skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're a bit different from AWS. First, they have less competition. Like, competition exists, but they really dominate the market and are the only ones onboarding serious traffic for free loss leader accounts. Second, for all their "we're neutral" talk, they regulate a lot of online traffic in a way that AWS never did. AWS cloudfront shield will not cut you off from majority of the popular internet without recourse just because you accidentally tripped some rule.

So yeah, not being able to handle more than x% of the internet traffic (unless they're running a real dumb pipe with only IP routing logic) sounds great. I'd welcome anther Bell systems breakup.
Such as what? I’m genuinely curious.
Apparently that pipe costs $6B on the shores and $8B on the underwater infrastructure and it is expected bring many billions of dollars of profit to Russia.

That would be one expensive propaganda operation, something like dronning a TSMC Fab in the mids to a chip crisis.
I'm impressed that people can make free tiers like this work. Scaling N*$0 for N*(non-trivial work) is tough, even if you have M*$P in the background.

I wonder if these free tiers might be better off with something "almost free" like a token $1/year so you're getting people used to being charged.
We read this numerous times before finally creating our own sharding system over bare MySQL
Also known as the Dilbert Principle
Do you think that every single facet of the response we had to COVID was correct and useful?

The evidence does suggest that better testing could have reduced the death rate while also allowing for gentler, more calibrated responses.

Near zero? Not in the US - but in the places that DID achieve that feat, testing was critical.

You are being absurdly harsh. Many experts have been trained by decades of "peacetime" to be conservative with their assumptions and requests. Just think back to "stand six feet apart" and "you can take your mask off while eating" to see why that is a problem.
Apple seems to prioritize privacy more than the competition, while for Google collecting, and combing through to monetize, your personal data is a big part of their business model.

Much of this criticism seems misplaced or invalid. Apple tracks your IMEI? Well, sure, unless you choose otherwise, and they've given you a convenient place to turn off. Apple chipsets track your location down to the meter? Well, yes, that's a feature most people enjoy - and they've given you a convenient place to turn off, if you don't. Apple is using third party app Siri interactions to train Siri? How is this even a privacy issue... has any real world privacy problem ever occurred because of this? If you don't want Apple to hear your voice or process your Siri requests... don't use Siri? They've given you a convenient place to turn it off.

The only one I agree on is the image scanning for CSAM. The idea of a device I own acting as a state informer using AI to detect what it thinks is a crime is not my idea of a step forward.
Ask HN: Is the security controls in most companies that bad?
I heard that developers can have production database access and write queries without logs.
.ph is the Philippines TLD, Typhoon Noru just went through it. Not sure if archive.ph is hosted there but I recall when living there I could always expect network issues and outage when there were strong Typhoons. Maybe related?
Honestly, I really like it. It's minimalist but has all of the information that I require. Big fan of the example section.

Love the product, too. Think you're onto a winner. Is there a path to monetisation with this or is it just a side project?
I don't know? Use https://distrowatch.com/ instead?
I also want to build a wasteful PoW for spam/scrap bots, and server-side encryption should be very cheap. They use OpenPGP, is it the best approach?
I was always partial to the aphorism "The only stupid question is the one we don't ask."

I used to participate in StackOverflow, quite a bit (not so much, these days).

They have a culture that really doesn't like asking questions, which is weird, as they are the raw materials of the site.

Just look at the question counts of the high-numbered folks. It's usually a single-digit number, with that digit frequently being "0."

It's fairly obvious that people that actually ask questions are treated badly.
> only

This is nearly all the data stored by Facebook. Every profile post, comment, photo, story, marketplace listing is a row in one MySQL table. Even internal tasks and code changes are rows stored in this one table. I don’t think a bigger MySQL table exists.

Fun fact - You can also access any object if you know it’s ID with Facebook.com/id. For example, Mark Zuckerberg’s profile was the 4th object created, so that’s where https://facebook.com/4 leads.
ahh, yes. Repudiate the diana moon glampers of the world, no matter their intentions.
Won’t take 50 years.
> I read talks of sabotage but I struggle to understand the point

Pure speculation: A very hard winter is predicted with sky-high energy prices. If people, the economy and industry is suffering one can easily imagine that Germany wavers and opens up the taps. If the pipes are damaged and it will cost a lot to repair and restart the flow that supports those who want to keep the gas flow off and hinders those who wanted to restart it.

> surely russia wouldn’t sabotage their own pipelines

I would agree with that. Hard to imagine what would be their point in doing that.
Yeah, there probably is a niche that wants this - I would just expect that the people who know how to write the code for React component, but do not know how to bundle it to put on a page is not only a small niche, but an inherently shrinking niche -- why would someone learn to code, but then deliberately skip learning to deploy that code?
You'd be surprised how many people think the opposite. For example in Slovakia more than half of the public blames Ukraine.
Everything you want to know about the CAP theorem
What is CAP theorem, why it's confusing and how does the PACELC theorem solve some of its issues
Late to this thread - while 3-finger tap pops up the text editing menu, you can undo with a three-finger swipe from right-to-left, and redo is left-to-right. Also if you have something highlighted you can do a 3-finger pinch-in to copy, do it twice to cut, and the reverse (pinch-out?) to paste.
One reason I could imagine Russia herself would do this is because they might assume Nordstream is now an essentially obsolete asset, so has more value in their ability to demonstrate the fragility of OTHER gas pipelines, including the one inaugurated this very day between Norway and Poland.

ed: https://twitter.com/ASabadus/status/1574729027570769920

Also, Apparently Norway has recently warned about drone activity near hydrocarbon rigs: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/norway-oil-safety-re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty_item
At most companies managers cannot unilaterally fire someone. HR is always involved and often at least the skip manager as well.
I think it has a special place in the hearts of people who are especially affected by interruptions, more because of what is concretely inflicted on the title character than because of the abstract argument about equality and inequality. There was no language for talking about being sensitive to interruptions back then, and there isn't really now unless you have some kind of diagnosis. My wife does not understand that speaking to me every ten or fifteen minutes affects my ability to concentrate and do my job. As an adult with a high-paying job, I'm able to rent space at a coworker space so that we don't have constant fights about it that affect our marriage. For children living in loud homes where people constantly yell and blare the TV, and trapped in classrooms with other children who scream and disrupt simply because they can't stand quiet, they have no ability to escape, but at least they have some validation in the form of this story, proof that a famous and successful person recognized their experience as real.
No worries. I already revised my plan. I would 3D-print Raspberry-based submersible, which would find sea bottom and then proceed South-East from Suuri-Pisi and magnetically recognize metallic oblong object. Only problem is the availability of explosive material. But maybe I can buy bombs from immigrant gangs of Stockholm....
It makes me want to try writing a basic Discord bot, just to play with the solution, so thanks for providing it for free !
Ian reaches major hurricane status, will be a historic storm for Florida
It's a welcome break from the exaggerated emotions, fast breaks/cuts, and general dopamine triggers that are littered in your average youtube video. It's like watching Bob Ross. I love Asianometery!
Long Covid Has Forced a Reckoning for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Trump's 'big lie' spawned a new generation of social media influencers
Not every theory about conspiracy is a conspiracy theory.

Fixed version:

> The theory is that either the United States or some member of NATO conspired and sabotaged the pipeline so that Germany will not have the option of easing up on sanctions in order to purchase Russian Gas this winter.
Why would the US care if they were seen as doing it when they already announced that they were going to do it[1]?

1. https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1490792461979078662
I wonder who RUptured it?
Lavis – A One-Stop Library for Language-Vision Intelligence
Technically, you are only asking your software to turn the modem off. It can disobey if it wants, you can't be sure.
Really nice, but ugh... it doesn't have english?
privacy (prī′və-sē) [noun] - The quality or condition of being permitted to terminate pregnancies.

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If you want the best template for a cover letter you should take example of that guy named Leonardo da Vinci. [1] Quite a smart guy!

The idea is it’s not a summary of what you did and what you can do. But it’s all about what value you can offer to them and how you can solve ~their~ most critical problems. It’s like you pitching yourself as a business.

Now go say no to a guy like that and that can demonstrate these skills for free if necessary.

[1] https://lettersofnote.com/2012/03/28/the-skills-of-leonardo-...
That doesn't reflect my experience - unless you mean "attractive" by the animal's definition, which in case of a cat might be "someone who feeds me reliably twice a day and cuddles me from time to time".
The movie Scratch is a fun and fascinating journey through the rise of Hip Hop DJ's, available free here... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcOUYOg-dAM

As a former professional DJ turned tech startup CEO I believe this article is very accurate and the author well researched.

I'm troubled that the next generation of DJ has their hands tied by terrible tech and onerous licensing restrictions rolled together. Tools like Apple Music and Spotify encourage users to just consume music one slice at a time from start to finish which is boring. It also caters more to the commercial interests of the labels than the listeners. Imagine for example if you couldn't mix your food together, only one product at a time. That's the current state of music without immense ongoing effort on the part of users to convert their music into DRM free and seek out complicated and/or expensive DJ tools.

DJ's should be able to access all available music and monetize their art by sampling whatever they want from any artist as long as that artist gets paid for the full "spin" of the song even if there is just a one second sample.

If you want to hear what music can be like when licensing restrictions are flagrantly ignored you might enjoy...

"Girl Talk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWzkK7tUjaU

"2 many DJ's, Hang the DJ" https://www.mixcloud.com/2manybootlegs/2manydjs-hang-the-dj-...
They 100% need the phone number for some of the base features like imessage.
The location however without the "find my phone" it shouldn't have a reason, I guess it's to allow them to put on the map any apple tags you have in range. I think these tags are opt out but I'm still stuck on how Apple casually sell the biggest semi-passive stalking tool ever made.
Apparently the fire nation attacked ...
Doesn’t seem absurd at all to me. There might not be as much money in chess cheating as other scams but someone could be motivated to just become known as one of the best chess players.
I tried using it in Portuguese and it's cool but it seems very off, just a huge number of things that don't sound even remotely natural or idiomatic. But when I click the translate button, the English translation is a perfectly reasonable thing to say.

SO... I'm highly suspecting that, behind the scenes, the "real" conversation is happening in English, and it's translating in both directions. Which is always going to be fairly disastrous, particularly with short snippets of conversational text. (In contrast, machine translation does best with long sentences of highly technical writing.)

So the concept is very intriguing, but the problem is that it needs to rely on native language models per-language. (Or if it already is, then those models need a vastly better or larger training corpus.)

So A+ for proof of concept, but I'd never recommend anybody practice with this in order to learn/practice a language, because with the quality where it is, it will make you a worse speaker -- not better. The things it says are just too weird.
Congress again races to avoid shutdown as key vote at risk of failing
Maybe Papers We Love?

https://paperswelove.org/
That's a very Putin-esque thing to do. They know that Germany is off Russian gas and they want to give them as much pain as possible so they come begging back.

The question is whether they trigger article 5 here -- I suspect not, however.
I think they probably mean that this switch is software-based, so turning it on does not physically disconnect the underlying hardware.

I doubt there is any proof that some kind of system activity is still taking place while in airplane mode, but that might be irrelevant.

For some people, depending on their threat model and personal preference, what's important is that it's impossible to prove beyond any doubt that this is _not_ the case.
I really like this. Especially with the repetitions and automatically having the TTS be slower for beginners.
No worries!

A lot of Discord bot creators were sad with the recent news of Heroku scrapping the free tiers so if anyone is curious about Rust; and is a Discord bot creator; this is the perfect place and time to be! :)
23M sounds like a cost of doing business
> doesn't generate much value and is unlikely to translate into a dedicated follower base

It seems to work for 'onlyfaners' who use twitter and instagram to advertise their content
Dial up internet? Do the phone lines still work?
Sabotage makes sense, but by whom?

Surely Russia has no interest in sabotaging the pipelines that give them leverage over Europe. Without the pipelines, the whole "you lift the sanctions, we deliver natural gas" game is gone. Even if unlikely to happen, it would have been an important psychological and political factor over the winter.

Meanwhile European powers don't seem to have an incentive. They would benefit from having Russia as part of their gas supply once the war is over. Sure, having the option not to buy from them is nice, but why force that? Competition lowers prices after all.

Ukraine has a motive to hurt Russia and prevent Russian gas exports, but that would also bite the hand that feeds them weapons. Not to mention they don't have a presence in the Baltic and are occupied on other fronts.

That would leave Europe's non-Russian suppliers of natural gas: Norway and the US.
That isn't necessarily true. I guess it is a bit opaque but when you negotiate a WebRTC connection you get a key and a list of network endpoints that you can use. It is entirely possible to add a proxy server in that list of endpoints without giving the proxy server a key as far as I am aware.

That being said for big calls you start wanting to do selective forwarding and you probably need to drop down to a lower layer in the WebRTC stack to manage this and allowing the Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) to be allowed to drop chunks without messing up the connection. However it is definitely possible to do all of this over WebRTC with full E2E encryption (see Jitsi Meet).
Now realistically how much time would it take to fix something like this?
Not sleeping enough may harm your immune system and trigger inflammation
Fair enough, it that case I agree completely :) Knowing my games are completely under my control is the greatest reason to use GoG.
No the author has created and maintained many open source projects. I imagine they advocated heavily for this.
Ask HN: Choosing a framework for the next big thing
Let's pretend you're working at a startup to build the next Airbnb. Your team is very small, it's just you and maybe 1-2 other developers. You need to build an application with the following requirements/assumptions:

- User facing "CRUD"
- 10+ domain models (eg. House, Guest, Cart, Booking, etc)
- Lots of forms w/ custom validation
- Pagination so you can display 1k+ records in tables/infinite-scroll
- Some areas of rich interactivity (eg. Host availability calendar) but mostly presentational UI / forms
- Admin panel
- Background jobs / tasks
- Scheduled - Run specific job at point in future (eg. Remind user in 3 months about upcoming trip)
- Recurring - Run cron jobs for repetitive tasks (eg. Run daily report at midnight)
- Emails / Notifications
- 10+ custom email templates (booking confirmation, upcoming trip reminder, etc.)
- Usually sent via background job
- File uploads / storage (eg. Users upload pictures of house)
- Auth
- Users login to book
- Hosts login to manage their home listings
- Testing
- Primarily integration / e2e tests of core flows

You need to choose a framework:

- Laravel (v9)
- Rails (v7)
- Django (v4)
- Phoenix (v1.6)

Which framework do you choose?

Assume your team knows each framework equally well. Which one allows you to start quickly and still be maintainable 2-3 years down the road while continually adding new features?
Facebook uses MySQL. All the data is one MySQL table.
I used to work at Second Life. Their player inventory and monetary transaction system was in MySQL. Every single item a player had or made was a record in this database. If you’ve never spent time in SL then the scope of this is probably a lot bigger than you imagine. As an active creator in SL I had 10s of thousands of records in there myself for inventory, and lots more activity for financial transactions and history. The database was distributed into somewhere between 30 and 50 servers, each of which had a read only replica. User inventory was divided amongst these shards. Any transactions that could execute on the read only replica did, and transactions that needed to be placed on the main server for a user executed there.

There were always concerns about the latency involved in the replication. Whenever I did large scale batch operations that needed to write lots of records in master servers, I would monitor the replication queue length and suspend operations when it got too far behind to keep things sane and healthy.

The biggest failure in this architecture was sharing sql queries as opposed to sharing service calls. This is something that was being fixed as I left. Switching it to work with service calls gives more flexibility in the underlying implementation and opens more options for improving the system.

For most kinds of large systems I’d recommend thinking about the architecture in terms of distributed Actors hosted in something like DAPR, Orleans, Akka, or Erlang/OTP and then the technical details of the underlying database become less of a constraint. It grants you flexibility for your underlying storage that you would not otherwise have.

Fun side fact: Bos, the CTO of meta, was a key person working on making all the magic happen there back then.
How is this different than traditional courier services or even just plain Uber? If you’re in the delivery business that’s kind of an implied risk.
Yes, there are also millions of lonely elderly who would love to speak to someone.
Everyone Is Obsessed with Eliud Kipchoge's Bottle Man, the True Hero of Berlin
Dementia in Prison Is Turning into an Epidemic
> RUptured

Hard to believe, they have nothing to gain from this.
Was blog content not being read/discovered before social media? IIRC the advertisement CPMs were higher back then, which means it sold well, too
Aka social loafing
Oracle pays $23M bribe to the SEC
But why would anybody PUTIN such an effort?
Just like a third, fifth, seventh... degree one, I imagine.
Are there articles that actually audit the data sent from your phone? My biggest gripe is we're supposed to take all marketing at face value.
> have a different idea of "lean"

10 MB (LeanQt) vs. 230 MB (Qt 5.6.3) source tree?
You've got to remember that the role of an artist isn't always to provide answers. The role of an artist is to provide questions.

'Harrison Bergeron' is a nightmare tale, not a Utopia… but Harrison is not sympathetic, he is a tyrant, 'justifying' the world as established. If the story is a fairytale for the right-leaning, it's for the very childish right-leaning. It's also too aggressive to be a fairytale for would-be left-leaning moralists.

It's an exaggerated picture of a condition: forced equality of outcome made hideous, a presentation like Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'.

As a reader, your job is to get the picture, not to take it literally or apply it. If it were truly a parable for the right, Harrison might've broke into his parents' house and liberated them, or rescued a chosen ballerina (with or without his eventual fate) as if he'd loved her, but no: everything in the story is just a nightmare and awful. Harrison is a parody of an ubermensch and is destroyed, and there's no escape from the proposition, nor anybody to understand the horror of it: that's left to the reader.

As both a better-than and lesser-than in different sorts of ways, I'm more than happy to discuss the story without concern of what it might say about me. I think it's a very good story and an intentionally terrible philosophy. No way was Vonnegut attempting to indoctrinate anybody with this wild vision. At best it's a cautionary tale, but if you're taking it too literally there's a caution for you in there as well: note that Harrison is a monster wanting only power and sex, bullying those around him in between Hulking out. That is no argument for giving him the world that he wants handed to him.
> I would think the US would be more subtle than two simultaneous leaks.

There are three leaks.

> That looks like an actor who doesn’t care about being identified.

I don't see anyone being identified, do you?
I am not an expert on this topic, far from, but I would expect that a pipeline with a working pressure of 200 bar cannot be damaged by an anchor
Mr. Manypenny’s Millions: Freedom and Sovereignty in 19th Century Native America [pdf]
The ~25 minute short film titled 2081 of this story is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GVHgpCnBmk
Or maybe we just need to evolve and realize that people are going to use tools for what they want them to be used for, not what we want them to be used for.

People have apparently already found workarounds for Midjourney's nudity filter.

StabilityAI was smart enough to realize people will get around that, and allowed the objectionable content filter to be removed via commenting out a few lines of code.

It's our sensibilities that need to change, not our tools.
Apple was adding buffer overflows to their OS in 2014?
Another conspiracy theory is, that Russia did it, to sow these types of doubt.