skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing I find fascinating about Lolita is that it is a study in erasure. Society so often tends to erase the victim while giving the abuser a voice, especially when the victim is a child or otherwise powerless and the abuser is powerful and articulate. Lolita gives us a narrative entirely under the control of the abuser and challenges the reader to see through it to the Dolores Haze underneath. Exercising this skill in fiction may encourage us to equally avoid an unquestioning reading of real abusers exculpatory narratives.
Many state that game devs and qa make less money. How much less? The article rambles on about working extra hours at a deadline (for which almost all companies require at times) and receiving overtime pay (which few tech companies pay), but I read no actual numbers.
> Why would you care about the redundancy on staging / dev?

If you deploy to multiple regions then it wouldn't make no sense at all to have a single preprod stage, specially to run integration tests.

Also, keep in mind that professional apps support localization, and localization has a significant afinity with regional deployments. I mean, if you support japanese and have a prod stage on Japan, would you think it was a good idea to run localization tests in a us deployment?
That is certainly not the information I have found. It is my understanding that in many localities the signatures are spot checked randomly.

I would be greatful to read that what you have stated is true, but I sincerely doubt it.

If you believe that to be true, it would be much easier to dismiss concerns
You are correct. I didn't think of the back-end delay because I have a static site (with a comments plugin loaded separately).
started with 2x 21" then 3x 24" then 2x 27" but now i am content with using 1x 43" 4k. very good for watching while not working LOL.
I've seen quite a few Flarum forums pop up recently. I wonder how it stacks up against Discourse in resource requirements? Discourse isn't a lightweight app (not a criticism, just an observation).
Interactive Noise Map of London, Paris and New York
Vomitous. Bleak. Dystopian.
It doesn't really matter that you're not a US or EU citizen. It's just easiest to comply with all the laws by not allowing children.

I'm not going to ask users where they're from because that's a level creepier than asking for birth date.
I mostly agree with you. But there was this, where I beg to differ:

> On the desktop, the Year of Desktop Linux seems to be bound to running the Linux kernel on top of virtualization.

In my experience as soon as your IaaS starts offering virtualized desktops, all the users start wondering why you aren't offering Windows VMs. Then the pressure starts to build to bow to that demand.

If you tell users that it's Linux desktops or nothing, they just change to another utility company who gives them the experience they find least challenging, even if it's less secure, less reliable and costs them more. Reminding people about the freedom and other benefits of Linux they'll be missing out on just provokes shrugs and the old retort of "but I need to get work done, I don't have time for your religious principals."

The future is definitely Linux, but that old chestnut about Year of the Linux Desktop is never, ever going to happen. Linux is optimized for large servers and small devices. For such magisteria, you can attract skilled engineers to make things work, and naturally those same engineers can make Linux work on the meso-devices of the desktop realm. But the desktop realm will always be dominated by OSes optimized for that in-between area, where people balk at needing to do their own systems administration, especially when it puts them at odds with what they perceive to be a consensus.
I've met such (male) frontend developers before, totally clueless when it comes to the DOM and how it works. Not putting any judgment in that really, tbh, because the React development model is superior for anything non-trivial (like a signin form).

In this case though, I believe she isn't confused as to how to call the APIs, maybe not even as to how to handle the response with JS and update the DOM. I think the question sounded more like you're not allowed to use Javascript at all.
Wait, are you telling me there are people out there who don’t know Asimov and haven’t read one of his best short stories??? The Last Question, along with Nightfall and The Last Answer are generally accepted as the best.
Unfortunately downloading over SOCKS proxy also means inability to download from swarms where all peers can't accept an incoming connection, which matters for obscure torrents. I'd suggest running your VPN-only applications in a separate network namespace https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ . This will also prevent, for example, WebRTC or https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/ style leaks as the application won't see other interfaces.
Check out Croquet[1], they seem to be tackling the very problem you speak of.

[1]https://croquet.io/
You have to deal with the JVM?

You have to deal with the 13m JVM config options?

You have to deal with the confusion and complexity that is “java dependencies”

Everything is OOP-abstraction-heavy API’s?

I’ve spent too much of my time and effort recently debugging Scala/Spark/JVM resource issues/dependency issues and the more I have to deal with it, the less I want anything to do with JVM-based solutions. The closest I want to get to another awful JVM application is a docker container.

I will rejoice the day that spark-alternatives progress enough for our team to replace our workloads and I can throw our spark stuff into the literal bin.
The two data visualizations in the article are poorly designed.

They show line graphs where the X-axis is the type of EC2 instance and the Y-axis is the price. Firstly, the X-axis of any line graph should be time. Or perhaps some other variable that "progresses". It's bizarre to use a category to label the X-axis of a line graph. Secondly, the X-axis is not ordered alphabetically, but seemingly randomly.

I don't mean to be harsh, but a better data visualization would be a bar chart, not a line graph. Bar charts are better suited for categorical dimensions. Also, the type of EC2 instances should be grouped and/or sorted, but not randomized. This way, the information from the data visualization can be parsed more quickly and easily.
> How did something so monumental get built and demonstrated, but then not get followed up on for more than 30 years?

Same as with moon shots. Abandoned.
Are you sure that the proxy is actually used?

Deluge has a bug that's open since 10 years or so, and it's about ignoring proxy settings.

https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43
Saboteurs or bureaucrats -- they operate roughly in the same way.
> If HN is interested I’d be happy to do an AMA later

Yes please!
There's a 6 step process to shipping features, which includes writing specs, seeking guidance from others, asking for W3C Technical Architecture Group & security group review, & numerous phases of soliciting comments. https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/

Can you name a piece of software that does a better job about being open, transparent, & working in a more pro-social way?
Hoping he also adds animations. Neovide is beautiful.
Yes, the point of discord is to access an online service, which can be done... in a browser. Vs code does too, although a little different.
Peak Windows.

And I'm a Linux user.
My initial and surname when written as an hexcode make a nice orange colour: Texas rose, according to some website.

Are there more people that can write their name as a hexcode?
That should be against the Geneva Convention.
Yes. Specifically, pro-Democrat media and organisations have spent the last several years arguing that measures to make fraud like this harder, such as unregistering people who aren't living in that state anymore and checking ID when voting, are themselves election rigging. There are endless headlines counting every single entry removed from the electoral roll or even just marked for extra checking as a vote suppressed. Again, this includes people who won't vote because they're not living in that state anymore! They've been campaigning against checking if votes are being cast under the same person's identity in more than one state too, so using their identities is basically an easy and safe way to add fraudulent votes in much of the US. There was even a theory in widespread circulation on social media that the 2016 election was rigged in favour of Trump, based on counting every person whose voter registration was flagged as inactive and requiring further confirmation as a stolen vote for Clinton.
"smoothly"... Last time I played it, no amount of keyboard jockeying made trading less tedious.
I oppose Voter IDs because I don’t think we need them. I’m on the fence with a National ID because I’m concerned it would have the same problems as Voter ID.
Took me a moment, but I got it in the end.
It doesn’t help that just about all of the solutions that work for other countries have been taken completely off the table by our political system and the interests that fund it.
In my opinion, nobody (edit: who values their privacy) should use Deluge. There's an issue where proxy settings are ignored: https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149

It's been open since 10 years, and this is not a great situation for a torrent client. Where torrents are concerned, proxies are explicitly used to protect privacy.

Even in this very topic, someone said they were happy with the SOCKS proxy option in Deluge, when this option (edit: possibly) does nothing.
Hi, I am Kamban. I have launched a beta version of the Mac productivity app called Elephas. It can do different tasks, say, it can fix grammar mistakes, rewrite a sentence, turns short instructions into an email, and write an outline for a topic. It works across different applications, say Pages, Notes, Gmail, Mail, Outlook, and more.
Elephas uses OpenA as the AI engine. I would appreciate your feedback.
Don't forget movie trailers :) I think I still have the trailer for the first Harry Potter stored somewhere :')
> ....Linux kernel on top of virtualization.

Means Virtual Box, VMWare, WSL, or the newly announced Roseta for Linux by Apple.

It will never be more than this in what concerns the desktop at scale.

Heck, even ChromeOS, exposes Crostini via virtualization instead of exposing its custom version of Linux kernel to userspace.
I get your point, but frankly, if a website does not allow special characters, then you probably should not use it.

I'm not stating that this approach is a catch all solution. It simply aims to be non dependent on any other third parties and generate unique, but memorable passwords for all the websites we need.
Plugins, not sure why nobody mentions them so far here but it's the main reason why I haven't switched to anything else.

I use:

- autoextract plugin to extract files inside the torrents

- autoremove plugin to remove torrents after x days, x seed time, with exceptions to trackers, labels etc

- LabelPlus improves on top of Deluge label system and adds a lot of different options that you can apply to the torrents with certain label plus you can make sub labels.

- RSS plugin with lot of custom filtering with regex etc.

- AutoAdd, an improvement over the tipical blackhole/autoadd of torrent files with the possibility to set settings like bandwidth limits, label it, etc based on the folder it was found.

Some of that maybe is included in some clients but the main point it's that if I wanted I could implement a plugin myself more or less easily in python to add my needed feature without bothering anybody else. Or I could modify an existing plugin.

The other that other people already mentioned is the thin client/ server daemon system, which is 100% better than any web ui because literally you are using the native ui which is the first thing to receive any changes. The web UIs are nice but usually are second priority in general, don't receive all the changes, some settings or features are missing compared with the main ui etc.

And in any case Deluge also has a web-ui if needed, which emulates most of the main UI, plugins need to add a custom code for it, and some don't so that is missing but in any case as I said all that is available in the thin client.

Also handles a lot of torrents nicely which although I don't have a name I remember having issues with some other torrent clients didn't handle it too good. That said nowadays my number of torrents is around 70~100, I used to have a lot more than that.
really makes you think about how strong America's democracy actually is if it can be corrupted this cheaply.
Exactly. Everything is already available and there are really simple ways to find, download, watch and even stream everything but they all have hurdles; how to know the quality you download, download speed (not everyone has fiber or Starlink etc), riddled with fakes, malware etc. Then streaming services that are illegal: again; finding good quality, porn ads popping up during watching, crypto miners in your browser, application installation attempts etc.

It is just far easier to just watch Netflix etc; if it had no drm, the vast majority would not change anything I would think, especially because the GP already said: no-one cares about drm. If they don’t care it doesn’t matter either way for most people (not the handful of Hn readers). It is like privacy; the vast majority of people don’t care; just the few that worry about dystopia.
I too am getting tired of this shite. This disease afflicts corporate product descriptions to the point I just use wikipedia to get information on WTF £££expensive product does, and it's now metastasizing to free software.

"Apache Hop, short for Hop Orchestration Platform, is a data orchestration and data engineering platform that aims to facillitate all aspects of data and metadata orchestration. Hop lets you focus on the problem you’re trying to solve without technology getting in the way"

What is 'data orchestration'? Ditto 'data engineering platform'?

'facillitate all aspects of data and metadata orchestration' What the hell does this even mean.

'Hop lets you focus on the problem you’re trying to solve' so what problem do you think I'm trying to solve?

It's just so bizarre, it's like language meaning has separated from language itself like layers of plywood left in the rain. And there is no wikipedia page to help out.
> Surely a serious musician is going to want to create music that rewards attention

Not always. Consider Robert Rich's very serious idea of "egoless" music which isn't intended to command attention but to leave space for the listener's own internal attention and creation.

In his sleep concerts listeners even fall in and out of unconsciousness, presumably experiencing some interesting dreams as well.

> music expressly built for distracted people on shitty speakers they can barely hear

An apt description for many things, from wax cylinders to AM radio to MP3 to to music played on smartphones. Which is to say: all popular music since the 1890s, "serious" or not.
That is quite a statement. Especially considering signatures are the primary way ballots are certified.

I don't believe 'signatures change' is reasonable or valid. By the time someone reaches adulthood and has an ID, their mark is likely to be quite distinct. Check your grandmother's signature sometime. My point being, that dismissal is not evidence or fact based, but likely aligns with your opinion.

>ultimately up to the counter

There's absolutely no reason to do that. Digital files already exist of all signatures and the envelope is coded to each voter. The comparison can be done trivially by image processing.
How many places on earth can you meet people of the calibre of Engelbart on the street?
Currently have a deployment in Oregon and cloudfront servicing most of the world. With localisation. No need to deploy in Japan to support Japan. The only tricky one is China because of the firewall. Tho that hasn’t been an issue for the last few years as they haven’t been blocking cloudfront completely. (This has been running for 10 years in AWS without issue)
I hadn't seen a Susskind lecture before. This is cool.

He reminds me of Jonathon Banks. I feel like I'm getting a physics lecture from Mike Ehrmantraut :)
Well, what is the recourse for legitimate businesses then? When pirates can set up shop and distribute content that is expensive to produce, how do these businesses evolve to a more flexible model when an unknown large chunk of their rightful proceeds are directed elsewhere?

>DNS blocking is a way of basically taking a phone number out of the phone book...then we're going to be back here five years from now talking about why we need to implement deep packet inspection,

How about we make it mandatory to enforce transparency on the assets of the bad guys? Who are the ad networks that are allowing the blatant monetization of illegal content?

Why are the hosting providers who presently find it easy to detect and kick off workloads deemed damaging to their infrastructure such as crypto mining unable to detect illegal video hosts?

Don't get me wrong, i'm staunchly in the bucket of the free transfer of information, but i simply cannot turn a blind eye to crime.
aws can be so cheap. aside from egress bandwidth, it’s pricing is fantastic.

crazy aws cost is always gonna be a case of your holding it wrong. either intentionally because it’s more fun, or accidentally.

how to use aws well and cheaply:

- scale to zero whenever possible (lambda)

- use minimal infrastructure (lambda managing ec2 with route53 health check)

- don’t use rds (s3+dynamo ideally, sql on i4i nvme if you must)

- automate everything, and use the automation constantly.

- egress heavy components get pushed out to cloudflare. r2 is in public beta!
Use YOUR AMAZING physic (soul)
powers NOW!! Why “Develop” for
years??? MONEY? HEALTH? LOVE?
NOTHING IS HOPELESS. Remarkable
NEW APPROACH (demonstrated by
Jesus) now verified by modern science.

Oy vey…
the latter part of your comment reads like exposition for the Dune novels :P
A bit better is the BBC interview with the inventor upon which the article is based. There isn’t much more detail but at least it is slightly more engaging.

You can hear it at this location, from 2:41:00-2:45:00, though being the BBC it’s hidden behind maddening levels of access.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0018177

If you’d like details on something more modern, you can read about the Brent

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/vigilant/l...
> This can optionally combine with the Kubernetes scenario.

Some people like to poke fun at the expense of kubernetes, but if they did any professional work, at the first failed deployment they would sell their firstborn to have something similar to kubernete's deployment rollback feature.
> We're losing the war

I am not losing any war.

Content restricted by DRM is not worth watching to me. The best content is produced by real people (such as commenters on HN), not large companies.

DRM customers will have to find out the hard way that as soon as the DRM server has a glitch, they're unable to see the content they paid for. Hell, even an expiring contract might make some ebooks you bought [1] or the music in your game disappear [2]. No thanks.

[1] https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106989...

[2] https://www.resetera.com/threads/some-of-gta-ivs-music-licen...
The pitfalls documented here show that it's really, really hard to write portable shell programs. You might as well not try at all.

Also, I find it funny that they say

> ... to prevent trouble, do not take advantage of features that were added after Unix version 7, circa 1977.

And then they go on to call some systems ancient, not worth considering for portability.

> A few ancient 4.2BSD based systems ... required <some obscure behaviour>. However, these ancient systems are no longer of practical concern.

I feel sorry for the developers (including the Postgres community, which I count myself part of), have to deal with tooling (Autoconf, and family) that continues to prioritize supporting 45+ years (almost half a century!!) old systems. I am sure that the sysadmins of those old systems do not care about running the new software we're developing today; they have some reasons to keep those systems running, primarily monetary reasons.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23455033
qBittorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org) is far superior. Cross platform, feature rich, actively developed.
> 2. We won the battle for Linux -- and have thoroughly lost the free software war. No matter how you count, it is, by far, by very far, the most used operating system.

If you count only the kernel then yes, we "won". The trouble is a kernel is not an OS. You need also userspace. (linux will panic if no "init" is found). And when we count the userspace, we lost. Android is a closed system.

> 3. We won the battle for browsers -- everything now runs on top of an open source rendering engine.

Just because the rendering engine is OSS i would not call it a win. The rest (Chrome, Edge, Safari) have nothing to do with OSS. And Firefox is an old impaired browser who still remembers its glory days.
> Means Virtual Box, VMWare, WSL

I was thinking of openstack, since that's my job. We always get the question of why aren't we offering Windows VMs, and many of our affiliated openstack colleagues already caved.
I imagine this must have been a lot more damaging before the days of Zoom meetings.
Stuff like Ashby's ouvre is forgotten because it wasn't true. Ashby's Law of Requisite Variety? Not a law. Just a flowery proposition. The Good Regulator Theorem? Not a theorem, and not true. Just a Sokal-like appropriation of technical terms and mathematical argumentation style. I don't know where the presumable founding blog-post was, but there has been formed a subset of software engineers who, not being quite technical enough to see that this stuff is b.s., laud it as tragically overlooked. This comment is this phenomenon right on-the-nose
I don't care about OS wars, nor do I care about the freedom in the GPL sense of it.

I would like to have a diverse OS landscape so we can chose what suits us best. I would like to have most software available on most platforms.

I would like to have open standards for hardware, to be able to run what software we want on what hardware we want.

I would like to not being forced to "rent" commercial software, but have also the option to buy it.

I would like less bloated JS apps running on mobile and desktops and have instead some optimized and cleverly designed apps that doesn't require a monster of a CPU to do things that required very little computing power decades ago.

I would like to have the option to run the software locally as opposed to have to run it in the cloud.
Wow thanks, sounds like a lost cause indeed.
Yeah, tested it quite a bit! But that's not reassuring.
I like that in US, UK, Canada, DE censorship is called filtering.
If everyone downloaded, the outcome would be the same. No content would be produced if nobody was compensated for it. Some of us want to support the production studies creating the things we value. Some of us understand that we live in a society.
Sounds like all you really want is proper enforcement of antitrust laws.
This has the same problem. I can use a webpage to verify my vote has been counted. If there’s something wrong I can see there’s a problem and what to do about it. If this was widespread it would be caught.
Ask HN: Anyone Know of Serverless Enterprise Software Applications?
I'm working on a list of serverless enterprise applications (whether open source, open core, or just old-fashioned pay-us-now enterprise), and to be honest, I only know of two so far:

- https://github.com/webiny/webiny-js

- https://github.com/formkiq/formkiq-core
(the project I work on)

Does anyone know of any more? What I'm looking for is an enterprise software solution (CMS, DMS, CRM, ERP, etc.) that customers would deploy and host in their cloud account.

I feel like this is the future of software, but maybe that future is still a ways off.

Thanks!