skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> already see some pretty interesting ideas around WASM

I'm excited about WASM, but I don't see how it's fundamentally different when it comes to being built by venture-funded startups. Pretty much all of the interesting stuff in server-side WASM is being driven by venture-backed startups.
+1 to Bitwarden, and in particular the Vaultwarden implementation.

I've been self hosting it for a number of years now and have never had to think about it ever again - it works, has clients for all my platforms, never had any issues.
I found Redshift to be far inferior to Snowflake as a data warehouse for marshalling any tables or views you need for ML work. There's lots of statistical functions available within Snowflake that will speed things up for you if you need pre-calculations on feature sets.
Yep. All of the “I want wok hei” complaints are nonsense because virtually no indoor burner ever gets that hot. If you cook in a wok often and want the restaurant taste then an outdoor propane burner does the trick for only a few hundred bucks.
There a way, unfortunately. Putin: 1. has no regard for human lives (including lives of Russian citizens) 2. is great admirer of Joseph Stalin.

His current plan likely: 1. destroy Ukrainian military and establish control over all major cities, roads and borders (russian losses to achieve this goal is no-brainier for him) 2. starve population (repeat Holodomor [1]) 3. sent millions to prison camps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
Nuclear isn't (historically) "statistically the safest", and any major accident or hot-waste-related problem may worsen its case.

https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Those latest 9 reviews happened over the space of 5 days. If Uber was generally bad, given the number of trips they're doing, I'd expect to see a lot more negative reviews in those 5 days than 9.

I'm not surprised to see no good reviews. I can't imagine people going out of their way to leave good reviews for Uber at this point. Their overall rating is 4.5/5 though
Did you try the Aurora store, which is independent of the "location" based Google account/store?
This article was widely derided among translator/localizer circles, because the true fact of the matter is that the only thing causing "shortage" is that the pay is shit. A lot of the article here builds up on statements by David Lee, the CEO of Iyuno-SDI, and even the article mentions the fact that his company pays its staff terribly:

> Last year, several major European translator associations blacklisted Iyuno-SDI, discouraging their members from working for the company due to increasing cuts to their freelance subtitling rates.

Anyway, besides the long-standing general disrespect toward the importance of localization, one of the big things driving down rates that has come along recently is the practice of "machine translation post editing" (MTPE for short), where a company first uses machine translation to produce an absolute garbage of a script (because translating fiction is simply not going to work out without an actual intelligence to drive the process) and then hires a translator who will usually need to pretty much redo the entire thing to get something good out of it. But hey, because they're only "editing" an existing script, that's enough justification to slash the already bad prices to basically nothing!
Our main product is essential a CRUD desktop application assisted by a lot of background services, mainly various integrations. We're in the process of charting out a path to a cloud-based offering, driven by customer requests.

We're operating in a niche so we'll never have millions of concurrent users. We have ~1000 customers, and number of users per customer follows a power law. Our largest customer by far currently has a ~100GB database and ~100 concurrent users.

Since we're relatively small (currently ~25 employees) we don't have the resources to "constantly" be changing our stack, and so I fear vendor lock-in.

At least Kubernetes seems to be something that'll be around for a while, and it's available from several cloud providers. So while it seems overkill it would appear it has that going for it. However the complexity does scare me a bit. It's a giant leap from our current "dumb" setup of a database and core service on a plain server.

Reading recommendations or helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Are there better options out there for small fish like us?
Are there any slide decks or investor material out there that confirm this is the business model? I hear it all the time on HN but it just doesn't make sense. The barrier to entry in the taxi market is too low. You can't kill off competition and start monopoly pricing. The competition will always reappear.
Types are good and XML/SOAP was a good idea. The vendor lock-in shenanigans were the problem.
I don't doubt that, I'm just saying pasta street vendors are not seen around here.
Traditional accessibility features have always been optional. Very important if you need them, but out of the way if you don't. This obviously isn't optional. The trend these days is to hide bad motives behind good uses - like 'lock down all hardware to protect the users' or 'ban all encryption because pedophiles use it'. I'm not implying that that's what you're doing, but this is exactly the argument they are going to come up with.

Another point worth mentioning is that the startup claims that their 'targeted ad' tech is 'identity blind'. (I have visceral hatred towards targeted ads). What is preventing them from making it identity-aware in the future if it succeeds by any chance - especially given the fact that targeted ads work better when it is identity-aware? It will eventually become the real-world equivalent of online cross-site tracking, no matter what the creator claim. Never concede ground to malicious technology just because it has some purported benign uses. Let them just add a braille pad and speaker on the side for users who need it.
This, they used their VC money to undercut the local market. Everyone complained when China did it with steel but not when Uber did it with taxis
Are you in tech? Then an obvious example is Simon Peyton Jones. Full professor, Fellow of the Royal Society, ACM Fellow, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. No doctoral degree of any kind. Really think he can't claim to be a scientist?
good article! I have been using their Option 3: Store what the clock should say on the wall at either the physical location or the organizers desk if it is a call. Then store the timezone string for that location and calc the UTC from that to give local start times for other users.

Some apps store that UTC in the row and get re-calc’d as needed.

With other apps we create views or materialized views and update rows for UTC to give a single source for sorting, etc.

Storing the rules version is an improvement I will look into!
yeah, that code is doing some seriously weird stuff. from looking into the package a little, what is happening is that these functions modify an implicit global state. it's probably not the api I would have designed, but it does look convenient for rapid development.
I wonder how canning works, especially since most pressure canners are aluminum, most induction stove tops are glass (weight limits), and bands/lids on 4oz jars are less than 4" above the stove (do they heat?).
Explain why only the "Russia did it"-spiel is allowed here.
I personally know several translators. Most of them either already left the field or are considering it.

Freelance/contract work with lots of time pressure, low pay and no benefits is the norm.

With ML translations becoming better, much of the work is reduced to manually patching up whatever Google Translate spits out. Which of course is used as justification for further lowering the pay.

The only somewhat happy ones landed a good gig at international institutions like the UN or EU, but that comes with extremely boring material.

Pay well and there will be plenty qualified applicants with the relevant degrees.
You are not wrong but it was a class agreement upfront and I, of course, am human as well and gave TONs of extensions.

They didn't like it, though. And unlike CS courses (this was in a media dept) none of the homework was very hard or required more than a few hours of effort.
Could you show me the thread?
Just………clone the repo?
Instead you’ll have to think: 11:00, are they awake already? O no, that’s like 1900 here.

And then 2/3 of the world will not have a date change while asleep. That’s just bizarre for a triviality such as scheduling.
Not guaranteed to be zero-cost I guess?
Can you explain what the GMO aspect provides? Were heirloom legumes better at capturing CO2 or they just yield more per unit of land so you have to use less land and therefore allow more forests to remain untouched?
I started to watch it and it was indeed interesting, till it reached the point where the presenter claimed that Khodorkovsky was jailed because he stole too much. That's just plain false, and kind'a casts doubt on how expert is this expert. He was jailed for his political stance, that he didn't want to bow down to Putin. It's true that his first sentence for various tax dodging schemes in the 90s (that many at the time were involved in). Those were likely legal, but definitely immoral.
Both innovation and disruption are useful tools to keep in the chest.

A completely free market economy is rife with undesirable downsides, so it's necessary to introduce regulation. Regulations in a capitalist system is rife with regulatory capture usually used to artificially restrict supply. Regulatory capture needs to be disrupted. Disruptors quickly become rent seekers (nice system... shame if something should happen to it). The way around disruptors is to innovate, until the capitalists seek to capture regulations on the innovative.

It's a dynamic system constantly seeking equilibrium. It's not perfect but it seems to be working OK.
Is that a blog or just a webpage? I can't see the other articles, and the links at the top look like internal links to parts of the webpage.

If I click at "Blog" at the top right, I get this error:

> api-docs/blogs.md not found -> [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'modules/infra/admin_piccolo/api-docs/blogs.md'
I just keep my KeePass database synced in $generic_cloud_storage. Since the database is encrypted and decrypted on the client side using a password and a key file, and I'm not keeping the key file synced (I copy it manually to my devices), I haven't found it to be an issue to keep the database in cloud storage even though I obviously wouldn't trust the provider with my cleartext passwords.
The primary concern of Mercantilism was to maximise exports and minimise imports..

I disagree. Rather, I think this is a common but bad reduction. Mercantilism as Smith described it isn't just protectionism. Protectionism is just a feature. There are as many parallels between modern globalisation and mercantilism as there are with 20th century protectionist economic regimes or schools of thought.

Modern conservative economic rhetoric worries about trade balances and the debt. The first is explicitly a mercantilist trait. The latter is arguably one, considering that public debt is the basis of our money like gold was in Smith's day.
Overdue for sure. I wonder if there could be unintended side effects, I can’t think of any…
US Missile Defense System no match for a Russian attack
> required to reach feature parity

I think most people don't need full feature parity. That's why a lot of these techs take off. They need something that is easier to understand.

Similar with kubernetes, there's like 5 permutations of software deployment people actually want to do. Deployments are one of those but there are still a few areas that you have to get hacky with StatefulSets to achieve. Once some PaaS-wrapper for kubernetes takes off we'll see the V2 of that idea as a stand alone cluster management thing. If someone nips some ideas from MaaS [0] we might even see on-prem bare metal take off again once people realize they're getting screwed on perf/bandwidth and many of the benefits of cloud providers are already provided to you by something like Kube.

[0] - https://maas.io/
What about EVs?

It seems a big problem that 50%+ of the cost/value of a vehicle is a battery pack that will inevitably degrade over time, and that usually needs replacing in it's entirity in the event of a fault or damage.

We need some sort of standardised 'battery modules' that can be shared between vehicles, replaced/upgraded, salvaged from crash-damaged vehicles, etc. Instead of one single battery pack, there'd be a bank of maybe a dozen modules. They don't need to be user-replacable, but should be replacable by any competent mechanic.

Some vehicles could come with unpopulated battery module slots, for optional range upgrades. Maybe others would be sold 'batteries not included', and you could buy or lease batteries from a choice of providers.
I understand the lure to link to forums, but this one is particularly light on details; the only hard info about the law(s) is a link to the text itself. This is pretty important since the carve-outs will make or break this bill, because I doubt user replaceable batteries will be mandated for a pacemaker, electric vehicle, or high-volume home energy storage equipment like RESU battery.
The comparison to systemd is often made, but imo very unfair.

systemd may have a complex implementation but it's usage is rather simple and consistent across distros so in that way it definitely simplifies on what came before it, which was an init system simple in its implementation but finicky and inconsistent in usage.

It's kind of like I'd much rather have a programming language that has a complex compiler but it takes care of so many details that its usage (programming) is simple - because I am not the one who has to deal with the compiler complexity - rather than making the jobs of the compiler devs easier, (why, if that's their primary job?), but making my everyday job programming in such language harder?
Putin's approval rating in Russia has only increased since the war in Ukraine started. Also, Russian weaponry has only improved since the fall of the USSR. I'm not sure why you're arguing that Russia cannot do what they are currently doing.
NISTPQC will be ending at the end of this month, there're only 3 kinds of digital signatures are in round 3 of NISTPQC: lattice(Falcon, Dilithium), Multivariate (Rainbow), and Hash-based (Sphincs+，Picnic）+（XMSS， LMS）， Now a very urgent question appears: which algo is the best for future 20 yrs?

Lattice-based is being attack by "S-Unit attacks" as above URL.

Rainbow, as a Multivariate has always been broken in last minute, although it has the smallest signature size.

Hash-based is usually very safe, should we implement Hash-based signatures in bitcoin? and ethereum?

We know ETH will use Starkware friendly hash-based signature in short future. Should bitcoin be done as what ETH will do?

Should we conclude: Hash-based algorithm is the best one for bitcoin? for ETH? and for all?

It's high time to discuss ASAP！Any input will be highly appreciated!
I don't know why people keep talking about WASM, WASM is 1% of what Kubernetes does, it's an alternative to runc nothing more. It's like comparing Docker to Kubernetes.
I use an app network firewall and restrict via whitelist of what I want to use on cellular data or fixed wifi (mobile hotspots are tricky).
The complexity of the systems (mostly!) reflects the reality of the needs. Thousands of services working in orchestration in an environment that is, by definition, hostile; is non trivial.

Little parts of a system being over engineered may be the fault of an engineers ego somewhere, but the massive complexity of distributed systems isn’t some ego trip or frivolous fiddling with shiny new tech.

It’s just big and hard for mere mortals. It’s hard to say when k8s actually decreases complexity, but I think most will get there before ~100 software engineers do.
It turns out that making a digital display work as well as human vision is a monumental technical challenge. For instance the makers of microscopes have only begun making research quality microscopes where you actually want to use the digital display instead of the eyepieces, for "difficult" specimens.
Linux is not popular enough on desktop to matter for game development or basically any other consumer software.
I mean at the end of the day there are only so many translators, and streaming did not exist on this level even 5 years ago. That's a lot of new demand while the old demand is all still there.

The idea that there can never be a labor shortage, only a pay shortage seems a bit odd. Would you say that there isn't a housing shortage? Only a shortage of people willing to pay up for it?
Inch mini-laptop with Celeron J4125 processor sells about for $300 and up
Those reactors in China (at the Taishan powerplant) were completed at a (officially) 60% overcosts, and were 5 years late.

One of them is shut down since mid-2021 after an incident (leak).
"many Americans don't realize the US has little protection against a nuclear attack".

That's surprising to me.
I honestly think what you're describing will take about 25-50 more years to happen, if ever.
Whilst people are getting smarter and more capable, HN is a bubble of people who'll put in the effort to do the stuff you're describing.
Systems like SAP/Salesforce and other mega ERP and management systems are filling that space.
I expect people will just be learning to live in ecosystems. Similar to whats happening with the cloud in the present day for developers.
A gas burner will happily light a book bag on fire.
My understanding is that Moderna basically started as a result of a venture firm recognizing that mRNA drugs might lead to valuable new things (https://www.flagshippioneering.com/companies/moderna).
Thank you for this. The author may have simply made a mistake. That's quite possible. It's also possible that he was referring to wheat beyond the producer's own need -- exports -- and if this is the case, it appears that Russia and Ukraine produce somewhere in the neighborhood of 30% of the combined total of the top ten producers -- see here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wheat_exp...

So, not quite a third, but not much of an exaggeration.
I'm curious of which countries would be benefited by a gold standard today, and which countries would be hurt by it.

And also, with the way things work today as far as gold trade and keeping gold stock goes, which countries benefit the most?
The connectome (kind of) doesn't matter!!
Summary: for the first time ever, researchers were able to record whole-brain activity for all 302 neurons in a freely moving C. Elegans. Further, they found that the map of which neurons are physically connected to which neurons (i.e. the connectome) is way less significant than previously thought. Instead, extrasynaptic communication (i.e. neurons picking up neurotransmitters from neurons they don't share a synapse with) is suspected to be the name of the game. Also, the methods in the paper are applicable to whole brain imaging of other animals like fruit fly.

Personal opinion: theoretical neuroscientists are about to get a crapload of data to start building realistic, TESTABLE models of whole brain function in C. Elegans. We're about to see the stat mech of neuroscience people, this is HUGE.
They're really doing them a favour.
Not sure if it backs up the original "freaking out about..." claim [...]

Not at all. This quote is from a JKR tweet that she made referring to a Times article on the praxis of UK police recording rape crimes as being committed by a women when the perpetrator identifies as female (even if they have male genitalia).

So, neither did JKR (in that quote) equate trans people with rapist nor did she bring up the whole topic. Rather, she reacted to a newspaper article on the topic, and certainly not in a way that could by any stretch of the imagination be characterized as "freaking out".
Im guessing it’s LVM based. (ie: containers)
Lazy loading has been disabled by default since EF Core came out.
Comments in the linked thread are spot on. Manufacturers would do anything to avoid abiding spirit of that law to keep their bottom line.

What's more depressing is "tech enthusiast" circle (eg. in reddit or hardware forums) will be more than eager to rationalize, defend and disseminate any weak technical excuse made up by manufacturers for keeping their anti consumer practices.
Depending on what it actually does, we can predict side effects by imagining it was in place 10 years ago. What if the Apple Watch required a user-replaceable battery? Would the design have changed demonstrably to accommodate this design restriction?
The argument you are trying to make there completely fails to defend the claim that storage need to be 15x cheaper for renewables to compete with nuclear.
Area: offshore wind is by far the most promising renewable (excellent aggregated power and load factor).

Predictability: spreading out production units, using a mix (wind, solar...) and storage are key.
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/180592/european-cooperation-...
For some people, yes. Black folks routinely had issues getting cabs to pick them up, cabs would ask where you were going before you got in and then drive away if the answer was Harlem or outer boroughs, of course you could barely find a cab in the outer boroughs, everyone's credit card reader was "broken", etc.

Meanwhile, many of those immigrants were working off of someone else's medallion for peanuts, so the medallion owner could book Nicki Minaj for his kid's bar mitzvah.
This may me hyperventilate, because I've been there - except in my case I hadn't left, I'd simply gone on holiday for 2 weeks.
Does anyone have an opinion on Enpass' trustworthiness? It's pretty sleek, and with wifi sync I don't even need a server/cloud provider... But being a commercial application I'm not sure how to weigh its security. It also seems the last public audit is from 2018.
https://www.adamsmith.org/the-wealth-of-nations
Open-source backend development tool Amplication launches public roadmap
For the others about to Google this: "Reticulated gas is LPG distributed by a network of pipes. These pipes are connected to a storage vessel away from the customers site and multiple customers are serviced from one storage vessel."
I'm using this now for years on my Mac, and due to the great configurability I prefer it to the builtin mode.

Thank you!
"Would you say that there isn't a housing shortage? Only a shortage of people willing to pay up for it?"

There are more houses empty than homeless people.

So, there seems to be a bunch of people willing to pay for houses and no living in them.
discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30650606
Tried to charge my phone (with USB-C), but my laptop started getting charged
This has been implemented many times over the last 20 years. Another implementation is PasswordMaker.
Its a webpage with a blog and ack, I'll fix that
By the way re "Ukrainian insurgency" I thought Ukraine was a sovereign country that Russia have claimed they are not even at war with?
Any SQL query can be slow, especially if you have a large database and/or use a lot of Foreign Keys within your database.

Sometimes small changes in fragmentation, statistics or data composition will trigger a different queryplan which will affect your query immensely.

Good monitoring and a DBA nearby would be your best bets to overcome this. The point is that using a relational database is not a trivial thing once the database becomes large. Until then its relatively simple.
Would be interesting to see what Facebook came up with in this space. Not a fan of their "service" but I love their libs.