skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Enjoyable demo, but Chrome is suddenly taking high CPU when dropping sand and my laptop is sounding like a plane about to take off. Why are canvas demos always so inefficient in the browser?
Great. Now I need to buy a faraday cage to fit my refrigerator.
Not really because you have to join Facebook to access their marketplace and I refuse to go on Facebook, AliExpress thats predominantly for the Chinese market, its mainly unbranded tat, Amazon you cant really sell 2nd hand on Amazon and its not an auction site, its just for manufacturers and resellers of new stuff or returns. So all in all Ebay is the no 1 place to sell 2nd hand gear.
In a big city there are enough people to form a kind of apt circle of friends, perhaps around the uni. At least that happen for me, I still talk with some after 5 years but it's not the same as before...

Talking in person with tea or coffee, decide to go out for a common dinner it's a thing, having a call just for acculturate discussion is another... Let's say I feel a bit of lack of "groups stimulus", while I have more time to think myself, draw new ideas, potential projects etc, it's not a net loss but still a certain loss, well compensated by other aspects of the sparse life in the nature. A thing still to be considered depending of age, career, family etc at personal level and another thing to be considered in general social terms to draw a new distributed society, we still need aggregation points, only perhaps not big nor generic as cities, like small poles who will be abandoned/redone from scratch at a certain point in time, but small enough and centered enough to been able to redo and abandon them at sustainable time and costs.

So far I here exactly ZERO serious talks about a future society where WFH became mainstream for eligible jobs even on HN, just to say.
I have some questions:

If I understood correctly, this service only allows managed hosting from a curated list of services/apps? I assume that I cannot run my own docker containers. There are a lot of Run Your Own links/text, which made me think first that I could run my own, but instead it seems that I can choose what can be run for me.

Assuming this is OCI based, how are the containers isolated? Is it with cgroups and namespaces (because of rootless), but still sharing the kernel or are users placed inside separate VMs?

What about storage/disk/volume encryption? If I get allocated 10GB of data from the disk, does it have readable, but deleted data from a previous user? How is my data secured on the disk?

I currently have a usage pattern with Jitsi, which I host when I need to have a meeting. I use it a few hours a week and a minute/hour based cloud pricing from many providers are ideal for this. It is relatively cheap to launch even a beefy instance for only a couple of hours at a time.

I didn't see Jitsi on the list, but also the pricing is only listed as monthly. Is there more granular pricing?

What about more closed source software containers, like game servers? I didn't see those on the list. I'm pretty sure Minecraft, Valheim, Satisfactory etc. servers would bring more customers and make the service more popular.

What about managed databases?

I also saw Gitea, but not Gitlab.

Your offering seems to target somewhat similar audience to Linode's Marketplace. Linode calls them "one click apps": https://www.linode.com/marketplace/

Your pricing seems cheaper than Linode's, but is there any other advantage to use your service over theirs? Linode can even manage and configure DNS settings for custom domains automatically for you for their one click apps.

I like your website and it works well on mobile. This service also seems at glance like a great idea. I wish there was a bit more information to help me understand what this service does exactly and how it differs from the competition.
The license plate is needed because they use image recognition (often mounted on a moving car) to check for illegally parked cars and send fines. The scan the plates and check whether they paid or not. It's much faster and cheaper than checking tickets manually.
All of those are ones I would argue the best design is to eat a few batteries a year.
Calipers need to hold memory specifically.

But more generally most of those are using alkaleak batteries and you really wanna be changing those out on at least a yearly basis. So it actually makes since to let them have a small always on drain. (Some might be using a 2032 lithium but I can almost guarantee at least the calipers are a 357/lr44 alkaline battery.)
When started to live in my own appartemen and was the first time sick, I bought a thermometer to measure fever. The second time when I was sick a couple of years later the battery was flat. So I bought an oldschool thermometer without battery to measure fever. I use still the same 20 years later. Of course it does take a bit longer to know your body temperature, but when you are sick, you are not in a hurry anyway.
"we should not use foreign keys"

Some Microsoft enterprise products were like this (e.g. Dynamics AX) - try understanding 5000 odd tables without any foreign keys!
I would go in-house on this one, I can't see the value of configuring someone else's solution over writing a few lines of Python to run the checks that you need. And you've already built that too - why do you think it would be difficult to maintain?
Donkey kong heads, painball mode and everyone in the lift for slappers
Indeed. But I remember the race/gender thing was inexistent, nobody cared if a programming language is race biased or gender biased. Those are first-world woke problems. Solving those problems will not solve the entire topic. People focus more on external issues with 0 correlation instead of the main topic. It's logic that we need to apply to solve problems, not feelings.
Have had a similar model for like 5 years now. No regrets yet. The small effort it takes to power it up by far outweighs all of the disadvantages of a battery.

Before that I installed a switch in the scale we had to erradicate battery drain.
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I agree that SCRUM is a framework built on top of agile, but I think it's a valuable handhold to start off with, because agile itself is too free and open to interpretation. I don't like the huge agile training, certification and consultancy market though, even though I've met some really well-versed project management people that operate in that market.
Some mail providers (eg Gmail) use the plus sign as a label. So your everything still gets routed to d@nblows.com but tagged "hn" or "twitter" or whatever.

It's quite a convenient way to have site specific addresses while still only having a single mailbox to manage.
Yeah, I remember having to drive alone across Europe before consumer GPS was a thing. I had a pile of maps and had to stop regularly to study them. But driving in cities like Berlin and Frankfurt was a nightmare - most of the time stopping wasn't an option, I had a map on my steering wheel at all times, trying to read street names and signs in a language I didn't understand.

The smartphone generation will never understand.
Seriously? Is 2022 and we didn't solve the switch button? I'm sorry but I just don't believe you.
> what are those $40+ billion dollars sitting there for every year?

It’s not sitting there - it’s invested and working. Investment returns pay for operating expenses.
Here, if the price is posted wrong for groceries, you get the product free, up to 10 bucks.

https://educaloi.qc.ca/en/capsules/price-labelling-and-accur...

You'll note that if they put price stickers on the product, things are more lax.

And if they put nothing, you report it. And yes, it is enforced.

It is trivial to handle this stuff. Simple.
I don't think the HN hug is that bad. Although that some modern websites have problems serving more than 10 users is not too much of a wonder.
I'd rather have my Apple devices which have some economic value to be findable using Find My, which can't function with a physical "hard" off switch.

Why not? I mean obviously they wouldn't be findable if they were off, but that's a feature. Apple could add a physical switch and leave everything else the same. Your devices would function as they do now in "On" mode, but you'd also be able to turn the off properly. Isn't that better?
If you read my reply below to another users you'll see how officially westerner governments declare and admit that "the invasion" is perfectly legit and provoked by the NATO government as another step of a decade old strategy against Russia. Given that and the fact that Russia have alerted COUNTLESS times what it need to do to protect it's own legitimate national interests yes: confiscating PRIVATE assets basing just on anti-Russian (in the people sense) stanzas is not to be trusted, while an invasion well alerted and well avoided by any means for years by the invader who is finally forced to act is trustable.

So the wall of nonsense you see is just the wall of Bernaysian propaganda narrative we all know, not the real nonsense.
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It's really great. It feels less complicated than electron by a long shot.
Neat work.

I dove into the packaging system while working on iptmon, an iptables-based network monitor. It's actually pretty straightforward to write a Makefile and set up your package as a feed.

https://github.com/oofnikj/iptmon
> is this DBA stuff though?

Yes, it is or should be.

If you have a mission critical database with a lot of writing to it and the requirement of millisecond response times then every index you implement needs to be balanced against the cost of writing.

Like other database objects, i.e. constraints and triggers that's absolutely a DBA job.
If Monsanto's competitors aren't paying you, they should be. /s
> Agile means miserable developers and hopefully some transparency too.

Why are developers who work in an agile environment miserable? If you take scrum, doesn't it include retrospectives, with the express purpose of allowing developers to reflect on their misery and to gradually improve their condition?
Is that actually true though?

If one of their threads is interesting enough to show up on HN isn't it also likely to have been retweeted, shared around elsewhere too?

They certainly pop up in my feed constantly due to RT's from other popular tech people on twitter
They need the license plate because they control for illegally parked cars and send fines by scanning plates with image recognition. I don't see another way to achieve that.
During some harder times I tried to survive solely by collecting bottles and cans since I had often made some extra pocket money by picking those up aggressively. Turned out that it's not sustainable at all and I found it to be impossible to pay the rent that way despite living in a large city and tourist destination. Unfortunately I was also too autistic/self-conscious for busking or panhandling.
Rather, it's a transformation of the tail-recursive part so it only costs constant stack space instead of linear.
There's value in keeping records for projects that last.

But there's a slight difference between keeping records for accountability (just do the bare minimum to show that work happened as requested/regulated) and keeping records for documentation/action/archival.

The difference shows in the care you take to design and operate those records.

As for Jira: 1/ it IS slow 2/ it IS bloated (visually and functionally) 3/ it does work for a very specific limited number of ways to do things - but never yours 4/ when you start to look at the APIs and data model, you start to understand that it's been designed/built by people not having a clue what it was going to be used for, and by who - and it definitely shows.

Bugzilla is old, clunky; Trac is... extremely focused; GitHub issues are limited. But I would more happily go back working with any of these and plug into additional tooling rather than with Jira.

Granted, none of these allow for a clear understanding of a ticket lifecycle, or a whole project. But that's because this belongs in a narrative, not in a dashboard. And a lot of people don't like to write or value written docs.
>Apart from it being slow

That's exactly why. Bad JIRA implementations can easily incur 5-10 seconds of wait time just loading the page alone. JIRA as a tool allows everything under the sun for management to configure, which makes management do exactly that, configure everything under the sun.

It's not unheard of having to tick 15-25 fields + checkboxes + dropdowns (most of which could've been autofilled or cut and made lean) because management likes it that way. I hope I don't have to explain why a crowd largely composed of "I hate doing the same manual work more than once" collectively sighs at this notion.

Then you add onto that a workflow which requires one to open JIRA multiple times, multiple stages etc. and these people end up spending a lot of time on something they feel is incredibly inefficient. Great way to tank morale.

"But that's a problem with the use of the tool, not the tool itself!"

And we've seen this story a thousand times. If tools allow for weird things, weird things happen. Beyond that, I don't really see why people prefer the Atlassian stack which shows similar issues all-over and is a hassle to cobble together, when GitHub and GitLab do these things out of the box. The common complaint is "well GH/GL don't have X and we really need X", when the organization has never tried doing things without X.
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Plans to allow 3-4 apps on one pod? Something that literally is by just one person? Maybe something that hosts notes server, contacts, calendar etc?
I think most of this comment can be answered by highlighting the difference between supposed "Internet friends" and "real friends". Over corona there have been a wide range of studies published on the negative effects virtual communication has had on education in particular, the strength and quality of the relationships children have managed to develop, and even the severe effect it has had in some cases on development of vocal skills and the ability to read emotion.

Information technology is only a tool, it is not, never has been and never will be a replacement for the real thing. A child cannot develop motor skills by climbing a virtual tree, a toddler cannot take shelter from a storm by dwelling in a virtual home. You cannot raise a child on an aeroplane without substantially reducing its quality of life and damaging its early growth. Thus continuance of the society that produced us and all the freedoms and privileges we enjoy (including air travel) is largely incompatible with these new tech-centric ideals.

In the normal case for that society to continue functioning, long term physical presence is required for development of its next generation, and nomadic world citizenry is largely a temporary (and abnormal) trait of those who are young, unwilling to reproduce, and primarily misallocate their capital to consumption and selfish pursuits. This trend is a significant contributor to the collapse in population growth rates across the western world and consequently directly impacts GDP, which is to say, the steady decline of our way of life.

Often immigration is offered as a solution to the population growth aspect, but immigrants quickly assimilate our culture and consequently our growth rates within a single generation (predictably as a result of their new privilege), meaning the qualities our culture celebrates cannot be worked around by importing replacement people to breed on behalf of the laptop class exploiting the spread between income and the cost of a beer in some remote reach of the world. Finally there are many signs that immigration may have reached a local peak as resource access concerns are beginning to dominate global politics for the first time in half a century.

For a little more context, I'm a tech native that has lived on the Internet since around 1998, this is mostly written as a rebuke of my former self, who had little idea of the practicality or implications of all the grand empty promises of technology. You cannot now and never will be able to replace a physical address with a transaction on a blockchain.
Thank you for being the DBA that helps devs. I found myself similarly frustrated when I was a developer. Now I work in DevOps, and I still cannot get traditional DBAs to deliver. :(
> Did you know that electric cars were very popular 100 years ago - but because of the oil industry + government, they were quashed?

Er this is extremely simplistic. Electricity wasn't as common as now and battery tech was extremely shitty (requiring maintenance every few days, handling acids, &c.)
Also do remember WHO played political game on the side of China at the beginning of the pandemic. That’s one of the reasons we got in this new SARS.
Wow this is the first time I've ever seen a comment that genuinely made me feel like an old gray beard.

I remember getting into Unix just a little before the time tmux came onto scene as the modern alternative to screen, and being in awe of all the people who had used screen long enough to have a list of things that could be modernised about it.

Now tmux is in that position!
I don't see progressives oppose funding healthcare of any kind, and I'm certainly in favour of people doing hard physical work being able to retire earlier (or better: making their work less hard).

If you really want to tackle this issue, you need to look at why men live shorter than women. Do they die violent deaths more often? Trying to make society less violent could benefit everybody. Do they harm their health by working more often in unhealthy situations? Maybe improve those work situations. Are they more likely to commit suicide? Maybe invest in better mental healthcare. Does testosterone make them more likely to engage in risky behaviour that gets them killed? Well, at some point you've got to decide whether the higher risk and resulting shorter life expectancy is a matter of personal choice or not. I suppose education can play a role here.

Data suggests that more gender equality in society also leads to more gender equality in life expectancy[0]. But we should also remember that the goal of equality has to be to lift people up. Of course we could close the gender life expectancy gap by reducing life expectancy for women (maybe reducing maternity health care?) but I hope everybody agrees that would be a terrible idea. We should tackle the issues that cause men to die earlier.

[0] https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/2/e008278
Or saying 10 Hail Marys.
> With 5G and future connectivity, it feels as there will be push towards not being able to block the network access of individual devices, such that a TV or fridge will just speak to its server directly via some XG/IoT network which the user does control, without any user ability to block this communication

How does one ensure that a product is built this way, to avoid it?

I understood that a number of current 5G capable devices - e.g. telephones - can be disconnected the usual way (a button in the (quick)settings that toggles the connection).
You believe that people in countries that fund college tuition genuinely don't understand that it comes from general taxation?
There are a lot of versions of that comic, and the removal of the fence was a later addition (though one I certainly approve of).
I’m working on a musical project and the website alone fucking rocks.

atticshapes.com

I reviewed before adding comment, and I feel like changing info@ to webmaster@ now, in homage to the internet.
> Is Disney making personalised creative?

> Disney only invests in creative that works across all segments – angsty superheroes, lost animals, magical princesses.

Are these quotes typos, or is "creative" as a noun some sort of jargon? I find it really grating; what was wrong with "media?"
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Actually fx works like eval:

echo 42 | fx ‘x+1’

Or do you mean something else for eval?

Fx comes with builtin JS VM, but fx also can exec node, python or ruby binaries installed on your machine. Of course it needs to be installed prior.

Main difference from jq is interactive JSON viewer, and as well as ability to ise your language of choice for reducers.

I created fx because I was googling how to do this and that in jq constantly, bit JS I know “natively”, so its much easier for me to perform some manipulation with JSON using JS.

And now for people with fluency in Python or Ruby, fx will also work)

I just want to improve DX for them as well. What do you think is missing?
Yet the author’s employer (LinkedIn) floods my inbox with pseudo-personalized crap. This reads more like the first part of an “only trust us” note.
Because I said "most people" not "all people".
Similar thing happened to me with Offerup - which is MILITANT about not using VPN's.

They banned me and no recourse/way to appeal.

I even sent them a physical letter without much luck.

Pitty, I loved the app, but stopped using it due to their unnecessary/strict no-VPN rule.
BTW, I have more cool project: https://medv.io
> Why should they hire someone from US and not someone somewhere else where the pay is lower?

Good point, so far so good but we'll see as time goes.
Sounds a lot like sandcats (/sandstorm), albeit slightly less ambitious?
Seems like a financial version of Nestlé expecting adulation about how they provide accessible milk to third world countries.
Short url to the project: https://fx.wtf
did you read it on your own? Or as a part of a uni course? It it a classic, sure, but it's definitely not a book to recommend to beginners. Many compiler engineers and academics think the book is... Outdated a bit.
Charity highlights taxation doesnt work.
I know myself just about 2 persons wo died on the street. I know more than a handful who did by suicide. Some even before 20 years old. Some tryed more than one time until it worked.
> Can I ask how you host your emails? I have a similar situation but the price for most hosts for a wild-card domain is prohibitive.

Almost every email host that supports custom domains supports receiving email with unlimited wild-cards. Is there something I'm missing?

Example: https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ ($3/month)
I agree with the cloud and to some extent containerisation, however I don't think NoSQL and microservices "won". Over past couple of years I'm seeing a huge move away from NoSQL and renewed interest in SQL databases in general and Postgres in particular. The same with microservices. I've seen several projects that went all in on microservices a few years go slowly backing away from the approach, as well as newer projects that are being much more cautious with taking a micro service approach to their architecture.
i have read that the build quality of batteries has dropped.
I've been meaning to try Noita and it happens to be 50% off on Steam at the moment: https://store.steampowered.com/app/881100/Noita/

Thanks for reminding me.
It works because it is finely tuned to appeal to the target demographic. Low confidence users swallow anything that is classified as "privileged information" or painted as such.

There are some key topics where this won't work and where PR must lay low. At least for a while. But some sites are a very fruitful ground for that. It will be eaten up by some that too argue for it without having used more than 5 minutes looking into the topic itself.

I believe we also have seen this for nuclear power a lot lately.
I'm fairly confident Nintendo posted some meta thoughts on Goldeneye at one point, where they stated that "screen cheating" is fair game.
Sadly http://merl.in has been idle for the past 10+ years, and I have not been able to get in touch with the owners...
Any video will do. I hear having an open powerpoint presentation will also keep a device awake. Presumably Microsoft office is a mandatory install on such dystopian environments.