skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> far easier to run than Cassandra

I know precisely nothing about Scylla, but somehow I still agree with this. Cassandra is far and away the most horrendous software I've ever had to work with (Kafka coming in a close second). This was true even when we hired a major core contributor to help manage it; even he wasn't 100% comfortable with it. The word 'anticompaction' is still enough to give me nightmares.

I very much welcome – not that it's Cassandra's only problem – this trend of rewriting '00s/early-'10s Java software in simpler languages. (And, languages aside, I think Cassandra - certainly inter alia - simply sits at a level of complexity which is beyond the comprehension of any one human being. And software which is beyond the comprehension of any one human being inevitably begets bugs, even as an operator rather than a developer.)
These comments from an OmniSharp contributor are particularly enlightening:

https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276#is...

https://github.com/omnisharp/omnisharp-vscode/issues/5276#is...
If you're a retired gentleman mostly coding for your own and your friend's use, and you've seen the trashfire that social media and the modern internet has become compared to the time before The Eternal September - back when you originally started using the internet... It's very very easy to see why you might desire anonymity before widely releasing simple utility tools.

to: developer@gmail.example.org

from: billy-joe@3rd-grade.nowheresville-elementary-schoole.edu.us

subject: FinderFix

I demand you integrate FinderFix with TikTok and Discord IMMEDIATELY - or I'll come over there and rape your family and pets!!!llII!!1!!
Lots of people are horrible and when you are well-known, this translates into legions of horrible people who know who you are and see you as something to maybe bother. Anonymity should be the first choice for public-facing work, if you enjoy your life as it is and are not interested in hiring security.
Me, But Online: A collection of minimalist, original personal websites
If you prefer to use a pseudonym, why not just register an LLC? There are services out there that will register your company and be your registered agent in states that do not require your name ever made public (Wyoming for example). These services also provide a mailbox that would work for anything you need.

You can then get a business checking account (Mercury works well) with your newly registered business.

You can then create a business account on Apple and Google (and anywhere else).

All of the public facing information will be your company name. If you want more details or help, just ask here.
Azure struggling to compete with AWS?

I wonder if this is specific to particular spaces, like very large enterprises maybe?

In the SME space, Azure is significantly more dominant in my experience.

All those companies where "Can't get fired for buying Microsoft" applies, went to Azure.
The setting that enables this appears to be causing some issues:

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/23093
“Rights groups have warned China could use its vast COVID surveillance infrastructure to stifle dissent. Without a green code on their smartphone app, citizens lose access to public transport and spaces such as restaurants and malls, as well as the right to travel across the country.”
Randomizing q sounds like it will make the Brave browser stand out, but it probably already does (?)
MACHOs haven't been completely ruled out yet and it's still second best explanation for dark matter considered.
Meetup introduced a reservation fee, so people looked for alternatives. This happened almost at the same time COVID-19 broke out.

Meetup’s $2/RSVP Charge Looks Set to Trigger an Exodus
https://techmonitor.ai/leadership/strategy/meetup-charges-rs...
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1534472563681812482 [Ukrainian Stugna-P ATGM strike on Russian troops]

Warning: combat footage, people die...
Most are quite similar, which is why the vast majority of commercial plug-in developers gravitate to using something like JUCE (or, to a lesser extent, iPlug). Such a framework makes it easy to target a single API and output cross-platform versions for AAX/AUv2/AUv3/VST2/VST3/etc... I have no doubt that JUCE will support CLAP, and therefore make it easier for developers to spit out yet another format.

Alternatively, CLAP could end up as the intermediate format, with bindings supplied for presentation within other native plug-in formats.

VST3 is the one that sticks out like a sore thumb, because it represented a radical change in how the user interface classes interact with the audio processor class. This created a massive problem because you had to assume that the UI and the processor were essentially running in separate processes and communicated via message passing through a specific interface or just plain text. It's the reason why VST3 didn't ever gain the traction and support of VST2, since Cubase was for many years the only VST3 host, and since more complex plug-ins like, say, Kontakt, would require a huge amount of developer time to upgrade, a stalemate existed for too long. So it's hard to see everyone getting behind yet another format to support and test, especially if the core code has to conform to the lowest common denominator, as it were.

On closed vs. open, although AU is controlled by Apple, and VST by Steinberg, they are both open to the point that anyone can download required SDKs and develop for them. Avid traditionally kept their SDKs through application forms and NDAs, so not everyone had access. Even now, IIRC, JUCE doesn't come with the AAX bindings necessary to build such a plug-in, they have to be copied in from the official distribution.
This. My first reaction was - why are we posting FUD here. Then you see it: they're switching from an OSS component to a new component, which *will not be open-sourced*.

Retiring code with architectural changes is fine, it's normal, it happens everywhere. I don't have a problem with it. Only the replacement should be comparable in licence. Which this one isn't.
Thank you for mentioning the Hetzner storage box. It's an amazing storage deal.
Language Server Protocol looks web-based. I'm extremely confused what it has to do with an IDE restricted to one machine.
Yes. But what if it's not successful?
Maybe interesting Desktop apps for all platforms – Rust based
Better for the intended purpose
The claim was “They haven't produced anything opensource since then”.

I think I clearly showed they have.
APS protects against ATGM, not cannon fire.
I think that's Bulgaria, Romania and Moldavia, but maybe more. And, of course, Ukraine and Belarus. Maybe some of Balkan states as well if you count them as eastern european.
As always, the British are doing something to be 'different'
You'd be better served learning photoshop instead. Sorry for the unhelpful advice, I just don't think its possible given how many 'base' New Yorker cartoon strips there are, and how different they are from each other.
> set text divs to be about the width of your hand

I don't think going this far makes sense, if I have to jump through three lines just to read a single sentence with a lot of words broken up between lines I don't think that helps my reading flow.

Just filling the whole width of the browser window isn't good either though, I agree on that.
How would you do refactoring over monorepo if you have sparse checkout?
DIY TS2 Laser engraver is a machine with advanced technology that produces powerful laser penetration, has a safe design with an in-built flame detector, and is customer-oriented.
Probably simpler than both of those, more as in - there are allegations/comments suggesting that there may be individuals holding trusted positions who may not be as trustworthy as one would hope (based on the potential pathways by which malicious parties may have identified the OP).

Insider threat is still a significant concern to companies, and were one representing Microsoft one might want to at least take a peek at what happened and make sure nothing untoward is occurring.

Standard Disclaimers apply. I am not a Microsofty, nor do I play one on TV. Objects in the mirror may be closer than they appear.
I think the public park vs corporation distinction isn't the important bit here. It's a good deed intended to make the life slightly slightly better for people who interact with either space.
But in the monorepo you almost never can do the change in a single commit as it will cause incompatibilities during gradual deployment
DuckDuckGo Privacy Backlash
>across half a million files

>we found that .xlf files made up almost 70% of the total number of files

If one xlf file is used to keep the translation for 1 language, how the heck do you have so many then ? Makes no sense.

If you have many xlf files for 1 language, may God save your soul.
[Article author here]

Oh, good. Glad to hear that.

I was lucky enough to attend a talk about postmarketOS at the last in-person FOSDEM conference in Brussels, which explained some stuff. :-)
I tried pijul [0] last time this conversation came up and despite its claims it is not fast.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29992875
Just the generic Keto diet.

Started of doing SKD, so strict Keto diet, with about less than 50 grams of carbs a day. Mostly meats, cheeses, eggs, green veggies etc.

After about 4 months added more carbs till about probably 100 a 150 grams, so maybe more considered low carb. Did mix on some MCT every once in a while.

Was olympic lifting during that while period, so twice a week gym routine.
There are good counterexamples but that is not a good one because Drew was and I am talking about browsers from scratch.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Good quality of life, yet relatively cheap. You can totally get by with English.

Congrats on being able to move anywhere you want.
I think you expressed my feelings as well quite accurately. Dumbing down + adding more (unfortunately somewhat necessary on a mainstream platform) annoyances and hoops.

I used OS X exclusively from 2008 onward, and I switched fully to linux late last year. I managed to make the switch tolerable by learning and falling in love with tiling window managers and minimal desktop environments that are available on linux. I could never stand 'traditional' desktop environments on linux, they always felt so clunky. With Sway (or i3 on my desktop), the operating system just disappears out of sight. All I see is what I want. A little bar with information and system status, a browser window, a bloated text messaging program or two, and heaps of terminals.
Really fast, too, unlike macOS.
Pumped hydro is not kinetic.

Not much storage exists because it has not been built yet. It has not been built yet because we haven't the renewable generating capacity to charge it from yet. Thus, we are spending on renewable generating capacity first, and lately factories that will build storage systems.

Battery storage is the most expensive variety. Round-trip efficiency is not very important anymore. I.e., other concerns dominate now. Anyway, gravity storage efficiency has always been fine.
Funnily the first result for me when googling "soul orb stargate" is now your comment on hn
But that's what those responses are all about: git doesn't scale, so don't use it if you need scale.
If there are no tools that scale available, then change the approach so you don't need face this scaling problem at all.
Because after 30 years of paying rent... you own nothing.
After 30 years of paying a mortgage... you own land and a building.
My point is, we should always progress in all aspects of science and technology we can. And decide what to use and how to use it after we make it possible to use.
> CLever Audio Plug-in API

A terrible name that'll just look stupid in a couple of years from now.
The free developer accounts don't get your apps into the iOS app store. That requires a paid up $99 developer account.

I think (but am not sure) that you can use them (for now) to sign a macOS app that you distribute from your own download somewhere, and Mac uses can download your apps and click through the "Yes, I trust apps signed with that Satoshi Nakamoto certificate" dialog and install them.
Nobody is born enjoying planning things, it's something you like better as you do it more. Of course, you can accept the fact that you are not born enjoying it and then just not do it but that doesn't seem like a decision to be celebrated, to me.

Edit: Because it is essentially celebrating the fact that you are at least in part measurably dysfunctional. It's part of the zeitgeist, but there is such a thing as taking it too far.
Yes. With git submodules.
[Article author here]

It really is, and it's got a lot easier to set up as a desktop OS in recent years. I wrote about it too recently:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/26/alpine_linux_316_rele...
Michigan Approves Digital License Plates; Texas OKs for Commercial Use Only
Sanctions are not going to deter anyone from anything. Sanctions is anti-diplomacy.

Why do you need troops if you're not going to amass those? Still does not mean that diplomacy can't be useful.

The mental health argument is weird. Was Bush a madman when he invaded Iraq?
I think ancient people have gone through same struggles and came up with similar answers and they also exchanged ideas.

> enamored by the results of your action

Bhagwad Gita is poetry and philosophy but it also reasons from the first principle. How attachments leads to self destruction is deducted so well in verse 2.62 and 63. I can read/recite Sankrit a little and it's so amazing to think that you can have poetry and step by step reasoning in same verse.

Reasoning goes like this:

Verse 2.62

1. When one deliberates the fruits of the action, they get attached to it.

2. Attachment leads to desire.

3. Desire lead to the anger.

Verse 2.64 carried the thought forward and finished it.

4. Anger leads results in confusion.

5. Confused person loses the memory.

6. Loss of memory leads to destruction of intellect which lead to complete destruction.

All of this sound much more melodic and transcendental when you can understand.
> Public companies are inherently evil by default

The extremism of this positon makes it hard to swallow the message. You might as well be right, but accepting it at face value would be a huge cognitive dissonance for many people working in public companies.

Basically, the “are we the baddies ?” answer would be “yes” for a huge chunk of us, and I don’t think that’s how we see it personally. Companies have to make money, but the evil label needs way more nuance.

To apply this to another context: I genuinely think that IKEA has had an outsized positive impact on our everyday life, even as they aim to make money (not the core “charity”, but the rest of the group), or as they make truely dirty legal and commercial decisions to trick the system in their favor. And they didn’t improve flatpacks by accident, it is their stated mission, and I’d be crazy proud of my job if I designed the Expedit series.
As funny as this is, you (not you, the person in the example) broke the anonimity when you chose to be an antagonist yourself (and drawing attention in the process).

The best way to be anonymous to those agencies is to be irrelevant to them
Plenty of charges have been laid over the years related to crypto phishing and fraud.
The existing one was an open source Microsoft project. Then they built a new closed-source version as a replacement.

To be fair, pylance is orders of magnitude better with regards to performance. But I just don’t get what the reasoning was to make pylance closed source. It’s baffling.
I don't think you read more than the (misleading and unnecessarily editorialized) headline on hacker news.
Humor is fine and accepted here - but in your pedantic mockery, I couldn't find something to laugh.
The 1:2,500,000-Scale Geologic Map of the Global Moon
You're the only one that read that.

The jurisdiction is better because it has more features, and those features are applicable to a broader audience. Additional features = better, less features = worse. You don't have to chose any specific feature of the jurisdiction yourself, like forming an anonymous corporate entity. You can [typically] form one that gives out all of your information in those places too.
This sounds like the end goal of a combination of items already in development within NHSD
I'm working within NHSD at the moment within Product Development and will pass your story and idea on if you don't mind.
Below are just some of my thoguhts though and links to items that are currently avialble or being worked on that could eventually help with the problems you outlined.

NRL aim to create pointers and provide access through to data in disperate data stores. Currently supports document stores but plan is to extend this for other data types.
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/national-record-locator

NBS The national booking service looks to have been rolled up for COVID but the intent is having a place to book and manage appointments for procedures you are recomended to have (intially focused on vacinations).
https://digital.nhs.uk/coronavirus/vaccinations/booking-syst...

Then you have BARS that is focused on standardising disperate booking formats so that they could all then be usefully referenced using NRL possibly then linked to NBS.
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/booking-and-referral-standar...

I'm not directly involved but is some details of the breast screening applications here, I suspect the above would need to be connected up with this to all work together.
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/screening-services/breast-sc...

I know the call and recall service is currently being replaced for cervical screening with CSMS (Cervical Screening Management system) so I would suspect that if its not already on the todo list that a replacement for breast screening would line up based on the success of that. Much of the aims of this service are to solve some of the problems that you mention but for cervical screening.
https://digital.nhs.uk/services/screening-services/national-...

All of the above links will have some form of contact details also if you would like to contact the various teams.
Remember that huge hack that started when that person accepted a LinkedIn request. I forgot which hack it was.
How does that work for AML? Not having to disclose UBOs it seems like you wouldnt be able to even open a bank account.

EDIT: seems you still have to disclose UBOs for IRS, banks, subpoenas, etc with these "anonymous LLCs" - unless you also use a nominee
I don't remember any "intense diplomacy" other than more threats of sanctions, more public humiliation of Russia, no compromise on any question being discussed. In 8 years I remember Ukraine botching its obligations on Minsk agreements and Steinmeier formula.

With such strength of diplomacy, no wonder it didn't work.
I think I have, mate.
> Why would they be ubiquitous at the household level, not centralized as a "electric grid backup battery", like Australia's "big battery"?

Let's assume the existing electrical grid to be a somewhat fixed system that gets augmented from time to time here and there but does not get changed in fundamental parameters like voltage.
Then there's a certain grid capacity for transmitting power (watts) from central nodes (existing or former big power stations) to that large number of end nodes (homes) or in the opposite direction.

Let's also assume that the combined capacity of all the power lines which connect the homes to the grid massively exceeds the capacity of those (big) lines that connect the "central nodes" to the grid.

This means, that there exists a certain level in the hierarchy of the electrical grid (between central nodes and end nodes) where the lines do indeed match the capacity of all homes.

I'd think, these are the locations where you would build/connect centralized big batteries to the grid.

Because you could then take up all solar power from homes and at the same time you'd have some centralisation which would make building the facilities less expensive because of economy of scale.
You said that, that doesn't mean it is true. And it probably isn't true north of 50 degrees of latitute where lots of the people who need energy live.

France's nuclear fleet has an all-in cost of 7c/kWh, which is roughly the same as the cost of solar or wind power in France, but without the need for storage or smart grids that doubles the cost of solar/wind. (For all this remember that France has about a third of the insolation of California or Arizona per year, or maybe half at best in some places.)
Cool!

I've also found a comic version of the story:

https://imgur.com/gallery/9KWrH
There's two ways of appearing anonymous.

In one approach, you can look like everyone else. This is hard to maintain, as any singular value can make you stand out from the crowd, making it easier to sift and isolate you. However, it is easier to implement, because you just need a bunch of constants in the software.

The other approach, is that every single time, you look like someone completely unique. Whilst difficult to get right, this approach does mean you look unique and you do stand out. But every single connection has that feature, which makes it rather difficult to get two completely unique profiles and determine if they are the same person.
The EU has been far too dependent on the US. Just after WW2, and arguably during the Cold War, this was unavoidable, but things have changed. The EU is a lot stronger now, whereas the US is becoming less reliable as an ally; 20 years ago, they suckered the world into two long, harmful wars, there's been a movement towards extreme nationalism, away from international cooperation, and even away from democracy in recent years.

On top of that, there are a lot of principles on civil and human rights that are core the EU that the US doesn't subscribe too; they're still not member of the ICC, they rarely prosecute their own war criminals, use torture, extralegal assassination, and have a tendency to strong-arm other nations, including European allies, into doing what the US security apparatus wants.

Make no mistake, when tensions with totalitarian dictatorships like China or Russia rise, the EU will always jump into bed with the US, because the flawed humanitarian values of the US are still better than none at all, and we're still allies. But the US is not the beacon of human rights and democracy that it once was, or was presented as. The EU should be more independent and champion this values independently from the US. And that should include criticism when the US fails to live up to those values.
If you speak an uncommon language, this is effectively almost the same as disabling it completely, because so few websites will support your language. They will probably default to whatever the default language of that website is, which may or may not be a language you speak.

I understand that it's easy to disable it, but it feels like a default that is strongly biased in favour of speakers of English and other widely spoken languages.

Maybe there should be a way to request all languages together and let the client pick whichever one it wants (I'm sure the text on a typical page when compressed, even times 50, is still negligible compared to the 50 MB of JavaScript frameworks it is probably pulling in) That would not sacrifice usability for privacy.
The same could be said of markdown as you start embedding Mermaid diagrams or other DSL's, or plain text as you introduce structural conventions.

It depends on what you are doing and the complexity that warrants.

The least powerful tool that will do the job well is likely a good option.
Try reading Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo.

It won't make you an expert, but atleast it's a start.

The authors are Nobel laureates in Economics, so they probably know what they're talking about.
Balaji's book I think