skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it will be more like Racket and PLT Scheme. It wasn't that long ago that the named changed but I suspect most people on HN wouldn't know what I was talking about if I mentioned PLT-Scheme and DrScheme.

The rebranding is similar as well, just as PLT-Scheme really was doing something different than the rest of the scheme out there (as far as keeping up with modern coding practices and expectations etc) RStudio and the tidyverse team have fundamentally changed what it means to write R.

I wouldn't be surprised if in 5 years people talk about "doing stats in Posit" as short hand for "modern R tooling with current (tidyverse related) best practices".
New York’s E-Bikes Keep Catching Fire, and It’s Getting Worse
Maybe it makes it harder to analyze and or sell that data to third parties.
Tumblr’s biggest problem will be convincing users who already have an idea of what the site is (and frankly it’s generally not a good conception) to come back and give it a shot.
> I personally have never read an archeologist state a conclusion they didn’t directly observe.

Ritual. It's literally a running joke, and it's every. single. paper.

https://animalarchaeology.com/2018/10/09/what-is-old-is-new-...
In the Bond saga (books and movies) and well before Octopussy, there was the airplane pilot in Goldfinger (the movie):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy_Galore
Meatsock my old buddy! Nope, no one has complained to me yet.

Back before I made this site, when I was publishing my maps on twitter, on-demand, I did get DMs like "I'm Ukrainian. Could you make maps for [range of dates] for [region]?" and I had to think through the ethics. Was I OK publishing information that could not-inconceivably get someone killed in a war zone? Was that person really Ukrainian? Did it matter?

I decided that this information is being broadcast for anyone to easily receive, and also that it is self-censoring in a way: aircraft generally don't fly with ADS-B in a war zone, so I don't have data for hot war zones. (But I'm open to revisiting if someone has a different perspective.)
>Modularize Your Monolith

It is true that probably any monolith can be break down into components, that won't prevent the full redeployment (and all the risks that it brings) though.

I think in reality no one needs Microservices, or Monolith for that matter. You would pick the poison that adjust the best to your needs.
Yep. I think its concerning just how easy it is to get into that zone now, for practically everyone now. It used to just be teenagers, which I can forgive a bit more... but now it seems to be everyone.
OP should have used k8s to scale their workload
No, the hardware is the garden. FB business model is blocked from the major hardware (that matter), so they want to create their own garden.
How long is Covid infectious? What scientists know so far
> old Garmin GPS

I want this. Which model did you get and does it have up-to-date maps?
I can’t seem to find the direct link, but I remember when the state of Illinois created a program to give these out for free

Recall at the time I mentioned to friends… I bet police get direct access and within 5 years, here we are lol

Many utility companies still do https://themoneyninja.com/free-google-nest-thermostat/
I thought it was going to be like a physical one, but the sound makes sense.
In small communities (think, hundreds), thievery is much, much harder. People just "know" who the thieving-types are, or can find out pretty quick by gossip. And what would they do, build a house with the saw they stole? Sell it ... back to me?

If I knew everyone I could possibly see sneaking around my house, it's pretty simple to go talk to their parents/ siblings / spouse to get them straightened out. If I didn't know, it doesn't take long to gossip my way into likely suspects.

It's another responsibility we offloaded to the state, and it is now impossible to recognize people on the street, and so there's an infinite set of people each thief could exploit. This isn't bad per se (see witch hunts and mob rule), it's just a modern exploit.
This is good way of learning
You do understand that the content your consuming also attaches you to reality, right?
Show HN: Review your favorite coffee beans and discover new ones
Hello!

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I was very excited to see what the comments were going to be, but the mafia angle is a real bummer. There doesn't seem to be a way to mount a counter-measure without being detected.

A microwave generator combined with a parabolic dish? Not sure your apartment provides enough power to knock out electronic equipment with this, plus it's a super dangerous contraption, you could accidentally cook people alive from the inside out. It would also be pretty conspicuous.

I don't think a tech approach would be effective here. It's still violence (in the sense that you're forcing your will over that of others'), and they (the mafia) have a long history of being very good at violence. I'd steer away from any plays from their book.

Maybe a social engineering angle? You mention many other neighbours are affected -- perhaps band together to find a solution? Maybe target the demographic that attends the club. A social media campaign? I have no idea what the social norms are in Italy, could you organize a local protest and shame them out? Petition the don to order his underlings to cease?

I'm really sorry about your predicament, it's difficult when your home is intruded on like that. There's no easy solution here.
JSON file (or any file you directly write to) is simple, but has few of the guarantees SQLite gives you with regards to persistence. SQLite abstracts away all of that for you by handling the fancy platform-specific I/O stuff under the hood.

SQLite does increase complexity in the sense that it's a new dependency. But as far as dependencies go, SQLite has bindings in almost all languages. IMO even for simple usecases, it's worth using it from the start. Refactors are easier down the line than with a bespoke JSON/yaml/flat encoding.

Read only configuration, sure, JSON (etc) file makes sense. The second you start writing to it, probably not.
This happened to me at boarding school in '07 ;)

New members to the track team were pranked in this way, and I was quite confused haha
Europe’s Experiment: Treating Trains Like Planes
What are you using now? been aching to get off gmail for a while, just haven't found the right alternative that supports IMAP.
Razoroo Kubernetes recruiting is currently hiring for several remote roles
I like that quote
> Full disclosure: I'm German.

Just curious — why the disclosure?
I was wondering the same thing.

Personally, I consider those opening seconds of "You are watching (channel)" as a sort of ad, especially since it can't be skipped, but I haven't seen any outright ad breaks on premium. Yet.
> which means the company is unable to share user video at all

You said it yourself... How would you analyze the data if it's encrypted?
I wish found a domain outside of programming that I could have studied and now be able to leverage technical skills to develop niche products and have some competitive advantage.

That, and more cardio ;)
Could you clarify how this is better than what you can get with strace without using Cosmopolitan Libc? Or is it just that it's "built in"?
For what role did you hire that person?
Every time I start to think, "hm, maybe I'll get one of the cheaper VR sets, even if the games suck it's probably pretty awesome for porn" I recall the guy with the VR headset in the music video for Do the Evolution (Pearl Jam) and then don't.

I'm already grossed-out enough when I happen to catch a glimpse of myself using a normal computer (faces of people immersed in a computer screen look a bit disturbing, kinda slack and dead, and it's much worse when the face is your own)

I'm with you, it's too weird for now. I'll probably give in when they've got AR/VR combo glasses that you can toggle from one to the other, which I assume is the endgame for all this. By then I'll probably need it to talk to my grandkids or whatever anyway. The march of "progress".
Unless you have a dog that's trained to attack, generally they're pretty docile with just a treat or two, might be good enough to stop opportunistic crimes though.
Its funny how little attention your post got. I consider it the most important take on this subject. This is not about Facebook. It's about a corrupt and destructive business model that reflects the insane world we live in today. When that model goes away, it will reflect on other models that revolve around deceptive business practices. So more to the point, when ethics becomes an integral point of doing business, Then I will celebrate the real achievement of our time.
Angry guard dogs are fast and being low to the ground makes them difficult targets. One could easily cause serious injuries before being neutralized. If one knocks you down (which is very likely happen), then you also risk shooting yourself instead of the dog.
This along with a fake TV lighting source on a timer will deter most people casing your house.

I got the fake TV lighting source generator on Amazon probably 15 years ago - really looks like someone is watching TV in the room.
You can even use the scroll wheel (so can vim, accursedly)
What I care about would be a SCSS to CSS nesting migration tool. Has anybody started work on that? 95% of my scss usage is simply nesting, variables, and color mix functions. Which means I could pretty much switch to a native solution when available.

I don't really care which is chosen, I can learn to live with whatever.
Was it in a big city? Because parts of Japan are so vertical, they have a lot of trouble with urban canyons and multipath from signals getting reflected off of buildings (which is why they built the high-elevation QZSS mini-constellation to augment GPS)
Can you describe “good” and “evil” in a rigorously mathematical framework that makes testable predictions?
Sometimes boundaries are good.

Not all things should be easy.

The question is which things need to be easy, and which things need to be hard?

Often the answer is "we don't know" but there is still an optimal answer to the question.
> … main reason I use standard Notes … encrypted backups … sync across devices …

Same. I just opted for Joplin.
Do the thermostats have cameras in them?
> I'm glad that Meta is martyring itself to push things forward.

Framing it as a service to society is wrong. It was simultaneously a rebranding to escape the stain of the Facebook brand name, and a business decision to bet the farm that everyone in the future is going to want to extend the social isolation/faux-social-interaction of social media into a replacement for the real world.

VR is still a solution in search of a problem. FB looked at the only lunch they had left that wasn't being eaten by TikTok and others, and doubled down on it.
I wrote a library [1] for Laravel that lets you put a kind of "microservice" inside of your monolith.

It lets you develop, deploy, and execute AWS Lambda functions from your Laravel application.

The theory here is that sometimes you need some other language/infrastructure beyond what you're comfortable devops-ing yourself, and Lambda is actually quite good at providing you with an entire stack of stuff you don't have to own.

So if you need a single Node, Python, or Ruby function you can put just that part on Lambda and still call it from Laravel as if it were a native PHP function. No API gateway or anything to muck about with, either.

Is it a true microservice? Not really, although who knows what that actually means. It does allow you to take advantage of some parts of microservices without the pain though!

[1] https://github.com/hammerstonedev/sidecar
Strong agree. The need to transition to microservices will sneak up on an organization -- and that's okay. It's surprising how much life you can squeeze out of a monolith.
No- for sure. But if that's the last argument someone can put forth about trusting Signal, that's pretty damn good. Most privacy/security investigations end by the second paragraph of a EULA where the service tells you that they farm and track every bit of information possible and sell it to third parties before the electrons/photons finish passing through their network cable.

And I'm fairly sure that's not what the poster above me actually meant, anyway. When you say "it's not open", do you really think they're saying that in the context of not knowing that the source code we can see is the code that's actually running on the server? If that's what they actually meant, then why would they say that at all, since literally no third-party service is "open" by that definition?

They clearly are under a misconception that Signal is closed source or that the protocol is secret or something. They're probably thinking of Telegram, which IIRC, is not open.
Hi! Android phone here.

- I deactivated notifications for most apps. If necessary, I setup in-app notifications (Discord notifies me about a new personal message, but not about a random post on the "general" channel)

- I don't use the facebook app, but I have a link to facebook.com on my icon screen, browsed firefox

- ublock origin extension for firefox

- if a random notification happens, long click on it allows deactivating the next ones from the same app

- I deactivated incoming email notifications. If I want to read my emails, I open the client. I guess it saves battery too.

- In France we have an app to detect spam or phishing calls. It can event prevent the phone ringing when detected as such.
Yeah, I like JSON on disk too. There's some "gotchas" to avoid to make it safe though like atomic renaming or fsyncing the file and its parent directory. But as long as you avoid those and don't have a lot of data then JSON-on-disk works great.
> If a police officer comes to your house without a warrant are they allowed to break in?

Absolutely. If they hear gunshots or screams of “help! Help!” they will break the door down. I’m sure there are other triggers, too.
Learning everything you see is a waste of time for your brain, focus on your niche and pick the right topics.

However this does not mean that you shouldn't learn about these topics but instead give them a low priority and read them as fast as you can.
That might be it. Tbf I don't know much about modern piracy. I just imagine guys with AKs and RPGs coming up and boarding you, but that could easily be a media depiction only.
Because Apple's HomeKit stuff is significantly inferior. HN privacy nattering aside, consumers clearly want cloud-accessible home surveillance. It's what they pay for. And if you can get to it from that website using only your Amazon or Google account, so can Amazon or Google.
That doesn't work, it's an incredibly hard problem.

Whoever cracks it will be a very rich person.
Visual Studio DGML.
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ChrisLov...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43405698/directed-graph-...
They don't attack but they do alarm.
Great. Then I guess desiring not to be inundated with political ads doesn't amount to a desire to avoid "being reminded that reality exists."
Another article pointed out that most other cloud based offerings will still provide it if there is a warrant.

But it seems like Apple is the only cloud based offering that cannot actually respond to these requests even if they get one?

I just checked my HomeKit Secure Video camera and it seems like it isn't just the default setting, but the only setting. I see no way to tell it to not encrypt the data when storing it in iCloud (not sure why they would give that option at all TBH)
Microservices are a great way to promote cloud vendors' offerings and complicate IT life with over-engineered "standards" like Kubernetes.

Big corp wins while their customers create DevOps and other buzzword teams and the majority of IT world loses the capability to actually administer systems and becomes users addicted to ever-changing vendor offerings that complicate learning useful stuff outside.
Trying ketamine made me realize that death is probably similar, slipping away into nothingness.
The dog has eliminated 100% of threats so far. Pretty effective.
Also, You Don't Need Micro-frontends.
Fear and loathing and layoffs: What you need to know about the economy this week
I am already an immigrant, so I don’t have the full social security in the country I currently live, and yet I have to pay all taxes and social charges. If and when I won’t be able to sustain myself, they’ll just kick me out. And I have no interest in returning to my home country (Russia), for obvious reasons.
Slack messages older than 90 days will be hidden for free users from September
There are plenty of applications that read ePubs, PDFs, etc. via TTS, not to mention screen readers. Plus they are more customizable than generating a wav file.
ByteDance Distributed Pro-China Messages to Americans, Former Employees Say
If police attempt to enter your home under exigent circumstances, you know.

You can get a lawyer, go to court, and demand an accounting.

You don't have that control here. Your footage can just walk off, no clue. No accounting, no reporting, no post-hoc punishment for mis-use.
I have no direct experience, but every time I see Illinois mentioned on commentary (HN, reddit, etc.) it's always surrounding corruption.
any recommendation for android?
The article represents a reasonable position.

Monolith is an unfortunate term by which everyone seems to mean something different. So is any application whose parts do not communicate via network interfaces a "monolith"? Is an application where the majority of the function calls are not realized as a series of network transactions (like CORBA at that time) a less good application than one where different classes and modules on the same machine communicate directly with each other?

We should stop using the term, nor assigning blanket value attributes to it. "Monolyth" is not the antonym to "Microservices", as suggested by the article. From a certain distance, every system looks like a monolith; that has more to do with the viewer than the system.
I'm genuinely curious, what are the reasons you wouldn't pay for Telegram? Is that only a matter of preference, or does Telegram have some critical issues?
There are many variations, near my place there is a sign with a picture of dog saying: "I don't bite, I amputate." I also saw a sign with a picture of a Gun: "Forget about the dog, I rule here."
> email still has two key advantages

Three, actually; the third is that email is an asynchronous, store-and-forward system. That feature makes it unsuitable as the basis for an "instant chat" system. It also makes it challenging to put e2e encryption on email.

Asynchrony is the feature I most value in email. I can send you a message if you're in the bath, if your device is switched off, or if you're AFK for the next 3 months. You can read it on your desktop, mobile device, or in a web cafe. I don't use chat, and I don't like SMS (which anyway only works with a SIM, so on a mobile phone; and your identity is tied to a specific SIM).

The problems with email, as I see it, are:

- text/html. HTML email has always sucked. It's the devil to craft HTML that works in programs like Outlook. And it's full of vulnerabilities.

- Encryption. You can't e2e-encrypt email headers, because they're needed by intermediate nodes for routing. GPG/PGP has a horrible trust model, that deters people from using it (I've never really looked into S/MIME).
Accident-tolerant fuels could boost the performance of today’s reactors
Apple Card's Interest Rate Is Rising as Fed Battles Inflation
Code Map is another tool - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/modeling/use-c...
Ehem, it's not sleep that's called 'the little death', although it tends to happen in the same place :^)
This is the right solution. It really sucks, but feels like it's out of OP's hands. It's not worth the risk to personal safety.
How do you access videos from the Apple HomeKit products?
Clear and wise.
Ask HN: Has anyone used Oracle cloud?
Has any one used Oracle cloud? Their bandwidth pricing is competitive and they have higher-level services like K8S and managed pgsql.

My default would be to assume that it's either terrible or has hidden pricing land mines because it's Oracle, but looking over the docs and playing around a bit I was a bit surprised to discover that it's not obviously bad.

Where's the catch? Doesn't there have to be one because it's Oracle?
I have Garmin Drive 51. Yes, up to date maps. The only PITA is that you need windows or MacOS to update the system and the maps. I have a windows clone I put on my laptop every few months to accomplish this.
On a whim I picked up The Metaverse, Matthew Ball's book released last week (7/19). I am only about 1/3 of the way through it, so I can't recommend it yet, but I have two main takeaways so far...

1. If you can get through the marketing slog thrown out by FB, Epic, and others, many ideas behind a/the metaverse aren't terrible. Perhaps even good. As an old fogie myself, I cannot see spending hours/days in it, but I have to acknowledge there will be a market for it. (Granted, the author is a VC, so he might be a little biased here.)

2. We are a LOT further away from a functioning metaverse than people think/expect/hope. Many challenges exist across the tech (networking, storage, hardware, processing power, etc.). Not to mention identity, governance, and interoperability. Surely many more. Predictions in tech are always foolish, but I would be surprised if we approached anything like a 'Snow Crash' metaverse in the next decade.
> As a developer; if you need to work around locked down environments the security policy doesn't really matter to you, as you are already violating it.

Or the security policy has an "exceptions shall be reviewed and approved by X and documented at Y" clause.
They will try but can be legally prohibited from notifying you. A server you control and have the keys to can be compelled by the police, but not without your knowledge.

Every supposed attempt to protect you is really just an attempt to justify an inherently unethical business model because it is profitable.