skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure what that means, but I appreciate the response!

It's been a while since I wrote that note to myself, but I somehow had .emacs setup so it'd get recompiled automatically to byte code on changes (which helps startup speed), and somehow whatever I setup at some point stopped working. (Which resulted in my .emacs changes being silently ignored, as stale .elc was used -- that was confusing to figure out!)

For now I just gave up and stopped using the byte-compiled version, sometimes life is too short, even for an emacs user!

(Though in general anyone who chooses to use emacs must not think life is TOO short...)
Uh, that article is not about house cats vs big cats. The still-extant ancestral species of the domestic cat, F. lybica, is a small wildcat, as were its ancestors, and as such a predator but not an apex predator. Big cats, which typically are apex predators in their respective ecosystems, are a wholly separate branch of the felid family.
Long term it's great, it will remove diseases, promote equality, and fix all kinds of medical problems and deficiencies. I'm for it, but there are cautions to watch for.

My first concern is that with our current economic system, especially the lack of free health care in the US, this would be basically rolled out to rich people first, so for about 50 years or so rich people would not only be healthier from having access to more and better resources but also they would be now evolving in a healthier direction too. This itself is not a huge problem, but inequality becoming a greater inequality is something to think about and hopefully set it up such that it can be somewhat mitigated or avoided.

My second concern is again with out current economic model,(later after years of it being affordable only to the rich) we would end up rolling it out as for lack of a better term "manufacturing batches" like people would go to a store and choose a popular preset of options from what's available, and that preset would then become more economical and therefor commonplace, which in a lot of ways is like turning our species into a mono-gene-pool, with all the same dangers that come from relying on a single mono-crop (Great example is the potato famine of Ireland vs the Incas who also heavily relied on potatoes but had much more variety like over 300 kinds of potato, while Ireland relied on 1). Biggest concern with this, especially after a pandemic is that if a certain strain of virus hit's just right, and everyone is more the same than they used to be, it could be even more catastrophic than predicted. If we did roll it out in batches (highly likely) we will have entire generations and nations start to look all the same, certain groups wouldn't participate (the very poor, certain religious organizations) and they would likely feel significant persecution (much as poor kids are teased at school today) or at the very least be in-congruent with the greater parts of society, many would become second class citizens (much how Gattica predicted), also those laggards would become holdouts for known genetic diseases and so those who are engineered would rightfully avoid marriage/breeding with them, thus further solidifying the persecution and possibly diverging humanity's evolution.

Both of my concerns are not enough reason to not push forward, but they bring more concerns of distribution, pricing and variation, not of the technology itself. More or less I think we need to push forward scientifically, but we need to also make progress as a society too or else there will arise other problems that come with progress.
enthusiasts? its for professionals and some enthusiasts, i doubt high end camera gear has reduced market share but the lower end consumer grade stuff has for sure gone since most people don't care about image quality etc when their phone can do basic photography. Just checked the sony A series lines cameras since 2015 have increased units sold every year.
Heavily “editorialized” title. Just a link to the LE homepage.
hopefully companies would stop the practice of re-selling Let’s Encrypt certs for money

one example: fly.io
> Please support this and future similarly honest observations from an insider’s perspective about tech by minting an NFT above.

Does the author really not sense the irony in trying to push web3 and in the same breath claiming that developers know how to talk to the business now?

No, please, tell me how crypto can solve my problem and isn't just a cool toy you want to play with.
It’s possible to respect democracy without believing that the majority of any given population should automatically get whatever they want.
Do you view this description as being literal or metaphorical?
> Donna Morris

That name surprised me, I forgot she left Adobe years ago.

I have no idea how these people keep getting compensated so well for a job that is barely technically demanding.
The internal track isn't that uncommon. when I was at Domino's Pizza it was the same thing. The path to management and franchisee was through the hourly funnel. There is a lot to be said for having management that started in the trenches as hourly staff and had to do and learn "all the jobs" before they become the boss telling other people what to do.
For quite a few years after 1992 we didn't really have simple solutions that could do atomic snapshots. I'm not sure about specialised enterprise cases, but for Linux consumers, the first one would be lvm right? (And that was not write-barrier-safe until 2010)
This might be the worst post I’ve ever seen on HN.
This is Unix I know this.
Sweet! We need to acquire these and configure them to connect to an international network of self-launched store-and-forward cubesats.
> I heard this from other engineers and from managers not directly in my chain.

OK so this is hearsay, your original post did not frame it as such, and you walk it back further here.

In addition other Amazon people seem to not agree, maybe don't post something like this next time.
Someone is trying to run a MyPillow/FoxNews thinly veiled advertisement posing as legitimate news to software engineers. The only thing missing from the title is "You won't believe what's going to happen next!"
I think there is a difference between accepting spiritual and religious practices.

The illusion of self can be observed directly. Perhaps it's even an inevitable conclusion of sufficiently intense introspection. I'd consider observing this to be a spiritual practice.

The metaphysics of realms of reincarnation, hungry ghosts, etc. is religious thought (and it was the dominant worldview when Siddhartha was born). These are not ideas that I can discover independently through introspection; if I believe them it's because someone told me to.

We might be talking past each other, though: if you're saying that the benefits of meditation are inherently inextricable from a Vedic worldview, I don't agree. But if you are just saying we haven't yet figured out which parts of the religion are actually necessary, then I agree. I personally learned meditation in a fairly Buddhist context, and naturally there are parts that resonate with me and parts that don't.
Jail time for writing such trash articles seems fair.
> The hard challenge is that many accounts which look fake superficially – are actually real people. And some of the spam accounts which are actually the most dangerous – and cause the most harm to our users – can look totally legitimate on the surface.

Regular users don’t care if a low-effort post is from a bot or a human. They want their feed populated with interesting content.

Also, freedom of speech is good, but for most what actually happens is they post whatever “hot take” they have and nobody or like 2 people notice.

What’s really important is the ranking algorithm your site uses, and whether it upweights spam posts, “pop culture” human posts, or whatever posts are most relevant / interesting to each user / community.

I feel like Elon complaining about spam is really him just making up an excuse for suddenly backtracking his offer.
They donate 50% of costs to LE at the end of the year[1]. They’re charging for the operational overhead of LE provisioning/serving, not for the certificates themselves.

[1] https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/#managed-ssl-certificates
I'm not entirely sure you read the comment correctly. Covid is highly transmissible. A covid-zero policy is untenable. Shutting down essentially everything (including cars) is not going to protect the people.
Show HN: Teenagers make projects instead of learning
> he doesn't want to have the extra burden of manually configuring infrastructure since none of us have any real background in systems administration.

It makes total sense to use the Cloud then, especially if you already have some experience there.

> Our use case does not really need instant scaling all that much since we're a B2B business and know ahead of time how much compute we will need.

If you had the expertise in the team, going with VMs + dedicated on Hetzner would have been a good idea, though.

I started with a dev team of three: One knew Linux admin stuff pretty well, I knew enough to keep the lights on, neither of us had proper cloud or container experience. We've done pretty fine with our Ansible managed Hetzner setup so far.

Especially if there are few moving parts (E.g. just HaProxy, a Postgres instance + your API) and your dev laptop has the same OS as your servers, I'd say it can be a lot easier to work with than some cloud provider.
Edgy take
But floors of multi-storey buildings are a pretty unique exception in the real world in having a characteristic where zero -- the number of stairs you need to climb from the ground floor -- has an actual tangible meaning (on the ground floor).

How many other such examples can you (editorial you; anyone) come up with? Not many, I'd bet.
I'm a fan of dividend model. All I really care about is my 8%. Although, with inflation, this will change.
> The learning curve is steep, it has a bunch of rough edges (it's still not reached a v1 as of the time of writing), you end up living in YAML and by any reasonable measure, it's only usable by geeks who are happy living in a world unfamiliar to most mere mortals.

FWIW this isn't true anymore. Most stuff is configured through the UI now (there's even a bunch of integrations that don't even support YAML configuration, just UI configuration). There's still a learning curve to be sure, and there's still functionality that does require editing YAML to handle, but my impression with setting it up now is that it's actually pretty easy to get off and running with just the UI.
I'm much more in favor of the original compared to the cynical response.

The original focused on owning few items of ultimate quality. When you read about the examples, they are not status items, they are "best" in their utility and durability. Owning few items of high quality is not snobbery, I consider it common sense.

It's more sustainable. It rewards good product design and craftsmanship. I hope we can all agree that expecting a towel to actually dry is not an elitist thought.

The only matter worth discussing is whether you should obsess in finding the best in every single category of products that you buy. No, probably not. But you can make the counter point that this means that apparently we don't have reliable reviews. Because if we did, somebody else would have done that for you.
How does the GPLv3 of Matomo impact the platform and my applications?

How have you dealt with the requirements of the GPLv3 at your company?
Which guideline is the OP's comment breaking?
> I believe this is actually the entire point of Windows' volume shadow service (which is sort of poo-pooed in the article), to enable applications to tell the snapshot mechanism "wait, I'm in the middle of a file system transaction" and then to pause writes until the snapshot operation occurs after they finish the in process transaction.

Former maintainer of VSS here. Yes, that's exactly right. In fact, filesystem snapshots are usually not enough for true application level consistency. As others have noted elsewhere, a filesystem snapshot is the equivalent to yanking the power cord out of the back of your computer. It's good, assuming your filesystem does atomic writes / copy-on-write / write-to-new. But we can do even better.

Imagine I have two databases - one traditional relational DB storing my app content, and a second log database. You want to keep these in sync. Well, good luck doing this with the filesystem alone. Usually your DBMS will need to be involved as well, and this is where the VSS "writer" concept comes in. When a snapshot is being taken, applications such as SQL will be invited to participate. Typically, this means they'll start to hold up writes so that things will be quieter for the snapshot. But they will also have a chance, after the fact, and to actually clean up the snapshot itself. In this case, the DBMS could roll back the log database to then match the content database.

It's correct that NTFS doesn't support snapshots natively, but Windows has the volsnap.sys driver that takes care of it. For all intents and purposes, NTFS does support copy-on-write snapshots.

Complicated? Sure. But it was quite capable, and actually a pretty cool (but sadly under appreciated) piece of technology.
"Cool, so what do you think would be the time complexity of that? Do you think we can maybe do better than that?"
> I'm working on adding a rich SQLite history to nushell

You may then be interested in my solution for bash, where Ctrl-R gives you fzy history for the given directory and Ctrl-T for all directories: https://github.com/csdvrx/bash-timestamping-sqlite

Everything goes into SQLite, which is helpful for stats - like, when do I make the most mistakes?
LOL, Lukashenko and his FOP of a son are well hated and need Russian methods to stay in power. His 'buddies' -the so called CSTO are the same. I think a match set to Lukashenko's moustache might start a conflagration among the lot.
I worked at Monzo a while back, and, while the 'Platform' (~= SRE) team were brilliant, and did what you describe along with much much more, regardless the performance impact of thousands of microservices could be characterised as approximately "what you would expect". Hundreds of thousands a month on AWS to service a few million customers, a whole team needing to work on a project for [I can't recall how many] months to write some bodge-y fixes so app load could be brought under 10 seconds, lots of pathological request paths efflorescing in the service graph, etc.

That being said, there was genuinely need for microservices, to an extent. A bank's architecture is very different from a CRUD web app. Most of the code running wasn't servicing synchronous HTTP requests, but was doing batch or asynchronous work related (usually at two or three degrees of separation) to card payments, transfers, various kinds of fraud prevention, onboarding (which was an absolutely colossal edifice, very very different from ordinary SaaS onboarding), etc.

So we'd have had lots of daemons and crons in any case. And, to be fair, we started on Kubernetes before it was super-trendy and easy to deploy - it very much wasn't the 'default' choice, and we had to do a lot of very fundamental work ourselves.

But yeah, in my view we took it too far, out of ideological fervour. Dozens of - or at most a hundred-ish - microservices would have been the sweet spot. Your architectural structure doesn't need to be isomorphic to your code or team structure.
I like FreeBSD. It makes me happy. Thank you, FreeBSD contributors.
Ukraine Is in Worse Shape Than You Think
I have been tinkering with a cyberdeck for a while now for off-grid usage, so this is a nice find for the hardware side. My main battle lately has been building out the software side; primarily Kiwix (https://www.kiwix.org).
(Promscale team member)

100% agree. OpenTelemetry solves half of the problem by standardizing and unifying instrumentation. With Promscale our aim is to solve the other half with a unified storage and query language for metrics, traces and logs. This release is a big step towards realizing that vision. It includes:

- Support for Prometheus metrics

- Support for OpenTelemetry traces

- PromQL alerts and recording rules (announcement coming shortly ;) )

- Integrated with Grafana for dashboarding as well as for the tracing experience. Note that Grafana offers a very similar experience to Jaeger for traces (they reused the Jaeger code) and we extend that experience with a set of dashboards that deliver additional visibility into your services (the blog post has more details about those)

- SQL for querying and correlating traces and metrics.

So pretty much everything you said except logging which is in our roadmap.
> If I write a Bash script, I can be reasonably certain it will run on any unixoid system that came out in the last years.

Except for, like, all the (free) BSDs and Illumos. What “unixoid” systems were you referring to, exactly, other than Linux?
Ask HN: Is there a Chromium Distribution for Game console portability?
I was looking into web development and wondering if there was anything like Electron but with the focus of Games solely rather than apps. Electron can probably handle gaming, but people always complain over how much of a resource hog it is, and I don’t think it runs on Switch.

Something that could allow JS/webGL games to run on any console that supports said framework.
> So there had to be some reason the US got weaker. NATO dissolving doesn't put any blame for that on the US, which is important for a flag-waving film.

I don't recall exactly where I read it (it was some interview or something with the people who made the movie 10+ years ago), but I think it was a little more extreme than that. IIRC, (the perhaps unstated) bit of the backstory was domino theory was true and the US was badly on the wrong end of it. The NATO dissolving thing was just part of the picture.
Got that classic "I want to get shot by airport security" design.
> The same Microsoft that just issued 20+% pay cuts to everyone not living in a "high cost of living" area (CA, NY, WA)?

Citation needed.
This has been a great app when I can expense it to my employer.

But for personal use the UI improvements aren't quite enough to push me over the edge to buying it. The cheaper or open-source tools do just fine.
I love me some FreeBSD.

I wish FreeBSD had something at the OS-level like NixOS.

(yes I’m aware that nix packages exists)
databases might need to do lots of writes. (example, could be modify multiple rows in a db). They can't neccessarily capture it into a single write operation. they will issue multiple.

VSS is a method windows has to allow application to both be informed that a snapshot operation is in progress (and should quiesce their writes) as well as the ability to delay the snapshot operation from occurring (because they are in the middle of a "transaction"). If they delay too much, the snapshot operation will fail and reported back as such to the caller.

edit: also see the former maintainer of VSS at MSFT who responded to me in my other post in this thread
Chrome supports CSS level 4 color functions, but they're clamped to sRGB. AKA, basically useless.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106861...

Edit: Actually, I don't think Chrome even supports CSS level 4 color functions. (It sounds like it's part of interop2022 though!)
A better question to ask is, why are these "slow" languages winning? If performance is as important as we think it is, why don't we see startups using Rust or whatever just running circles around startups using Ruby?

The answer to this will lead to what actually matters in a language, in terms of building a product. Raw performance isn't it.
Read Matt Levine's Money Stuff column from the past couple days -- it explains realistically what could happen.
> How can I follow the same people on Twitter and Reddit and Discord and Playstation Network

Web3/NFT etc doesn't solve this though.

Where is the list of followers going to be stored ? It isn't on chain.
It's all been very crazy to me too, the only plausible factor IMO is the low vaccination of the elderly in China. Overall vaccination rate is very high, but among elderly it is lower. I guess the rationale at the time was that in a COVID-0 country, the risk of COVID itself is lower than health risks associated with vaccination for certain groups.

So now they are trying to prevent what happened in Hong Kong (which also had low vaccination rate among the elderly.) I would hope they are trying to vaccinate the elderly now though.

I feel like there's a significantly non-zero chance that after the lockdown is lifted, it's going to happenn again within a couple of months.
Our media has a huge part to play into what people do care about and given conservative people in other countries were absolutely worried about COVID and its economic impacts holistically most Western countries devolved into unproductive antagonistic antisocial dialogue that drives up ratings and clicks. I don’t know anyone that stopped caring about other things when it comes to the pandemic - it’s an issue that touched all our lives though and exposed bare how unstable we are as a system in every aspect imaginable.

It’s true that COVID wasn’t everyone’s top concern necessarily especially compared to simply surviving when so many people were losing jobs and the entire US healthcare system was about to collapse, but mostly people everywhere together did want one thing for sure - for the whole ordeal to be over. Our inability to try to focus upon ending things faster so we can go back to normal with our media system amplifying our worst selves while the administration was hampered / self sabotaged didn’t help then.

When it came to the first SARS outbreak the talk about lockdowns was barely mentioned except by the overly-online folks. We had earlier detection and better intervention that managed to save many, many lives in the US and nothing had to happen - that’s the same feature as infrastructure or management that works well (it’s not really noticed when it does a good job). The disease vectors for that were also different and better contained earlier across the world governments.

Look at the differences between the South Park episodes about the recent SARCOV2 pandemic v the one way back about SARSCOV1 - it’s absolutely staggering how the themes and implications all changed.

Regardless, caricaturizing opposing viewpoints into some strawman doesn’t make one’s own opinions any stronger regardless of position. I’m guessing that’s the reason for your downvotes and not your opinion in itself (I’m not much of a voting participant one way or the other FWIW).
This one: Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
Ukraine war: Snake Island and battle for control in Black Sea
> kdiff3 easily beats it

Gonna have to agree to (vehemently) disagree on that. :)
Canada and Sweden have almost identical GDP per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
I would love a way to turn an image into something like this, or just quality pixel art in general.
"Nothing is stopping BTC from crashing to zero" isn't true. Although it can still crash to zero.
In American English "born" means given birth to, while "borne" means physically carry something (possibly a child, but not necessarily).
In true hacker fashion, somebody was hacking away at that thing at half past midnight.
Better to use a different port number than 853, for DNS-over-QUIC.
It was NAT. We ran out of v4 addresses and self hosting / p2p became much harder. And now many iot devices depend on Nat existing as some kind of security measure.

But largely no one cares because you wouldn’t want to host any real website at home anyway. It’s extremely cheap and reliable to just rent a VPS.
Who owns the data.
Because they continue to print Tether to prop the price up? Am I doing this right?
This would be a good argument against the xkcd philosophy towards passwords.