skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
r/mildlyinteresting, but would have been better if after the race you were shown your rank among other participants.
I'm reading through hckrnews.com, as I'm sure others have their favorite readers.

Those function as proxies and lower the perception of downtime as well.

I've never experienced the website being inaccessible even for short periods.
The quoted document doesn’t seem to say anything resembling what the article describes.
www.slowyoutube.com
> I think it's clear who is responsible for what water in the current system.

River water rights are not always 'clear'. It's a common problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_politics_in_the_Nile_Bas...
>The minute, someone uses VR to gain/master skills 5x-10x times faster than regular users, everyone will switch to VR.
I have little doubt that this is the killer VR app that we just haven't found a way to deploy yet - Imagine, say, an auto manufacturer issuing a digital twin of their vehicle to mechanics that includes walkthroughs for each maintenance procedure.
The scaffolding on both the production and consumption sides which would be necessary to support this are significant, though.
The example of the Netherlands is a good one. When people say or think 'the Netherlands', most of the time (about 99%) they mean the country on the European continent in the Schengen area bordered by Belgium and Germany, but there is also a bit of colonial legacy lingering in the Caribbean in the form of overseas territories that are formally part of our kingdom:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/47796

So if you say 'all Dutch addresses have a postcode', then this is true for 99.999% of the addresses in the country proper (100% for all formally defined addresses), but you won't find any in the Caribbean island of Saba which is part of the kingdom.
I feel you. I hate this field these days. The churn is largely unnecessary, but comes from people cargo culting what they see coming from a handful of super successful companies that aren’t at all representative of what most development is. Add to it the glut of web developers that are generally disinterested in actually learning how systems work and insist on unbelievably deep and fragile layers of crap to insulate them from thinking while they glue programs together as fast as possible. I wouldn’t say the field of software engineering is cursed, but we do have a signal to noise ratio problem if you follow sites like this one. I recommend my approach: avoid this site as much as you can, and avoid the comments when you can’t resist visiting.
Not quite my style, but what an impressive piece, it’s giving me goose bumps. I might have to save that for when I’m in the mood for something like it.
Agree 100%. However... since nowadays we all do TDD (right? ;). I hope so! ). and write thorough unit tests, this should be less of an issue. I remember years ago when switching from the likes of C++ and Java, to Perl and Python. Indeed there were problems that occurred in these otherwise-nicer-to-use-dynamic-langs which would've been caught by a compiler, but that was before TDD being so standard.
I've been impressed with Cloudflare's (non enterprise) value thus far, what Bandwidth & Users did the $4k quote cover?
> Prior to the early 1900s

I remember our salt shakers clumping when I was a kid in the 1990s back in Brazil. We used to put rice grains in it to capture moisture.

If you buy a common 1kg salt bag I bet it still gets wet, no idea why the additives didn’t take hold.
They read file, save data to file. That's it.
IME commit descriptions almost never get read by anyone.
It was a failed o-ring from launching in too cold of temperatures that caused the Challenger disaster though, not a failure of the rocket fuel. The engineers that understood the danger to the o-rings objected to the launch and would not sign off on it, but they were overruled by NASA's broken management culture at the time and the rest is history. There was a thorough investigation and it placed the blame squarely on NASA management for the root cause of launching under conditions that were dangerous to the shuttle design.
Is you comment directed at Apple or applies to every company doing support? Because I can have good support - and I had - from others, just never from big names, Apple or whatever. So sorry, I don't buy it. Good customer service can obviously be done, if the company cares about it, and Apple just doesn't care. Or Google. Or Facebook.
Heh, there are some that remind me of progressive rock ;) It does actually show the range quite well, I might have to check out some mentioned names.
If you're going that far, I guess you might as well set up a commercial search engine or SEO tools business off the back of it. At which point, the thinking may shift away from open source toward something proprietary, unless there were some other substantial differentiators.
All the Ways Google Gets Street View Images
Puhleeze. DNSimple uses Cloudflare DNS firewall product - this is not a secret. If you don’t like it use an alternative DNS provider, there are plenty.
Is there no api for that? It would even save the manual download effort.
According to @dang (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28479595) via @sctb (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041)

We’re recently running two machines (master and standby) at M5 Hosting. All of HN runs on a single box, nothing exotic:
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2637 v4 @ 3.50GHz (3500.07-MHz K8-class CPU)
FreeBSD/SMP: 2 package(s) x 4 core(s) x 2 hardware threads
Mirrored SSDs for data, mirrored magnetic for logs (UFS)
Except Russia isn’t really a “large country” here - its economy is comparable with Italy, but given its lack of technology and know-how it’s more like Nigeria with nukes.
Wait, Andrew Lee, despoiler of Freenode, also associated with the MtGox guy?! The weirder bits of the internet are apparently extremely incestuous.
Which languages count?
Ideally, your tutorial/example code should also be among the test cases.
My personal experience with core teams has often been a disaster. The only successful core team I saw adopted the servant leadership approach, letting product teams make choices and staying pretty much out of their way while codifying existing practices and moderating discussions. It also served as interface to external infrastructure and engineering.

This core team was busted after a few years, its head fired and replaced by an oppressive junkie that started spewing corporate standards and imposing frameworks with the speed of an office printer.

You really have to have a special mindset to be willing to join a core team, and this mindset is opposite to what people that deliver a working product have.

There is a reason why "premature optimization is the root of all evil" is the motto of many generations of programmers. From their perspective, core teams are personified evil, because their only purpose is to optimize, prematurely.
I’m not sure how fastmail handle it, but with hotmail Microsoft would automatically send a list unsubscribe request if you marked an email as spam. Any legitimate mailing platform will honour that request.
Trailer music is a thing aswell. Two Steps From Hell has been doing well enough to start releasing their music as regular albums.
Funny. At first I laughed and the googled [0]. The response would suggest that either chinese teens are immune or china is blocking it in most of china. Or something else, but we know that the users are not in china.

0: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1299807/number-of-monthl...
> At least they did not shoot her.

Exactly. The giant glaring irony of the situation is that these paranoid neighbours are themselves the biggest danger to their neighbourhood. They're the ones creating an environment where you can't walk down the street, ring someone's door, ask for help, photograph your car, or pretty much do anything in public anymore.

They are the real menace to society, but they can't see that.
Yeah, What's up with the competition to Cloudflare? What's the real barrier for entry?

It's not infrastructure anymore, As there is a new PaaS startup every week offering distributed hosting and So why bundling in DNS, DDOS detection+mitigation, cloud workers... with it is so hard?
These aren't very easy to decipher when there's some concepts going on that aren't very obvious at first glance.
> I find tests to be terrible usage documentation. Better than nothing to be sure, but compare compiler tests to a tutorial or example code for learning a programming language.

For example, Rust has documentation which is executed as tests (doctests). That way, when the code changes, the docs change automatically.

To your mocks counter-example:
How exactly would you propose to do it otherwise? If you write down an example which works now, how would you guarantee it still works if i.e. you don't use mocks but a say, a real database, which you then change.

You would be in the case of 3 green parallel lines which are red and intersect. In a powerpoint/doc you can write whatever you want.
Doesn't actually need to be true.
DNSCurve's self-authenticating domains: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNSCurve

It's like "onion URLs" without the rest of Tor. Or like b32.i2p domains without the rest of I2P.
I think a proper FFI library should be distributed with Microvium for convenience, but I just haven’t gotten around to it yet. But let me try summarize how snapshotting relates..

The snapshotting paradigm means that your JS code starts executing at “compile time” and has access to the compile-time host. Microvium by default provides access to the built-in node modules while the script is executing at compile time (these become detached at runtim), so the JS code can do things like fs.writeFileSync to code-generate C code at compile time.

This means you can have a higher-level library that wraps the built in vmExport/vmImport functions while simultaneously generating the corresponding glue code.
I definitely wouldn't have thought to call the 00's "early internet" but that's maybe just me :)
Im my previous company we used to write them and used to read them, and used to get frustrated when some old commit didn't have enough description.

In this company noone cares and we even have squash & merge mode with description truncation, but methods comments can be longer than methods themselves.

It's a question of team mindset I guess
It's comfort and convenience that VR lacks most.

Until VR headsets are as light and unobtrusive as ordinary glasses, VR will remain niche.
There is a case to be made for the cyclical nature of criticism, though we have to keep in mind the possibility of a cycle being really bad too...
(as we surely forgot a lot of them already).
I don't use the token stuff (I don't even log in).

It has decent results, and all the main search engines are available, if needed, on the side.
This is great research and if anything understates the case for alarm; Bitcoin is one of the more-decentralized projects, and PoW generally has some incentives for diverse hosting (if not network layer). PoS systems often end up on AWS specifically, and sometimes depend on some of the more niche AWS services -- an outage (engineered or accidental) in those could cause easy degradation and facilitate takeover.
I’ve seen articles about people buying virtual property. Why would you pay for “property” that is limitless?
Astro Slide? https://store.planetcom.co.uk/products/astro-slide
Overly dramatic file compression utility
> basically turned the browser into a funnel that sends all internet users to https://google.com

Exactly right and completely intentional. I saw they also pay Apple $15bn to be the default search provider on iOS [0]. Annually.

[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/27/google-could-pay-apple-...
>a lot of people who have degrees have no clue how to code

I don't understand how this is possible. I know CS != coding, but every CS degree syllabus I've looked at does involve plenty of programming classes, practical programming projects, etc. How is it possible to graduate from that without being reasonably comfortable writing non-trivial stuff in a couple of major languages?
Ventoy is one of those "Great in theory, doesnt work in practice" tools.

I spent some trying to boot from it, couldn't get it work. Couldnt find any help anywhere, so went back to the old boring tools that just work.
https://archive.ph/byw3l
A Look at Intel 4 Process Technology
Amusing to hear Go described as verbose. Given that it was intended to not be verbose! Do you care to elaborate? To me, having done lots of Python, I find Go irritatingly lacking in batteries included, lack of classes stumps me, and Go seems certainly no more succinct than Python. I find Go seems possibly less verbose than C++, definitely better than Java ( that wouldn't be difficult ;) but perhaps harder to read. However, I've only dipped my toe in with Go, so possibly approaching it completely wrong and need to learn the Go mindset....
"Somehow"? How are these community leads assigned?
I remember the sad time my old high school started to retire all the BBC Micros, Acorn 30*’s and all the Amstrad PCWs. They all just got thrown into a huge industrial skip and carted off to be crushed into our local landfill. When I think of all those lovely Acorn computers just being destroyed. We did of course salvage quite a few systems three of which I still have and fire up every now and then. This was in the early 1990s nothing got recycled.
I'm going to dispute "similarly qualified". Being married is a huge indicator of future financial stability, and for most of the cited time period, SSM couples could not get married. There are also many statistics which point to SSM relationships (regardless of marital status) ending sooner.

So if the banks are inputting this to a "go/no go" algorithm, the results do not surprise me at all.
news.yc might not be, but ycombinator.com and startupschool.org are on Cloudflare.
It's aimed for software teams, but there are also non-software teams using it.

Sprints (cycles) are turned off by default, similarly many other features can be enabled or left off if you don't need them.

Code integration is also not really visible unless you integrate and use it.
NieR soundtracks embody greatness. They are superb. And much more approchable than fil classical works.
Do Chinese search engines have their own index engines? They're censored, but if you could remove that, would they be as good as Google, Bing, yandex?
Oh dear your poor Ops team, they had to download a few invoices to save $4k and every month! My heart bleeds for them.
It borrows heavily from a number of sources. The main theme is a thinly modified reworking of Korngold's Kings Row.

It's why movie music is a relatively mediocre artform. It's mostly reheated 19th/early 20th century cliches and borrowings with none of the fluency or genius of the originals.

People forget that being able to write for an orchestra isn't proof of genius. The bar is higher than that.

Ravel, Wagner, Debussy, Stravinsky, and Rachmaninov - and others - absolutely kill all of the Hollywood guys.

More interesting are recent TV scores that have been all-electronic and abstract. Chernobyl seems to have broken the trend into the mainstream, but I'm hearing examples on shows like The Mandalorian and Dr Who. They sound a lot fresher than the orchestral blobbery that's more usual, because they're more about evocative sound design than trad synth/sampler sounds.
List your salary/renumeration/offer, or at least the range.

I have issues with some of the steps listed but by far my biggest issue is that companies don't list their offer. Which for potential candidates makes them wonder if it's even worth attempting to apply.
> The solution has been centralization and growth of caches.

Centralization and growth of caches are on their face contradictory.

Perhaps you mean organizational centralization but that really has nothing to do with internet capacity demands. Your hot take isn’t so brilliant. What’s fundamentally wrong with edge distribution?
I saw a lovely example of this a few months agp. We had a list of ids representing completely different business cases, and code like this:

// Because of [sane business reason] we need to remove all 89's
something.removeall(75);

I found this because people in case 75 were logging a never ending stream of tickets for months that the program was doing weird things. No shit, sherlock. Talk to business, everyone agrees 75 makes no sense at all and it really really should be 89. So before we change this back to sanity, let's check the git history:

Date: 3 years ago
Message: Urgent fix for major downtime. (No detail of course)
Commit by: someone who left a little bit later
Change: 1 line patch, changes 89 to 75

Asking around, nobody technical knows anything anymore, the whole team got laid off around that same time 3 years ago and the new team basically rediscovered everything from scratch. Some business people do remember it, it was Very Bad, they don't know exactly what it was or how it got fixed, but anything that might cause it to happen again is strictly forbidden.

What would you do? I got reorganized to another team, lucky me.
Is Alaska part of America?
How about Hawaii?
NFSv3 over wireguard is a well-kept secret weapon.

All those IP-based ACLs are suddenly useful...
It's right up there with modern architecture: The "great" ones build for ego, and those who build for mere humans are usually marginalized.

Only rarely do actual greatness and humanity cross paths, for example Frank Lloyd Wright or Heitor Villa-Lobos.
> So what do you think the rest of the world does? Mechanical, civil, electrical engineering, lawyers, doctors, HR, managers?

I think they end up hiring the wrong person most of the time.

> What makes software so special?

It's not. We also end up hiring the wrong person most of the time ;)

Finding the best possible person for any position is hard.
By the way, if you’re interested, I’m the guy behind Microvium. It’s been my pet project for the last few years. It’s very motivating to see all the positive and encouraging feedback. Thank you all!

You can find me @microvium on twitter
> she has plenty of alarm bells that can't be turned off at all, her speaker constantly makes noise that can't be turned off either.

Well.. you can but only once, but it's immoral/illegal.
It's written in arc, a custom dialect of lisp that Paul Graham made.
Cloudflare outage knocks many major websites offline
You may be tempted to think that at least within a country, the administrative division should follow a homogeneous structure. However, you would be wrong again.

In the US, 48 of its 50 states have counties. Louisiana has parishes, which are essentially counties by another name. Alaska has boroughs which are distinct from counties: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_boroughs_and_census_...
Agreed, NSA is much more likely
It even uses 'for the greater good' as the tagline. I guess they haven't seen Hot Fuzz[1]?

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm--inJtnc4
And in the first article, they acknowledged the large price disparity and were very explicit that it was well deserved and worth every penny.
Nice! A few years ago I took a stab at this problem space with https://github.com/cesanta/v7 ; with fun tricks like in-place compacting GC, stdlib JS object graph "frozen" in rom etc
I think that if you want “what the code does”, detailed description in the commits is much better, since then you can at least see the snapshot with its original context.

You can even go through a particular file’s associated changes to see how it’s morphed over time.
While I agree the resolution is not good, mind that the "pixel" effect is reduced when you are perfectly aligned with the lenses (and see more clearly the pixel, weirdly).

I can't imagine doing real work with text too, but it's enough to be immersed in realistic worlds like hl alyx.
Vulkanator: An Adobe After Effects Sample Project with Vulkan GPU Acceleration
One of these again?
If they don’t allow a way to extract the private key from the wallet, do you really own that account?

I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 yard stick unless I have full control of the private key.
Space-Track confirms presence of 4 secret payloads on Globalstar Falcon 9 launch
Yep! That’s exactly what it does. It uses a compacting garbage collector.
No, this is not the equivalent question. The more appropriate one for US is Puerto Rico or even US Virgin Islands.
> Perhaps you mean organizational centralization

Yes. This is exactly what I mean. Big companies run their own caches and networks near users. Cloudflare takes care of the rest.

>What’s fundamentally wrong with edge distribution?

You incorrectly assume judgement from my part. My point is that things have changed. New problems arise in solution to old problems. Fragility from small number of organizations running their caches to solve bandwidth problem.
This is very handy, thanks
Aren't North Korean Hackers using crypto for ransomware? So actually, crypto is used to finance and prop-up such dictatorial governments.

Also, Russia is being sanctioned through freezing their USD accounts and imposing financial sanctions such as suspension from using SWIFT.

If crypto is more wide-spread, then it will become more difficult to impose such financial restrictions to Russia and other international pariahs.
>They tend to make above-average use of coupons, and the coupons they use have above-average values.

Isn't this kind of expected? Companies will give out coupons for products that don't sell so well. The higher the coupon value, the more desperate the company to get rid of this stock.

So if these households like to coupon a lot, that means they accept less than ideal market fit for a price reduction.
Or Guam, among others:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territories_of_the_United_St...
VR tends to be uncomfortable after a few hours, I think that's a bigger issue for mass adoption.
I mean, I think there's a secondary problem. Even if it _wasn't_ a pain in the ass, does anyone want it? I mean, clearly some people do, but a significant number? I've used a VR headset a few times, and it was a deeply unpleasant experience, but even if you address the main sources of unpleasantness (bulky, extremely fiddly to set up, dreadful software) it was still, well... a pretty pointless experience, in my view. Even if the tech improves I wouldn't be keen to revisit.

Honestly, I kind of suspect it's this decade's 3D TV; enormous hype, quickly followed by the whole industry pretending they were never involved in it.
Bitcoin Cash does currently scale up to Paypal's daily number of transactions while keeping transaction fees below $0.01. [0]

Scalability tests are underway [1] to detect bottlenecks for increasing the block size further, which should take it closer to Visa's transaction capacity.

The scalability roadmap aims for eventually supporting 50 daily transactions for each human in the planet, again keeping fees low, which is key for Bitcoin to be used as cash. Check out [2] if you want to read about the technical feasibility of this (even with today's hardware, it will be even easier in the future).

I understand the skepticism about the ability to scale Bitcoin after the Bitcoin Core team has been pushing for years for keeping block sizes low, but please let's consider facts rationally and maintain a civil discussion.

[0] https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-cash-stress-test-goes-beyon...

[1] https://bitcoincashresearch.org/t/assessing-the-scaling-perf...

[2] https://blog.vermorel.com/journal/2017/12/17/terabyte-blocks...