c/target-plus/-/N-0mjxk
This comes up all the time, but in Nim you can almost always use parenthesis instead of whitespace [1] if you really love that redundancy/style.

[1] https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/6897#43184
The antidote you are looking for is panpsychism.
> I wish the whole Internet would become an HN.

What about as an alternative to Google?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590611
For at least two years
This seems to be a joke, it says it was funded with a grant from William Proxmire, an american politician that started the "Golden Fleece awards".
There is a point at which shame become detrimental to a person, but in general, this is absolutely not true. I feel obstructive amounts of shame, but I fought that and asked for a lower rent on my lease, and I got it. But I am not going to cut in line at the grocery store even though, according to you, my feeling shame in that case is just stopping me from doing what I want.
My wife is very fair. Heat impacts her hard. She doesn't love cold but it seems to get to her less. I can handle either extreme but prefer high heat to low cold. I've also been told I radiate a surprising amount heat (by multiple people), so that could be part of it. My core temperature is normal but my surface temperature runs hot. When I'm cold though, I'm cold to the core and can't warm up.
The Spice must flow.
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Your post makes no sense from the standpoint of an adult.

What did you expect during a pandemic after 100,000 passengers per week arrived in the US from China?

Did you think some government bureaucrat would personally take your hand and make everything better, just for you?

Grown up and be an adult.
No, as long as the connection is initiated by the mobile device, TCP is much easier.
If you read the article you would understand this is about biological protection and not asteroid defense.
When will people ever learn, location location location. Texas ain’t it kids.
Damn, already hating the Reddit algorithm in 2008
The "Create New Project" dialog has serious accessibility problems when used with a screen reader. The buttons are clickable divs, not actual HTML buttons or even marked up with proper ARIA. I haven't yet ventured any further into the app.

Given that the app is a WebAssembly development environment, my first guess was that it was built in WebAssembly itself, with a custom UI framework. But in fact, it's plain React, using its own home-grown components for basic things like buttons.

It breaks my heart that when this project was started in 2017, some 20 years after web accessibility advocacy had started in earnest, the developer was still uninformed enough about accessibility that they would create a custom button component with no ARIA support. I suppose we could also blame the web platform for making it hard enough to customize the look of a standard button that the developer would reach for the div tag. What do we do about this?
An exotic natural resource not present in the recipient’s local space.
The problem is that "real time" has a meaning. A real time system has bounded latency and can make guarantees about how long something will take. See stream reservation [1] as an example.

The Uber system is not real time. It's entirely possible that every switch and router between you and the Uber server has it's buffers full. Round trip time is entirely unbounded over the internet. You could say their system is "fast" or "responsive", but "real time" is not a marketing buzz word, it has technical meaning.

IDK why OP chose to link to that weird article to try and illuminate this point.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Reservation_Protocol
It's a Fediverse program (uses ActivityPub) which lets people follow Pixelfed servers from any Mastoson, Pleroma or other server that implements ActivityPub. PeerTube is a similar service for video hosting.

The Fediverse is the future, and the future is distributed.
Do CE markings apply to software like apps? Some quick searching seems to indicate it's mostly relevant to embedded software (and most search results are talking about medical devices embedded software).
Or just run them in the browser...
Well, the heat AND the humidity! People joke about this saying but having moved from Texas to SoCal it really makes a difference. (Which is good for California because it’s only getting hotter there...)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Manafort

> On October 27, 2017, Manafort and his business associate Rick Gates were indicted in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on multiple charges arising from his consulting work for the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine before Yanukovych's overthrow in 2014.[18] The indictment came at the request of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation.[19][20] In June 2018, additional charges were filed against Manafort for obstruction of justice and witness tampering that are alleged to have occurred while he was under house arrest,[21] and he was ordered to jail.

> bring any conspiracy or coordination charges against Trump or his associates

That is not what I said. Strictly there are no "conspiracy" charges. Manafort was charged on his own. However, he is a Trump associate, and he was charged as a result of the Muller investigation.
Tier2 compiler can be built with a cross-compiler, perhaps, but you don’t have consistent access to hardware to run the tests on. Just a guess
Actually, one. Zaidi plead guilty last year. One arrest in a conspiracy? great work.

My advice to future criminals, start a business and direct any all criminal activity from the C-Suite. If you're caught, pay fines, never serve jail time. rinse/repeat. And that's only if you're caught.
No, this is precisely the point.

The argument for drone registration is, "there exist people who do dangerous things with drones, and we need laws to protect us from them."

A license plate is not a safety measure. Seatbelts are a safety measure.

Exerting petty licensing and a spaghetti network of regulations to obey just gives you a false sense of control.
At the end he is asking what he can do about it, to stop the surveillance. I didn't feel like he really got an answer for that unfortunately. Living like that must be like hell.

Maybe the best option is total transparency. There people operate in a shadowy world. If you take photos of the people following you and post them publicly, that might burn their agents and make the operation more expensive. People in that field probably don't want to end-up on the internet and be linked with image reverse search. Plus it acts as documentation.
I am really grateful for the the efforts, Thank you.
I use kdevelop more recently, I suppose these changes, syntax highlighting, Language server and other improvements, are incorporated to kdevelop too, am i right?
> that is at least on face easily remediable

But it's not easily remediable. And that is the point.

Just imagine how that would work in practice. Somebody does an original experiment that gives exciting results. Let's say they get a 1000 Science Points for that. Now somebody replicates that experiment. How many points should they get? Should you get as many points for replicating a 1000 points experiment as replicating a 500 points experiment? Why would you do original experiments at all anymore? Isn't it easier just to replicate original experiments where all of the hard work has already been done?

Awarding points for replication is a nonsense idea.
Neuroscientists Identify Brain Network Critical for Consciousness
Google Duo's web client has some wasm code cached under the name 'wasm-clips'.
This article is bordering on offensive, and certainly condescending. It makes the claim that because Silicon Valley is becoming more diverse, white guys need not apply, but maybe China will take you.
>It's never going to rise to the level that individual consumers will care.

Could it be possible that it's actually less of an issue than it seems to you?

>Only the "diehard techies" will care.

I'm a diehard techie and I do not care.
Pretty much all electronics seem to need a CE certification in the EU. I'd be surprised if this wasn't already the case for drones.

There are likely to be relevant standards for drones to get them CE certified.
All lane keep assists are not the same. Tesla’s version drives through curves with ease, not like others which flop around one lane marker to other and may give up pretty easily
> Capitalism is exceptionally good at solving problems when there is money to be made.

Well, unless the money is to be made by exacerbating the problem, but sure.

> Putting the right price on carbon will solve that.

State intervention to set prices to try to steer the market to make progress on social goals that it would not without State intervention is not capitalism.
A virus is a meta lifeform. It is life that operates given the existence of metabolising organisms. Life operates directly over the physical matter in the universe, a virus just operates a step above this.
Cool so I want to hack a company and face no jail: create my own company, employ myself and do the hack.

My company gets fined $X million, which it doesn't have so it folds. I skip off into the sunset
Perspective is developed at JPMorgan https://github.com/finos/perspective/