skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You should do a bit of research before you continue, the word doesn't mean what you think it means.

I'd suggest that the word means whatever the majority of people assume it means - that's also how we get the meaning of "agile" to be so inconsistent, depending on which companies/teams/people you talk to. Essentially, people who've only worked with projects that run as single instances might have a pretty different opinion on what a "monolith" is.

I've definitely met a lot of people who'd claim that a single application package across multiple servers is no longer a monolith. The reasoning would probably go along the lines of this: "If a monolith can live on multiple servers, what do you call an application that can only ever live on a single server, with a single instance being launched at the same time?"

So essentially, what would be the names best suited to describe:

- a single codebase that can only run as a single instance
- a single codebase that can be deployed with multiple concurrent instances

Personally, I think it might be worthwhile to also answer that, so we have a better idea of what to name things. Otherwise we end up with messes like people taking DDD too far and having a separate microservice per business entity, because they read into the "micro" part of microservices too much.

Oh, also, in regards to the definition of "monolith" that is centered around only how the code itself is deployed, personally I think that a modular monolith ("modulith"? heh) is a great architecture that doesn't get explored nearly enough! A single codebase that is easy to reason about, a single executable that is probably scalable but also simple to deploy however you need, with different parts of the functionality (think front end, different types of API, reporting functionality, file upload functionality etc.) being possible to enable/disable in each of the instances based on feature flags. Want everything on a single instance? Flip all of the flags to "on". Multiple instances? Configure whatever modules you want, where ever you need.
I think it is an important question: what are states for. I don't mean the historical sequence of circumstances that led us to have the system we do, but why we might or might not want them. Why not just designated administrative districts of a federal government.

One thing that Trump's presidency has taught me however, is that, despite the shenangigans of some of the election apparatus in individual states, it was much much harder for Trump to subvert the election process than it would have been had everyone worked for him.
What do you dislike about MacOS?
they don't have to use eminent domain, adding/increasing property tax is enough.
Example of some well-written code that expresses things that can only be expressed in C++?
familiar with basic ML terminology might be an understatement
You might be thinking of Charlie Lee? Charlie Lee joined Coinbase, wash traded Litecoin [1] to give the appearance of wider interest and volume in order to get Litecoin listed on Coinbase, and promptly dumped all his bags at the peak.

[1] https://i.redd.it/u9vhbxvr63t71.jpg
Maybe it sounds better if you look at it this way: if every Framework laptop you buy gets stolen halfway through its useful lifetime, it's still cheaper than owning Macbook Pros.
Huawei under investigation for having tech installed near US missile silos
The law uses intention and sincerity all the time.

The easiest way to prove it in this case would be to subpoena statements made about the company in private, then compare them to the publicly stated opinion to see if there was a difference.

If, for example, the person was a stakeholder in a competitive company and documented that they were trying to hurt the company, then it obviously wouldn’t be an honest opinion. I’m guess that’s what the New Zealand law is trying to make illegal. (Although in the US that would be legal as long as your statements were an opinion that someone could possibly hold (i.e. not factual lies).)
Devil's advocate - if you don't even live in the country should you have the right to own property there?
This is even easier now that most providers are (rightfully) giving patients electronic access to their charts. I requested a blood test once, the doctor refused saying it was unnecessary, I asked that it get documented in my chart. He said fine, but didn't. When I sent a message asking that his note be updated to include that I requested the test and was told it was unnecessary, I got a call from the office... to schedule the test.

If you're particularly averse to confrontation you could do the above and even skip directly asking them to document the refusal. It would probably have the same end result.
Ask HN: Quit a job if you don't fit in the team?
I've been working at this company for ~4 months, and I feel like an absolute outcast there. I work 3/5 days remotely, and I'm pretty happy when I work by myself—the job is fine. The problem comes with the two days I need to go to the office. I've anxiety the night before, and I feel depressed the day after.

My coworkers have a cliquey vibe, and I feel like the weird introvert who doesn't talk very much. I do talk with people I feel comfortable with, but with this team (I don't know why) I enter quiet mode, and I can't go out of there. It's weird because it's the first time at a job that I don't click with anybody. In previous experiences, I always have had 2 or 3 coworkers which whom I could get along with, make jokes, or share some kind of interest.

Here I don't have anybody to share a problem with. It makes me feel sad, and I'm falling into a depression. I know that we don't go to work to make friends, but I'm experiencing first-hand how difficult it is the lack of support at the workplace.

I thought that waiting some time would make things better, but they are going worse. I'm avoiding going to breakfast with them, to keep away from the weird silences, and I feel like I do them a favour (if I go with them I sit there without saying anything).

What should I do? I'm thinking of quitting, but I'm not sure if I'm being too drastic.
That's not my point. Insider trading is so easy that anybody with privileged information can do it and even get away with it if they're cautious. Instead of working tirelessly just to catch the sloppy 1% we should reform the market so that nobody has an advantage because of what they know.
The tool does use yd-dlp which is a fork of youtube-dl
That could be the reason it was suspended
Things work the exact same way in the prefab steel building construction industry.
Of course, this is a silly solution, but...

Since you can buy seperate keyboard parts... and if you don't mind a bit of drilling / replacing some keys with custom keys / manual fixing of damaged traces on the pcbs...

Just drill a hole in the keyboard, file it off, and buy a trackpoint module from ebay, It'd probably work well enough!

- - -

that aside, making an expansion card which has a trackpoint on it, or notching it into just above the keyboard area, would probably be the most doable options, without needing the company to catch up
I got both of these on Fiverr for about $25 each - I'm very happy with both.

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/donatj/StandardOtter/dd3f2...

- https://noteof.app/logo.svg
This is a weird question, because they don't tell the participants how much it cost, and I imagine most people who don't actively follow space science news wouldn't know off the top of their head. It's like simultaneously asking people to estimate how much a space telescope might have cost, and then also whether they think that estimate would have been a good investment.
I'm pretty sure the company would own anything I did during hours I got paid for, so no. I try to not get distracted by even thinking about non-work stuff during work hours, and for WFH I use separate computers for work and personal stuff, though that's mostly for distraction avoidance and also for information hygiene. That said, if I'm at the office at night for some reason (which would happen a lot back in the day), I feel ok about distracting myself for a while after dinner before finishing off whatever it is.
A jury can decide if something _should_ be illegal and base their verdict on that. Meaning that the jury is also considering point 1 and whether this specific case should be illegal, regardless of how clear the law is on the subject.
I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
> They absolutely can if the alternative is SHTF.

Look at the 100 year long term trend for all countries worldwide. There's a rather shocking chart out there that shows the massive increase in govt spending as % of GDP. whereas it was in the single digits about 100 years ago, now it's in the 30-50% range for most countries. I just don't see this trend reversing.
> Even Alexa has been [HIPAA-compliant] since 2019.

And most major sites still allowing your PII to go to 100 direct third parties and 4000 indirect parties are GDPR compliant.

Regulation compliant doesn’t mean what most people think it means.
Eh, everything except useful output. Sure, a by-product of military research could be something useful, but that money would go a lot further if we just went for the useful thing immediately. The F35 is a good example. Whatever technology gains came out of that project are likely useful in general, but presumably it'd have been several orders of magnitude cheaper to just directly invest in that tech instead of building a weapon.
We have like 50 years to come up with a scalable solution to the problem of how to grow enough food for a growing population on dying topsoil[1] while having less fresh water[2], and while overfishing most species to extinction.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJhpoYwAqFA

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjsThobgq7Q

That is not considering worse scenarios like arctic frozen methane melting and releasing a lethal load of methane into the atmosphere.

Each time you mention the subject, people talk about some obscure, prototype program somewhere that requires Ivy League engineers and millions of dollars to run. Dude, wake up, billions of people do not even have toilets and you think in less than 50 years they will be doing futuristic shit on a zero dollar budget?

That's not going to happen. But what is going to happen is the same people picking up guns and fighting each other to death over topsoil and water.
Most platforms won't explain _why_ they considered something spam, as they believe it helps spammers avoid detection.
This field moves very quickly. I don't think anyone can be expected to keep up who don't make it a weekly study subject or are actively employed in it.
I was surprised to see the CSO replying to the tweet. I do agree with you, but do you think that was more for the PR and they knew about it or no way?
-- if you watch the video - it looks like it just has a considerably better grasp of the physics engine at a fundamental level - she mentions at the end that the AI knew when to break into a corner - when to push out - in some instances she wasn't breaking hard into the corner - then pushing out fast --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZbA_CDoWrk&ab_channel=GRANT...
I've been happy with Request Tracker for over two decades, but the scope of RT is also a lot smaller than ZenDesk. Just email-first ticketing, little more.
It’s certainly fundamental to the world we live it as it exists today, and particularly in suburban / non-walkable environments.

With climate change, crime, and COVID I would say that those “space inefficient” personal transports will become even more fundamental, not less.
interesting... here in Europe it always states how many hours employee needs to work daily, how many days per week and often times includes clauses for how much overtime hours and overtime pay is to be expected
> Isn't Hacker News technically a forum too, just a bit more bespoke & for lack of better words, reddit-y?

I think the main distinction between "forums" and "Reddit/HN/FB/Twitter" is that when posting on a forum that thread goes up to the top of the "feed", i.e. threads are sorted in chronological order by latest activity.

On Reddit/HN/FB/Twitter threads tend to die over time, due to the algorithms. On Reddit discussion literally dies after 6 months when a post is locked. On Twitter on the other hand old "threads" can be resurrected by activity or retweeting but yeah, it's nothing resembling a forum, one of which strengths is the ability to maintain threads running actively for multiple years.

So in conclusion I'd say HN is somewhat in-between. There's no notifications for replies built-in, but there is https://hnreplies.com/ so essentially it's possible to maintain an active thread (between the participants who receive notifications) but there won't be any new users discovering the discussion taking place.
A lot of people suspect there's ""official"" insider trading at the exchanges; there's no reason for the exchange not to front-run orders or fake the order book if they think they can get away with it. Or trade against heavily leveraged positions to liquidate them. Or prop-trade with the customers' money.
> What Germany could have done is to accept a change in the treaties for a real fiscal capacity at the European level.

Can you elaborate on that? What are the ideas that Germany opposed?

A lot of this reads like Germany is the boogie man and every other European country is their poor victim. That's a little bit to one-sided for me.
On the Green Credo
I've eaten some potato based food crimes in my day. Agreed that Belgium has consistently good fries everywhere.

Consistently mediocre (3/5, thoroughly passable) is the value prop of fast food.
Little evidence that chemical imbalance causes depression, UCL scientists find
I don't believe in downvotes, so I upvoted you instead. :-)

I agree with what you see. You see 1M soldiers (freeloaders?) and their salaries, housing, and healthcare provided 'free' by taxpayers.

The problem is what you don't see, or as they say in French, ce qu’on ne voit pas!
You are right, of course, and I know the kids will be all right, but - I have a hard time taking any reassurance from this. Civilization will probably not collapse, but all wild places everywhere will be destroyed; there is no stopping it anymore. A world completely dominated by humans sounds like a miserable, ugly, suffocating kind of place, and I'm glad I won't have to live in it.
I feel like I'm reading the plot of a Metal Gear Solid game. What will the Patriots do next? So intriguing!
Like, actually bloated.

Once when I lived in Denver, I was commuting into downtown when a string of big fat jerks with HOMELAND SECURITY on their vests just walk in the middle of 15th and forcing traffic to just stop because they needed another snack. Not like "big guys" but just fat, rude, Larry the Cable Guy looking assholes with big guns slung around their shoulders.

This is coming from a pro-cop, pro-gun kinda guy... fuck this breed of people entirely and their way of life.

</rant>
I think I’ve just had too many discussions where someone’s complaining they aren’t given time to fix tech debt, and they think by calling it that it automatically qualifies for needing to be done. And the person that they’re asking time from just hears someone being a perfectionist. At the heart of it, it’s miscommunication.

So I agree that the term is here to stay, but there’s better ways to communicate it to product/management. Like your example, making it clear to product what shortcuts were taken and how it will need time to fully implement. Code improvement vs tech debt doesn’t really make a difference, it’s just getting that conversation convincing
Is this significantly different from HMOs, which have existed for at least half a century? Kaiser has been doing basically this for a while now.
The current leader of Brazil is known as the Trump of South America. He's actively encouraging illegal logging in the rainforest, and the rate at which the Amazon is being clear cut is accelerating rapidly.

If ever there was a good case for the use of pre-emptive military force, it's this clown; his actions are directly destabilizing the world economy and will lead to trillions of dollars of damage / countless lives lost.
Anyone read what happened to that self driver who killed that pedesterian ... Uber threw them under the bus.

Even after Travis they continue to be an Uber disgusting company.

https://www.wired.com/story/uber-self-driving-car-fatal-cras...
Diffusers: Modular Diffusion model library from HuggingFace
A library of pretrained diffusion models across multiple modalities, such as vision and audio.
(you can discover nearly anything in America)

That really hasn’t been the case since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were amended in 2015. The new rule requires that discovery be “neither unreasonable nor unduly burdensome or expensive, considering the needs of the case, prior discovery in the case, the amount in controversy, and the importance of the issues at stake in the action.” Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(g)(1)(B)(iii) (1983)

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/pre...
YouTube was "kind" enough to notify me in email and give me the option to appeal. To which I did.

How would hosting the python script elsewhere help?
True but new species will emerge. There have be numerous mass extinction events on Earth.
But that's also false. In practice the network isn't decentralized at all. This was very obviously the case since the very first bitcoin mining pool formed in 2010. The advantages of re-centralizing are far too great, and the whales have a clear financial interest to put themselves in charge of the network, so that's what they do. Any system that gives you more power because you put more starting cash into it can't be described as "providing financial democratization", so that characterization is just wrong. It's also wrong that they can't take away your ability to transact, the miners absolutely have the ability to block your wallet or ignore your transactions.

And I hope you can see the uselessness in creating a system that fits some vague definition of the word "decentralized" while nearly everyone who uses it just interacts with the centralized services on top of it, because maintaining the illusion of decentralization is so difficult and pointless that nobody actually bothers with it. Maybe it's "decentralized" if you're a whale and you want to capture large portions of the market with fraud without anyone being able to stop you. For everyone else, it's just not. The "base network" here is just for show and marketing purposes, it adds nothing of value to any real legitimate activity.
> Ethereum blockchain wallet “that bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of tokens exclusively featured in the Coinbase Asset Listing post about 24 hours before it was published.”

It talks volumes that had they done this in a privately held network, it might have been harder to catch them.

All the "blockchain is anonymous, hence it's made by and for fraudsters" is a total nonsense.
Are you saying disabled people should pay more?
Wishing you my best with Headlamp!

Re: Hiding author name, understood on the nitpick. Hopefully more snack makers soon...and a great name for people writing the PodSnacks!

Re: Feature Request, we tried that in this post
1) 1:46:55 https://www.podsnacks.org/xy-the-real-story-about-covid-vacc...
2) 24:11 https://www.podsnacks.org/-inequality-and-revolution/

Is that what you had in mind?

We've also been thinking about an audio product, like a 5-minute digest, so thank you for the validation / feedback!
Some won't but there's no reason to believe we won't be able to revive some species. It's unfortunate, but some loss is unavoidable. All we can do is prioritize, protect what we can, and move forward.
> but elo definitely highly correlates to how good the player is.

it only measure how good a player is compared to the other ranked players.
The US and India have an extradition treaty (https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/12873-India...).
The supply of coolant is finite. At the time of mission planning there was no spaceship capable of resupplying at the Lagrange point. As I understand it the coolant onbaord is good for 10 years.

However, if starship is successful that situation will change and resupply becomes possible. So I suppose we'll see.
> a lot of technical debt ... let's rebuild the whole thing using Rust and Kubernetes and Deno and move the hosting to Azure etc.

For me, I'm the dev who says: "This codebase has a lot of technical debt. Let's get rid of all of the containers and VMs and kubernetes and artificial servicification, take it off the cloud, and refactor it into smaller programs which do the work efficiently and which can be built and run on basically any machine(s) and cooperate peacefully."
100 years ago was 1922. The world was an extremely different place then. This is like saying that air travel has increased massively since 1900.

1922:

- PRC does not exist

- India is a UK colony; most of Africa is not independent countries

- Japan in "great power catchup" phase

- Soviet Union has just formed and the war against the White Russian forces has not yet ended
How will they feel when they find out that the telescope has already sustained "significant uncorrectable damage" from micrometeoroids? [1]

Hopefully this was a rare event that happened to occur right after it was opened up. But there's a decent chance that this is will be a common occurrence that will happen again in the near future and continue to degrade the accuracy of the images.

1: https://news.sky.com/story/meteoroid-hit-has-caused-signific...

EDIT: thanks for the links! This was shown to me on google news, and I clicked on the link for more headlines but none of them looked more authoritative (The Hill?). I sure wish they’d included the NASA link!
Heh I absolutely adore that show, and now that you’ve mentioned it, and after reading this article, I’m off for a rewatch :)
In the aftermath of a long prostrated war with tabs on browsers on tabs (bookmarks for me I know it's where links go to die, often literally so) and figuring I rather work analog than digital, I came to a system to debrief and save references.

I always save the HN thread when applicable rather than the link, because it gives me short hand notation and normalization for writing with a pen. Now in a paper notebook I have a few pages where each line is a theme, a word etc. Next to it write the HN ids (can as well save a comment thread; superbly useful) to reference under that theme. Done. If particularly useful I can write few words in small print over the id detailing more the subject of a link.

This is however done for a set purpose, as reference material for writing speculative and science fiction (HN is great for ideas and research) and also articles. When and whether I finally visit a link is staked on a piece and theme ever getting picked by me for writing; I find this is a great compromise and more realistic than simply hoarding.
The problem is that the US is not a true democracy. Because of lobbying (a form of legalized corruption) [1], big corporations are in control of the country. The laws are written by big corporations such as oil companies, big pharma, hospitals, gun manufacturers and so on. See revolving door [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobbying

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
This might be for connecting to a keyboard or input peripheral, many users, especially Mac ones don't use wired keyboard or mice.

Security and user hostility aside, I can see this being one of the main reasons to re-enable it during "important" OS updates.
Ironically, isn't that just MAGA vs Antifa? Nationalists vs commies, they both suck tremendously.
US authorities often don't have enough evidence to prosecute for the underlying crime, or it may have low penalties, but they often have the evidence to prosecute for mail fraud or wire fraud(basically any means of electronic communication). Mail/wire fraud are federal offences, so this also involves federal prosecutors and agencies with more resources, surveillance abilities, and higher penalties.