skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Queen Elizabeth is not just "somebody's mom".

She was the head of state who presided over genocides, resisted the independence many dozens of British colonies, got carveouts in laws to shield her personal possessions from scrutiny for stolen antiquities...

I could go on.

Public figures in general, and heads of state in particular, lose the right to be treated as "just somebody's mom". They get treated by the public based, at least in part, on their treatment of the public.

And even apart from all that, this funeral, at a time when many, many UK residents are facing skyrocketing costs for everything from food to electricity to heat—as in, increases of 5-10x, not just a few percent—is projected to cost upwards of half a billion pounds, from what I've heard.

So no, let's not "say it is your mom's funeral".
Sure, but if you have ever administered Windows vs Linux servers, you’ll know which is much more pleasant to work with. Being on the hoo for the migration though …
Didn't elementary school teach us those who are good at math are still susceptible to violence?
Yes and Apple has publicly available papers about how they use big data and still ensure users privacy.
Revolut does not have a bank license in the UK. They've applied, but it has not yet been granted.
I did not win a t-shirt, but Hacktober fest led to me making my first approved OSS PR fairly deep into my career, and my OSS involvement has only increased since then. So I am quite excited about the latest edition and hope to at least win a T-shirt, but generally increase my OSS involvement this October and beyond.
The Che was a sadist not all too different from the nazi character in schindlers list who ‘hunts prisoners’ for fun. I don’t know how college students can wear his t-shirt alongside Bob Marley. Or even more ironic a BLM (the movement not the bureau) activist wearing his iconography. Maybe that can be chalked up to capitalism doing its thing…
How much of an "advantage" is it for manufacturing to solder the RAM chip(s) to the motherboard? Would it really take a lot more time and expense to install RAM that can be replaced/upgraded? This is the one thing that I wish I could upgrade on a lot of machines.
IMO the code runing in cars (and other types of vehicles) should be made available to inspection agencies, pref. written in languages that can make certain guarantees, or at the very least be required to be written in clear, legible manners with certain standards.
I like it... and as a result Google and their partners start to slowly ban and shadow ban the family from all kinds of services including identity services until the family slowly ceases to exist (digitally).
Unless there's a 1099 sent to the IRS and the receiver, why would one report it as income?
It seems Boeing of that era really knew how to produce.

The development of the 747 is also pretty impressive.

It is so sad to see how far they have fallen.
Well, I think I would have to think on it more but it seems like not having a funeral disrupted is a reasonable request.

I would say this for _anyone_, today it just happens to be a famous person.
Show HN: Scale your APIs with Aperture flow control
Hello HN,

Over the past year, we have been building Aperture - an open-source flow control and reliability platform for cloud applications. Over the past few years, companies like LinkedIn[1], Google [2], Netflix [3], Stripe [4] have built cutting-edge flow control technologies to keep their applications reliable. Flow control is powerful because it enables graceful degradation- the ability to preserve key user experience pathways, even in the face of application failures. With Aperture project, we hope to democratize building reliable applications with effective flow control.

Aperture enables flow control through Aperture Agents and an Aperture Controller. Aperture Agents live next to your service instances as a sidecar and provide flow control components such as a weighted fair queuing scheduler for prioritized load-shedding and a distributed rate-limiter for abuse prevention. A flow is the fundamental unit of work from the perspective of an Aperture Agent. It could be an API call, a feature, or even a database query.

The Aperture Controller is powered by always-on, dataflow-driven policies that continuously track deviations from SLOs and calculate recovery or escalation actions. The policies running in the Controller are expressed as circuits, similar to circuit networks in the game Factorio[5].

You can deploy Aperture into your service instances through Service Mesh (using Envoy) or Aperture SDKs.

We are excited to release Aperture as an open source project under the AGPL v3 license, and invite SREs, DevOps & enthusiasts to give the project a try. We would love to hear your feedback on Aperture and how we can improve!

GitHub: https://github.com/fluxninja/aperture

Docs: https://docs.fluxninja.com/

Announcement: https://techcrunch.com/sponsor/fluxninja/fluxninja-announces...

Explainer Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEl4SMo3KNo

[1]: https://engineering.linkedin.com/blog/2022/hodor--detecting-...

[2]: https://sre.google/sre-book/handling-overload/

[3]: https://netflixtechblog.com/keeping-netflix-reliable-using-p...

[4]: https://stripe.com/blog/rate-limiters

[5]: https://wiki.factorio.com/Circuit_network
But one of them has militarized the whole planet and has begun many, many wars to get what it wants and make the world more conducive to its corporations and their reach.

There is no way you can even begin to compare China to the US on the great scale of evil.
Why would you opt-in if you don't want this?
In the analogy provided (comparing a smart contract in a money laundering case to a gun in a murder trial) - wouldn't the responsibility lie with the person who operated the instrument?

In the gun analogy, wouldn't the comparison be putting the CEO of Smith & Wesson on trial because someone used one of their pistols in a murder?

Like a pistol, the Tornado Cash smart contract has legitimate and illegitimate use cases.
I thought Netflix only showed ads to a cheaper plan, not their higher priced plan.
To me it's is not necessarily just the colors, but that with the Arabic script the new features are applied in a more tasteful, subtle way. Whereas the latin examples seem more like showing off what you could do, but probably shouldn't.
We're still debating the worth of kings and queens. There were cavemen who would think that we're superstitious and primitive.
I don't see how "there are monarchists in Parliament" is a refutation of "this treatment of people protesting the monarchy is a strong argument in favor of abolishing the monarchy"...?
Does anyone know of any current or past projects (AI or not) that measures how many miles of train carriages pass through a particular intersection or particular line?

I know there's an API for AMTrak, but anything similar for commercial trains/lines?

I'm often stopped by trains, (what feel like) over 10 miles long, doing 30-50mph. Some carriages carry uncovered coal, and are left parked near my neighbourhood for days.

I'd love to track how many miles of carriages, and what type of carriages, pass through my neck of the woods, either with something like a Vizycam, and train it to count the carriages, or even by sound or vibration, and get a basic count, at what times, what dB, etc.
With what reciprocity? EU-based firms being immune to FTC enforcement in their US operations?

Both the US and EU have a fairly strong interest in the principle that transnational companies can be regulated by national regulators, _particularly_ antitrust regulators. Undermining this would tend to lead to a situation where these companies couldn't be effectively regulated by _anyone_.
U.S. housing markets are at risk of 15%–20% home price declines
I could be wrong but it was not so easy to write to strangers until very recently. Except laws, books (with plenty of space to make the context clear) and journalism (same thing) I think that most written communication was letters to friends and relatives. Again, a lot of shared context. It's the internet (forums, comments on sites and social media) that lets us write to strangers maybe more often than we're writing to people we know.
And they have in the past with a mix of stick and carrot. The US tries to protect its companies despite knowing they're in the wrong, the EU does the same. What changed is that even the US regulators and politicians grew weary of big-tech's abuses and the fact they have so much power they're getting to be too big to control.
There's also a FlatLaf plugin, actually very close to IntelliJ in looks.
Well there can be multiple reasons. Think of those overweight kids who wear shirts at the pool.
https://rateyourmusic.com/ - The most user-driven and comprehensive music database I've come across (except maybe discogs). The site is great for choosing what material to start with if you are exploring a new artist. It is also a treasure trove of charts and all-around music data to explore.

https://www.last.fm/ - Yes, this site still exists and still has somewhat of a community. It is my secondary driver for finding new music these days. I look at what the folks I follow are listening to and use tags to find new artists with commonalities. Been scrobbling on and off for about 15 years. Would have never found a proper Soul Coughing analog if not for this service (MC 900 Ft. Jesus).

While it’s probably taboo to recommend a 4chan board - /mu/ can have excellent content if you look hard enough for it (last.fm , /prod/, /chart/ threads).

Here is a dump of blogs I've checked out for inspiration:
http://1000flights.blogspot.com/ | https://nostalgie-de-la-boue.blogspot.com |
https://monrakplengthai.blogspot.com/ | https://phyuniwarpyarmusic.blogspot.com | https://neosamzpoke.blogspot.com/ | https://bodegapop.blogspot.com/ | https://foundtapes.blogspot.com/ | https://disorderareyouexperienced.blogspot.com/ | https://norecordshopsleft.blogspot.com/ | http://tapeattack.blogspot.com/ |https://dieordiy2.blogspot.com/ | https://oriental-traditional-music.blogspot.com/ | http://soi48.blogspot.com/ | http://madrotter-treasure-hunt.blogspot.com/ | http://public-embarrassment-blues.blogspot.com/ | https://moroccantapestash.blogspot.com | https://oriental-traditional-music.blogspot.com/
My government evaluates police work by number of cases. What does the police do if there is not enough crime? For example they look at energy usage of people and try to spot patterns that might indicate something like a weed farm. If the pattern match your home will be searched. This is a supposedly civilized western country that managed to start two dictatorships in just one century and had massive problems with surveillance. You can guess the country now...

Today people with similar mindsets control politics and surveillance is increased at every step. A frightful older demographic is part of this. Someone said it would be insanity to repeat the same mistakes over and over again and expect different results...
How Can Designers Build Interfaces That Avoid the “White Default?”
If you're writing anything with performance considerations using shell scripts, you're almost certainly doing something wrong. If it includes spawning thousands of processes, you're definitely doing something wrong.
Think Prometheus, but for logs (not metrics). Simple, efficient, fast log store
It's a matter of making people use a dumb mental model that benefits someone else. Even better if the dumb mental model goes viral.

"I have nothing to hide" mental model is dumb on many levels. The most obvious one has already been mentioned here. Leaked information is stored indefinitely, while standard of behavior in our society currently change at an insane pace (by design).

Another big misconception is that you as an individual can realistically evaluate how someone else will perceive your private information. You don't control the context in which your information will be consumed. (Not to mention that the context can be manipulated.) You conversation with a friend will sound very different to a paranoid federal agent whose only job is to find terrorists.

With the advent of global communications you can't even predict who will be using your information and for which purpose. (E.g. tons of people know your home address and it's not a problem, yet doxxing is still a thing. The fact that 99% of the people are benign doesn't mean anything if the information is accessible to 100% of the people.)

Etc, etc. It's the same bad reasoning at all levels, neatly packaged in a short virtue-signaling phrase. It so neat, it seems engineered.

The same goes for "You can’t be truly private online!" It's another dumb mental model. "Truly private" is a fake standard used solely because it's unattainable. In reality, the more information you uncontrollably leak, the worse off you are.
Introducing Parseable, simple, efficient, cloud native log storage and query system.

As Developers, SRE, DevOps look to replace Elastic from their logging stack - we believe the log storage of future won't be another search and indexing engine in a new language.

Parseable leverages Apache Arrow, Parquet and widely available object storage platforms for efficiency, cost effectiveness and performance.
Apple doesn’t and can’t “decrypt” data that it says it doesn’t have the encryption keys for like your health information. Apple lists the data that isn’t encrypted and the data that is
Definitely. The X design era was the pinnacle for me. I do not like the sharp corners, they are uncomfortable to hold and basically force you to always have a case.

The iPhone XS might be the best iPhone so far - unfortunately no headphone jack, but it had the rounded design and still had 3D Touch.

Regardless, I've decided expensive phones are no longer worth it at their insane prices, and I'm switching from my dead Galaxy Fold 3 to a cheaper Realme which should arrive tomorrow. I'm setting myself free of caring about these high end phones at all.
Something that speaks to the language's strengths and the ecosystems' interests. The problem has to feel more than a simple exercise.

Functional -- writing an interpreter for a toy language,

Scripting -- Sudoku/Wordle solver with UI

Systems language with low-level hardware access -- OpenCV integration, driving I/O pins, web server.

For all of them, I also test access to native C/C++ libraries.
It has been my experience that the IRS is extremely accommodating and will work with anyone who is honest and direct about their issues.

The conversation would probably go like this:

Dude: "Hey taxman Google sent me money but it's not mine"

IRS: "Ok don't spend it or it becomes income, if it turns out it was yours file an amended return. Contact us and reference this conversation and any penalties will be waived."

The IRS is not extremely accommodating and will not work with someone who is dishonest or evasive about their issues.
It probably makes more sense then a huge infrastructure build of giant maser units that would have to be able to simultaneously track hundreds of vehicles on every dense street corner and then you would have to put up mitigation for all the reflective power losses going through windows into peoples houses.
I find that requiring signed git commits is extremely useful for metric-chasing github repo owners who can use it to justify claiming credit for bugfixes that I submitted but did not sign.
The pocket (read it later) app used to have offline tts in their app and for some reason switched to online tts. Really pissed me off.
Understanding the Merge
DuckDuckGo, Proton, Mozilla back bill targeting Big Tech ‘surveillance’
Not really related, but the last time I was on Facebook, its ads were so wrong I actually tried to improve it. It targeted me for endless hip hop ads. I don't like hip hop; nothing I've ever liked on FB had anything to do with hip hop. So, I told it I don't like these ads. Instead of trying to show me things that I might actually be even mildly interested in, it fed ever more hip hop ads to me. It was so aggravating, that I just closed FB out and I don't think I've ever logged in again.
The “user” may be a multi tenant system for say, FaaS
See the inboard brakes on 60's Jaguars - Sure, the unsprung weight and improved handling is nice but they are much harder to maintain because 1. you have to lift the car to see if they are worn and 2. if you have to repair a caliper it is almost easier to drop the entire rear suspension than to try to dig the caliper out while everything is on the car.
How are they a scam though? If you can buy ingame things that bring you joy it's not wasted money. You just have to set reasonable limits so you don't end up spending 100s on silly things.
One of my favourite (probably misquotes) is "I wrote FAT on an airplane!" from Bill Gates.
A linear superposition of two or three V6 engines!
Woz is about leveraging technology at low cost.

There are many Woz-like but unheralded program managers that have leverage the vaunted B-52 airframe into something beyond its original purpose.

It is about Woz and a garage business that got its unique notoriety.
Only if the new plane is not Tu-144 or Buran. Then it's not a new plane, but a stolen one.

/s
Seems obvious.
> It's like asking if Coca-Cola, Nabisco, or Unilever are going to get "taken down a notch". No, not really.

Coca-cola, and some of Unilever products (like Kraft cheese or Heinz ketchup) don't look great in some markets where health is a major selling point of food products and a lot of smaller competitors are coming up.

IMHO they are past their peak but, of course, they will survive for a long time.
Idagio is really good for classical. Much nicer browsing than Spotify.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical also has good weekly recommendations.
Not sure what you are thinking of here. In first order logic if something is true in all models it is also provable. This is called completeness. And is one of the sanity requirements of a semantics.
Too bad Fastmail isn't on this list: I really like their email service.
A check, in XXI century? :-D
IMO the only booru like site that has a better tagging/searching system than esix is derpibooru. It is fast enough to be almost scary. Even with highly complex filters.
Twilio cutting 11% – Letter from CEO [pdf]
I can't even fast-forward a video without them showing more ads now.

It feels like I get to watch 1 minute video between adverts now, and YouTube is nearing the point where I just don't give a damn about it anymore.
Came here to say something similar. My comment being "The word 'designed' is being used very generously here. I would suggest 'conceptualized' as a better word"
I used to work for a company optimising business processes. You’d all be surprised by just how much money large companies waste by paying invoices twice and/or paying invoices that nobody can trace back to a purchase order.
Certified/Cashier's check.
Here in the Netherlands kids learn to ride a bike on little two wheeled wooden bikes, that they start to “glide” on. It’s a nice system that gets them right into learning how a real bike behaves.
While I appreciate the sentiment, the OSM wiki specifically says[1] "In locations where the railway has been replaced by new buildings and roads, the mapping of such features becomes out of scope for OpenStreetMap. Historical mapping can occur on Open Historical Map."

(Just checked - OHM doesn't seem to have any data whatsoever - present or historical. Maybe I don't know how to use the interface, but all I see is land/water borders)

[1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Demolished_Railway
Tvix status update: A Nix reimplementation in Rust
Emojis have had colors for over 20 years so this is a terrible strawman you've fabricated
>"I will be expecting your credit card and bank information on my table in the morning"
I've shared this (or similar info) with landlords and realtors and platforms that I don't trust. That's life.
A side note, I think the last village electrified in France happened sometime in the ‘70s!?
German banking is in such a bad place right now, because of, mildly put, overregulation by the EU.
In reality it's them trying to create arbitrary markets.
You can no longer use the old API that worked well, where you login once and can do whatever.
Every single action now has to be authorized with an OTP ( tan ).
If you're building a shop and would like to automate payments, incoming or outgoing, you can't do that anymore without a) exposing your account data to 3rd parties and b) for free.

This is one of the reasons why I say that the EU is corrupt.

Ok so I tried to play their game, and asked the BAFIN what I had to do in order to become such an entity.
I wrote 5 mails back and forth over the course of 3 months, not a single response had clear, concrete instructions on who to wrote to and what to send them.

I had to read some hard to find article about PSD2 to know that I have to pay the Bundesdruckerei for a certificate, x509, every year, in order to be able to query the XS2A api.

It's dirty, exclusive and corrupt and no one is doing anything about it.
Your country does exactly the same with EU companies don't kid yourself.

Look at the case of Alstom and many others.

If you can't guarantee data security on your datacenters, that seems more like a US problem than an EU problem.

Remember those decisions are coming from the 46th country in terms of life expectancy.
My very first goal is always to write a “hello, world” program, deploy it to a web server, then uninstall the language, runtime, and other required assets... and do it again. I write up the process, then follow those instructions on a new system. Rinse and repeat until it’s possible for a chimp to replicate.

By far the most trouble I ever have is getting soup-to-nuts deployment happening such that I can concentrate on fixing bugs without being scared shitless I won’t even be able get the damn thing running in production.
I see a lot of complaints about "README changes" again and I just want to add a few thoughts there.

If you have some sort of triage process (either as an individual or as a team) then closing or merging even a dozen of these "README changes" should not be a huge time sink. I understand you are annoyed, but also, just deal with it. It literally takes less time to hit Close or Merge than to write long postings here or on Twitter claiming that this is destroying open source. It isn't. I am going further and will say that toxic reactions to contributors (even if they are "annoying" or "spam") are destroying open source culture.

In the past at $LASTJOB I always made sure we participated in Hacktoberfest for our mobile products. From my perspective it has always been a success. We have always had spam submissions (which are easily triaged away) but those have also always offset by great contributions. Many people submitted their first meaningful code change through Hacktoberfest, which as a result made the lives of millions of users better.

That. Is. Fantastic.

This did not happen by just putting a #hacktoberfest tag on a repo. Instead we planned, prepared and organized. We accepted the fact that there would be some spam to deal with. We found old good first-bug issues and filed new ones. And most importantly we approached this not from a "free work!" perspective, but simply as a way to get people involved in open source. Because we care about open source and people. Not even with the expectation that they stick around.

Hacktoberfest is not about you, it is about giving others an opportunity to contribute.
Link to letter:
https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001447669/5c6aa73...
Normal don't make it right!!
Font hinting is already turing complete[0]. (I learned about the in this[1] iceberg meme)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType#Hinting_language

[1] https://suricrasia.online/iceberg/
Interesting. I couldn’t pay for Premium until I was VPN’ed into the country on my credit card. It wouldn’t let me get the plan of the country I was living in.