skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sure someone can build a truly privacy respecting service like true caller and billion plus phone users in India would just sign up for it for something like Rs 100 a month or would they?

It is astounding that common person understands the tradeoff when using free service but these ignoramus critics do not.
> attorneys refusing to work in cases because of the political beliefs of clients and donors

It's ironic that I heard Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Supreme Court confirmation hearing this morning, defending her work defending Guantanamo detainees as their public defender.

As she (rightfully imho and more eloquently) put it, a core aspect of the US legal tradition is that everyone deserves representation. Regardless of what they're accused of doing and who they are.
right, guess I'll go back to batch files.
> the attack surface it is exposed to is every USB driver in the Linux kernel, which is much worse than systems with embedded basebands and proper memory firewalling where the baseband has no more inherent access, but is exposed to a smaller attack surface.

You're saying that as if the firewall handled the communication with the modem. There's a Linux driver behind the firewall to do the actual communication, except that's probably not a USB driver.

The attack area is probably comparable, except a misconfigured USB driver doesn't automatically give full memory access, while a misconfigured IOMMU (the firewall) does.
I could never get used to mine, I didn't even know there were alternatives so I might give it a go.
Nothing really new.. I've seen this happening 20 years ago at smaller scale.

Problem is these people often dumped every other natural resource that was not worth as much.. I hope that won't happen here. Edit: According to the article they will recycle less popular elements as well. I hope so...
There are no winners in a trade war. Never.
Sorry, the joke got lost in the text medium! After some minutes I thought that I should have added a "/joke" an "/s", or something like that, but in the end forgot to do it.
You assume Alice isn't the hungrier of the two and cares little for Bob's hunger, which sort of outlines my point: give more to who's hungrier.
4 sounds like a tiny number even for a company far, far smaller than Facebook.
Putin represents the Russian people just like Biden the Americans. How he got there is irrelevant, he represents and owns Russia/Russians, and they are fine with it. They chose authoritarianism and got a questionable tyrant. Now they gotta deal with it.
Harry Lorayne. His books cover the techniques, you just have to use them and practice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lorayne
> What works for us is to do the simplest thing that works, then iterate.

The older I get, the more often I'm reminded that this un-sexy approach is really the best way to go.

When I was younger, I always thought the old guys pushing boring solutions just didn't want to learn new things. Now I'm starting to realize that after several decades of experience, they simply got burned enough times to learn a thing or two had developed much better BS-detectors than 20-something me.
Are you sure? This page [1] says this is not the case

[1] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...
We use freebsd jails and a lightweight in house orchestration tool written in Rust. We are running hundreds of Ryzen machines with 64 cores. Our costs compared to running equivalent on Amazon is so much less. We estimate our costs are about 6x lower than AWS and we have far better performance in terms of networking, CPU, and disk write speed.

Jails has been a pleasure to work with! We even dynamically scale up and down resources as needed.

We use bare metal machines on Interserver. But there a quite a few good data centers worth considering.
Oregon Is Turning Sewage into Green Energy
http://whichjdk.net seems to be a site that tells me not to use the Oracle JDK without a license? There's a listing of which releases were the first to include certain language features, but it seems to mainly be giving advice around JDK vendors, not JDK versions.

There are two kinds of backwards compatibility at play: BC for compiled artifacts (let's call this Java ABI compatibility) and BC for language APIs (Java API compatibility). I have run into issues trying to compile an application with one JDK version and then run it on another (specifically, I believe JVMs will generally not run artifacts compiled with a later JDK version), but API backwards incompatibility is really rare in Java.

I do recall having to do a bit of cleanup when a previous project moved from Java 8 to Java 11, since a ton of deprecated APIs were pruned in Java 9, but those APIs were published by the JDK authors as standalone JARs, so I could remediate by adding a maven dependency. JVM backwards compatibility isn't perfect, but it's a much more stable target than other languages I've worked in.
I totally agree with not writing shell scripts.

As far as I can tell this person is trying to sell me python scripts. My personal take is that I don't want that either, for almost exactly the same set of reasons. Just write the darn thing in whatever your real, main project language is (java, go, c++, whatever). I wouldn't use python just for scripts unless all my stuff was in python, I think code interop and working with all the tooling you've already set up is too valuable.
If you simply provide a decent web experience for ordering supplies I'll be your customer forever. The places where I can find supplies have prices and UX that only the medical industry could love.
OP: & OT: Please Note Well! -- This is NOT the Missile used in Ukraine!

You may like to look at some historic News articles of a Russian attempt to develop a nuclear-powered 'skyfall' nuclear-armed cruise-missile

Posted under 'Project Pluto - nuclear-powered ramjet engines' : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30750131 : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

'9M730 Burevestnik' (a.k.a. Skyfall) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9M730_Burevestnik

'Russia’s Nuclear-Powered ‘Skyfall’ Missile' : https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/07/russias-nuclear-powered-...

'A Deadly Mishap in Russia's Far North, and a Nuclear Mystery lingers' : https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/12/europe/russia-military-bl...

'Russia says Rocket Explosion caused 16-fold Radiation Spike' : https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49339895

>'Five scientists were killed and three injured in the accident on Thursday at a military facility in the White Sea.

A nuclear-powered engine was being tested near the village of Nyonoksa, to the west of Severodvinsk, Russia's state nuclear agency Rosatom said.'
Physicists Just Discovered a Weird New Tetragonal Phase of Water Ice
Don't forget that the Apple Studio Display has a hard-wired power cord. Seriously. The last monitor I owned with a non-removable power cord was a CRT.
Which is why Apple make the XDR for the professional market.
The Maya–and the maize that sustained them–had surprising southern roots
I would assume about 30-40k usd but we'll see
> I've never run over anyone, no.

The point is that you could have if circumstances beyond your control were different.

The concept of "moral luck" is about people having drastically different moral outcomes for similar actions, mostly due to getting unlucky.

E.g. most people who own a cell phone and drive cars have probably broken the laws stating that you shouldn't operate your cellphone without using the appropriate hands-free equipment.

I certainly have at least. I know I shouldn't do it, and I can truthfully say it's not a thing I "do". I know about the dangers involved. But has it happened? Yes, and I'm not proud of it.

But nothing's bad has ever happened to me as a result, but there's some person somewhere where the first time they looked at their cellphone beeping the driver's seat they drove over someone and killed them.

Can we say that I'm a better person because that hasn't happened to me? I don't think so, I just happen to have good moral luck (so far).
The quantum technology ecosystem explained
Try building any Rust project while GitHub is down.
Russia’s tank manufacturer may have run out of parts
The simple HTTP server is a nice addition. I end up using python's SimpleHTTPServer for all sorts of things so it will be nice to have an alternative right in the JDK.
I thought that only applied to their consumer products.
I am assuming it has plenty of cell spoofing tech in there too
The thing I find scary is what I call the "LatinX" phenomenon--(overwhelmingly white) progressives being able to dictate policies affecting minorities over the preferences of those minorities: https://www.pewresearch.org/hispanic/2020/08/11/about-one-in...

A sobering example: if Justice Thomas votes against race-based college admissions in the Harvard case, white progressives will call him "racist" for adopting a view shared by 62% of Black people.
no that's not how it works at all. The "actions" are proprietary to GitHub and hosted on GitHub. People create custom actions and allow others to reuse them. Everything is hooked in to GitHub via their proprietary yaml config.

> Not sure why it would be different for GitHub Actions.

because vendor lock-in. GitHub doesn't want to make it easy for you to switch.
I’ve gone a few steps further and answered the “So?”. My wife thinks I’m a conspiracy nut even though I’ve provided proof of things that have happened. She thinks if it was that wide spread it would have been stopped already.

Fortunately we’ve agreed on not sharing kids pics and information on places like FB insta etc.
Oh I see, so the take-home project would be the just the first step, not the only? That makes sense. Congrats on the launch, and wish you the best.
npm packages can change without a version change?

Can you explain this?

npm doesn't allow you to delete any published versions (you can only deprecate them). You aren't allowed to publish a version that's already been published.

Even when there have been malicious packages published the solution has been to publish newer versions of the package with the old code. There's no way to delete the malicious package (maybe npm internally can do it?).
It can work either way. If you and your co-founders can get in a room on a regular basis and that leads to increased productivity, great. If you and your co-founders are in different cities or countries, and the only way the startup gets launched, then do that. It depends on the circumstances of the startup and the founders.

For me, I'd go 100% remote from the start. Looking 1 year, 3 years, 5 years out, 100% remote is the future for many companies. Covid accelerated this process, and the next pandemic is inevitable. Cost of living is outrageous in most tech hubs ($2.8 million for a 60 year old 3 bedroom house in Santa Clara!) and you'll have to pay more to recruit if you don't go remote. It's better for me to build that into the DNA of the company from the start.
> I hate all the python plotting libraries.

I've given up discussing this. My personal opinion is that MPL is the assembly vs ggplots2's Python.

Yes, maybe there are some things that are doable in MPL but not in ggplot2, but never (and I mean - never -) has any one of my colleagues found a single example that I couldnt recreate in ggplot2 with a more readable code that resulted in a better looking plot.

MPL has this Latex like "once you get the hang of it, you will never use anything else in life for anything" and OOP's "If its good code then it is OOP and if its not, then you're not doing correct OOP" mythisque hanging over it. When confronted with bad MPL code that results in bad plots, its always one of those two.

ggplot2 is the best plotting package out there and imo one of the best "end-user" packages in any language. Also, Hadley is a saint.
This post reads like a preachy Reddit post. Don’t tell me what to do!
Not that someone cares, but in the EU she would be responsible for violating the GDPR. Many people don't know that they are responsible as private citizens.
I'm a bit dumb about these things on text, but did you drop an "/s" somewhere? I understand it has sort of a social networking layer on top, but that is not its main function right? This would be like calling a calculator app a social networking app because it allows me to share my results :D.
No Linux support? Guess I'll have to keep using Solaris with my A4000!
Lol. I heartily endorse people making proper choices based on their needs. With the proliferation of shiny things for developers, it's really important for people to have this focus. Very good point.
Show HN: Extension that underlines links paywalled or bloated sites
Container technologies at Coinbase
Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

By Drew Rothstein, Director of Engineering

https://blog.coinbase.com/container-technologies-at-coinbase...
>Note the OP said the inspectors were privatized

I know exactly what he said and that's why I said exactly what I said.

>The only difference is the private inspectors sound like they'll let you skate by on some stuff

Government building inspections are incredibly onerous unless you're a homeowner building a deck or a developer building cookie cutter houses or offices. You run into all sorts of stupid edge cases depending on what the facility being built is intended for and you need to get clarification on what you should do. Have you ever actually tried to get government clarification about something? They need to be dragged kicking and screaming, often through a courtroom to ever clarify anything in writing because nobody wants to set a precedent or take the responsibility of making judgement calls. Having professionals who will take the responsibility of those judgement calls is a massive net plus.

The fact that your knee jerk response is to frame professionals using judgement their jobs as "letting you state by" is just crazy. Would you say the same thing if the context was a PE crunching numbers, finding something that didn't pass the default rules and then using their judgement to conclude it was fine because of other situational details? People do their jobs satisfactorily the overwhelming majority of the time. Being on the government payroll doesn't make public inspectors immune from playing favorites or making screw ups. It just means the oversights follow a different pattern. Everyone's experienced plenty of government inspectors who don't do their job because it's Friday and they want to GTFO.

> Spend any time on a car enthusiast website and everyone knows "the guy" to go to that'll pass your obviously illegal emissions equipment bypass...

If the vehicle code were written the way the building code and occupational health and safety code is that's the only way any commercial vehicle that isn't a cookie cutter box truck would ever pass an inspection.
Business angels (especially those dedicated to your area of business) tend to be easier to talk to in my experience because they already know your domain and understand the pain you are trying to solve. Maybe start convincing a few BAs and have them open the door to larger financial VCs for you.
Show HN: Appwrite – Open-Source and Self Hosted Firebase Alternative
Isn't it based on the architecture name?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nvidia_microarchitect...
Over the past few months we’ve been trying hard to make Appwrite as simple to setup and use as possible. Your candid feedback has been crucial in shaping the project and it would be great if you can share some features you’d like to see in the project going forward.

What is Appwrite ?
In simplest terms, Appwrite is an open source Backend As A Service (aka BaaS). Appwrite is an all in one solution with all the essentials you need like Authentication, User Management, Realtime Databases, Webhooks, Storage, Cloud Functions, SDKs for your favourite language and it’s light weight. Appwrite even runs on a Raspberry Pi. Most importantly, Appwrite is self-hosted which means you own your data and prevent any vendor lock-ins.

Talking about Appwrite’s features
- Realtime Databases and events ( Recent benchmarks have showed a single server handling 1M+ concurrent connections )

- SDKs for iOS, Android, Flutter, Web ( React, Angular, Vue, Svelte etc.) Python, PHP, Node, Deno, Kotlin and more

- Bring your own Database - Use your choice of SQL or MySQL databases ( MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB and more )

- Database permissions for finer tuned access control

- Storage API with built in encryption, compression and antivirus

- Bring your own Storage - Use your choice of the local filesystem, DigitalOcean Spaces, S3 or an any other storage provider of your choice

- Cloud functions with support for over 20 runtimes

- Webhooks to connect with 3rd party APIs and services

- User Management and Authentication

- Multiple authentication methods - email, 25+ OAuth providers, JWT, API Keys

- Completely stateless and extensible architecture allowing easy integration with your existing backend

- A Dashboard, CLI and VSCode extensions to manage your server and many more...
I think most on this thread have said enough for us to realize the problems with centralized moderation. Federated social media does resolve most of this with community moderation. Thousands of communities are already running their own federated social media instances. Mastodon is the most widely used, but others are seen at fediverse.party. It is not perfect and only millions of people are on it currently.
Nvidia provides Linux drivers for their server chips.
What qualifies as direct evidence? Photon emission? What if a phenomenon does not interact with matter via most forces/fields?
Alisher Usmanov: Oligarch says he ditched mansions before sanctions
Is this true for farmers in farmers markets? I think this might be the case for large scale farming. Most farmers I see in my farmers market have relatively small land.

My hypothesis is that if they’re big enough they don’t need to deal with the small quantities at farmers markets.

And car dealerships, especially the chains are absolutely not in the same bucket.
That's a strange statement. The vast vast majority of these cards will be in systems running Linux.
I think GM is doing a pretty good job. Super Cruise is one of the better driver assist technologies on the market today. And Cruise (unrelated despite the name) is second only to Waymo in full self-driving technology. Mary Barra has stated that they want to sell cars with Cruise technology once it is sufficiently mature, not just offer a ride service.
Microsoft SRE always sucks. GitHub is just another victim.
> non-TB devices as compatible like the iPad Air 5th Gen.

iPads are now TB devices.
There's a fine line between "you aren't using the product you paid for" and "we want to make noises about the choices you're making". Blurring that line doesn't help anybody, false pretenses makes it worse (because "oh they were just hustling, they aren't really surveilling your viewing habits").
Python, PostgreSQL, Nix, Linux. Javascript and Typescript for frontend. Everything else is effectively libraries. After 300k lines of Python, with the occasional C extension, we haven't found any limit.
I didn't buy it, but personally I would get it just for the design.
Workplaces are in denial over how much Americans have changed
Apollo reminded me more of Nix than containers. The wrapper scripts are super Nix-y :)
Russia Navalny: Putin critic given 9 year jail sentence in trial branded 'sham'
You'd need a monitor, speakers, and a webcam. Each with their own connection cables to the computer and everything but the webcam needing wall warts for power. There's a value is reducing desk clutter. It may not be the main reason to pick one monitor over another but it definitely has a value to some people.
Can you use the online version of PowerPoint and Teams? If not, what is causing the issues?
Until non-technical Managers and HR have the ability to identify if someone has the skills their engineering teams need, this seems a necessary step.

Other industries have certifications and such to help with that. There's a lot less uncertainty about skills in other professions.

I'm not sure how to "fix" this problem. Maybe we need more technical Managers and HR people. Maybe we need certifications for candidates to earn. Maybe it's not actually a problem at all. It's hard to say.
Yeah, that's fair - I try to do the same. I've yet to find a particularly elegant way of asking it - it's usually something like "Why didn't you do X here? To be clear, I assume there was a good reason, I'm just curious what it was!"
I've seen five line bash scripts replaced with thousand line python programs. In an extreme case a pipeline typed directly into slack was productized over weeks into some hundreds of lines of python that did the same thing. I'm going to keep using bash for trivial things.
Sweet, variadic maps sound really useful, I am always having to take a moment when mixing functions that take keyword arguments vs. option maps. Also, some of those functions added to core show up in my code as convenience functions - Glad I can now just make use of core.
The clarity and communication here have been top tier
Kind of gives police departments justification for profiling wealthier people. The country already has a serious problem with policing for profit, and you can bet it will only get worse if they can issue $10k+ tickets to individuals.

As it stands now, if you get a BS ticket from one of these towns[1], you're out a few hundred bucks. Scale it up to a month's wage. In a lot of these places, you can't even get a fair trial because the local court is in on the action.

https://www.thrillist.com/cars/nation/the-worst-speed-traps-...
Surely a removable power cord would ruin the whole aesthetic!?
How does a DGX Pod w/ the new 3.2Tbps per machine NVLINK switch compare to Tesla Dojo?
If you can’t cover the position, you’re not covered. They couldn’t cover the position.

Anything else is overcomplicating it.
agreed - it might seem invariant today but forward-looking, remote is the way to go.
thanks! people go after uploaders, who both created a copy and distributed the copy, the downloader is receiving yet another copy and by nature of the technology is "reproducing" simply by how filesystems work but it seems like the uploader is the center of attention

thoughts on that? It seems that enforcing this against a downloader would require every single piece of media have an explicit limited license for downloading, which isn't practical right now
Is snoring really an indicator of sleep apnea? I'm sure that those with apnea likely do snore, but I'm not convinced that everyone who snores has sleep apnea. That would indicate that almost everyone has apnea.
Using default GNOME, yes.
> the rest of the world is improving on those tech

Does that matter if the current stack works just fine?

Imagine someone who built a calculator app with jQuery javascript 10 years ago, and all it does is add and subtract numbers. You could spend time porting it to Ember, and then migrating to Angular, and then porting it to React, and then porting it to React with SSR and hooks.

If the calculator app worked with 15 year old code, you can either leave it be, or try to keep up with latest tech trends and continuously refactor and port the code.

I think there are a lot of "calculator app" type components of many systems that, at a certain point, can be considered "done, complete" without ever needing a rebuild or rewrite. Even if they were built on technologies that might now be considered antiquated.
Surprising amount of places are still just running VM's - especially hybrid cloud or on "on prem" type stuff. If what you have already works and your staff is trained for that type of environment then I personally do not think it makes sense to switch unless there is a big advantage.
At least with a shell-script, you're unlikely to get SHOUTY DEPRECATION WARNINGS that you can't turn off.
"Sorry, this content is not available in your region."

Hops on vpn to Canada, reloads page, watches cool 4 year old video. CBC serves me some ads and gets another MAU.

I wish I felt like I was doing something bad.