skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, I'm well familiar, although I admit most of my fig-tree-related wasp interest has to do with larger animals such as this [1] European hornet who graciously tolerated my camera flashes for a brief while the other day. Lots of animals come late in the season for fruit still on the tree, which is both nutritious and intoxicating due to the ethanol produced by fermentation - that said, this was the first year I've met a hornet there, more usually seeing bald-faced yellowjackets [2]. (And likely the last, unfortunately, unless I'm able to form a good enough relationship with the new owners here that they'll likewise put up with my camera flashes once or twice a year.)

[1] https://aaron-m.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_0826.jpg

[2] https://aaron-m.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_0821.jpg
That changes nothing until wallets != humans. You can have own multiple NFTs by the same person. So the organisation is either oligarchy or not private.
Until the government is run by people with ideals that are not the same as yours…
I assumed something like this didn't exist so hard that I never bothered to look. That's awesome.
Yes, it would actually be so much simpler if the Fed was capable of acting on only one side of the equation but they necessarily touch both.

See a completely plausible causal chain:

Inflation up -> Rates up -> Housing purchases down -> rental demand up -> rental prices up -> inflation up
"I wish was a baller, I wish I had a girl, if I did I would call her".

Sorry first thing that came into mind when reading the title.
I never curse on HN, but screw you, man. Nothing in my programming life has felt the way making animations and scripting them felt with Flash. You either missed out, or got suckered by steve jobs into thinking it's bad. It was overused, sure, but that's true of every new technology that's accessible and powerful.
> There is no point to use sqlite3 in default journaling mode.

There are situations where you wouldn't want to, but they are probably very uncommon outside of the embedded computing world. Copying 3 files vs 1 is not a gigantic deal. Most of the time you aren't even moving a SQLite database around.
So smart for both Adobe and Figma. Figma posed a serious threat to Adobe and it makes sense for them to do it. The losers are all of us poor sods who were happy Figma customers.

Just goes to show that if you want an outsized exit multiple the best way is to put a gun to a $100B company's head.
The long term value of real estate tends to depend much more on location than interest rate.

A nice middle class suburban house in Detroit bought in 1965 may have seemed like a safe investement. Today it could be worth nothing.

Who knows where the next Detroit will be?
This is correct; GP mis-typed the income angle. Instead of taking loans as typed, the grantor retains the right to receive an annuity stream over the trust's term.
At my place in Germany works zoom.us as always very well. Website is working for me.
I'm trying to be less judgmental, but John Lovedale is pushing me to the limit.
I'm saying the opposite. I'm saying that Github has flourished because of it's network effect vs alternatives.
The government doesn't have backdoors in Google source codes? or Google engineers are patriotic?
I know, I know. If you introduce a blanket "no", websites will ignore it. They're not tracking us because it's what we want.
You can't send a transaction without mining a block. Therefore all the costs that are incurred mining a block are costs that are incurred sending transactions.
I have used a calculator before, and I would expect most users to have used one before too.
The special version of the software was also 'compelled' via a legal order: https://epic.org/documents/apple-v-fbi-2/

By contesting it they were going against a court order, not just refusing an informal request by the FBI.
Brisk walking is it. I can see how that works out the body and could be put into practice in the day to day life. Running is great if you can do it correctly and have the time to put into it. The way I see walking is the minimum needed for us to function and can be applied daily even for the busy. I guess this is saying that brisk walking may be even more favorable for the body...
Looks like I'll be returning to Sketch.
> then people were making over the top claims about there being no alternative.

Nobody said such a thing. I did ask what the alternative is. Going public isn't an alternative. That's what is happening. Figma is being transferred into a public trust. And that is the worry expressed with respect to its future, because the general public has no reason to care about the product and will not act in the interest of the product.

Anti-trust could, in theory, do more to prevent the general public from not caring about the product they control. The problem is that laws (where Figma and Adobe are located) are prescribed by the very same general public, so you have to convince them its a good idea. And if you've done that, the law becomes largely superfluous because at that point they're already on board and will act as such on their own accord.
Agreed, that is very strange positioning. Clearly they understood how Figma users would take this news, but trying to obfuscate or spin it is a mistake.
so... with a number input?
Gamers everywhere rejoice.
I actually mentioned that at the bottom of the article on how to handle the issues mentioned. Firmly agreed, using the number input for non mathematical values is a horrible idea.
That would just result in a new, slightly worse conferencing tool emerging.

An executive's desire for a sea of carefully self-monitored faces will not be denied.
You can argue whichever is better for society, more anti trust, more big corp acquisitions. My point is only that the idea that without big corp acquisitions, founders would have no options besides walking away and letting their product die is preposterous.
These are important questions. We aren't storing any of the images used to search, and the email addresses are going to mailchimp lists for opt in and opt out. As we role out the next set of tools, which let users flag images and create lists from them, we'll email the mailchimp lists with more info.

When we enable sign-in, we'll also add a privacy policy, because at that point, we will store some images, on request, to use them to make finding other works by the same artists easier.

Opt-out image URL lists will be made available to the dataset owners for removal. Opt-in image lists will be public.
I just ran into this, I thought it would be nice to use a number input for relatively large numbers in a form, but then a user asked for a thousands separator.

I ditched the number input.
PM has always meant Project Manager in my experience, which is an entirely different job.
I want to be happy for everyone who made Figma happen and their success but at the same time it makes me sad to see Adobe buying it. I am hoping Adobe won't mess up with Figma in future.
Show HN: Aperture Open Source Flow Control and Reliability Platform
Hello people of HN and fellow SREs!

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.

Using Aperture’s powerful policy language, you can deploy flow control techniques such as weighted fair queuing for prioritized load-shedding and distributed rate-limiting for abuse prevention to your applications. Using modular components to build policies allows you to maintain optimal user experience during traffic spikes, prevents cloud resource wastage by regulating abusive users, and ensures that new feature rollouts don’t result in accidental downtime.

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!

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[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
Good, Figma wasn't a good Photoshop alternative anyway.
Web 3 is going well
As I understand it, the current state of the law (in the US at least) is that airspace is considered a public space governed by the FAA and you have no expectation of privacy in your front/back yard. It's basically the same as satellite imagery being made publicly available on eg Google Earth.

Whether this is or is not "right" in the age of ubiquitous drone availability is up to us (via our government) to decide/change.

Disclaimer: IANAL and before someone starts a company based on this, they should definitely consult one.
> worked 80 hours a week for 10 years straight

> Almost feels like a conspiracy against me

You are conspiring against yourself. How did you put in that much work for that long and not switch jobs? It sounds like you chronically undervalued yourself and stayed in bad positions as a result. Hard work only pays off if you find someone to pay you. If you are stuck at a crappy job, work only hard enough to impress your colleagues that are about to leave. Then leverage that reputation to also make your exit. Failing that, just start over and find a new job with no prior connections.

If you're at 80k, you are a loooong way from the shenanigans that go on at executive level work. And you're right, there are politics and it is cutthroat, but again... that's not something most devs will encounter until they're leading large teams.
The founders of Ethereum and Figma are alumni of this fellowship.

Ethereum valuation is $200B.

Figma valuation is $20B.

Today is the day when Ethereum Merge is happening and Adobe acquiring Figma.
Personal Computing / Internet is really just the latest piece of a technology called electricity.
Mortgage rates will change more quickly than housing prices. Mortgage rates are a function of the Fed, Treasury Rates and tons of banks/lenders across the nation. National scale influenced, sure, in part by national demand for mortgages.

You local housing prices are more of a function of local supply/demand which is partially disconnected from the national scene. So yes, national mortgage rates going high will knock out some potential buyers. At the same time (at least in my area)... rates have gone up... local inventory of available homes has gone down (people just choosing to not sell) and thus housing prices are remaining mostly flat even as national mortgage rates rise.
The Actor model is interesting because it wasn't originally a model for concurrency. It expresses concurrency semantics naturally, which is why it's been used that way. But, believe it or not, originally it was a mathematical theory of computing comparable to the Lambda Calculus.

If you'd like to explore this space look up the original papers by Carl Hewitt. He's also written some more recent papers on the subject. Also the "Lambda Papers" by Sussman and Steele are instructive. They deal with implementing various control structures and computational patterns with lambdas. Unfortunately there isn't a "Lambda the Ultimate Object" which could be written. I'm guessing they didn't go there because at the time OOP hadn't taken off and may have seemed obvious to the people who where involved in Lisp/OOP at the time.

In his essay "Objects Have not Failed" Guy Steele addresses the history that deckard1 mentions.

[1] "Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages" - Carl Hewitt

[2] "Actor Model of Computation: Scalable Robust Information Systems" - Carl Hewitt

[3] The Lambda Papers - https://research.scheme.org/lambda-papers/

[4] "Objects Have Not Failed" - Guy Steele, https://www.dreamsongs.com/ObjectsHaveNotFailedNarr.html
More likely, a) a cartel will opaquely control >50% of the network and b) probably already does

Fraudsters have a strong incentive to maintain a patina of integrity (for their given industry)
Post C6, I was 100% out and only FOSS as well. Dedicating time to those tools have proven more than acceptable and on occasion I got to file a bug too. Of them, darktable and Hugin have been my favorites.
People do not buy houses based on price but upon payment of a mortgage that fits their relatively fixed income.

People who can afford to pay $2K mortgage to live in a X percentile house will continue to pay exactly $2K to live in the same X percentile house. What does change when the interest rate varies is cap gains/losses for everyone involved. There are also some transactional fee variations, obviously a 3% real estate agent commission will be more on a $500K sale than a $250K sale, but the monthly mortgage payment will remain identical. Also fixed transaction costs (inspections, certain taxes and near-taxes) will be a higher percentage of the sale price.

My prediction would be the transactional fee middlemen will demand higher percentages to maintain their revenue stream as interest rates rise. They're certainly not providing any additional value, so I would imagine there will be more competition among middlemen, opportunity for startups to disrupt the market, etc.
Real question: Strictly speaking from a software engineering perspective, who cares? Why does a framework of taxes created by people who don't understand technology get to decide where I move around to?

I signed up for your job in a certain location and a certain date. That doesn't entitle you to keep track of where I am the rest of my life. As long as I'm able to be reached at the initially agreed upon location, regardless of how I maintain that communications channel, I never agreed to let you dictate where I live and move to and frankly nobody has that right.

Or is my body my choice just a convenient catchphrase for one topic only?
To repeat myself in a bit more detail: by law and regulations they are available to everyone. Non-discrimination is a criteria in almost all medallion / license contracts, not to mention certain laws (e.g. the ADA [1]).

These laws and regulations are, I admit that, often sparsely enforced and most people don't complain anyway, which makes the problem worse as it isn't quantified and shows up on the statistics that politicians and activist groups use either. A lack of data is the single biggest issue in fighting discrimination!

The solution however is not to promote apps like Uber, to which taxicab regulations do not apply at all (or severely restricted) and which just a few weeks ago entered a multi-million dollar settlement for over 65.000 cases of discrimination because they violated the one law that actually is enforced [2].

[1] search for "taxi" on https://www.ada.gov/enforce_current.htm

[2] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/uber-commits-changes-and-pays...
I never understood who decided that would be a good idea. It takes extra work to prevent a generally agreed upon good security practice.
No, it isn't always about social media, or free speech, or 18-24 year olds.

An NGO I consult for runs its entire business on Google. All its documents are on Google docs, all digital assets on google drive, using google play store for their mobile app, using firebase on the backend ....

They work on children's education, and have lots of photos of children attending their workshops. My biggest fear is that Google AI will identify some photo as objectionable and shut the entire operation down in a hurry. Without recourse.
Haha, we used to call it Wikipedia Racing.
You've got it the wrong way, it is overstrained because interest rates were so minuscule and so many people were able to get in.
They have a filter list: https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/

If you have uBlock Origin, go to settings, filter lists, scroll to bottom, custom, import, paste this URL. Enable AdGuard annoyances while you're at it. It's not perfect, but this replicates the "don't show me cookie dialogs" feature pretty well.
You are invited to try and give me your feedback or work on any issues you have. The playground and the end-to-end tests are done entirely with React. I am not sure why you suggest it's not going to work with it. Also, it has to be done this way, since how to reconcile transformation is different from than usual reconciler algorithm.
Electric Airliner a Step Closer as Heart Unveils 30-Seat Model
As I understand it, they're a startup with an astonishing ability to convince investors to fund open source tools, and they're able to set up an economically sustainable environment around those.
It would be cool if it could learn to recover from failures and try other approaches until it gets the job done, and in the end verify it was correct. The security implications are huge, though.
Show HN: Free cloud security insights for Kubernetes
Wanted to share some exciting news - CAST AI (AI-driven cloud cost monitoring and management platform) has launched a free Cloud security insights tool for K8s.

Security Insights offers the following features:
Kubernetes configuration checks, to ensure your cluster is configured according to best practices for pods and workloads. Users are provided with details on individual checks and resources through CAST AI’s user interface.
Vulnerability scans, which offer an overview of potential issues that might appear due to container images downloaded from public registries.
Round-the-clock visibility into your Kubernetes cluster configuration.
Container image vulnerability detection and security recommendations arranged and presented in order of priority.
So Nvidia stock tanking?
I guess you could run your errands running but I guess brisk walking could be easier to incorporate for most in their routine, especially for non runners. Besides, running with the wrong form could do more damage than walking.
Code.org recently released an AP CSA course that you may want to check out.
CEO of Figma also commented in the past on HN that they were able to start Figma with support of the Thiel Fellowship:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448538
You can, of course, scale to >1 with the Fly Machines API. I don't know enough about how they're managing the SQLite part of this to say more about how this scales, except that I think scaling out SQLite is about to get a lot more interesting.

But I mostly agree that we need a better term than "serverless" for this kind of stuff. The big things people seem to want from "serverless" solutions are "not managing long-running server instances" and "true usage-metered billing".

Whether or not there are servers, like, at all has not all that much to do with things.
To be fair, Lisbon is both the capital of Portugal and also sortof a beach town.
But can't people refinance? Is the bank offering lower % interest that is subsidized by people who don't refinance?
For the record, so does Erlang/Elixir, right in their stdlib (OTP), as either ETS, DETS, or Mnesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnesia https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html
Yeah, I don't know why those boots even exist. I go out of my way to buy cables that don't have them. Cables are cheap and easy to replace if they break at the ends. At least those plastic tabs tend to break off if you tug hard... not the doomboots though :(
I'm pretty sure it's just 'calculator notation' and not a leak from the computer representation, but rather done because of the limited space available (at least on older calculators).
I did the same thing (also wanting to create a work account) with a similar result. Luckily it was the new account that got banned instead of the old one.

I hadn't added the phone number to my old account and when I later wanted to do so I was informed it could only be assigned to one.

So I removed the number from the new account, which immediately got banned, and then added it to my old account without a problem.

Something about "new account without phone" discord seems to dislike.

My old account also had some money spent with them, which possibly saved it.
Hacker News has a serious mob mentality with regards to crypto. Some loud voices decides it was a "scam" years ago and would not get out of their high horse despite the evidence, and despite incredible technical feats like the merge. It was never the place to have an intelligent conversation about pros/cons and it will never be.
This person doesn’t know what they’re talking about, or is withholding information. Yes, your photos have been used to train early iterations of the stable diffusion models. Those iterations are hardly usable in most applications, and will be phased out in A few weeks.

If Spawning is able to have your images removed from the training set by version 1.7 or whatever, you will be removed from any models actually in use for real commercial applications.
> Losing my gmail account would have way more effect on my "real life" than if I had suddenly no letter box

Yes, due to your own lack of contingency planning.

I respect your intentions, but government regulation is not always the answer. At some point, we have to admit that we are far too reliant on these services (that many luddites refuse to use, and live a normal life).

My second sentence is true as of now, but maybe things could change in the future. However, I only base my arguments on present circumstances.

I do agree that some of these companies need to at least offer some sort of human support team or call center available to serve users that were falsely banned or randomly booted. However, forcing the hand of these companies is not only unfair, but pretty entitled.

Gmail is a free service.
Analyst: iPhone 14 Plus Sales Lagged Behind iPhone 13 Mini, Strategy 'Failed'
because the existing mortgage was transferable

I've never heard of transferable mortgages! I'm guessing they've been phased out due to changing regulations?
> "Cannabis has by far the highest conversion rate to schizophrenia of any substance"

Quick, somebody call Deleuze and Guattari! /s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoanalysis
Does memory count as intelligence? I've seen people with great memories and people think they are very intelligent. They people I'm thinking about were actually intelligent, but their great memories really set them apart. For example, the guy at work who remembers every project, every shortcoming, and the reasoning behind every technical decision.
Not necessarily. It's true if the person making the decision is getting paid directly from the mining. But perverse incentives abound in the cryptocurrency space. For example, consider Celsius:

https://amycastor.com/2022/09/11/crypto-collapse-celsius-voy...

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2022/08/11/crypto-colla...

As they thrash around in bankruptcy, they have proposed that they will mine their way out of the hole. Will this work? I doubt it. But will it let the CEO stay in charge for a while longer, taking in more investor money and continuing to get paid? Possibly! So actual economic efficiency may not matter.
Because they still cry in other situations when they need help, but no longer very cry just because they are being laid down to sleep.